Mage Epic Pet

[dafier]

Anyone with the Epic notice that it's proc (143 dd cold) doesn't land on a lot of trash in Kael? I am not talking about the 60+ trash, I am talking about the 53 - 58 lvl mobs.

Is this broken?

I am only pulling from memory, but I recall (PoP time frame) using my epic and the epic procing successfully on up to level 59ish mobs. Most the time I didn't use my epic in PoP because the 61 Air was awesome, but you still couldn't beat the dps of the epic on ~50 - 60 level mobs.

Anyone?

[dafier]

I spent about 2 hours in Kael last night and even the lower level guards in the Arena weren't getting hit by it's proc. At all.....

[dafier]

Heh, even the troopers in the arena are only level 50. Some of them and the pet can't proc them? That's really weird.

[webrunner5]

Well since there is like 12 people with a Mage Epic might be hard to find a answer LoL. :eek: GL though. Hard to believe it doesn't land though.

[webrunner5]

Well since there is like 12 people with a Mage Epic might be hard to find a answer LoL. :eek: GL though. Hard to believe it doesn't land though. :confused:

[Daldaen]

Giants in Velious should all be immune to cold. Sounds working as intended if that proc is indeed supposed to be a cold check.

[dafier]

Honestly I've seen about 20 mages on this server that have the epic so far. I believe about 6 in my guild alone that I've seen have their epics.

I was in thurg the other day and saw an unguilded mage with their epic.

[dafier]

Giants in Velious should all be immune to cold. Sounds working as intended if that proc is indeed supposed to be a cold check.

So you are saying all wizard cold based spells don't work at all on giants? And, yes the proc is a cold check.

[Daldaen]

They should not work, no.

Only Avatar of War should be vulnerable to cold. Everything else should be immune.

[dafier]

Thanks Dal.

[Charlievox]

Well dat sux!

[dafier]

Unfortunately we will never see this, but the mechanic changed from cold base to magic base. I think that was in PoP time frame though.

They did this because cold was considered OP for some reason.

[Daldaen]

Cold was OP for a certain few things.

Like the Wavecrasher slow proc. It was originally a Cold resist proc, meaning that the classic mechanic preventing mobs from being slow able (making them magic immune) didn't prevent people from slowing with a cold proc item. So people were slowing something like... Vyemm when they shouldn't have been able to.

So they moved it to magic resist check.

The Epic pet proc however is still cold resist check per Lucy data today and I didn't find anywhere in the history it mentioning magic resist. The stun proc is always magic and the nuke proc is always cold.

[dafier]

Dal, I found the change once. I believe it was a while back when I was doing the MS3 research.

I think it was Lucy where I saw that info too, which makes it pretty legit. I can't get to Lucy here at work, but if you click...I think the left pane and go through ALL that history of changes, there is a note about changing the 'check from cold to magic', and I believe it went back and forth 2 or 3 times in different history tabs.

[dafier]

Anyway, it's not important for Velious time frame and I'd rather the epic pet has a cold proc because almost ALL mobs in the world are not resistant to cold. More have resistance to fire and magic than cold.

Great for wizzys..... :)