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Originally Posted by Pringles
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All I see in this thread is a LOT of conjecture with no real evidence.
There's a lot of people in the thread talking about how they "feel" things worked back in era while posting no proof to back up their vague "feelings". One person states "i can't believe people would be making posts like this in era." with regard to it being difficult for melee to interrupt casters with just attack push. It's very easy to understand or believe why people would make posts like that, it's because people in those days didn't know shit, especially people posting on message boards or allah. EQ players have always kept as much information about the game as closely guarded a secret as they possibly could.
That's why it's so difficult to find people talking about certain things in era, sneak pulling for example (which does have in era proof), because people didn't divulge info until years and years after the fact or after it was taken out of the game. I started playing just after velious came out and I finished the monk epic quest sometime in the summer of 2001. One of the first things I noticed was just how easy it was now to interrupt casters by pushing them long distances during a fight because monk fists were so fast compared to almost every weapon the average player had access to. People on random message boards and allah didn't realize you could reliably interrupt mobs with melee because almost none of them had decent haste and their weapons were basically garbage. You're never going to interrupt a mob with melee push when your haste item is an fbss and your weapon(s) has a .3 ratio.
The evidence posted saying that melee could never reliably interrupt casters with melee push either never played a melee character or they're basing their information off playing a knight with a 2 hander or very slow 1 hander most likely. You needed fast consistent push like a monk with 2x 9/16 weapons to interrupt a caster.
In just a short time searching on allah, not even going to the wayback machine, I found 10 instances of people talking about melee push to interrupt casters being a common tactic, 4 posts being in era and 6 of them being from 2002 and 2003. The current state of melee push on p99 is NOT CLASSIC. People in era just didn't know shit and information didn't flow freely in those days.
Proof:
https://imgur.com/a/cqj4q6M