Burning thought
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gear can easily beat skills sometimes unless the unkilled person is completly hopeless, altho its rare that someone completly hopeless is unskilled. a well equiped character can have higher resists, higher armor and hit so much higher than you, that even if your skilled it would be near impossible to win
for example i used to duel high level hunters at level 50, when they were 60, i think i was 52 actually and it was a accomplishment for me because the guy was supposedly very skilled and had tonnes of epic gear (me wearing blues) and that Loklor staff and the matching bow to go with it, and this dragon helm, those were fairly good items at the time, and i beat him so many times, ofc ime a lock so it took a couple of skills since he resisted, but thats skills>gear
but nowdays beating high levels is so much harder imo, the gear has grown so much, theres things at higher levels, diffrent enchantments and things that can make a higher level character so much harder to beat