Be so kind, point my nose exactly to advice in his post, where he told how to get good* gear on 15th rank as a mage, without being lucky enough to find hero's corpse with shinies, or some high lvl friends and such?

Summarized under the section marked "Learn constantly." Insert standard adage about handing you a fish vs. teaching you how to fish.

Nepenthe wasn't trying to write down every fact he ever learned about the game. He was outlining a general philosophy on how to succeed, and the mindset he's describing is a bigger help to any new player than any list of factoids.

The rest is details.

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