What is a feature that new players wouldn't believe used to exist?

I have not been playing AO for long either so I’m probably going to be surprised too

Ink and Paper magic

I’ve heard of it but it sounds so random lol. Like some meme magic

Darkpine Isle and Goso Jungle being claimable

Weather.

Renown requirement for deckhands, which could be in the millions

Dark sea used to give you automatic insanity 5 before it was properly added

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“Back in my day we had different ammunition types for bows and guns.”

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I’ve never found an arrow or a bullet but I think fish bait is still in the game?

Fish Bait is “still in the game” in the sense that you can buy it randomly from Merchant Deckhands and serves no other purpose

and criminal fishmongers at Makrinaos and whitesummit

back in my day, investing stat points didn’t ask confirmation
and also getting mobbed by sharks ever time you touch the ocean

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Nah this one is crazy

The game used to be fun

^At least for people like me that have played too long

Gore existed in AO.

oh was it considered too much for the game?

If we’re going back to WoM, Hard used to be an available enchantment on weapons before getting replaced with Bursting.

If not, then it’d be that Iris and Valerii didn’t have guaranteed drops.

Akursius keep used to be in the south

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unenchanting wasnt a thing until ao dropped

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The Vindicator used to have Crushing Judgement at 240+ Weapons while the most you could have was 250, which meant that people actually didn’t use Crushing Judgement all the time because of only one skill being accessible on the weapon.

There was also no Skill Note system, so it was stuck on the Vindicator.