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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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It did destroy the challenge (one of the reasons). The tiers of the MOBs were never changed and people had to abuse Puppet Strings instead (they already had to in many cases with the way things were designed), leading to almost nobody wanting to participate. The few people who bothered to try and get a top rank back then really aren't valid, compared to doing the challenges without the cheats. Thankfully since there were so few, and it happened so long ago, it doesn't merit an argument about retroactively stripping their titles. But that situation needs to be prevented going forward. Lull is the biggest fundamentally incorrect thing in the game. There may be tweaks to the resists of other spells in the future, but it won't change the ability to actually use them. They'll still have the same amount of potential effectiveness, given enough luck, whereas Lull will simply not work.
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The real problem is when you reach disciple you're starting to deal with mobs that summon which is a huge problem for a couple classes that don't have pet or could otherwise cheese it. This is most likely why the challenge died, it is literally the first tier of the challenge and like half of the classes can't handle it even if the mob was in an empty room.
Then you get to master and most strong melees will fall off the train due to lack of scaling. Then most mobs being indoors, live and guarded further cripples the ability for most classes to tackle them.
The rampant use of puppet strings AND even wand of allure, or druids being powerless unless there's an animal in the zone should have tipped you off that charmed pet is basically the cornerstone of the challenge and not anything else.
... and then you're making it worse by taking tools away from people. Seems to me you're more motivated to push your vendetta against certain mechanics than making a challenge that's fair for everyone in a game that largely tries to make soloing that kind of content impossible. In the end it seems like classes are so unbalanced you'll never successfully create a fair challenge for everyone unless it is class based but then it basically become a gear/rng contest at higher levels. Not even sure we have the server pop to keep this alive for long anyway.