When are they Implementing the Charm Nerf?

[bilirubin]

People arguing with Loramin should realize he's only making a fuss because he's had his a4 camp stolen one too many times by pesky gnome enchanters. As an aside, let's not ignore the fact that shamans greatly outnumber enchanters at those camps in PoM (as well as many other "cash camps" since charming can be so incredibly tedious).

Back on topic, there is no in-era evidence that the charisma stat was not used in the calculation for charm duration. In fact, we have evidence of the contrary from comments made by the developers themselves. The EQemu guy argued that Zatkin, the spell designer, was somehow mistaken about the charm spell, but there's a recent interview with Zatkin on youtube that I think shows how conscientious and meticulous he was working on EQ. He even speaks to how from the very beginning, McQuaid and Zatkin had envisioned enchanter's charm spell to be especially powerful in the game. I think that's quite telling.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by bilirubin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People arguing with Loramin should realize he's only making a fuss because he's had his a4 camp stolen one too many times by pesky gnome enchanters. As an aside, let's not ignore the fact that shamans greatly outnumber enchanters at those camps in PoM (as well as many other "cash camps" since charming can be so incredibly tedious).

I haven't played on Loramin/Blue, let alone in A4 specifically, for months ... but ok [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, when Green 2.0 comes out I'm rolling an Enchanter main: so any "nerf" would hurt me. I want to play the classic Enchanter, not the easy-mode one. That class was still a great class that was totally worth playing.

Originally Posted by bilirubin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He even speaks to how from the very beginning, McQuaid and Zatkin had envisioned enchanter's charm spell to be especially powerful in the game. I think that's quite telling.

No one is saying charm shouldn't be powerful: of course it should be, because the point of this place is to emulate EQ in '99- '01, and charm was powerful back then.

All I'm saying is that there was a trade-off for that power back in '99, and that trade-off is that it was risky. It should be risky here too.

[Vormotus]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I haven't played on Loramin/Blue, let alone in A4 specifically, for months ... but ok [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, when Green 2.0 comes out I'm rolling an Enchanter main: so any "nerf" would hurt me. I want to play the classic Enchanter, not the easy-mode one. That class was still a great class that was totally worth playing.

When is that?[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]