Why Wizards Are So Bad?

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

That Zurnansdndfthium fellow has serious issues with EQ and should play something else.

Too many players making conjecture on high end play (especially p99 play) without having actually done it / doing it. No, your fucking class R trakanon kill isn't how shit goes down. Not even close.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Admittedly I'm not sure if I could've stomached leveling a mage without skyfire and then chardok AOE. Shit is just tedious. But boss killing really is the pinnacle of blue 99. If you do raid in the high end scene, it becomes the vast majority of your playtime.

[Meiva]

I find quading satisfying. Back in '99 it likely would've been tedious. Now-a-day I'll finish a quad, and then have around 10min to do something else before I'm ready for the next. Browse, watch a stream, maybe play a match on Hearthstone.

I'll group with my monk when I wish to be engaged constantly.

[IzHaN80]

This post isn't about Wizards state at high level, but discussion about Verant's logic about how you're supossed to solo past level 4 just with your nukes and your newbie weapon, when a single nuke deals about 8% hp of a dark blue con mob, while they hit you for about 12% of your hp per swing. Not to mention that you don't have enough mana pool to finish off a dark blue con mob on your own, while the pet classes can just sit and watch their pet wack things on their own.

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by IzHaN80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This post isn't about Wizards state at high level, but discussion about Verant's logic about how you're supossed to solo past level 4 just with your nukes and your newbie weapon, when a single nuke deals about 8% hp of a dark blue con mob, while they hit you for about 12% of your hp per swing. Not to mention that you don't have enough mana pool to finish off a dark blue con mob on your own, while the pet classes can just sit and watch their pet wack things on their own.

you not suppose to [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
at lev 1 you kill lev 1s
at lev 2 you still kill 1s cause its safer and faster
at lev 3 you can move onto lev 2s
at lev 4 you should still kill 2s
at 5, you can move onto 3s
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[IzHaN80]

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

you not suppose to [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
at lev 1 you kill lev 1s
at lev 2 you still kill 1s cause its safer and faster
at lev 3 you can move onto lev 2s
at lev 4 you should still kill 2s
at 5, you can move onto 3s
etc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Then why i can sit and watch while either my mage or necro can solo yellow con stuff just with the pet beating on them? The power margin doesn't makes any sense. I should be able to beat lvl 4 stuff at level 4.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by IzHaN80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Then why i can sit and watch while either my mage or necro can solo yellow con stuff just with the pet beating on them? The power margin doesn't makes any sense. I should be able to beat lvl 4 stuff at level 4.

Because EQ isn't perfectly balanced in every way, as I know has been mentioned in this thread already. "Should" doesn't mean shit on a server that is intended to more-or-less recreate oldschool EQ as it was back in the day. You wanna complain about what kind of balance "should" happen in an MMO? Then go play a modern MMO.

[Tasslehofp99]

Originally Posted by IzHaN80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Then why i can sit and watch while either my mage or necro can solo yellow con stuff just with the pet beating on them? The power margin doesn't makes any sense. I should be able to beat lvl 4 stuff at level 4.

It evens out at around lvl 34 when wizards can start killing 4 mobs at a time and mages have to split exp with their pet or waste a lot of mana to get full exp.

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by IzHaN80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I should be able to beat lvl 4 stuff at level 4.

Actually it should be difficult to beat something equal to your level. That makes sense. What makes no sense in EQ, and makes the game much more tedious and skewed towards farming, is that a Level 4 target gives 78% more exp than a Level 3 target, but a Level 53 target gives only 4% more exp than a Level 52 target. The game rewards you less and less for killing difficult targets as you level AND targets continually get more and more difficult in relation to player level as you move past the mid levels! It's stupid.

[Cecily]

Maybe you'd prefer something with quest driven leveling. I hear those games are fun.