Soloing as a mage and necro

[Wallicker]

Enchanter can do same thing with tash and pet

[Wallicker]

Bard just spams dots

[bwe]

A duck

[Vexenu]

Phinny water staff and a 60 water pet is a nice consolation prize if you can't get the epic. Crazy damage, especially if pet is not tanking and can backstab. Plus even as a 60 Mage you hardly need any gear so you could literally fill two bags full of root nets rather than buy marginal gear upgrades. Necros are still better overall but there's something to be said for the brute Force DPS of the Mage.

[Aaramis]

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

Phinny water staff and a 60 water pet is a nice consolation prize if you can't get the epic. Crazy damage, especially if pet is not tanking and can backstab.

This is pretty much the goal for most Mages, I think.

Really torn on the Mage vs Necro camp though.
Love Mage as a class, but love the toolkit of the Necro.
Arrrgh.

[Wallicker]

Mage to 50 before Kunark then necro!

[1asdfasdf1]

$0.02

Multiple necros in a group or raid: their DoTs don't stack. Multiple mages: All their pets and nukes stack.

Mage epic is a beast. Maybe one of the most OP epics in the game. My mage is only 38 or so but I find a lot of his summons are frequently useful to myself and others.

I play both and they're both fun.

[brokenpromise]

Originally Posted by 1asdfasdf1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

$0.02

Multiple necros in a group or raid: their DoTs don't stack. Multiple mages: All their pets and nukes stack.

Mage epic is a beast. Maybe one of the most OP epics in the game. My mage is only 38 or so but I find a lot of his summons are frequently useful to myself and others.

I play both and they're both fun.

I really do love the mage class. It's not for everyone but I just love the pure dps of mage

[commongood]

Originally Posted by 1asdfasdf1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

$0.02

Multiple necros in a group or raid: their DoTs don't stack. Multiple mages: All their pets and nukes stack.

Mage epic is a beast. Maybe one of the most OP epics in the game. My mage is only 38 or so but I find a lot of his summons are frequently useful to myself and others.

I play both and they're both fun.

This is perhaps a bit lacking in nuance. Necros are mostly terrible DPS on raids, this is true (zones with undeads to charm change the equation, like Plane of Fear). But I never (at least very seldomly) see mages with their pets out on raids. So the mage is sadly not able to fully flourish as a dps-class on raids on P99.

Necros get the "subversion" spell line AKA "twitches" which allow them to give mana to other players. On raids this is used to a very large extent as the necros "feed" mana to clerics which means that necros stack quite well.

Mages make mod rods and CotH. That is also important. Neither shine as DPS on raids.

[Bardp1999]

Given enough warriors and clerics, every other class is 100% optional in the raid scene