First, a bit of questioning the gates of the forge legacy.

I've spoken to three players who chose the legacy, they are all skilled players who know what they are talking about. And they all agreed that it sucked. One player said that even with -430 ac from equipment, he still barely could notice a difference in damage reduction. The reduction they had ahieved was lower than any of the A/B/S/S, about 10%.

Compare that to soul of the mountain, which gives 200 hp(approximately 20% extra for the average hero warrior). Plus other bonuses. And that is without having to make sacrifices in form of using eq with worse stats but better ac. And aditionally, +20% hp is better than 20% dam reduction since there is stuff that penetrates the reduction.

Now of course I might be wrong here and everything is well balanced and dandy. If so care to enlighten me where my reasoning went wrong?

1) Gates of the forge doesn't in fact reduce damage as main feature but something else instead

2) Gates of the forge isn't based on AC(I mean ac from armor here, not from dex or -ac flags).


Now, to a more simple question. From how far back is it possible to get your characters to the premium battlefield? And how much will be tracked from the past? Asking since if I'm going to go through the hassle of setting up a paypal account and all for my next deleted character, I'd want to donate for all my past characters if possible.

PS. Sorry about the double topics, but i figured that if an imm can answer one, he/she can probably answer the other too.

P.P.S Be nice to the players. Making players so disgruntled that they leave is bad for all the mud's stakeholders.