Mage question

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

Damage shield is neutral damage. It isn't credited to anyone, it just reduces the mob's HP.

Your ideal solo strategy is summoning a focused fire pet and reclaiming it before the mob dies. Then finish the mob with a small nuke and summon another fire pet. This ensures that you get 100% of the XP every time. This is also much more efficient than keeping a pet and constantly healing, DSing and hasting it. The key to solo leveling a Mage is looking at the fire pet as a DoT, not a pet you want to keep alive. Each mob gets DoTed (fire petted) and the fire pet is not expected to stick around for more than one mob. 200 mana to summon a fresh fire pet gives you tremendous damage from the DS, the pet's melee damage, and most importantly the full HP pool to allow the pet to tank the mob (which is basically a CH). It's extremely mana efficient, especially since you can med through the kill. With good mob selection you shouldn't have to chain summon multiple pets until 50+. So you basically level up to 50 killing mobs nonstop for 200 mana and change, most of which you med back during kills and reclaiming from the pet. Very fast and easy XP once you get the hang of it.

Couldn't say it any better.