Walt_F4 is/was Dexxta.
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I'm curious about some of the trendsetters in cRPG. I made a post earlier today mentioning Devilize destroy dudes with a morning star while mounted on cav. That got me to thinking... who was the first to make that build/setup popular? I seem to remember Gigglebyte doing it way back in the day. Was he the first to make it popular?
Pretty sure Fedor was that dude. LADY GAGA popularized it in NA. Was it Michael in EU? I forget.
ATS archers proved what coordinated archers could do in NA.
BeatrixKiddo started the plate + Cookies (Now Danish) trend, but what people didn't realize is that she was actually an Agi 2H who pumped for WPF instead of Athletics.
Ninjas influenced me. Pretty sure Smurfs (agi 2h in blue gambeson + hood) would have come about later without them.
Dexx, Rhuell, & co. popularized the pike duo.
crymoar influenced a whole generation of female lamellar no helmet i-can-do-it-all-by-myself heroes.
nk_ColdHart and Robin Longstride definitely started the sniper longbow on NA side post archer-with-armor nerf. I want to say some french archer clan did that on the EU side, but I'm probably wrong.
Can't begin to list the amount of influence Druzhina and the Templars have had- or the Something Awful players as a whole.
It could've been Aldo or someone else who first began the NBOH plated long polearm.