I wasn't trolling! Maybe my lack of experience with epic mages is the catching point, but I would rather solo than group with a mage. Every damn pet procs a nuke or a root and mages love giving their pets swords with even more procs. The last thing I want to deal with when I'm farming something is root breaks every 5 seconds. Maybe if the fight is half over already or the chanter makes liberal use of mem blur, the magician pet will keep aggro on a charm break... but I'm skeptical. I'd much prefer a second rooter+stunner with lame sustained damage+great burst.
And SCB, shamans are awesome at everything, not just grouping. Maybe 1-59 shaman and druid are pretty interchangeable when paired with a chanter, though I still would have to think having a shaman doing malo, slow, plus buffs and heals would be preferable to having a druid who can snare, DS, buff, and heal. And then at 60 it's no contest.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to why you would let a charmed pet die when duoing, when you could instead give it proccing weapons and a bunch of haste and other buffs and then keep it alive. The extra mobs you'd kill with that monster of a pet is going to get you wayyyy more xp than you'd get from finishing off a nearly-dead ex-pet every few kills.
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03-07-2013, 12:53 PM
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