Awesome!  Thanks for the info.  Yeah, I am really digging the server so far, and I'm having a blast with some of the friends I came over here with.  Hailing the pet is something I need to try, apparently.  Looking forward to those epic pets, and someday I'll dig into the Casters Guild and find out what that's about.

I just got hooked up into EZ Server over the weekend, but so far I like what I see.  After spending some time reading threads over the course of the last couple days, I read how this server is 99% multi-boxers, and mages seem to be one of the under-represented classes (for various reasons that I read), but since I played a mage in classic EQ, I wanted to give it a go here, though it probably won't be my last character I roll up on EZ.

The one question I have is whether this server's "tuning" makes equipping pets with summoned gear (back in the day, I would summon dual blades, armor, elemental defender, jewelry bag, etc.) worth the effort, and if so, how does it work, cause, at level 35, with my 33 air pet, I cannot get the stupid thing to take gear.  It just hands it back and says "I can't use that."

Obviously I jumped on here and started looking for some info regarding this, but searches have been inconclusive, aside from the "Nobody on EZ uses a mage except for CotH... until they put out that new clicky..." and some other allusions to the uselessness of mages.  Obviously someone's playing a mage besides me, cause we have posts in the class forum, but you get the point.

For now, I am soloing, no guild (yet), and not boxing.  Never got into it back in the day, and even now it seems more probably that I could, I am just going to stay simple for the time being.  Anything I should be aware of going forward?

Thanks in advance for the advice/warnings.

Tarlam Shardonnel