Question for 60 mages
 

Wondering what people who still play lvl 60 mages do with their toons besides raiding? Trying to figure out if leveling my 56 mage to 60 is worth the trouble....I generally like to solo things but am also up for small group adventures.

Is there lots to do as a 60 mage solo? Or is it pretty much out of the question trying to hit valuable targets?

What about loot camps or plat camps or group adventures? Are they still overshadowed by other dps classes for a spot in such groups? Thanks

Unfortunately, there is very little a 60 mage can farm outside of something like Droga for maybe 700-1000/hour or Coldain heads in Great Divide or things along those lines. Before the root net nerf and the chain summon nerf and the aggro transfer nerf things were different, but as it is now there's not much a Mage can do other than send pet, spam Scars and hope for the best. No CC, no trickery, no preparation or strategy. I wish I had more opportunity to play my epic mage but they just can't do much.

Things change in a duo, especially with a Cleric (especially if you have epic) but yeah, solo a mage is not even in the same stratosphere as a Enc, Nec, Sham, whatever.

Mage is a melee class like war but played from 3rd person perspective.

That is an incredibly good and accurate way to put it Jimjam. Instead of 'press q and watch' its 'send pet and watch [maybe spam Scars of Sigil])

When I play a magician, I like to pretend I'm a roving news reporter with a huge 80s style videocamera on my shoulder, trying to capture footage of a super hero (the elemental) smacking down the villain of the week (mob).

Kinda like April O'Neil in those 1987 TMNT cartoons. But less sassy.

Now playing my mage will be a lot more fun :D

1) Raiding/helping guildies with fights

2) Farming Droga or Mistmoore (gargoyle eyes) for platinum

3) See what I am able to kill to help gear my other toons progress. Last I did was targets in Kedge Keep: I did the Seahorse Patriarch and Matriarch.

Next on my list are:

Soloing Ice Burrowers
Clearing Lower Guk

4) Farming Skyshrine for rare loots.

5) Faction Quest (friend with all of Cabilis, might try Neriak, Oggok or Grobb next).

6) Go to Kaesora and Paw to get some Deadwood Staves and Gnoll Hide Lariats to give my pet for harder fights.

It's not as exciting as soloing high end dungeon targets, but I like the chill playstyle.

Only one thing left to do with a 60 mage, cry about how hard it is to get an earth staff.

If you have friends,mage is a great toon to park for tola and prot. Nice little spot to abandon your toon and play it with a few friends now and then

My mage is purely to raid on, quadding is fun. If ya don't enjoy quadding then they are boring with rods and coths. My alts are better farmers. Almost all of them are better farmers.