Is Shaman the BEST all-around class in the game?

[shovelquest]

damn look at this ad this ad is going onto the wiki page of charm durations 4 sure.

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

naw that aint true

I had never played EQ before p99 and I learned the hard way.

Then Nybras showed me the end game ropes.

Agreed. I got my ench into the low 50’s without a YouTube video.

[shovelquest]

This is fantastic, if your melee DPS is going afk, just charm them [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Also the bonus tip in this post on the lesson about how to get someone to duel you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I love the idea of upsetting someone, just so you can force them to work for you with enchanter powers.

That is true, evil enchanter. No wonder they nerfed player charms [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[shovelquest]

Some more random good ones about duration, cha, caps etc:

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And this one as a reminder that most people were too afraid to charm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The consensus of all these comments is most enchanters would rather have the animation.

But that's not got anything to do with charm durrations, I'm just trying to win a petty argument [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Lets get a 3 minuet average durration, with 8 minuet cap onto p99 LFG!

[loramin]

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

damn look at this ad this ad is going onto the wiki page of charm durations 4 sure.

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SWG was actually a great game ... once SOE finally finished the basics of it. And to be clear, I'm not talking about the usual Verant stuff (eg. leaving PoM un-itemized for the first few months of Velious) ... I'm just talking about an "EQ at launch" level of quality.

The unfortunate part was that didn't happen until well over a year after they released it. I mean, FFS it was a Star Wars game, but Jedi were such an afterthought they didn't even get introduced until many months after launch ... and even then they required an insane amount of grinding.

(Imagine having to level your character to 60 with four classes ... you could change class in that game ... but it took an incredibly rare (think SWC or top-end raid loot) item to even tell you what one of those classes were ... and even if you somehow managed to acquire three of of those things, the last one you had to guess at ... and there were significantly more classes than in EQ!)

[Troxx]

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

Are you the average though?

or are you in the .1% of players.

Not a dig at anyone in particular but …

… 49% of people are below average
… most people are, in actuality, not smart or gifted

math statistics be math statistics and bell curves exist

[Penish]

Oh look, lolramin is the new DSM

Lol

[zelld52]

Shaman is the best all around class. If you don’t want to die, play shaman

[Duik]

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

Not a dig at anyone in particular but …

… 49% of people are below average
… most people are, in actuality, not smart or gifted

math statistics be math statistics and bell curves exist

This game is relatively simplistic so you dont need to be "ahead of the (bell) curve" to be successful. Sure, excelling at difficult things like actual math and being civil to each other requires higher levels.

But ya right. Most of us are just dumbarses. And I for one am happily ignorant of my stupidity.

[Crede]

These threads are so open ended, but if we're talking full BIS i think you could make the argument that a necro is the best overall class in the game once they have the gear to just face tank stuff. They can heal themselves & others, succor, rez, fd, 2x da, mez, charm, PL with fd, etc. just so many options and more useful in raids than enchanters.