Mage pets

[Tecmos Deception]

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

I just don't find that that makes for a satisfying explanation of the very large delta.

It might explain part, but again, everyone started out wanting to charm, not distract monsters. It took some systemic force, beyond just "no Youtube", to guide them all into being mezzbots, and not solo charmers or group charmers. Whatever that force was, it's clearly absent here.

I editted down to a TLDR of the entire debate:

You can refuse to be convinced by this. But you literally just keep running in circles with your ONE argument even as multiple reasonable explanations, some actual hard evidence, and some examples that don't work out the way you'd expect based on your logic, are all put forward. Every time one or two reasons are given, you ignore them and repeat yourself, and that's without even addressing the fact that over the course of time on here with people debating about charm, there have been like a dozen+ reasonable explanations for why charm was used differently on live than currently and that none of them have really been refuted. And those reasons aren't individual, they're cumulative.

No youtube, bad early experiences with charm, no knowledge of GCD, bad word of mouth from early charm experiences, old internet connections and computers, scarcity of mobs, general MMO noobiness, early mechanics that favored other methods (animations didn't steal exp, WTYH was OP as fuck, invis didn't break charm), relatively few enchanters playing at all let alone seriously trying charm out.... all those things add up to an enormous, "systemtic" force working against a large number of people figuring out charm back in the day.