Things I personally had no idea about when I leveled an enchanter to lev 35 in vanilla EQ:
1. Gnomes could see through walls (I never used gnome illusion)
2. Lull didn't require line of sight and could be used with gnome illusion to lull mobs multiple rooms away using the /target command
3. GCD clickies meant you could stun and re-charm or mez before a mob could hit me. I just face tanked the mobs after using stun and prayed I didn't get interrupted while trying to re-charm or mez
Also
On P99 it costs about 1k pp to get enough gear for ~205 unbuffed charisma. I had 210 unbuffed charisma by level 18 on P99. I wasn't even charming often because the animation was still better than mob dps at these levels. On vanilla EQ I never had nearly the charisma I have on P99, I think I ended up having around 150 and I had far more pp on my vanilla EQ enchanter by level 35 than I did on my p99 enchanter by level 18
I think I grouped maybe 2 or 3 times in vanilla EQ. I remember them vividly because being praised for handling trains well was what made enchanter my favorite class, but I still solo'ed my entire time in vanilla EQ. About 80% of that was attempting to charm solo
But, by all means, program in an artificial break to charm occurring every 3-5 minutes on P99, and have a message sent to the player in chat saying "you have been afflicted by people's hazy memories of what vanilla EQ was like"
I'm all for it. Got the server's 9520258 necro alt ready to go
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