Talk:Deep Darkness Dragon Lord/@comment-172.97.244.18-20180421220927/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180530161137

Which is a LOT, BTW.

I think that it should be considered that, in the last days of Yggdrasil, involvement by max level characters probably dropped off to a great extent. I mean, it's telling that AOG was able to avoid dropping below 30th rank out of hundreds of guilds despite having only a single active player. Yes, he was to the point of treating it like a second job rather than a game or even a hobby anymore, and yes, he was defending a maximum difficulty dungeon, but it speaks to the lack of engagement by other max level players towards the end.

So the fact that the 6GG and the unnamed player killed by DDDL each possessed a World Item doesn't necessarily imply that they were max level. Especially the player who possessed one of the Twenty, which are (because of their single-use before respawning elsewhere nature) possible to obtain without defeating or even encountering the previous owners.

Indeed, the incautious rampage of the 8GK implies that they were XP grinding, which does not seem like an activity which would so throughly characterize max level players. Since they were apparently even stronger than the 6GG, and nobody else seems to have been even that strong, I'd guess that Momonga is an outlier.

Which fits with the fact that his reasons for being so deeply invested in the game were just weird. I mean, thinking about it normally, building a kind of elaborate museum to commemorate your former guildmates and calling "The Mausoleum", honestly that's kinda creepy.

"OMG dude I was thinking of coming back but srry GTG IRL stff bye!" level creepy.