Why so few mages on P99?
 

I've leveled 2 mages on blue to 40+, and a mage on red to 34

The class is simplistic, but I like the idea of being focused on a really strong pet. Stuff like levi rings, waterstones and the best damage shields are all pretty cool too.

So what's the deal?

use to be you could not swing a dead ranger without hitting mage on this server.

Part of it maybe to the mage and for that mater all pet classes requiring to do more than 50 % of damage on target or pet will take half the xp.

Pets originally got nerfed really hard. Unfairly nerfed, really. Their taunt was gimped. That chased a lot of pet classes away.

Nowadays you see some mages coming back. But really pets don't hit like they did on live. They seem weaker here, I think it's the rate in which they hit for full damage, or the rate in which they proc double attack + dual wield. I recall mage pet being a buzzsaw, and the necro pets not being far behind. Just spamming damage.

On red pets don't even DW without weapons. It's somewhat of a head scratcher.

I enjoy my mage thoroughly. I often question why there are few of us, a lot of people tell me they just don't like the mechanics. Whatever floats yer boat I guess.

I love my mage, but reading about raiding and endgame made me not want to play him. Basically i've read that you just summon Mod rods during a raid unless you have your epic pet... But i never understood how getting epic pet would change your roll in a raid. After all you still cant land your DD's on a boss with high resists.

a monk on a raid says, "coth me mage" x5,000,000 times
Mage deletes and re-rolls

lolz

what is "coth"?

I play a mage and i like it, but i start disliking it reading the forums.

Call of the Hero. Mages are cool regardless, useful for lots of things on raids. :P

boring class