What I absolutely love about AA:
They let you really customize your character. Everyone eventually has the same spells, and is going for the same gear. AA let you focus on what you want your toon to be.
They give classes more flavor. I remeber back in the day I got Slay Undead 3 on my pally. Was it overly useful? Not really. Was it worth the AA? Hell yes, it made you feel like a real pally in the unlikely situation that you were fighting undead.
Are there some bad ones? Yes, some AA completely change classes (looking at ranger). But Id take some bad with the whole lot of good.
Worst thing that can happen with AA? Groups get picky (ex. "Must have over 100 AA!!").
Overall, AA were a great idea not followed by many games later on. But they are great int hat they are progression after the lvls without necessarily being super powerful, but adding a lot of flavor.
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