Mages are up shit’s creek I guess

[Hagglebaron]

lol so here’s my latest update on the subject. I’ve gotten a drop or two of pet words in groups, and the groups have been cool about mages need before greeding them. Many nights I’ve gone entire sessions without seeing a word drop though.

Alright so just play the game I figure, others are doing the same and you can trade/buy the words. LOL well that’s been interesting. Players are learning they have mages by the balls with how things are currently and robbing people blind on prices for pet words. They know we literally cannot get our new pets, any of them, without these words, and man are they jacking up prices.

To any mages not yet in the post 20 situation, here is what you can generally expect. Any research words you come across will be consumed by you, as you need to make every pet again as part of the next pet. You will never have enough just from your own adventuring unless you get extremely lucky on drops and don’t fail combines. I recommend being in a good guild and networking/making friends to help alleviate this if it’s not something you do naturally anyways. Expect to be robbed blind when you attempt to purchase these words from other players.

Good luck.

[Frug]

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

lol so here’s my latest update on the subject. I’ve gotten a drop or two of pet words in groups, and the groups have been cool about mages need before greeding them. Many nights I’ve gone entire sessions without seeing a word drop though.

The auctions on them (at least in EC) have been... sparse.

https://unixgeek.com/last-week-P1999Green.html

[Hagglebaron]

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

The auctions on them (at least in EC) have been... sparse.

https://unixgeek.com/last-week-P1999Green.html

Yea I’ve had better luck asking directly in levelling zones.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

lol so here’s my latest update on the subject. I’ve gotten a drop or two of pet words in groups, and the groups have been cool about mages need before greeding them. Many nights I’ve gone entire sessions without seeing a word drop though.

Alright so just play the game I figure, others are doing the same and you can trade/buy the words. LOL well that’s been interesting. Players are learning they have mages by the balls with how things are currently and robbing people blind on prices for pet words. They know we literally cannot get our new pets, any of them, without these words, and man are they jacking up prices.

To any mages not yet in the post 20 situation, here is what you can generally expect. Any research words you come across will be consumed by you, as you need to make every pet again as part of the next pet. You will never have enough just from your own adventuring unless you get extremely lucky on drops and don’t fail combines. I recommend being in a good guild and networking/making friends to help alleviate this if it’s not something you do naturally anyways. Expect to be robbed blind when you attempt to purchase these words from other players.

Good luck.

This is a fantastic post.

Joining a guild and having friends is recommended in order to achieve in an MMO?

A dude named "Hagglebaron" who was an EC tunnel trader on blue blaming other people for robbery because supply&demand aren't on his side?

Green server isn't a faceroll for a fresh character like 10-year-old blue is?


I am experiencing significant amounts of Schadenfreude and general amusement.


edit - I get that the mage research situation is bad atm (I've seen probably 30-40 research item drops from a variety of different mob types in a variety of different zones and not one of them was a magician component), but good lord, buck up about it. I clearly remember going without what I would now call essential spells on blue, let alone on live, no matter what the class was. A mage with a 2-tier-ago pet still has more sustained damage in groups than a wizard or many/most melee do. Mages are MOSTLY about their pets but they still have malo, nukes, damage shields, some occasionally-useful summons. Etc.

[Hagglebaron]

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

This is a fantastic post.

Joining a guild and having friends is recommended in order to achieve in an MMO?

A dude named "Hagglebaron" who was an EC tunnel trader on blue blaming other people for robbery because supply&demand aren't on his side?

Green server isn't a faceroll for a fresh character like 10-year-old blue is?


I am experiencing significant amounts of Schadenfreude and general amusement.


edit - I get that the mage research situation is bad atm (I've seen probably 30-40 research item drops from a variety of different mob types in a variety of different zones and not one of them was a magician component), but good lord, buck up about it. I clearly remember going without what I would now call essential spells on blue, let alone on live, no matter what the class was. A mage with a 2-tier-ago pet still has more sustained damage in groups than a wizard or many/most melee do. Mages are MOSTLY about their pets but they still have malo, nukes, damage shields, some occasionally-useful summons. Etc.

Well said. If you’re going to take the stance that mages are alright given the circumstances, this is the way to do it. I appreciate replies like yours.

Maybe we are making a mountain of something that isn’t necessarily all that debilitating, but man this community has some jerks lol.

As for my time spent in the tunnel, I actually didn’t do a whole lot of trading. Most of my time was spent running the casino, doing giveaways, newbie trivia for plat, contests etc. You can check my threads for a history of some of it.

[Waedawen]

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

Well said. If you’re going to take the stance that mages are alright given the circumstances, this is the way to do it. I appreciate replies like yours.

Bro if you STILL don't understand why people are just taking the piss out of you, after 47 pages, and then walking away without explaining themselves I just don't know what to tell you.

[Palemoon]

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

why people are just taking the piss out of you

Please speak American, thanks.

[Vizax_Xaziv]

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

lol so here’s my latest update on the subject. I’ve gotten a drop or two of pet words in groups, and the groups have been cool about mages need before greeding them. Many nights I’ve gone entire sessions without seeing a word drop though.

Alright so just play the game I figure, others are doing the same and you can trade/buy the words. LOL well that’s been interesting. Players are learning they have mages by the balls with how things are currently and robbing people blind on prices for pet words. They know we literally cannot get our new pets, any of them, without these words, and man are they jacking up prices.

To any mages not yet in the post 20 situation, here is what you can generally expect. Any research words you come across will be consumed by you, as you need to make every pet again as part of the next pet. You will never have enough just from your own adventuring unless you get extremely lucky on drops and don’t fail combines. I recommend being in a good guild and networking/making friends to help alleviate this if it’s not something you do naturally anyways. Expect to be robbed blind when you attempt to purchase these words from other players.

Good luck.

LMAO! Seriously man? One of the longest-running EC Fatcats on Blue is fucking complaining that he has to buy Mage Pet research components on a brand new server? REALLY bro?

Couple months from now you're gonna be in EC buying/selling everything you can and jacking up the prices on EVERYTHING. Get over it man.

[Hagglebaron]

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

LMAO! Seriously man? One of the longest-running EC Fatcats on Blue is fucking complaining that he has to buy Mage Pet research components on a brand new server? REALLY bro?

Couple months from now you're gonna be in EC buying/selling everything you can and jacking up the prices on EVERYTHING. Get over it man.

As I said earlier, most of my time in the tunnel was spent running a casino, and the trading I did do wasn’t rampant price gouging.

What I did do was give away over one hundred thousand plat throughout various forum story contests, newbie trivia’s, hand outs and other events. I did countless free trustworthy transfers for people and almost never had a negative interaction with anyone. If you go through my contests, giveaways and business threads in my thread history you will see literally nothing but me helping people and/or providing people good service through their reviews.

You might want do a little research (get it?) before speaking on a subject in the future.

[Aaramis]

Sounds about right. Mages past 20 unplayable. That was your goal, right, Skorge?

GG.