Wizard twink ideas

[agentpropa]

Hey i'm looking for some items and ideas that would make wizard leveling notably easier. I'm willing to spend whatever amount on this. Are there specific items that would help here? or should i just pay for a power leveling service?

[Jimjam]

There are a bunch of items you can buy that will help a lot. Unusually many of these have a required level. Generally they are purchased from vendors, but some are created through trade skills, quested or dropped.

I am of course talking about spells! Don't feel obliged to buy them all though.

A staff of temperate flux is great; insta click fire/cold debuff. Great for tagging mobs or building aggro for kites. Speaking of kites, Jboots are also useful.

Early levels have decent hp, park yourself into a corner and you can PB AoE yourself up.

I also found a lost staff of the scorned to be a decent melee weapon to begin with (before your melee skills start to get left behind and meditate starts to become powerful). Keep it for higher levels as it is also a mana free group port to nek forest (just off EC).

These are the items I've most enjoyed on my wizard. Peg cloak and fishbone earring also good.

[Erati]

Solist Icy Wand

this will make leveling sub 20 way easier

I think you can click it at like lvl 12 which is before you can even scribe the spell it casts. You will become insanely powerful for the next 2-3 levels and will still use this wand into your late 30ies/40ies for extra damage to finish fleeing mobs to save mana.

Free damage clicky is essential for any wizard

[Crawdad]

I don't see why you'd want to dump "whatever amount" on a wizard twink. All you'll ever really need is a Staff of temperate flux and jboots. Jboots are 7k, the staff I imagine pretty cheap/bug a friend for an afternoon.

If you want to make the first 20ish levels easier, you might snag a Tolapmuj's robe and a smoldering brand or velium brawl stick... or a Rod of Annihilation if you really mean "whatever amount."

I guess if you wanted to go crazy you could get a manna robe/stone and fungus staff?


Or just pay for a PL, but at that point you're skipping the most enjoyable part of the server (sub-60 scene).

[Vallanor]

I was able to quad with my mildly twinked wizard starting at level 8 with just some jboots and some +mana items. Definitely get yourself a flux staff at level 20 to make tagging a breeze and you'll have literally everything you need to cruise to the mid-50s. Solists Icy Wand is a great suggestion if you don't feel like quadding that early.

Unlike melee classes, you can't really boost your killing efficiency by equipping regen, haste, and a good ratio weapon. One of the woes of being a caster...

Edit: Crawdad beat me to it. He's 100℅ correct on all counts.

[alsa]

if you can get a few bags of redwood wands then getting to even the low 30s are easy. just recharge them, click for instant damage. The more you have the more power they are. at least at lower levels.

After that you can't really get much more help from items before you hit 50 and able to click wizard epic. You can however get melee PLed with RoA after 30 (when damage cap is removed).

[thufir]

Solist Icy Wand

this will make leveling sub 20 way easier

I think you can click it at like lvl 12 which is before you can even scribe the spell it casts. You will become insanely powerful for the next 2-3 levels and will still use this wand into your late 30ies/40ies for extra damage to finish fleeing mobs to save mana.

Free damage clicky is essential for any wizard

this is basically the only way to "twink" your wizard effectively, with a "twink" being defined here as significantly above your combat capabilities for your level.

at super low levels the dagger of frost will feel semi-twinky, but it won't proc for you until long after you've stopped bothering with regular melee.

I guess you could probably lay down however many hundreds of k trying to find a rod of annihilation. there's some out there. or you could chew through consumables like someone else suggested. failing that, buy the icy wand and enjoy your (very) brief run of power.

[Kotopes]

Use sow potions to quad sub-34, since sow is a bit faster than jboots effect. Start at level 24 when you get Column of Lightning spell (130ish damage).

What you need to get there: Solist's Icy wand, 16x10 slot bags, level 12. Kill wisps in Erud's Crossing till all your bags are filled and your eyes bleed. Gather 158 lightstones and greater lightstones (need 2 item slots for food/water), turn them in NK and get from level 16 to level 20 quickly from all the turn-ins.

Also no matter how tempting don't turn Lightstones till you are level 16 or all your bags (including those in bank) are full.

Kill stuff to get from 20 to 24 or buy a ton of goblin ears in EC to get there faster.

[Shodo]

My list (for *any* amount) would be as follows:

1: White or Red Dragon Tooth - go to OT and summon your level 49 necro pet, level to 40 there. Pick an evil or neutral race (anything but high elf I think) so you can use the outpost to afk safely & bank all your spells.
2: Rod of Annihilation - start using this at 30+ in conjunction with pet's damage.
3: Tolapumj's Robe - for haste.
4: Pre-nerf fungi staff - so you don't die.
5: Jboots and/or SoW pots - so you don't die.
6: Oggok cleaver and a summoned muzzle of mardu for the pet, for uber damage.

The pet will eat half of your xp, but a level 49 pet can shred level 20-30 mobs so fast it won't matter.

[Doctor Jeff]

Solist Icy Wand

I think you can click it at like lvl 12 which is before you can even scribe the spell it casts.

It is the level 8 spell and does 38 damage, at level 12 you have your 90 damage nuke already. It's still goodto finish off mobs or save mana at that level.

Edit:
You want raw hp/mana, jboots, a tola robe and a velium crystal staff.

[Lojik]

Have to completely disagree with Solist suggestion, the only use i can really see for it is finishing off fleeing singles from your quad. It's not going to turn you into an effective soloer, as the cast time is relatively long, channeling is awful at that level so you'll get interrupted a lot, and root nuking is terribly inefficienct at low levels.

The best bet (unless you're a dark elf, or unless they've changed it recently) is to just buy several backpacks of bone chips and turn in to kaladim until 16,then just quad using quad spells and sow you can get in ec tunnel (plus potg or group c2 or c whatever you can get.) I don't recommend jboots or sow pots at low levels cause you need as much speed as possible to distance yourself from mobs between casts in a timely fashion. Kind of a good combo with c, cause when sow wears off you'll need a new c too.

At 16 you can quad orcs in oasis,and just run back to ec tunnel for buffs. At 20 karanas are good, bind in ec and gate back to nk after buffs. At 24 the world is your oyster.

Look up the runes needed for pillar of fire, column of lightning, and circle of force and just msg a high level wizard to combine em for you. Merchant diving is a good way to find runes, particularly cabilis and fv

[Shodo]

Also, to finish answering your question, if you're willing to spend 200k + on the list I suggested you'd be far better off just paying for a PL service until you're ready to quad and spending the rest on high-end gear.

[Lojik]

Also, to finish answering your question, if you're willing to spend 200k + on the list I suggested you'd be far better off just paying for a PL service until you're ready to quad and spending the rest on high-end gear.

Isn't a prenerf fungi staff itself worth millions of plat?

[Shodo]

Isn't a prenerf fungi staff itself worth millions of plat?

Apparently yes. I had thought I saw 200k or something but I guess I misremembered. I could never afford one either way, so I probably didn't pay too much attention.

[Kotopes]

I was able to kill ALL 9 wisps that spawn on Erud's Crossing island continiously, and most of my gear was crap (few cheap loam pieces, Green silk drape etc.). Untill about level 16-17 the solist wand is a powerlevel tool still due to relatively low mob's hp (lvl 9-14 mobs rarely get over 200-250 hp).

[Spyder73]

if you have like 20-40k - This is what I would suggest

Jboots
Tolapumj's Robe
Diamondine Earrings(x2)
Platinum Fore Wedding Ring (x2)
Black Hooded Cloak
Golden Efreeti Boots
Platinum Tiara
Cone of Mystics
Frost Covered Tomb/Book of Obulus/Book of Twilight
Tinker bag (2 makes leveling so much better - 3-6 is the G life)

Fill in the rest with cloth you get off mobs and get upgrades in those slots as you level (like the no drop bracelet in KC, ect, ect)

[Lojik]

Actually...I've read the skyshrine quest robe can be clicked at level 1...now that would be a pretty sick twink item.

[Spyder73]

Actually...I've read the skyshrine quest robe can be clicked at level 1...now that would be a pretty sick twink item.

I dont think you could do any damage so getting the faction would be nigh impossible, can you get faction hits from resists? I thought you had to do at least 1 point of damage, which a level 1 would not be able to do to the giants unless you melee and then you would be dieing every 3 seconds.

There might actually be level requirements to get into Kael? level 10 sounds about right?

[Lojik]

I dont think you could do any damage so getting the faction would be nigh impossible, can you get faction hits from resists? I thought you had to do at least 1 point of damage, which a level 1 would not be able to do to the giants

You don't need to do damage, most wizards just tag with flux staff for faction.

[Spyder73]

You don't need to do damage, most wizards just tag with flux staff for faction.

You wouldn't be able to land anything on level 50 giants at level 1?

[Vallanor]

I believe you can also get faction from buffing someone with aggro. Wizards get See Invis and O'Keils Radiation at level 4.

Edit: And now that I think about it, I'm nearly certain you get faction even on a resist. I've tagged things in WL groups with a flux staff that is occasionally resisted and don't remember ever not getting faction.

[Siberious]

I can confirm wizzy can flux staff tag, resists still work, to get faction hits for ally CoV. Did this on my Wizzy somewhere between 27-34.

[Vibe]

Resists and buffin players with aggro does give u faction hits

[mr_jon3s]

Couple of twink items I would go for.
http://wiki.project1999.com/Coldain_Skin_Gloves
http://wiki.project1999.com/Coldain_Skin_Boots