Remove Hybrid Penalty

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

Why would you want to put that in the game? You might as well prevent people alt-tabbing also. It's another example of something Verant put in the game and realized it was stupid and took it out because it was not fun, added nothing to the game, and no one wanted.

Because it existed throughout classic and casters should have it harder than melee. Very rarely will humans choose to nerf themselves. It did add something to the game though..especially for pvp. Casters being forced to see their spellbooks till 35 was a boon to melee. Ducking not interrupting spells was a boon to melee. Once they removed all of this, there was a great disparity between caster->melee pvping especially at lower levels.

Also, I think you might consider what Verant wanted and what paying customers and the financial department deemed 'everyone' wanted can be vastly different.

Until they explicitly stated they messed up. Again, it's something that no one enjoys or wants, why have it?

p99 was created to be a museum for classic eq. A place where these mechanics and nuances would exist if nowhere else. On the topic of fun, I have lots of opinions on what would make the game more interesting.. Like for pvp? Teams, yellow text, item loot, language barrier isolated to your team, racial faction losses. Juice it up and give people a reason to group and to pvp against groups. If we only have 1 pvp server, why not add features from all of them.

Also while we're discussing stuff from live, pets in general on P99 do not taunt/generate aggro like they should. Is that intended or is it because aggro (like resists) is difficult to code/replicate?

There's a huge portion of code dealing with aggro and hatelist. Replicating it exactly would be almost impossible.. but even making minor changes is 10 ft pole category. This is Rogean's dept.