Mage pets

[tbox]

Still looking for some more mages to add to our ranks come live.

[Crenshinabon]

Red69 had the most overpowered pets in any Emu I have played.
Also almost all the recent vztz remake boxes had overpowered pets.

This will be substantially less. They never hit for a ton on Live, I just remember them being annoying as hell.

[Jadian]

Again, not trying to compare them to other boxes. Trying to compare them to p99, which was trying to compare them to live.

[pasi]

Pets being significantly weaker than live is a good thing for game play. It's one of those things where they want to deviate from classic so as to not take a shit on the server.

[Rust1d?]

Mage pets should be stronger because mages cannot root, have no stuns and their best nuke takes something like 7 seconds to cast. I found that when mage pets were weak, I would just simply stop playing them. Once people get fully geared, they can melee or nuke a pet down pretty fast. Until you get an epic pet, high level mages are gonna get shit on unless they are hiding in the back of a group.

[Bazooka]

Originally Posted by Rust1d? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mage pets should be stronger because mages cannot root, have no stuns and their best nuke takes something like 7 seconds to cast. I found that when mage pets were weak, I would just simply stop playing them. Once people get fully geared, they can melee or nuke a pet down pretty fast. Until you get an epic pet, high level mages are gonna get shit on unless they are hiding in the back of a group.

Yup, but they can level solo and camp most items in the game themselves, it's all about trade-offs.

Don't feel sorry for them.

[tbox]

Just FYI on pet xp Just got this from the developer today via pm.


kanras
Developer

Re: Pet xp change question concerning 2 or more pets
Pets take a flat 1% exp each in groups regardless of damage output. The 50% or more damage check is just for soloing.

If you think I am trolling/bsing I can forward the pm to anyone who is doubting me.

[tbox]

Originally Posted by Rust1d? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mage pets should be stronger because mages cannot root, have no stuns and their best nuke takes something like 7 seconds to cast. I found that when mage pets were weak, I would just simply stop playing them. Once people get fully geared, they can melee or nuke a pet down pretty fast. Until you get an epic pet, high level mages are gonna get shit on unless they are hiding in the back of a group.

Mages nuke for 80% of a wizards and they cast like 1 sec or so long then Ice Comet. Mages get a fire resist debuff spell wizards do not. Mage will not nuke as hard as a wizard or have shadow step. But their pet is like a dot that will not stop ticking until cced or killed. Also range on Lavabolt is pretty damn good.

Mage will likely out dps a wizard in a pvp fight the longer the fight goes on provided the pet is alive or resummoned. A wizard is useless oom a mage is not.

[Bazooka]

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

If you think I am trolling/bsing I can forward the pm to anyone who is doubting me.

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

PM me broski.

Got PM, guess it's legit. MAG PL group ftw!

[Jadian]

I'm probably still going to roll one because I don't want to be in the shaman swarm.

But it would be nice to know if we're going with how p99 pets were at launch or how they are now.

And am I hearing correctly that now I have to do >50% damage PER MOB to get full exp?