Quote Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
Gimmik builds are usually just used to get to Hall of Heroes since Guild Battles add in another dimension to the game with npcs and the such
I see your comment and respond with (insert imba build here) on Isle of Jade, Rift Spike, Ranger Spike, Necro Spike, all of which have been run very successfully in GVG.

Don't kid yourself, gimmicks while more common in HA than GVG are still extremely prevalent, especially in tournament settings where you know which map you're going to be on and can abuse it.

And re. IWAY, it's initial form was ridiculously powerful. Tiger's Fury, IWAY stacking IAS, double orders, other things that I can't remember. After the nerf to orders to not stack then it became a perfectly balanced build, it actually added a lot more to the HA community than people will give credit for. It kept people playing, it kept games flowing. In a sense it was the blood of HA. Beleive me, I have sat in the HoH for 20 minutes seeing "No opposing party". Facing an IWAY and having a game is far better than that. I don't think IWAY ever got actually specifically nerfed beyond that, there were just incidental nerfs that kept hitting it.

Good IWAY was actually really fun to play against. There's a lot of brainless IWAY hate out there, it doesn't bother me too much as I never played IWAY, but it just seems a bit stupid to me.

* Of my ~2300 fame, precisely 0 of it has come from IWAY, in fact I'd say 95%+ came while on a monk.