>You weren't the most lethal of necromancers

I hear this a lot, and (not taking a shot at you, Boldereth) usually from players who haven't in their whole career played a character that lethal, much less as one of their first few efforts. I spent a lot of time watching Valg; I get a kick out of watching a competent necromancer in action and I'd tattooed the guy to boot. While he was clearly a quasi-foofy roleplaying character, he still threw more beating than 95%+ of the characters to see spectre out there.

Did he get cleaned up by Leika? Well, yeah. Did gangs of ~6 sylvans anchored by one or two really good players run roughshod over him? Sure did. ####, at least the guy was fighting the fights his character would and not just logging off.

If every person I'd ever heard talk about how bad Valg was had to post the name of their own supposedly more tough-ass necromancer, probably you'd see a couple posts from me acknowledging "Yeah, you were probably better" You'd probably never notice it, though, because they'd be buried in 100 threads remniscent of the old "No, Sladin, you just killed this ONE GUY" thread from Dio's a few years back.