mage chain summoning nerfed with new changes?

[Cillaz]

I was messing around on my mage alt and found that you can no longer use pet commands (like pet go away) while casting.
It does say this in the most recent patch notes, so i knew about it - but i didnt realize how much it would affect my mage game play.
What this means is that mage chain summoning - casting a new pet and hitting /pet go away on the pet bar when the spell is nearly complete, no longer works.
Does anyone know if this will be the case on green? or will it not come into affect til later patches?
And does anyone know any other way for a mage to solo, without taking the 50% xp hit, now chain summoning doesnt work?

[enjchanter]

Duo

[Nycon43]

This was brought up in the technical discussion forum but you can do the following:

create a /pet get lost macro in your socials and, directly from the social window and not on your bar, click that macro and it will dismiss your pet. So it works basically the same as before but you just have to click the macro from your social window.

[Cillaz]

thanks!

[area]

can you type it (/pet go away) while casting? I mean the socials definitely work, just wondering about alternatives.

[Legidias]

You can type while casting

[Sacer]

I never liked that pet chain summoning strat, on my mage my way to solo up to 55 was to get a max level fire pet, and to barely outdps it with nukes.

Since a lot of the fire pet damage comes from the damage shield wich is neutral damage, you only have to out dps the melee damage part of the pet. Sometime I even didn't haste the pet on purpose to more easily outdps it.
If you do it right your downtime is low you only cast a couple of nuke per mob then med back that amount while the pet regen. Pets regen 30hp per tick in the late 30s wich is like 2 fungi worth of regen.

[Muggens]

I never liked that pet chain summoning strat, on my mage my way to solo up to 55 was to get a max level fire pet, and to barely outdps it with nukes.

Since a lot of the fire pet damage comes from the damage shield wich is neutral damage, you only have to out dps the melee damage part of the pet. Sometime I even didn't haste the pet on purpose to more easily outdps it.
If you do it right your downtime is low you only cast a couple of nuke per mob then med back that amount while the pet regen. Pets regen 30hp per tick in the late 30s wich is like 2 fungi worth of regen.

I never played a mage, but the thought of chain summoning is off putting to me. This method appears more appealing, but does it match up exp wise?

[Sacer]

I never played a mage, but the thought of chain summoning is off putting to me. This method appears more appealing, but does it match up exp wise?

Took me less than a month to go from 1 to 55 on my mage. I'd say it's very fast.

[Tethler]

I never played a mage, but the thought of chain summoning is off putting to me. This method appears more appealing, but does it match up exp wise?

The lower levels are hilarious. It starts getting harder to pull off after 30 because mob damage ramps up a lot. in the low and mid 20s my mage fire pet was soloing red giants at the warsliks giant fort with 1-2 pet heals cast and nothing else. The DS is pretty OP at the lower levels.

[brokenpromise]

Took me less than a month to go from 1 to 55 on my mage. I'd say it's very fast.

I honestly love the mage class. Forums convinced me to roll necro for solo. I've been thinking of going back to mage or rolling enchanter. Not knocking necro. I love the necro class.

[bwe]

convince me to play a mage yall

[Legidias]

play a mage

[Jibartik]

I would like to point the hilarious classic choice of 'get lost' being the command, then changing it later to go away in the pet window, confusing both myself and OP at least.

[sacman08]

Just curious, what does the chain summoning actually provide?

[Shroctagan]

Just curious, what does the chain summoning actually provide?
The ability to solo nearly any single target that doesn’t summon, within mana constraints of course.

[Troxx]

I don’t mind the nerfing of chain summoning. I’m more annoyed at not being able to just glance and monitors my pet’s hp. Having a hot key simply for getting a report card on pet current hp makes me flaccid.

[Vexenu]

I wonder if we're going to see substantially fewer Mages on Green after this nerf. That would be kind of funny, because the class is still ridiculously powerful in that era, and at the end of the day this is a fairly minor nerf that is easily worked around.

I suspect what will happen is a lot of people will initially roll Monks and hybrids at first but then get turned off by the reality of untwinked melee leveling/XP penalty and give up by the end of the first week. Then we'll see a wave of Mage rerolls during the second week after people witness the week 1 Mages demolishing everything with ease while they struggle to kill anything with their crap weapons/gear.