UO Second Age

Seems like weapon skills and parry were difficulty based.
There was a while there when you couldent GM parry off rabbits and birds.. same goes for weapon skills.. I beleive that was part of the T2A era.

Some old newsgroup posts point to this for parry, but I'm not sure there's any concrete info.

As for weapon skills, I think they're *supposed to* be difficulty-based here, but IMO they're not difficulty-based enough. I.E. the permissible ranges of skill from which one can gain seems to be too wide. Again though, no concrete info about this that I've found.

One of the first things I noticed here is that skill gain, combat in particular, is much easier to gain and I no longer have to find the correct opponents to suit my skill level while raising it. This was a bit disappointing for me and made me feel like grandmaster weapons and tactics was not so much of an achievement. I have never played any other era emulation servers and I just knew this was off the first few days playing.