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Originally Posted by Snaggles
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It is entirely theorycraft.
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No it isn't. You obviously haven't even tried.
It's only a matter of how consistent someone is able to be depending on the weapon delay they are working with, and how much effort they want to put in. Back in 1999 it was common for a melee character to have zero haste, and that's still the case for a new server or a corpse run. When you have 4+ seconds to spare between swings of your Two-hander, you should absolutely be offhand weapon swapping if you care about increasing your DPS. Same for when you have 3 seconds to spare (the typical attack speed even while hasted, for characters at the levels where they have lower amounts of haste); it can be performed consistently with that much of a window.
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Originally Posted by Snaggles
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Even if you could pull off this hat trick a few times nobody is going to do it for 10 cycles for vindi (60 clicks) or 60 cycles (360 clicks) for a 6 minute fight.
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If "nobody" is going to do it, even just 1 time to hit a record parse or for a solo artist challenge, or to save the party/themselves from death in a close fight, then they are bad players.
This game is not competitive, and the mechanics involved in weapon swapping are not exactly fun, so it's understandable why most EQ players are bad/lazy. But people DO care about leveling faster, so everyone should be aware of the mechanic and use it if they care to put the effort in. It's similar to only moving/casting inbetween meditate ticks as a caster. Most people are too lazy to even do that, but I did it a lot and got more performance out of my characters. It's satisfying in the cases where it makes a difference in being able to hold down multiple spawns on recharge or not.
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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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As far as I know that kind of script isn't allowed on P99. Theoretically you could use a script like that and get away with it. I won't claim it's impossible.
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Are mouses with extra buttons allowed? Are programs that let you click the screen with your eyes allowed?
That hardware is obviously not banned, despite it giving players an advantage over people who don't have the same hardware.
It's funny how a literal disabled person with no hands could play Warrior and Ranger better than the way most p99 players do it right now.