Enchanter charm isn't classic, we all know this

[TheDudeAbides]

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

No. It's demonstrating that the enchanter didn't know how to manage a charm break. How often charm breaks happen has nothing to do with the correct way to handle the break. And "have your tank intercept it with a taunt" is not the right way.


People strawmanning "yep the human race probably wasn't as intelligent 20 years ago" are showing the human race isn't very intelligent TODAY either. We didn't need to be dumber 20 years ago to be bad at a brand new game or for the Prima guides and random-ass allakhazam comments to not do much to help players thoroughly learn the intricacies of EQ. The human race wasn't dumber 50 years ago than today, but that didn't stop people from not knowing cigarettes are bad for you. Something like that took decades to slowly get ingrained into the minds of a majority of people, and still today there are a non-trivial number of people who don't believe it. Why is it so hard to believe that people didn't fully understand how to use charm in p99 20 years ago?

I'm not even arguing it's correct here. I'm just pointing out that the arguments made for nerfing are non sequiturs.

People had access to the exact same spells 20 years ago they have today

There were many talented and clever players back then that knew the mechanics inside and out

The issue is not handling charm breaks

The issue is the reliability of Charm. This has been an issue on P99 from the very beginning. Everyone knew it was broken 10 years ago and nothing has ever been done about it