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Originally Posted by Swish
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The people moaning about the lack of tanks are probably the same people who are refusing to take a SK/paladin in that's sitting at the zoneline for over an hour LFG.
I had a troll SK to 43 here, then it got real quiet... LFG for hours, sent tells to people in COM/solb/Lower Guk etc. No dice.
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Something the P99 devs don't seem to be accounting for is the player knowledge this time around. Players are using strats and have years of parsing to work around some of the old conventions in classic EQ that they hadn't figured out in the original Kunark timeline.
That's evident with all the monk tanking going on. I see alot more charming in groups than I ever saw on Live during this era. There were no swarm-kiting bards. Newbie rogues carrying epics. Players eventually figured out that +HP gear and high DPS could lessen or even eliminate the need for plate tanks and that understanding is in full force today on P99.
Back in the day it got to where healers wouldn't move a muscle until a plate tank showed up. You didn't monkey around with pets or DPS melee as tanks. You just sat there until a real tank got there.
The P99 devs can do whatever they want obviously but most people probably aren't aware that spider silk stacking didn't happen until after Luclin launched. And yet silk stacking is in the game right now! That's just one example of the patch timeline being "broken" by the P99 devs and it's high time they remove the hybrid exp penalty as well.
Do it already!