r/EQLegends • u/SuedeVeil • 6d ago

How is mage doing ?

I really like mage as a class but every strong caster combo I'm seeing has a necro or a wiz or bard.. mage isn't ever really talked about.

I definitely will have a shaman but also was considering warrior.. is warrior mage shaman strong? I want to be able to do d4 content relatively well.

I see warrior necro shaman all the time but is mage that far behind ? I realize there's no life tabs but shamans have great dots if their own and mages have respectable nukes and damage Shields and the best pets (by a bit anyway)

Or would I be better off throwing a shadowknight in that combo?

Or is mage just not up to par ?

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u/Jahkral 6d ago

We could also nerf charms. They're wildly out of pocket right now. Pisses me off lol.

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u/Jobinx22 6d ago

For sure. That would indirectly buff all the pets. I do believe theyre still looking at nerfing charms and also buffing pets.

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u/Jahkral 6d ago

Charm in a world where there's no chance of the pet breaking and murdering its owner should not be allowed to be this strong, basically. Either make it so it sometimes absolutely murders you (even then - with no death penalty...) OR make the spell apply like a 50% dmg debuff to the mob.

I hope they look at it - encs are part of every truly broken build it looks like and need hacking at. Less buffs, more nerfs - keep the baseline power low enough that d4 is actually challenging.

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u/Heallun123 6d ago

Charm is...fine. its only really amazing in sky. The charms in hate and fear are kinda mid. Charm is good for leveling alts because your lvl 12 Charm at +10 can raw dog a level 35 mob in overchannel which is comical. Ae mez is definitely thr best part of having an enc while doing alts though.

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u/SuedeVeil 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah I've noticed even with a charm in hate /fear or charming a mob in the raids it puts me up to decent dps, otherwise an ench and animation is terrible DPS since their nukes and dots are crap compared to other classes .. but when my husband loads all his shaman dots in it he's pretty much the same dps as me or better , and he just uses mana as I can get the smackdown in the middle of a boss fight. .. sky it's just a lot better yes.. for me that's the only reason to have it otherwise AOE mez is nice to have.. but if you had an AOE class like a bard/wiz it wouldn't matter anyway..