Will be fixed soon. Will probably send some pocket thieves to the exploiters, too.
Lame.
First time I've been able to acutally get some new gear in ages. If this whole people wearing armour and riding horses thing is such a massive problem why not just remove them from the game.
I just respeced 2 of my chars. Made my main a 1h/shield/cav and changed my archer to try out 10PD and I still don't have and won't have enough wpf for a couple more lvls for all the PD. The only reason I felt okay about deleting over 9000 million xp was not coping up keep while I rebuilt my main (the archers upkeep costs are non existant anyway).
The no upkeep untill you are into the final stretch is a blessing not a curse. It allows you to play with your build more and really test stuff out.
I remember under the old, dictatorial regime of upkeep that I would spend hours and hours in peasant gear with a god damn stick just so I would get some new armour. It took me almost a week to get a set of heraldic transitional, I gave up on ever getting a horse, and then I just whored myself on the street untill a friend would front me the gold.
Please chadz don't throw us back into that nightmare.
So again I say, please, please, please don't listen to the whining anitpodean wretch! Reduce the lvl to 25 or 24 but don't ditch it all together, its a good thing.
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The one thing I still don't understand at all is this idea about allowing people to play what ever build they like but at the same time forcing everybody into the same narrow band of gear and skill set ups. Its starting to feel more and more like a slight change on native than its own unique multiplayer experience. I know strat is coming but that means little when the strat servers will be behind 400ping high wall of lag.