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Originally Posted by skarlorn
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Don't let the haters get you down. Use your roots and snares and backup cc, use your stun to stop those pesky casters, and most of all - be ready with evac!
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It's not about 'being a hater' - it's just math. Wizard damage potential is very strictly limited by mana regen bottlenecks in classic. At 60 without clarity, never missing a med tick, and using their most efficient nuke this equates to 15-16 sustained dps potential assuming you never have the opportunity to med beyond full. That's less than bard melee dps or shaman pet dps. It's less than a third of necro pet dps and a quarter of mage pet dps. With c2, bard song, and POTG ... even factoring in specialization you're still under 40dps sustained at level 60. At lower levels where nuke efficiency is significantly lower ... think 3-5 sustained dps at level 25 assuming no resists.
That's just math - and most people who play p99 understand that math.
Wizards are a niche class who's benefits are well known:
-burst is great for raids
-ports for self friends
-quad nukes for soloing
-only porting class to hate/sky
-evac (only 1 other class can do this)
Stuns and cc are shared with numerous other classes.
I just want him to know what he's getting into. Unless with friends he will have a hard time finding groups because a group would be better off adding literally any other class in most situations ... or just leaving that spot empty.
That's not hating, that's just the truth.