Many people, who aren't mages, are actually backing the mages on how this is a nerf to us.

I'm one of them; I've done what pathetic little I can via posting & firing off PMs. I do not understand how such a large percentage of eq gamers analyze a pending nerf, decide it's not going to personally ...

So imagine my surprise when I surfed over here and did not find a hot topic on the impending nerf to Underfoot sympathetic mana proc augments. After all, the magician class (or so I believe) will be the hardest hit as your mana regeneration rate is the poorest per demand of all detrimental casters ...

I'm wondering how many of you are using the +225 mana sympathetic aug? This seems to be the most powerful sympathetic effect since you can convert the mana into damage at a what, 7-10:1 rate pretty easy? At 10 casts per minute using this aug should boost mana regen effectively by 67/tick?

Anyways ...

On the nuke crit % & crit dmg modifier, the numbers you crunched matches with old necro findings. This is what we've had posted public-

Nuke criticals
Luclin – Spell Casting Fury 2/2/3 (7%)
PoP – Fury of Magic 2/2/2 (13%)
Gates – Fury of Magic Mastery 1/1/1 (16%)
TSS – ...

I'm surprised to not find anything here yet about the giants, giants, giants event...especially since it is a limited time deal and Magicians should do very well solo. Instead of re-posting infos, here is a link to the topic at necrotalk. Take what you can from it, disregard the necro-specific blah ...

Sincere apologies on the apparent loss of a metric ton of data. I've been a user since it was magecompendium 2 mains ago since early 2000. It's a crushing blow to the entire eq community lose such a valuable resource.

After Koz wrote up his awesome merc guide I requested (and he generously gave ...