Are we talking in AO’s development or in WoM? If WoM, then that’s wrong because of Swords (Great Spin, which became Whirlwind) and the Sunken Sword (Rising Tide).
Speaking of WoM, bows used to do about 10 damage with each shot. The word “useless” was redefined by them.
Ah yes I remember stuck at the Sailor Lodge because of the Level lock
At least you had smoke arrows for lagging out low-end players
Yeah, otherwise we would have a higher age requirement listed under the game. But to be true, it wasn’t so terrifying on the clips. It was just blood being more visible on the player and if you get killed by a weapon, you would be cut into two pieces (without any effects of course).
Heads turning and mouths moving
there used to be icebergs in the ocean
Claws used to increase climbing speed
I swear this isn’t a placebo
tp abilities shared no cooldown
substats used to be shit, like if u had a piece of cernyx armor then the substat scalling would fall down badly
Muskets could become assault rifles with enough speed investment
black monkey pattern used to be a thing
you used to be able to hold down m1 to do heavy attack with weapons. Back in the day you also can weapon clash with bandits, dealing no dmg to both party unless you heavy attack against enemy that is using light attack.
The animation was revamped in ao but then the ability to do heavy attack was scrapped, so now it become exclusive m1 animation cycle to colossal weapon.
Also, smoke arrow used to exist, and there is this one bandit clan called “Rising Mist” back in wom that really like to use them. They are very cool.
ah yes, rising mist bandit clan
their best defense is so many smoke bombs you cant even see where they are until they shoot you
shopkeepers used to walk around and wouldnt sell their stuff at night but it was buggy so they often wouldnt sell it during the day either
darksea bandits
Random spawning icebergs in the sea.
Think it’s still a thing, but it has been quite a while since I saw one, while they were pretty common back then.
those are part of the weather system which is coming back in full release
(it was never removed, just bugged)
If you were in combat at any time you could use movement abilities like crash and spiraling fury without any restrictions and fly wherever you wanted at insane speeds
Here’s a good one
Thermo fist used to be meta
And crystal ironleg
Cleg is somewhat viable rn