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Originally Posted by Eagish
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iirc aoe groups were pretty huge on live in the kunark/velious era. I'm probably misremembering, but seems like there were lots of arguments about how overpowered wizards were because aoe spreadsheets, one mage might be ok to have, and you just need an enchanter for the crack. Maybe don't waste the group space on them, just have them drive by to refresh and stuff.
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Chanter isn't for crack, it is for chain stunning the mob pack so casters could not get insta gibbed when the pull came in. At least that's how it was done on live. You kinda need two of them because mobs 50+ start resisting stuns and with one chanter, one resist could wreck your pull. Even with 2 chanters some broke free sometimes. Shitty internet made things worse.
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Originally Posted by loramin
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They happened during the classic era, but were not at all common on most servers (eg. I know some people on Bristlebane did them occasionally in Sebilis in the wee hours of the morning).
But certainly they were nothing like the old P99 Chardok AoE, where the entire zone was (literally) monopolized by AoErs 24/7.
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I did a couple AE groups on live back in velious/luclin. Mostly chardok and fungus grove(?). The ones I did was usually 2 chanters, 2 wiz, a healer and a puller.
It didn't happen often because it was hard to find 2 chanters and a puller that wasn't ass. That and it was a late night thing because zones were a lot more busy in general so nothing to AE. Easier during luclin because it had more dead zones at that point.
Never did it on p99 so I'm not sure if the technique evolved.