Post#4 » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:52 am
My apologies in advance, but the point was a bit missed here.
@Thaylin, yes I checked some weapons I had and had seen drop, they're all consistently type 4, with the exception of the epic 1.5 (but I'm not even close to owning it yet).
But, as a mage, you WILL be using your epic pet (as soon as you turn 50 and are finally allowed to click your staff), that totally owns other pets summoned via spells. But with an aug that is designed for weapons... see what I mean ? Do note that mage epic 1.0 has a Must equip to cast Manifest elements.
@Ydiss, it's not a matter of wielding a better weapon than the mage epic (the staff from Venril is way better than it already). It's a matter of focusing the epic pet from the mage epic 1.0's clicky; which is impossible since it has no slot, and has only one charge anyway so you destroy it as soon as you have used it to summon a new one with Summon orb (that spell IS the true mage epic 1.0 after all, the epic from the initial quest with strange crystals is a copycat with clicky BO IV). Epic 1.5 would allow it, being a "true" item that doesn't have charges and has a type 4 slot (and a type 8 too)
Actually, while typing all that, I just realised that one way to solve all that would be to have Summon orb give you an altered mage epic with unlimited charges of Manifest elements, required lvl 50 to click it, a recast time of 5 minutes (the same cooldown as Summon orb), and a type 4 slot.
Finally, I'm more pointing at what I perceive as an inconsistency than asking for a change. Since I'm 70 and decently stuffed, epic 1.5 isn't that far away and I'll never summon an orb ever after. But it would be nice to have the possibility of focusing this pet once you start hitting the third zones..
tl;dr : Read the fine wall of text above !
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