Melee Worthlessness - The Biggest Balance Problem There Is

[coki]

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

Got some of them, but nothing game changing.

I can't think of many clickies that would make a mage half as good as a Shaman or Enchanter even without said clickies. Plus any useful item you might want to give your mage pet to give it some much needed oooomph will be lost, unlike those you can give a charmed pet and get back if you know what you're doing

And don't get me started about no pet raids... Yeah, Now all I can do is try & cast nukes that will hardly ever land since they're fire & magic based 👍👍

A bag or two full of wooly-spider root nets!

[sajbert]

I just find that some classes (mainly nec and enchanter) are able to solo content, including attractive camps, that likely was intended for groups.

Then ZEM changes made dungeon grouping less attractive.

The result is that it's difficult to find groups for classes that need groups to get anywhere anytime before Green is done. Especially difficult for players playing on less populated time zones.

Sure, I'd love to twink a melee and solo my way but the cost to twink a melee is out of this world in comparison to what it takes to twink a caster. For the price of just one Fungi I could twink 4 enchanters with GGR+Jboots and the works.

Some of this is what EQ is but ZEM changes and other non-classic aspects certainly could be changed.

[Vaarsuvius]

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

A bag or two full of wooly-spider root nets!

You can't compare 3 charge spider nets to shamans' root that lasts for ages, slow, and DoTs

Any Torp shaman can handle a handful of blue con mobs with enough room to move, even summoning ones without a sweat. I'd never try and do that on my mage with more than a couple mobs and a dozen nets handy

[cd288]

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

You can't compare 3 charge spider nets to shamans' root that lasts for ages, slow, and DoTs

Any Torp shaman can handle a handful of blue con mobs with enough room to move, even summoning ones without a sweat. I'd never try and do that on my mage with more than a couple mobs and a dozen nets handy

Only caveat would be once you have the vocorate earth pet that basically procs a root instantly. I’d feel comfortable handling multiple mobs with that

[Vaarsuvius]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Only caveat would be once you have the vocorate earth pet that basically procs a root instantly. I’d feel comfortable handling multiple mobs with that

In theory yup, except mage pet aggro management sucks: Gluck having a pet focus on the target you want it to if a couple mobs are rooted close to each others and in melee range of your pet,
Earth pet's root can and will be resisted by mobs and is short duration
Post 55, there's hardly any blue con mob your pet will be able to handle on it own, let alone several. So hoping root lasts long enough on 2+ mobs for you to chain cast another pet and give it a DS and possibly Burnout seems very tricky to me.

I guess I'll have to try with a couple geonids one of these days [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]