What I'm saying is, I learned alot with most of my characters, especially the early ones. I started playing CF early in the third age, slightly before warriors got weapon specs. I learned a bunch with my first character into pk range, a human warrior who I gave up on for the obvious reason that I kept on getting killed. I learned alot with my first character above rank 20, a gnome invoker who condied at rank 25, and only lived that long because a nice female cloud warrior arbiter (who's name escapes me, but who some might remember for being one of the people to cause the toning down of distance, someone help me out here?) kept on reequipping me. I learned alot with my first character above rank 30, an elf ranger who failed miserably in trying to get into Knights. And I learned alot with my first hero, a gnome thief who was lucky enough to get dragged along on a hell trip where Scarabaeus killed us all.

I also learned alot with my second hero, my first caballed character, my first leader, my first tattooed character, and plenty of others over the years. I still learn from most of my characters, even if my last character (Goronik) didn't seem to impress many people. I know you and other Imms who met her didn't care to respond to her farewell, and I know I personally felt she wasn't up to my personal standards of a good character. But even so, I still learned a bunch from playing her.

What I'm saying is, every character should be a learning experience, especially the early ones. Having a high level char under your belt gives you a greater perspective, and so do lots of other achievements you can make in game. That doesn't make the perspectives of newer players who haven't made hero irrelevant. Hopefully, we can all learn and get to be better cfers with each character we play.