*nods*

I just made 12 last night, after grumbling all through 8-11 about fizzle and resist and lack of decent damage. Things are good right now. I do 74-78 generally with my new spell, for 3 shots (with innumerable fizzles) before I have to med again.... Meanwhile the fighters swing away far outdoing me over course of time.

Fighting red legionnaires, Im useful because I can shoot 'em down fast, but against the more normal stream of blues and (gak) greens my groups like to pull in... I am always medding, they are almost never hit enough to show on their health bar, and swinging constantly.

Does this get any better?

My groups are people Ive been with for the past few levels, 10-11 generally, as I put in a lot of time this past week to get over this fizzle business and so levelled faster than they did.

Shannyn, lvl 12 on Tunare server, Freeport born

>>> "Gregory Egan" <gemd@...> 09/25/99 08:56AM >>>

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

Hi all,

I thought wizards were supposed to be masters of DD spells. I was with a
level 29 cleric recently, and he has a spell (wrath) which was doing 198
damage to my 178. Granted, I am level 27, but was still kind of shocked. It
was only a two level difference, and he had a better DD spell, and could
melee too. And buff. And heal. I know at 29 I will get Inferno Shock, but
this just makes my think that we should be doing more damage, or have faster
mana regen, or SOMETHING. Just another example of how Verant has made the
wizard class suck.

Greg (Kronan on Innoruuk)