What would you nerf?

[Goregasmic]

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

Wow, I think Torven's research that Keebz posted strongly supports your view that charm had meaningfully higher resist rates in era. relink https://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=44358

I wonder if they plan to introduce the whole pre-2002 resist system Torven describes, which includes that higher charm break rate. If so, it seems to be a massive and wide ranging change. Is implementing this resist system a blocker for a potential new server?

I think it is the main reason for not changing a bunch of spells right now because if you're going to adjust all spells individually to then implement a magic-wide adjustment you'll then have to undo everything you previously did. There's also apparently a different resist modifier for lower level spells granting them lowered resist rates compared to their higher level versions.

And then there's also channeling to fix which would make another significant difference.

It also makes sense to test the changes on green before new server goes live. This is a massive project with far reaching implications. I wouldn't be surprised if they want to fix this before launching a new server.

[Keebz]

As for what I'd nerf though, I'd ban Bard AoE kiting.

It was vanishingly rare in era, disrupts zones and fuels the toxic raid bot armies. I say this as someone who's swarmed many a cleric bot.

[kjs86z2]

unroot dragons

[Crede]

bring back dot damage

[red_demonman]

MQing would be the big one - annoying AF that these servers are plat-quest to get some of the drops you need due to plat farmers.

[Jimjam]

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

MQing would be the big one - annoying AF that these servers are plat-quest to get some of the drops you need due to plat farmers.

I mean, those players would likely kick the can down to being loot rights. But I kinda agree.

[cd288]

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

MQing would be the big one - annoying AF that these servers are plat-quest to get some of the drops you need due to plat farmers.

If it involves a raid target, the top guilds would literally kill the mob and let the drop rot rather than let another guild get it. MQing arguably makes things more available than they would be.

[Ennewi]

Rather than nerf players, would prefer to buff non-player characters, fleshing them out to function as originally intended (bards casting songs, warriors discing), fit their theme (vampires procing lifetaps), or being revamped to match the server population (hate/fear 3.0, sky 2.0) in the name of classic+. Basically carrying forward the torch lit by the OG devs, progressing in a way that feels right. Some of that has already been done here and there.

[shovelquest]

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

If you were going to nerf something in P99 what would it be?

Id nerf charm duration to be max 8 mins, and adjust all resist timers and break timers to scale at whatever the same 22 minuets is to 8 minuets (which is the current, unclassic max charm duration) equally.

If i was going to nerf anything in all of everquest, it'd be that wizards got clarity instead of enchanters.

Id also get rid of fizzles becuase fuck fizzles.

[Kich867]

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

Id nerf charm duration to be max 8 mins, and adjust all resist timers and break timers to scale at whatever the same 22 minuets is to 8 minuets (which is the current, unclassic max charm duration) equally.

If i was going to nerf anything in all of everquest, it'd be that wizards got clarity instead of enchanters.

Id also get rid of fizzles becuase fuck fizzles.

I don't mind not giving clarity to wizards, they just designed the class poorly. As a wizard main, obviously Wizards were supposed to be the sort of Rogue equivalent of "all we do is damage".

Wizards simply need: less threat on nukes, better mana efficiency of nukes. Druids best nuke, Wildfire, is 3.2 dpm. Wizards strongest nuke is either 4dpm or 3.6dpm. This simply isn't a big enough gap. Wizards need to be at like 8-12dpm.

That and Harvest should have more than one spell in its line and its cooldown should be drastically, drastically lower. Like 1-2 minutes not 10.

Grouping was fun, but it was very much a thing of like, I get to nuke once maybe twice on a mob, but otherwise I'm trying to hold such a huge amoutn of mana in case anything goes wrong, and if I am regularly nuking, I'm out of mana super fast and have to skip several mobs to get mana back.

So if its not Harvest getting its own spell line and a substantial buff, I'd be fine with a self-clarity line even. They just don't get to participate too much in the normal grouping experience because Rogues do what they do without any resources.