I looked into it on Beta and the items have been made, so I have to think that I was wrong about it not being in on release. I still have to check whether Chandrok added it to the West Karana merchant though; last I checked it wasn't there. The common version of the group earring is called Ethermere...

After reading Chandrok's post stating that Tier 1 COTF is spread between two releases - ie we're only getting the first piece of it at release - and not finding the new EM earring on the Group Merchant up on Test, I'm starting to think that the new pet focus item isn't going to be available on relea...

The mobs in the new zones, though they hit for a higher max, isn't very different from Tier 1-2 mobs. I went back to Shard's Landing last night and played around with an EM14 earth pet. I was flabbergasted at the amount of healing it needed against T1 trash mobs. Felt I was fighting T3 mobs. I think...

The pet nerf is a lot bigger than the announcements make it out to be. Yes, pets are still able to tank content fine, but the hp nerf is pretty big. Last I checked, with EM 13 before nerf the earth pet was sitting comfortably around 150k hp. Now it's 120-130ish with EM 14. You see this when you do y...

Bards scale linearly with the amount of people in the group. The bigger the group, the better bards get. In a duo scenario, you're not getting your money's worth of DPS from a bard - though pulling, mez, regen, etc. make up for that. But there's a threshold at which bards become better than addition...

Turn off the earth pet's spells and the air pet's spells and then do the side by side. Earth pet with spells on vs. rootable mobs is never a great parse because the root makes mobs turn on gargs and they also added a rune effect to the root that makes the earth pet take less damage, so you won't eve...

A couple of things for those wanting to optimize their play style: Companion's Blessing is garbage at higher levels for pet tanking, the issue being that the heal ticks are attached to a rune that pops in seconds against mobs with high melee output, rendering the duration of the AA less than 3-4 tic...

The other classes won't clamor for a new rod. They're going to clamor for new mana regen abilities for their own classes. No big deal though. What I want to see is a boosted version of the UF pet mana return spell. Don't want to go down this route of trading hps for mana when we have no hp recovery ...

Danille wrote:On this list of things the mage community posted to bring up on this chat was Divine Compainion's Aura. What was discussed on the subject?

He said no about changing it to a weaponshield.

I personally still think that Fire pet is the best DPS, but only when it is in melee range and you don't have a bard / aren't using FBO. The issue with parsing it on dummies is that you have to malo the dummies for the fire pet's spell to hit for full every single time. The spell it casts is 3500 DP...