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Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think your perspective of the whole playerbase back then is all that accurate. Most people were not raid-focused in Kunark. They were just trying to get to level 60 or trying to figure things out. Virtually nobody had a Bard epic in Kunark era and I don't at all remember the playerbase being amazed by that epic specifically and rushing to make a Bard because they heard about it.

By the end of kunark people weren't raid focused? Really? so why the massive exodus of hybrids? They had already played their characters to 50+why were they abandoning them? And with kunark there were tons of new tings to keep the bigger/uber guilds occupied while the 90% of other guilds could move in to the planes left largely vacant. raiding became massively more accessible to everyone.

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wouldn't call Enchanter "passive" either. Constantly mezzing a bunch of mobs is quite an active role.

Well, I would, since the entire game is about killing shit and enchanters were never killing anything. It takes a certain type of person to play those roles.

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1 year after the launch of the game is not the "majority of 1999" period that I was talking about.

I covered about 2 years, which is the majority of 99's scope.

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The thing about Necros back then is they were constantly being nerfed by the time more people were realizing just how OP the class was

Because tons of people were playing them. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but in verant's world the squeaking mouse got "greased" as well.

Verant primarily used 2 ways to determine class adjustments (AKA nerfs/buffs) 1. how many people are choosing to play the class, and 2. how do the players generally feel about said class. I have no clue why they didn't do like in beta and have highly knowledgeable people give them feedback, but it's the path they chose nonetheless.

So your class could be incredibly overpowered and still get buffs if the pop of your class was small and most people thought you weren't a very good class. This is EXACTLY what happened to shaman/bard/enchanters who ere already overpowered in vanilla.