Nylrem01 wrote:Honestly I just figured that no way were we going to get any kind of root, but if we could swing it, that would be very sweet
You say CoN was never meant as a pulling tool? Any ability that says "then cause that creature to forget all anger" equates to... pulling tool. Which they have realized since shortly after they created FD.
I have MOLOd 3 yellow trash mobs at once a couple times this expansion. Not going to be consistantly doing that back to back though. Especially not until they fix Companion's Blessing. I sincerely doubt any level 95 group focused magician could solo 3 yellow mobs at once this expansion. They definitely couldn't do it twice in 10 minutes.
Not too many tier 4 named even a raid focused magician is going to MOLO, and even fewer still solo. Pretty sure I could solo Word Lord, and maybe Unusual Creature, of the ones that I have killed, but not a very long list, for sure.
I also want to know... how in the world do you solo, effedtively, now with our pet's OOC regen so dang broke?
I no longer play EQ, I got sick of all the lies and general cluelessness of the devs ... the endless breaking of smurf that used to work, and the complete incompetence of the current AA dev.
No, CoN was *never* intended to be a pulling tool, just ask any old school mage. It was *always* intended to be a OMFG my pet just died and I'm about to be next! Thats all it was *ever* intended to be when it was put into the game. The funny thing is, after they ignored it for so long and then just flat out broke it, the best use for it ended up being used as a pulling tool. I know I used it more for that than saving my ass when my pet died.
As for what can be soloed ... I ended my EQ time at lvl 90, so I can't talk about the lvl 95 game much beyond what I understand from talking with PJ. I know the same comments were tossed around a lot every single exp sense SoF tho and they almost always proved incorrect.
I've watched full groups die to stuff I was bored solo'ing / molo'ing. Its always been the skill level of the mage in question than the gear hes using. You would be shocked what a mage like Wire could do with complete crap gear.
For example, Wire and I were the very first people game wide in Husk (after it was released) and we farmed the smurf out of it. Lots of the items in lucy have Wire's ID attached them them if you care to look... I were killing multi yellow / red con mobs at once with just him (and his boxed bard that was idle most of the time) and myself. At the time we had *zero* UF raid gear to help us. We watched LOTS of full raid geared groups (including our own guild once they entered zone) full wipe in Husk. Sad thing was, Wire and I considered the zone a joke.
I've also 100% solo'ed in Husk (with and without a merc out) just for kicks. Again, you would be surprised what a good mage can do when he puts his mind to it and fully abuses all the gear / aa's he has.
Savil