Sorry Valguarnera, but you weren't exactly feared by anyone.
(No offense by that, you are a cool character)
So your practice ratio isn't helping you any.

Who would you rather have?

1} The player who has all 100%'s in relevant skills by spamming them at your local mobs and know's what he's doing, not the idiot you paint in your original post.

2} The player that doesn't have any skills practiced but spent 150 hours exploring areas and has a 60k xp hole who can't contribute to a group without resting after every fight.


Player #1 spent a few hours at level 15 alone practicing his skills and preparing for the future in seclusion.. Not many people rp much at these low levels due to newbies so it's just as well to spend the time alone to be able to survive at the higher ranks and rp your heart out there. He's got all his weapons done, disarm, bash, trip. Etc. He's a force to be reckoned with, when we decides to explore more at the higher levels when he's tougher he is even stronger than before with those nifty prep items.

Player #2. So he made a few friends who generally refer to him as the 'third' for some reason. He has his enlarge roots and stone skin fillets, his defenses even made it to 90% somehow but his other skills like dirt, disarm, bash, trip aren't the best and pretty unreliable, so him and his friends are running around and player #1 starts attacking player #2, his friends see him eating up alot of damage and trying in vain to disarm this loner player #1, player #1 disarms him, bashes him, player #2's friends decide to get out of dodge before this mean yamma jamma turns his attention to them.



In the short and long run, i'm still alot more afraid of player #1 because i know he can mess me up if i make the slightest mistake or something just doesn't go my way. Who cares about the people spamming detect invis, that's their perogative and shouldn't be forced to spend countless hours doing it if he so choses, maybe it is late at night and there's no one to group with, why should he have nothing to do? Why should the only alternative be to go explore and possibly get handed a nasty xp hole? The warrior spamming flurry on kobold is going to scare the ##### out of anyone who fights him when he lands that 7 hit flurry and the guy who fails every two out of three is going to get his ass handed to him, prep items or not.

But basically, everything you're saying is circumstancial and can be reversed any which way you chose to spin it. Saying that practicing isn't important is #####. If the immortals wanted people to stop spamming things they should of made it EASIER, not harder, we've been in this practice mode for so long, to think that making practice harder would obliterate peoples desire to have optimal performance from their characters would change overnight is just foolish.

My two cents.