I agree thet our spells need a lower resistance against reds, but i dont
know how we work in combination with enchanter wich lower resistance to
higer reds and us nuking after this? maybe this was idea of vereant crew,
anyone have experience with combat of wizard 16 or more lv with similar lv
enchanter wich cast debuffs to lower resistance on high reds to confirm this?
At 18.28 25/05/99 -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.
>
>Ok, had to start a new paragraph for my rant... Verant is speaking out of
>both sides of their mouth. On one side they encourage us to group saying
>that our root doesn't need to be reliable because we should be grouping.
>But then when we go and form a group that is strong enough to take on reds
>(and lets face it any full group of 6 players can EASILY take on reds that
>will resist offensive spells) we wizards are about as useful as a toddler
>with a stick. At level 16 my only real capability was to free those who
>were rooted and couldnt back off with my cancel magic spell (which almost
>every other magic using class has as well, BTW).
>
>I TOTALLY sympathize with the orignator of this thread. I was in unrest
>last night in a large group and we fought lots of reds that my spells had no
>effect on. It is the worst feeling to just sit there useless and watch your
>group getting beat on. I could cast cancel magic (which was only needed on
>1 occasion in 3 hours) and my o'keils radiation (the damage shield I got at
>level 4 which does a measly 2 damage). With my runed totem staff I could
>barely scratch any creature that could resist my spells, so I was basically
>just there sucking xp. Sure against the few evens and blues we faught I was
>wonderful, but in a group of 6 people you will have to fight blues and evens
>all day long to get decent xp. Big groups are *supposed* to go after hard
>creatures, yet in these cases the wizard becomes the most useless class
>while EVERY (and I do mean EVERY) other class can still be VERY useful!
>
>Now I won't just cite a problem but also suggest a solution. The solution
>is either to give us weak spells that cannot be resisted (the necros already
>have one it's the lifetap series), make our DD spells less resisted, but do
>less damage against higher level creatures, or even better still give us
>some utility spells (buffs? damage shields? spheres of protection?) that
>can be cast on party members.
>
>It's not hard for anyone who groups in big groups to see that wizards become
>the most useless member. It's no wonder it takes hours to find a group
>because a cleric, druid, bard, ranger, warrior, rogue, paladin, magician,
>enchanter, necromancer, or shaman (gee thats every single class isnt it?) is
>more useful than a wizard when fighting tough monsters in a large group.
>
>Am I just not seeing something right here? Does verant want me to go back
>to soloing? I am very confused here maybe someone else can shed some light
>on this but it sounds like when we do what Verant wants we Wizards get the
>short end of the stick.
>
>-Solric
>
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sergey Bukhman [mailto:sergeyb@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 3:25 PM
>To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eq_wizards] Wizards
>
>
>From: Sergey Bukhman <sergeyb@...>
>
>
>All I can offer you now, is get a Runed Totem Staff and whack away. I
>usually do a good 16-19 dmg at level 13. My miss to hit ratio is bad, of
>course, so this is not as good as it sounds.
>
>--
>Qenelin
>
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