[Nizzarr]

Originally Posted by Cast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your contention is,



That because within a period of 6 weeks additional changes were made to continue to nerf the imbalance, therefore it should follow a timeline related to 1999 rather than removing the imbalances that were ultimately identified PRIOR to kunark launch? What are you smoking.

Here's 9/28 patchnote that is specifically put in to begin correcting the glaring imbalanced pet, and again if you click my original link from 6 weeks later, you'll see an additional two nerfs have been listed against the pet by Elderan.

Sept 28, 1999: remove ability to give mistwalker hp buff
Nov 17, 1999:
1) can no longer rune pet
2) pet essentially poofs after one round



Yes that is incredibly difficult to understand. Imbalance is identified, proper changes are implemented on test/live servers until the ultimate fix is determined. Verant was notorious for not listing actual changes in the changelogs, which is why when people try to argue over classic era shit using kunark/velious era reasoning it's ridiculous. Every day items and procs and spells were changing without citation.

This isn't 1999, we know what the imbalances are and how to correct them. Back in June-July '99 when few guilds began killing Vox, they had to allow time to develop understanding and implement fixes to clearly broken pieces of their game.

Here is the reason it was specifically listed in the patch notes for February 2000:


The proc rate was hotpatched into being near useless while they continued to find a solution to an exploitable, imbalanced item. How many prime examples could we pick out from that time period and have no implementation on this server.

Take egg shaped pumices for example, how have they been implemented here?



So while you will continue to pontificate the first proc version of an imbalanced (and subsequently rebalanced) item, I will continue to tell you the only version of this sword that should be (and currently is) on this server is a classic era version and you graciously included the link for us:



Start using your brain-



This is clearly not true as Nizzarr thought it was kunark era (clearly never played in 1999). However, the bigger response to that is

..if you know it was nerfed shortly after it was introduced to the hundreds of thousands of players circa 1999 and deemed imbalanced, why would you think that version should ever be allowed on a PVP server? Are you going to bring up Guise of Deceivers as your next item to say "BUT, BUT, BUT LOOK! We followed this item timeline!!", Christ save you.

Go kill vox and get one while theyre good then.

oh wait, oops