Touche, but I've gone and done a rescue for some lower level players, and had to go stop my five year old from killing my dog, and came back to find a black pudding casually chewing on me.
It's largely player prevention and 'dont be stupid', but I still consider it a disadvantage of notable level if we cant upgrade ourselves without losing weeks of xp (for normal people) or months of xp, for people like myself with limited playtime.
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And unless its been recently modified, there's a certain mist obuilette that is filled with big nasty things that like to eat your stuff, that you cant escape from. *Squints*