Wizard vs Magician epic

[Ele]

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

Both the wizard and mage epics are pretty hard to get. In Velious the main bottleneck for the wizard epic (Venril Sathir) doesn't change, so I'd say the wizard one is a bit harder to obtain.

It's possible to get them, but you'll need to join a top raiding guild to do so.

VS becomes a 3 day spawn on April 17, 2001.

[Nefarum]

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

VS becomes a 3 day spawn on April 17, 2001.

Interesting.

[skootr]

I'd rank both epics pretty important to the classes. 800hp rune +3 mana regen that stacks with every other mana regen is pretty sweet with how mana dependent wizards are to be of any use. Manastone makes it crazy good, but that is only in old world zones. If I recall correctly Manarobe cast time isn't the best so was not worth using until mounts came out and you could med/cast.

[Nefarum]

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

If I recall correctly Manarobe cast time isn't the best so was not worth using until mounts came out and you could med/cast.

You can get off exactly one manna robe cast between server ticks, so sit, cast, sit is faster than just meditating.

[dafier]

Again I did both Mage epics in Velious time frame. It wasn't too difficult. Bottle necks were Water and Earth staff. They literally had me waiting for weeks if not months. The pay off was well worth it.

[Velerin]

1 vs. 1 the mage epic is a beast, esp for things that can be stunned. He has a ton of hp (4k unbuffed) and 50 point self DS. Adds still kick his ass since mages have no cc other than root nets however so you can't really solo HS, seb, etc. without burning a lot of nets to split a camp.

[nuuki]

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

1 vs. 1 the mage epic is a beast, esp for things that can be stunned. He has a ton of hp (4k unbuffed) and 50 point self DS. Adds still kick his ass since mages have no cc other than root nets however so you can't really solo HS, seb, etc. without burning a lot of nets to split a camp.

Oh ok. So then is it in a raid setting that the crazy pet truly shines or just adding a lot of dps to xp/camp groups?

[Velerin]

He really shines in duos/trios where you can utilize his tanking abilities and great DS. I haven't parsed but I don't know how much better his raw dps is over a well positioned focused 60 water pet.

[wycca]

You can corpse bank, but I was thinking of summon pet, wait 10 minutes, summon new staff, wait 10min for spell cool down = three pets good to go.