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Originally Posted by Rasterburn
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Anybody who has watched a skilled wizzy or a druid quad-kiting in Cobalt Scar...
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That place was kind of an anomaly, though...I did that from 51-55 and it was, as you say, incredible exp and loot. I quad kited in the Scarlet desert after The Cobalt Scar, and although it was really good as well, it wasn't nearly as good xp or as easy as CS.
The problems with wizard quad kiting as a justification that they're uber soloers are as follows:
1) You can't sow yourself. Jboots become a necessity unless you want to waste a lot of time and mana (if you gate somewhere to get it) finding sows every 35 minutes. Jboots are still slower than high level sows.
2) Until 51 (Pillar of Frost), your AE spells are kinda junky in terms of mana efficiency- only a tad over a 1-1 mana-dmg ratio. Pillar of Frost is a sharp break from that and is nearly a 1-3 ratio. Atol's shackles (lvl 51 snare) is also a much better snare than bonds of force (lvl 29 snare).
Quad Kiting is still better solo xp than nearly any other option a wizard has available, but it really doesn't take off until post-50. Necros/Druids/Magi (or a well-geared monk killing blues in a good ZEM dungeon, for that matter) are far more efficient soloers, overall.