When are they Implementing the Charm Nerf?

[loramin]

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

With something like the internal mechanics of a spell like charm, whatever people are saying about their own personal experiences with the spell does not stand up as evidence. On Zam, especially during classic, a huge chunk of these reported experiences are wildly innacurate or just plain wrong. Or they were even true, but only because they had some bad luck or just sucked (happens here too). Hardly anyone really knew anything about anything, even if they had access to the raw data. Which was also not the case with charm.
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I hate tying anything involving this game into real life because it is just pretty cringy. But I will say that legal systems have statutes of limitations for certain cases for several reasons. One of them being that what you think you "experienced" or "how you "felt" decades ago is not evidence as there is a very high likelyhood it is not accurate compared to the actual facts. There would be a lot of wrongful prosecution otherwise.

P99 is based X% on "hard evidence" ... data taken directly from logs, from ShowEQ recordings, from screen captures, or reports of Verant staff (all from the original classic servers, that one Mac EQ server, or occasionally live servers) ... and Y% based on "soft evidence", what we can glean from classic message boards, websites, etc.

I too wish that wasn't the case, and that we had perfect info to base our emulator ... but the reality is we don't, and so that's just how a twenty-plus-year-old emulator has to be built.

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

I think we can all agree that charm WAS significantly harder during live classic. But it was harder because of real things that have already been pointed out that none of us need a wayback machine to confirm as fact. (knowledge, hardware, server stability, internet connections etc.)

Trying to tease out the difference is hard, especially since it almost certainly is "a little from column A, and a little from column B". But to me personally (again, someone with no real Enchanter character, ie. no "dog in this race"), it seems clear that those factors alone can't explain the massive difference between Enchanters and every other class. Again, no other class plays fundamentally differently here, despite the fact that every other class has access to far more information, better internet connections, etc.

Look, ultimately even my you and my fellow detractors agree:

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

the typical population of enchanters for most of classic was around 5-7% percent of the server, in vanillla on some servers it was as low as 2-3%. The population on p99 is, what? 30%?

Whatever the reason for it, that's an major difference between here and live. If the goal of this place is to be a museum, and let people play the game from '99, it's absolutely, positively clear that our emulator is failing to do that with Enchanters (even as, again, it does an impeccable job with just about everything else).