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Originally Posted by Loke
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I don't see how that is relevant to what I said. I admit that P99 is still a great EQ experience - being a classic recreation clearly just isn't the primary objective anymore. This is just one of many changes that have placed engineering a particular play style over staying true to the classic recreation objective.
I am obviously not a fan, and do miss the days when "not classic" was applied consistently - even when the nerfs were annoying. At least we knew what the guiding principle of the project was, and if we encountered unclassic things, we knew to expect nerfs. Now nerfs are just being applied selectively on the whim of the developers, with seemingly no regard to classicness. That is fine if that is the direction they want to go, but hopefully we can stop pretending classic recreation is the primary goal now.
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You're confusing classic code versus classic play style, ie experience. They are trying recreating the classic "experience" as much as they can. Wanding raid bosses down was not a fucking thing. The only selective part was how long they waited to put an end to it. They probably incorrectly thought people would actually want to play the game and not cheese their way thru raid bosses and stock pile wands to quad their alts to 50 and subsequently 60 when kunark hits.