Mages are up shit’s creek I guess

[Obrae]

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

Serious question. I'm not complaining. After looking into the mage research it looks like in order to get the lvl 44 mage pet you would have to have the level 39 pet, which requires the lvl 34 pet, which requires the lvl 29 pet etc.... If all of them are research after 20 that means you'd have to make the level 24 pet 9 times, the 29 pet 8 times the 34 pet 7 times etc.... In order to get your pet at every spell level.

Do I have this correct? That is a metric f*** ton of research if so.... Extremely disproportionate if true.

exact and possible the pet chain breaks at 34, and 39 may be non available cause no recipe exist for the 39 pets available at 34

[Kalanmyr]

So I've been beaten down before for being anti-classic in favor of "classic+". I understand the objective of green. But what in the hell were the EQ devs thinking when they developed the mage spell path? I guess they were the last class to be developed, they ran out of funding and there was clearly some incompleteness at launch haha. I couldn't explain it any other way...

Glad I have 3 alts already that can overtake my level 18 mage before I'm in too deep lol...

[Bordar]

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

So I've been beaten down before for being anti-classic in favor of "classic+". I understand the objective of green. But what in the hell were the EQ devs thinking when they developed the mage spell path? I guess they were the last class to be developed, they ran out of funding and there was clearly some incompleteness at launch haha. I couldn't explain it any other way...

Glad I have 3 alts already that can overtake my level 18 mage before I'm in too deep lol...

This might be bearable if the words and components dropped at the rates of other words.

[Obrae]

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

So I've been beaten down before for being anti-classic in favor of "classic+". I understand the objective of green. But what in the hell were the EQ devs thinking when they developed the mage spell path? I guess they were the last class to be developed, they ran out of funding and there was clearly some incompleteness at launch haha. I couldn't explain it any other way...

Glad I have 3 alts already that can overtake my level 18 mage before I'm in too deep lol...

Verant devs did confirmed the class was unfinished and their research.

[Kalanmyr]

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

Verant devs did confirmed the class was unfinished and their research.

Really makes me question the need to put an unfinished class into green for the sake of "classic". At the very least I wish there was a comprehensive location on the p1999 site that you could easily digest important class-breaking things like this. If it exists please point me in that direction. Sucks you have to find out about things like this by either being extremely active and in-the-know as a contributor, or you have to wait until you read the forum and see people b***ing.

If you put an unfinished class in the game for sake of "classic", you should put all the bugs and coding errors in too! /s

*sigh* +1 for Classic+

[Jimjam]

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

So I've been beaten down before for being anti-classic in favor of "classic+". I understand the objective of green. But what in the hell were the EQ devs thinking when they developed the mage spell path? I guess they were the last class to be developed, they ran out of funding and there was clearly some incompleteness at launch haha. I couldn't explain it any other way...

Glad I have 3 alts already that can overtake my level 18 mage before I'm in too deep lol...

The 'upgrade the old spell' is cool conceptually, and it wouldn't be so bad if the required components were more easily accessible. At 20ish just make a bunch of 20 pets and bank the scrolls, 24 upgrade those, etc as you go. Spell scrolls being stackable would help to.

At least the farming for rare component is good training for epic later.

[Ligma]

Every expansion was unfinished. It's part of the timeline

[hillgiantchamp]

I'm pretty upset aswell. I leveled a mage to 40 on beta and had the normal pet's I could obtain from vendors. They should have at least let us know that this was going to be the case on green before so many people rolled mage and waisted their time. There where plenty of forum posts on the topic they could have at least replied to one of them.

[Kalanmyr]

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

I'm pretty upset aswell. I leveled a mage to 40 on beta and had the normal pet's I could obtain from vendors. They should have at least let us know that this was going to be the case on green before so many people rolled mage and waisted their time. There where plenty of forum posts on the topic they could have at least replied to one of them.

Yeah I agree. I'm not on the forums much, but when I was... most questions were met with radio silence prior to launch. There was a extremely tiny compilation on the wiki for quotes from devs on like 5 launch subjects. Nothing comprehensive like the Blue patch notes. If they wanna go this route that's fine, but communication would have been appreciated.

A week in I feel like I wasted a bunch of time.

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

The 'upgrade the old spell' is cool conceptually, and it wouldn't be so bad if the required components were more easily accessible. At 20ish just make a bunch of 20 pets and bank the scrolls, 24 upgrade those, etc as you go. Spell scrolls being stackable would help to.

At least the farming for rare component is good training for epic later.

I'm not saying it's not. I'm more worried about what was said earlier that the level 30 something pet spell doesn't even exist and the pet chain breaks at this point until it is patched later.

[deezy]

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

A week in I feel like I wasted a bunch of time.

lol