<<simply learn HOW to play a mage without it. It will make you a better player overall, and can accomodate for situations when Decal isn't around. >>


I am a big propenent of Eltank, and I 100% agree with this statement.


My stepson played AC for 2 years off and on, the first few months I made him learn how to play the game. First a few weeks without even buffbots, then with buffbots. After he was good at playing his melee, I set up decal and a few proggies on the computer he used.


It was actually a good thing he learned that way, he was able to play ToD soon as it came out. He hated to manual buff, so he'd bane his sheild and weapons, and keep his back to the wall, oldschool style. He didn't have much problem at all.


There are lots of plugins that make AC easier, and more fun to play. But you need to know the basics of playing a character type first.


As Drak said "I didn't say you couldn't use ELTank or any other plugins.. simply learn HOW to play a mage without it. It will make you a better player overall, and can accomodate for situations when Decal isn't around."


I couldn't agree more.

 

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I happen to have a 86th level Battle mage. He doesn't get much playing time as I prefer archers/melees, but every once in a while he dusts himself off to see the world. I know how to play a mage (though not very well), but you probably wouldn't want me as a support mage.


All 3 of my archers are 3 school and I have their spelltabs set up for buffing ease.

Along with a 76th level 3 school Tank spear character and a 107th level 3 school UA trade mule.


I don't know the pros/cons between ELTank vs LifeTankXI as that I've never used either one.

 

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Everyone who reads this post now knows who are the princes and queens and elite of ac -gives me goosebumps to see such perfection and blue-bloods in gamers.

Oh Oh oh.. wait, so which one am i? ;P

 

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Or I chalk it up to some people being smart enough to figure out how to do things without a plugin.

 

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No way to prove it but I bet ac would have been dead 2-3 years ago without decal - just too much a drag to play the mage the PURE way.

I do just fine with my level 180 mage and no decal help.


The trick to playing a mage is having your spellbar organized and knowing how to play from your keyboard instead of using the mouse.


With that said, yes playing a mage is the most difficult character to play. A mage can be the most frustrating and most rewarding at the same time.


~Duri

I agree that mages are the hardest to purely play. That also is balanced by the fact that they are one of the most powerful classes.


If you want a powerful character, then that is a mage, but along with that comes the difficulty of playing that mage. Before Decal and macros, it was a lot more difficult and there were less mages overall. Then with the advent of mage plugins, we got an influx of mages who didn't know how to play a mage. It's always been that way.


Look at other MMOs on the market today... every single one of them that has powerful mage classes are a bit difficult to play.. DDO, WoW, etc.. playing a mage takes work. It's rewarding because of the pure power a mage has, but the tradeoff is it takes skill and practice.

come on now how hard is it to realy play a mage........ push pause walk away! 8)

j/k mages are a pain in the butt

mage all month , melee for patchday

1 i'm lazy and 2 well i guess i don't need a 2 since 1 covers it all


it's all good either way, i played most of my toons to high lvl without macroing "old school" high lvl

but once i found eltank , life was grand. able to do more than one thing at a time ingame.

I remember those days, too difficult for many to play a mage, let alone just learn the spells. Once split pea came along I remember a plus to trading a mage accoutn was if it came with a split pea file. Then Arcane Knowledge came out, and combat macros, mages were easy "to play" after that.

 

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