I boxed 3 Mages. Here is the lowdown (solely my opinions):
**Keep your pet focus current**
1) Level anywhere you please until all 3 Mages are level 61. That's officially when you start with the 61 Air Pet.
2) Level to 70 and get all 3 Mages Raging Servant. That's when you start taking names.
3) You don't need 3 healer mercs. Get 1 Tank and 2 healers. Once you get a Tier III+ tank, they are pretty tough.
4) Air pets rock but fire pets do amazing DPS now. When you get the 73 Fire pet, you will see yourself opting to use 2 Fire pets and sometimes 3 with your tank merc on trivial xp grind camps. Mobs die a lot faster with Fire pets up. For named, stick with 3 Air.
5) You will be outdoors a lot due to no snare, mez and such. If you are feeling feisty and do decided to do dungeons, 1 Earth pet for root helps sometimes.
6) Forget what your grandma told you about Fire pets. They really do rock now.
7) Specialize Conjuration and don't bother nuking much at all. Raging Servant is mana expensive but does waaaay more DPS then your Wannabe Wizard nukes.
(Boxing 3 Wizards is crazy fun too)
3 focused Raging Servants and 3 Pets on 1 mob is just mean.
Edited, Jul 23rd 2009 10:00am by Reyla
Edited, Jul 23rd 2009 10:01am by Reyla
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