Why Wizards Are So Bad?

[Laugher]

Perhaps if you'd like to see how a class does on the high end here create a toon /beta it and go to velious beta, beta buff will max you out so you can mess around n see how they are high end here

[Thulack]

So lets go over how your day has gone:

Mages = Lame
Wizards = Lame

Maybe you should attempt to play a melee class next. Report back in 3 hours.

[Nirgon]

Next I will try quadding with a rogue (or rouge to some).

[Glenzig]

Start a Necro. Solo your way to glory.

[Velerin]

Wizards have it roughest in classic leveling. That's why eq added all kinds of caster based things later: focus effects, more ft, crit nukes, more damage on nukes. If you look at classic low lvl nukes compared to modern low level nukes they upped the damage and efficiency a lot. Don't remember when these changes were made.
At your level its rough because melee with trash kunark weapons are hitting harder with each hit then your nuke is doing.

[Ele]

just solo till 56, then you can join the chardok ae group and get 60 in a few days

[Daldaen]

Strike of Solusek, Harvest of Druzzil, AAs, Focus Effects and Flowing Thought fixed wizards.

PoP was an awesome point of balance. Rangers, Wizards and Druids - generally deemed to be some of the weaker all around classes here, become godlike with the addition of AAs and Luclin/PoP spells.

*Miss PoP*

[daasgoot]

With all of the great information people have posted aside...

leveling up to 4 and making a decision on the classes ability to be successful/useful is just stupid.

[Frug]

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

As time has moved on people have realized killing 5 mobs for 5000xp each is significantly better than killing 2 mobs for 9000 experience each and have moved to a sustained DPS model that just doesn't work with the burst of wizards.

In general you are 100% correct, but even in '99 there was a fairly well known tenant that the best XP in the game was a constant supply of blues, even though people didn't want to believe it.

Just like the thing most often last heard from rednecks is "Hold my beer and watch this", the last thing that is heard before a group wipe is "We can do harder."

[loramin]

What everyone else said about wizards is absolutely true ... at higher levels. But at low levels EVERY class is basically a warrior. I think you're expecting too much from a low level char.