Ninja Patch to channeling made playing casters frustrating AF

[zelld52]

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

Yeah definitely straight face tank casting on my gnome wizard right now. Get interrupted maybe 50% of the time standing in the open during combat taking hits, almost never standing with back against the wall. Seems like channeling isn't really a consideration (pretty sure those fails would show as fizzles?!?) that its actually mob push that causes the interrupts. Ogre shaman with frontal stun immunity almost never interrupted.

I don’t get interrupted constantly, but max shrunk as an ogre with back shoved in a corner, and I still get interrupted like 25% of casts

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don’t get interrupted constantly, but max shrunk as an ogre with back shoved in a corner, and I still get interrupted like 25% of casts

do you get interrupted less when not shrunk? 25% seems wayyyy higher than my experience, but I never shrink myself on ogre.

[zelld52]

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

do you get interrupted less when not shrunk? 25% seems wayyyy higher than my experience, but I never shrink myself on ogre.

Nope, same. I actually get interrupted almost as much as my barbarian shaman; with the exception of bashes not stunning and interrupting. But still get interrupted from melee attacks .

All of this before turgurs lands- but even with a turgurd mob, the ogre gets interrupted

[azxten]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah IMO this is the thing that makes people think Enchanter charming isn't classic as a whole. The other mechanics are fine. It's that on live channeling was much harder and so if you were trying to cast while getting hit it was basically a total tossup on whether you'd survive (unless you were in the top end of the level range IIRC). A root break on top of a charm break? Forget about it.

This moron spent years stalking me on forums here whenever I pointed out that Enchanter was OP due to channeling.



























Hilarious.

[Trexller]

when they make the game harder to play, it means they don't want you to play it

EQ is dead. Long live EQ.

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[cd288]

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

This moron spent years stalking me on forums here whenever I pointed out that Enchanter was OP due to channeling.



























Hilarious.

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Literally like every time you went on some long-winded, whiny rant about Enchanters being non-classic in every way, I said the only thing we know is non-classic is channeling

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

?

Literally like every time you went on some long-winded, whiny rant about Enchanters being non-classic in every way, I said the only thing we know is non-classic is channeling

What else did he say was non-Classic?

[WarpathEQ]

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

when they make the game harder to play, it means they don't want you to play it

EQ is dead. Long live EQ.

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More like it seperates the boys from the men. Enjoy your tween gaming, us men will be here to handle all the stuff that was too difficult for you here on P99

[cd288]

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

What else did he say was non-Classic?

It's been awhile (fortunately) since he posted his rants, but at one point in time IIRC he was essentially asserting that the entirety of the mechanics must be unclassic (Charm lasts too long, CHA has too much of an impact, etc.) without providing direct evidence to support it outside of anecdotal claims (such as well people didn't charm kill extensively in 1999 so it must be unclassic on here).

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's been awhile (fortunately) since he posted his rants, but at one point in time IIRC he was essentially asserting that the entirety of the mechanics must be unclassic (Charm lasts too long, CHA has too much of an impact, etc.) without providing direct evidence to support it outside of anecdotal claims (such as well people didn't charm kill extensively in 1999 so it must be unclassic on here).

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

CHA has too much of an impact

I'm under the impression Torven or another TAKP affiliate proved that one true with an era-client decompile.