Any point in playing MAG over NEC?

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

I also have heard that damage sheilds + DD + PETS can kill mods pretty quickly. That if you can hit with this 3 things, is the greatest single target DPS for short fights. But I"m not sure.

I also have heard that summoned sword of runes is triggering on everything, not only summoned creatures > https://wiki.project1999.com/Summoned:_Sword_of_Runes

Aegis of Ro + Burnout IV + Sword of Runes in a Greater Vocaration: Water's pet would be able to do how much damage per "tik"? IF he lands like 5 hits / tik and the Magician also casts an direct DD into the target, how much damage would he do?

Can I reach 2k damage / tik as an magician? If YES, I will consider moving to MAG...

The Summoned Sword Proc issue is fixed, it doesn't proc on everything anymore. It only works on summoned mobs like mob pets.

In another thread today I parsed an Epic Mage pet. Those are doing 80-90DPS. The data I saw for a Water Pet is more around the 60 DPS range, but I could be wrong since the data wasn't as good as the Epic Pet data. A Mage can do 75 DPS if they spend 1200 mana spamming Scars of Sigil. Damage Shields could give you another 30 if the Epic Pet is tanking since it's damage shield does 50 damage. So an Epic Mage can top out around 200 DPS if you are going all out and draining your mana. Epic is really hard to get though, Mage Epic is the rarest one.

That being said, Mages have basically no CC and niche utility, so the extra DPS ends up mattering less if you like to solo harder camps in the end game. Enchanter or Necro would be better at that in terms of pet classes. A Mage at 60 will be farming greens that drop good money, like farming Droga.

As Foxplay said, Mages don't DPS in raids. Raids don't use Mage Pets, and your Nukes will be resisted. A Mage is a CoTH bot or a Mod Rod bot in raids.