lock was introduced in 2012 with Otherworld you guys are talking about 2013 times without a lock?
Lock wasnt at ow, definitely not introduced with it.
yea my bad, it must of been with dragonfire expansion.
Yes, the dragonfire expansion although brought me back to game, it brought bosses at much harder lvl than what we had. Its not just their strength, they have insane aoes at high rate (grommak for example has strong aoes but can be taken, and his sesmic wave only happens at 50%, pyrus' eruption also at 50%, aggy had frontal AoE, woodcrown's was thorns and I dont recall the others' unique skills), they have crazy defence, crazy evasions, crazy hp, much worse drop rate, much higher need of drops per item (although u need 30+ orbs for complete set they werent hard to get) and with lock no 2 groups stayed until the end of the fight.
All in all, the game was quite good on bosses up to u3 (ow expansion), but at u4 (dragonfire expansion) and beyond it became quite tough.