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Originally Posted by Fammaden
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Broadband and hardware probably does play the biggest part, charming this way was a death sentence when most people were prone to lag or completely lock up for tens of seconds on end or straight up disconnect at any time. But another interesting contention is that channeling is too good on P99. Strictly anecdotally it does seem far far easier to channel through hits and complete a spell here than it was back then.
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I would say there is no "probably" about it. You die in literally seconds from a charm break if you don't react fast enough. GINA will give you an audio alert basically right as the charm breaks and our fast connection speeds give us a better chance now to react before being ground into a corpse. In classic, not only did you have to deal with way longer network latency, but you probably weren't doing things like stacking your CHA up as crazily, abusing clickies, or checking the wiki for the most suitable charmed pets like is now commonplace.
I've seen this night and day difference too when playing Warcraft 3 and WC3 came out years after EverQuest so more people were starting to get into broadband (which was still WAY slower than the speeds we have today). There's this custom game in WC3 where you play as ice skating demon hunters and it was very challenging back in the day. You play it now and it's just SO much easier because you don't have the delay like you did back in the day and your unit responds faster.