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Originally Posted by ridiculousmoose
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Thing is most 'group' wizards just do the lame one nuke per mob shit... makes it easier for them to get back to their tv show while getting free xp.
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1 nuke per mob is fine if conserving mana for a boss / healer / nuker mob or in case of evac needed. Furthermore I recall mana regen / mana pool being a bit more difficult in early grouping and sometimes 1 nuke is all there is mana for due to chain pulling. If the wizard is low on mana no one really cares, so we have to wait until the cleric is low for a group to take a short break.
If someone in the group is snaring, and the mob is gonna get 1 nuke, do it so that the mob goes into "flee" mode faster which a) allows the full damage of the nuke to impact the target and b) the melee can finish it off without getting beat on. Waiting until the mob is already in flee mode is typically a waste of mana, especially of it only takes half the nuke to finish it off. The only exceptions are if there is no snare possible, and it's gonna run and agro other stuff.
A good wizard will know when to nuke once, and when to dump nukes at a target. Especially once we have concussion and can tightly control our aggro. Stunning and rooting are great to have but very situational at higher levels, since 2 or 3 hits from a mob will wreck a wizard making the healers job more difficult. I only attempt to stun if the mob is tough and has a Complete Heal, and I only root if the chanter or bard is AFK or dead.
One problem is that many of our stuns and interrupts have a greater chance of getting resisted, resulting in a waste of mana. Another problem is that the casting time on the stun and interrupt spells make it tricky. Thunderstrike at level 29 has a 3.6 second cast time, for example, and Force Strike with a whopping 5.5 second timer. Attempting to time that so that it interrupts a heal is tenuous at best and even if timed right some other class could end up getting it interrupted wasting mana that could have been used for a straight and lower agro nuke. And on top of all of this, the recast timer for these spells is fairly long, anywhere from 12 to 24 seconds for many of our nukes with interrupt / Tishan's & Markar's lineup. So potentially would need 2 spell slots to effectively keep a caster interrupted. Again, great to have but only if there's no one else in the party that can perform these tasks.