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I do remember the old days when MegaDeth played.... he didnt need any silly spam to kill ppl left and right...

Sure he was banned cheating with ingots but damn he could pvp.

Mega was really good back then and he kicked the ass off most people, but we need to keep in mind that back then people did not know how to PvP good. Mega had some good timing, he knew when to dump, he focused a lot on these big mana-savings and then 4 FS + 1 light attacks (precast on the first one), but hey - it worked back then, and he won most tourneys, so yes - he didn't need spam back then, but nooobody used spam back then.

And just for your information - duels did take a lot longer back then, at least when Mega fought somebody else who knew how to PvP and how to stay alive in duels, like for example Shivan, Paul or ChAoS. I remember Mega duelling people for over 2 hours back then, observers had to leave the tourney and the winner was announced two hours later when the duel finally ended, it almost always had to go to naked 1v1 in the end, and it still took ages.

The XUO PvP is a PvP which is evolved from the old No-vus PvP, the spam was added to give more variety to the PvP, and to speed it up. To survive against somebody who used spam wisely you'd have to have a lot more skill than you needed to have back when u could see every spam somebody casted, because now you had to READ your opponents too, and always be prepaired for a dump, a magic reflection, or a heal.

We also removed total mana potions back then because u could get back to full mana in no-time after a total dump since all u had to do was drink one total mana potion and u were back at 40 mana again, and a lil while later u drank another one and was at 80. Nowadays if u me-ss up u actually have to wait a while and drink quite a few manas before you're back up to full mana again, and during that time your opponent will have a big advantage on you.

Hits were also a lot weaker back at No-vus, so we improved the hits on most weapons. For example Mega almost ALWAYS used an halberd in the tourneys at no-vus since that's one of the few weapons that could hit hard enough to actually give him the chance to kill somebody with a 4 fs and 1 light perfect timed dump, vs people who knew how to heal.

Mega later on returned to XUO by the way, and back then he - just like all the rest of us - used the spam, and he was still just as good as the other best people at the shard, not "way above them" like back then, because at XUO most people had learned how to PvP and survive vs good attacks.

I'm not going to say that Mega isn't a legend or a great PvPer from back then, because he was, he knew how to PvP when hardly anybody else did, and he was better than everybody else at that point, but if u would put Mega at this shard now without a spam he would not be kicking everybody elses ass, that's pretty much a fact.

Anyways, Mega is (or was) a friend of mine back then, Shivan still is one, they're both great at this type of PvP, but with more people learning how to PvP the skill-level had to be raised, or every duel would have ended in naked 1v1 box, and that's not a fun way to end a duel, so the spam was added for a good reason, and it's here to stay :]

I hope that I've enlightened you a bit on all of this in my post :] I also hope that you'll learn to appreciate the spam even more from now on, because it seriously is a very good thing for this PvP-style, trust me :]

Regards,
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