A sad question :/

[PenguinJoe]

YNK was forced to set refine to -30 (or -32 if you will) when they came out with glacials so folks at lvl 99 could equip them. Lvl 110 cap wasn't there yet and glacials came out so the Jin crowd could have something to brag about in the forums while everyone else was running amok with epics and upgrade 1.0s

[White Arctic Fox]

We started with -17 :P cause we started in 2009, acc. to my account info that is (although I think DeadlyPhoenix account was first, but anyway).
Still, say around 1y after OB of Rohan (as we were skulking around in last chaos prior to that), which was -15/-17 (pre first server merge and craftings release).

It changed to -32 a quite some time ago, though. So the majority of our dlvl's did happen by -32, indeed.

Those days in which Ka'El armour -17 would be DA SHIZZLE xD

[EaglePhoenix]

I ran around in Appentium for ages on my guardian.

[Chawizzawd]

I ran around with pluion in ronelia.

[RBNXD]

I remember XorRohan was -17 to >.>
I didn't went too high lvling in Tempest