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mai.cj · #21 03-20-2020, 09:26 PM

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Just like I wouldn’t recommend Dark Elf Warrior, a Gnome Cleric or an Bertox worshipping Enchanter.

Why not? (Genuine question.)

mai.cj · #22 03-20-2020, 09:27 PM

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Only so many have had time to gear a Wiz

I thought casters in EQ were not very gear dependent. Are wizards different?

magnetaress · #23 03-20-2020, 09:41 PM

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I thought casters in EQ were not very gear dependent. Are wizards different?

Sort of, they are probably the most gear dependent caster. I mean, a naked erudite or DE wiz is still pretty fierce.

Still. Clicky stuff makes a wiz more godlike, especially outdoors. Jboots, staff of temperate flux, solists icy wand, clicky nuke robe.. etc.

Lots of peridots, eventually the elite epic.

Now. Having some decent AC/hp in the early levels makes a huge difference on a wizard too as they pretty much just die as soon as they are OOM.

magnetaress · #24 03-20-2020, 09:43 PM

Additionally, and I am making this a separate post for a reason. As a lvl 43 necro... there are mobs I am soloing, where I wish I was a wizard, I would destroy these mobs, they live in a high ZeM zone with a 6 minute timer. This would be so much easier as a wizard. I would never die. Sometimes my necro dies because there isn't proper room to fear kite, or line of site issues. Or I just get owned by spell dmg.

ldgo86 · #25 03-20-2020, 09:46 PM

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Additionally, and I am making this a separate post for a reason. As a lvl 43 necro... there are mobs I am soloing, where I wish I was a wizard, I would destroy these mobs, they live in a high ZeM zone with a 6 minute timer. This would be so much easier as a wizard. I would never die. Sometimes my necro dies because there isn't proper room to fear kite, or line of site issues. Or I just get owned by spell dmg.

Tell me more about these mobs in a high ZeM zone on a 6 minute timer

Vizax_Xaziv · #26 03-20-2020, 09:52 PM

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I recently got back into p99 and started fresh on Green server about 3 weeks ago, I've always played a Wizard. I am currently level 39, haven't been pushing as hard as I can to level but I've been on a grind so to speak to get to 50 and catch up.

Wizards are tricky, they can either be a huge waste of time exp and group space or they can be amazing. They can help CC (which I usually don't) if it comes to that I tend to take a mob myself and just burn it down. It's risky, but if circumstances dictate that I root then they are pretty dire circumstances. Most of the content I am grouped up on I can solo fairly efficiently. So taking a mob and burning it and eliminating it entirely is just as good as CC.

Good wizards keep some in the tank at all times regardless what happens. No class is more worthless than a Wizard that is oom. I have saved groups from wiping just by being able to burn down a caster, or a healer, or just any mob that is loose on a healer.

They are just like any class in old school EQ. When played right they are very beneficial and very useful, when they aren't they are dead weight. I am coming up through the ranks and see a lot of other wizards doing the same. They aren't easy starting out with no gear. They are much more efficient when they are twinked. So that's probably why there isn't many of them at the top right now. That being said a good wizard player can play basically naked, with minimal gear all the way up to 50.

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