I believe the devs have opted to fix this sooner...

Which is the only sane thing to do. Replicating broken features is absolutely absurd. The devs were given accurate info that these spells were not vendor sold @ launch. The devs were also unaware that this would break the magician class, as no pets are attainable after 34.

Expect this to be fixed in the next patch. This will also fix stuff like Sol A quest items dropping.

If they don't fix this soon, I will actually be pretty dissapointed in the devs... and I don't even play a mage. Just kinda puts a damper on the whole thing knowing mages basically are screwed past 34.

Or maybe because there wasn't many or any at all lvl 34+ mages at this point in classic. So it wasn't a big deal. And it was also a way of slowing mages down for mass pet spam raiding. I think it was calculated AF and a good idea.

problem being, if you arn't one of the beards who rolled a mage , and now are seeing these threads, they are just going to quit, not realizing they are going to be fine.

on the flip side you have the beards who are lvl 34 who can no longer solo to 50 as they planned.

in the end, both players quit the server and -2 pop from both directions. tbh I don't care, they want to follow the classic timeline to the letter thats cool, but there was a reason why it was patched later. cause it was broken, as was every other patch..... If you are going to be a "classic" server i highly suggest selectively classic approach nixing the obvious fuckups by the original devs. and still sticking to the timeline.


p.s. just the fact that people didn't even know that they couldn't get pets past lvl 34 until a patch has made a ton of people quit. It doesn't matter about classic and its all about player retainment. Also all mage related threads like these should absolutely be deleted so the playerbase at large is unaware and you just hotfix it like it never happened. But again if u want to be classic, thats classic.

You make great points, and for sure back in 99 it took time to figure this out. It needed test and if i am not mistaken, bad combine just ate de components without message. As soon as it got discovered they patched it like the next day.

People need to stop saying classic to everything. This as nothing to do with the classic timeline experience which is a couple of year timeline.

Anyway lets hope for an update soon

idk if "delete threads and keep the player base in the dark" is a better or worse strat, Phaezed, lol

trust me, ignorance is bliss. specially from what i have seen in my journeys across antonica from Odus

The way EQ players feel about 'what is classic vs. what should be fixed' is like how Catholics feel about what it means to be a Christian.

They're more like rabbis combing through the Talmud to find loopholes.

Pretty sure nilberg has a quote laying around about how he'd keep working on classic even if there were no players.