I grow tired of the 'wizards suck in groups' notion that floats around this server. It really does make people shy away from inviting wizards and makes finding groups harder than it should be.
Every group I'm in, I generally land 1 nuke on every mob and that nuke usually does 30-40% of that mobs health. If there are 4 DPS'ers in my group, I'm certainly pulling my weight just fine. I think people also underestimate the value of 'having a wizard that is always at 70% mana or higher who can do some crazy burst DPS if things get hairy'.
So yeah, sustained DPS? Of course we lose but only when we actually run out of mana. Fortunately, 'long, sustained DPS' is a pretty rare thing. Generally mobs die fast and so often you are limited by the number of mob spawns anyways. I don't need to parse anything when I personally know I'm dealing 30-40% of each mob's health every time. If your group is killing mobs so fast that you only have the mana to nuke every other mob then... well, your group is getting some crazy xp and nobody should be complaining, especially when we aren't a hybrid with a horrible xp penalty.
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08-23-2013, 04:17 PM
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