The current state of Mages on project 99?

[Tuljin]

EQ should only have ogre warriors, high elf clerics, high elf enchanters, and iksar monks

[odiecat99]

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

EQ should only have ogre warriors, high elf clerics, high elf enchanters, and iksar monks

your post makes me want to vomit.

[Velerin]

In a group mages still rock for sustained and burst dps. Solo mages are in a rough spot here. For full exp like everyone said you have to reclaim pet and nuke which is usually fine outdoors but not ideal indoors (I still do it indoors with more risk). I love doing duos or trios with pet tanking but here it only works if someone just keeps the mob rooted all the time because when anyone else even sneezes at the mob they'll pull aggro. You can still solo well with chain petting but the crappy aggro makes the class even more 1-dimensional. I pull seafuries with a 5 damage level 1 nuke and the 49 fire pet often takes 2 combat rounds to grab aggro (and thats with standing, not sitting). If they'd fix the pet casting frequency that might help some. Enchanters are really the best 'pet class' here.

[JeremyDS]

Well that is kind of sad, I really liked mages on live many years ago. Is pet agro on the radar for being fixed or is that how its going to stay? Any kind of official response on it?
I can handle the way xp works, but with agro broken too it might make it frustating to level. I really like mages, and especially old model pets, so I may just stick it out and see what I can do. I would love to be able to use my weapon summoning spells and whatnot at higher levels and have my pet use them, but it seems like that will be a rarity here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How does one correspond with the people who make the decisions here, is there a forum to try to bring attention to this or seek a response?

[Estu]

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

Well that is kind of sad, I really liked mages on live many years ago. Is pet agro on the radar for being fixed or is that how its going to stay? Any kind of official response on it?
I can handle the way xp works, but with agro broken too it might make it frustating to level. I really like mages, and especially old model pets, so I may just stick it out and see what I can do. I would love to be able to use my weapon summoning spells and whatnot at higher levels and have my pet use them, but it seems like that will be a rarity here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How does one correspond with the people who make the decisions here, is there a forum to try to bring attention to this or seek a response?

There is a bug forum. The way to use it is to find evidence of pet aggro having worked differently back in classic-era EverQuest, then submit a bug report.

[Tuljin]

haha coming from the man with an iksar monk and troll warrior? :P

thats my blanket snark comment for every time someone says "don't roll a pal/ran cause the dps is awful" or "man mage really sux" or "dude wiz is only good for porting"

having spent a good bit of the past couple months in nubland, i've been in a (small) handful of groups with someone who can snare or someone that can toss a nuke on a running mob to stop it. or GOD FORBID someone (cleric ahem) that tosses a root or stun out once in a while!!

roll an ogre warrior, pull 5 mobs at a time, have the high elf enchanter aoe mez them when the ogre is at 30% or less hp after the hideous pull he just did (and btw this enchanter refuses to keep a pet because its "too much work"), have the high elf cleric do ~absolutely~ nothing else besides heal

thats eq, right?

[Fregar]

I don't remember well because it's old, but now reading this I believe at some point some raids used multiple pets to eat a part (or all?) of AoW's dps.