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Originally Posted by Vanessa
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I see. I'm assuming the Mage research past 39 not working was just a bug that a while to be fixed, right?
However the vendors not having pets is intentional?
So in the next iteration of Green, it would be safe to assume that getting Mage pets won't be as hard as it was in Green 1.0, because research should be working correctly?
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It was difficult, there was some confusion with the Devs how exactly the researched pets versus the vendor pets worked. Unless they mimic the original launch with research/vendors not working right, it will be correct next time around. The issue was that there were no vendor pets ( should be two every level until 44/49 ) at all past 20? I think? and that research was broken past 34, the combines didn't work because there were no vendor spells to 'level' up with since each combine takes the previous level spell.
There were never research combines for some of the spells, so when they removed the vendor spells it broke everything. I'm not sure I'm explaining it well, but that's the gist of it. It was fixed and should be different next go around, how exactly it will look I'm not sure, but I would find it safe to assume there will be
more pets available then with the original Green launch.
I started day 1 and what I did was hit every merchant in neriak (rolled dark elf) and freeport that would sell to me and find the mats for the 16/20 pet spell combines, which isn't as bad, I just had to buy words of dimension for the 20 spell. I used the 20 for a while till 29 or so before I could get the 24 pet made. Generally I was always a spell rank behind pet wise. The best way I found the mitigate that was to use nukes to kill the mobs for exp. It worked well, I was level 42 or so before they patched pets back in and I was able to get a level 39 pet.
It was still difficult because the words you need drop off mobs higher level then the spells, so generally you would need to buy the words because you can't really camp them yourself just yet. And they were expensive!! I made do with the 44 fire pet until 49 because it was just cheaper and I failed my earth combine. 49 was such a relief because the earth pet was on the vendor.
TLDR:
If you like mage and want to play one at a Green launch, they will work fine, just be aware that without focus items or having every pet at every spell rank, it will be a slower and more difficult leveling process than you might want it to be.