Now, some of it's sheer laziness, but some of it's also the fun of just dashing into the fight right away again.

Although, theoretically maybe a hero could outfit, pay for it, and equip newbie with it. Though that's probably no worse than a newbie paying for a hero to buy him higher level stuff at a shop. I was thinking of that possibly as an idea for non-decaying outfit stuff. Have the command decay, but make it buyable at the guilds maybe?