The sad truth is that Mage soloing is much closer to Warrior soloing than it is Necro/Ench soloing. Straight up tank and spank one mob at a time, with no CC and little room for error when pulling. Obviously, this playstyle does not lend itself well to solo dungeon crawling, and I would recommend very modest expectations in that regard.

The last spell you cast on a mage is either gate (because you're done trying to make a crappy class work) or COTH.

At least the opportunity cost for jumping the zoneline is cheap for war.

Mage has to recreate pet! :’(

Unfortunately, mages were hit hard by the root net recharge nerf, essentially as collateral damage as this nerf had nothing to do with mages being overpowered. This pretty much ended what solo viability they had. Back when (1) root nets could be cheaply recharged, and (2) solo pet aggro did not transfer to the caster, mages used to actually be quite viable solo in dungeons. After the pet aggro transfer change but before the root net nerf, they were still serviceable. Now the only real way for mages to solo is by aggro kiting singles outdoors, not dungeon crawling.

Hmm I soloed to 60 with ease and not a single root net click. Crystalline silks still work fine since casters have skill in Channeling. They are just more parachutes than constant use items.

Y’all thinking too far into this. Mage can destroy mobs solo. So if you need some help splitting just log in your pocket cleric/enc to do the lulls. If ya don’t have one then get one leveled up first and bonus if you get a buddy to log in your cleric in which case mage/cleric will torch mobs. Regardless the torch focused pre 50 fire pets can you to 55 with ease just blow up adds if needed occasionally. 55+ if you want to be more than a coth both then either make an alt to help with lulls even though you can hit 60 without needing one or just find some people to group with.

Damn crede became DSM with his pocket characters. Who would of thought.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...78&postcount=6

Crede has always agreed with me. He's had a pocket cleric since 2014. Sadly people on these forums prefer to go with the crowd instead of telling people the truth. There was no reason for him to randomly disagree with me on this point. Pocket characters are a common thing on P99. Its been that way for years.

Having an epiced pocket cleric (or any class for thay matter) is not in any way normal. It's a symptom of large guilds' ability to cycle through content and epic alts for the good of the collective.
Like socialism or communism really.
Make an alt to log into to make "soloing a mage/warrior/rog etc" easier. Is it still soloing? Nvm.

One of us make a lvl 54 cleric alt with epic. Most normals dont have a main epic let alone a rarely used situational alt having one. But this is a game so do it how yas want. Just dont call it normal.

Nobody said anything about needing a Cleric Epic to make a pocket Cleric.

You just need to get to level 49 for the 90% res, just meditate a little bit.

The reality is this box has been up for so long most people have alts at this point, and people are making guild bots all the time.

Sorry, but that is the truth. It isn't difficult to make a pocket cleric when you can make free accounts, and leveling from 1-49 is a breeze.