Eh. That charmed pets couldn't be controlled thing isn't too convincing imo without corroboration. The way that post is worded makes me wonder if this guy is just mixing up how animations and charms function. Maybe he didn't even have keys made or try to use the pet control commands since the animation he was used to before he ever had charm didn't respond to them.
But yeah for sure there are issues with enchanter spells where they didn't work in earlier classic like they do on green. Unsure which of those if any staff have interest in changing. I thought most of them have been brought up, but maybe not through the proper bug-report channels. Stuff like runes and chanter AC buffs not stacking in the early days, tash being resistable, etc.
Lor - what exactly do you think has been done to make enchanters stronger than they were on live? The most recent evidence (and pretty solid evidence, imo, which it sounds like you didn't look at because it's legit testing done not random zam anecdotes or cherry-picked lines about charm being dangerous) about charm durations in this thread suggest p99 charm strength is pretty close excepting perhaps charming MUCH lower-level mobs (which isn't what makes charm OP anyways).
And in a general "OP chanters are bad" sense, as someone else mentioned, the main changes towards unclassic mechanics have been done to ease CSR problems (raid timers and rotations, bards monopolizing zones, etc), not to address overall game balance (charm numba 1, class exp penalties ahead of timeline changes, monks in late velious, etc).
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