Magician or Shaman

[loramin]

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

Ohh, I might not have been clear but I actually was looking forward to nuking the mobs while my pet attacks them. ^^; Seems that's not at all how Magician plays.

You absolutely can (and even should) play that way, sometimes. Really I don't think any class (certainly not Mage or Shaman) plays the exact same way, most efficiently, against all different mob types at all levels.

For mages it comes down to things like "did you just get a new pet? are you fighting one mob every so often (eg. an SK spire) or clearing an area (eg. Shralok orcs)? are the mobs glass cannons (low HP/high damage) or tanks? etc."

You'll want to get a max level pet, buff and equip it, and then keep it, using it to kill as much as you can while throwing nukes in the middle ... some of the time. Say, when clearing an area with a fair number of not super-hard mobs, and you just got a new pet spell so it wrecks them.

But if you're doing harder stuff, or one mob every so often with time to med, or you're on your last level before getting a new pet, you'll probably instead want to chain. And then in general the higher level you get, chaining tends to be the more efficient option (although even then it varies).