Pie's burn thread in the Spell forum has all this info...

http://www.eqmagetower.com/forums/viewt ... f=6&t=3666

If you like to quest, do them.
If you want to max achievements, do them.
If you want a status symbol, albeit one not as big as it once was, do them.
If, however, all you care about is a weapon that is currently useful, then there is no point to doing them.

Humbug. Your voice is needed here.

This can be a long long camp...you are at the mercy of the RNG. It will drop sooner or later (hopefully sooner). Good luck!

Mana Reserve: To put the early comment another way, 12k of extra mana is the equivalent of another whole cycle of your casting weave, if not two cycles...so yes worth it. Cloak/Drape: Excellent tool for all sorts of situations... Find yourself unacceptably high on aggro during a raid for some whacko...

If it's a buff or twincast popping up or whatever, those I can see easy enough and really don't want triggers for those - the screen is far too cluttered as it is. However when a battle is going and the spam rolling, even with routing things to alternate windows, some stuff inevitably gets missed an...

Tegila? egad

Anyone got a Gina trigger set for mage specific stuff? I don't need things about event specific things - such as run when XYZ emote happens - but I am looking for what people might be using besides those.

Lord - how many times did he heal himself?

Its likely too early for any updated focus's or stuff like that, there aren't even any beta forums yet and alot of the mob models on beta are dougs. dougs? Dougs aka the human default model for when a mob is supposed to load but the graphics are not in the files yet and/or something is wrong with t...