the gear isn't really a problem, annoying, easily replaceable with a few still crappy, but level appropriate quest rewards. The problem is that it appears he's either AFKing, or Botting, and boxing, which does nothing but draw negative attention towards boxing.
Checking his achievements, and it definately looks like botting. Only completed 26 quests..... has hardly explored anything, maybe using a teleport hack? only done a few dungeons, highest level clear was BRD. My guess is he might have played the first 30-40 levels, at least in part, then bot grinded, maybe in dungeons? and when BG exp came out, botted/afk'ed in there.
I know it's wrong, and I would never do it, but I can see SOME appeal to botting, I mean getting to 80 is a lot of hours put in, but whats the point in doing it the ENTIRE way? If he ever gets to 80, and i doube he will given this much attention he's gotten lately, he will have zero gear, zero rep, and zero knowledge of how to play a shaman, let alone box shamans. Well i take that back, all the honor he's afk farmed will likely buy him a full set of deadly gear.... I do hope he gets banned for this. I'd bet that the first rule of botting is to not bot too much, because if a player notices, it wont be too long before GMs notice.
I hope he doesn't just make new accts and start over again...
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