Magician or necro?

[DarkwingDuck]

Ok, I'll chime in here, I have a lowbie necro and a 53 Mage. Both are awesome, I've always loved Mage and played epic on pvp live.(Mage epic is hardest and best epic in game)
But IF you're worried about your pet taking EXP you're doing it wrong. GET your Mage pet focus items that beef your pet up when u summon them, then once the mobs running.. Click your focus item (instant reclaim energy) finish it off with a lowbie nuke.. Or your burnt wood staff life me (333 dmg clickie) game over. The 49 fire pet is a beast and a major game changer, as fire pets self DS way better than any cast able DS in game, make fire pets your friend and let the mobs best themselves to death.

[Ravager]

Necros are a one-man-group and have many more options for mobs to kill because faction is rarely an issue. Also, who would even want to be in the same class as Navir?

[Velerin]

They both can level solo pretty fast. Difference is necro can do a lot more things and styles.
The most efficient and fastest mage solo tactic is actually pretty boring (but also relaxing).
Find lowest single pull blue cons possible (as NegaStoat said above) that focused fire pet can solo. Sit and med, when mob gets really low on health reclaim pet (will get amount of mana back based on health, if targeting right mobs could be >50%), cast low level nuke for full exp (if nuke doesn't quite finish the mob, don't nuke again unless its running far. Just summon a new pet to finish it off if life left<your nuke damage)
Repeat. You'll always be good on mana and have continuous pulls.

[DarkwingDuck]

I rarely play my 2 50+'s there are a few 20-30 I'm playin atm.. I'm pretty casual these days.
I'm playin on kunark at the moment, tons of people 20-30
Blueskin - 23 enchanter
Greacenthe - 22 wizard

[webrunner5]

I rarely run out of mana on my Mage because I try to pick the right level of DB mob to kill and let the Fire Pet on average do ALL the damage. I know you take a XP hit but a Fire pet can kill fast as hell so I don't see the need to sit and med for 8 minutes at a time. I hate that crap. And the XP is, I think, better than any other class in the game other than a Necro maybe. I think even better. They kill mobs fast. We are not talking a Paladin here lol.

I save my mana for when things go to crap, which they do on a Mage, because you have very little CC. Lets not sugar coat it, you have almost NO CC. I hardly ever use the Earth pet, but I must admit they have helped the agro out lately with the pets on the last few patches. So I suggest you keep enough mana at all times to gate, have a reasonable nuke memed, and maybe even enough to cast even a lower level pet to save your arse. Gate is your friend playing a Mage trust me. Learn how to bind in good spots or right at the ZL's.

[jolanar]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I rarely run out of mana on my Mage because I try to pick the right level of DB mob to kill and let the Fire Pet on average do ALL the damage. I know you take a XP hit but a Fire pet can kill fast as hell so I don't see the need to sit and med for 8 minutes at a time. I hate that crap. And the XP is, I think, better than any other class in the game other than a Necro maybe. I think even better. They kill mobs fast. We are not talking a Paladin here lol.

I save my mana for when things go to crap, which they do on a Mage, because you have very little CC. Lets not sugar coat it, you have almost NO CC. I hardly ever use the Earth pet, but I must admit they have helped the agro out lately with the pets on the last few patches. So I suggest you keep enough mana at all times to gate, have a reasonable nuke memed, and maybe even enough to cast even a lower level pet to save your arse. Gate is your friend playing a Mage trust me. Learn how to bind in good spots or right at the ZL's.

What level is your mage? Wouldn't the pet need time to recover HP if you aren't chain summoning?

[webrunner5]

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

What level is your mage? Wouldn't the pet need time to recover HP if you aren't chain summoning?

Doesn't matter what level, every level from level 4 to 49 pet takes a beating if doing blues. But if you sit them to heal up and maybe heal them once you are only on your butt 1 to 2 minutes not 8 if you nuke like hell or keep reclaiming.

I probably a little over exaggerated the no down time but is a lot less than burning down mobs like a Wizard lol. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] And by the time you find a single mob you can pull on average the pet has healed up anyways by its self. And by the way my Mage is 57. I am just too lazy to get it to 60, and will probably never have a epic for it. My Druid has been 54 for like 3 years and I am on it about every day Porting or PLing with it lol, and I have never even done any of the epic work because there is no way in hell I am going to pay that much for MQ's . On Live even back in the day I had 3 epic toons. I have NONE on here. High end XP is just a total Bitch to get as well as epics other than the Rogue and maybe Monk.. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[webrunner5]

I spent most of my time soloing the Mage. I hardly ever am afk in a group because I mostly play healing classes, so you have to be there. But I have no clue why but have got a blast of shit a few times in groups because the pet was 2 seconds late or where is my DS, on and on. I have no clue why, but I just said the hell with it and use it solo 90% of the time.

Is a pretty good class to go solo with. They are a real challenge to break camps with but it is exciting even though you do die on them often if you really take chances. And you have to to get good loot. I know of hardly any good loot camp other than AC that really does not have a lot of high level mobs you have to kill to get to the one that drops the big one lol. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I know there is some plat mobs to kill but I am talking items that sell for 3k and above. Because I totally suck at random rolls.

[Halius]

Also, as a mage without Jboots. Learn to strafe run, it will save your life multiple times.

[hammertime7795]

Mage epic pet is crazy op and always will be on this server. Necro epic is hardy worth doing and is useless until snare/root stack sometime in velious and even then is only mildly useful. Both suck to play on raids as you're either a mana pump or a mana stick dump. Both are fun to play solo or in groups if you can get a group.