Mages were HORRIBLE at launch

[Dolalin]

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

Where is this from? I don't see it in this thread.

I might have jumped the gun a bit. It's from the summoned items section.

There are also several hidden spells out there, waiting for players to find. Once a certain number of these have been found, they will be available from magician vendors. I'm not saying where they are or what they are… but they are nice…

[Dolalin]

Another one about pets running away, post-fix. Fix seemed incomplete and they would not run away anymore, but would still refuse to attack.

5/20/99

2 notes based on a couple posts.
To Jeff K:

Magicians can't heal, but they can summon bandages and Bind Wound. Granted,
it's not all that great, but it's something (at least it isn't for me, but
my skill is only at about 15), it's cheap, uses no mana (assuming you've
summoned plenty of bandages when you first logged on), and is fairly fast.
The downside, of course, is that it will only heal up to 50% of your max
HPs, but it can certainly speed up the total healing time.

To Phred:

I also read where the pets no longer run away, and that's great news. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I
was disappointed to find that he wouldn't ATTACK anything he used to run
away from either. Well, to modify that statement a little....

I found a /con white wisp at lvl 9. I told my lvl 8 pet to attack it. He
ignored me (the bastard! <g> ).

BUT, (and I'm not sure here...it only happened once so far and I lose track
seeing all the battle commentary in the same color) I'm PRETTY sure my pet
didn't help me in another /con white fight until after the critter was
beating on me AND I told my pet to do its job (/pet attack).

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....w/tJHVkCYcyJMJ

[mattydef]

Sounds like OP is making a mage on green and wants less competition.

[skorge]

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

Sounds like OP is making a mage on green and wants less competition.

Lol nope. It's just that I played a mage as my very first character on launch day of Everquest up until level 24. He was no longer viable at this level as I could not research any pets. It wasn't even the fact that pets sucked back then (didn't have abilities) it was that I could no longer upgrade my pet, and as someone said above on 05/99 pets simply didn't just exist at that point at higher levels and nobody knew when they were going to be added. I quit my mage probably in June of 99 and rerolled to a druid, then shaman.

Playing the mage on launch up until June was super frustrating. They were gimped hard, like rogues. Necros just completely blew them out of the water in power, until Brad made mages viable again.

What's funny is I read the thread about someone talking about research not working for mage and he spent a lot of time on it and knew more than the in-game guides/gms...that's actually legit. I did the same and I could even be the other person he is talking about when he mentions the gm/guide talked to someone else, lol. I spent DAYS trying to find my 24th+ pet. My friend, highest level mage on server, in Fires of Heaven, was level 28 using the level 20 pet in Cazic Thule. No joke...that's how bad it was. Keep in mind, during this time, EVERYONE grouped...so literally no mages on the server were soloing back then...it was just too hard. Even at lower levels trying to solo with a mage = death.

After spending all that time and no answer in sight I made a druid, lol...then made my main a shaman after getting the druid up to the 20s. If mages were what they became I would have stuck to the mage to level 50.

[Dolalin]

Another one that at least some magician research was buggy and or broken. But no details on what.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....s/DLzsA2Zg9z8J

[Dolalin]

Ah I got a good one. Originally mage pets were research only it seems?

6/10/99

David Schrank <david....@webline.com> sez:
>the problems are four fold.
>Our pets at higher levels become research spells, though they seem to have added at
>least one pet per circle now

Yep. That's a complaint that no longer has any validity. At
least ONE pet (sometimes two or three) is available for purchase from
vendors at each circle.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....s/2XI-lRaLJqQJ

[Palemoon]

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

Ah I got a good one. Originally mage pets were research only it seems?



https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....s/2XI-lRaLJqQJ

We need this to happen on green. Can you imagine the world crush it would be to those forming mage power groups?

[Niedar]

Seeing lots of conspiracy theories and rumors from nerds on message boards in 1999 but little facts.

[Gustoo]

Nice good OG stories.

[skorge]

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

Nice good OG stories.

Yep, lol...i remember those first couple months like it was yesterday...they were so epic. I even remember most of my good's friends name, including a halfling druid named Ceffin on Veeshan whom they did a big funeral service for in lavastorm (he died IRL and the gms held a funeral service for him and sent his body off into lava...literally brought a tear to my eye when i saw his name written down on a sheet of paper i had on my desk, a few months later - i would write names down to keep up with them better).