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This thread is on enchanters, and only 1 enchanter beat me to max AA's, period. It was a race and I remember it well. And it was specifically using charm.
Anyone who followed Club Fu or played on Bristlebane knows I was better geared than just about every INT caster on live until I retired at the end of PoP. I stacked CHA/STA/HP. That certainly played a part using charm as I helped lead Club Fu with Pouty. Nobody calls me out on this, because its fact. Most of ya'll probably never played an enchanter or were geared enough to charm. But charm was working well before PoP. Again, we were charming hatchlings in NToV and Giants in Kael. Bristlebane's first AOW kill was done with like 20 charmed giants. This same strategy was used with Afterlife and FoH. I also specifically remember charming in Chardok as well. To be honest, most of us were using 300 MHZ computers with 8 or 16mb of ram during classic and kunark on CRT monitors that made moving efficiently extremely difficult. Find some old parts and slap them together from 1997-2000. Have a friend who's never played EQ gear an enchanter and attempt to charm with shit gear and let me know how it goes. Bet he/she dies and doesn't try again. | ||
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Most of us were never around geared enchanters despite being in guilds that had NToV on ez farm... And almost all of us remember enchanters on our servers doing something really cool with charm, but like charming giants in Kael, it was a massive feat and a large effort. Charm was not reliable. Did people do cool stuff with it? Of course. But no one was just rolling around solo charming 1-60 in 2 days. When I first came to P99 and duod with Klide all the way to 50 and charm would break I would be like “well, time to let that one die” because this was always the case 20 years ago. I did actually have a lot of experience with charm 20 years ago, and knew it could be powerful, but it was established that once charm broke a mob was basically uncharmable, and this is why groups didn’t like using it. It was a super high risk, high reward ability. Now it’s super low risk, super high reward ability. If they want to make a better classic server they should literally make a server where charm is nerfed. Whether you think it’s classic or not, it would make the way the game is played on that server more classic and balanced. I remember enchanter as the rare class who people always wanted for mez, haste and clarity. Not the dime a dozen god class. | |||
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Dome's most elite XPing strategy was to quad Barbarians/Dwarves (not knowing this, when I later inherited his account, I would get Dome killed several times by visiting Butcherblock/Everfrost [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]). It wasn't because he didn't know how to play his character, and it certainly wasn't his Internet connection, because like many in Club Fu he played from a gaming center with a T1. So, he had a good connection, he was in the most powerful and knowledgeable guild on the server, and yet he completely eschewed animal charming (which every Druid here will happily tell you is an amazing way to get XP) ... why? I submit that it's not because charming didn't exist: as you noted Fu absolutely charmed. I'd also submit that it's not because he was a dummy or had a bad connection. The most logical explanation I can see is that, it was because charming wasn't as safe and as easy on live as it is here.
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Here is a comment from Kunark era talking about using the Goblin Gazughi Ring to break charm.
So here you go, people were charming in Kunark. | ||
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That is such a false equivalency. | |||
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It's a shame there aren't more spots for druids to do this, you really gotta be in a niche spot to find a decent animal pet. Kedge fish, Sol B bats are a couple more good spots I suppose.
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We don’t have YouTube and the wiki in 1999. I’ve said it like 1 million times the only reason anyone who’s commenting here even knows how to charm is because they watched a YouTube video teaching them how to and if it wasn’t for YouTube or the wiki everyone on this thread would still be wondering how tecmos does it. | |||
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I mean I’ve level 4 Chantres and 2 druids to 60 and the druid and I’ve never charmed with a Druid. The bear pits offer a unique experience bonus that make them far superior to all of the things that you listed and all the things you listed I might as well just quad instead of charming trying to find other creatures and wasting all that time. | |||
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