Calling all Magicians and Necros!!

[bradsamma]

We did this back on live. The push is insane but you can essentially take out any target where the AE isn't too bad or the target CH's.

[Jimjam]

Is it worth staggering the pets into waves, so the second wave have taken one less round of AoE, meaning you won't have so many pets all dieing at the same time?

[stebbins99]

Seems like a good premise at least Jimjam! Somebody please film this whenever it goes down!

[Ligma]

Dain is a good target for mage raids. The banish doesn't effect pets and he might not even one round pets often. I used to do mage raids on live during PoP and enraging pets that can stunlock mobs to lvl 6000 was insane. Rampage/AEs/adds really get in the way of what can be done though.

Velk/statue/AoW could probably be done. It just takes a really long time. Riposte damage ends up really sucking but with enough mages you can easily keep mobs occupied indefinitely.

[Legidias]

Doesnt banish work through pets to the caster (like DT)?

[Ligma]

No, it either does nothing or sends pet to where it was summoned. Depending on what type of spell it is. I think phase spiders gates pets to spawn spot.

I killed dain with 4 mages in classic PoP and also three boxed trakanon on p2002 with mage/druid/ranger

[Troxx]

In later expansions when necros got the targeted summon short duration extra bonus pet spell line ... theirs summoned 4 small pets vs the mage line which summoned 1 much stronger pet. Necros could chain cast the 2-3 highest in the the spell line for 4 mini skeletons per cast.

As a thought experiment I ended up soloing without mercenary every single high end group named (7-15 million hp) that didn’t have an aoe by just standing there chain casting them down the line having 7-12 little pets up at any point. With a good round each skel could only take a single swipe before dying. With a lucky round a skeleton could live 2-3 rounds. Named always took a dirt nap. No other class other than BL (playing cleric for their pet and slowing) could truly solo these mobs even max raid geared without a mercenary helping. It was possible with BL but touch and go and difficult. A necro could do it easily by exploiting the fact that they could swarm the boss with a horde of tiny pets and the mob could only kill them one at a time.

A pet raid here would work similarly. With enough pet classes and a mob that doesn’t cast nasty aoes it’s totally doable. When a pet dies 20-30 others are ready to take over while the dead pet owner just makes another. Simple Zerg mechanics only dead things don’t need rezzes.

[Pootle]

If our shitty SK pet is welcome, I would join... mainly to be a small part of such a fun event!

[Legidias]

DN spider is different. DN spider proc on hit (and scareling in PoF) are similar to bard Highsun, where they gate mobs, but just shadowstep PC's.

Vox/Naggy have full banishes as do Trak and Dain where they teleport you to a certain spot upon aggro.

[ScottBerta]

60 Mage (bro) / 60 Shm (me) possibly interested