Okay, I guess it is bad I come on here to give my observations, but here
they are:

Well I have discovered the wonders of doing the most damage to a Monster,
They come right at you. Hunt you till you cry, and then kill you, no matter
what your friends do to try to save\taunt\interpose for you. I have to
stand so far back that I don't even get the combat messages or sounds, and
that doesn't even work all the time. Yes I'm kicking ass and taking
names... but at what cost... (It was great when a dwarf was complaining
about me being in the group as a exp. stealer when I shocked of lighting
once too often and the monster left the party 100 yards back in preference
for me. :) shut him up quick *chuckle*)

Next I have discovered the POWER of the druids... What I'm about to relate
to you was fully observed and discussed with a druid in my clan... She at
14th level gets a spell called conflageration(sp) it does 65 points of
damage for 35 mana. 1.86 dam per mana. I do at level 13, 79 points of
damage for 60 mana. 1.32 dam per mana. We casted the spells at close to the
same rate... we timed 5 of mine to 4 of hers. How can we claim to be the
masters of anything after this little show of power? btw at the end of the
test she did 260 hps dam for 140 mana and I did 395 hps dam for 240 mana.
Fruther I would like you to realize that when I get to level 14 i'll do 1
more hps dam in a slightly shorter period of time. Not bad but nothing like
i would expect from the masters of damage that I expected and still do
expect the wizard to be. (she pulled a monster off of me with her spells
once and another time she pulled the monster on herself after a set of
spells [it saved vs 2 of mine I had cast doing only 36 and 39 respectivly])
(these were wolly calfs, and orc Mounteneers/shamans)

Next, Wizards are AWSOME at learning skills. We all choose some of the
highest int scores we can get so that we have the most mana, but this also
gives us the fastest skill increase rates of anyone. I get all my skills
maxed out after about 15 to 20 attempts of the skill (5 points) at a 142
int. Now this is great! But what value does it hold for us? So we max our
skills before we get half a buble of exp into our next one? This reminds me
of the 'we do the most damage' thing but if we try to 'do the most damage'
we are monster enemy number 1!(well before the monster is dead I might add)

Ah yes the one good trend I'm seeing, Level 12 brought new found respect. I
can find a group fast now... very fast(some may be that I joined/started a
Guild). I think the fact that I stand a mile away and draw in the monster
has a demoralizing effect on our tanks and makes them understand that we are
now dealing more damage than they can. At least it is a love hate
relationship, they hate us because they love what we can do.

oh well I'll report more after I hit 16th+ :)

RutreeII
Cazic-Thul