I see where your coming from on making a wizard "different". Wizards are 99%
direct damage. It does get boring after awhile, med. nuke nuke, med. repeat
as necessary.
While a necromancer has a pet, mage gets a pet, enchanter gets a ton of
spells and each class can use some direct damage. Shamans and druids... well
they are just great and have a ton of diversity. However we are wizards and
the exact opposite of warriors. Warriors do nothing but bash in close combat
and they are damn good at it. Wizards do nothing but destroy with magic and
they are damn good at that. We are the only class that can teleport to other
planes "although secret entrances do exist for the people that don't want to
find a wizard". Our travel spells are very nice as are our area affect
spells at high levels with a party. You pay a price with power and that
price is a lack of diversity I think. Truely no one can come close to the
damage a wizard can do in less then 5 seconds. Truely a sight to see when a
20th leve MOB is beating on your level 8 party and you can't hit it, then a
36th level wizard walks by we yelled for help, he casts one spell and the MOB
dies like that.

Diversity Suggestions..
Wizard Only Special Robes and more graphics for them. I must say the ones
they have now are great, but more couldn't help. Again more quests and fix
the broken ones, this is everquest after all.

I for one belive in the power of the wizard and I do know that brad and
verant have absolutely no intent of changing them. I quote "Wizards are by
far the most balanced casting class and to change anything to them now would
destroy 1 years worth of game balancing".

Adaar
Eruidte Wizard Welcoming all comments =)