useast was far more populated then west asia or eurp
useast had more west asia and eurp players, then west asia and eurp did by alot.
this is why USEAST "rules" are king, because that is pretty much where 95%+ of people played
and generally speaking why east pretty much had all the "good" players, because east had players from everywhere it wasnt just east
useast didnt have "rules" in pvp so when i see a comment like " rules are pretty much the same as back in legacy " i right away start thinking to myself
there is no rules in classic svs you want the rules for the last 25+ years? they are quite simple
you can only use mana potions, you cant use thaws,antidotes,healings,juvs,etc
and going to town on purpose is considered a loss/surrender
there simply is pretty much no other rules any other rules for the most part besides those 2 rules i just listed above are not actual rules that have been implimented
by the majority for the last 25+years and instead additional rules other then those 2 rules are rules that were created by small groups of peoples here and there on certain
realms
you know i want to stop for a moment you really want to know what my problem with the whole rule thing is
east starts with no rules, and people can have a friendly discussion to add rules if they both agree, if they cant there is always a base to fall on
eurp starts with a huge list of rules, and people are not aloud to have friendly conversations about changing rules, instead its quite the opposite and toxic, and people not following these rules
are considered "bm" or dueling with "bm rules"
i personally believe those rules were made by people who got destroyed on USEAST and went back to eurp and basically altered the match ups to move power into a different area.
and id like to throw in one or two examples on my way out ok?
lets say for example stacking cold resistance or fire resistance with a 3 socketed shield or noak/hotspurs ok?
the way i view this is i do not think that those items cant be overcome, i think i am going to win no mater what side of the fense i am on, which is weird because i dont actually use either of those items
with my build right? but im here defending them??, if i am a fireball sorceress, and someone wants to use hotspurs and noak against me, im perfectly fine with this its not a big deal to me imo its not going
to help them beat me, in fact making it so they are not aloud to use high stacked FR vs me is going to give me a huge advantage over them, they cant beat me with 95%fr they not going to beat me with 75-85%
its the same thing for 120%cr shield, i dont use this either, but them using it isnt going to help them.
now what really happens is a bad user, or a user not as good as another user, gets beat by a player using one of these items, doesnt know how to overcome it or simply isnt a strong enough user or is getting
outplayed, and thinks, THATS OP, SHOULD BE NERFED. but this isnt the case most likely they just got outplayed
So many false statements its crazy to read
East classic wasnt 95% of the playerbase, Europe was active and with a lot of players at least until 2014-2015..
East classic was always less skilled than europe for the exact reason you stated : the lack of rules to balance the pvp. I will give you that east was the realm of the best hammerdins because all you guys did was abusing clag over n over until you were so good at being invisible on the map. But about anything that requires to have good namelocking skills, fast reactions, good reflex and survivability Europe was better. Because having rules kept the chars beatable and not based on your equ only.
In order to beat a sorc you would have to actually be good and not only put on your hotspurs..
All of your "pros" were jokes.... your self proclaimed best necro was only hidding so far away and pro invisible bs spammer, not to mention most of your guys were using hacks...
Your duels were so based on your laming abilities/equ abusing that you guys prefered repl on items rather than fhr lol....
Our duels were fast paced, no juving, no laming, based only on your skills with your mouse n keyboard.
You think you were good because you can flee the fight anytime smthing hit you and repl everything back while spamming a ton randomly..
It takes smthing else to 1v4 with a char that can die in 4-5hits while being agressive on the map.