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Originally Posted by Rygar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You know, it's funny, re-reading all the dev interviews and responses from in era... the wizard community was constantly asking for upgrades, complaining that they are imbalanced.

Every time, devs would come back with a response that wizards were analyzed and fit quite well in the world of Everquest. They actually argued that having access to ports offset any warrant to increase their damage / sustained DPS.

Interestingly, Lawrence Poe was working on a series of 'Anchor' spells for the wizard that were supposed to launch in Velious. Essentially, it would prevent a mob from gating. There was going to be like 3 in the series as you leveled.

It would take 2 wizards using it to guarantee functionality on very high level mobs, but regular trash would only need 1 wizard. The only area they felt the wizard were lacking was being wanted by groups, and these anchor series was going to be their answer.

Would be interesting custom P99 content if this ever rolls out. Could have a slight bit of group utility in some dungeons (DN, Seb, PoH, etc) and definite raid utility if zoneline pulling dragons is still a thing.

I've no idea if this spell idea was ever added later or just got scrapped completely.

It sure was, in the form of an AA with 3 ranks:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki...ational_Anchor