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Originally Posted by TripSin
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You're just supporting ignorance. No shit enchanters weren't played at all the same as they are played now in p99. How p99 EverQuest is played in 2020 is NOTHING like it was in 1999. You people like to ignore the fact that WE, THE PLAYERS IN 2021, ARE THE MOST NONCLASSIC THING ABOUT P99 BY FAR. I mained enchanter in live and while I did at times charm solo (especially after PoP release but even before and also WITHOUT J Boots or a Goblin Ring too mind you!), when I was in a group I almost never charmed. But, Azxten is completely ignoring the real major factors why this is the case: faster internet connections and hardware, software assistance like GINA, and massive game knowledge for a 20-year-old game so we know how to do things like maxing CHA. Back in live, you weren't expected to charm but you are expected to now in p99 for these reasons. Things like much less delay, not having GINA audio cues, and the knowledge we have today makes a WORLD of difference.
Also, Azxten has a history of making bullshit assertions with no real evidence. He's made basically this exact thread already and he'll make it again sometime in the future. The guy has issues. He's been like this for so long and can't let it go.
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These excuses simply don't hold water. People on P1999 like to pretend that players in the classic era were all wholly ignorant of game mechanics and playing the game on toasters connected to the internet through a tin can and a string. The reality is that the mechanics of the game were well-understood by the hardcore playerbase in the old days, and that plenty of people were playing on high-end gaming PCs with broadband internet. I know because I was one of them.
There were plenty of old school players who were extremely talented, knowledgeable and who had good hardware and connections. And yet Enchanters were not the godlike charming class in the classic era the way they are on P1999. They were a class that specialized in CC and buffing. Further, as azxten pointed out, anyone who played in the classic era remembers just how contentious an issue class balance was for both the developers and the playerbase. The idea that Enchanters would have been knowingly allowed to run roughshod through the game with charm when the original developers were still in charge is completely asinine. If such things had been happening Enchanters would have been nerfed into the ground with a vengeance. But they weren't because charm mechanics in the classic era were already much more unforgiving than on P1999, and so no nerf was needed.