[Dolalin]

Here's one from early April, a few weeks after launch:

4/1/99

On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:04:11 -0800, Mak <ma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I was once a lvl 6 wizard and was very capable of holding my own, with Root.
>Magicains get it at a higher level I belive, but it can be almost effective as a
>pet without
>the exp loss...
I play a lvl 7 wiz. I think the root and nuke strategy is fine with
blues and may be whites but not yellows.

Yellows resist root a lot .. and white do a fairly amount of time.

If you solo and use root, and if it fails, you almost for certain die.
So it is a high rish strategy and i will only use it against blue. For
whites and above I probably would call ona a friend.

And I think root and nuke is not that efficient until level 8 or so.

If i say root and nuke a gnoll (in Qeynos Hills, which con as blue), I
almost have to dump most of my mana to kill him. Not to mention, I am
only doing ~14 pts per shock of fire. He will break free before I kill
him. It is more efficient to bash him with my worn great staff and
slip some shock of fire in once and a while.

I know melee won't work in higher levels, but melee is good at level 7
since it cut down on mana use and reduce down time (meditation).

Also, with a pet, if you see the tide is turning against you, you can
always gate out. So I would say Magician get to solo more, but he got to share exp with his pet.

I still like my wiz better though. I heard root and nuke is really
effective at higher level since you can kill in fewer shots.

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