Mage solo strategy question

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First, you need to understand that chaining pets only becomes efficient as you gain levels because the amount of mana it costs to conjure a pet is static. It's 200 mana starting at level 20 and remains 200 mana up to the level 49 pet. This means that the mana / damage ratio for your pets becomes much more efficient compared to your other spells the higher level you become.

Second, you need to understand that the NPCs you are killing become much stronger compared to your pet as you level up. Meaning that the actual melee damage and spell damage (not dmg shield) becomes less and less effective as you level up, and the damage shield component becomes more effective as you level up.

Understanding these concepts we can come to the conclusion that for the early levels 1-24 approximately, using a water pet is much stronger than using a fire pet.

After levels 24 or 29 the fire pet becomes a much strong because the damage shield component becomes much more effective compared to the melee and spell damage components.

TL;DR
Use water pet from levels 1-24 and then use fire pets from 29-49. This is the most effective way to level.