Today, a person in Darkness Falls asked me to powerlevel him for 250g. Despite the fact that I desperately needed money, I turned him down. I have played two MMORPGs and two regular ORPGs, and I can tell you that, despite the fact that I still haven't reached the highest level in three of them (just started in DAoC, didn't play enough EQ, and if you can get to the highest level in Kingdom of Drakkar in the time I played it, you have WAY too much time on your hands), I enjoyed the levelling process. Never on my mage did I nuke using AoEs with mezzers in group, I'm actually able to react fast enough on my zerker to kill stuff in a full group now (was really tough for a while in Thid), and I learned the proper application of the 5 foot reach of halberds in Drakkar.
Had any of the three been power levelled, I would have had no idea about that stuff, and despite the fact that I've taken it one step at a time, there's so much I don't know about them, and I know that, and I'm willing to learn as I go. For example:
Mage: Properly chaining pets
Zerker: Remembering to auto-stick first thing in RvR
Paladin (Drakkar): The best application of focus parry combined with focus Maxstrike (if you don't understand, don't worry, you're not supposed to)
I enjoy DAoC, its system is a lot better than most games I've played (the 4 I talked about are just ones that I've gone into game with in the past 6 months or so), and the people here are extremely nice, and very understanding of a new player.
If this had been an EQ board, Talow would be found, with his screen on the page he had posted, and his burnt body sitting in the chair in front of it.