I credit you for what you're saying. Take Nerylana for example. Nerybear fit the 10 10 80 mold pretty closely. Her roleplay was solid through and through. However, as far as leading, she had plenty of ragers working behind her back. She also led a few groups to their utter doom. The lower ten percent was the 5-on-1 rager vs. other gangings that started to ensue. The top ten percent was the 1-on-1 incredible PK fights and the 5-on-5 group fights. But, that's not to say that she didn't get hit like a puck on ice. I once said to the wolverine commander, loborguz (sp), that Nerylana had told me there was no use in a corpse, excusing fleeing from combat. He just laughed and said "She'd know, hers are everywhere." She was definitely always willing to fight but not many people other than the player and the collection of immortals that watched would see the whole collage.

Anyhow, I'll say one thing about this Aarn question. I personally can tell without having ever interacted with a character if they fit this profile, by what other characters say IC. "Keep an eye out for this person in the realms" is a clear indicator that they can turn the tides. I mean, how many people had triggers to highlight when Zorszaul would log on? How many probably left it in their trigger file? Finally, PBF is the best thing to happen to these official forums since moderation. I can skip pretty close to everything beside role and immortal comments and be happy reading through it. It just is unfortunate to see decent characters with tons of comments and outstanding characters with maybe one. Eventually though, the characters deleting with 400 hours will typically have comments that reflect fairly well on their potency in PK, RP, or both.