Crowd control spells worked differently and were easily resisted. 100 MR was almost a 95% resist rate on Snares, Roots, Stuns etc as it should be. Going higher increases it right near 100% resist rate. It never was 100%, but pretty freaking close to it.
However, because of how long snares lasted for, it was a viable guild on guild strategy to fully debuff somebody and try to get a Snare through. It depended on how high over 100 MR they went for safety. Two notes though regarding this:
1) The tash and malo lines did NOT STACK in original EQ, it was patched in later closer to Kunark. If we are following classic, that's how it should work here with them not stacking on release.
Information link:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...ches-1999.html
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Tishan (Enchanter) and Malise (Magician/Shaman) spells now stack.
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2) Everyone back then had egg-shaped Pumice so even if you did land a snare on someone, that's a viable time to use Egg-Shaped Pumice. Considering the majority of people who played on the server during that time had the item, and used it in PVP, why wouldn't it be put on this server? It makes no sense at all not to allow them.
Let's take a pure melee for instance with no channeling ability and the 1% chance goes through the guy gets snared, he's dead. With no channeling a single hit will interrupt his crystallized pumice every single time. In the vast majority of cases it will cause his death as he won't be able to get the snare off unless he gets extremely lucky. In larger fights, it's almost certainly a death.
While everyone is now aware of egg-shaped Pumice's, there is a simple solution to it. Give every account 3 egg shaped Pumices. Then, allow recharges and give them a high recharge rate like it was on live. That gives everyone the emergency ability to save themselves, but limits how much people can have and use it. You won't be able to simply spam it in every situation, it will be saved for emergencies which is how the vast majority of people used them on live servers. If we're replicating original PVP here, everyone should have the option to have them, simply limit the amount and the usage rate through the buyback cost.