From: "Daniel C. Daugherty" <daniel@...>

>
> If you believe the man who takes care of the spells (ie.
> summon elemental,
> skels) for the game, The Magician has the best pets.
>
> Check out the news abt magicians on eq.stratics.com and eqvault
>
>
> > We get better pets overall than mages, we get a huge line
> of DoT spells,
>

Necro pets are better then Magician pets for the same reason Druids are
better then ALOT of other classes. It can be better to be 2nd best in
several things then best in one and worst in another.

More specifically, and the post by GZ even says as much, the necro's pet has
more hitpoints then a fire, air or water elemental but less then an earth
elemental. They also have better AC then a earth, fire or water elemental
but less then an AIR elemental. GZ even says that magi should use a Air
elemental to SOLO as value of high AC becomes more and more important at
higher levels as it causes the MOBS to hit for less damage and miss more.
Since an Earth elemental has the worst AC of any pet it gets mauled at higer
levels for max damage just about every swing. This means a dead earth
elemental. Since the necromancer's pet has 2nd best HPS and 2nd best AC that
COMBINATION makes them much better over all at higher levels then a mage
pet.

I am not very high level yet but so far my lev 7 necromancer has had it far
easier with his pet then my lev 16 magician ever did at the same levels.

Veneficus (Rank 5) magician
Eloric (Rank 2) necromancer
Mythannial Marr