Mage epic --- game changing?

[Balimon]

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

Join one of three guilds on Green.
Show up to raid, literally just show up. Repeat 100-400 times.
Once you have top DKP among mages track hate for better chance of drop.
Don’t get fucked over by the guild when it drops.

Essentially this, learning to track Hate and the PH's is the best way to get Magi kills, make sure you have the DKP when it finally does drop

[Obrae]

Well you need to camp in Hate to have a chance, people cheat it, server staff is aware, they remove threads. We caught the guy doing it multiple time in the act.

[Snaggles]

Really easy stuff = epic pet is the best
Tough stuff you aren’t pet tanking = focused water is the best
Very tough stuff you are raiding = Why did you summon a pet? Do you want to wipe us??

There. Saved you all that silly gathering. Go loot a water staff.

[Tann]

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

Why did you summon a pet? Do you want to wipe us??

As a non-raiding pleb, why no pets in raids?

[PatChapp]

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

As a non-raiding pleb, why no pets in raids?

Depends on the raid, some places they tend to warp. Others they can cause level agro issues being so low

[loramin]

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

Depends on the raid, some places they tend to warp. Others they can cause level agro issues being so low

It's almost exclusively in ToV; Mage pets are welcome in most epic fights, in VP and ST, in all of the Planes, and against the old school dragons and gods (eg. Cazic and Tunare).

Sadly though there are a lot of raids in ToV, so it works out to Mages not being able to use their pets in something like half of all raids, just because (back in 2000) the EQ developers failed at creating paths in a single zone.

[enjchanter]

the epic pet can solo jacker with no help and that was game changing for me

hope that helps

[Zarakk]

Nothing I have done on P1999 was as painful as getting the earth staff. Nothing took even a tenth the time I spent tracking, camping and negotiating with the guild to get help for mages on that quest.

And nothing felt as wonderful as finally getting it and summoning my first epic pet.

Three months later, I am still as happy as larry that I completed that quest and obtained the skittlestick. No item I will ever earn will give me that level of feeling of hard work resulting in accomplishment.

Did it change my EQ experience? Yes it did, and very much for the better.

YMMV.

[Crede]

59 focused air pet is a better tank tho? Oof.

[Toxigen]

As far as an hours spent / dkp / plat perspective...mage epic is probably the lowest bang for your buck. Its sad to put 1 million plat into a character whos best spell is COTH.