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Originally Posted by webrunner5
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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. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
Who says the 4 pets were for solo? Obviously fire pet is for solo since he has DS and in a group with tank he's useless. Earth is for CC, air is for stunning casters in group, and water is for DPS in group if not offtanking, and backstabs at 54+.
That said, this leaves solo, any duo without a tank, and grouping when you pet offtank as the superior territory for the fire pet. Which means 90% of the time if you play like that (solo, duo with another pet class or caster, or grouped and help offtank/split pulls) the fire pet is superior because it is designed to be so. This has always been my entire point. By all means, get all focus items and pets but if you could only choose one, there is no way it wouldn't be fire. Best tank because of D.S. making it more efficient to heal or chain cast than earth pet and higher dps than any other pet, when tanking.
So I disagree, I think a new player, who may be lucky to have plat for 1 pet and other spells each level, and maybe spend and quest for 1 focus item, would be far better served by "just get the fire pet" (for aforementioned reasons) than to be told "they are all useful and necessary and you need them all". Honestly, if you get a mage his torch at low level he ONLY needs fire pet til 30+ at which point his fire pet can solo the cmaps to farm the pieces for the other focus items. Win/win