Enchanter is #1 solo class? What is this madness

[Tann]

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

People say channeling is borked on here but I could AE entire floors of TOFS solo.

Compared to PQ it's quite busted, leveling a caster freaking sucks on Quarm until later levels (or so I'm told, never made it further than low 30's), almost impossible to get a spell off with just 1 mob hitting you, here on p99 it's really a non issue once channeling skill gets > 1

[Goregasmic]

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

Compared to PQ it's quite busted, leveling a caster freaking sucks on Quarm until later levels (or so I'm told, never made it further than low 30's), almost impossible to get a spell off with just 1 mob hitting you, here on p99 it's really a non issue once channeling skill gets > 1

I don't know, I mained a wiz and getting a root off when you're getting your skull bashed in was routine and I don't remember getting into melee range a death sentence. I can't say it is 100% accurate on here but I don't feel it is wildly out of tune either, maybe a little easier on here but not by a huge margin.

Sometimes I'd also get aggroed in AE groups and I could still get AEs off too.

[Tann]

yea its probably more in line with p99 later on, my only experience on quarm was 1-30's and if i had a root break in oasis i was pretty much cooked and had to zone the mob, maybe 1 in 50 chance of channeling through just 1 mob beating on you.

recently started a new enchanter on blue and i think by level 8 or so I had no problem channeling through damage so its quite "different" here.

[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]

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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

[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.