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Loramin continually fails to consider the bigger elephant in the room than "something about the code is different", the hardware and bandwith was so inferior and bogged down that charming was a deathwish. Lagspikes were a complete fact of life for nearly everyone. Servers weren't as inherently stable and reliable themselves. Your ISP wasn't as stable and reliable.
Most people's machines struggled to run the graphics and had shit ping by even the worst P99 standards, reacting to a charm break even without weapons and haste would be swift oblivion and your groups deaths likely next. Players were incredibly risk averse and demanded the same of their party. Then along came Luclin >>> PoP and everyone was forced to upgrade their PC's more, and better broadband became more the norm across the country. Next thing you know charming was on the menu as well as the advent of widespread bard swarming. GINA is also a massive advantage we didn't have then. Even if channeling or some other aspect of P99 is a bit overpowered that's not the biggest reason for the dearth of charm back in the old days. | ||
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If I had a nickel for every time I died to a lag spike while not playing a charming enchanter while on dial up in 2000 …
Dems be a lot of nickels.
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Strategies like reverse charming, stacking CHA (INT is an afterthought for chanters on P99) carrying around -MR gear, runing pet and slowing your target, clumping/conga lines ect. were all play styles developed by players on P99 Quote:
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(And BTW, I am a terrible classic researcher: I can't touch Rygar or Dolalin with a ten foot pole ... and I found that in < 10 min. If Caster's Realm still had much of an archive left, I probably could have found it it in 2 min.)
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Of course, it didn't take many attempts at charming yellow/red mobs especially without an sow before I gave up. That strategy was a failure on live and it would be a failure on p99 too; you get resisted then they kill you. Here, though, I had Tecmos' videos to teach me a mindset of minimizing risk while charming instead of biting off more than I could chew, and the cultural knowledge that it would pay off if I pushed on learning & optimizing for it, e.g. getting a gcd item and hp gear. | |||
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Look, again, I'm not discounting that we have more knowledge here. 100%, we agree on that. But the same thing is true of every class ... and yet we don't have any other class played fundamentally differently here (except when we've had clearly unclassic things, like Bards AoEing 100 mobs, or Warriors binding wounds in combat).
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but he is known for ignoring peoples accounts in favor of his analysis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | |||
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It seems like your asking for the class to be changed,to change players. Player knowledge base cannot be changed, people on p99 like to push things to their limits. I would love to go back to eq when noone knew anything,but it's not realistic with 20+ years of knowledge readily available | |||
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