Let me just attempt to sum up the entire future of this thread:
- Some people will point out that objectively Wizards are worse in certain ways (eg. lower sustained DPS than any other "DPS class")
- Some people will point out that objectively Wizards aren't that far off from other classes on things like sustained DPS, and have lots of other (objective) advantages
- Because it's difficult to be objective, as EQ involves so many more factors than just sustained DPS (and because the vast majority of forum posters haven't played Wizards), way more people than in either A) or B) will go off on completely subjective assessments (mostly negative) about the class
And right there you have Wizards in a nutshell. The reality is that in every era some class has to be "the worst" objectively, because Verant was not Blizzard and they did not do a perfect job on balancing. But at the same time, any class weaknesses (real or perceived) gets amplified tenfold here in the forums, and in reality while Wizards might not be quite as good as other classes in some respects, they aren't nearly as bad as everyone makes them out to be.
Play what you want, join groups, and have fun. You will be offered less groups than other classes, but you will absolutely still be offered groups, and regardless you can absolutely make your own. Moreover if you join a good leveling guild (or a half leveling, half raiding guild like ALS is now) getting groups will be even easier.
P.S. And then someday when Blue gets custom content, quite possibly decades from now, the devs could decide to make up for this era by giving Wizards a quest to earn the Manaburn AA (just as Verant did on live ... well except the quest part), and then all of the Wizards on the server will collectively laugh at everyone else as they form Wizard-only guilds and steal all the phat lewtz on the server for themselves
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