Red Skill Caps on Paladin

[Opius]

After I leveled to 50 on a my Paladin, 52 currently, several skills caps increased but it seems Defense is locked at 206 and is displayed in red text. Weapon skills also seem to be stuck at 206 like 1HS, 2 HB, but not displayed in red text. As a Paladin we all know Paladins need any boost they can get. Anyone have any info on this matter I would love to hear from you.

[Doctor Jeff]

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217093&highlight=defence

[Bardp1999]

Soon(tm)

[Dolalin]

Isn't this just cosmetic? All the rolls happen on the server. Who cares what the client thinks?

[Legidias]

Its real. Just zone into CS and youre fixed.

[Dolalin]

Oh I believe the red numbers are real, but has it been parsed? It just seems like a client display bug.

People in that thread say they're still getting skillups. So the server has the right numbers, and the server does all the combat rolls. What the client displays is candy and irrelevant.

[Jimjam]

Anecdotally, my ranger seems to take more of a beating from froglok foragers, and take longer to kill them when this bug is in effect (for Rangers their dodge and parry drop by like 80 and their offence/weapon skills take a hit too... Fortunately Rangers cap their defence at like level 39, so at least that doesn't get any worse!).

But you know what anecdotes can be like!

If only I had the time to investigate this properly, and maybe have a healer on hand to let me take a beating for a wider duration of time.

[Opius]

It would be nice to hear from the powers that be on this issue since it appears to have been ongoing for quite sometime, and finally clear the confusion.

[Sweeper41]

MY red defense skill, which was locked at 203, is now 215 and white. I haven't set foot on velious on any of my toons. So did they fix it or no?

[Sweeper41]

MY red defense skill, which was locked at 203, is now 215 and white. I haven't set foot on velious on any of my toons. So did they fix it or no?


Update. Checked again and defense has returned to 203 red. Guess it was a flook. Ill just have to run CS.

[draconov]

Just create and bonechip a lv 5 toon and run them to cs on the same account. I heard ec works too, but i just did this to make sure. Log onto that character before you log onto your hybrid. It's really annoying but it fixes it.

[Troxx]

So EC works?

[Opius]

EC no longer works since Chardok patch, at least not for me.

[Troxx]

Made a level 1 warrior and ran to EC.

My paladin now has full 250 defense skill!

Went from 1060ac to 1121; nice jump

[Bardp1999]

I have closer to 1400 ac at 58, kekeke

[Troxx]

Good for you.

[draconov]

Cool, glad ec worked for you Troxx.

[Troxx]

Yeah since I ran a level 1 warrior to EC at FP zone line I have had 252 defense every time time if I log into the warrior first.

Neat trick.

[Bardp1999]

Yea my defense is still bugging out from time to time =(

[Troxx]

That’s ok you have close to 1400ac.

[elwing]

Too bad, won't help me much, my main platform crash almost always on character switch...

[Crede]

Too bad, won't help me much, my main platform crash almost always on character switch...

What windows compatibility mode are you running on your eqgame.exe? Check out some threads on this. Helped me think I switched to 98