About magician chain casting
 

According to https://wiki.project1999.com/Magician#Chain_Casting, it seems that chain casting does not work the way we could expect.

"Unfortunately, the way agro current works on P99, this strategy is not very effective. When a pet dies, all of the hate that it built up seems to be applied directly to the caster (instead of "lost"). This means that a newly summoned pet will have very little chance of peeling the mob off of the caster. This has been reported as a bug, but has yet to be acknowledged as one (as of 6/23/20)."

Any news on this point ? Is it really true ? It's very hard for me to remember how it could work in 1999 especially because I was exclusively using an earth pet during this period.

Yeah that's how it is, it's not bad outdoors if you can kite a bit until you get a root proc but really tough indoors

Not really. First taunt or root will peel it off you. I put four pets into an Ice Burrower and if it was true it would have to chase a long time.

Consider packing root nets for hard stuff.

It can be a struggle like others have said, use the earth pet for root if it's serious. This is also another reason hit points are an important stat for Mages.

Is this Classic? If not seems pretty gamebreaking.

It's broken. It could be worse tho.

Sort of class balance adjustment or the aggro code base is very tricky to change (assuming the current behavior is not classic, I cannot say) ?

Not sure, it wasn't this way before Green launched. No word from the devs if this was intentional or not

The trick to leveling a mage is low hp blues and time. Less contested camps the better. Nothing slows the progress like not having your spawn(s) when you log in to grind a bit.

If you need to kill something tough with a mage pack a midnight mallet (you have Malosini) and root nets. Ideally in a large open space. Maybe a reaper too. Or level up so you can kill it with one pet health bar; the 57 earth is quite a bit better.

Basically, don’t solo a mage like the other casters do. Solo it like a melee?