I do not blame my inability to fight on my race/class. Blitzenturt does great. I blame it on my lack of knowledge of the game and lack of discipline when it comes to practicing skills and gathering preps.

-- And you will, as well, never learn like this

But I made up for it, to some extent, through having powerful allies, being a powerful ally and learning to run, which was more fun for me than practicing or solo-exploring.

-- Actually.. no.. you are not a powerful ally. You allies make you powerful enough to matter. Not to be cruel about that or anything man, without a healer with you, it didnt matter how many you had with you, like the five blades raiding the village, I could harm you and vandryn. Didnt matter there were two of you, and that you both had 9 levels or so on me eiter

But people hate that strategy(OOC) or look down on it and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. In fact I think it can be quite good to fit a role

-- Because you dont get better. Your character in the end still amounts to nothing. People, like me, think of you with pity, as well wonder how you could have any fun with playing the way you do?
I dont practice eup with every single char Ihave. I do my warriors, just for the fact that I tank better, tank them better, and if sword spec, riposte gets pulled off more, etc, I hit them more often because I know their weapon just as well as mine, etc. Is it necessary? No. It helps to an extent, but you dont have to practice at all with your char. But not knowing preps/areas/etc isnt an excuse to not learn