How difficult was it to get Mage pets on Green release?

[Coridan]

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

It was difficult, there was some confusion with the Devs how exactly the researched pets versus the vendor pets worked. Unless they mimic the original launch with research/vendors not working right, it will be correct next time around. The issue was that there were no vendor pets ( should be two every level until 44/49 ) at all past 20? I think? and that research was broken past 34, the combines didn't work because there were no vendor spells to 'level' up with since each combine takes the previous level spell.

I'm pretty sure it was intentional because apparently Mages were broken that way when EQ launched in 99. I wouldn't know though because I was a warrior in 99 and I don't think I hit 30 until Luclin lol due to altaholism