Do pets currently take 50% of your exp?

[Dolalin]

Here's one from early April, a few weeks after launch:

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On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:04:11 -0800, Mak <ma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I was once a lvl 6 wizard and was very capable of holding my own, with Root.
>Magicains get it at a higher level I belive, but it can be almost effective as a
>pet without
>the exp loss...
I play a lvl 7 wiz. I think the root and nuke strategy is fine with
blues and may be whites but not yellows.

Yellows resist root a lot .. and white do a fairly amount of time.

If you solo and use root, and if it fails, you almost for certain die.
So it is a high rish strategy and i will only use it against blue. For
whites and above I probably would call ona a friend.

And I think root and nuke is not that efficient until level 8 or so.

If i say root and nuke a gnoll (in Qeynos Hills, which con as blue), I
almost have to dump most of my mana to kill him. Not to mention, I am
only doing ~14 pts per shock of fire. He will break free before I kill
him. It is more efficient to bash him with my worn great staff and
slip some shock of fire in once and a while.

I know melee won't work in higher levels, but melee is good at level 7
since it cut down on mana use and reduce down time (meditation).

Also, with a pet, if you see the tide is turning against you, you can
always gate out. So I would say Magician get to solo more, but he got to share exp with his pet.

I still like my wiz better though. I heard root and nuke is really
effective at higher level since you can kill in fewer shots.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....I/wM621-7ugEgJ

[Dolalin]

Oh yes, these people were much like your average forum dweller here.

But all we're looking for right now is whether pets ate xp when soloing. So far, people believed they did. It was a very uncontroversial opinion by the looks of it, I never see it challenged anywhere it's mentioned. All that's controversial is whether they stole xp in groups, and how much.

Sometimes what isn't talked about is just as important as what is talked about.

[Obrae]

Hahah those old post have some nice naive tidbits [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"How do they work in groups? Well, the Wizard, as you say, has the > >
biggest
>and baddest offense spells in Norrath, and in later levels can hit for way over
>100 damage points many times in a battle. "

more than 100damage multiple time guys ! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

those were the days of discovery and awe!

[Tkon]

Why are people saying just mages? Necromancers have to research all pet spells past 20 as well?

[Jibartik]

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

Why are people saying just mages? Necromancers have to research all pet spells past 20 as well?

Mages get no pets past level 20 is my understanding.

[Tkon]

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

Mages get no pets past level 20 is my understanding.

Incorrect, they have to research them, this is from two mages one 28 the other 30.

[akagami]

And you have to research the previous spell level to use it in the next combine

[Tkon]

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

And you have to research the previous spell level to use it in the next combine

That, is correct.

[Jibartik]

Turns out it's classic no pets for mages after level 20

[Bazia]

i mean it was a funny troll to piss off mages but yeah now its getting kinda sad give them some pets brogean