Enchanter charm isn't classic, we all know this

[Tecmos Deception]

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

So, we can yell at each other about how we're right, or we can try and walk in another man's moccasins.

I've set the scene already. It's 1999: we've got class message boards, and literally hundreds of members of every class is playing the game, casting spells, trying things out, and posting about what they've done so hundreds of other players can do the same.

In this environment every class is figuring out how to use their tools. Rogues are learning what they can pickpocket and how to use sneak cleverly, Shaman are cann-dancing, and so on.

Now, imagine in this environment you play an Enchanter. You have a spell list, and you know every spell on it and what it does (even if you didn't have the manual and Prima guides and such, you had Caster's Realm and other sites back then that listed them all).

So what is your argument?

That Enchanters didn't look at Charm on their list?

That every Enchanter on the server cast it once, and decided, this is crap?

How can you honestly imagine every one of the hundreds of forum-posting Enchanters NOT realizing that they could do more damage than any other class in the entire game?

I'd say, you can't. You can't honestly wave all this away as "every last one of them was" dumb. Something HAD to be different back then.

Chanters did solo with charm for exp on live.

That's not the same thing as having figured out how to use a buffed, dual wielding, malod, -mr geared imp while you have a wc cap and root nets and a wand of allure and a telescope on your hotbar so you can duo freeti in relative safety for hours on end.

Nobody is saying they were dumb back then. There's a difference between being dumb and having enough play time to piece together all the parts of the puzzle. And either nobody did that very quickly, or if anyone did it they didn't talk about it so thoroughly and frequently that became widely known.