Wezards

[El-Hefe]

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

Why not? (Genuine question.)

Because Dark Elf Warriors and Gnome Clerics have the worst stats for their respective classes. You and everyone you group with will be playing with a steep disadvantage for literally hundreds of hours.

Bertox Enchanters have one of their main advantages (the ability to use illusions to access all towns) completely stripped away because instead of going agnostic or at very least a neutral god, they picked the most hated god in Norrath.

[mai.cj]

Only so many have had time to gear a Wiz

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

[magnetaress]

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

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]

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]

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

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

[Secrets]

Rogues are better in every way.

[magnetaress]

No one wants to argue with you. Stop trying to pick a fight.

Rogues are pretty awesome. They aren't wizards though.

[Taiku]

Wizards are mages that can't summon fireworks

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Now I haven't raided on Blue in a couple years, but back when I did:

I'd go so far as to say that, even with people Velious-geared, VP raids felt more "exciting" than the vast majority of NTOV raid bosses. Ironically it seemed like VP Bosses had a greater chance of wiping a raid force than most of the NTOV bosses! (now chock that up to significantly less number of players, whatever the case may be. i still tended to have more fun in VP)

[magnetaress]

30 wizards casting Sunstrike 8x = 387,600 dmg in 48 seconds. For a total sustained DPS (because everything is dead already anyway) of 8,705 DPS.

In such an instance you can utilize a two or three cleric CH chain and not even sweat them running out of mana before winning.

No one can beat that.

Now do the calculations for 13 wizards casting PBAoE x 39 trash mobs.

Now you may say, but Vulaak has 800,000 hp. Well 8,705÷2=4,037.5 and 800,000÷4037.5 absolutely for sure infinity DPS = 198.1424148607 Seconds until Vulaak loots. Or just about two and a half minutes, or 15 CHs maybe, I don't know jack shit about clerics. Half the wizards are medding or clicking robes at any given time while the other half are simultaneously nuking HARD. You can't know which is which until someone loots a Vulaak.

Pretty cool huh?