Old School Patching

[Talketzanto]

Who remembers when the game first came out and they put out a patch every other day to try to balance pvp.....

It was great looking at the notes all the time to see how much your class changed...back then every patch tweeked every class ALOT....

Just an old memory I felt like sharing

[Suctum]

Who remembers when the game first came out and they put out a patch every other day to try to balance pvp.....

It was great looking at the notes all the time to see how much your class changed...back then every patch tweeked every class ALOT....

Just an old memory I felt like sharing

How about that 1-shot charge spam :/

[-Khramps-]

How about that 1-shot charge spam :/

Only people that got 1 shotted were usually not very great the game and didn't know how to counter most things. Pots and useful abilities + movement allowed for you to collect a huge amount of health over small amounts of time, unlike what you get now.

If you had BK T2 Buffs you would never get 1 shotted in AoC in the past, but if you had zero BK buffs, then you would and even then, you could still compete. Not to mention, in order to do it, it actually required a lot more then what you do now, which is 1 click abilities like WoW. So no

[raist718]

Only people that got 1 shotted were usually not very great the game and didn't know how to counter most things. Pots and useful abilities + movement allowed for you to collect a huge amount of health over small amounts of time, unlike what you get now.

If you had BK T2 Buffs you would never get 1 shotted in AoC in the past, but if you had zero BK buffs, then you would and even then, you could still compete. Not to mention, in order to do it, it actually required a lot more then what you do now, which is 1 click abilities like WoW. So no

At the time the initial post, first 6-12 months of game, any guard level 65+ could 1 shot any 80 player no matter the skill out of hide with skewer. If you got caught by a GM skewer bug was 10 day ban. players on DW made a game out of reporting each other. Also overreach 3 was bugged and would hit 3 times and 1 shot 90% of the time. 1 shotting was the norm for pvp after the first 6 months of the game because of gem stacking, bk buffs did not stack or go higher than inital building bonus because of bug that was not fixed until year 2. Even terrible Tempress would 1 shot many so called good players in duel with him/her ToS. BS also had a 1 shot by level 66 using wow, er, cr iv bug, littleimp would stand in tesso advertising in global dueling 80s for gold 1 shotting them over and over. HoX firelance bug was also 1 shot fun. Also guard did not even need gems when bloody vengeance was not nerfed yet. why spaartan would only duel in a group. Barb could 1 shot when proper spec and other player did not have shields all at top with COS almost every time.

http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=148878
http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=152966

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6...relanceyo1.jpg

[Slith]

Lets not forget the loads of fun people had with cunning deflection procing off mere 25 dmg dot

[Suctum]

Only people that got 1 shotted were usually not very great the game and didn't know how to counter most things. Pots and useful abilities + movement allowed for you to collect a huge amount of health over small amounts of time, unlike what you get now.

If you had BK T2 Buffs you would never get 1 shotted in AoC in the past, but if you had zero BK buffs, then you would and even then, you could still compete. Not to mention, in order to do it, it actually required a lot more then what you do now, which is 1 click abilities like WoW. So no

I think your talking much later, because more over than what Raist said there was the Firey Torment 1 shot, the Storm Crown 1 shot...charge spam...skill had nothing to do with any of these, bit it was mostly during the gem era.

[raist718]

I think your talking much later, because more over than what Raist said there was the Firey Torment 1 shot, the Storm Crown 1 shot...charge spam...skill had nothing to do with any of these, bit it was mostly during the gem era.

storm crown = skill crown

2v1 duel against tos/necro in past redemption http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2472/3...a6e23cda_o.png

2v1 duel against ranger/hox in carnage
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2606/3...9edbb6e5_o.png

[Osireis]

necros grip of death so much fun lol

[bruceleroy]

At the time the initial post, first 6-12 months of game, any guard level 65+ could 1 shot any 80 player no matter the skill out of hide with skewer. If you got caught by a GM skewer bug was 10 day ban. players on DW made a game out of reporting each other. Also overreach 3 was bugged and would hit 3 times and 1 shot 90% of the time. 1 shotting was the norm for pvp after the first 6 months of the game because of gem stacking, bk buffs did not stack or go higher than inital building bonus because of bug that was not fixed until year 2. Even terrible Tempress would 1 shot many so called good players in duel with him/her ToS. BS also had a 1 shot by level 66 using wow, er, cr iv bug, littleimp would stand in tesso advertising in global dueling 80s for gold 1 shotting them over and over. HoX firelance bug was also 1 shot fun. Also guard did not even need gems when bloody vengeance was not nerfed yet. why spaartan would only duel in a group. Barb could 1 shot when proper spec and other player did not have shields all at top with COS almost every time.

http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=148878
http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=152966

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6...relanceyo1.jpg

He didn't play at launch and was on a dead server shortly after starting.

[-Khramps-]

At the time the initial post, first 6-12 months of game, any guard level 65+ could 1 shot any 80 player no matter the skill out of hide with skewer. If you got caught by a GM skewer bug was 10 day ban. players on DW made a game out of reporting each other. Also overreach 3 was bugged and would hit 3 times and 1 shot 90% of the time. 1 shotting was the norm for pvp after the first 6 months of the game because of gem stacking, bk buffs did not stack or go higher than inital building bonus because of bug that was not fixed until year 2. Even terrible Tempress would 1 shot many so called good players in duel with him/her ToS. BS also had a 1 shot by level 66 using wow, er, cr iv bug, littleimp would stand in tesso advertising in global dueling 80s for gold 1 shotting them over and over. HoX firelance bug was also 1 shot fun. Also guard did not even need gems when bloody vengeance was not nerfed yet. why spaartan would only duel in a group. Barb could 1 shot when proper spec and other player did not have shields all at top with COS almost every time.

http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=148878
http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=152966

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6...relanceyo1.jpg

Raist, everyone knows about all the above exploits, but all were completely irrelevant against good players. If you had BK T3 Invulns, there wasn't an issue against 1 shots, it would only occur against people who didn't have any BK invulns at all, which was the broken feature of the game.

The skill curve in the game at that time was much higher because life was so precious. if you weren't proactively responding to the situation instantly, you were dead, which is why no good guilds wanted you as a player. Any game that is based on high twitch, minimal gear dependency and your characters life is valuable, requires much more intellect and skill curve then the garbage you're playing today.

Burning Crusade in WoW was the exact same way as the old AoC and it is known by pretty much everyone it was the highest skill curve era for wow, where you could get 1 shotted, but that is only if you were bad. Otherwise, if you were good, you knew how to counter it and once the person "blew their 1 shot load" they were useless and it allowed for situations of 3 vs 1, which we both know are impossible now, unless the guy is some pvp 1 tortage noob that just came off the boat.

Now does that mean AoC was perfect back then? Not for a second, it surely needed it's tweaks, but it was hell better then what the game offers today and the statistics show that as a prime example. Look at the player base left playing the game? Everyone that has pretty much stuck around minus a small 1% are all bad players who were never truly great at the game and now use their gear, invulns and experience within the game to reign terror over a community of PVE players. Pretty sad if you ask me, there is no competition, it's just a wasteland of gear hungry wannabes.