Mages are up shit’s creek I guess

[Obrae]

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

So I've been beaten down before for being anti-classic in favor of "classic+". I understand the objective of green. But what in the hell were the EQ devs thinking when they developed the mage spell path? I guess they were the last class to be developed, they ran out of funding and there was clearly some incompleteness at launch haha. I couldn't explain it any other way...

Glad I have 3 alts already that can overtake my level 18 mage before I'm in too deep lol...

Verant devs did confirmed the class was unfinished and their research.

[Kalanmyr]

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

Verant devs did confirmed the class was unfinished and their research.

Really makes me question the need to put an unfinished class into green for the sake of "classic". At the very least I wish there was a comprehensive location on the p1999 site that you could easily digest important class-breaking things like this. If it exists please point me in that direction. Sucks you have to find out about things like this by either being extremely active and in-the-know as a contributor, or you have to wait until you read the forum and see people b***ing.

If you put an unfinished class in the game for sake of "classic", you should put all the bugs and coding errors in too! /s

*sigh* +1 for Classic+

[Ligma]

Every expansion was unfinished. It's part of the timeline

[hillgiantchamp]

I'm pretty upset aswell. I leveled a mage to 40 on beta and had the normal pet's I could obtain from vendors. They should have at least let us know that this was going to be the case on green before so many people rolled mage and waisted their time. There where plenty of forum posts on the topic they could have at least replied to one of them.

[Jimjam]

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

So I've been beaten down before for being anti-classic in favor of "classic+". I understand the objective of green. But what in the hell were the EQ devs thinking when they developed the mage spell path? I guess they were the last class to be developed, they ran out of funding and there was clearly some incompleteness at launch haha. I couldn't explain it any other way...

Glad I have 3 alts already that can overtake my level 18 mage before I'm in too deep lol...

The 'upgrade the old spell' is cool conceptually, and it wouldn't be so bad if the required components were more easily accessible. At 20ish just make a bunch of 20 pets and bank the scrolls, 24 upgrade those, etc as you go. Spell scrolls being stackable would help to.

At least the farming for rare component is good training for epic later.

[Kalanmyr]

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

I'm pretty upset aswell. I leveled a mage to 40 on beta and had the normal pet's I could obtain from vendors. They should have at least let us know that this was going to be the case on green before so many people rolled mage and waisted their time. There where plenty of forum posts on the topic they could have at least replied to one of them.

Yeah I agree. I'm not on the forums much, but when I was... most questions were met with radio silence prior to launch. There was a extremely tiny compilation on the wiki for quotes from devs on like 5 launch subjects. Nothing comprehensive like the Blue patch notes. If they wanna go this route that's fine, but communication would have been appreciated.

A week in I feel like I wasted a bunch of time.

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

The 'upgrade the old spell' is cool conceptually, and it wouldn't be so bad if the required components were more easily accessible. At 20ish just make a bunch of 20 pets and bank the scrolls, 24 upgrade those, etc as you go. Spell scrolls being stackable would help to.

At least the farming for rare component is good training for epic later.

I'm not saying it's not. I'm more worried about what was said earlier that the level 30 something pet spell doesn't even exist and the pet chain breaks at this point until it is patched later.

[deezy]

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

A week in I feel like I wasted a bunch of time.

lol

[Dolalin]

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

I'm more worried about what was said earlier that the level 30 something pet spell doesn't even exist and the pet chain breaks at this point until it is patched later.

If the 30 pet research recipe is broken, that's a legit bug you should file a report for.

[Obrae]

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

If the 30 pet research recipe is broken, that a legit bug you should file a report for.

We dont know yet but 34 and 39 always had just 2 pet to research each.

So if its like it here, 39 pet can never be done

[Obrae]

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

We dont know yet but 34 and 39 always had just 2 pet to research each.

So if its like it here, 39 pet can never be done

Just to keep this conversation going.

ATM earth pet got his root removed. But they still hit less hard than classic pets.
Another custom change to weaken mages.

Personnaliy id keep root off and prefer higher damge but you know... its a garantee they go for worst of both world.

What is your experience with other pets ? I use only earth myself, confirmed on 24 and 29 pet, no more root.