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Originally Posted by rioisk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your logic is sound but the differences in number of casts radically distorts what is actually going on. Mages may have to cast a few more times, not 80 times a wizard, to do the same amount of damage, but that doesn't matter in the long run during a raid where a wizard is constantly medding to do 1 more nuke while a mage's pet is constant DPS. Sure the burst fire is a slightly better on a wizard not to mention the base resist modifier is slightly better but overall the argument is that the slight reduction doesn't offset the pet DPS.

That I understand. But his argument that it was only 3.5% better because it has a 3.5% better damage to mana ratio was ridiculous because it didn't factor in the number of times a wizard has to cast, and that was the point I wanted to make.

For the record, I think it's actually pretty clear that the addition of a pet (not to mention DS's) makes a mage's soloability/DPS/(mostly everything) quite a bit easier for them, but as a math major I had to nitpick a bit at the poster's reasoning that Ice Comet was only "3.5% better" than Lava Bolt.