Why are mages not more popular?

[Bummey]

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

Magi = are never played to their full potential. It requires a lot of work pet controlling and belling casting to lower resists - most people are super lazy and or too scared to belly cast. Pet position increases damage. Especially with the rogue pet.

Magi = Epic bottle neck still exists on P99 - sickly overpriced quest items. Live corrected the biggest problem by moving the Earth Staff to a "a forsaken revenant (male)" spawn in PoH that would have % chance of staff. This happened before the release of Velious.

Actually controlling your pet is beyond most magicians. You know a good magician when they correctly position their pet on every fight, during enrage, and for pushing casters. Rarely see that.

Find us some fucking evidence of this. Help fix this horrible, horrible bottleneck. Not that it'll matter, as 'Fixed, pending update' is no guarantee we'll see it. (appreciate all the work of the devs and admins, etc. some fixes should be added asap instead of bundled with the next patch)