[Obrae]

You need to understand its not that Mages don't want to play the game of research they just can't.

Materials do not drop, can't raise skill for crap. Imagine when more mage gets of the right level. No more monsters will be killed than doday, the zones are filled. The stress on needs for materials will only go up.

Game is badly itemized, there is no way for most magician to ever get pets. Just look at the number of 30 magician growing day by day still mostly on 20 pets or 24 if they got lucky. But it wont get much better.

Don't forget, you want the 49 pet ?

1. Go OOT buy a 16 pet
2. Find all ultra rare mats for the 20 pet combine.
3. Find all the ultra rare components for the 24 pet, combine with 20 scroll
4. Find all the ultra rare components for the 29 pet, combine with 24 scroll
5. Find all the ultra rare components for the 34 pet, combine with 29 scroll
6. Find all the ultra rare components for the 39 pet, combine with 34 scroll
7. Find all the ultra rare components for the 44 pet, combine with 39 scroll
8. Find all the ultra rare components for the 49 pet, combine qith 44 scroll
There! if you didnt miss a single combine, you have 1 pet.
Each time you learn a pet a chain must be started back from beginning.

That system never worked. They changed it as soon as they could after release.