On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Naeeldar wrote:

>
> Heh once you level up a bit more you will find there pets becoming more and
> more uselss. Level 20 is still a nice pet level 24 ok level 29 pretty good
> only because of duel wield 34 sucks and 39 sucks to. 44 is decent and 49
> becomes very good again. It's just a natural course and some classes have

Heh, funny you should say that. My L36 necro friend's pet was
doing more damage than me at L44 before I got my Ykesha. "But
bards can sing songs!" Well, the necro pet also has a master
who can sling spells.

I don't entirely blame this one on necros though. In making
melee classes so weak, Verant forced themselves into a
position where to make a (melee) pet for a casting class
worthwhile, it had to be unbalancingly powerful.

> weak spots in their life but the rewards are greater in the end. It sounds
> like you want everybody to be able to do the same thing why not just have
> one class and save yourself the trouble? Seriously necros get pretty weak in
> the 33-43 period of their life. Most necros go through mid life crisis and

We had a L36 and L39 necro helping us camp the ghoul lord room
(two groups, one in each group, all other tanks and clerics in
the low to mid 40s). Basically, the necros determined which
group got the kill - if one went LD or afk or was late joining
the fight, the other group got the kill. We had various tanks
going afk, LD, etc and it didn't make much difference. Heck,
for a while we had 4 people in one group (cleric and 3 tanks),
and me, a cleric, and L36 necro in the other group. We were
getting most of the kills. If that's "pretty weak" then
something is really wrong.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...