Tips From Mage Players?

[Kraftwerk]

Earth pet does have:

Level 49 - Greater Conjuration: Earth
Type Pet Level Damage HP Root Damage Regeneration
Unfocused 41 56 3075 0 30 HP/tic
Minion of Earth 41 56 3075 0 30 HP/tic
Servant of Earth 42 58 3425 0 30 HP/tic


But Fire Pet, oh you're so lovely and only 1k less than Earth with:

Level 49 - Greater Conjuration: Fire
Type Pet Level Damage HP Spell Damage Damage Shield Damage Regeneration
Unfocused 41 56 1650 42 43 30 HP/tic
Minion of Fire 41 56 2100 42 43 30 HP/tic
Servant of Fire 42 58 2000 43 44 30 HP/tic

And I love the DS. But yea Earth has its uses.

[Kraftwerk]

Also by the way to any of the younger Mage players inquiring within this thread (And who might not have checked out the EQ resource thread in library) check out this website, it's quite useful:

http://www.xalmat.com/eqsummoners.com-old/eq1index.html

[guineapig]

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

15k hp earth pets are fun to heal for 180hp a pop :P

I want a 15,000 hitpoint earth pet!

[krforrester]

I know the purpose of the server is to keep it as classic as possible, but I would still really like to see pets persist through zoning and logging. I know it was added at some point in EQ live but I don't recall when.

Hey, I can dream can't I?

[Overcast]

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

I know the purpose of the server is to keep it as classic as possible, but I would still really like to see pets persist through zoning and logging. I know it was added at some point in EQ live but I don't recall when.

Hey, I can dream can't I?

It was added not long after Beastlords were in the game. I recall there were some issues with the overall design of the pet and it going 'poof' on zoning.

[Elissa]

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

I think a focused water pet is the best for soloing. I spend far less mana keeping it healed, than I would healing or chain summoning fire pets. Earth pets are pretty situational, and get hit too much. After the patch that changed pet DPS, I feel that around level 20, fire pet becomes less useful for a soloing mage. The incoming damage at, or around that level becomes too dangerous for the additional DS to really make that much of a difference. ~Level 29

Reclaim Energy is going to be too costly for me at end-game too, since I am going to rely on air pets, with two gnoll-hide lariats. But I'm probably playing "wrong."

The water pet is something I've never tried but it looks pretty beefy. The fire DS is really nice, but I wonder if (especially since as of yet I've only been able to procure the water focus) a focused water + my casted DS on it is going to be the best bet until I can score the Torch...

On a completely unrelated note, if I wanted to solo some evil eyes for some cool bracelets to replace my cloth ones, would the Air pet be the way to go? Or am I just dreaming about soloing evil eyes at level 29? I remember them being quite nasty.

[Qaedain]

I farmed evil eyes at level 30 for 2-3 hours using my Fire Pet. It worked fine.

[Kraftwerk]

Elissa what is your character name ingame?

[Elissa]

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

I farmed evil eyes at level 30 for 2-3 hours using my Fire Pet. It worked fine.

Oh so then it should be no problem once I am at that point. I was really worried I'd become the pet after they dispatched mine...

[guineapig]

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

I know the purpose of the server is to keep it as classic as possible, but I would still really like to see pets persist through zoning and logging. I know it was added at some point in EQ live but I don't recall when.

Hey, I can dream can't I?

Certainly you can!

Don't hold your breath though. Since it was not a feature through Velious, it will not see the light of day here.