Mages are up shit’s creek I guess

[Dolalin]

You didn't bet on my classicquest skills, Baler.

[Baler]

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

You didn't bet on my classicquest skills, Baler.

I'll concede to you Dolalin, your loot. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fugazi]

iirc wizards struggle to quad without research and need to either kill vox or research for their top spell.

Struggle? You simply can't quad without your research quad spells.

[Ligma]

Well, they will be really good in a couple of weeks when there's a critical mass of components. Right now, if you choose mage to race to 50 you're gonna hit a wall.

[Baler]

I duoed on and off with a wizard, from when they were level 3 to level 16.
Wizard is much more useful in classic than velious. They get Root at level 4!!!
And their DD spells do well against the low hp classic mobs.
During classic they're welcome in my group.

doh this is a mage thread, ummm pets! er earth pet gets root, later..

[Ligma]

To be fair, the mage in the lead has been completely carried. They didn't even get the stuff for 24 pet until 31.

[Hagglebaron]

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

To be fair, the mage in the lead has been completely carried. They didn't even get the stuff for 24 pet until 31.

I figured this was the case lol. Sucks that a few people seem to be deadset on ruining a class for everyone else.

Skilling up research, finding the right mats, and praying your combine doesn’t fail is a truly shity experience. Having to do it just to use the main tool of a class is nonsense.

[skorge]

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

I figured this was the case lol. Sucks that a few people seem to be deadset on killing a class for everyone else.

This was exactly how it was in real 1999. Our highest mage was in Fires of Heaven (on Veeshan server). He was level 28 using the level 20 pet at the time. He was always in a guild group. Me and him were top mages. I was 24.

This was when I decided to roll a druid, lol...I wasn't in a guild and my groups sucked at the time, lol.

PS: at the time I did not know when they would add that pet vendor or fix research...had i known the pet vendor would have been in soon I would have stuck with the mage...none the less the mage was super fun 1-24...i just didnt get the advantage the FOH guy got with good groups lol. Old school classic groups sucked butt...nobody knew how to taunt or pull good.

[Khorza]

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

Skilling up research, finding the right mats, and praying your combine doesn’t fail is a truly shity experience.

So what though, you could say the same thing about every experience in EQ. Waiting 2 hours to find a group and then dying on the first pull is a shitty experience too but that's classic EQ and there's a reason why we keep coming back to it.

[skorge]

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

I figured this was the case lol. Sucks that a few people seem to be deadset on ruining a class for everyone else.

Skilling up research, finding the right mats, and praying your combine doesn’t fail is a truly shity experience. Having to do it just to use the main tool of a class is nonsense.

You have to realize this was Brad's vision of the class at the time. He later enhanced the class. You can't deny this. You are playing the game now exactly how Brad envisioned it for this era.