Legitimacy when it comes to leeching?

Leeching is worse than hacking. At least, true hacking requires skills and your presence at the keyboard. People whine about hackers at HT but at least they are providing a huge amount of weapons and skill books for everyone... but what are the leechers doing?

While I see where you're coming from, allow me to say this.

Hackers have totally destroyed the Maple-economy, 95% of leechers are buying with legit mesos probably. It will take over a year before hunting ilbis/steelys actually becomes profitable again after hackers disappear. And dont even get me started on Ores with JQ hackers.

Hackers are taking up more maps than leechers, sure leechers take Newt maps, but if they didnt the archmages/bishops that are training them would do it anyway. Nobody can train at Wolf Spiders, Himes, Singapore ghost ship, or any of that.

Leechers dont diminish the experience of the game for anyone. Unless you are crazy about rankings, then leechers are pretty harmless overall, do I like them? Not really. But I wouldnt go so far as to say they're worse than hackers. More HT drops on the market is nice, but for all the wrong reasons, those only come from HT for a reason, they're supposed to be rare.