I'm disappointed that merchants continue to offer enchanting, but don't offer other unique professional services. I understand enchanting is deeply-rooted in the pay merchant and premium systems. It seems like a design flaw that other professions have unique services that are not and will not be offered by merchants, yet enchant is used as a way to drain silvers from the economy. I copied Wyrom's response from the thread last year below:

>If there would be no community backlash, we would remove enchanting at the rate it is currently offered. But since it's been this way since pretty much the 90s, we continue to offer it. Ensorcelling is considered the predecessor to enchanting in terms of how it's coded and how we'd like to manage it.

If ensorcelling is a model, then I wish more progress could be made toward creating a unique service for wizards that is NOT offered by merchants or premium service.

I'm appalled that my ranger can't offer perm resist like merchants!!!

I have no problem with Ensorcell showing up as a merchant service

Crack that whip in my direction and I might get 735 and 435 confused with each other...

Starchitin

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>I'm appalled that my ranger can't offer perm resist like merchants!!!

Enchanting has improved a great deal over where it was a few years ago. I don't usually have much to say about things that are improving. I just think it would be "better" if some part of it, minimally, didn't overlap with what merchant services offer. Currently, merchant/premium enchant can do the same thing, instantly. It's sort of similar to the NPC locksmith problem. A player pays or wins the right to have a superior (usually faster) service with the same result. It would be great if every profession had a unique service, of some value, offered only by other player characters. Many of them do, but some are better than others. From this perspective, I agree there are certainly other professions besides wizards that need it more.

>I often feel the pull and might have done it already if only my computer could even handle me opening yet another Stormfront window. :P

Now I'm curious...what sort of rig from the 80s are you running? :P

~ Methais