Mage - Need a bit of clarity (no, not mind candy!))

[Baler]

Rough draft guide to chain summoing. (Powerlevel yourself as a mage)

1. Get this: http://wiki.project1999.com/Magician...#Torch_of_Alna
2. Get the highest level fire pet spell you can for your level.
3. Make a macro line1: "/pause 1, /pet back" line2: "/pet follow" (without the "")
4. Summon your fire pet and make sure it damage shields it self before you begin combat.
5. When your fire pet begin to get towards low life ~30% or less (you judge what low life is!) Begin casting summon fire pet. Target the monster you're fighting.
6. Just before you finish summoning your fire pet. Click go away on your current pet. Then click attack for your new fire pet.
7. Once the new fire pet has agro, tap the hotkey in step 3 until your fire pet thinks it is idle and damage shields it self.
8. rinse and repeat till level 51

[Wiley]

Having only leveled mage to the early 30s I really dislike the above leveling strat. Pet spells mana cost keeps escalating til Lv24 where it's a kinda absurd 240 mana. Lv29 and on its normalized at 200 up to and including the lv49 pets.

If not a twink with a ton of INT/mana gear then you probably can't sustain reclaiming or chain summoning.

I much prefer weaponizing a focused water or earth pet and just using burnout/ds and heals. Sure you take a 50% penalty but if mages are good at anything it's efficiently killing low blue con mobs.