Everquest - 20th Anniversary TLP

Fight said:

Mages? They are godly.

Their pets are OP as fuck. They can summon all the spell enhancement gear to make you OP without even having to farm shit. Their nukes are just a tad bit less effective than a Wizard's.

They are the ultimate front runners on these TLP servers. A few months in, after the server gets a bit more mature and the other classes gear out, then they come back down to earth a bit.

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Ya mages arent bad pre-pop but once pop comes out I fuckin love mages, get the new pets that are lvel 60, irresistable stuns from air pet ontop of the air pet proc, the 240dd proc weapons, belt of magikot with +250hp and +10 to stats, the focus summoning gear, they get the mana regen buff in velios our luclin, water AA illusion for mana regen, swarm pets, can suspend a pet and keep it in your back pocket and summon a new one while that ones suspended.. now in pop you can charm elementals. U got coth, with AA's you only ever need 1 malachite which never gets consumed, lol your pet like never dies anyway cause pop pets are tuned to how water pets were pre-pop they got nerfed. pet hold is amazing as well for pulling mobs to you. I dont usually farm after POP so not sure how much cooler they get but I can imagine.

When I raided POP as a necro with TL on fippy, it was a task keeping up all your dots for just one spell set, cause by the time you memmed a second spell set the fire dots would be falling off. Only way I survived was with quickmem mq2 feature and I'd get 3 spellsets worth of dots on bosses and pull aggro (athiyk: wtf draekon FD!) cause I was too busy stacking dots to FD lol. Necros are still fun to solo, liek in pop you can solo grummus castle with undead charm, then use undead slow on the other mobs.. you get undead mez on top of it, its amazing with the free rune (force shield?) and the DA's (harmshield etc). But yeah boring in raids after awhile better off to feed mana than try to stack dots that are getting resisted or keeping your pet alive.

in groups i wouldnt even dot yeah too mana expensive. just a life tap or keep other people topped off and be a mana battery is easier/lazier. unless you got a badass team that lets you charm then you can charm, haste it and have a ench/mage to debuff it. then just sit back and let charm carry the group while you got lich on and lifetap to heal. mana wrack is pretty cool too. and you can fd, res, go invul. once you get gear as a necro though you're so damn tanky and never go oom. I do wish they'd give necro pets velocity like mages though, that velocity can make a difference in xp/hour or plat/hour long term.

so yeah while necros can be boring in raids, once youre geared you're super awesome as a solo char to go farm shit or PL characters, just have so many diff types of spells and are so tanky its a fun character during off raids. motm put a damper on some of that though, like athiyk used to farm shield of immaculate in between raids solo