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<b>Message ID:</b> 13339 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Thu Jan 20 19:00:43 GMT 2000 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> kim@stormhaven.org <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Rumors <br/>
<br/><br/>
<div id="ygrps-yiv-761854835">On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ken Bachman wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Much as people talk about Bind and Gate, I personally<br/>
&gt; think that the pet spells are the most ridiculously<br/>
&gt; overpowered spells in the game (with the possible<br/>
&gt; exception of Group Mez).  I soloed my Enchantress to level<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yeah.  Most of the pet classes (mage the possible exception)<br/>
would be just fine without a pet - still better than any melee<br/>
class.  I got into an argument about this with some guy once -<br/>
he thought it was ok that a L49 pet could kill a L50 melee<br/>
player in a straight one-on-one fight.  His reasoning was that<br/>
duels were a special case.  Pets are balanced because they&#39;re<br/>
dumb, so in a real fight you would always prefer a real tank<br/>
to a pet.  I told him if his reasoning was that intelligent<br/>
player + dumb pet was an acceptable combo, then they should<br/>
allow the melee classes to be able to summon caster pets.  <br/>
Never got a reply to that one...<br/>
<br/>
But I&#39;ve long since given up on petitioning to Verant for any<br/>
sort of class balance.  It&#39;s obvious they&#39;re heavily biased<br/>
towards casting classes.<br/>
<br/>
--<br/>
John H. Kim<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:kim@...">kim@...</a></div>