Thank you.

Most of those preps, I know about. I over exaggerated a bit
when I referred to the DI scroll.  And yea, I could have been
chewing on flowers the entire time. My point is, should I
really have to pack around a bag of DI preps when I'm out solo
just to make sure I don't get ganked as the result of magic
that used to be the bailiwick of mages.

Think about that for a moment. Any class, and I mean ANY class
can now go invis and not really have to work for it. I could
get the coin to buy an invis potion in less than 1 minute and
not have to fight a single mob doing so.  And the potions are
right there in Galadon so it's not like I have to put forth
any effort on either end, getting the coin or the potion.

In the past, the only mage I truly feared while out solo was a
necro. Sleep frightens me. But at least they were forced into
the courtesy of letting you finish your NPC fight before they
used that spell and I had a prayer of escaping once I stood up
(a small prayer mind you).  For the most part, I never really
worried about a fighter or healer class because I could see
them coming and choose whether to fight or run.  But, when an
invis warrior comes in and you're in the middle of a fight
with an NPC and the first thing they do is trip you, or when
an invis shaman pops up and the first thing they do is plague
or blind you, well I was lucky to get away three of those
times.  And yes, a recall scroll saved me all three times.

The disadvantage of an experienced playerbase without level
based gear is that you can't make friends with everyone.  As a
result, if you don't know your head from your ass, you'll get
ripped to pieces, not by skill, but by gear.  Adding cheap
invis potions to that formula just makes life as a noob doubly
difficult.

The prevalence of those potions was new to me and I didn't
discover them until I was already pissed. The first times, I
assumed he had some trick up his sleeve that I wasn't aware
of.  When I realized that he was quaffing them for over an
HOUR (IRL) straight just so I couldn't see him, I was
incredulous (and that's no exaggeration). The next time it
happened, that was the clue that I was missing something big.
And that's also when I saw the writing on the wall and saw the
options of gobs of DI preps or saying **** it.

Zero mob deaths, one player death and I deleted. I knew what
was coming and, just like the xp holes I used to dig for
myself, I didn't have the stomach for it.