At 07:56 PM 05/25/1999 -0400, you wrote:

>From: Gregory Egan <gemd@...>
>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.

I like our highly-mobile artillery battery image as it currently stands.
Buffs and protections would cause our image to stray away from that... but
damage shields, now there is a different story. Radiation needs to be
seriously revamped or made the first in a series of spells.

Radiation as it stands does a dinky 2-pts of damage. I can do better than
that closing with the mob in melee - an idea which my character finds
positively abhorrant. Our melee skills are the worst in the game (or so
I've heard), yet we get more damage out of them than O'Keil's Radiation?
What does this say about the spell? Assuming a non-magical weapon, we
should never have to use a melee skill to do more damage than a spell
against any critter.

If there is room for improvements with out upsetting the game balance, make
them. I'm playing a low level character right now (3rd circle) and I've
got a long, long way to go. I just don't want to get there and find out
the class is not all I been expecting it to be.

-Pennaggolan, 3rd Circle Wizard of Felwithe