Runes of Magic US / AU

Ok, so. We've been balanced for a while now and many of us have regeared and restatted in Chapter 4. How do you feel about how your mage performs as a dps class in instances and pvp as compared to the many melee classes we play with and go up against in siege war?

Also, do you feel like mages have a "gear gap", and by that I mean, do you feel that your mage is more difficult to gear in general than your melee friends, and that you have to outgear melee to achieve similar dps output?

I ask this because when I check my scrut, I am still having the pants beat off me by equivalently geared melee toons in gch and sardo. My mage does decent damage (enough that I rate an invite) but it seems like me and my mage colleagues have to tier higher and stat more mattack than our melee friends to achieve dps that's even close.

Also, it seems like RoM is still conspiring against us by making it hard for us to obtain the gear and stats we need. Perhaps we're just unlucky, but it seems like mage drops are the rarest of all in both sardo and grafu. Are we the only ones experiencing this?

I'm immensely grateful that RW fixed us, because we (and every other dps class besides scout) were profoundly broken in chap3, but I still feel some lingering mage rage. I don't mean to whine, and I guess I'd just like to hear from others to see if my experience is a preview of what being fully geared is like or if mage performs better once melee and magic are both fully geared in GCH/Sardo gear.

Also, how do you think your mage will be performing once the level cap is increased to 70? Better or worse?

Thoughts?

(and if you would, please state your gear/instance level and subclass/es in the responses? Just so we can get an idea of where your perspective is coming from)

I am M/P/S currently doing GCH (up to fourth boss, hope to say 6th boss tomorrow ), and I still have a t10 Raksha +16, half bunker/crimson, half temple/tomb, about 50k mattack, 55k hp unbuffed.

Quoted from "kagemushaa;484317"

It's the fact that mages can get guaranteed stats for their mems cuts down on how many mems they waste trying to obtain their stats....seems to me they also have a ma/hp pull? I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered seeing 2 good bunker stats for mages that were 100% pulls?
no 100% castle stats available? ( I dont pull castle so I cant remember what they offer for 100% pulls)

either way... my point being that as a rogue..even if I have more stat options available to me...it's taxing farming mems and pulling all the stats by pure chance...even one or two options to have viable stats readily available like mages(healers and knight also have nice stats like hp/pdef that are 100%) do would cut down on my statting time by quite a bit.


as for the dps issue...(overlooking that I still think a mage should have a dps secondary to compete against a double dps class melee player.) in chapter 2 mages dominated everything....pvp and pve, they were the original one shot kings and were godly in the ch2 dungeons and raids.

ch3 focused on scouts and ch4 seems to be giving love to rogues, warriors and wardens, seems like everyone gets their day in the sun in rom...mages just have to wait their turn again...and by the looks of things it might be sooner than you think .

-sas

I don't disagree that we have 2 decent guaranteed mem pulls, but we still only have 2 usable crimsons and that hurts a lot. But my biggest beef is that mage gear seems to drop so infrequently in the actual instances. Now, like I said, it might just be me and the parties I run in having bad luck. I wondered if others might have noticed a trend also.

And I am a 2 dps class toon, I use my m/s in instances most frequently. I only use m/p in GCH sometimes, as I am the lowest dps mage in party and the Essence of Magic buff helps us all out. Since my buff helps the other mages hit harder it's a net plus.

We get the occasional mage stat to drop in grafu normal, just haven't seen a single piece of Chappy gear drop in all the runs we've ever done o.O

Quoted from "ConcernedMage;484426"

I'm a M/D/W and for runs I usually go M/W and I do fine for the 20 seconds that my buffs are up. With all my consumables and my elemental catalysis I actually beat most if not all the melee DPS but without my 5 I'm kind of useless. My stats are 14.8K Int/58K matk/ 55K HP unbuffed if you need a comparison.

You using a t10 +16 Puppet Queen CM?
I can only fantasize about that, we're semi-stuck on the zombies at the moment lol.

I am starting to think that my problems are mostly in my head, as it occurred to me that my melee friends are mostly using the Bow of Assembled Parts, whereas the mages are all still using Rakshas cause we haven't killed last boss sardo yet (we can kill him I think, we got the hallway of deathballs beat, we just picked weirdo times to try it like seconds before the server reset ugh, and anyway we've refocused on GCH) so none of us has a Cast-Out staff to compare apples to apples.

The rogues mostly have Tia's too.

Hmmm, we gotta gotta get Puppet Queens. And I need more mattack.

I'm getting there CM, slowly but surely. I buff to over 80k mattak, but that means sacrificing damage foods/pots. I'm stuck in a gear bottleneck at the moment, not sure if I should wait for an OD assembled parts belt, just use a Kawak's belt to make up the crit or just suck it up and keep using my temple/tombed raksha side pieces. I can't afford to stat underdura anymore, I die too much and all my dias are going to hammers.

On that note, anyone have a preference as far as side pieces go? The lack of crit on the assembled parts set is discouraging. I haven't seen the new set from the 70 instance, hope it's more appealing.

And that's really encouraging Paz, thank you for that. Mage sucked so very badly in chap3 that I think it left some of us with a complex- I am afraid to look at the scrut now in GCH and even Sardo. Now I have some hope

You guys have soothed a lot of my worries.