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Originally Posted by loramin
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Amen.
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).
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Well even back then their one compelling advantage, single target dps, was starting to seriously erode in the mid 50s. There were just too many classes in EQ. Magicians and wizards would have been better off merged into one, offsetting both classes glaring weaknesses.