How valued are mages on raids?

[WaffleztheAndal]

Does their dps compare to rogues, monks and wizards?

I know they just summon mod rods and summon people in Kunark?

[Ligma]

They're great dps for trash clearing but bosses tend to have high resists and mages don't get any lures. Pet is still good dps. Mod rods are always useful.

[Balimon]

Wizard's don't get lures in classic. Mages do fine in raids, you always need them for CoTH later as well.

[Fawqueue]

If the thought of littering the ground with mod rods sounds like your cup of tea, you may just enjoy raiding with a Mage.

Mages suffer from the lack of lures (as mobs begin to have difficult resists), and pets can be a liability if not properly managed. Expect the majority of your raid contribution to consist of out-of-combat tricks like mod rods and CotH. Mages got kind of get a raw deal...all that early power gets balanced out with a lacking feeling in end-game.

[Spock2020]

Not sure if it's a thing on p1999 but on live I heard raid leader ask pet class to remove pet while going to location because pet would sometimes bring a train on the raid.

[Mirakk82]

Pet classes get shafted on raids. Until later when /pet hold was added in GoD or whatever, pets were often a liability.

So as a Mage you spam summon Mod Rod, and grab late people with COTH. As a Necro, you'd just sit there and cast subversion to give mana to the cleric 99.9% of the time, and in an emergency, FD and Convergance (Rez) the cleric. Super fun stuff.

[TheRusty]

It's a progression server, so Vox and nagafen will both be crushed by mage Squads.

So there's that.

[Deliverator]

I was literally in a guild that mage pet tanked plane of sky...

[Spock2020]

Last I heard people who made mage are mostly waiting for mage pet scroll getting sold by npc when they reach the 20s because they need a lot of research materials to make each of them and since there is 4 pets at level 24, at 29, at 34 and so forth it's too much work atm.

[bubur]

I'm surprised Vox/naggy hasn't been downed by a crew of mages yet tbh

[derpcake2]

I'm surprised Vox/naggy hasn't been downed by a crew of mages yet tbh

Yea, those 34 pets should make short worth of dragons.

[WaffleztheAndal]

Someone was saying the 49 earth, and then the 59 water pets keep pace with moderately geared rogues and monks for dps. Was this a tall tale?

[Nirgon]

I'm surprised Vox/naggy hasn't been downed by a crew of mages yet tbh

this isnt a daybreak server with broken stuff

[Daldaen]

this isnt a daybreak server with broken stuff

You do realize on daybreak servers pets can’t tank Nagafen and Vox right?

[bubur]

Unrelated, but.. Was there an occasion where on one of the dbg prog servers, a bunch of SKs went in and HT blasted all of the classic raid mobs?

I can't remember if I dreamed that

[Bazia]

Unrelated, but.. Was there an occasion where on one of the dbg prog servers, a bunch of SKs went in and HT blasted all of the classic raid mobs?

I can't remember if I dreamed that

this was all the prog servers and yes there was massive scripted SK HT squads

[oldhead]

COTH FTW