Patch Notes, Sunday April 17th, 2011

[Slave]

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

Too bad so sad. Chain petting was extremely overpowered.

It was so overpowered that I was almost able to match group experience while solo.

[Pezmerga]

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

Too bad so sad. Chain petting was extremely overpowered.

Rangers and Druids are underwhelming, so when is the fix!? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wishful thinking...

[ukaking]

I also didnt see the fix for the warrior pike quest #4 go in, but Im assuming it did since it said fixed pending update on the bug forums...

[Bones]

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

[*]Kanras: Pets will no longer automatically dual wield at a certain level.

Whaaaat?

[Slave]

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

Whaaaat?

I have no idea; I've been looking and so far found nothing that would support this change.

[Kraftwerk]

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

[*]Kanras: Pets will no longer automatically dual wield at a certain level.

Does anyone have the source for why this change was made? Anything I've ever read anywhere lists Magician Pets as always being able to innately dual wield at lvl 39 spell and up. Did they remove the ability for a bit then give it back to Mages?

[yaaaflow]

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

Does anyone have the source for why this change was made? Anything I've ever read anywhere lists Magician Pets as always being able to innately dual wield at lvl 39 spell and up. Did they remove the ability for a bit then give it back to Mages?

Welp guess it's back to having a spare backpack to fill up with summoned daggers. Tougher to do whilst chainpetting now that you can't give your pets stuff while they're fighting though.

Back to getting bugged by other pet classes for weapons on raids too, weee.

[Kraftwerk]

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

Welp guess it's back to having a spare backpack to fill up with summoned daggers. Tougher to do whilst chainpetting now that you can't give your pets stuff while they're fighting though.

Back to getting bugged by other pet classes for weapons on raids too, weee.

Well I'm more curious where the source for this change is. I'd like to read about it. I played a Magician from 2001 - 2003 and only remember giving my pet weapons for procs, never to necessitate a dual wield. And everything I find on Allakhazam, EQSummoners, random other forums all list Mage pets as innately dual wielding post lvl 39 spell.

Now shaman pets are another story....

[Knightmare]

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

Well I'm more curious where the source for this change is. I'd like to read about it. I played a Magician from 2001 - 2003 and only remember giving my pet weapons for procs, never to necessitate a dual wield.

One aspect to remember is that what we remember may be from 1 point in time and not fit with the current time frame from this patch. Also, I "remember" a lot of things that research has proven me wrong about lol.

There's also a list in another post (I'll look for it) and this link where the pet abilities were listed on these forums (for Necro pets) and dual wield was not among the innate abilities until the higher lvls.

Thanks for all the fixes guys, massive amount of stuff in here.. and all while you held an event in Gfay and got annoyed by some fool Necromancer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jify]

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

Does anyone have the source for why this change was made? Anything I've ever read anywhere lists Magician Pets as always being able to innately dual wield at lvl 39 spell and up. Did they remove the ability for a bit then give it back to Mages?

I remember insta duel wield after lvl 39 as well. I don't think this change was warranted, however, I do trust that the GMs did proper homework prior to renerfing magician pets.

That being said, it's been confirmed by developers that they are NOT going to increase pet power despite classic timelines and patches. This was evident in things like the "pets use weapon delay", "sword of runes procs on all mobs", etc. not being implemented on this server.

Pets are incredibly strong as is I agree that developers shouldn't be going out of their way to increase pet power over other pressing matters. However, a 40% blow to mage DPS is quite substantial....

Anyway, let's ride it out and see where it came from! Like I said earlier, the GMs do their homework prior to nerfs and patches. I'm sure Nilbog will follow up shortly with a quote from a reliable source. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]