You guys have some seriously rose colored glasses about player knowledge/skill/average gear, even in the top raid guilds, in December 2000.
Every single thing in Velious should easily be able to die day one. What, you really think an extra +25 sv all and 250 hp/mana and maybe ~5-10% better dps from weapons, that people in top guilds had 6 months in vs day one would make a difference vs knowledge/more people/no lag?
We have years of people farming VP. The top classic guilds had cleared it maybe 3-4x. Everyone has an epic now. Back then, top guilds still had posts about people getting epics months into Velious. AoW is only hard if your tanks can't survive high damage rounds and your clerics are too laggy/disorganized to get off timely CHs. Otherwise it's cake and would have been back then too.
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