Enchanters didn't charm until PoP dire charm AA

[Clazxiss]

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

Double triple /s

But you're wrong about one thing. EQ classic is not designed for the players or by today's MMO standards where if warlocks bitch enough pre expansion launch they get a blanket 10% buff across the board.

Back in the day the decisions were made by one or two people to suit the desires of the devs. With the input of maybe their enchanter buddy on test, maybe taken into consideration.

If the devs from the Verant days saw how charm, channeling, and lulls where used herei. P99, and memblurs. They would have been nerfed into the ground.

Necromancer should be top classic class, followed closely by druids in popularity and shamans in actual power.

Ench, wiz, and mages all fell about equal in power. Because the Froglok King, Fungus King, whatever have u would've literally sliced them all to shreds with three attacks even with runes.

Necromancers where the only class that could reliably get single mobs rooted and parked and murdered with dots and pets.

Charm sucked. It was a gimmick, always intended to be a gimmick.

And this is the part where I remind you and others that the EQ/Verant devs were not good at their job. There is a reason only a few of them would go on to bigger and better things.

You mention the devs would've nerfed charms, lulls, and channeling if they saw how they would be used today. Those spells and ability are used exactly how they should be, crowd control. The fact you anticipate that's how the devs would respond is not wrong though. That's how they typically responded to such things on live because, they always felt they were right without ever consulting the players.

Listening to players, and sifting through the negative nancies, is an integral part of making solid games in today's gaming market. What I'm pointing out is the fact this was non existent back in the day for EQ is why the dev team handled class balancing so poorly, leading to other major problems down the road.

People who are screaming for class nerfs are actually asking Rogean and Nilbog to adopt the classic Verant (Absor) attitude toward the P99 playerbase. You do not want this, ever.