Jaster and Rig got it right pretty much. No matter what you do there gonna still outclass you. The gear doesn’t really matter. There simply just better players. They’ve dedicated themselves fully to learning the ins and outs of wotmud. So downing gear weapons won’t affect them. There going to get whatever is best in game. And get it pretty easy. I’m not saying it’s all the player. There links are sick. They have fades, channies, warders and the like. As much as it’s downplayed by those who own the special chars. I know how ez mode a gaidin is in good hands.
That’s the breaks though. You can get them too. Just gonna take you a lot more effort and time probably. Because your probably some variation of the following, lazy, not committed, not enough time to play, link is dung, unwilling to learn new things, to practice and die tons in pk to learn, no inside friends to help. Ladder pulling, and silly hard to get in some clans yet. If not hard at the very least tedious and extremely time consuming. Few people have the drive to sit around months on an unclanned char to get into a game with a general max of 20-40 players left and often lower. We’ve shot our self’s in the foot long ago there. Most of the problems in wotmud have been caused by wotmud or the players. No changes in the past, dung attitudes, terrible players who throttle clans and are utter cancers to the game etc.
This is life at wotmud. You either hold them or you fold them. I’ve personally chose to hold them. I’m lazy as fk and can’t be arsed to get any cool chars other then a master. But I do more than fine. My storage would make you throw up. (Often to lazy to use it, and honestly I don’t mind challenges of regearing from nothing) Also just to touch base on some comments. Your much likelier to get some unfun pk in nice stuff. People do hunt it, myself included. Making rares harder to get or downing them means nothing. I get rares daily. And I don’t even have a fade to just take things constantly through funneling to the top. It’s just how it is for some of us. We’ve put forth crazy amounts of time to the game. Been here nearly 20 years.
All that said, abs has only been upped in my time here. What’s so different now that makes it obsolete. I still see good players use it effectively. If you don’t know the ins and outs of it and the game your gonna struggle even more in abs imo. Your taking constant damage. That being said it’s there for a reason. It’s easy to acquire. Once you guys learn how to use things to your advantage maybe you will see it’s niche. Make abs 86% standard all top items. Make it more durable so less decay % and degrade. Add plus 5 ob to ALL top tier abs weapons. See how that works out.
Again abs has its place. We all start somewhere here. We all have died endlessly. I remember I died constantly north on Tadr. I studied my deaths, the game, and got a better link. Then I started doing the killing. Now look at me still dung years later but hanging in there
