New Meta - Revert Recharge Item Nerfs

[furny]

Real talk. This Server is 15 years old with people constantly complaining about "stale" meta and how smaller guilds can't compete.

Instead of reverting back to this ridiculous poopsock meta, why not just revert the item recharge cast times, recharge cost, and lifetap un-resistibility?

The reason these were nerfed, in the first place, are over a decade old for players no longer on the server and no longer applicable. Reverting these custom changes back would not only restore the "classic" claim of the server, but also give guilds like PL, Gravity, SS, (not riot), ect... a fighting chance again to low man content with classic items.

I could even see a beneficial side effect of this also helping casual players kill content that they can no longer find groups for.

[Jimjam]

Certainly un-nerf lifetap imo

[Keebz]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Certainly un-nerf lifetap imo

[questever]

I'm not in the raid scene, but curious whom the top guilds are competing for the high end content

[loramin]

Originally Posted by questever [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not in the raid scene, but curious whom the top guilds are competing for the high end content

Might not be perfectly up-to-date, but https://wiki.project1999.com/Blue_Guilds#Raid_Guilds

[Zuranthium]

Item recharging is dumb and not something that's supposed to be in EQ.

[furny]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Item recharging is dumb and not something that's supposed to be in EQ.

except.... it was and... is classic.

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by furny [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

except.... it was and... is classic.

No, the EQ devs never wanted it in the game and simply didn't know how to write code to recognize item charges on vendors. As soon as they figured out how to do that, item recharge was removed from the game. Not to mention, these items were far less known by the player base back then, and the mechanic itself wasn't known by everyone either.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Item recharging is dumb and not something that's supposed to be in EQ.

Originally Posted by furny [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

except.... it was and... is classic.

You're both right. It's unclassic to not have recharging because people absolutely did it on live ... but if you have it, the whole game becomes unclassic. In classic 99+% of Mages did not have root; if you allow the nets then most Mages (unclassicaly) will have root.

Personally I think recharging should be something introduced later. After all, on live no one knew how to recharge on day one: they had to learn about it from others.

It'd be fun if the devs staggered it to simulate live (eg. after six months of play each player has a 10%/month chance to unlock recharging) ... but a much more realistic implementation would just be to start a server with no recharging, and allow it (say) a year into Velious.

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally I think recharging should be something introduced later. After all, on live no one knew how to recharge on day one: they had to learn about it from others.

My friend told me "There's some way to recharge items with vendors but I haven't figured it out" back in real99 and that was the way it be for me and my friends until p99 unlocked this epic and enjoyable feature for my peasant everquest skills.