What's so hot about Enchant

[gekko]

So, just what makes a reasonable gift? Something that's not going to throw you out of balance with respect to your gaming partners.

How about this for an example: minor rejuv potions. Those are items, and can drop in early act 1. So, by your definition, giving my new characters 40 or 50 minor rejuvs is fair game -- after all, the first 50 monsters COULD all drop a minor rejuv. It's certainly not beyond my lvl 1 character's means to kill quill rats over and over until I accumulate 50 minor rejuvs.

Basing what is and is not a twink based on the quality of the item simply doesn't work. Just how powerful is a wizardspike? What about those magefist gauntlets? Where do you draw the line?

You're suggesting, unless I horribly misread you, that the line is drawn differently for each character. Well, sorry, I don't buy that. Why? Who draws the lines? Personally, I consider magefist to be a very powerful set of gloves (it's my tendency to play fire based sorcs :)). AThe "not going to throw you out of balance with respect to your gaming partners" is even worse. So, if my no-twink sorceress is playing a 100% pure game with some friends, and gets to clvl 75 with only what she personally 'earns' and picks up, then leaves and joins a game where several heavily twinked sorcs give her gear slightly below what they actually wear, what then? Since my gaming partners have changed, this gear can now be considered non-twinked, just like the stuff I was previously wearing?

The act of receiving a gift/trade is what defines a twink, not the quality of the item or the timing of the receiving.

A note about the example you gave of two characters in the same game and act who are in different areas. In that case, I think it depends. If you're playing as a team, drops shared among team members are not twinking anyone, whether you are briefly seperated or not. If, on the other hand, one player is killing Izzy and the other clearing the seals and D, well then, those two should not be trading as a team.

I'll grant that my line of distinction is sometimes hazy. No more so than yours, however. The fact of the matter is, however, that by your definition every character should be able to equip themselves with any gear that *could* have dropped, and no twinking would occur (although we do agree that would be cheesy). That's just plain silly. You're suggesting any character who has killed pindleskin in hell should be able to equip a WF or grandfather, and still be considered no-twink.

gekko