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Look, people can attack me personally all they want. According to the forum rules those are supposed to stay in RnF, but /shrug.
Here's the thing though: attacking me personally
won't change how EverQuest was back in 1999-2001.
That is mostly correct, but look: Nilbog is only human, as a dedicated "classicist" he's only got two inputs to make anything in the game classic: evidence and player feedback. And because he cares so much about classic, he depends on them heavily. Thus, unclassic Enchanters make perfect sense: no one has surfaced obvious evidence of what P99 has wrong, so he hasn't fixed them yet.
But
crucially, he doesn't
just go by evidence! Take the AoE nerf: Nilbog did
not retreat to a mountain, surveil the game and all available evidence, and then decide "The Overthere wasn't like this in 2000!"
... and can you blame him? If you're dedicated to classic and it's been 20 years since you saw live OT, you're not just going to change it without evidence based on your 20-year old feels. He needed the community to weigh in and say "this needs fixing to be classic" (and also, in that specific case, to be manageable for the all-volunteer staff, as AoE fights used up a lot of their time).
So once again, even though I believe Nilbog
isn't a fanboy and cares
far more about classic than me or probably anyone else in this thread ... I don't think we can just wait for him to look up from the code and decide that because the big picture isn't "1999", he needs to change it. I think we need to "make some noise", to encourage him to find a new, creative, and above all
more classic set of mechanics.
Because again, without getting into the weeds of an specific mechanic change, and losing "the forest from the trees" ...
it should be obvious to all who have played here and on live that P99 Enchanters are not yet classic.