Yeah, I think using protection is important. You never know, one slip up and the damage might be irreversible. Actually, even though mine is always wrapped in rubber, I asked my girl to invest in some protection too, just to be safe.
When you could enter ICC I stayed up all day no breaks to grind my F2P to exalted with Ashen Verdict just because I wanted to write “world first Ashen Verdict Exalted F2P” in my twinkinfo signature, and one Chinese F2P managed to beat me so I had to instead use “Europe First” and I had that in...