Sorry, wildgirl, but it is .

Once people start paying real money for things that I can't get without paying real money of my own, I think I quit playing this game. Something just tells me that that's a slippery slippery slope to begin down in a game which has been free for 14+ years.

Now, having the ability to play unique types of characters like you suggested would be cool. I just don't know what those criteria would be. Like how minotaurs are unique-ish and you just have to get "lucky" to get one I think is realy cool. But anyone can land a mino- even a thirteen year old who doesn't have five bucks to his name.