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Originally Posted by Pyrion
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I love mages. But pet taunt is totally broken on this server, so much that it doesn't even exist anymore. Its enough to spit at a mob to turn it away from the pet. I admit that a pet taunt should not be as good as a warriors, but c'mon... no pet taunt at all means that a mage can almost never use his/her nukes. The pet xp problem is easily solved by duoing, but the neccessity to reclaim pets all the time is very uncool while solo. Even if you want to outdamage your pet with nukes, you can't because pet taunt is broken and mages have no means to mitigate damage like nekros have.
So the only efficient way to solo is: Summon fire pet, recast and reclaim when low, repeat. You are unable to solve the pet variation problem like any other pet caster. The most pet focused class needs to kill his pet all the time. That's a bit fucked up.
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Have you played recently? Pet taunt might not be up to classic level but it is actually pretty significant. I can pull with darkness, send my pet on it and my pet will get immediate hate. I can then cast 1-2 more dots and the mob will still usually stay on my pet and as long as I'm not right up in the mobs grill my pet will have hate back well before the mob reaches me. Even if I sit.
And at the higher levels pet chaining was a necessity anyways for a mage, so the only difference is instead of holding onto the most recently summoned one if it was at full HP, they have to ditch it before the kill.