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This is a cross-post.

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Ok, now I'm wondering if that's just your standard reply to everything.

As to Rippers suggestion...

I agree with this and I'd like to repeat the wiped suggestion about immunities.

Given that mobs usually have resistances which improve as they level why is it necessary for mobs 5 levels or higher than a player to be auto-immune to his/her energy damage? Aren't resistances enough?

This is aggravated by the fact that it prevents mages from taking on monsters that fighters/rangers of their same level can take on.

For instance, last night I ran for a bit with Laurana whose char is level 45, I was using my alt fighter "Laurana" (yeah, I know, lil mess up there) who was level 14 at the time. While the level 45 mobs were immune to the energy part damage of my attacks I was still able to affect them (I even killed a couple! ) with the edge of muh big sword and skills like Butcher and Fear of Gosh. Whereas had I been using my main char Maedhros who is a level 28 mage I would have been even more useless. As I had previously confirmed while I ran with another player whose name I forget, he was level 50 something, mobs were utterly immune to everything I could throw at them except Butcher (again), Stomp and the slowed movement part of Ice bolt.

I find it highly unlikely that all those mobs have +1500 resistance to all energy types. So it is reasonable for me to assume that they are simply auto-immune due to level diff. And that's just not cool.

's all,
biterman.

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Magic damage is based upon a combination of your INT score and your skill level. Fighters and rangers are able to obtain damage through STR and AGI, respectively, combined with weapon damage. As such, it much easier for Fighters and Rangers to achieve much higher damage scores at a much lower level.

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This is the main imbalnce in the game system right now and I kinda had hoped this would get taken care of before we got new monster AI or class/skill changes but hey, that's how things go sometimes. This imbalance is not jsut at low levels, it continues and as I am approaching level 60 with a mage it is the most difficult and least efficient class to play in the DR universe. A lot of this hinges on the introduction of the elemental resists and the skill level restrictions that have done their intended job of cutting back the power mages( or warlocks for the old schoolers) previoulsy held. I took a while to get used to but I'm liking playing a mage even more now than previously. Yeah I'm a masochist but using only spells really forces you to think your way through the game. I wish the loot hadn'tr gotten nerfed so bad, finding gear that buffs any of the mage skills that ALSO has good defense rating is nearly impossible and finding good weapons is very difficult too. Maybe if I felt I could efficiently farm the bosses I'd have some better luck.

Thought this may be controversial at this point I think the way to fix this is not to buff the mages again but to cut back on the loot stats for rangers and fighters and lengthen the cooldowns on skills and buffs for them as well. The other classes need to have the same soft level caps on the dungeons as the mages. This will keep toons from racing to 100 in seven weeks. Al respect to you Tachan but I think that we weren't supposed to and should not be able to exhaust the complete game content in that time frame.

In essence dont balance the mages up, ajdust everyone else down to them.

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This is the main imbalnce in the game system right now and I kinda had hoped this would get taken care of before we got new monster AI or class/skill changes but hey, that's how things go sometimes. This imbalance is not jsut at low levels, it continues and as I am approaching level 60 with a mage it is the most difficult and least efficient class to play in the DR universe. A lot of this hinges on the introduction of the elemental resists and the skill level restrictions that have done their intended job of cutting back the power mages( or warlocks for the old schoolers) previoulsy held. I took a while to get used to but I'm liking playing a mage even more now than previously. Yeah I'm a masochist but using only spells really forces you to think your way through the game. I wish the loot hadn'tr gotten nerfed so bad, finding gear that buffs any of the mage skills that ALSO has good defense rating is nearly impossible and finding good weapons is very difficult too. Maybe if I felt I could efficiently farm the bosses I'd have some better luck.

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With the "classless" system on it's way I think the whole issue here will be moot

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And of course Grey is right. I should never post on my lunchbreak from work as it doesn't afford me enough time to post with my usual clarity.

I think what I was trying to say was the ranger and fighter classes are overpowered from the point of view of the dev/game system and for the benefit of the game as a whole should be made less powerfull and to leave the mages as they are because they are working as intended.

Classless/hybrids will probably make this discussion unnecessary though I'm sure there will be plenty of other things for us to talk about.