Mages are a lot of fun. I always love pet classes and having 4 elementals to choose from in any situation is very cool. Usually I go with fire b/c their DS is so big that it murders mobs, especially at low levels.
These are 4 quests that you will absolutely want to do. I listed them in order of importance (IMO). They are for the 4 mage pet focus items. Their stats are not impressive but their effect is. They make your pets have more hp and also make them appear larger. Each one also has a clicky that is a mana free way to reclaim your pet. This can be used in a variety of ways. The amount of mana you get back is proportional to your pets current % hp. So if you reclaim a pet at 100% hp you get almost 100% of the spell cost back. If you reclaim a pet that is almost daed, say at 5% hp, you get roughly 5% of the cost of the spell back.
http://wiki.project1999.com/Torch_Of_Alna_Quest
http://wiki.project1999.com/Shovel_Of_Ponz_Quest
http://wiki.project1999.com/Stein_of_Ulissa_Quest
http://wiki.project1999.com/Broom_of_Trilon_Quest
If you are soloing and your pet does over 50% of the damage to the mob (this does not include DS) it will take 50% of your exp. So you either have to out damage your pet (not worth it at low levels, just let your fire pet murder everything) or you can let the pet get the mob to low health and then use those handy dandy focus items I mentioned and reclaim your pet and finish the mob off with a nuke. If you are in a group (even just a duo counts) then your pet will never take exp. You can let it do 100% of the damage and you will both get full exp. Some people say that you need to do at least 1 point of damage to get the full exp, this is not true. I have duoed on my ench with a cleric and we rarely do dmg to the mob and always get full exp.
Oh, and I use the wiki for everything. Those quests I linked are from the wiki and here is the homepage.
http://wiki.project1999.com/
I hope this info helps. Welcome to P99
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