Enchanter charm isn't classic, we all know this

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

The evidence is that IT'S NOT LIKE 1999!!! That's all the evidence we need. AGAIN, with Bards every last piece of existing evidence said "Bards can AoE 100 mobs and take all of OT".

But the even more important evidence was "BARDS DIDN'T DO THAT IN 1999!" AoEing every mob in OT was unclassic, and that was all Nilbog needed to go looking for the mechanic he was missing.

The exact same thing is true here. We have mountains of evidence, all correct and arguing Enchanters should be the most powerful DPS class in EverQuest. And then we have even more important evidence that says they weren't even in the top five on any server (out of the many, each with thousands of players, that existed back then). 1 + 1 =2, and shit's not classic.

And the only way you can argue that it should be that way is if you think every Enchanter back then was too stupid to try using their spells. That's not an honest argument, that's a "please don't classically nerf my class because it's my class" argument.

And there could be a variety of different reasons why the atmosphere is not like it was in 1999 and Enchanters weren't as popular. It could be that people didn't know as much about Charm killing strategies. It could be that people didn't know how OP Enchanters could be (which is probably part of it, since Enchanters did become very popular in the Classic era, just not right away). It could be that the mechanics are indeed different. If it's the latter, then you need to find evidence for it because the arbitrary standard you're trying to apply to change things isn't sufficient to get something changed. Get some actual evidence about the mechanics themselves rather than your arbitrary "evidence" that could actually have multiple different reasons for why it was the way you allege it was, and then you can post about it and see how the discussion goes/if things get changed on P99.