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Originally Posted by WarpathEQ
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More like 800k+ atleast on green. I think people tend to way overlook the amount of gearing of melee toons on P99, mages and their pets feel like weak pieces of crap not because they are worse than live. As I understand it in the classic/planes eras on P99 mages were the meta and raid forces were often just mages swarming entire zones with their pets (i.e. sky especially).
Once Kunark drops, melee start getting much better gear and weapons and start to power up. Velious excellerates that even more, and being locked in Velious for a decade completely breaks the comparison. Mage, one of the least gear dependent classes in the game has very little impact by gearing (other than epic pet obviously being a boost mostly for solo stuff or powerleveling). And the gearing mages get at the high end, epic aside, gives them utility that has nothing to do with being a mostly AFK player that hits pet attack and expects their pet to go solo mobs for them.
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People have also realized how risky pets are in a raid context. We know how their pathing can glitch and they can cause the entire raid to wipe. So the risk vs. the incremental DPS they add isn't worth it at all.