Bear in mind that the random number generator in EQ has always been kind of streaky. Add that to the compounding penalties that stack up, especially during this era of the game, and Murphy's Law often reigns supreme. It's not bad code, just bad luck. Keeping offense and melee skills capped is about all you can do, really.
At least you can chalk it up to trying to melee as a priest. My main during this era of the live game was a SK....The whiff streaks happended so often when it really counted that I was close to kicking a hole in a wall a few times....And SKs are tanks.
Welcome to EQ, I guess.
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