Mjollren (atys)
Could a zorai newbie run straight into Knot of Dementia, just by walking some 200m north from the Zora welcomer? Yes, they could, and would get promptly killed. Not so fun.
Would they attempt to kill a level 200-ish mob with their bloody level 1 dagger? Sure thing.
Reminds me of when I was trekking a couple of fresh-from-Silan homins and decided to take a little detour to get then the Dyron/US respawn. So there we are in PR, staring at the Jublas, watching Yelks slowly walk by, and just taking in the scenery.
One of them decides to try their luck on a Jubla despite a Melee skill of 32. I rezzed him about three seconds later after the inevitable happened, and he tried going after a Yelk. After a second rez, he wondered why all the mobs there were so tough.
Not all newbies are like that though. The other one looked at the size of the things there, noted that I wasn't casually nuking things like I was in Dyron, and had the common sense to not pick any fights.
So even just those two are different enough to prove that we have a wide range of players, whose levels of wisdom, willingness to ask questions, and ability to learn vary considerably. And since we alienate fewer people by giving wise/experienced gamers "remedial training" than we do by having a newbie-hostile steep learning curve, I think it best if we keep the current system where there is zero chance of a level 6 homin from doing something like blundering through the Desert New Horizons to Dyron and winding up as Cherkin chow. Silan serves that purpose, and I think it should continue to do so.
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