Failcon wrote:I am a raider. I state that so there is no confution about where this comes from.
Mages pets are scary, when buffed, and used propperly with the AAs they tank nearly as good as actual tanking classes. They can actually do better than some tanks do to them having more buffs opened up to them. I can boost pets tanking then DA, all the while burning named, and poof there goes another named on the mage belt. Very few other classes can do that, and even then most need special ways. AKA wizzies need room to kite or a mob that can act as a tank. We only need a lil area to get no adds, nothing fancy. We are spose to be able to solo average mobs, yet as a raider, I get access to items that allow me to goto Convo and be that prick who molo's nameds. We are a very powerful class, and for that we pay a bit of a price. Some of you don't remember the days where mages were hated by most all group classes. We were dangerous to be around, our pets had little to no control, would agro a whole zone, poof everytime we invis'd. We have slowly gained more control, power, and ability. I have yet to gain a new pet (excluding fire), since the 50's, that didn't let me reach to a level of awesomeness.
Also during the last days of Beta, while testing pet tuning, I was tanking Teir 4 named mobs that con red with a 86 EM 13 air pet. Did this with a 90 cleric, 90 T5 DPS Caster merc, 90 T1 healer merc and I was a 90 raid geared mage. Not only could I tank the named mobs but did this with adds at times. WE killed nearly all named mobs in Morell's Castle this way, though often loosing the DPS caster merc to agro. This will be the topic of many peoples complaints, so be prepaired.
While people are complaining about us loosing ground, look at how many new mages there are. Look at how much we make people whine about what we can do. Look at how we are now highly desired in groups. And the next time you go solo, look around and notice you are doing the same thing that the group next to you is doing, just a lil slower (oh yeah and we now have more mana then we need). Yeah as a raider, I have accessed higher gear, which has increased my abilities, causing people to whine that I, as a mage, am so uber they feel like a lesser class. That so pays for being a lil lower on parses on raids.
In the Raid game we need to relook at how we are veiwing ourselves. Yeah we are DPS, just not high on the food chain, but we have other jobs. Mage air pets are what most the guilds I have ever been in want, cause hey, who else stuns like an air pet. If you are a raid mage who doesn't have clerics sending tells for mod rods, your mages are not doing thier jobs. Then the DS's and procs that help the tank build hate, yes only small amounts but every bit helps when events eat tanks and they need to rebuild agro while the raid DPS has been on the list for a while. The role of a mage is much more than just DPS, and it is selfish of a mage to think otherwise.
Raid mages also need to understand that the Dev'shave to place balance in the fact that the more powerful a mage is as a raider, how much more powerful it makes a mage in the solo/group game. Like I said as a raider I can tank named mobs in Convo, which is unfair to non raid mages who have to hear about how Uber mages are and they struggle. Be glad that you have the abilities you do, make yourself more useful to your guilds if you are a raider and understand that as the game advances, mages are going to keep being looked at as an unfairly powerful class, cause we will have mages raid geared that blow the Bell curve.
I for one am happy to be a mage and love that people are so jealous of what I can do.
Long live mages!
Wow, nice fail at trolling. All buffs don't stack on pets. Just because it shows up in the window doesn't mean it's working. If you have 2 attack buffs on pet, one 15 and one 30 and both are slot one, he's only gonna get the 30, not 45. So, buffs are the same for pets as for pc's.
Pets tank better than raid tanks? What you smokin'?
Wow, you used a pet to tank an end zone with lots of support...yawn...just about any class that has some tanking power can: sk's, pallies, wars, clerics, bards, rangers... By the way, you used the end game focus. Grats. A rare few will get that timely so those complaints won't be around. An sk or pally will go straight to tier 4 and molo but we won't.
People only rerolled mages because beast sucked and the em 8 focus was easy to get. Then the lies about convo. They can, as one mage says, eat crow. You are also misunderstanding losing ground so you are totally outside of knowing our complaints. When we say lose ground, we mean dps not population. Great reading comprehension, genius.
You say you raid but you must be low tier, like SoF or something. There are plenty of ways to hold aggro and DS is so small they can go without it. It is not necessary, the damage is pitiful, and they can easily use that buff slot for something else. Mod rods aren't used because no one goes the distance anymore. You haven't been paying attention here either. Why do you need a mod rod when you are gonna burn for 5 mins or less? Where the problem exists for dps, the raids are burning through events in 10 mins or less.
Finally, you have no clue on how the pet focii work. Focii don't "boost" stats, the summon a completely different pet. The difference is completely different than just a cloak. The cloak is different for each one, their ac will be different, their dmg will be different, etc. That is why a new focus needs to be made. They need to limit the number of pets they have to create each expansion because a pet takes lots of time to make. If all focii worked on all pets, they'd have tons to make. So each focus affects a range to limit the number of pets they have to create.
You are neither a mage nor a raid mage. If you are, you are terrible at both. Be gone pally troll!
