[Drunkensot]

Will diplomats be able to charge for giving access to these quests and recipes? That might make it worth it. Let's see how that develops.

The idea of grinding cards, not being able to adventure, only to be able to let other people get good stuff and do better quests, while the diplomat lives for the day he can win sandals of superdooperness, that give him plus 200 for academic parlays, which is almost as good as what a midlevel tailor is selling for 1 gold on the AH, doesn't sound very inviting. Maybe if I high level diplomat could get a palace or something like that at a high level it might make it worthwhile. Right now, at low to mid levels diplos get next to nothing. I can see the logic of having a sphere where there are no meaningful low level rewards, but it would need to be balanced by having very valuable and unique rewards at high levels.

Altruism in MMOs is for the birds.