To be honest, I haven't played a lot recently. The old server I used to go on is long since dead, after it died I quit for a while (around a year) and and then came upon this server. I liked what I saw so I decided to join.
1.8 ruined combat, that's why I said 1.7
(No i'm not getting mixed up with 1.9)
I just remember in 1.8 the combat being all funky and weird compared to 1.7 because they removed block hitting.