[Reiwa]

crosspasting because it made me feel really really Classic

Originally Posted by Torven

Nah. I recently figured out what classic era resists were. Sony left the server resist logic in the Kunark clients, which we can examine. Charm used to break over three times as often for NPCs within 10 levels of the player, because it had a resist floor of 10 and the resist rolls were 0-99 instead of 0-200. This is the equivalent of charming an NPC with 20 MR here. The September 4 2002 patch buffed casters a lot more than I previously realized. Furthermore the lull spell floors are also in the client, and resist rates of lulls were upwards of 50% at higher levels; they were bad.

TAKP exists in the period right after the new people in charge removed stuff they didn't realize the purpose of, and before they started putting back in restrictions similar to the ones they had just removed out of ignorance. For example it wasn't long after PoP launched they made charm pets take some exp on kills and prevented them from being used as tanks if the NPC had a hate list larger than 8 I think it was. TAKP is accurate for its era, but older eras should not be using TAKP's logic. All casters, even wizards, were just way too strong on Quarm.

As for magician pets, they were super OP on Quarm because they had a large ATK bonus that should not exist and have more HP than they should. I removed the ATK bonus awhile ago but the HP still needs nerfing. Another reason why they're so ridiculous is because Mage pets couldn't dual wield until the Plane of Sky opened in the timeline, so for much of classic it was necros who were the super OP ones, not mages.