DiscussionThe "Good" Old Days

Since my memory is foggy of the past of aqw and I've never had a long-term aqw account, I wonder how was the good ol days for ya peeps.

This will probably be a ranting place for most of ya about how "back in my day....." and the such so go ahead, let me hear .

Back in my day we had this nifty thing named Hell Quest which may well still be around today for all I know. I never explored it to the fullest of its capabilities back then but I did have fun transforming level 17 weapons (17 was the highest enhancement a player could use before the first PTR server was implemented) into level 100 weapons using a packet editor to change the enhancement. Since there was no room glitch/haste glitch/DoT glitch/whatever you want to call it back then, and no real way of increasing damage exponentially beyond the glitched effects of Mage and then DragonSlayer, using level 100 weapons was the solution. Of course, this didn't last long and AE soon patched that a short while later... but it was fun while it lasted.

Hellquest was a blessing to man kind, I remember the countless hours i spent farming Horcs while listening to the angelic hymns of Arch Enemy. That and getting Beta hairs from the closed shops

The one thing that banned me. (Showed off too much in PVP. Haha!)
I remember waltzing around with the move-speed exploit. Running like a ninja.

But long before those, I remember catching mice in noobshire and spamming them packets.
I remember shop loading Beta Berserker, only to delete it cause the badges were released.

Thinking back, there was this exploit; when a whole lot of mages could deal millions and millions of damage. I think there's still a vid about it in YT. Kinda reminds me of how we're exploiting the Test Servers right now(can't compare the exploits back then to now though).

Back then when their releases were serious and fun. And not parodies and recolors.
Back when they actually released real stuff.
Back when pets were really cool (I had dark wolf once, deleted it).

Oh the good old days...

Is Hellquest still even functional? The only thing on Google I can find of it is the thread here that's like 9 years old

Yeah, abusing that level 100 enhancement got me and several others banned in late 2009 for our exploits. I've tried to avoid using similar exploits these days, preferring only things like Le Bot.

I remember that glitch, it was known as the Infusion + Explosion glitch back when Mage's fourth/last skill was named Infusion. Using Infusion would triple your base damage of 120 or 123 during an attack, and any one else using Infusion would further multiply that by 3 every time the skill was used, and if all 11 players in a room (11 was the max in lair at the time) used Infusion, and then one person used Explosion, the total amount of damage would have been 21257640 (if 120 was the base) or 21789081 (if 123 was the base).

There was a similar glitch with Dragonslayer where one of the skills basically stunned the monster completely and would not allow it to move at all until it respawned after death. These two glitches were used to farm monsters efficiently before better glitches/exploits and/or hacks were discovered.

I have no idea, I have not touched Hell Quest since the end of 2009.

Anyone here used BotQuestWorlds?

'08 days, I remember 1-hitting everything using the packet spammer.

I got one person perm banned because years ago I jacked their acc and recently gained access to their email and pretended I was going to "sue" ae.
Good old days for me ended not too long ago :} shout out to Voltzy for being banned on aqw.

Voltzy shouldn't have had poor sense of security, bet it was a great account to become too.