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Old 06-24-2022, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by commongood [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Fair. Reason I was asking was that red vs blue would have a pretty significant impact as to the frequency of casual charming in exp groups etc. I played a chanter on Tallon Zek from 2000 2006 and I don't remember charming at all for exp during my initial Kunark and Velious play time. However that was also very much to do with the risks of getting ganked by pvp'ers. It felt like in many scenarios it was just completely untennable.

Biggest memory I have of charming-soloing was much later (in PoP) where I would solo in Bastion of Thunder and Plane of Valor for exp and profits.

Though my memory is extremely hazy - which I suspect is the caze for many people replying to threads here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
My central argument in this fight has always been "what does everyone remember from classic ('99-'01)?" And again, if you ask anyone except a P99 Enchanter player, they'll tell you: Enchanters were a grouping class (even though there were plenty of soloing classes, like Necros or Druids; it's not like everyone in classic grouped exclusively or anything).

But also we have more objective sources than just people's memories. You can find Enchanter guides on Caster's Realm archives, Enchanter discussions on Allakhazam archives, and so on. And they'll say the same thing: charm soloing was a thing in classic! It was also super risky and dangerous ... and most preferred groups because that was the safer/faster-in-the-long-run way to get XP.

I'm not trying to get charm soloing removed from P99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Heck, I plan to play an Enchanter on Green 2.0.

I just want it to be classically hard like it should be. Smarter people than me have said the reason is that our resist rates are off, but I don't know if that's the issue or not: all I know is our Enchanters aren't classic.
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