Bring Back TL Boxes outside ToV

[Rygar]

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

Wizards in classic Velious are awful. Welcome to a timelocked Velious server. If you'd like to be useful on this server I suggest you reroll a Rogue, Monk or Cleric.

If you want wizards to be useful I suggest you play another version of EQ where they get instant cast ports, critical Nukes, stacking FT and focus effects.

Or just enjoy being the only class that can deal 2000 unresistable damage to a single mob for the low low price of 21 platinum per cast, and running OOM before most dragons die which drops your DPS to 0.

Also, I feel I should include the obligatory - Not Classic.

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.