Mage buffs?

Jark · 02-21-2005, 10:23 PM

Last night I found myself in a pickup group with 4 mage-types & 1 fighter-type. I'm a level 27 troub and wanted to buff the mages, like I do in melee groups, but started wondering what I was doing. I buffed everyones defense, de-buffed the mobs, but I'm not confident I actually made a difference. I started to experiment with not-debuffing, not refreshing my buffs and didn't notice a difference. Battles were over so quickly we seldom had more than one HO (let alone time to re-roll em), I find detonating the chests a bit embarrasing & the spot was so good that tracking didn't come in very handy. As a support class I figure there should be no group I couldn't buff-up, but I suspect I may have found our weak-spot, we simply don't have alot (any?) buffs that mages find useful/desireable....people weren't running out of power so our combat-mana-regen was useless.I really wanted to pull out a combination of buffs to help out the mages....but was at a loss as to what I should be using. Any tips suggestions as to how I can add value to a mage-heavy group as a troubador?Whats our best agro-generating song-list? At times I really, really wanted to take the agro & did use charm, but re-casting random buffs didn't appear to do anything. The tank was having trouble holding agro & I couldn't figure out if it was him or the insane amounts of damage from the mages. Are some buffs better at generating agro than others?

Caa · 02-21-2005, 11:59 PM

We don't offer much for casters atm. The ones I use in caster heavy groups are:

Power regen - pretty obvious why
Songster's Luck - raises effective level so less resists and such
Raxxyl's and Niv for the hp, defensive boost

Nothing fantastic there but it gets the job done. Can they live without it? Sure. Does it help? Probably.

02-21-2005, 11:59 PM	#2
Caa Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 54	We don't offer much for casters atm. The ones I use in caster heavy groups are: Power regen - pretty obvious why Songster's Luck - raises effective level so less resists and such Raxxyl's and Niv for the hp, defensive boost Nothing fantastic there but it gets the job done. Can they live without it? Sure. Does it help? Probably. __________________ Iliad 36 Troubadour / 33 Alchemist Odys 33 Defiler / 37 Armorer Freeport, Toxxulia

02-21-2005, 10:23 PM	#1
Jark Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 68	Last night I found myself in a pickup group with 4 mage-types & 1 fighter-type. I'm a level 27 troub and wanted to buff the mages, like I do in melee groups, but started wondering what I was doing. I buffed everyones defense, de-buffed the mobs, but I'm not confident I actually made a difference. I started to experiment with not-debuffing, not refreshing my buffs and didn't notice a difference. Battles were over so quickly we seldom had more than one HO (let alone time to re-roll em), I find detonating the chests a bit embarrasing & the spot was so good that tracking didn't come in very handy. As a support class I figure there should be no group I couldn't buff-up, but I suspect I may have found our weak-spot, we simply don't have alot (any?) buffs that mages find useful/desireable....people weren't running out of power so our combat-mana-regen was useless.I really wanted to pull out a combination of buffs to help out the mages....but was at a loss as to what I should be using. Any tips suggestions as to how I can add value to a mage-heavy group as a troubador?Whats our best agro-generating song-list? At times I really, really wanted to take the agro & did use charm, but re-casting random buffs didn't appear to do anything. The tank was having trouble holding agro & I couldn't figure out if it was him or the insane amounts of damage from the mages. Are some buffs better at generating agro than others?