Pet Dragons spells too rage-expensive

[WhYdOyOuThInKtHaThApPeNeD]

In short I choose option 1.

Right at the beginning of my mage run the rage cost from upgrades quickly made almost everything unusable. I thought they must have made a mistake designing the game or why isn't my rage increasing with my pet levels automatically?

Upgrade junk skills like (imo) wall & lava to keep good skills within limit.
A few times I got stuck where all 3 options were something I would lose when upgraded, so I just chose the 1 of least importance.

I never upgrade the treasure searcher above 2nd level.

For offensive as mage I used Ball of Lightning almost exclusively. Till eventually got Dive then it was that depending on the enemy. Never bothered with any other attack skill.

[KrazyDocK]

Originally Posted by WhYdOyOuThInKtHaThApPeNeD

I never upgrade the treasure searcher above 2nd level.

I would suggest upgrading treasure searcher a few levels. One of the levels will decrease the rage cost eventually. For 8 rage, I can dig 3 chests (and 2 of those useless "altars"). To me, those chests are very valuable since they can provide runes, rare spells, or wanderer scrolls.

KD

[kiwi_atrax]

Originally Posted by KrazyDocK

those useless "altars"

Wut? That black cross with poison skull and debuffs is worth every bit of rage spent on it. Poison DoT seems awesome.

[N3MES1S]

One thing u dont have in mind is that as a mage, your rage is lower by far than if u play with paladin or warrior. If u want to have high rage ammount using a mage, the only way is using items. But as a mage, u will not be interested in rage items, u will be interested on intellect items. And like the other guy said, as a mage u should be interested on pet skills that fix with your class. And dont forget, in the last level of the pet skill, the rage ammount required is lowered, so u dont need to have, for example 70 rage.