I don't know about the forums, but I've played alpha extensively, and lurked for ages before posting. Like I said, one of the actual "you're kidding me" hard moments actually got me involved. Happy one year people
And as for "was this ever silly", taking a no piety loss palading of GG through Gaan'Telet and not losing any resists on the -15% res los per hit floors, on the "bare bones" minimalist profile was probably the most unbelievably and unexpectedly easy things I've ever done. TT paladins were really, really rare back then and I was exploring uncharted realms. Turned out they were full of cheeze