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Message ID: 346
Date: Mon May 10 20:23:23 BST 1999
Author: Juan Custer
Subject: Re: Digest Number 24


What exactly is it with Druids? I never really see anything but the
receiving end, so I'm not sure what's the big deal. Are their spells
overpowered? Do they have awesome abilities? What exactly is up with this
class that makes them shooting stars to the upper levels?

Malark on Karana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murphy, Kenneth E. [mailto:MurphyK@...]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:26 PM
> To: 'EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com'
> Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Digest Number 24
>
>
> From: "Murphy, Kenneth E." <MurphyK@...>
>
> 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
>
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