Game Mechanics: Druid Tracking Skill Level Too High

[Ele]

Currently Druids cap their tracking skill at 125. This is a post Velious enhancement.
Druids should be capped at 20 skill points on Tracking until January 2000 (Plane of Sky patch) when it gets bumped to 50, then bumped again post-Velious.

Skill Level 20
Classic -> Plane of Sky patch

NewGroup postings from December 22, 1999
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/xSMzTbTtg8gJ

At least with druids their current cap of 20 makes the skill nearly useless...
but bards have far *better* tracking than rangers in basically every way.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/xvwPat8-U18J

The druids lack armor and weapon choices. As a
character of nature, tracking seems fit and a skill of only 20 is terrible.
A skill of 75 is ok but no where near the ranger cap.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/Iu0obg8vsukJ

Druids should keep the tracking skill, and it should be higher than 20
(my argument is that it should be capped higher than a bard's
but...the bard's is too high), but not 75. 50 sounds like a reasonable
cap. Further, the skill should be improved so that rangers (and
rangers only) can do more with it, as was requested. My one gripe is
having to wait till level 20 for it, though. A lower level would be
nicer, maybe 12 or so.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....o/gLOKbFj2-OsJ

I'll take Tracking, capped at 20,
over that any day. Honestly, I find Tracking to be a useful tool
even capped at 20, I'm not sure I want the cap raised.

Skill Level 50
The following patch bumped it to a skill level of 50. Plane of Sky patch -> Post Velious patch

January 20, 2000 (Plane of Sky patch) https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....s/GDyzC4OScIoJ

*Druid Enhancement*
The skill cap on a Druid's tracking skill has been increased. This
change was implemented based upon general public opinion that the
former cap was far too low for the skill to be even marginally viable.

Confirmed via EQ Caster's Realm Dec. 2000 says Skill cap of 50.
http://web.archive.org/web/200012171...ides/Druid.asp

Finally, should be bumped up to skill level of 125 in a post-Velious patch

Skill Level 125
March 6, 2001 Patch Message http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2001-1.html

-- The tracking skill cap for Druids has been raised to 125. It was the
intent for druids to be better at tracking than they were, however
before the scroll bar, smaller skill numbers were often considered
better. With the tracking improvements from the last patch, this
increase was appropriate.