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Old 09-07-2016, 12:10 PM
syztem syztem is offline
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Default wizards, nuking & aggro, raiding.

so ive played a monk/rogue 99% of my time on EQ, both on live and on various emu's. more so PVE on p99 then most where i dealt with evasion/aggro reduction mechanics then I ever recall on live. On my primal rogue, I can be #1 melee dps, and literally be the last of 40 or 80 people on the aggro list to be attacked by perma evading and lessening my threat. As a monk, well you can spam FD, or straight stay FD.

Wizards get this concussion spell, I have heard mixed rumors. That it gets resisted at all high end content, but also that despite a resist- it still works? how true is this? as I adjust to playing a wizard, I am still grappling with when to nuke, when did I overnuke too much nearly(when im dead its obvious) when to hold, etc etc. Example of a kunark fight, warrior blew 5 mallet charges on venril sathir, proc'd SoD once by 83%. I dropped 2 lure of flames, and he turned to me for a split second before warrior took aggro back, another wizard who happened to go with a 3rd lure got insta gibbed.

Now that I am 60 with lure of ice, ss, spear. I am curious how to deal with the aggro. In my old raiding guild on red the one that predated Apex(Empire) some wizards would simply burn dragon bane to OOM and then walk up to dragon and flux staff pull aggro or die to AoE's to save faction. Others would blow mana bar on nukes or dragon bane then camp out before it died(or zone in some situations). in tov its a bit easier more hp mobs to hold out and get solid aggro I guess though. Even in grouping though, when is the rightg time to drop a sunstrike on a trash npc? 60%? 50%? knowing itll do anywhere from 20-30%.

Also as far as efficiency goes, How often is lure of ice resisted in velious on bosses? do people still have to resort to flame on certain ice dragons if they don't have bane? or would sunstrikes/ice spears land on a tash/malosini/occlusion'd boss target? or is lure simply the -only- way to go other then a bane.

probably didn't ask all the right questions properly, just trying to figure out the class aggro management better. I don't want to be that wizard that always overnukes even after waiting double or triple the time what I would wait before engaging with my primal rogue.
 


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