Terebinthia wrote on May 8
th, 2012 at 7:06pm:
There's a lot of folk like this about. It's particularly frustrating when you encounter a newbie with enthusiasm and energy and no idea how to play their class, you give them some help and then see they've TRed into something else 3 days later, because they've been told TR is where it's at...
The reason most see TR'ng vs staying at CAP to gear as an option is that, one some gearing takes a lot of dedication (Shroud, Raids, Epics), two if they TR most won't notice that they lack gear until around 11th level, where many of us start pulling out all the GS Items that we have been waiting to get our hands back on.
However, Crafting has also allowed many to get by even further.
I do have to remind myself that these people are the other side of the extreme many of us went through - Being forced to play at level 10, 14, 16 and finally 20th level for long stretches. The only thing we had was Looting and skill building and Alts to occupy our time.
Now, they have perpetual leveling at the sacrifice of actually getting gear that would help them do it better or make them viable contributions to any party.