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I just came across this thread and read first 20 pages or so. I was surprised nobody mentioned the broken channeling skill on P99 (and on live for that matter). Back then it was very difficult to channel any spell when mob was hitting you and pretty much impossible to channel anything if you were hit by multiple mobs or a hasted one. It was not enchanter specific, but it affected enchanters most because of our CC role and huge agro on Tash and nukes with stun component. Channeling got bugged some time in late Luclin. People were scoffing at a post where somebody said that tank has to intercept/taunt mobs on charm break, but it was indeed the best way to handle this situation. And that is the main reason you did not see enchanters solo charming in dungeons till PoP.
If anyone was following EQ forums you could remember that Prathun(?) found about the bug and fixed it years after if was broken (around 2006), but it was unnerfed couple days later due to caster's backslash. I can not find old EQ forums anywhere, but here is the evidence of EQ developers attempting to fix channeling bug: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2006-1.html --------------------- - We've reverted the fix to channeling made with the last patch. After much discussion, our general feeling is that channeling has been broken for long enough that players have come to rely on that broken behavior as expected gameplay. For the time being, we've reverted back to that broken behavior and will address spell interrupts in general at a later date. --------------------- | ||
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It was Rashere and here is a link to one of his posts: https://web.archive.org/web/20061207...sage.id=239994
---------------------- I posted this in another thread, but will mention it here as well. We fixed a problem with channeling that was causing it to basically be backwards. If you had no AAs, you channeled through damage 100% of the time and as you got AAs, that decreased. It now scales like it should, and like how it worked in the past, where you start out low, channel more often as you gain channeling skill, and your AAs increase that even further. You're going to see more interrupts than before simply because you are no longer channeling 100% of the time (or close to that if you had AAs that were decreasing it). Your chance to channel is still really high at high levels (it caps at 90%), though, assuming you have maxed channeling skill. One caveat to this...channeling doesn't apply to being bashed, stunned, or moving. Even with a high channeling skill, if you get bashed, stunned, or moved too far, you're going to lose your spell. That hasn't changed. Rashere ---------------------- "Broken" state looks exactly like what we got on P99 - you channel through hits all the time unless you get bashed/kicked. | ||
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Someone did mention channeling just like this but it basically got buried in all the more hotheaded arguments. You should submit that as evidence, not sure if its enough but would be pretty lulzy to see an across the board channeling nerf.
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charm worked prety damm well in first expansion, kunark, but on velious it was high risk due to mobs higher resists.tash sticks being so common back then had a good reason .
the golden age of charming shit was luclin with pre nerf dire charm+magician new pet toys | ||
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