Whats the difference between earthquake and word aoe spells?

[loramin]

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

iirc aoe groups were pretty huge on live in the kunark/velious era. I'm probably misremembering, but seems like there were lots of arguments about how overpowered wizards were because aoe spreadsheets, one mage might be ok to have, and you just need an enchanter for the crack. Maybe don't waste the group space on them, just have them drive by to refresh and stuff.

They happened during the classic era, but were not at all common on most servers (eg. I know some people on Bristlebane did them occasionally in Sebilis in the wee hours of the morning).

But certainly they were nothing like the old P99 Chardok AoE, where the entire zone was (literally) monopolized by AoErs 24/7.