Whats with all the Old school talk...Really.

ULMOS - Archosaur wrote: »

1000$'s then didn't take you as far or create as large of a gear gap as it does now.

true but even for the time, a cs vs non cash shop view, it was a very considerable gap. We shot up to the 90s in the matter of weeks; we had legendary gear for days & at those cash shopping days, virtually no one had r8... in a matter of fact i dont remember 1 person r8 when i left.

Take zhadi as your example. Went so far as to get R8 before there ever was a sale 1000$'s invested from a raffle at Gamestop. A few months later R8 sold for 71$'s and R9 less than what he spent on R8.
zhadis money was spent in a very wide specterum of stuff, like we all know; lunar bracers & lunar bows arent exactly cheap... even with the dumbed down state of the game.

You could have someone who had R8 (Zhadi), and someone like me, who spent about half that (over 3 years), and I could still beat him 1v1.

*shrug* ill tell you one thing, a blademaster had virtually nothing good in R8 back in the day (minus r8 sword) and im positive you had plenty of interval gear, that statement doesnt really shock me. (

The gear gap then was still manageable. It still required farming of TT for mats.

come on bud, we both know the TT runs were a joke at best unless you were literally the first to get to the TTs and sell mats for Crazy amounts (HELLO MEATBUNZ lol)

As for your argument, "it's not when you PK but how you PK", that's garbage. It's, "how you PK, when you PK".

Lol, you're reaching. Prime Example: Assassins. In the early days of the server I utilized DPH because I wanted to 1/2 shot and stealth before anyone know i was there BUT a DPS assassin (could) have had a similar K/D ratio using their ****. Not to mention it would progress with the game (aka DPS is endgame build).

Also you should know the limits of your choice. Example, pick to take out a Barb outta stealth because i dont have the firepower for that bs...but id hit up the cleric . Next.

ArchCaoCao spent triple what I did to make a Godly Psy, that I could still beat 1v1. Take the same cash and apply it to now, I could probably only afford R8 with decent sockets. He could (and does) afford something like full R9 JSOD.

He could have spent your amount and offered R9 JSOD, thats called merchanting... You should know something about that bud.

Fact being, the good ol' days, were better.

Fact: Any day can be turned into a "Good ol' days memory" because (Fact) every humans going to talk about how their day was [more challenging, easier, funnier,cooler, BETTER] than the other.

Fact being, there are good and bad players, all the time.
mhm

Fact being, that good and bad players are more easily disintinguishable in an enviroment when the gear gap is close even when large and small amounts of cash are being spent.

Exactly, in our day it was early game; now you have to work toward your endgame....same difference.

And... fact being... I'm at the top of your list.

Fact being, you will always be remembered as the FIRST BURST cash shopper. Not the best, not the worst; just geared; anyone with a slight PVP bone in their body in the old games knew that.

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Nahktuul - Archosaur wrote: »

PvP on a PvE server is still a joke. IJS.

If I want to play PvP, I go on a PvP server. Or a more PvP oriented game.