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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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Mages and Necromancers were the top DPS classes in the game pre-Kunark (aside from fighting Dragons/Gods, because of the pets being feared away). The necromancer pet in particular was off-the-charts ridiculously powerful during the first 6 months of release, because of being able to dual-wield and drastically improve their attack speed by giving them fine steel daggers. The Level 44 and 49 Mage pets were also extremely strong as well, though, and were nerfed at the same time the Necro pets stopped getting attack speed boosts from weapons. Even after those nerfs, Mages and Necromancers were still the top DPS.
Shortly before Kunark came out when Mage pets became able to dual-wield, then Mages slightly overtook Necros as #1 DPS. In terms of expansion content those classes became far less powerful, though, because melee got immensely better gear and new abilities, whereas the pets became far less powerful in comparison to the power level of monsters and caster damage also became significantly less powerful. Necromancers were rather balanced in the expansion, though, whereas Mages get the short end of the stick...they get some of their power back with the epic, but the Mage epic was THE hardest to get. Even by the end of Velious there were very few Mages with epics, and in Velious melee classes get yet another round of buffs, whereas Mages don't really increase in raw power at all.
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One nerf would have been ok, it was the 4 other nerf's afterwards that show'd no love for the class, Magicians were considered OP and people like Rhambuk championed Uthgaard to nerf them, so max quad was done away with, it was tuned down so badly that it they just said f it and left it, I cant even remember the other 3 nerfs but each time it was significant and class crippling. I was excited when epic pets were released and the potential but in a parse they don't do much more dmg that a 60 water pet minus the DD stun and insta-cast, nerfed enrage ( this might be a timeline nerf i'm not sure ).
Tears inc : Meanwhile Enchanters can charm pretty much anything again ( even after the so called charm nerf lol ) and solo entire camps like disco which definitely never happened on classic in Kunark or Velious, and not with cute tools and tricks like root-net + coh pulling they just charm a krup and bum-rush the castle, def not classic.