>No matter what level you sit at, including hero, as a
>cabal leader, there will always be people outside your range
>that are whipping members of your cabal while you can't do
>anything about it.

between I can not help because of game mechanics(I'm hero and your enemy out of my range) and I don't want to rank up and help you, because my ass will be handed back to me/I want rack up a lot easy pk/add whatever reason you have.

+ Hero char can aid lowbie a lot in terms of fighting off badass enemy by:
1. giving hero eq
2. helping to rank up away of enemy range. So either enemy won't be able fight lowbie or also will have to rank up and face two enemies.
3. handing preps
Each of these points helps a lot.

While only thing Ilrek could have aided hero fortress chars is reraid which is not all that helpful in most case and actualy can put hero Fort chars in bad situation.

>Yeah, there are some bad matchups at hero; I don't think that
>means as much to a good player as you do in terms of
>actually dying. (Unless it's a ridiculously large gang, in
>which case I'd argue that the bad matchups are somewhat
>immaterial.)

Yea but you will hardly be recognized as good pkiller if all you do during your login is running from badass enemies you can not do a #### with.