On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, PHAEDRA WHITLOCK wrote:

> 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.

yeah, 12 is where our DD spells start pulling away from magicians and
enchanters and start dishing out some major hurt.

> 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?

Not really...if your fighting a steady stream of blues your not going to
have the mana to keep up with the fighters...in that kinda situation your
best use is to sit back and let a blast on the tougher ones to soften them
up and wait for when the crap hits the fan and you get a bad pull...

Really a lot of our uses involve this "Oh Shit!" kinda situation...it'll
often seem like your just sitting there sucking Xp and not really adding
to anything in the group, till you get a bad pull, in which case your
ability to dish out obscene amounts of damage quickly really comes in
handy, the trick is doing it without pissing off the critter too
much...(though in situations like that you'll probibly spend a little bit
of time with an almost dead critter whacking on you...just rember to make
them totally dead really quick ;) )

Stannis Starslyder
Wizard of the Moon
Innoruuk