Argents had pierce/energy dmg so they were the go to weapon in FSC. You have to remember this before the Chaos days so not many people had ctr, so blitz was super slow. Also back then we didn't have many gunners, everyone was a wolver clone using swords.

DA was used because it had the push back, back them the charge from the brandish line was not good.

Shiv also was not common until towards the end of 011 beginning of 012, I remember having shiv back in August of 011 meant you got invited by everyone to their Vana when they wiped a couple of times, and if you were good with Shiv you would even get random invites from none friends once they hit level 26+ .

I remember having shiv and RRS (back when RRS had double dmg and the old mechanics) while wearing my mad bomber set, you could pretty much control the zombies and stopping them from gnawing at the teams brains (before the zombies got nerfed hard).

Good old days when getting ctr/resistance was very tricky and expensive.

Most is already covered in above posts.

DA also had it's original charge, which was just much better in every way. Maybe people still remember the glitch were you could use the charge to break ghost blocks through walls more or less similar to how the mixmaster is now.

We're talking about the age when UVs were only gotten from crafting your own items or buying 1*, 2* or 3* items crafted by others. The only 3 armor lines with damage bonus not specified to monster families were skolver, chaos and shadow sun. Of which only skolver was as it is today. And there were no damage buff trinkets or battle sprite buffs.

As for why people didn't use blitz, it's partly because the lack of ASI and CTR buffs around. But since you don't really need those I suppose the major factor was lack of experience and skill. Using blitz without dying used to take a long time to learn and because people didn't want to pay for revives they kept to the safer and more mobile option: AP.

Shiver blitz is old school too. You can't handle a blitz properly if you need shiver as assistance.

I remember those days. Especially when I picked up my first gun, and had a more experienced gunner tell me to drop it.

It was the autogun :P

None of these reasons are correct. The reason why in the early Vanaduke fight videos no one used Blitz is because Blitz didn't exist yet. It was in the Wiki but the Blitz and Blight Needles weren't released yet. Those were released later, back in the days when OOO would say they were going to do something and then actually did said something. As soon as the Blitz came out people figured out the cheesy Shiv Blitz and then realized you didn't need the shiv and just used Blitz.

Also the reason DA was so popular was because like its listed above it was the only REALLY good elemental sword. This changed as well when the BLitz was introduced because the brandishes were all buffed at the same time. All this is really mute to the real reason which was the old DA could be used to exploit all sorts of things like destroying the wheels and hitting ghost blocks from the opposite side of walls before starting party buttons in rooms such as the final room before going to face Vana. The DA was quickly dropped when they fixed this exploit, even before the Brandish revamp and introduction of the Blitz.

Blitz not around... What are you talking about, he is talking about 011 videos of Vana, most the ones on youtube are dated after the steam release which had Blitz around.

@Bopp pretty much...

oh Fehzor, I was replying to Deadagainalready not you :)