please fix mages dpsFollow

Does anyone actually think that mages are "broken" somehow?

Nah, let's "fix" mages by giving them self-heals, roots, snares and cold-based damage spells. Oh, and the ability to feign death. Don't forget mez and slow. And I wouldn't say NO to a few DOTs.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Yeah...

I just pet pulling worked, there is nothing worse been trying to do heroic adventure solo and get 4 mobs with a pet or spell cast on the mob. Not all of us box, have the money to or want to and trying to find someone at times to team up with is such a pain.

Mobs are white to me at level 92. What is the macro will be happy to check it out. Pet might be able to handle two mobs since they are white to me and my pet is yellow to me but doubtful could handle four. Merc is J5 set on balanced for one mob and reactive for two mobs.

Edited, Apr 9th 2015 9:54am by cjguy

Huh?

Rukkuss:

What I am saying is I get the mission started with my level 85 ranger. I then add my mage then use my mage for the mission but soon as I go inside the mission with my luck instead of still being setup for level 85 it will update it's self to level 92.

Another problem.is I can start the mission with 85 ranger but how do task add mage since it would not be online at same time as ranger since both on same account.

Edited, Apr 9th 2015 2:21pm by cjguy

What's really needed? Paladins Need Pets. Yes. PNP! Think about it. At higher levels, what Knight wouldn't have a squire? He could like hold stuff for me (extra inventory slots), and hold my horse (extra mount slots, and maybe allow for two mount effects at the same time), and help me when fighting. I'm not talking mage pet level fighting (cause that would just be silly), but maybe like just a level or two down. Oh. And he should valiantly step in and take any death effects that I suffer. And of course, he has to handle the coconut sound effects for me.

This is totally what they should do.


As to monks? They should get a "one at a time" AA ability that forces their opponents to stand around waiting until you have finished the current one before attacking (just like in all the Bruce Lee films, right?). That would be totally awesome! And true to life.

I'm thinking we submit these change requests as soon as possible.


Seriously though, I think just about any class will have difficulty dealing with 4 white con mobs at a time. Admittedly, mages are at/near the bottom in terms of CC abilities (certainly for any spell casters), so that's a bit trickier. But what do you think a warrior does in that situation? They don't even get gate.

~Hey, but nothing is abnormal for a Necro to out dps a Mage in total damage numbers when fighting a heavy con mob over the long run as sustained damage/dps is the Necro's kettle of fish. And parses on most sites that have or had them in the past support this.

Mages are still excellent burst dps with their DD spell lines and beats the Necro and most classes in burst dps hands down...And the array of pets, incl tanking Air, Earth and Water pets summoned with all the proper level mage geared pre-equipped at hi levels and spells and AA's to enhance them....

I don't think that the Mage is OP'd but well balanced atm.

Our hi level Necro, warrior pets when equipped with mage gear and EM focus are no slouches either though...

To add to the above 2 posts: what do rogues,necros, and zerkers bring to a grp or raid besides dps???? Mages at least are more expendable than just dps. Dps they are great at but they are more than that. I loved having a mage in our raid/group.... emergency food/drink and those mana rods were great. also in group setting a really good DS. Also their air pets are fantastic. And lets not forget about CoH, how many times were you ported right to where the group was after you accepted a group invite you have been spamming the zone for. I mean who wants to get to Frenzy camp(or many other odd places) without or without invis???

Would it work if you had a someone else add one toon, log him off, log the other one on and then task add that one?

So...make mages into necros?

I haven't played a necro much lately and I use shaman primarily as a support class. But I'd be shocked to hear that shaman pets are stronger than necro pets. I also think a lot of pet strength has to do with focus, buffs, weapons, caster AA's, etc. I know my mage's pet has progressed dramatically once I started earning enough mage AA's to throw big chunks of them into AA's that boost pet dps and survivability. But still, I'd love to hear from anyone else who seriously plays these two classes about how their pets compare.

I do believe I can say without a doubt druids get the WEAKEST pets! (Familiars don't count!)

Edited, Apr 13th 2015 8:15am by Sippin

I liken the shammy pet to the SK pet. It is imo that those 2 pets are way weaker than a necro pet. I have both a shammy and SK and believe me i only attack with them when there is the mobs aggro somewhere else. Necro pets seem to be able to tank dark blue mobs fairly well. and their survivablity seems way greater the aforementioned pets.