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Great thoughts Tuxi and +1 for the vast majority of them (especially the sportsmanship). As for a little word on why some may be misconstrued as gloating is just simply that sort of banterous attitude is used a fair bit in 2v2 PvP and I think the people don't realize they are upsetting others. Perhaps a little word in a /tell to them may make them aware of their actions. More recently bad attitude has been provoked by rule breaking but this is no excuse.

As for OP mats being useful in non-PvP situations, they do have some uses. However this is mainly in digging supreme (egiros pick) or digging in general (boosted focus gear). As for outside of digging and PvP activities OP mats are not really required. You can do almost every PvE activity without good (or no) gear in this game. Only two examples I can think that actually is significantly helped by a vedice weapon is when solo-ing KPs. Also tekorn weapons do also come in useful when tanking a boss without armour (critical hits causing stuns prevent him from hitting you).