WHY DO THEY NEVER UPDATE DRUID TRACKING?

[negolin]

why is druid tracking not updated? I thought it is due by now.

[Baler]

Bump

[Tethler]

Druids are clearly too powerful. Boosting their tracking to the correct level would cause an imbalance in the force.

[Tunabros]

thought it was updated already

[Tankwipe]

Some day, brother.

[sox7d]

Druids are clearly too powerful. Boosting their tracking to the correct level would cause an imbalance in the force.

this but unironically

[Snortles Chortles]

track this
not

[starkind]

Pvp server ppl got it nerfed lol.

Lil too nerfed. But it needed it. Druids zoning into sk from nk and tracking me at hermit was stoooped.

[Gustoo]

Yeah tracking is messed up works weird still but used to be pretty much zone wide. Bards and Druid tracking should be pretty much junk compared to ranger

[BlackBellamy]

Druid tracking begins at 20.

During Plane of Sky patch it was supposed to go to 50.

Three months after Velious it goes up to 125.

They never changed it to 50. It's still 20. This is because if you go through all the patch notes, there is never a mention of the 50 cap. And if it's not in the patch notes from 2000, it's not going to get fixed.

Sony forgot to mention that in a patch note and now we're stuck with the 20.

Here is a post from druidsgrove from 2001, https://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-3929.html

Druid's tracking skill maxes at 125 (which is quite an improvement over previous caps at 20 and 50).

But of course people mentioning it in contemporaneous accounts doesn't count. Doesn't matter if everyone who played a druid in 2000 remembers it or people wrote it down back then. It's not in the official patch note archive so see ya!

[JayDee]

Druids can track everything. If they are directly above or below you

[Xer0]

this but unironically

classic is classic.

[Mesocyclone]

Whyd ya roll a druid anyhow they suck.

[BlackBellamy]

Whyd ya roll a druid anyhow they suck.

Well people kept telling me go enchanter, but then I clarified that I was interested in being a gentleman farmer, not like a real one that has to work-work.

[Tunabros]

Whyd ya roll a druid anyhow they suck.

cool leaf sword

[Snortles Chortles]

flamboyant indeed
(LOL)

[OuterChimp]

OP, role a death touch eater if you want to track.

[sox7d]

if druids get 125 track, necros and clerics should get 5/8ths of HT/LoH

[Xer0]

Druid tracking begins at 20.

During Plane of Sky patch it was supposed to go to 50.

Three months after Velious it goes up to 125.

They never changed it to 50. It's still 20. This is because if you go through all the patch notes, there is never a mention of the 50 cap. And if it's not in the patch notes from 2000, it's not going to get fixed.

Sony forgot to mention that in a patch note and now we're stuck with the 20.

Here is a post from druidsgrove from 2001, https://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-3929.html



But of course people mentioning it in contemporaneous accounts doesn't count. Doesn't matter if everyone who played a druid in 2000 remembers it or people wrote it down back then. It's not in the official patch note archive so see ya!

this is exactly why the server is a joke tbh. They don't let druids have the classic experience b/c an update was erroneously left out of patch notes.. yet we have /list, peram-rooted dragons, staff doling out permission to guilds to raid as well as intervening on guilds who act out of turn.

I do enjoy p99 but it's not classic. I repeat: it's a joke. They claim everything is to preserve the spirit of classic. Yet operate in a fashion that's completely the antithesis of that credo. Ignoring changes that everyone knows to have been in game by certain points that make minimal impact on the overall experience, while simultaneously making changes with huge impact like those mentioned above.

[Bigcountry23]

Skill Level 50
The following patch bumped it to a skill level of 50. Plane of Sky patch -> Post Velious patch

It's in the Sky release patch notes.

January 20, 2000 (Plane of Sky patch) https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.everquest/JnDyJE1SdRs/GDyzC4OScIoJ
*Druid Enhancement*
The skill cap on a Druid's tracking skill has been increased. This
change was implemented based upon general public opinion that the
former cap was far too low for the skill to be even marginally viable.

[kaev]

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But of course people mentioning it in contemporaneous accounts doesn't count. Doesn't matter if everyone who played a druid in 2000 remembers it or people wrote it down back then. It's not in the official patch note archive so see ya!


Another never mentioned in a patch note (or afaik elsewhere) is that tracking did not allow you know the direction to a mob that was currently out of your track range, giving you random directions every track tick once you (or the mob) moved out of range. Here on p99 it always gives correct direction. This is one of the reasons druid track is OP here even at 20 skill cap.

[Telin]

This should be fixed pending update. There was something wrong with the way the timeline rule was originally set up, and I have it working on the dev server now.

[Synphul]

This should be fixed pending update. There was something wrong with the way the timeline rule was originally set up, and I have it working on the dev server now.

Telin is the hero P99 needs, but doesn't deserve.

[Videri]

This should be fixed pending update. There was something wrong with the way the timeline rule was originally set up, and I have it working on the dev server now.

Praise to you and the dev team!

[BlackBellamy]

This should be fixed pending update. There was something wrong with the way the timeline rule was originally set up, and I have it working on the dev server now.

Wait, what update. A client side patch? Please say server side please say server side.

[Ankara99]

What about 10 hotbuttons?

[Naxy]

This should be fixed pending update. There was something wrong with the way the timeline rule was originally set up, and I have it working on the dev server now.

Great! Thanks.