Must be standing to cast

[hammertime7795]

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

There's a reason everyone had sit in their hotbar in classic. This would be one of them.

No its so you could med after you got done casting. I had sit on my hotbar before this change. The thing that irritates me is the change serves no purpose. It does not make the game more fun or more challenging. Which imo should be the goal of any change.

[WolfsongReborn]

I recall going directly from sitting to med during a raid to standing and casting my heals just by alt casting. I do not remember having to physically hit a stand key and then cast. Perhaps later in eq or something?

[hammertime7795]

You can just hot key all you spells with /stand /cast 1-8 so it really does not change anything except a UI mod to get extra hotbars.

[Daldaen]

No...

It's so you could med while you were casting.

In classic you could cast a spell, sit, then stand just before the spell finishes and channel just fine. This wasn't changed until Duck interrupted spells mid Velious.

Changes should be made to make things more classic. And extremely rarely to fix broken mechanics that trivialize the game (see hoops). Fun or Challenging, meh. You could make EQ more fun for yourself adding all these custom changes if you want I guess, but it wouldn't be EQ.

Sitting to camp and Standing to cast puts a little delay between actions and slows down have quickly people play (albeit slightly if using hotkeys). This is classic.

[hammertime7795]

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

No...

It's so you could med while you were casting.

In classic you could cast a spell, sit, then stand just before the spell finishes and channel just fine. This wasn't changed until Duck interrupted spells mid Velious.

Changes should be made to make things more classic. And extremely rarely to fix broken mechanics that trivialize the game (see hoops). Fun or Challenging, meh. You could make EQ more fun for yourself adding all these custom changes if you want I guess, but it wouldn't be EQ.

Sitting to camp and Standing to cast puts a little delay between actions and slows down have quickly people play (albeit slightly if using hotkeys). This is classic.

We dont play classic eq we play p99 eq. Doing silly things like this does not bring more people to the game, It does not enhance anyones game play, it does not help anything. It was changed in eq because it was stupid to have it any other way. This change goes back to a silly way of doing things. Its an easy work around with hot keys but just a pointless waste of time.

[Bboboo]

Originally Posted by hammertime7795 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We dont play classic eq we play p99 eq. Doing silly things like this does not bring more people to the game, It does not enhance anyones game play, it does not help anything. It was changed in eq because it was stupid to have it any other way. This change goes back to a silly way of doing things. Its an easy work around with hot keys but just a pointless waste of time.

I think the Devs/GMs have stated that they are interested in recreating classic EQ and don't much care if people like it or not, they can leave. Could be wrong on that.

Also with that in mind you should know that any little thing that isn't classic right now, that is something you enjoy, will potentially be changed down the line if it can be.

It's the reason why I keybound sit/stand when I first started.

[salimoneus]

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

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It's the reason why I keybound sit/stand when I first started.

I think this is probably the best option for slugs like me who still use the mouse to click the spell bar directly. Like someone else said, using the move forward trick will likely get axed as well, so why not just go with a more future-proof method.

[Erati]

Everquest = time sink

you figured it out hammertime !

[hammertime7795]

I mean the devs time. I would think they would have better things to do then go back to broken, absurd, and mistaken mechanics. Like the gamma change that the eq devs themselves say was a mistake. Even at recent SoE live events they talk about that being a mistake. Boggles the mind why devs would waste their time trying to go back to that.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by hammertime7795 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mean the devs time. I would think they would have better things to do then go back to broken, absurd, and mistaken mechanics. Like the gamma change that the eq devs themselves say was a mistake. Even at recent SoE live events they talk about that being a mistake. Boggles the mind why devs would waste their time trying to go back to that.

Because the devs are working to recreate classic everquest, whether or not you play here.