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Originally Posted by loramin
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It just drives me crazy when people say stupid stuff about Enchanters being the gods of classic EverQuest. They were far from it, yet people talk about how Verant should have given half their spells to Wizards [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
If that had been anywhere close to reality, the classic EQ population would have demanded that Verant nerf Enchanters. After all, demanding that other classes be nerfed was very classic.
But, it wasn't the reality. Enchanter power comes from imperfections in our emulator ... not a flaw in the original game. |
It is true that p99 is skewed toward them but I feel like this is the worst argument. People had like 10+ years to git gud with enchanters on here with 15 years of prior knowledge while on live they had 3 years from scratch. And even then theres some chanter that posted a guide during classic and explained how it worked and said he was very effective with it.
I'd be extremely curious to know how many chanters knew to stack charisma, how to do the charm routine and how to deal effectively with a charm break. I would guess very little as the skill ceiling can be quite high in a game where most people weren't very good, mostly due to lack of knowledge.
I'd even argue than getting proefficient with charm takes quite a while and even then it can be mentally taxing to deal with both heavy CC and a pet at the same time so no wonder people with low experience and shit gear didn't bother back then. That and when zones were so crowded you only got a dozen mobs in camp every 20-28mins, there's no point in keeping a pet around. The increased DPS wasn't worth the liability.