Why so few mages on P99?

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Played a mage mostly solo to 56ish on red. The shit is a joke. The biggest thing about em, and I hear this is fixed but I haven't even bothered testing because fuckmages, is that when you cast a bolt spell (our main line) you are locked out of doing anything, no pumice, no jboots, no other clicks of any kind, or it cancels the spell. Oh yeah, any they are slower than sow, so if someone knows this and wants to be a dick about it, they just run from your bolt for 15 minutes while you chase them and eventually your jboots start to fade so you're in a position of having to click them to keep up the chase but losing your bolt, that's usually when they sneak a spell in on you and then run from your bolt again.

They are pretty good in open solo situations but like others mentioned, adds will fuck your day up. On that same note, someone has to do it..reclaim energy is a fucking waste of a gem slot. See for yourself, the mana reclaimed is based on the HP the pet as at the moment the spell goes off, >5% hp and you don't even get a noticeable tick. Save yourself the hassle and just click go away right before your new pet is summoned. This might not be that big of an issue on blue but on red where preparedness is key to survival it's just not worth it. Learned this bit soloing hill giants in rathe from lvl 34 to 53.
Red plug :lvl 34-53 I often had the place to myself or maybe one or two other players that I was friends with. I killed most of the other people that came into the area.

I think there is something bugged with summoned items now too, last time I logged on the mage if you had summoned items when you camped they would still be there when you relogged, if you touch them tho you go LD as if mages didn't already have enough game breaking fuckfest issues already.

Anything else? Probably but I can't remember and truth be told it was actually pretty fucking painful to write this because I loved my mage, still do, but more of a love like you would have for a retarded child, they're not number 1, but ya still care about em.