cant figure out my wizard need help bad (feats and paragons )

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• akapolo Member Posts: 28 Arc User

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  It'd be good to post your stat rolls too. Depending on how you rolled and leveled your stats you might want to consider doing a race and stat reroll. You'll benefit from tiefling adding a bit more to your crits, but I don't think it's game breaking. If you do decide to do a race reroll, might as well go with tiefling. If you don't I don't think it'll make a huge difference. If you don't want to spend the $ to reroll everything then leveling up your other CW would be the other option.
  
  As far as paragon the general consensus is you'll get a bit more dps out of spell storm while MoF will net a better overall buff bonus? Between the 3 paths I've only done thaum and renegade, and I prefer renegade with a couple of points in thaum. You might want to look at a couple of different builds in each tree to get an idea of what would be good for you. Looking at your stats now I'd say you definitely want to gem and armor set for crit and armor pen first and foremost. I went with 2/4 magelord and shadow weaver armor, that'll bump up your crit and arm pen a good bit and you can gem for the rest. The t2 sets are relatively cheap now so a bit of farming and you can get whichever set you desire fairly easy.
  
  Edit: your feats also play an important roll and other than your crit and arm pen being really low might be the other reason your CW isn't outputting too well. How did you do your heroic feats? And what is your usual encounter set up.

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• articiawinter Member Posts: 41 Arc User

  July 2015

  akapolo thank your for answering
  i think i did everything wrong with my wizard lol most my gear is overseer's
  
  my feats are:
  5 controlling action
  1 in fight on
  1 weapon mastery
  3 toughness
  3 blighting power
  2 arcane enhancement
  2 prestidigitation
  and 3 learned spellcaster
  my paragon is oppressor
  where
  5 bitter cold
  5chilling control
  5cold infusion
  5 controlled momentum
  and 1 in shatter strike
  
  also have some in
  thau
  which is
  5 tempest magic
  2 snap freeze
  3destructive wizardry
  
  i did spellstorm
  b is chill strike
  active is orb of imposition
  lb-x is arcane singularity
  rb repel which i switch often
  active-arcane presence
  RT-chilling cloud
  y-icy terrain
  x-sudden storm
  LT-storm pillar
  lb-y is maelstrom of chaos
  
  final stat roll
  str-13
  con-13
  dex-15
  int-25
  wis-18
  cha-20
  
  my mazumum hit points is 24,072
  
  i figured i would have to do retraining on her
  but dident want to do both a retraing and race roll
  so i have a tiefling who is sitting at level 30 waiting for me to make a choice but i want to know more about the wizard before picking anything since i did everything your not suppose to do .
  
  i dont know if theres anything i can do to fix her
  but i do appreciate all advice i can get and thank you for helping me

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• akapolo Member Posts: 28 Arc User

  July 2015

  Honestly you might be able to get away with keeping your race and stat rolls. I'd grab a sash of charisma just to boost it up a bit, but 25 Int and 18 wis will be fine if you don't feel like respecing your stats. You'd just be losing a bit of crit from a tad bit lower cha (which by the time you level up the sash will be leveled anyways) and from the tiefling roll.
  
  As for feats, yeah that's not that good lol. Good thing is the retraining token is cheap to respec feats with around 80k ad or 500 zen to buy. Feats can go a bit differently depending on how you want to spec your CW. Personal advise is to definitely get:
  
  3/3 weapon mastery
  3/3 toughness (can be added to 3/5 controlling action if you'd prefer the 6% action point gain imo for pve)
  5/5 fight on (again personal preference, I know some CWs don't like this but I don't mind the faster cds.)
  2/5 learned spell caster
  I like 3/3 focused wizardry for pvp, but if your main focus is pve I'd skip it. Pve is so easy in this game right now that pretty much any build on the CW will run thru mobs with ease.
  
  Battle wise, lightning teleport, and prestidigation I'd skip.
  
  Then between wizards wrath, blighting power, and arcane enchantment I don't think it makes a huge difference but that was for my build. So you can spread these as you want. I went 3/3 wizards wrath to somewhat make up from the 10% loss to aoe from focused wizardry, but again if your skipping it for a pure pve build then you might benefit more from blighting and arcane. One of these should be 3/3 tho. Any point left over throw them into another one.
  
  For the paragon tree if you stick with oppressor you'd have to look at different builds to get an idea of that you want to go into. I tend to stay away from feats that limit you to one or two specific moves. I will say from my experience the group buffs from renegade are extremely fun thats what I went, and they still do tons of dps. And I know thaums do massive damage. But again I can't speak on oppressor so you might look around on that. I can give you an idea on thaum and renegade if you decide to go that route instead.
  
  Easy power set up for dungeons and mobs and general pve;
  Personals: whatever floats but definitely slot storm spell. You'll get tons of dps out of this
  Dailies: oppressive force and arcane singularity. Switch arcane for ice knife for single target.
  At wills you can use whatever. Chilling cloud is good to keep chilling stacks up and if your used to using storm pillar it's fine because it refreshes your stacks. I stick with ray of frost and magic missile to keep my stacks up.
  Rb- conduit of ice
  X-icy terrain
  Y-sudden storm/ray of enfeeblement
  B-steal time
  
  With this set up i use rb, get right on top of the group and use icy terrain. Sudden storm/Ray. Finish up with steal time. So rb, Rush on top, x,y,b. Casting at wills on higher mobs afterwards if there's any left.
  
  By no means is this a full fledged build but it'll give you an idea of some must haves. And you can kind of fill the rest in as you feel out your class better. There's plenty of routes to go with CWs so the most I can say is research some different builds. Big thing is to find out which paragon path you want to go down and focus around that. The above will set you up a bit better for your build tho whether you decide to respec or just relevel your other CW.
  

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• articiawinter Member Posts: 41 Arc User

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  what iv read up on so far is that you dont go full oppressor
  when i leveled i leveled with a gwf so i tried using things that would slow or stop enemies
  she did great leveling but then i did a skrim and dungeon i got kicked out of every dungeon but but one lol
  and i got out damage by a level 45 cleric so i turned around checked my stats and i was like yeah thats not good!
  so thank you for giving me a good start here im excited about making a good wizard now lol thank you again

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