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Old 10-17-2019, 04:38 PM
Waldo73 Waldo73 is offline
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Despite mage pets not having spells, they were still extremely powerful at launch. I was able to kill red Sand Scarabs at level 8, which isn't all that crazy considering yellow pet and DS at that level. The ability to solo high cons lasted until the mid 20s, with pet power falling off considerably with the 29 pets and losing access to all 4 being available at vendor starting at 24.

What was definitely true was the perception that Mage pets sucked at the time. I was asked several times during the first couple months of launch to desummon my pet in groups. A large part of this was the confusion around how pets took xp. Until this was clarified, many people did not want the pets around.

Not sure how it was on other servers, but on Cazic, once enough people went through Highpass Orcs (which was a DPS race with 15-25 people) on during early classic, and saw how powerful Mages were, the word started to get out.

By the time spells were added, it was clear how powerful Mages really were.

Tl;dr: a lot of Mage suckiness at launch was perception vs reality.. even though there were important buffs still to come.
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