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Bonebreaker
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Post by ExE on Nov 17, 2009 9:14:14 GMT
I happened to bump into this board again while searching for the artificer guide and got to reading this thread. I've been gone a while and hardly remember how to play anymore, but I have many good memories of times past. The people are gone though, so AA is somewhat dead to me these days.
I remember the first time I played AA, I logged in to find the game totally confusing and just plain weird. I remember killing things in the park with a friend of mine trying to show me how to play. I remember attacking him and getting killed. Ha. I remember attacking a player I thought was stealing from me....that actually ended up being opie I found out later on.
I remember bashing with Booya tanking circa 99 or so. Alot of fun, never got good enough to call it a power party, but I had no complaints. It was even more fun when some of the big names joined in.
I remember thinking LS skill was badass untill I found out about clubs and 2ha.
I remember wizzing and how many people congratulated me and how proud of myself I was. I had much to learn.
I remember getting into trouble as an apprentice and new wizard, getting archkilled for a few days, that was the WORST. It still pains me to look at the demotions log.
I guess my most fond memories are from just bullshitting/talking with people there that I was friends with. All that is gone now. Once in a while I look over my signature book and wonder what happend to all those people, hope they are all alright. Oh well.
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Post by CalviN on Nov 17, 2009 11:43:29 GMT
I remember this board having new posts on it......
Every day.....
*sniff*
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Post by shin00bi on Nov 17, 2009 16:05:21 GMT
What's there to talk about now? Geez, even the boards of AA are relatively dead.
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Post by CalviN on Nov 18, 2009 11:29:56 GMT
*shrug* What'd we ever talk about??? Hell, I remember a week long, 40-50 post thread on good Southern cooking recipes that use corn (or something like that....) Maybe we can get Abyss to put a cuss filter on here again... Hell, we could even send emails to Lunger and Pillar telling them that Frostbite's being oppressed again!!! That's usually good for a week or two. Get a few newbies to post really silly questions that were already answered on the first page of the thread... have some ticktimer/stacker/trigger abuser post something about how godlike he is, and his epic exp runs own all.... then find out that he cheated like a mofo.... Hell, I don't care wtf goes up here... I'd even appreciate another Dorian Gray/Frog with Feathers epic display of stupidity and lack of high level vocabulary usage thread!!!! (Ok, -almost-.... maybe that's going a step too far. ) Just get some new shit on here to read when I check it!!!!111
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Post by shin00bi on Nov 18, 2009 16:50:46 GMT
Well let's see, all the drama about Dimension Doors, and getting punished for dispelling them...
Personally, I could do fine without them. Having them there is a double-edged sword. Uena is easily accessible to me without having a paperboy door to her, but since the door is there, any time there is a sizeable party combing the mud, it's almost impossible to get my share of 'healing medicinals'. If we all had to walk there, it might be different.
The 49 hour boots, they basically just accommodate one class, Artificer. To a lesser extent, they also benefit anyone who tirelessly spends a lot of time collecting armor from Flaw or Velox.
All these highspeed classes of old that were built on a 25hr template, seem to pale in comparison to Ficers who bask in the greatness of 49hr boots to the last minute (though most artificers are famously inefficient, the enormous pay-off after all the prep-time is crazy; any reasonably active fartificer can pull some big numbers when they have pets).
Necromancers... I thought they were done downgrading them when they made revenants shitty, but now they've made Rot relatively useless by making your undead whisper to all your opponents that they should start attacking you, the wand-bearer instead. The only reason I suspect it's your undead whispering sweetly to your NPC opponents, is because most of them are blissfully ignorant of the Artificers in control of massive scorpions and centaurs, or the Ranger who is master of his pet wolf.
They need to get rid of that kind of code which is inconsistent, and seems only to vehemently target a particular class, when it could logically target every other class. If they wanted to spread the love outside of just necromancers, they could make NPCs turn on not only ALL the pet-owners, but also the more subtle things, like having NPCs turn on you for simply hiding (think of the shadow as a pet); have NPCs ignore your (pet) God, and break through your aura, and also interrupt your prayers by punching you in the face, and also have NPCs belittle you to the point where you have no will.
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Post by Blain20 on Nov 19, 2009 5:04:29 GMT
I get a big uncontrollable smile when I recall the time Blindman, Van, and I were partying. My Rev went wild, Van quit out, and then he walked right back into the damn room only to die to the Revenant.
I remember Lorien and I following Celyia to rescue Bluebuttfur who had gotten lost in the bog area down south. Blue was stoned. By the time we got back to Tant, he was gone. Turns out he decided to sit down for no reason. We found him about halfway chilling out in the woods.
I remember thinking Aram and Lunger were awesome players. And then way later finding out they were one and the same. That explained a lot.
Raven raids on Ewani and Growle with Caradhras and Starlett.
Buzzing through Harkke and Star Caverns alone as a ranger while jamming to music.
Fond memories.
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Post by Blain20 on Nov 19, 2009 5:09:31 GMT
Well let's see, all the drama about Dimension Doors, and getting punished for dispelling them... Personally, I could do fine without them. Having them there is a double-edged sword. Uena is easily accessible to me without having a paperboy door to her, but since the door is there, any time there is a sizeable party combing the mud, it's almost impossible to get my share of 'healing medicinals'. If we all had to walk there, it might be different. The 49 hour boots, they basically just accommodate one class, Artificer. To a lesser extent, they also benefit anyone who tirelessly spends a lot of time collecting armor from Flaw or Velox. All these highspeed classes of old that were built on a 25hr template, seem to pale in comparison to Ficers who bask in the greatness of 49hr boots to the last minute (though most artificers are famously inefficient, the enormous pay-off after all the prep-time is crazy; any reasonably active fartificer can pull some big numbers when they have pets). Necromancers... I thought they were done downgrading them when they made revenants shitty, but now they've made Rot relatively useless by making your undead whisper to all your opponents that they should start attacking you, the wand-bearer instead. The only reason I suspect it's your undead whispering sweetly to your NPC opponents, is because most of them are blissfully ignorant of the Artificers in control of massive scorpions and centaurs, or the Ranger who is master of his pet wolf. They need to get rid of that kind of code which is inconsistent, and seems only to vehemently target a particular class, when it could logically target every other class. If they wanted to spread the love outside of just necromancers, they could make NPCs turn on not only ALL the pet-owners, but also the more subtle things, like having NPCs turn on you for simply hiding (think of the shadow as a pet); have NPCs ignore your (pet) God, and break through your aura, and also interrupt your prayers by punching you in the face, and also have NPCs belittle you to the point where you have no will. This is the Fond Memories thread, not the Whining thread! *shrug*
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Post by Gromlakh on Nov 19, 2009 5:26:21 GMT
Necromancers... I thought they were done downgrading them when they made revenants shitty, but now they've made Rot relatively useless by making your undead whisper to all your opponents that they should start attacking you, the wand-bearer instead. The only reason I suspect it's your undead whispering sweetly to your NPC opponents, is because most of them are blissfully ignorant of the Artificers in control of massive scorpions and centaurs, or the Ranger who is master of his pet wolf. Fucking seriously? Goodbye to any motivation I may have had to return, like ever.
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Post by sinister on Nov 19, 2009 16:24:45 GMT
I have some fond memories regarding Valdrath!
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Post by shin00bi on Nov 19, 2009 18:09:13 GMT
But all my whining stems from my fond memories of how the MUD used to be! If you read it the right way, I'm basically saying I had fond memories of being a Necromancer even AFTER the revenant nerf (but before the ignore-pet thingy).
Quit being so negative! Wait...
Grommy, in rereading my post I think I forgot to mention why it makes Rot relatively useless. I don't mean to say all NPCs turn everytime you use rot, it's just that they turn so much you might as well be using Lifesteal (if you're having your undead try to tank). So in my eyes it makes rot relatively useless, as a I have fond memories of practically ignoring the lifesteal ritual since I would rarely get hit. Just in case you interpreted it differently.
As for actual fond memories... I remember having a Knight Paladin alt back in the day, that I got bored with. My friend at the time, convinced me to join SK with it, so I could fight some necromancer. Lacking the experience with PK he did, I let him take control of the alt for the fight. It was really, all-around silly. I'm on this Saintly Knight, wielding Mighty Battleaxe (which I had no skill for), and told the necro I'm a fighter. We go to his scythe room to fight, he dies in 2 smites, and then my paladin gets back stabbed, and tripped! So the friend actually controlling my alt manages to escape just in time.
- Players who not only shout obnoxiously but would steal all the time and get bountied routinely. Nowadays, we have obnoxious shouters, but no action to go along with it. I remember being completely turned off by the Chaos guild because it seemed to be full of childish brats, and as I found out more about the guild, it became clear that they really WERE children, much younger than even I was at the time.
- Talking authoritively on the cleric board about how awesome it is to tank using parkraz and a soft bedroll, and having IvanHood chime in on how exceedingly newbish that is of me. It's hard to even imagine how bad I was at the game back then, and how oblivious and it brings me laughs now (how did I get so many bashers back then?). I remember one time someone (I think Lorien, when she used to play), bid 100k on Star Armour, so that I would tank for everyone, which I did, for 7+ hours. At that point, I think I MIGHT have foregone my pattern of using a bedroll, but it wouldn't surprise me if I did. In any case, I bet I had pisspoor numbers or if I had good numbers, it's because I was simply a meat shield and my bashers did everything they possibly could. I was just in my own strange little newbie world back then.
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Post by sinister on Nov 19, 2009 20:48:35 GMT
I don't think what fondness means to you, but for me it is in direct proportion to the power of the class in question. Necros right now are more powerful than at any other time in AA's history and it is a great time to play them even with ironwood downgrades, epic exp caps etc. I mean unless mudding in AA itself has become boring (like it did for me).
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Post by shin00bi on Nov 19, 2009 23:01:37 GMT
Still a solid class, yeah. It just doesn't seem right how the NPCs single-out one class' pets for no readily apparent reason.
Even as someone who never cared to wiz, or get involved with balance issues, I see that this isn't really fun for would-be necromancers, because it looks very irrational. If NPCs want to think more and have reasons for killing black-wand bearers, it should be obvious to the player that this particular NPC has a reason for turning on YOU, and not Rangers, or Artificers (both of which are happily bludgeoning you to death alongside their pets).
Sure, some NPCs, turn on you because that's how they were coded, but they don't discriminate; like in Felgand's Training camp, the MO seems to be "If you're hitting me, I'm going to hit you back! Who said anything about tanks?" which makes sense, or the "You're really going the extra mile to piss me off, aren't you, basher?" Those make sense.
"Lets take this power and multiply its max damage by the percentage it can hit and then add that to its healing capacity through powers, then subtract its sh*tty weapon abilities, then compare to necros, and oh d**n... We need to fix necros again..."
Anyhow, I want to end this post with another fond memory, and that is, I miss going to newbie areas and seeing newbies, or at least new alts. I remember how invaluable the Haunted Ship was to all of us, and countless times where people would stay in the ship past level 10, so they wouldn't be kicked out and have to face the 'real' world outside of the healing room and undead rats.
I recall getting in some kind of kill-hoarding dispute with someone, and being the newb I was, I left the rat-room in a huff and closed the door! I shouldn't've closed the door. That was my first run-in with Law.
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Post by rotten on Nov 21, 2009 22:37:27 GMT
I always stayed a newbie to the game. I never had the attention span to get good at the game like most of you, but I managed my own fun. I even bashed for some of you, or tanked (with better players leading me (hah)) or whatever. However, my two fondest memories of AA are Geometry class as a freshman and two classmates telling me about the game. One was the nerd who played a ranger, the other a rogue who was an upperclassman (a loser, actually) but who seemed so cool to my freshman ass. The game sounded incredibly dense and interesting, and it was pretty fun. The idea of making camps and bedrolls.. of building a "base" in the woods was neat to me. But what was really fun was nerding out about it in class.
I think though that the game peaked for me when Lunger was still around as Aram, Simple and whoever else. He had an aura of mystery around him and the entire mud was literally terrified of him. This was the point when he would run multiple bounties and be utterly untouchable. This was when any bounty hunter stupid enough to try their hand would die a merciless, humiliating death. When onyx medallions were still a relatively unknown trick which many a poor mage discovered through the wrong end of a stone dagger (a stone dagger!). I think some of the "famous" bounty hunters like Karlott and Showtime even tried their hand on Aram and were famously dispatched just as quickly as any other hapless hunter. Aram sent me to Lars at least once during this time, but I also managed to escape him, if I recall correctly. At the time I felt great just knowing I managed to throw a hunga at him and get away - he probably didn't even notice me. I would also just generally be a nuisance as Zasz and had a blast being just a jackass. I think the MUD really died a little when Aram went down.
also if you never realized I was Zasz until now, please forgive me. I was young and stupid and just trying to have a good time/in awe of all you cool kids. Now I'm older and totally awesome. Ha.
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Post by rotten on Nov 21, 2009 22:50:13 GMT
Oh, and when right after reboot the mad dash to get uniques would result in untold profits... when SSM was still godly. When Zurich bid 1 million coins for Star Armour.
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Post by Blain20 on Dec 5, 2009 6:15:42 GMT
I remember standing at the drow priestess with a fellow Chaoser who was bountied and scared shitless. Lunger walks in and BOOM. Nothing but lag for 5+ seconds as the dude went down in a flurry of rots and undead hits.
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