At 06:28 PM 5/25/99 -0500, you wrote:

>From: "Marziani, Michael D." <Michael.Marziani@...>
>
>Don't mean to bash you, but this is *not* a solution. I am at level 16 and
>I notice that the higher I get, the less and less well I fare in melee. I
>have a runed totem staff as well and I can hit ok against blue creatures,
>but against a red where my spells are being resisted I can barely even
>scratch the mob in melee...

This is what I was talking about in an earlier post, but was assured by
many others that it gets better at higher levels, like in the 20's to 30's
(I'm 11 now). I thought at the time that this was a ridiculously long time
to wait for the game to get better for wizards. Why SHOULD it have to take
so long? Now I see from someone with a lot more experience than I that it
doesn't get better. I think we need to seriously petition Verant about the
shortcomings of the wizard class. We need more buff spells to help
ourselves and our parties, and spells of protection, like you mentioned. It
seems to me that this is the sort of things wizards should be able to do
anyway.

Greg (Kronan)