PVP Guides

[Kergan]

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

That wasn't a bug though. It is just an inconvenient feature of the game.

You musta been playing way way late live to see that change, I have never even heard of it.


But yeah Kergan is right on. Mage is tuff for PVP because it is so easy to root the pet and then you have no CC spells and...zone hopping. It is a good class but overall not a top pick unless you are bum rushing to level 50 at the start of a server with a team of mages just destroying PVE.

A totally non classic thing that P99 did for some aweful reason to make mage a truly painful class is the pet EXP nerf, where the pet robs 50% of exp if it does more than 50% of damage to mob. This goes away in any group. So you can't chain cast pets anymore for exp which makes mages even worse.

Still a great class though... but far from my personal top choice.

It happened in Luclin with the introduction of beastlord pets zoning. Wasn't really the same thing as you still had to buff their level back up. I think by PoP it went in fully, maybe the xpac after that (GoD?). Not sure, I quit after PoP.

I doubt it was ever a desired outcome to have pets poof upon zoning, more of a coding/development time restriction. Doubt we'll ever know unless some dev commented on it at some point. Fact is they eventually changed it because they thought it was lame as did most players I imagine. The pet classes are tuned around a pet so it isn't a balance issue. If pets zoned here it would make mages a lot more viable (all pet classes really).

[Gustoo]

Nice guide easy lee.

[HippoNipple]

You will be a good addition no matter what class you are.

As far as social norms you can pretty much do whatever you want. If you want to have an easy road leveling up just be friendly to people. It seems like most people leveling up 1-50 don't really attack anyone unless they are an alt pvp char. Kind of sad but it is what it is. Everyone just groups and levels up in dungeon zones. Seems like there is more pvp if you come across people in other zones though.

Once you hit 50+ it is pretty much KoS to anyone not in your guild.

In group PvP as a mage you can be pretty valuable depending on the type of PvP. Send in pet from far away, use CoH on crucial members of group if they are being targeted and low on health, debuff. Any class can be useful if they are at least dispelling. You will find something useful to do.

[Gerf]

Thanks for the great discussion everybody. Learning a lot. Just to follow up on one specific thing, I've heard a couple people mention rain spells are good in pvp. Why is that exactly? I'm used to completely ignoring those spells for pve purposes.

[Tameth]

find someone trustworthy. have a pal make a toon. you can drop xfer items to yourself if you find good spots as well

[Sirken]

if some of you smarter PvPers did get together and put together a red99 guide for new players, i think it would really help keep some of the people that try red as well as maybe getting more people to try the server that normally wouldnt have

specifically the differences between blue and red. resist gear, the potions, the clickies, the buddy system, basketball, etc

[HippoNipple]

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

if some of you smarter PvPers did get together and put together a red99 guide for new players, i think it would really help keep some of the people that try red as well as maybe getting more people to try the server that normally wouldnt have

specifically the differences between blue and red. resist gear, the potions, the clickies, the buddy system, basketball, etc

Lite made a good Youtube video a long time ago that went over basics like pumice, potions, inventory management, buff order, cheap clickies, etc.