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Originally Posted by Bubbles
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This cannot be bolded enough. A mage with the epic pet is downright silly. A mage with the epic pet grouped with a 39+ cleric is... hell on wheels.
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Aye, this isn't the most impressive example, but it's one that sticks out in my mind.. Was on my 56 druid at the time and had 2 level 55 mages ask if I wanted to go to seb chef camp, and I remember from in past groups, that was by no means an easy camp to break even with a full group. But both of the mages had their epic pets, and they really only needed a snarer (the small heals were just a bonus). Well needless to say... I gained more exp than I thought humanly possible in the few short hours we were there, and we were killing stuff at probably 2x the rate that any of my full groups (even well balanced groups) had EVER done.
Mage's definitely aren't the powerhouse they were in classic in kunark and velious without the epic pet, but they were still PLENTY powerful, and could still hold their own with the best in kunark and even in a lot of velious until the end-game velious. That's when gear started inflating to a huge degree and pets started lagging behind. It was even worse in luclin, and pets were on the course to the "dark ages" of pets, but in velious they were still good, and worth while. So fortunately with this server Mage's will always be useful, and hold their own, epic pet or not.