I'd assume that it's not really about the gear and its effect on leveling, but is just a way of showing off. Think about it, if you're actually seeing some other persons character with this gear and that character is still level 1, that player had to actual work fairly hard to *not* level that character yet so you could see it. If it was really just about being able to level faster, the character wouldn't still be level 1. He'd, you know... be out leveling the character super fast with his uber gear, right? Only reason to not level is to show off the level 1 character with the level 100 gear. Novelty.
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King Nobby wrote:
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