Mage solo strategy question

[loramin]

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

I beg to differ. Especially in the first levels the fire pet is superior to water while soloing.

I'm not sure you're remembering the early levels properly: I have a low level mage and the fire pet is terrible. It rarely even survives until the end of a single fight (and low levels should not have to chain cast pets to kill a single mob).

I've been using the earth pet, but based on NegaStoat I think I'm going to try the water pet next.

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

The best solution for avoiding xp loss due to pet is to just DUO.

Excellent suggestion. Far too few pet classes utilize this, but it makes a huge difference.

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

The focus item quest can only be done Level 33+.? At least wiki says...?

The wiki is wrong (someone should edit it!). I did all of the focus items on my very low (I forget what he was at the time, 9 maybe?) mage.