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Message ID: 13376
Date: Thu Jan 20 23:01:53 GMT 2000
Author: Wayne Sheppard
Subject: Re: Pets (was Rumors)
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:00:43 -0500 (EST)SK get a pet. My SK friend (lvl 36) said don't bother saving bone chips for
> From: <kim@...>
> Subject: Re: Rumors
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ken Bachman wrote:
> >
> > Much as people talk about Bind and Gate, I personally
> > think that the pet spells are the most ridiculously
> > overpowered spells in the game (with the possible
> > exception of Group Mez). I soloed my Enchantress to level
>
> Yeah. Most of the pet classes (mage the possible exception)
> would be just fine without a pet - still better than any melee
> class. I got into an argument about this with some guy once -
> he thought it was ok that a L49 pet could kill a L50 melee
> player in a straight one-on-one fight. His reasoning was that
> duels were a special case. Pets are balanced because they're
> dumb, so in a real fight you would always prefer a real tank
> to a pet. I told him if his reasoning was that intelligent
> player + dumb pet was an acceptable combo, then they should
> allow the melee classes to be able to summon caster pets.
> Never got a reply to that one...