channeling skill on P99 is not working as it did before PoP on live servers. You should not be able to reliably channel through multiple mob hits. EQ developers acknowledged channeling broke with introduction of AAs and attempted to fix it in 2006, but nerf was reverted due to backslash:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2006-1.html
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- We've reverted the fix to channeling made with the last patch. After much discussion, our general feeling is that channeling has been broken for long enough that players have come to rely on that broken behavior as expected gameplay. For the time being, we've reverted back to that broken behavior and will address spell interrupts in general at a later date.
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According to Rashere channeling was supposed to cap at 90% chance
per hit with AAs (3 ranks), which means it should be lower on P99. He did not say how much each rank of AA adds:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061207...sage.id=239994
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I posted this in another thread, but will mention it here as well.
We fixed a problem with channeling that was causing it to basically be backwards. If you had no AAs, you channeled through damage 100% of the time and as you got AAs, that decreased. It now scales like it should, and like how it worked in the past, where you start out low, channel more often as you gain channeling skill, and your AAs increase that even further. You're going to see more interrupts than before simply because you are no longer channeling 100% of the time (or close to that if you had AAs that were decreasing it). Your chance to channel is still really high at high levels (it caps at 90%), though, assuming you have maxed channeling skill.
One caveat to this...channeling doesn't apply to being bashed, stunned, or moving. Even with a high channeling skill, if you get bashed, stunned, or moved too far, you're going to lose your spell. That hasn't changed.
Rashere
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Lower level spells are supposed to be easier to channel through hits (still can't be higher than cap). I am not sure if there is mechanics like this on P99 since I seem to channel through 100% of hits regardless of spell level and any bonus would be lost:
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Level of the NPC plays no factor in the channeling equations themselves. Higher level NPCs will generally hit you more often, though.
The level of the spell, though, does matter. Casting lower level spells than yourself gives you a bonus to channeling chance.
Rashere
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