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Originally Posted by Encroaching Death
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Mages should be able to summon nets
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Amen.
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Originally Posted by Raj
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I can only guess someone high up in the dev team early on/throughout our Evercrack era somehow thought that Mage pets + CC would be overpowered somehow?
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Trying to reason why classic was the way it was ... based purely on P99 ... can lead to false conclusions. It's like trying to wonder what Van Goh was thinking when he painted starry night ... by looking at a bad print of it on a t-shirt.
P99 is very good, but it isn't 100% classic. In classic, charmed pets (by either a Druid or an Enchanter) were far riskier, which made regular pets far better by comparison ... and of course, the Mage has the best of those. Because of that, and because live people had much worse gear on average (making all pets better by comparison), Mages weren't
as bad of a class on live.
In fact, they were actually considered one of the best classes early on ... which likely resulted in their lack of root not being addressed, as well as a lack of upgrades and a prevalence of nerfs in general (at least until later expansions).