Wizard dps vs melee in groups?

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Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Reality check: no, they don't. A L60 wizard has 3000 mana and can do perhaps 12k damage in full burn mode. A L50 mob has 10k hp. If you pull 4 krup shamans, the wizard is not going to blast them all (or even two of them) away, or kite them with aoe snare. Is the wizard useless in such a situation? Of course not. But if you replace the wizard with a good enchanter, that pull is suddenly not only no problem, but good xp.

The simple fact is that I have no idea why there is an advertisement for a new PVP server on a thread about why wizards are . . . underpowered . . . in XP groups.

A typical exp mob at higher levels has much less than 10k hp (mobs in HS north/west wings have like 4-5k hp, mobs in chardok have about 6k I think, mobs in seb/KC are about the same I believe).