Wizard

[Snaggles]

Bards can root rot pretty well. I’d prob have the wiz pull and park. Especially with Fetter.

For swarming you pretty much have to wait until the mobs are half health and help finish them off. With the cap to bard song hate, it would take a ton snares to build up enough hate to ensure the Wiz won’t peel off the kite.

In general though…just level up a wiz to have a wiz. I hate quadding but just dealt with it. Between the ports and spells enjoy your AFK breaks and seclusion.

[WarpathEQ]

Could have the wizzy doing normal quad kiting but using bard snare to make the mobs move even slower, agro will stay on the wizzy and bard can add AOE dmg in between snare song. More mana for nukes for wizzy, extra dps from bard, quite frankly the two of them could probably just each solo and get more than combined but its something they can do together.

[Selene]

Noooooo! Quadding is fun. Making things go boom with the game’s best nukes is no small feat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Duik]

small feat

So Gnome then?

[Gauge]

Biggest issue I had was in the mid to late 40s as the Circle of Force level 34 quad spell capped at 216 and mobs have ~3500 hp, with resists and re-bonding due to low dmg requiring so many casts, you use your whole mana pool and have to throw in a harvest to even clear them all. Probably just needed better gear! haha

[Kich867]

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

Biggest issue I had was in the mid to late 40s as the Circle of Force level 34 quad spell capped at 216 and mobs have ~3500 hp, with resists and re-bonding due to low dmg requiring so many casts, you use your whole mana pool and have to throw in a harvest to even clear them all. Probably just needed better gear! haha

You can do Spirocs I think until 51 and they only have like ~1500-2400hp, not a huge difference but a bit less.

However, I personally did Bloodgills to 51 and they have around 1300hp according to the wiki.

Have levitate up and don't be a keyboard turner, rest at the safe spot in the center of the lake above them. When they pop, run out to one side, go into water, select a goblin, spam your flux staff until you're in range to hit it, as soon as it hits turn around immediately to the surface, run to other side, repeat, look up while running to the shore and levitate will keep you above the surface.

Snare, Quad them down.

Repeat every 13 minutes.

[Goregasmic]

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

Nothing more satisfying than deleting an xp green mob with 250 dps in 7 seconds then celebrating by taking a well deserved 15 minutes afk break.

You often don't have to but it is possible when you need to. In a decent group, usually just a stun and an ice spear or two will silence most healers for good. If you feel fancy you can stun lock them.

There weren't that many chanters/bards back then. So you often found yourself in a situation where you had to help with CC. On a bad/big pull you can AE snare and just root stuff. If you need to with those DD you could peel anything and and park it. I always kept an eye on healers a thing yu can easily do with all that downtime.

Free mana clickies are nice but its high end velious stuff, most people won't have access to that while leveling. Cast time is horrendous too if I remember right but it has its uses.

[WarpathEQ]

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

You often don't have to but it is possible when you need to. In a decent group, usually just a stun and an ice spear or two will silence most healers for good. If you feel fancy you can stun lock them.

There weren't that many chanters/bards back then. So you often found yourself in a situation where you had to help with CC. On a bad/big pull you can AE snare and just root stuff. If you need to with those DD you could peel anything and and park it. I always kept an eye on healers a thing yu can easily do with all that downtime.

Free mana clickies are nice but its high end velious stuff, most people won't have access to that while leveling. Cast time is horrendous too if I remember right but it has its uses.

If your lvl 1 doesn't have high end velious gear are you really playing P99?

[Jimjam]

Too many posts on how to play a wizard efficiently. Obviously some level of efficiency is desirable, but that just isn’t the wizard’s speciality.

Wizards show boat.

Cast 3 rains in quick succession and explode people’s screen with continuous bombardment!

Summon the sword pet every mob - but don’t forget to click that mage focus before it is too late!

Amaze people with your DOUBLE DS buff (ironically probably the wizard’s most efficient source of damage, pitiful as it may be).

Don’t cc with root, kite things round with t staff. Got 4 adds? Quad them down before the group kills the main target.


Dumb fun.

[Gauge]

I am playing a Wizard currently cause it was one of the classes I never tried out back on live. Sadly, I also like to group a lot in MMO's and have only found 1 group in Paw around 29/30 and 1 group in Mistmoore around 34. Wizard is currently 47 so kinda bummed can never find groups in CoM and even witness a group of 4 just ignore and invite others as they enter the zone later to join their groups, even doubling up on Shamans or Clerics over a Wizard. So, all the above is definitely true and Wizard isn't the meta. I just play modern games for my grouping itch as needed.

On the bright side, I am really getting a lot of shows I wanted to binge, watched. I even discovered a Speed Video controller extension for my browser to adjust when an ad comes on I can go to 1600x speed and zoom through it.

On the game bright side, it is cool to be able to travel anywhere and kill anything I want to mix things up. I read that Wizards may be more wanted in the 50s but not holding my breath.