Mages were HORRIBLE at launch

[Chortles Snort|eS]

mages are OP and should be nerfed on launch
thanks

[metatron]

mages were shit and necros only needed them for their summoned weapons to give to the necro pet, why does no one else want to remember this

[Baler]

wow this thread is hot garbage

Mages can level to 50 & 60 NAKED

Early days on green there will be a massive limitation on gearing. Add to that no kunark and no velious.

Mages are super great at launch

OP just doesn't like the class. Fine I get that but don't make up bs to push fake ideas.
I understand magician isn't for everyone, they have to reply on the strongest summoned pets in the game.

Mages at launch will have the strongest starting game because they don't require gear to progress further faster.

Erudite is the best starting mage race because it has a best Int giving more mana pool and any gear you add onto that will give you a huge advantage over every other race period. People seem to forget on purpose that classic gear isn't readily available or all that great.

This isn't velious people. You aren't going to be maxxing out stats yet.

[deadlycupcakez]

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

wow this thread is hot garbage

Mages can level to 50 & 60 NAKED

Early days on green there will be a massive limitation on gearing. Add to that no kunark and no velious.

Mages are super great at launch

OP just doesn't like the class. Fine I get that but don't make up bs to push fake ideas.
I understand magician isn't for everyone, they have to reply on the strongest summoned pets in the game.

Mages at launch will have the strongest starting game because they don't require gear to progress further faster.

Erudite is the best starting mage race because it has a best Int giving more mana pool and any gear you add onto that will give you a huge advantage over every other race period. People seem to forget on purpose that classic gear isn't readily available or all that great.

This isn't velious people. You aren't going to be maxxing out stats yet.

Someone’s gone off the deep end this morning

[Tenlaar]

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

Erudite is the best starting mage race because it has a best Int giving more mana pool and any gear you add onto that will give you a huge advantage over every other race period. People seem to forget on purpose that classic gear isn't readily available or all that great.[/I]

This is bad advice. The slightly higher int of the Erudite means very little for mages compared to, once Kunark drops, the ability to easily make use of Eye + CoTH.

So you should say "Erudite is the best race for a mage if you plan to quit before Kunark. Otherwise gnome is the best choice."

[soronil]

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

This is bad advice. The slightly higher int of the Erudite means very little for mages compared to, once Kunark drops, the ability to easily make use of Eye + CoTH.

sorry, i'm a noob. What Eye?

[Baler]

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

sorry, i'm a noob. What Eye?

http://wiki.project1999.com/Eye_of_Zomm

The most exploited spell on p99 ever.

1. Shrink the mage fully (10 Dose Ant's Potion)
2. Mage stands tight against a wall facing it and casts Eye of Zomm
3. The eye will appear at zone in, not at the mage.
4. The mage see's through the eye so they can target players at zone in
5. mage invites players to their group whom are at zone in
6. mage casts call of the hero on the newly invite players to their location (raid)
7. repeat as needed until the whole raid force is at the raid.

It's a classic EXPLOIT but it's still an EXPLOIT.
Cough staff have said they can't enforce it. Cough

Pets are summoned just a little bit in front of the player. And when out of bounds it gets sent to zone in.

[the_only_jake]

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

sorry, i'm a noob. What Eye?

Being a Gnome , or using a shrink potion facing a wall and summoning an eye of zomm into an area outside the game. The game doesn't understand where that location is so it drops the eye to the safe spot in a zone where Succor or Evac spells take you, allowing mages to park in some pretty nice places summon an eyeball and pull entire raid groups to a safe spot very close to a raid bosses lair bypassing the need to fight your way though a dungeon to get to the boss.

[skorge]

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

OP just doesn't like the class. Fine I get that but don't make up bs to push fake ideas. I understand magician isn't for everyone, they have to reply on the strongest summoned pets in the game.

Mages at launch will have the strongest starting game because they don't require gear to progress[I] further faster

Nice try, but it appears that I am not the only one who remembers this. Also, Baler, what class did you play April 1999 - June 1999? Lol, don't lie. If you played a mage you would know I am right.

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

I recall that lower level mage pets didn't actually cast spells. in fact, i think it wasn't until the pets were level 30ish that they started to cast spells. Eventually they patched in the ability for lower pets to use them down the line, but in vanilla for a period of time they didn't cast any spells.

One of my best friends back then played a mage the first month or so after release and he was always complaining about having no idea why he was wasting plat on 4 pets when they all seemed to be virtually identical

Then one day in sol b his new pet started rooting shit (which really pissed me off because i was on snaring duty. )

From: https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2970515#post2970515


I may not be able to provide hard concrete proof as the search for early patches is super hard to find, but I can still look.

[Niedar]

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

Nice try, but it appears that I am not the only one who remembers this. Also, Baler, what class did you play April 1999 - June 1999? Lol, don't lie. If you played a mage you would know I am right.



From: https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2970515#post2970515


I may not be able to provide hard concrete proof as the search for early patches is super hard to find, but I can still look.

Stop spreading fake news, come back when you have facts.