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Originally Posted by Rust1d?
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Was kiting ever an intended strategy in EQ? It seemed like back in the day, someone found out about kiting and it became a viable strategy. Surely the devs back then had to know about kiting when EQ was in beta. It did take a while before they nerfed it. Was it because the devs never intended kiting to occur or was it just a reaction to non-DOT classes complaining?
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It's not that they never intended, I think. If they were going to try and discourage kitting the nerf would have been tons worse. They knew about fear. They knew Necros have root at 34. They knew 66% wouldn't stop solo kitting. They DESIGNED necros to be able to solo themselves to 50/60 and they've been that way ever since '99. Necros all through the original three could really tear it up with enough open land to run around with. Verant gave them snare and enough stackable DoTs to bring down a wide array of mobs. They had to know it was going to happen.
With all this said I want to say they did it to bring solo kitting classes in line with the rest of the classes, if even just a bit. Druids were better than necros at some kitting even. Even after this patch I just said "olol fear" and I'm still leveling faster than anybody grouping.
It's a downer of a nerf, but it's not unfair...especially to an Iksar necro like myself who is already sitting on a 32%
penalty and still grinding away at levels pretty smoothly.