Channeling master here...
A bash won't interrupt but a stun will, mobs bashing don't always stun. No clue if that is classic. Probably not and used to always stun. A bash without stun is treated as a normal hit which has a chance to interrupt.
Having lower FPS does result in being interrupted more as the client lags results in you moving slightly more per hit. The interrupt chance is based partially on distance moved.
That said, channeling is still way OP here. I haven't even played here for for a couple years or something and I know it's still OP because that is how they want it.
It's a shame because P99 would be a lot more fun if it wasn't made easy like this. Classic EQ was intentionally made difficult for solo players to force social gaming. I remember green launch you just joined a group with an enchanter and let them carry you.
The enchanter is never dealing with aggro problems, it's all easy for them, they don't even need you in the group. Easy channeling, easy lulls, easy charm, fast exp, the list goes on. Everyone pretend an SK with disease cloud could snap aggro from an Enchanter that just charmed and mezzed 10 mobs. Pretend all your memories of Enchanters yelling at people for breaking mez early and running in circles draining healer mana were made up and just bad players. Really killed the experience and staff doesn't want to change it. All documented in the bug report forums with tons of evidence.
The staff doesn't consider any of this to be playing EQ is my take. They only consider raiding to be "playing EQ" so they seem to put their thumbs on the scale to help people level faster with less chance of messy CRs and exp loss in order to quickly stack raid rosters for whatever reason. At max level the experience is close to classic but they ignore that letting everyone easily get to max level is not classic.
Which is also funny because then they bitch about all the petitions coming out of raiding, root dragons, etc. Meanwhile back in reality if they implemented classic rule sets they wouldn't have 90% of the server at max level all competing for one dragon immediately after launch but this is how they want it.
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