So... Someone said the mage board was too quiet, in light of this statement I'll ask you guys a question:

If you were to duel another mage (assuming same gear/level) which pet would you use in the duel? (air earth water fire)

I personally would use earth for obvious reasons..

Comments?

Take out air pet, sick it on the magician so he has trouble getting spells through. If he decides to sick his pet on me, try running around until my pet takes care of him.

Items to have:
SoW Potion/something to slow his pet down.
Buff up MR and FR

I picture two casters running in circles with air elementals chasing them for 30 minutes. The first one to stop would die

Earth pet = mage standing still

I'd take whichever pet it was that interrupts casting and stick it on the opposing mage, then just focus all my nukes on him while my pet bashes and interrupts until he is dead. In a duel where both classes are offensive the goal is to burn the other guy down before you die. If you lock down the mage and kill him quick his pet will poof and you win.

If the Mage I'm dueling is under 55 then earth pet using Gnoll Hide Lariat x2.

If I am over 58 then Air pet + velocity and the pet is faster than SOW.

I actually dueled a few magicians in my time, and I can say that just nuking down the other mage isn't as easy as it sounds. Your pet will automatically switch agro to his, and effectively take both pets out of the picture (since the mages will nuke each other to death before the pets kill each other). So, it's just up to your gear and level difference at that point. Most people went for this tactic however, which gave me a huge advantage.

I would go straight after the opposing mages pet. I'd use the air pet or the fire pet, send my pet on his, and then blast the hell out of it. Remember - nukes only do 66% damage in PvP, but do 100% vs the pet. Also, pets had very little natural MR, whereas your magician opponent may have very high MR. You can certainly kill the other magicians pet before he kills you, and once his pet is dead, it's over. Healing the pet isn't really an option, since our nukes WAAAY outpace our pet heals.

With his pet dead, the only thing he can do is hope to channel nukes through the pet's melee to kill you. This is why I use the air pet or fire pet - if the other mage is rooted he'll naturally just try and cast on you, and you're probably low HP by now. But, if you have the air pet it interrupts casting and gives him incentive to run away. The fire pet can be good here as well, since it will kill the other magician's pet much faster due to the DS and be even more incentive for your opponent to try and run from the pet (but less effective at stopping him should he choose to cast on you). Of course, running is a death sentence for sure, since you just sit back and blast away, but people would almost always try.

I just thought of another good one I used a few times.

It only works well if the other mage isn't using an earth pet. Get out your own earth pet and root kite. Root the other mage's pet, then send yours on the other mage. If you can nuke him down before the other mage's pet breaks root it's a quick easy victory. I think most mages expect this when you pull out the earth pet though, and will stand on top of their pet and try and kill yours. If yours dies, before you can kill the other mage, you're screwed.

In theory I would use a earth pet, to root his air pet ( i think most would use air for the stun), I would get out of range and use the shock of blades line to DPS the Mage. I would probably lead with a nuke to his pet from the dismiss summoned line though. Just speculation though.


Kelvir D'Vinn
Tier'Dal Conjurer
Neriak Commons

What level are we dueling? After level 50 the air pet is amazing.