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Classic vs Non Classic
Currently the term Classic is being used as a catch 22 to push an agenda on the forums that favors certain classes and unbalances others.
For Example: A classic lvl of resists has been instituted that is both impractical and unbalancing to gameplay in PvP. The threshold for resists has been set so low that the average lvl 60 character is now immune to every dmg spell without an extreme modifier(like Lure or Lifetap) This is highly impractical when one considers the game knowledge available now and average lvl of gear attained by players, and this problem will become even worse during velious. The disparity between melee's and casters grows the lower you set resist thresholds for immunity. Especially when we ignore the fact that dmg caps have not been set on melee's(backstabs can land for 1000 a piece and 2000 for 2) and that melee's here hit nearly twice as hard as they did during even velious era in kunark. This has a huge impact in both PVE and PVP as Rogues can out burst a wizard in DPS something which did not happen on live during classic. Over a short time span a wizard always parsed the highest dps in raid. This was balanced in the fact that a wizards dps was finite bound by a mana pool and rogues was infinite. The problem is all melees dealing far to much dmg and casters being nerfed by rigid adherence to what is deemed classic in a unclassic world. Compounded further by the fact that here AC does not factor into misses, but hit or miss rolls solely off a players weapon skill. Which is essentially a one sided attack, which would be like spells rolling off alteration without factoring the targets resists. I do not advocate rigidly adhering to all things classic, but rather sticking to the "FEEL" of classic pvp. If we are going to blindly institute all things classic then we must institute mechanics like Charm and Fear landing on players. See Below... ------------------------------ July 24, 2002 ------------------------------ *** New Interface Available *** The new EverQuest user interface is now available for use on Live servers. Many of you will find that it runs faster than the old interface. It is extremely customizable, and offers all sorts of features including resizable windows, fading windows, a pet control window, and flexibility through the XML files. We decided to offer it for optional use as a sort of Beta II for folks on the Live servers that haven't had the chance to try it out on the Test server. To activate the new interface: * Log into the game. * Type /newui into the chat bar and hit enter. * Log out and exit to your desktop and then log back in. or * Before you log in: * Open the EQclient.ini file in your EverQuest folder with a text editor (notepad works fine) * Find the [Defaults] section of the file * Add a line that reads: NewUI=TRUE * Log in We want to thank all the folks that have helped us test the interface and have offered a wide variety of useful ideas. Enjoy the interface! *** Bazaar Now Available *** Those of you that own Shadows of Luclin now have access to the /bazaar and /trader functions. These functions only work in the Bazaar. You can find the Bazaar on Luclin, adjacent to the Nexus and Shadowhaven. /bazaar opens up the Bazaar Search Window, which allows you to easily locate specific items for sale by Traders in the Bazaar. /trader opens up the Bazaar Vendor window, which allows you to make items available for sale to others in the Bazaar. You can only use the Bazaar if you have the new interface turned on. See the message above for details. Again we'd like to thank the folks that helped us test this feature. And we'd like to apologize for the delay in delivery of the Bazaar. We think that you'll find the finished product to be a good one. ** ViewPort ** One of the new commands available only with the new interface is /viewport. You can use this command to change the size of the gameplay area. /viewport [distance from left, distance from top, width, height] All of the distances and numbers for the viewport command are in the same measure as your screen resolution numbers. For Example: Let's say you are running in 800 x 600 video mode and you want to create view the game only in the top half of your screen (not that you would). You would type: /viewport 0 0 800 300 The top left of your screen is 0 and 0. 800 is the width of your screen, and the 300 is one half of the height of the screen. /viewport reset - will reset the viewport to the default setting. ** New Vah Shir Models ** We have developed new models for the Vah Shir for use with the old world. You may now choose to turn off the Luclin version of the Vah Shir models and use these new models if you wish. These new Vah Shir models require less memory and you may want to use them in place of the Luclin models to improve system performance. ** Spells ** - Fixed a bug with the bard songs Warsong and Battlecry of the Vah Shir that caused them to slow you down when used without other haste components. - Fixed a bug with bolt spells that caused double hits due to elevation. Sorry Mages. - Removed the "Ahhh... I feel much better now!" message from certain spells when the caster is over level 35. -Removed the reduction in damage to Damage over Time spells when used on NPCs that are moving. - Mind Wrack will now consider the z-axis when calculating the maximum distance group members can receive the beneficial affects of the spell. - Song of Sustenance should prevent unnecessary hungry and thirsty messages. - Bind Affinity can no longer be cast on any ungrouped player in arenas. - The caster of Voice Graft will once again see what is being said. - Spells that transfer hit points over time from the caster to a target will no longer take effect on the target (the hit point gainer) if the caster (the hit point giver) isn't also affected by the spell. - Added a spell effect message to Magician epic. - Beastlords now get Endure Disease at level 24 and Resist Disease at 51 ** Pets ** - Pet Resistance Changes: Pets will now use their master's level and resistances when saving against spells cast by NPCs (against PCs pets will use their own resistances and level as they always have) - unless the pet has special resistances, in which case it will use that resistance. - Altered pet summoning spells so that they always summon the most powerful pet possible, instead of pets within a 5 level range. - /pet report health now uses the same user defined color as spell text. - /pet report health will now display a list of the effects on the pet. - Mage fire pets should now cast their damage shields more often. - Wizard, Druid and Cleric pets and familiars can now be buffed by characters other than their owner. ** PvP ** - Fixed a bug on Tallon and Vallon Zek that made player characters in non-human illusions immune to ranged attacks. - It is no longer possible for PC's to fear other PC's at all on any server. The same was also done for charm. - Pets can no longer be affected by charm spells. This should fix the issue that caused charm spells to make pets disappear. - NPCs who are pets of players and call for help from other NPCs will have their cries fall on deaf ears. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2002-2.html | ||
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holy wall of text batman, whats the tldr?
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Melee dmg still set to high and not capped when caster dmg has been nerfed due to low resists thresholds set. If we blindly institute it's Classic then we have to add Fear and Charm on players, and nobody really wants that. | |||
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I posted about fear/charm working in pvp on our timeline long ago but lets be real...
This server is far from classic and they just use the word "Classic" to change what they want to change. | ||
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some sort of study drug or something | |||
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Not classic is being used by MANY people to lawyer-doctor resists at an impractical level, and currently resists are set to CLASSIC levels in a world where the average gearset is 2-3x what it was during this era. Basically melee's are fine being nigh invulnerable to all spells due to them being classic. But mention Fear or charm and suddenly were being silly. | |||
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Look at the timeline for fear and charm in pvp again
Look at Kunark release date, our current time line and Velious release date Aoe fear is another matter but much like bard stacking would likely be a major pain to code | ||
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Kunark Release date: April 24, 2000 Velious Release date: December 5, 2000 Charm/Fear Nerf Date July 2002 I'm not advocating the addition of Fear or charm in PvP. I'm advocating a return to common sense, where we look at the server realistically based on what it is NOW and not use "It's Classic" to lawyer doctor resists to an impractical level that didn't reflect how spells were used in regards to gear ratio on live. If you are going to use the "It's Classic" argument to add all sorts of nonsensical mechanics that do not fit the current environment, than you are not afforded the luxury of picking and choosing what you wish from classic and what you don't. | |||
Last edited by Syft-X; 05-04-2015 at 01:35 PM..
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You think players could be charmed and feared all through Kunark? 8)
Final answer? AoE fear btw Quote:
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Last edited by Nirgon; 05-04-2015 at 01:54 PM..
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"lawyer-doctoring" resists is ruining the server
you heard it here first, folks | ||
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