Spells: Whirl till you hurl!

[Serena]

I was actually just having a debate with someone about this yesterday. I'm an enchanter and definitely feel that Whirl is overpowered. I think that if it could be tweaked to, as suggested in that link, provide a chance to break upon each melee hit, that would be a reasonable adjustment. It wouldn't be a crazy powerful long-duration stun, but it wouldn't completely ruin the spell, either.

[Tantalar]

Edited out for jealous rant

[Xzerion]

Speaking as a dev and a 50 enchanter it feels overpowered to me. The long standing issue as a DEV team that we have always asked for was proof of whether something was different on live than it is on emu. I have been unable to find it. Once someone does it will be changed.

[Villert]

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

Speaking as a dev and a 50 enchanter it feels overpowered to me. The long standing issue as a DEV team that we have always asked for was proof of whether something was different on live than it is on emu. I have been unable to find it. Once someone does it will be changed.

It definitely isn't acting like it was back in '99.

I remember reading a patch note on it I think. Some of the commentary about the fix was they "broke it" on purpose - as it was overpowered. I'll see if I can dig it up.

[Villert]

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

Edited out for jealous rant

Why edit this? I read the original message and it's an opinion/statement that should be included in this discussion.

[Xzerion]

Because hes a dev, we have had the discussion, and there are 3 50 enchanters on the server, it implies that everyone is crooked

[Villert]

Perhaps - I took it more as a you won't change anything til you have proof kind of thing. Which was fine with me, and fair - even if GMs were on the other side of the argument.

[Villert]

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

No im all for changing it, but we are not going to change our standards and procedures in doing so. Comments like that from a Dev do not belong on the public forums.

Fair Enough.

Haven't found the patch notes as of yet, but the following link may be useful;

http://web.archive.org/web/200108230...pell.asp?Id=41

Look at the comments, they give a description more akin to what I remember. Specifically, WTYH would break constantly under melee attacks.

[Xzerion]

allakhazam keeps patch notes from every patch