I disagree. I think O'Keils radiation is a waste of time when soloing. The reason is because it only lasts about 15 seconds or so. If you are in a battle with more than one creature, you're probably going to die anyway. Not all the time, but a LOT of the time. O'Keils might be ok against a lot of creatures. But it doesn't do enough damage to kill anything by itself.. So, you'll die before they do. (except goblin whelps, etc) ..and if you're fighting those still, then you should be trying for one on one fights only. Wizards are basically looking for one on one fights when solo'ing, so they can time their castings between hits. O'Keils only does 2 dmg per burn, so at higher levels it is almost useless. The only way to rack up dmg on these is to cast them repeatedly. It doesn't stack, so you've got to cast on others. IE. Tanks. Verant made the game this way on purpose.
Drev
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> From: McGraw, T. David[SMTP:Mcgraw.Thomas@...]
> Reply To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 8:15 AM
> To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eq_wizards] Re: O'Keill's Radiation
>
> From: "McGraw, T. David" <Mcgraw.Thomas@...>
>
> O'Keils Radiation is best used when soloing. It is relatively low in mana
> cost and if you get attacked by more than one critter it can help turn the
> battle around. Of course I rarely solo anymore so I don't memorize it.
>
> Yours,
>
> ~Aereuss Ravins of Tarew Marr
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCartney, Michael R
> [mailto:Michael.McCartney2@...]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 11:03 AM
> To: 'eq_wizards@onelist.com'
> Subject: [eq_wizards] Re: O'Keill's Radiation
>
> From: "McCartney, Michael R"
> <Michael.McCartney2@...>
>
> Ok, I know that O'Keills Radiation seems useless.. and in
> generel it is. However, let me give you an example of how it saved my life,
> once. We were hunting in Unrest.. (party of 5 or 6 level 11-14s).. We're
> doing fairly well.. avoiding the really tough ones, etc.. etc.. Our tanks
> are doing ok too, but only one of us has a magical weapon, and non magicians
> in the party. Anyway.. we get attacked by a dark boned skeleton. This
> thing was hitting us for HIGH damage, and we almost decided to run from the
> very start. The warriors had the thing down to half health, and it resisted
> almost EVERYTHING I cast at it. So.. I hit all of our tanks with O'Keils
> Radiation. 2 dmg here, 2 dmg there.. eventually they started adding up..
> and the health of the skel started dropping quicker. I guess what I'm
> saying is... if you have 4 people hitting a monster that is resisting your
> spells... you can use O'Keils radiation on your tanks.. and it WILL get
> through.
>
> Just MHO.
>
> Drev
>
> > ----------
> > From: shypht[SMTP:evanschu@...]
> > Reply To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
> > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 10:18 AM
> > To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
> > Subject: [eq_wizards] Re: O'Keill's Radiation
> >
> > O'Keills Radation is a damage shield. You cast the spell
> on yourself or another person, and everytiem the monster does melee damage
> to them, it reflects back some damage. This spell only does 2 damage and I
> find it to be useless, the Magi damage shields are MUCH MUCH better. At lvl>
> �4 it was reflecting 5 damage, compared to mine that only did 2, and I am
> pretty sure that the higher-lvl ones dish out more. I am not sure if we get
> any more damage shields tho.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Teri < greenidminx@...>
> > To: eq_wizards@onelist.com < eq_wizards@onelist.com>
> > Date: Sunday, April 18, 1999 12:00 PM
> > Subject: [eq_wizards] O'Keill's Radiation
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm a little confused as t o the effect of O'Keill's
> Radiation.� Would
> > someone be so kind as to enlighten me to its' proper
> purpose and
> > usage?
> > �
> > I'm a level 6 wiz on Fennin Ro.� Please say hello if
> you see me about.
> > �
> > =)
> > �
> > Ximena
> >
> >
>
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