I'm convinced there are two core issues. Channeling which makes all soloing too successful and mob MR scaling or its impact on resists of all magic spells.
These two issues lead to easy non classic soloing and overpowered groups at lower levels and higher levels separately. As channeling success drastically improves mob MR was going up resulting in more resists for all CC spells.
There is some kind of very unique mob MR data from classic that will never be recovered. This MR is mentioned repeatedly in era posts and many mentions of which mobs had higher MR. Probably all undead had higher MR. Dwarves are mentioned oddly enough which impacts Velious some.
The other Enchanter problems are real but trivial by comparison to these two. The argument that Enchanters would be just fine with reduced channeling is laughable.
All casters should be nerfed by channeling fix. EQ was a social group focused game and the two core issues mentioned are why this is mostly missing on P99. It's why when groups do exist they pull larger camps than existed on live like in HHK. Everyone who casts a spell is overpowered and many mobs are underpowered. Probably planar mobs are all missing a plus 100 MR which is why no one charmed them and in era posts say it's only possible to mez them working as a team with debuffs etc even for trash mobs.
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