A viewer sent me this reply he received from GZ concerning the balance issues
with the classes, Wizards in particular. I apologize to the submitter for
taking so long to post this, but I wished to get GZ's permission to do so. So,
here it is in all its glory.... please take all discussion to the Rant message
board. Thanks!
Geoffrey Z
: "I honestly feel that most spell casting classes are pretty well balanced.
Wizards complain a lot that they don't have the versatility at higher levels -
but I also get an equal number of e-mails from Druids, saying that they wish
that they were more specialized. They feel that people would rather have a
Wizard then them - since a Wiz can do more damage, and a Cleric is better at
healing. At this point, I feel that most magic classes are very well balanced -
we won't be changing much in the future with what spells / the power of spells
that the casting classes get. Most people won't be happy with this - they feel
that their particular class is underpowered. But for every class we tweak,
other classes feel that they are now worse (we up the Wizard damage, give them
new spells, then Druids feel that they are no longer needed. We let Wizards
have DoTs, and then Necros and Shamans say they aren't needed, etc.). We are in
a pretty good balance state right now... Geoffrey C. Zatkin"
* my comment *
I think that it is imposible to belive he compares us a hardest class to play
at low lv, at middle lv and only at high lv we get a normal play what other
classes have from start with a druids wich realy have a easiest life at start
of all clases, normal middle lv wich they can KITE all time, and normal at
higer lv.
2 message is from a EQcasters
� I also put this to him about Wizards: Wizards don't really seem to be
the ultimate damage dealers they should be. They just chew through the mana too
fast for the damage they do. The other classes can do the equivalent damage
with maybe a few hundred more mana spent all up. A lot of wizards feel that at
high levels they don't have the pure blasting power they imagined a level 50
should have.
His response: Wizards are the ultimate damage dealers for damage done in a
short
period of time. In this area, they have no rivals - hands down. Ice Comet cast
twice does more damage in 13 seconds that most other casters can do in twice
the amount of time. Is this useful in all situations? No. Does this mean that
the Wizard class is uniquely qualified to save the party when the situation
gets bad? Yes
* belish comment *
Keep in mind this comment on wizards is focusing on Level 49 and 50 Wizards.
The fact that Ice Comet is unbeatable is all good and well, but with Plane of
Fear now almost impossible I don't know how sustainable it is, since getting
the spell is now a major hurdle
*my coment*
Yes only if i dont miss lord nagafen is a 63 lv guy so if 50 lv * 1.2 is 60
wizard cant scrach him as it will resist all he is over a balance resistance
table . Chasic thule is now over this lv also eheheh so my friends what we can
do?
PETITION ALL
1. lower resistance or 2 different DD spels for lv so we have ammo for our
spells if a mob resist one we can have other to use. ( it can be done easily in
place of one of two lines of AE spells.
2. on partial resists used only partial mana !!
3. We cant have more mana as there is danger that we will Kill steall more then
give us a faster mana regeneration !! If monks have his primary skills 7 * lv
cap we can have same for meditation !! Warrior is our exact oposit and they
have big hit points now they have also criticals and we need to get lower
resistence and also faster mana regeneration to compensate what we are without
pets, buffs.
Thanks all coment welcome
Silverion Dragonirder
High elf wizard (against all statistics eheheeh)
Fenin Ro
http://www.tip.it/wizard
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