When are they Implementing the Charm Nerf?

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

no people were just bad then it wasnt risky people just sucked.

It probably was riskier back then. Not necessarily because of the game mechanics or player skill, but because of how flakey the internet was back then. I could easily see people dying from getting beaten to death by their pet after a lag spike or unexpected disconnect. I certainly remember getting disconnected decently often on live.

[Jibartik]

TBH I dont buy the latency issue. I never remember latency ever being a problem for me. How it would affect charming ant not roots or pvp or using stuns to stunlock a train pull in lower guk (which was my favorite memory of the game of all time) I just cant figure out how charming is unique to any of that.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

TBH I dont buy the latency issue. I never remember latency ever being a problem for me. How it would affect charming ant not roots or pvp or using stuns to stunlock a train pull in lower guk (which was my favorite memory of the game of all time) I just cant figure out how charming is unique to any of that.

I remember getting disconnected quite often. The main problem with charm is if it breaks while you are disconnected but still logged in and waiting to be kicked, you would probably get murdered while you are standing there helplessly. Obviously it depended on if you had high class internet or not. I had 56k instead of DSL, so it was a much shoddier experience for me hehe.

[Jibartik]

not if you had a group, which i was in all the time... so i didnt need pets but i did need to CC... knawhatiamen

I aint ever seen nobody solo tranix in 99

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

not if you had a group, which i was in all the time... so i didnt need pets but i did need to CC... knawhatiamen

I aint ever seen nobody solo tranix in 99

Don't get me wrong. I am not in the camp arguing Enchanters never charmed on live. I honestly don't remember much about playing with Enchanters on live. I didn't play one myself, and I mained a warrior so I didn't care about clarity. I only really remember the mezes and lulls lol.

I am just saying I do remember getting disconnected a lot (or almost disconnected where you would not get updates for seconds at a time before the game recovered). If I was playing an Enchanter at the time I would certainly think twice before charming when soloing, especially if you go balls to the wall and give your pet a torch + haste. You would get melted in seconds during a disconnect or almost disconnect if charm broke. You wouldn't be able to cast a stun, mez, etc. either.

But again, it depended on how often you got disconnected. DSL players might have had a much nicer time than us 56k folks.

[oldschoolguy]

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

Don't get me wrong. I am not in the camp arguing Enchanters never charmed on live. I honestly don't remember much about playing with Enchanters on live. I didn't play one myself, and I mained a warrior so I didn't care about clarity. I only really remember the mezes and lulls lol.

I do remember being able to charm yellow conned crocks in oasis to fight red con crocs in oasis, was wild fun and it was biggest highlight of that enchanters adventure. Not to mention charm other players and send them to fight Cazel. (I Played on Rallos Zek server)

I can't do that here, charm on p99 breaks a lot more often. Still fun though. It's as close to classic as we'll ever get imo anyway so making most of it with all it's blemishes. Alternative is TLP servers which unfortunately go all the way to PoP, 2 expansions too many imo.

[ReoDobbs]

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

I do remember being able to charm yellow conned crocks in oasis to fight red con crocs in oasis, was wild fun and it was biggest highlight of that enchanters adventure. Not to mention charm other players and send them to fight Cazel. (I Played on Rallos Zek server)

I can't do that here, charm on p99 breaks a lot more often. Still fun though. It's as close to classic as we'll ever get imo anyway so making most of it with all it's blemishes. Alternative is TLP servers which unfortunately go all the way to PoP, 2 expansions too many imo.

Charming yellow mobs was always a rush, depending on break RNG it could be a nice PL session or a nice delevel session

[Jibartik]

Yeah I remember the black screen with white text.

They should add random disconnects to p99

I think that is the most classic and low hanging fruit way to solve the issue.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Yeah I remember the black screen with white text.

Yup lol that black screen with white text was the worst! I have quite a few memories of just running through a zone and getting that message.

[loramin]

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

They should add random disconnects to p99

I think that is the most classic and low hanging fruit way to solve the issue.

I agree. Leave blue (post-green merge) as the "for babies who can't take real EQ" server, and bring back random (but rare) disconnects for everyone on Green 2.0! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

(Bonus points if they play a wav file of your mom telling you to get off the phone when they happen.)