If you go to the way back machine Ruatha (think he was on Povar) was the lead guy on figuring out a lot of the stuff you would later read about on the steel warrior.
He used to do parses, with graphs, the whole nine yards.
Pretty sure he was the guy that figured out that stats... didn't do anything. Not sure anyone knew (or was it in the game?) that dex influenced procs. But he did a bunch of tests with different gear setups to test the effects of strength on damage, and things like agility on AC (answer not much unless you drop below 75).
The guy was a goldmine if you can find his posts. Sadly the sites he used to post on like CastersRealm, Stratics, and the like are gone now.
There have been so many changes though. It's pretty well known that different classes had different damage tables. Ie, a warrior with the same weapon as an equal level paladin, the same stats (str will affect max hit and backstab damage I think), and the same skill will do more damage than the paladin.
But I'm not even sure that was in the game when I started. I know the thing about Rangers being crap didn't start till Kunark. Not sure they were tanking dragons, but no one batted an eyelash if the Ranger tanked in Mistmoore or something.
Of course that was before Kunark and its mobs.
I kind of suspect that the different damage table thing came about when Kunark came. I know Paladins had a rep as not being good tanks in a group for example, when compared to Warriors. At that time 2h'ers didn't get the enhanced main hand damage (they got the same main hand damage a yak or something would get). So they were only better in the sense that they usually had better ratios. And everyone knows what the main hand damage bonus does with low delay weapons.
Dual wield was so much better Paladins complained about Bards beating their melee damage.
All that is pre-Kunark though.
Heh, I remember most people were dumbfounded that the EBW from the Avenging Caitiff's quest in Mistmoore outdamaged the godly Yak and it's proc.
Wanted to add something to something I didn't explain too well. Someone can correct me if I am totally wrong, but I'm not certain Warrior mitigation for the same AC was better than anyone else's at that point. They got more return for worn AC, but if a warrior and ranger had exactly the same displayed ac, I'm not sure a ranger would have taken more damage. Not sure on that though. But it was really different pre-kunark.
And the thing with the DI and DB, such that warrior can never be hit for "max" compared to other classes wasn't in yet.
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