This was more a Luclin/PoP thing.
The tactic/exploit involved using three things:
1. Improved Reclaim Energy AA - Increased the amount of mana returned on reclaiming
2. Elemental Pact AA - Malachites were no longer consumed when summoning pets
3. Pet Focii items - Pet Health is increased by some percentage
Basically Reclaim would give you Mana Cost * Pet's Health Percentage. Improved Reclaim Energy improved the amount by a bit. Let's say 10%
So a pet costs 400 to summon. At 100% life, a mage wouldve received 440 Mana back when reclaiming the pet with Improved Reclaim Energy. With focus effects increasing the pets health from its base 3000, to 3300, the game then considers this as you reclaiming the pet at 110% health. So you would reclaim him for 480 mana (40 from Improved Reclaim AA and 40 from the pet focus increasing pet HP above the base)
With Specializes Conjuration of 200, a player will save about 10% off the mana cost. So a 400 mana spell costs 360 to cast.
In the end:
Cast pet -360 Mana
Reclaim pet +480 Mana
With Spell Casting Mastery reducing spell costs another 10%, and Mana Preservation focuses, Mages were able to pull in 150-200 mana per cast/reclaim. This was nerfed in GoD era and they were given an actual pet cannibalize spell which wasn't anywhere near as efficient.
In summary. It is somewhat doable on this server but extremely inefficient because you:
1. Need tons of Malachites
2. You don't have Improved Reclaim Energy
3. You don't have Spell Casting Mastery or Mana preservation focus items
You will end up fizzling and losing all the mana you gain I think here, but I haven't tested it.
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