i can't decide between mage or beastlord suggestions pleaseFollow

Go with the mage since you already have gotten em to 55 but then a gain beastlords are fun to play

Go with the cleric instead. Easiest class in game play, you have all sorts of pets, and folks just love you.

Or go play with BL.

Or you could just go necro.

If you enjoy getting in a Melee to assist your pet roll a BL With the potions available down time will be low. If you want to sit back and nuke while your pet tanks or if you plan 2 boxing Roll the Mage or a Necro

the problem with mobs 55+ is that they hit really hard in general. I doubt even a beastlord would solo well at that level though slow helps immensely. The nice thing about pure caster class is that you can usually do the mob in before it affects you. though they might chew up your pet. Look me up sometime i'm almost always needing shurikens unless i get them from a guildie. name is Korkoril.

Edited, Wed Nov 16 14:48:23 2005 by galthran

Lanobil, he was asking which of two pet classes he should play.
The cleric is the best and easiest pet class to play.

cleric's are a great pet class, can have up to five pets in a group, and don't forget the cleric's hammer.

Someone is very humor deprived, I'd guess...

My op to the OP did say, after telling how good the cleric is as a pet class, was to go BL.
He didnt seem confused. Lanobil maybe, but not the OP.

Necros do a LOT outside of their pets. Example - they have some of the highest DPS sustained on raid mobs (if not THE highest, it's impossible to parse DoTs and necros are very tight-lipped about their DPS). Also Mind Wrack and twitch to feed the group/raid mana, while not the most fun thing to do, is valuable. In the rare event that you're in a group fighting in an undead zone (both higher-level hotspots, Charasis and ChardokB, have undead in them), you can slow, mez, and charm a pet. Out of the 3 pet classes mentioned in this thread, necros are probably the least pet-dependant (pet is just extra DPS for soloing) and the most desirable for a raid (BSTs are probably more desirable for pickup groups for slows).

well i decided im going to keep the mage, now im a lvl 55mage with about 300plat to my name anyone have any ideas where i can solo better plat then RM hill giants or the ice giants in perma? i don't mind farming items that i have to sell in baz i just want to get some plat so i can afford my lvl 55-60 spells.

necros do make good mana factories you are right there. but this guy is tossing up a mage he already has to rolling a new beastlord. necro DPS never even came into his original post. Mages can solo just as well as wizzies/necros/shammies based on skill of use. If you can't use the char then it's likely you'll fail anyhow. Beastlords are cool since they can get in on the action and cast really useful spells at the same time. But he already has a mage at 55 and according to one of his previous posts only has 300 plat so rolling a new char is going to be tough. Now with KEI and buffs mages will have very little down time since they are an everlasting source bandages plus they can heal their pets. Mages can solo just fine i have quite a few guildies that do it with mages all the time. Since he has the mage already stick with it till 60's and sell pet toys that way you'll have lots of cash flow then roll the beastlord

Here are my 2cp if you are still asking for opinions.

A beastlord is a better soloer then a mage. But not by a wide margin. The primary difference between the 2 is that a beastlord can easily handle adds once slow has landed and mages have abit of difficulty in htis.

On the positive note for mages they will progress abit easier then a beast and are not gear dependent. Once they have there spells they are good to go. With a beastlord things like hp,ac, weapons etc come into play.

Realy this comes down to do you want to play a caster or a melee. I have always like the melee classes because of the dramatic difference aa and gear makes. It makes the progression seem more fun, but then again that is my opinion and yours is the one that counts.

Mage can chain pet better,beastlords blech if only they had had beast forms instead of pets.The biggest advantage over mages is slow and their tougher.