Don't know about you, but I'd rather have player #2 with all his skills perfected. Have you ever seen an assassin try to tank with his skill not perfected? It's horrible. I've seen immortals quote this many times 'It's not the clothes, its the skill'. I've never seen a new player explore. Heck, I've never seen a new player get a tattoo. I remember my first caballed char, Zhurnile(using him as an example). I had a role that could make an onion cry(sorry for the bad joke). I died a lot. Theres even a log of me dying to a guy with a single jeweled broadsword. I tried to RP, but I wasn't noticed because everyone considered me a newbie and the sort. I am still a newbie somewhat and I've noticed that having your skills perfected helps a massive amount. I recently had an assassin with a lot of his skills perfected. I ranked to 38 and had to delete from frustration. How am I to get a tattoo when I can't even get into a cabal because of imms with herpes or whatever (Just kidding, bad joke, sorry). Yeah, I'm still a little bitter, but I'm getting off the point.

I'd rather have a learned asn tanking than a poor new guy with his skills at 75% dying because he can't parry/dodge for his life. Let's face it, we all know we're going to do better with our skills perfected. Would you hand in a mediocre report to your teacher knowing it was mediocre? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't. I think you just made the mud a little more uncomfortable for the new guys and experienced players who try to perfect parry/can't and delete in frustration because the guy with the 50 wands and decked set kills them in a few hits. Maybe its balance? But then what? It's really a fight between equipment, right?

Just my humble opinion.

Thanks,
SylvanBear