Does Armageddon Need To Updated Combat?

To my knowledge, no combat system of any mud is perfect. And those muds that have a pretty interesting and indepth combat system, basically revolve their entire mud concept around combat, so that's not really all that exciting for me. Combat could use some improvement and some extra features, but I doubt anyone can really do it to make everyone happy. Just improve it a little bit to prevent dumb deaths, double tick stacking, etc.

I think that's when a half-giant, mul or freakishly strong dwarf subdues someone, and then hits them. 

I think they could start with base defense increases along with parry/shield usage.

THAT'S who that was. Sorry sjanimal, wherever you are.

I think the combat system is pretty good in arm. Somethings are broken as shit but those are usually magickal things.

It'd mandate big changes to many aspects of gameplay, though, because of how absurdly dangerous a highly skilled fighter is. I mean, if you take a warrior or ranger with maxed skills, they're such out of control killing machines that the game couldn't handle many of these running around. Compare this to SoI's engine where, barring crazy races whose ridiculous stats gave them unusually high skill caps, ordinary fighters could max their skills within a reasonable span of time but did not become unopposable juggernauts.

If you took a human character with maxed weapon skills on SoI, maxed deflect (or parry/block in the old engine) and whatever other skills were relevant, they'd be about on the level where an Arm warrior is after ~10-15 days of grinding (or 20-25ish days in a sparring schedule clan), i.e. powerful but very much mortal and only moderately capable of demolishing targets. You couldn't take such a character and just wander freely around the world without any real risk of harm like you can on Arm where a maxed fighter can only really be killed by things like poison and magic.

There's also something nice about the idea of combat characters being perpetual works in progress. You're never really finished. Sometimes I like to play a guild that I can work on for two weeks and have my skills maxed, but sometimes I like the feeling of long-term coded progress that you can only really get from playing a fighter. The issue is mostly with how few things can dodge your attacks after you reach 50ish in your weapon skills. The other skills are basically fine, even dual wield will get up there after about 20-30 days if you fight regularly.

Ultimately the problem with Arm's skillgain system isn't just that weapon skills become almost impossible to raise after the halfway point, it's also the fact that almost nothing in the game is dangerous to those who do manage. You'd have to change both if you change anything. Armageddon's PvE content, if one can use such a term, is already too easily trivialized by skilled fighters. It would become a really boring game (well, even more boring than it already is these days) if every clan had a few of those ultra-skilled fighters.