Questions about era accuracy and the future of this shard

[kabal57]

Sorry if this has been discussed previously, but I was wondering a few things..

I understand that it's a slippery slope when discussing era accuracy and "improvements" to the game, but what is the long term outlook for the server?
Are we going to be stuck in t2a uo forever until everyone gets bored and quits, or are there any plans to gradually "update" things?

For example, are hally mages the end all be all for pvp? will there never be any changes made to make other templates viable?
(yes I know some people can play other builds effectively) but 99.9% of the pvp/pk's play hally mages.

I guess my question is: what does the future hold for this place and everyone playing on it?

[Vhyx]

Interesting topic. Never been discussed here before, ever.


(due to text limitations I need to add that this post is dripping with sarcasm)

[Halbu]

For example, are hally mages the end all be all for pvp? will there never be any changes made to make other templates viable?

Hally mages are only the "end off be all" because of the hally cycle bug/inaccuracy that everyone knows how to abuse.

Thus, mace fighting and fencing, especially archery are useless for tank mages. The hally swings nearly as fast(by exploiting the bug), and of course does tons more damage.

Until we fix this long-time bug then there will be less viable playstyles overall.

[Kriav]

Is there a place that explains how to take advantage of that bug??

also precasting how do I do that?

[Sir Trammelite]

Hally mages are only the "end off be all" because of the hally cycle bug/inaccuracy that everyone knows how to abuse.

Thus, mace fighting and fencing, especially archery are useless for tank mages. The hally swings nearly as fast(by exploiting the bug), and of course does tons more damage.

Until we fix this long-time bug then there will be less viable playstyles overall.

You post some sort of variation of this text in every single thread. I admire your persistance, but you can't really think that the gaming community didn't evolutionize and won't "exploit" the most successful way to win. If you really want to play the way you did back in 1999 or w/e. Invest into a time machine, because you won't get it here. By the way you're missing the, "T2A was all about spell casting combos to bring your opponent down," out of your normal text.

Are we going to be stuck in t2a uo forever until everyone gets bored and quits

Yes.

[Halbu]

You post some sort of variation of this text in every single thread. I admire your persistance, but you can't really think that the gaming community didn't evolutionize and won't "exploit" the most successful way to win. If you really want to play the way you did back in 1999 or w/e. Invest into a time machine, because you won't get it here. By the way you're missing the, "T2A was all about spell casting combos to bring your opponent down," out of your normal text.

If the mechanics allowed it, it would surely have been exploited in 1999. And I'm not saying you shouldn't exploit it if you can to adapt, but the point is hally cycling in this fashion is inaccurate.

Obviously I exploit it too to some degree, but not nearly as much as other people who seem to think playing playing a mage like a dexer is effective.

[kirch]

i think its a good thing. the only downside is the varity of templates in fights, 9/10 are hallymages, but i think it was the same during UOR, u might have seen a few archermages. but the playstyle is generaly the same, combos and hit with the hally. its just being executet diffrent becaiuse of instahit.

we need more events, stuff in the world. ppl should move out from GYm its getting booring, maybe populate bucs as a pvp-hotspot again.

aight.