Mage Epic Pet

[Charlievox]

Well dat sux!

[dafier]

Unfortunately we will never see this, but the mechanic changed from cold base to magic base. I think that was in PoP time frame though.

They did this because cold was considered OP for some reason.

[Daldaen]

Cold was OP for a certain few things.

Like the Wavecrasher slow proc. It was originally a Cold resist proc, meaning that the classic mechanic preventing mobs from being slow able (making them magic immune) didn't prevent people from slowing with a cold proc item. So people were slowing something like... Vyemm when they shouldn't have been able to.

So they moved it to magic resist check.

The Epic pet proc however is still cold resist check per Lucy data today and I didn't find anywhere in the history it mentioning magic resist. The stun proc is always magic and the nuke proc is always cold.

[dafier]

Dal, I found the change once. I believe it was a while back when I was doing the MS3 research.

I think it was Lucy where I saw that info too, which makes it pretty legit. I can't get to Lucy here at work, but if you click...I think the left pane and go through ALL that history of changes, there is a note about changing the 'check from cold to magic', and I believe it went back and forth 2 or 3 times in different history tabs.

[dafier]

Anyway, it's not important for Velious time frame and I'd rather the epic pet has a cold proc because almost ALL mobs in the world are not resistant to cold. More have resistance to fire and magic than cold.

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