Mages are up shit’s creek I guess

[whitebandit]

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

Like you're doing right now?

Yikes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

no remember, he got suspended... hes just jelly we get to play EQ still :-D

[Jibartik]

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

no remember, he got suspended... hes just jelly we get to play EQ still :-D

He's imagining playing right now I meant lol

I feel bad for him but tisk tisk dont lie to the GM when you sent them a video! lol [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[uygi]

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

So mages are supposed to level up an entire trade skill, scour the world for materials, many of them completely random drops and rare, just to use their pets.

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Thread is too long not gonna read all that cus you answered own question so well!

P.S. All you whiners obviously didn’t play classic. This shit is hard. The idea was to come to P99, especially Green, to experience all the pain and suffering that’s missing from all the other games. Basically:

Whiners: “WTB Classic, hard-mode EQ”
Nilbog: “Sure! Here you go, free game bro! Enjoy!”
Whiners: “Fuck you and your server! You assholes gave us exactly what was promised! Demand refund etc.”

[Modwolf]

My first char on live was a mage;research made me quit him. Never played int class since. Fuck that noise.

[cd288]

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

Yes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Thread is too long not gonna read all that cus you answered own question so well!

P.S. All you whiners obviously didn’t play classic. This shit is hard. The idea was to come to P99, especially Green, to experience all the pain and suffering that’s missing from all the other games. Basically:

Whiners: “WTB Classic, hard-mode EQ”
Nilbog: “Sure! Here you go, free game bro! Enjoy!”
Whiners: “Fuck you and your server! You assholes gave us exactly what was promised! Demand refund etc.”

Actually, actual classic was easier than P99's version. For example, at EQ launch pets didn't take any EXP at all. So AFK EXPing was so easy to do; just park your pet on a blue mob spawn point and let it go to town, getting you 100% EXP for doing nothing lol. There were many changes made throughout the first year or so to make the game harder because it was pretty easy at launch once you figured out what you were doing.

[derpcake2]

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

I mean a magician was 2nd to level 30 and only by like 20 minutes so I hardly see how they are suffering...

This magician was carried, you know that I guess.

Anyway, were the drop tables on research components reviewed, to make it realistic to research pet spells, or was it intended that magicians wouldn't have 24+ pets until groups at least 7 levels above the pet level farmed enough content to make the items readily available?

I'm going to guess no loot tables were reviewed, because a 31 mage saw his first research component for a pet .. a level 24 one at that.

Also a final question, when can we expect to see necro / mage pets attack with the delay of weapons given to them? Mage / necro pet with a FS dagger should be attacking at 1.8 delay soon, for quite some months.

Thanks in advance for your input.

[uygi]

Research drops tables on blue matched my memory of Live, and so far Green matches as well.

It’s true, there are a lot of game mechanics details that were just beyond the scope of Green at this time. Something that was obviously imbalanced and changed early being left out isn’t going to destroy the game. Can’t loot other players corpses? I think we can deal with that. Original necro charm spells not being in? Deal with it, it wasn’t a great idea then and it still isn’t; that’s one of the broken things about the game that P99 hasn’t bothered to recreate. You know, cus it’s developed by random people as a hobby for which they are paid not in dollars but in whiny tears.

[Jeni]

By carried you mean had to group like 90% of the other classes to level?

[derpcake2]

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

Research drops tables on blue matched my memory of Live, and so far Green matches as well.

Cute.

[cd288]

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

By carried you mean had to group like 90% of the other classes to level?

Meaning they had a group of friends/guildies who were willing to keep the mage in the EXP group past 20 even though he was sub-optimal past the mid-20s because he couldn't research his pet.