That's not making sense. The only difference is going to lvl 30 to be as good as anyone else by stats, at the same time you just need to get used to crpg stuff (ie. slower weapons and get used to your own build and the fact that everyone has different stats). There's not much behind it actually.
Babydick (you dont know him) yelled at me for this earlier. People just say because your allowed to get whatever armor you want, whether that be high tier/tanky armor, that they are unstoppable and they can just tear through everyone. At least thats what everyone in natives logic seems like. But as Ive said before, if you suck, you suck. Doesnt matter how much armor you have. If you cant block or do advanced fighting techniques then all that armor does you no good.
Also you can get just as high as armor in native, you just have to work for it in that match. If your a pleb and dont have enough money to get to that higher tier stuff, your own fualt.
Im not saying "OMG NEWB QUIT, UNINSTALL, RAGE QUIT IRL" kind of deal, because I hope everyone can improve their game on whatever mod they play on. I just think the overall "skill" level of your average crpg player is better than native. While native has some great "duelists". I think duels are pointless anyway, at least from a competitive stand point IMO. The only reason for dueling for me is to improve on fundamentals. Other than that its a lot of spazzy, swampass, dumpsternerds that care too much about their e-peen, only care about winning, and get butthurt when they lose and like to say "spammer, skey, stupid lol-stab, broken weapon, etc, etc".
TL:DR
Both sides have good players.
Play the game for fun and the lolz