Quote Originally Posted by Shinkuno View Post
They kneejerk removed alot of stuff that was actually good in 1.0. Animations were alot better, gear was made with races in mind. Lighting was alot better. WHM/BLM had different drawn weapon poses depending if they used a wand or staff which is why they WHM drawn looks so bad now, they took the one-handed drawn pose from 1.0 and removed the two-handed pose despite them making WHM/BLM one-handed weapons non-existant past ARR.
The cause of alot of graphic reduction was that 1.0 was basically roasting any hardware that wasn't a high end gaming PC at the time. Granted it wasn't as bad as Crysis or Cyberpunk 2077 lol