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<blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 5057739" data-attributes="member: 78">It also costs millions of dollars to get a fully trained fighter pilot.&nbsp; It's the combination that's powerful - a state of art jet aircraft needs an elite pilot to use it to its full extent.&nbsp; In the hands of unskilled person, it's just an expensive accident waiting to happen.&nbsp; Same thing with race cars: I'd imagine a lot of people would have trouble just driving the car at speed, much less driving safely in a pack of vehicles.&nbsp; And actually driving well enough to compete?&nbsp; Does someone who does message boards and email on a PC really benefit much from a water cooled, overclocked beast with multiple video cards?Is a plus +6 sword a game winner in the hands of a low level character?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; But how often do epic weapons end up in the hands of a low level character?&nbsp; They're tools for demigods and the like - when the fate of a world might be depending on their struggle with some demon lord (or something), every small edge can matter.&nbsp; It can just come rather dear, given diminishing returns and the like.&nbsp; But it's still essentially cheaper than trying to get the advantage some other way - like by training up another epic guy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victim, post: 5057739, member: 78"] It also costs millions of dollars to get a fully trained fighter pilot. It's the combination that's powerful - a state of art jet aircraft needs an elite pilot to use it to its full extent. In the hands of unskilled person, it's just an expensive accident waiting to happen. Same thing with race cars: I'd imagine a lot of people would have trouble just driving the car at speed, much less driving safely in a pack of vehicles. And actually driving well enough to compete? Does someone who does message boards and email on a PC really benefit much from a water cooled, overclocked beast with multiple video cards? Is a plus +6 sword a game winner in the hands of a low level character? Nope. But how often do epic weapons end up in the hands of a low level character? They're tools for demigods and the like - when the fate of a world might be depending on their struggle with some demon lord (or something), every small edge can matter. It can just come rather dear, given diminishing returns and the like. But it's still essentially cheaper than trying to get the advantage some other way - like by training up another epic guy. [/QUOTE]

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