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Originally Posted by Izmael
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On topic though - people didn't charm back then because we all sucked at the game badly back then + terrible hardware we were playing on.
Spell was all right. Players weren't.
To be more classic, P99 would need players from 1999 more than anything.
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Seriously, it wasn't just that players were idiot back then, and it wasn't (just) that some people's network connections sucked.
Again, there's a willful mind blindness here, where everyone just dismisses how
incredibly different Enchanters were on live, by turning their brains off and repeating "players were dumb" and "connections sucked". Nevermind that live had something like 20x more players than we have here, all experimenting with how to play their class ... and the vast majority coming to the conclusion that the best way for them to level was to group. Nevermind that tons of Enchanters
did work on their Charisma (if only because no one understood how stats worked ... but the character creation boxed text told them Charisma was important!)
And even if it
was the connection: we added an "unclassic" mob AoE limit to reflect that here. To repeat: we did something unclassic to make things more classic overall. If you think Enchanter charming ism't classic here, because of internet connections ... the way Bard charming wasn't classic, because of internet connections ... then the logical thing to do would be to
bring back classic somehow.
But I think it was more than that. I think charm resists, or some other hard-to-emulate-exactly mechanic,
were worse on live. But again, 11+ years of ignoring how unclassic Enchanters are makes me think the devs are just as happy with unclassic easy-solo Enchanters as everyone else.