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Originally Posted by webrunner5
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I can tell you I USE all 4 of my pets a lot. At least 3 of them sometimes in a 2 or 3 hour solo, and probably 2 of them in a group setting. They all have a use in certain instances. If you only use the Fire pet you are really not taking advantage of half your ability to engage, split, CC etc.
A Mage is a lot harder to play well than most people think. It is not all send in the fire pet and sit on your ass like a LOT of people do on here if you really want to make a Mage really stand out. But I am not knocking people that do it, but they are missing the fun of the cat and mouse stuff you can do on a Mage. They are damn powerful played to the max. And if you are lucky enough to ever have the Epic, and The Burnt Wood Staff , http://wiki.project1999.com/Burnt_Wood_Staff, Wow hold on. Killing machine. |
ROFL "mages are way trickier to play not just chain pets BUT if you get epic and clicky nuke stick and just sit back and chain pets and click mana free nukes OMG WTFBBQSAUCE powerful....
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I would gladly take on any other mage sub lvl 30 with my fire pet only in a dps test to see who can kill faster and solo harder mobs. You will lose. It's pure simple numbers. You stand NO CHANCE. Solo it is no contest. Grouped yes there are options but no way solo. earth pet is junk. It's a meat shield and your nukes suck at mana efficiency harder than pet healing does. I can med and heal within med ticks and barely use mana before the second pet heal at 16 or 20... I have literally solo'd all of Blackburrow fighting groups of even con elites and stuff with a max level fire pet summoned with torch, and burnout on him, with a rusty 2h sword or scythe or halberd. Thing destroys everything.
I have also solo'd gargoyls at lvl 16 in OoT with the same pet at lvl 16. Go solo red con lvl 20ish gargoyls with any other pet and come argue with me.
I've also duo'd with many other casters. Generally a solid duo/trio will be another pet class with their taunt off, or anyone that can heal/buff pet with you. You are literally power leveling yourself. Plain and simple. The fire pet with focus torch is ungodly OP from lvl 1-20 and still very imbalanced til 30+.
Make no mistake. I have ALL FOCUS ITEMS. But I don't ever find use for the others except for group setting where water pet might do marginally better dps with addition of kick/bash and same nuke or air deals slightly less dps with no nuke, but has kick/bash and can interrupt casters. Earth pet is ghetto CC and I don't bother with it, I move on to something more productive if I find myself needing that root to save my bacon. 2 mages+ mages with torches splitting pulls would be insane (and duo is priceless for no XP loss!)