Gaining XP as a wizard

[Captain Faceplant]

Wizards are hands down the hardest class at low levels*. There's no easy way around it unless you have a group willing to carry you.

It starts to get better at 16, when the extreme range of your bolt will let you kill most blue mobs before they even touch you. (On this server, wizard bolts act as long range DDs. I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended; mage bolts are very buggy, so they may have done that to wizard bolts intentionally because they're a much smaller part of our class. The last one is level 16, while mages still have them in the 50's). Get comfortable with your bolt distance, running/stopping quickly, and always have root/gate memmed, and you'll have no problem soloing outdoors for quite a few levels.

Your hardest time will probably be 8-15. Take advantage of the distance and damage of your level 8 bolt. Get comfortable rooting things that reach you. Knowing how to root something that's beating on you will be about 95% of your survivability.


*the exception being a level 1-3 mage, which wins because they're nearly identical to wizards until 4, but wizards can nuke for 1 point (!) more.

[fugazi]

How is enchanter aggro at 60 when nuking? I know that nuking as an enchanter up to lvl30 is suicide.

[Estu]

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

So if a 60 wizard and 60 enchanter are in a group and both do nothing but nuke, the enchanter will do more damage. The wizard is somewhat more efficient at nuking (Dementia: 675 damage for 250 mana, 2.7:1 vs Draught of Ice: 720 damage for 215 mana, 3.34:1) but the Enchanter gets 50 mana per tick while the wizard gets 30 (and that is assuming they have clarity).

Just to point out - Sunstrike is 3.59:1 (so, better than Draught of Ice). But good point about mana regen.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

How is enchanter aggro at 60 when nuking? I know that nuking as an enchanter up to lvl30 is suicide.

It's pretty bad. No one is trying to make a case for enchanters nuking to DPS though really, moreso just pointing out how wizards are subpar choices for xp groups because of their low sustained damage.

Before you "QQ MINMAXER BASEMENT DWELLER" people show up, though, I'm leveling a wizard right now. Wizards suck (overall) for normal xp groups, but ports, quadding, AE xp groups, and raids? Wizards are swell for those things! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[koros]

Wizards also get a 10% spec evoc bonus!

[ymw]

There's also something to be said for having fun even if it doesn't involve being the best at everything!

[Captain Faceplant]

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

Enchanter gets 50 mana per tick while the wizard gets 30 (and that is assuming they have clarity)

What's the source of that extra mana per tick?

[Tecmos Deception]

Theft of thought.

[Splorf22]

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

How is enchanter aggro at 60 when nuking? I know that nuking as an enchanter up to lvl30 is suicide.

If you have an SK or Paladin tanking you should be OK. If you have a warrior tanking you have to hope he has good aggro weapons. You should be able to get away with about 1 nuke per proc, which works out in theory if he has good dexterity (3 PPM with 255). Anyway there is absolutely no reason to play an enchanter like this.

Really, no one should play a wizard like that either. The most effective use of Wizard mana in a group is stunning all the nonclassically OP caster mobs we have whenever they try to cast ice comet/envenomed bolt/etc. I was grouping with Xoquil in sebilis today. We had no healer, but between his Wizard stuns on casts, a necro constantly HP pumping, and me casting bedlam/slow/stuns here we were able to keep up a L55 warrior with relatively mediocre gear at the chef. Then we CoH'd down a shaman and even that was relatively impressive IMO. Even a well played wizard is still not that great (we'd have been doing better with two enchanters for sure) but its better than just nuking.

[Captain Faceplant]

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

Theft of thought.

That only works on caster mobs though, right?