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Originally Posted by loramin
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100% agree, except I've dug into classic sources and Enchanters absolutely did charm back in classic ... they were just the very clear minority. Plenty of others tried charming, but found that it was too risky, and grouping was much faster XP.
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They didn't charm back then the way they do now. You don't keep the pet charmed for long when reverse charming. Charming (the few who did) was done to keep the pet as long as possible until it broke then everyone beat it down.
Strategies like reverse charming, stacking CHA (INT is an afterthought for chanters on P99) carrying around -MR gear, runing pet and slowing your target, clumping/conga lines ect. were all play styles developed by players on P99
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Originally Posted by loramin
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See, this is where I get lost. If this was the same game as back in '99 it'd be impossible to "change how the class is played". Literally more than ten times as many Enchanters played on live as do here. It makes zero logical sense that ten times as many players wouldn't figure out how to play the class, but a few geniuses at P99 would.
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Not everyone approaches the game the same way and utilizes the tools the exact same way. I've already explained how players on P99 maximized the class strengths by creating tactics that maximizes charm's effectiveness. You're giving way too much credit to people that played back then. Most were barely average players who mostly socialized in the game. 90% of the P99 population are hardcore players who have been playing the game for 20 years. The skill gap is a canyon.
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The "Occam's razor" (ie. simplest) answer isn't that 1/10th of the players magically learned how to play better than 10x that number on live, playing for two years ... it's that the emulator's rules changed from live. And again, no other class magically changed how it's played the way Enchanters (and to a lesser extent other charm classes) have.
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Completely disagree. Chanters sacrifice a lot of their potential mana pool to charm and most of their sanity hot swapping spells during routine fights. It's simply a different play style maximizing mechanics that have always been there but not thoroughly explored like they been on P99