Originally Posted by
sebo2yoface
Before creeps were op 2 years ago....
Seems like an excuse that old mediocre players make up in their minds and must repeat to themselves to cover the fact that they've been left in the dust by players that came after them. The game at the era you are mentioning was not balanced, a burglar would pop touch and go and evade absolutely EVERYTHING, Gaurdians were hitting as hard as any main dps class and able to withstand 2x the damage compared to any other class making players like uht,leng or any well geared guard look unbeatable when it was actually the most over powered class throughout 60-75 cap, a rune keeper was hitting epic conclusions for over 10 k on creeps with 6k-8k morale, a captain was easily out healing a creep with revealing mark making the illusion that nandir or jimmycake were great ( I could keep going but it's pointless ). Creeps had 0% incoming healing compared to now where they have more than freeps do, you didn't have corruptions that would stack or any audacity to reduce crowd control which at that level freeps had more than double the amount of crowd control. freeps were able to swap gear throughout combat, Now creeps have UNMITIGATED damage, which means no matter how much a heavy class stacks mit he will take the hit as if he had none. My wart has beaten pretty much every freep since expansion with only 13 audacity, I would say I'd win any 1v1 with full aud on him (other than a well geared yellow captain). Old players mentioned in this thread have returned and gotten their teeth kicked in by random scrubs, blame the rust or lack of understanding changes if you like but truth is...there was only 3 actual good players back then that I remember, sendir, demonizer, Mal ( and no I'm not talking about malagance, those that know who I'm talking about...know who I'm talking about.)
I'll update my list as I remember the players. Also this is called "of all time so I just gotta say that even the ones I'm posting here are not actually the greatest of all time since I've seen for example gaurdians on meneldor orbrandywine that smoke any gaurdian that ever existed here on landroval.
Gaurdian : Lenglamas
Champion : Kilganon ( I would have gone for others that have more survivability but IMO he goes full dps which is more admirable than one that makes it ezmode )
Warden : Quiz ( I'm not sure if you derps even remember the wardens you mention there...I do, they mostly traited tanking for 1v1s they knew would be a challenge )
Hunter : Tengrira ( other hunters traited shooting while moving making fights easier where teng would sit in place and give you the D, he also was a hunter at heart setting traps and steal thing around ambushing people like a true hunter should )
Minstrel : Tacky ( can do the dps better than any other minstrel I've seen along with amazing healing, the only better heals I've seen would be ratslayer, minipied, squillard,,,they just don't do the deeps like he does so that's my choice )
Runekeeper : Celebreana ( was the only all around runekeeper in the moores, strobe/rauva come close...it's not just about who can go through their rotation the smartest while back pedaling, learn to heal noobs...)
Captain : Milnor ( I wish this bastage would pick up the healing like dolmir did but I'll be the first to say Milnor is a far better solo captain. He didn't need to use healing or reveal weakness the way others did and if creeps wouldn't Zerg I'm sure he'd trait red and dunk most of the creeps 1v1 the same way he did last expansion. Kovac and Erwin come close. )
Lore master : Sendir ( old LM that played beast while you were most in diapers. Garny is close second followed by fellrotten )
Reaver : fardochee ( immigrant second, thebaneofmen third )
Weaver : Venemous
Warg : ~ this one is tough....Arctic was great but lost it, Torqueo is good though and nymerica is good but I'd put him in top 4th...there's I think 2 more I'm not remembering
Defiler : I want to say maybe torque's Defiler or Gourdlash
Warleader : Burglartarget
Black arrow : Barrower or malagances black arrow I can't remember his name
* yeah I named kinmates all over but I'm just being honest from what I see *