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Old 04-02-2023, 03:55 AM
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Just because your time playing an enchanter only spanned the Velious expansion doesn't mean that was the duration of the "charm era." While it was less widely used in the beginning of Everquest's history, there's no basis for the view that the actual mechanics didn't work the way they do. This is hardly the only example of people playing the game very differently nowadays because of vastly superior knowledge. Almost nobody had an Epic+JBB+Torpor shaman back then soloing dragons. Nobody sold full epic MQs. Nobody sat on Discord to carefully coordinate their gameplay with others. Why is charm being singled out as the one thing that must be nerfed because its usage on P99 does not reflect what people did in the game's infancy? Almost nothing on P99 resembles the way we played back then, but by the time people did catch on to the powers of charm, it was clear that it was insanely overpowered--and there were, to my knowledge, no buffs to the mechanic at any point during the timeline covered by P99, so it's not as if we can say that it it's out of era. Most players just didn't really know about it, just as very few had thought of quad-kiting in the beginning and things like that. Hell, I remember that it even took a bit of time before the practice of cycling through warrior tanks for defensive became the norm on raids. Should we also nerf that so that we can pointlessly simulate the way the game was played back when most people were newbies? Of course not. That'd be idiotic. Nevertheless, that seems to be what's being asked for here.
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