Rather eye opening really ...

[skarlorn]

i fart in your general direction!

[Sancta]

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

It really sucks playing a melee DPS, putting tons of time into your toon's gear, and then being pretty clearly out-DPSed by a basic summoned pet :/

You may or may not be putting the wrong gear on a melee

[Lowako]

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

It really sucks playing a melee DPS, putting tons of time into your toon's gear, and then being pretty clearly out-DPSed by a basic summoned pet :/

Casters scale hard with levels, melees scale hard with gear. A 50s rogue with epic and proper buffs can easily hit over/around 100 dps (double the pet) and a 50s monk with epic and SoS or tstaff or double fists can easily sustain 60ish dps (still more than a pet). I think pre-epic (levels 50-54 is when i started looking at parses in KC+seb) rogues can easily do 60ish dps with buffs. You just need to put time into the right gear on a melee.

If anything I'd complain about the strength of charm pets. They typically do about as well as rogues, but even then its not worth complaining because charmed pets have a chance to completely fucking delete the caster whenever it feels like. A properly geared up and buffed charmed pet can do upwards of like 200 dps vs undead mobs though, so I suppose that is a bit strong given the utility the caster can provide as well.

[Secrets]

I mean I don't see why this is an issue. It's classic, and none of it is going to change.

Could always roll a better class if you want to min/max. Else just enjoy the ride.

[Doctor Jeff]

Secrets did you read a single post in this thread?

[Muggens]

"Dammit, why won't it read?!"

Necro powerful yes but slimy necrophiliac too

[Troxx]

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

47dps sounds awfully high...how did you come to that conclusion?

By parsing

[Darguth]

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

You may or may not be putting the wrong gear on a melee

Not exactly the point. Getting solid melee gear to scale up is not trivial. Getting a new summon spell is fairly trivial.

[Darguth]

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

If anything I'd complain about the strength of charm pets. They typically do about as well as rogues, but even then its not worth complaining because charmed pets have a chance to completely fucking delete the caster whenever it feels like. A properly geared up and buffed charmed pet can do upwards of like 200 dps vs undead mobs though, so I suppose that is a bit strong given the utility the caster can provide as well.

Yeah, charms are a fairly separate issue but definitely an egregious one. One of the things I hope Pantheon will address significantly better than EQ did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[kotton05]

I was in a 4 man epic mage seb group. Killed everything in the entire zone.