Did I make a mistake by choosing to play wizard?

[sox7d]

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

PoP killed the big world and community feeling with those dumb PoK books and the dumb PoK zone having everything you needed in one place.

Thanks, every single orc hill group I've been in on this server. What's your opinion on WoW?

[Decad]

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

see title. I was attracted to their high burst damage but after browsing the forum it seems people think pretty lowly of wizards. Could some of the more experienced players offer some clarification on this? Should I reroll? I'm fine with being useless for my low and middle levels, but I'd at least like to be useful at the higher end/raid type stuff. Seems like the general consensus here is that even when wizards are useful, someone else can do it better.

A wizard is a painful class to play from 1-59. Make friends, lots of friends so they can get you in groups which minimize the pain very significantly.

A wizard's life start at 60 in a raiding guild. You will be wanted/welcomed with open arms.

The key thing to playing a wizard in a raid is doing insane amounts of damage yet do not overtaunt. If this is your first time playing EQ, this can only be achieved if you properly play your class and learn your spells. Veteran EQ wizards from live probably experienced all this hard work previously so they can afford to take the easy route here.

As for other roles where some wizards like to do (eg pulling in a raid) are all additional dimensions to the class but the above still IS the most important aspect of a wizard

All the above is written in assumption you learn and play your class.

[Servellious]

Wizards are amazing if you want to do end game raid content. I mean amazing I will be leveling one mysef

[iruinedyourday]

60 shaman wizard warrior, is gonna be a nice lookn sig!

[Nirgon]

No

I beat rogues on parses and we steal xp on raids with wizard/bard groups np

Very good class

Just pay attention to your tank doing casting animations (he's proccin') on raid mobs... that's a governor for me on how hard to push da button

With SK tank spamming agro on fights that don't need defensive you can basically go completely ape shit

[Phased]

I remember grouping with wizards, druids, necros, even rangers(wow!) a decent amount on live. Every group needed a healer, slower, and a snarer.

If you went into Sebilis if you didn't have someone to snare you were gonna have a bad time. On here, mobs seem to crawl away when they're ridiculously low making snare a waste of mana.

[Nirgon]

I can evac a group if there's a train, port around the world obviously, make other see invis/invisible

I blow up raid mobs, I make lots of pulls in sky possible (like keeper of souls PH to start raid)

I can quad sea furies on my private island on red at 3:1 blue value

We need the classic stamina system and things will be much more balanced between caster and melee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]





http://www.afterlifeguild.org/Thott/wizards/ (caution: may require a highschool level of education)

^ read dat... look at what wizard sare doing on the short fights in game atm (fix unresistable spells like lures pls god, I get partials in sky sometimes since whatever patch)

[sox7d]

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

I can evac a group if there's a train, port around the world obviously, make other see invis/invisible

I blow up raid mobs, I make lots of pulls in sky possible (like keeper of souls PH to start raid)

I can quad sea furies on my private island on red at 3:1 blue value

We need the classic stamina system and things will be much more balanced between caster and melee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.afterlifeguild.org/Thott/wizards/

^ read dat

you just described a druid

[Nirgon]

Yeah? They can use their ports for sky pulls and destroy raid mobs huh? Show me.

[Daldaen]

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

Yeah? They can use their ports for sky pulls and destroy raid mobs huh? Show me.

I once landed a DoT and 3 full Wildfires on Gorenaire and healed some people.

It was sweet.

Druids can do some pretty baller pulls too. I pulled Ghost of Kindle from undead fort down to Yael area single once. Total boss mode.