Once again I'm reminded of the time when I played Mabinogi, and I'd just randomly go around trying to level up every single skill available to me depending on the resources I had to hand. But as is the norm for MMOs, when you stop playing for a while, you fall drastically behind the curve, and if you try to come back later everything has changed and none of it makes sense any more.
I'd imagine those golden broadswords I made for myself wouldn't even be worth shit any more now.