While a agree with most of what you are saying, root should have a more set
duration, and I would like to see an addition to the fade--> Shadow Step
line, I must say that Shadow Step is one of my favorite spells. It has
saved my life on many occasions. Of course, it has failed on others but I
really didn't expect it to work all the time.
I would have to say that over all Shadow Step (in cunjunction with Gate
or a zone run) has saved me about a full level of exp. (level 16 now) Now
it doesn't always work perfectly, sometimes I have to cast it multiple times
to get far enough away to gate, and sometimes just once will do it. I have
seen (and experienced) it go terribly wrong, like the time I watched a
fellow wizard trying to escape from two undead pawns at the chessboard,
Shadow Step into the arms of a freshly spawned pawn. But in the end all I
know is that when the going gets too tough with Shadow Step I have a chance,
and without it not much of one.
Trystesa High-Elf Wizard on Tunare
> From: "Marziani, Michael D." <Michael.Marziani@...>
<snip>
> My main gripes (I don't have many) are that like Alhassim stated, our
> utility spells really arent very useful. I can think of maybe 2 times
that
> shadowstep has saved my life (out of the 15 times I have tried it when in
> big trouble), and not once has fade helped at all (and believe me I
tried).
> If they want to make fade completely useless, at least allow shadowstep to
> help us by giving it a minimum distance of teleport (at least enough to
> where we can start running rather than just end up behind the monster and
> get hit immediately). If we are supposedly the masters of teleport spells
> then why the heck is shadowstep and fade so random? Ok maybe these lower
> circle spells should be a little random as we are low level and maybe not
> very good at wizardry yet, but how about having a 4th or 5th circle spell
> upgrade from shadowstep to a spell that will reliably teleport us a decent
> distance in a fairly straight line in the direction we are facing? Look
at
> it this way by level 20 we have the knowledge to teleport our WHOLE group
to
> a distant location, yet we still cant teleport ourselves a mere 100 yards
> with any reliability? The fade --> shadowstep series needs another -->
???.
> Hopefully Verant has been smart enough to include a researchable spell
that
> does this, but I won't hold my breath (sorry I am getting a bit cynical
> here).
>
> -Solric of the 4th circle