Do wizards do decent for solo if needed?

[Messianic]

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

Just make an erudite wizard and get some relatively cheap + mana items and you're GTG.

I'd go with +hp gear until about 14-16.


Actually, with even average gear, a wizard can quad kite easily 26 on. I discovered what I called Full-speed quadding at 26 on mammoths in EF. It was incredible exp, and getting snare at 29 was icing. Here's my recommended progression as someone who soloed exclusively to 55:

1-16 - Junk till 4, EC 4-9, Wisps 9-13ish. Do the greater lightstone quest in NK 9-15. Great cash. 13-16 Oasis.

Here's your newb strategy: Find a good twohander; Lost Staff of the scorned or Dagger of Frost are great, great newbie weapons. If you're lucky enough to have a Solist's after 12, this is easymode. Battlecasting (casting between melee strikes) is actually pretty effective. Far more effective than attempting to root nuke at this stage.

16-20 - I did the Heart Spiders in Upper Guk near the Lguk Dead Zoneline since as an erudite I wasn't kos to frogs and could sit and watch them pass me by. Great gems, easy exp. This was pre-kunark, so there might be better places there.
20-24 - This was sort of hard pre-kunark. I did I'd recommend LoIO.
24-31 - Mammoths. Full Speed quad kiting.
31-35 - Giant Skels in rathe mts near lake rathe ZL is what I did. Usually no one around. Safe, easy.
35-42 - The two NK guards on the bridge near the SK zoneline and the two NK guards at the tower. I'd pull the two at the bridge with tempfluxstaff, run full speed to the tower, pull those two, run in circles, snare, have fun. It crushes your qeynos factions obviously. In lieu of this there are a ton of places to do basically the same thing in WW, FM, etc. Giants, Brutes, etc.
42-44 - Yetis in DL.
44-51 - Bloodgills. Bloodgills. Bloodgills. There is absolutely no better soloing in the game for wizards at this level than bloodgills in terms of exp. Why? Bloodgills have a level range one higher than spectres and around 400-600 less hp. It's incredibly easy.
51-53 - Spirocs in TD (I actually discovered a pretty fun way to quad kite DE guards in Neriak - Commons over the water. It's a lot of fun and better exp than spirocs or raptors through 54, but takes some skill)
53-55 - Raptors in TD


Exp slows down so considerably at 55 that I got demoralized and quit. Each quad kite of raptors - even all blues, even with some vicious raptors - is around 1% of a level. And your med times are around 8-10 minutes IIRC. Do the math.

At 55, If you have friends that will get you into good Seb/KC groups, do that instead.