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Originally Posted by Bodybagger
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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.... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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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!) |
You are sort of making some pretty silly statements with this post. Not really much help to someone new trying to learn how to play a Mage well. A lot has to do what zone you are in. Fire pet is not the clear cut pet for every one of them. Not all the time with every mob in them.
I will give you credit Fire pet is pretty much the go to at lower levels on average, but there is a reason the Devs gave us 4 pets even when soloing.
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