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Was Mark Jacobs @ DAoC when.......
naezgul
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They butchered archer classes by changing Bow(melee) into some craptastic magic based Archery skill?
anyone know the reason why this was done?
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The reason was the code had become so obfuscated after expansions, rewrites,etc and there was a lot of programmer turnover, so newer coders had a difficult time making changes. They just rewrote the code for archery to work like spellcasting so they could continue to tweak archery along the way. I guess you could say it was a timesaving measure.
Not sure when it happened, if MJ was still with EA he was probably working more on WAR.
Just mutter the magical words "DEKCUS AOT" and everything will be OK.
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The archery changes happened long after that bag of hot vomit.
i loved having a quiver of my master fletcher arrows of all kinds.
Having a bow where you picked the speed/damage...and being able to swap em.
Oh I know. :-) I was jut trying to make a joke. I knew a lot of Scouts who quit after it went into play.
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'I think that there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.' -Sherlock Holmes
True - I hated it so much ;( Daoc was unique for archers.
He went to WAR in 2008. AFAIK archer changed in 2009 (don't hit me don't remember exactly).
Was nice to be able to draw string, wait for snipe or change target.
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Left Axe nerf!!!! I don't care if it was needed my Shadowzerker was very sad!
@RLgobbo - Yes... yes it did
<Cries> Aye, my sb was worthless after that, while nightshades still ripped apart everyone left and right.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
I remember that! Both my SB and Inf were useless! Well... my Inf was useless before that, but it was around the same time! Yeah, I'm not sure why the elephant in the room *cough* nightshade *cough* took so long to get nerfed.
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Couldn't catch us Lurikeens.
At least LA was still LA, just nerfed. Bow specs are just a bastardized spell caster system now.
'I think that there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.' -Sherlock Holmes
Pff, my 2-H critblade would own any NS that crossed my path....unless they were higher RR....or i missed my PA.....or they were a better player....in which case i still maintain they were cheating, all of them....
....yeah, i sucked quite badly
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Scout was my 2nd favorite class behind Warrior (probably would've been first, if they were Midgard). I didn't touch my Scout after the bows changed. From there on in, I was pretty much all warrior, with some shaman and bonedancer play in there. The bow change was horrible. At least I could still climb walls on my warrior and pummel the archers on the walls XD
Edit: And I hated Scouts after that, seemed everytime I attacked the ramparts with my warrior against albion, a scout will stun me and run off
It wasn't just changing it to act like magic (which was morinic) but changing all the abilities to essentially be spells. It robbed the classes of their entire identity. And no, Jacobs wasn't there when it happened, not on DAoC anyway.