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Old 12-06-2021, 12:03 PM
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p99 isn't classic at all

doubt this weird ass change will go in

also unroot dragons
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Old 12-06-2021, 01:02 PM
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p99 isn't classic at all

doubt this weird ass change will go in

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Most people who are upset by this have a high level Enchanter. It's strange but probably not causative.

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Looks like it was around February of this year when I posted some bug reports. I don't know why people are so against classic EQ. This is P99 after all. Maybe things would be more classic if people spent more time contributing and less time protecting overpowered mechanics.

Interesting that a change which is supported by archived EQ lead dev posts and a client decompile are called "weird ass changes."

None of you are going to survive in a closer approximation of classic. Start rolling Necros.
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Old 12-06-2021, 01:24 PM
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it will never happen

sorry you're not good at enchanters
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Old 12-07-2021, 02:19 AM
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it will never happen

sorry you're not good at enchanters
I'm definitely not and that I was able to make it to level 40 indicates how broken they are. On classic Live I tried Enchanter many times and only made it to level 8 on a successful attempt. It's going to happen though. I shouldn't be able to play Enchanter to 40 something is wrong here. Quite literally I would still run into rooms with 5 mobs and win. My only downtime was waiting on HP regen with troll illusion. Yet I didn't use clickies. I didn't do anything. I just walked in, casted through 5 mobs hitting me to charm one, backed up and let them all burn it down and then used racial hide to nuke it and get full exp then repeat for the next one leaving me almost dead but with fat XP stacks and a nice AFK break to clean my house. Apparently that isn't how Enchanter is supposed to work but it works just fine on P99. Anyone who hasn't played Enchanter yet on P99 give it a try because it's ridiculous overpowered even more than you can possibly imagine from watching others but it won't be soon.
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Old 12-07-2021, 11:27 AM
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I'm definitely not and that I was able to make it to level 40 indicates how broken they are. On classic Live I tried Enchanter many times and only made it to level 8 on a successful attempt.
Well to be fair all you need to do to get to 20 while basically afk on any pet class is give the pet a rusty 2handed weapon and it does basically double damage, becoming OP. This stops working at 20 though

Once again I barely remember vanilla so I don’t remember if it happened there but I do know I only learned this once I started playing on P99. So if it is not classic u could add this to your list of things to “fix”

I know you sarcastically mentioned “but muh game knowledge” but it really is a thing and really does play a huge role in chanter or other class success. I had no idea GCD resetting with clicky’s was a thing and without it, stuns completely break down and become near-worthless since you won’t have enough time to get off a mez or root after color shift without it before you get hit. I guess a casual noob player hypothetically now may not care because they can just channel through everything anyway, but me personally I was resetting GCD after stunning as soon as I possibly could because taking damage, while not all that threatening at low levels, still slows you wayyy down by forcing you to sit down in troll form

Also, I didn’t know about gnome vision, I didn’t know I could calm mobs through walls, and those 2 things are the real reason enchanters can solo dungeons, if I had to pick the biggest 2. Not channeling through hits
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Old 12-07-2021, 12:19 PM
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On classic Live I tried Enchanter many times and only made it to level 8 on a successful attempt
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha (wiping a tear away) Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahaha bro WHY would you share this you should be embarrassed about this bro
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Old 12-07-2021, 11:12 PM
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha (wiping a tear away) Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahaha bro WHY would you share this you should be embarrassed about this bro
If I ever was embarrassed about something that happened in a video game I'd have serious problems to consider. Unlike most people on P99 I actually played classic EQ. I quit right before Kunark and came back late in Velious just before Luclin. There are probably like 5 people on P99 who remember classic era with the same detail I do.

NO ONE was leveling Enchanter in classic EQ unless they hated themselves. By far statistically it was the least popular class. That is why I hate P99 Enchanter so much because I basically want to play Green launch, relive my classic glory, and then quit when Kunark comes out and yet there is Enchanter the most popular class totally inverted from classic.

I was playing actually fun classes and cybering elfs not posting on the SOE forums about why my class seems to be worse with every patch. To answer your question, I share it because those who know classic know I'm right. Those who don't will keep thinking their memories of Luclin and PoP mean anything. One of my recent favorite reads was archived Enchanter posts where everyone agreed they don't even memorize Mez. That's how broken Enchanter was. When they fixed Mez which was broken in about 10 different ways, Enchanters complained they couldn't DoT mobs anymore because they used to be able to DoT a Mezzed mob. I could play P99 Enchanter well but I don't want to, it's a near zero downtime OP class and I only played EQ as something to do to make things I didn't want to do more enjoyable like cleaning the house. I can't clean the house if I have to keep charming and have no reason to stop. I like quadding, I like downtime breaks for cybering elfs and tidying my study.

You weren't there, poser...
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Old 12-08-2021, 01:46 AM
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If I ever was embarrassed about something that happened in a video game I'd have serious problems to consider. Unlike most people on P99 I actually played classic EQ. I quit right before Kunark and came back late in Velious just before Luclin. There are probably like 5 people on P99 who remember classic era with the same detail I do.

NO ONE was leveling Enchanter in classic EQ unless they hated themselves. By far statistically it was the least popular class. That is why I hate P99 Enchanter so much because I basically want to play Green launch, relive my classic glory, and then quit when Kunark comes out and yet there is Enchanter the most popular class totally inverted from classic.

I was playing actually fun classes and cybering elfs not posting on the SOE forums about why my class seems to be worse with every patch. To answer your question, I share it because those who know classic know I'm right. Those who don't will keep thinking their memories of Luclin and PoP mean anything. One of my recent favorite reads was archived Enchanter posts where everyone agreed they don't even memorize Mez. That's how broken Enchanter was. When they fixed Mez which was broken in about 10 different ways, Enchanters complained they couldn't DoT mobs anymore because they used to be able to DoT a Mezzed mob. I could play P99 Enchanter well but I don't want to, it's a near zero downtime OP class and I only played EQ as something to do to make things I didn't want to do more enjoyable like cleaning the house. I can't clean the house if I have to keep charming and have no reason to stop. I like quadding, I like downtime breaks for cybering elfs and tidying my study.

You weren't there, poser...
I kinda felt this was genuine at first but not anymore. This is a bizarre, self-righteous quest to nerf chanters. I don't really give a shit if enchanters are OP or not, I've rolled many 60s and enc was actually one of the most fun to play; and if you're a shitty chanter it shows. When you hit 60 is when it gets boring, but I digress. Your channeling modification is misguided - the things that made things classic will never come back. As a refutation to your "I remember" argument, I also remember plenty of good enchanters. One in particular on Tholluxe Paells in my guild who was a mega-boss when it came to chantering. This was pre-kunark through the end of Luclin. So "I remember" your argument as false. Going after channeling as an avenue to rebalance "classic" is a fool's errand, at best. Penny wise, pound foolish. Focus your insights elsewhere.
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Old 12-08-2021, 08:12 AM
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If I ever was embarrassed about something that happened in a video game I'd have serious problems to consider. Unlike most people on P99 I actually played classic EQ. I quit right before Kunark and came back late in Velious just before Luclin. There are probably like 5 people on P99 who remember classic era with the same detail I do.

NO ONE was leveling Enchanter in classic EQ unless they hated themselves. By far statistically it was the least popular class. That is why I hate P99 Enchanter so much because I basically want to play Green launch, relive my classic glory, and then quit when Kunark comes out and yet there is Enchanter the most popular class totally inverted from classic.

I was playing actually fun classes and cybering elfs not posting on the SOE forums about why my class seems to be worse with every patch. To answer your question, I share it because those who know classic know I'm right. Those who don't will keep thinking their memories of Luclin and PoP mean anything. One of my recent favorite reads was archived Enchanter posts where everyone agreed they don't even memorize Mez. That's how broken Enchanter was. When they fixed Mez which was broken in about 10 different ways, Enchanters complained they couldn't DoT mobs anymore because they used to be able to DoT a Mezzed mob. I could play P99 Enchanter well but I don't want to, it's a near zero downtime OP class and I only played EQ as something to do to make things I didn't want to do more enjoyable like cleaning the house. I can't clean the house if I have to keep charming and have no reason to stop. I like quadding, I like downtime breaks for cybering elfs and tidying my study.

You weren't there, poser...
Lol the first time i ever played classic i was 11 at my friend matt mcdonough's house (RIP bro, see you in heaven buddy) and when i was 12, my parents got me ruins of kunark and a subscription, i made it to level 14 as enchanter on the most low-effort of low-effort alts, with druid and warrior as my serious mains. I was NOT good at the game, either, but i at least knew enough to know how to not die all the time. You got beat by a 12 year old bro. And normally i wouldnt care to make fun of you at all but like many of the nerf-obsessed youve shown nothing but a horrible, contemptuous attitude from beginning to end, talking about how youre so hardcore and want salty tears and for everyone to rage quit, but really youre just an envious little scrub, the biggest ragequitter of them at all.
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If I ever was embarrassed about something that happened in a video game I'd have serious problems to consider. Unlike most people on P99 I actually played classic EQ. I quit right before Kunark and came back late in Velious just before Luclin. There are probably like 5 people on P99 who remember classic era with the same detail I do.

NO ONE was leveling Enchanter in classic EQ unless they hated themselves. By far statistically it was the least popular class. That is why I hate P99 Enchanter so much because I basically want to play Green launch, relive my classic glory, and then quit when Kunark comes out and yet there is Enchanter the most popular class totally inverted from classic.

I was playing actually fun classes and cybering elfs not posting on the SOE forums about why my class seems to be worse with every patch. To answer your question, I share it because those who know classic know I'm right. Those who don't will keep thinking their memories of Luclin and PoP mean anything. One of my recent favorite reads was archived Enchanter posts where everyone agreed they don't even memorize Mez. That's how broken Enchanter was. When they fixed Mez which was broken in about 10 different ways, Enchanters complained they couldn't DoT mobs anymore because they used to be able to DoT a Mezzed mob. I could play P99 Enchanter well but I don't want to, it's a near zero downtime OP class and I only played EQ as something to do to make things I didn't want to do more enjoyable like cleaning the house. I can't clean the house if I have to keep charming and have no reason to stop. I like quadding, I like downtime breaks for cybering elfs and tidying my study.

You weren't there, poser...
To start I agree with you on the embarrassment thing. This is also just a game to me, and I am thankful that for me real life is better

But I can’t agree with enchanter being the most popular class, at least not on green. I can only speak for the level ranges I’ve seen, but there no one even comes close to druid. The ability to solo well, travel easily, and make good money by porting others is just too good a combination to compete with, I’m guessing. Druid is hands down the most popular class on Green that I’ve seen

Second seems to be necromancer, which is also the class people would likely be flocking to if enchanter needs ever put in. I would put enchanter maybe at third, but at low to kid levels there are also a surprising amount of mages, at least surprising to me considering how boring their playstyle seems to me. But they are highly popular, probably just as a farming char or a future guild coth bot

When I consider why enchanters aren’t the most popular class, I would say it is because of what I already mentioned, they will always be either boring (if you choose to use the animation) and semi-ineffective (since using the animation results in -50% experience gained always), or they are tense (if you charm solo). I have seen this sentiment echo’d many times when I have been reading the forum before I was playing. There are many people who rolled an enchanter, didn’t like not being able to go to the bathroom while having a mob charmed solo or in a group. And they called enchanter “stressful” a “high stress” class. Anyone who wanted to unwind with some P99 after a hard day is probably not going to enjoy enchanter as much as other classes. This is why I’ve seen others say strong solo’ers like Necro or mage are just more enjoyable to solo for them

In terms of non-stop killing, ehhh, I would only say maybe in an area with caster mobs. I reported chanters could non-stop kill, but at the time I was fighting in FV killing spiders which are 100% casters. Even with ToT, when I charm solo, say, the entrance to SolB, I do have to stop and med even with theft of thought, because there just aren’t enough gnoll shaman around to drain. ToT also only works once per mob, unlike wandering mind. So a long drawn out fight where ToT refreshes is meaningless. But unless you want to do HELLA-spell swapping with your remaining spells, it’s not worth keeping ToT and wandering mind both on your bar. And outdoor zones seem to have a plethora of warrior mobs without mana. I had heard so much about Theft of thought being this insane power spike, and how you could non-stop kill and how it made mana irrelevant, and even if you are in an area with like 30% caster mobs it is just not true. You need a majority of caster mobs for that to be true

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