The Magician's Tower

First thing I see this morning on eqlive is this pearl of wisdom :

My premise is simple. Mages need to lose solo ability (that is too powerful on its own) and in exchange should be given respectable burst capabilty as a recourse. No I don't mean a little pet power, I mean a lot of it. We are a dps class. We are a pet class. We are not (iirc) supposedly a 1 man group class that can kill anything a 6 man group can in the group game, though it has become that.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... 3&#2647790

I don't know who posted that drivel but seriously, why would a mage ask for a nerf to the most important aspect of our class in exchange for increased burst ? I was under the impression we agreed to ask devs for increases and let SOE do the nerfing ... I guess I misunderstood ...

1. Not everyone over there is over here, 2. Not everyone that posts there and says they are a mage really are a mage (easy enough to manufacture an identity and find some magelo to use), and 3. No one here would post that (at least I hope not). It's out and out stupidity.

Take away my solo (or 2 box) ability (or even lessen it) and I quit EQ. It's that simple.

He is a troll and needs to play EQ. Any1 who can DPs can kill named in SS/MC. Those zones are beyond gimp especially with the named.

And if he is on drinal (like the profile he linked) he probably sux and is mad because the top 3 guilds are all full on mages.

That dude is just a troll, hate it when stupid people post what they think raid mages should and shouldn't be able to do.

Savil

He is a burnout.

Players forget that what is "easy" for them comes with intimate familiarity of class, and that what has become rote and routine for them really is not straightforward.

The idea of the Mage pet being some separate "entity" has existed from the start; Verant was letting the pet take XP for a long, long time. The separate avatar confuses people - even devs.

So add to familiarity and confusion some selfishness and a dash of bitter, and you get what is in that post.

The years-long Mage "character" of pretty good players with, as a rule, an affable and self-deprecating humor has been eroded by internet-tough-guy idiots, "you fail" retardation, posturing, ignorance, and stupidity.

Those guys used to just become Necros soon enough. Unfortunately we no longer have to look any farther than our own forum to see them.

That person is such an idiot. Too bad it wasn't dated April first or I would have mentioned that we all got played, hard. They contradict themselves throughout the whole thing. It is obviously someone who sucks at their actual class and is quite jealous of those mages who can play. Notice he referenced what he "saw" a Triality mage do. He doesn't explain how to do it himself. I'm not saying Triality is hackers, not getting into that mess, but if you "see" someone do something, that does not translate into it can be legitly done.

Anyway, I called him out. He's a liar. His argument lacks merit. Everyone else has already pointed him out as a fraud. His calling for a nerf should have seen that post deleted.

Yeah there is the possibility that he's not "real". The character he points out in the post is in a bona fide guild (Resolution) on my server. Apparently, anyway. If this is his "brother" posting he's not going to be happy.

On a completely different subject, since I'm typing, RS getting chewed in milliseconds is getting old. Has been old. AC and the low summon HP are both issues. Grumble.

Baramos wrote:Yeah there is the possibility that he's not "real". The character he points out in the post is in a bona fide guild (Resolution) on my server. Apparently, anyway. If this is his "brother" posting he's not going to be happy.

On a completely different subject, since I'm typing, RS getting chewed in milliseconds is getting old. Has been old. AC and the low summon HP are both issues. Grumble.

I typically don't have issues with RS pet being insta killed, but the summoning in low hps deal sucks. From what I've been told by "devs" its not something they can fix given how the AA's interact with the code. Its just becoming far more noticeable now with the new hps they have (to max aa mages).

I don't know about you guys but the "its the code" excuse is starting to really piss me off.

Savil

One way to solve it, is you cast RS pet or any pet, it does a 2nd effect of a 20,000 point heal for the pet. Problem solved. We know they can make spells do 2 things at once. Anti summoned will do a debuff as well as direct damage. Thus they add a heal component to any spell that casts a pet.

Calebe