Enchanter is #1 solo class? What is this madness

[loramin]

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

I had no problem channeling through damage so its quite "different" here.

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[Tann]

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

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That gif (captions aside) perfectly illustrates how channelling felt leveling an enc on quarm.

[loramin]

Yeah, it just boggles my mind: Nilbog is so dedicated to classic EQ that he all but devotes his life to it (I mean, we're talking decades of free work that's so challenging people get paid 200k+ to do it professionally) ...

... and yet for over two decades he could have, literally, changed a single number (the channeling rate) and made this place more classic overnight! It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me why he refuses to do so.

[Infectious]

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

Yeah, it just boggles my mind: Nilbog is so dedicated to classic EQ that he all but devotes his life to it (I mean, we're talking decades of free work that's so challenging people get paid 200k+ to do it professionally) ...

... and yet for over two decades he could have, literally, changed a single number (the channeling rate) and made this place more classic overnight! It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me why he refuses to do so.

You work at best buy and youre throwing dirt on Nilbogs name? Go edit the wiki you weirdo

[Goregasmic]

We have any actual numbers on the channeling issue?

[Tann]

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

We have any actual numbers on the channeling issue?

a lotta "numbers" and such here

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ght=channeling

is this correct for classic era though? or is it more of people figuring out how current eqlive works combined with member berries /cough like CHA effects on charm /cough

[Snaggles]

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

We have any actual numbers on the channeling issue?

Fetter is 1.8 seconds. The epic is an 800hp rune. If you refresh it every root no way the average mob is going to chew though rune let alone get a lucky bash in.

Warriors without any channeling skill can get totem clicks on VS so long as Rune5 is still up when they are clicking.

(Unless I’m missing the context of the discussion, which is likely)

[Goregasmic]

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

Yeah, it just boggles my mind: Nilbog is so dedicated to classic EQ that he all but devotes his life to it (I mean, we're talking decades of free work that's so challenging people get paid 200k+ to do it professionally) ...

... and yet for over two decades he could have, literally, changed a single number (the channeling rate) and made this place more classic overnight! It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me why he refuses to do so.

In that thread nilbog acknowledged taking note of it and not being against it.

I read it diagonally (saved it for later, very interesting) but it seems like it is based on the notion that different spells levels are treated differently for resists and channelling and none of that stuff seem to be implemented on p99 so there's no real point of implementing something based on a layer that also has yet to be implemented.

I did notice on live back then I was getting a lot more resists in general. I was quadding raptors mid/late 50s and it wasn't rare to get snare resists. On here since I dinged 45 or so I barely get any resists at all until mobs become 51+ basically. That may be tied to the same system (higher level spells getting more resists).

That system may be a prerequisite to fixing a lot of magic related issues and I'm not sure how well documented it is?

also, I'm not sure I agree with a lot of the OPs conclusions in that thread but the code is the code.

[loramin]

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

In that thread nilbog acknowledged taking note of it and not being against it.

I read it diagonally (saved it for later, very interesting) but it seems like it is based on the notion that different spells levels are treated differently for resists and channelling and none of that stuff seem to be implemented on p99 so there's no real point of implementing something based on a layer that also has yet to be implemented.

I did notice on live back then I was getting a lot more resists in general. I was quadding raptors mid/late 50s and it wasn't rare to get snare resists. On here since I dinged 45 or so I barely get any resists at all until mobs become 51+ basically. That may be tied to the same system (higher level spells getting more resists).

That system may be a prerequisite to fixing a lot of magic related issues and I'm not sure how well documented it is?

also, I'm not sure I agree with a lot of the OPs conclusions in that thread but the code is the code.

I get that true classic channelling is hard, and if Nilbog doesn't have the info to properly implement it, I can't fault him for that.

But again, what I just can't understand is ... if you're not going to implement classic channeling ... why not at least implement classically difficult channeling? Why keep things unclassically easy?

Even if we never get truly classic channeling, at any point over the past two decades Nilbog could have made the server more like live if he'd just:

Originally Posted by Loramin

changed a single number (the channeling rate)

[Goregasmic]

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

I get that true classic channelling is hard, and if Nilbog doesn't have the info to properly implement it, I can't fault him for that.

But again, what I just can't understand is ... if you're not going to implement classic channeling ... why not at least implement classically difficult channeling? Why keep things unclassically easy?

Even if we never get truly classic channeling, at any point over the past two decades Nilbog could have made the server more like live if he'd just:

My point was iif he implements this now he'd have to fudge the numbers and if he plans on fixing spell impacts that would be double the work since he'd have to take that fudged version out and the reimplement as the proposed version. I don't think he has that kind of time, if I was him I wouldn't bother.