Read the title. I have been playing for eleven years. I sucked without
boons, and I suck with boons, but I still enjoy playing especially when I drag
my lazy ass out to do some bit of eq (rarely). This game isnt meant to be
equitable. Not all players should be equally as good. Naturally, if you
donate to make the game better and play all hours of day and night to make
exp/eq xN you should rock. A prime example of being able to kill anything
without any significant boons is Phantros. He killed most monsters in this
game and assembled a pretty kick ass set without boons. Guess what, you can
too. But dont expect to kill burgle/tortu with your 37M/no tps/spider gm eq.
If that is the way you want to play, then go kill snow dog/wedigo/soy.