A Question About SotW (Not a Rant, An Honest Question)

[WhateverUSMC]

Again, I'm not a beginner, but this area is labeled 'Questions', so here goes...

A couple of days ago (sorry, don't remember which day), I was on my warlock, running towards Samal, and a hunter popped up, and went into SotW (sorry, I don't remember which hunter). I had just woken up, and wasn't paying attension at first, so I cast Ivy on the hunter.

It landed.

I ended up dead, in part due to my surprise over Ivy having worked. Given SotW's high resistance rate (I didn't look up the number, but I'm pretty sure it's a big number), is this a bug, or just a numbers fluke? Nothing else I have ever casted on a SotW'd hunter has ever worked, so I'm curious what's up with this.

Thanks in advance.

[DkySven]

It is just luck.

[WhateverUSMC]

OK, well, that's that, then. Thanks.

[UmarilsStillHere]

I once managed to land MS (and it worked ^^) thorugh sotw, bet the hunter was quite suprised :)

Its very good protection vs spells, but it still has a small fail chance.

[Mattdoesrock]

I can be that, I once Dispelled the OLD uber god mode Sotw with MS.

I was like...

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6682/wtfl.gif

[WhateverUSMC]

I can be that, I once Dispelled the OLD uber god mode Sotw with MS.

I was like...

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6682/wtfl.gif

That might have been before my time. What's the difference between SotW now and SotW then?

[doppelapfel]

The old sotw was like a god mode, you evaded everything, spells and autohits.

[Mattdoesrock]

Yeah, like doppel said it evaded EVERYTHING.

It's was +90% evade at level 5 (IIRC) [also back then spells could be evaded and resisted] and getting _anything_ through it was like "HELL YEAH!!" whereas now it's "lol, I got xyz through sotw."

[WhateverUSMC]

Yikes. Was there a lot of complaints about it like there is now?

When my conjurer was in the low 40's, fatigue was done away with, just so you know. When I started, Invasions were already in place I think.

When I hear the older players talking about the differences than and now, it makes me wish I had started sooner.

[Gawyn_Trakkand]

Yikes. Was there a lot of complaints about it like there is now?

When my conjurer was in the low 40's, fatigue was done away with, just so you know. When I started, Invasions were already in place I think.

When I hear the older players talking about the differences than and now, it makes me wish I had started sooner.

Yeah older players do this alot i think it's like playing FF 7 then being given FF X-2 as the next one, that'd make anyone cry i think.

[Mattdoesrock]

Well back then you couldn't cast offensive spells under sotw.

[WhateverUSMC]

Just curious; is there a page or site somewhere that shows what all the spells used to be? I think it'd be interesting for us relatively new people to see what the game used to be like...

[Mattdoesrock]

I think the CN trainer is still running really old spells...

But even if it is, it's in spanish. ^^

[ncvr]

RegnumZG hasnt been updated since february 2009 iirc.

www.regnumzg.com.ar

[DragoonEnNoir]

If you want an idea of what it 'used' to be like, look at the complaints. A lot of them are really comments on wanting it back the way it was.

Game isn't 'bad' today... but definitely different!


I came back to play after a 6+ month gap, and I didn't recognize my Barb's powers for awhile lol

[Inkster]

SotW used to give archers a really high resist to all powers

It still does, just not as much.

Imagine this scenario your on a non archer come against a marks (assuming older times) he cast DS on you, then sotw and hits you for 700+ base while you cannot touch him.

Now i think it is fairer (coming from a person with 1 of each subclass)