What do I miss? hmm.
Well I remember the first time I was ever PKd (about 10 seconds after I first logged in). I trained up (the old fashioned way - by killing things), hunted down that PK, killed him, carved his corpse, and cooked him over a camp fire!
A lot of the really interesting stuff just isn't possible anymore. We can't loot others, carve human corpses, cook human parts, steal house keys - or break into a house anyway, trap people on that special little island... you know the one
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Seers, Councilors, Companions, and being a companion. =hn
My Supremely Accurate Indestructable Heavy Crossbow of Vanquishing!
If it had been silver, I would have sold it for $ and retired.
Life before statloss or even stat locks, colored ore, t-maps, and 64 spells in anyone's book.
It was a hard game-life back then, and it forced us to work together to survive - let alone prevail. These days the closest you get to that are champ spawns (which can be solo'd if nobody invades) and peerless (some of which are now soloable).