Mages were HORRIBLE at launch

[Fammaden]

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

I remember a lot of people being convinced that pet spells were harder to make, both necro and mages.

But I think the main problem was so many people had garbage for research skill since there wasn't an easy way to raise it. No one really cared that much about the other research spells so if they failed it was like "meh". But the pets? necro/mages won't soon stop ruminating on that, nor complaining about it on the internet.

Not only pets, but for necro you have Call of Bones at 34 which is HUGE, and then DMF at 44 and Lich at 49. The research problem is easily the biggest drawback to rolling mage or necro to start IMO. Maybe it won't be that bad but research can be a major pain in the ass and I think people used to blue don't realize how trivial getting their spells has been prior to this.

And now research components might not stack right away? Oof!