Enchanter is #1 solo class? What is this madness

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Loramin, I admire your dedication and obvious care for project 1999 so please don't take this as me trying to undermine your contributions to these forums or your desire to see things become more "classic".

But you confirming that you had nothing concrete to base your statement about Niblog's pet class being enchanter reads like bias. Of you having a negative bias toward the enchanter class.

You claim that enchanters are too powerful and that this is not classic. This might be correct either fully, partially or it might not be correct. I don't know. I find the "evidence" we are working with (old forum posts of varying quality) to be of doubtful quality but I acknowledge that it's the best we got.

If it is just the most insanely obvious thing - like say they had given the spell Forlorn Deeds to Necromancers or something similar - then thousands and thousands of players could attest to that being incorrect and it would be easy to fix. But we are talking - as far as I understand the discussion - about channeling success rates and resist checks. These are not slam dunk, open-and-shut cases as far as I can tell. And so it kind of muddies the waters when you throw in what is basically just your own speculation that Niblog wants to "keep his pet class unclassically powerful".

I used to main an enchanter on live from 2000-2006. I am not going to say I don't have biases here. But if it is true that channeling rates were different and ditto resists then I will of course accept it if they were to change it. Unfortunately I don't remember it and because I played on a pvp-server I did very little charming until much, much later than Velious. I do remember charm-soloing in Planes of Power and, by then, charm-soloing as an enchanter was certainly "a thing" and that experience as much as I can rely on my memory from 20 years ago was similar to what I experience now on P1999.

Anyway. I am intrigued to see if changes will be made.