Project 1999 - Do you consider torpor to be truly classic?

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Originally Posted by Zuranthium (Post 3695817)

Torpor was far less powerful for half a year, making the target lose 50 mana per tick. The archived spell description and user comments on Caster's Realm and other sites also state this.

It doesn’t say per tick in the screenshot. Did the data file mismatch the implementation?

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Originally Posted by Jimjam (Post 3695854)

It doesn’t say per tick in the screenshot. Did the data file mismatch the implementation?

There are several message board posts about Torpor costing 400 mana to use on yourself, the only way that makes sense is if Torpor was -50 mana per tick, and there's no other logical reason why anyone would be trying to say it costs 400.

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Originally Posted by Zuranthium (Post 3695495)

Torpor isn't classic in the sense that far less people had the spell back then, barely anyone before Velious.

Clerics were considered to be the "Holy Trinity" of grouping (Tank + Enchanter + Cleric) because they all had Complete Heal for the tank, whereas Shaman were mostly just working with Superior Healing, or eventually Chloroblast during Velious.

yeah people seem to forget this point about p99. shit wasnt perma farmed on most servers back in the day. Nobody was able to kill Avatar of War on E'Ci until Luclin. Vox and Naggy stayed up for days at a time during velious because the raiding guilds didnt have level 52 toons they kept for farming white dragon scales. most people only had one toon, or at least one toon that was raid-ready.

and people did not farm sebilite juggernauts, guardian wurms, or the other Kunark targets that drop spells. On p99 green - sebilite protector dies just about every 8 hours, and has died every 8 hours for the last 2+ years. there's currently 5-6 sellers of Torpor in the tunnel on green as we speak.

people didnt truly grasp the power of classes like Enchanter, Shaman, Necromancer and Bard in 1999-2001. At least, the majority of players didnt.

Delete torpor and slows imo from shaman class. Way tooo powerful. Shamans should just buff and dot kite only. Also nerf all dot classes to be in line with wizards.