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Wizard needs more AoE
lucros076
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1 Arc User
Title says it all.
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icy terrain
steal time
sudden storm
shield
shard of the endless avalanche
tab chill strike
tab repel
ice storm
oppressive force
arcane singularity
more than enough, the good one just come in late
tldr: make Frost Beam (or whatever) into Cone of Frost or something similar. (Chain Lightning interval stun status affect, CoFire dot, etc.)
Because the CW seems bad at handling multiple mobs at around this level. Yeah, I can lock down single mobs very well, but I can't distribute control effects across a crowd of mobs well enough.
AoE right click at level 30. It rocks, but could do with more damage.
10-20 Really the same as above, jus/t had harder bosses.
20-30 this is where it picked up, I felt like the challenge here was the best. Mob speed wasn't stupid fast (So I could kinda kite), Solo bosses were challenging but not stupid hard, and (I think it was in this level bracket) a dungeon I went into dropped a bunch of cure serious wound scrolls (the res scrolls). Then there was that boss that took like 10 minutes to kill that would two shot the tanks... was awesome lol.
30-40 This was bullcrap. I want to compare it to D3 pre inferno nerf... I died more than 10 times through soloing and eventually grouped up with a rogue(doing this made it easy mode). The fact is that single mobs are REALLY easy to kill, but when you get 3 or more its really easy to die, so the trash packs would have a field day. One quest I remember having a hell of a time with is the undead and the dying, where you kill the drowned king. Fixing this (imo) would be simple, let Ray of frost send out a Ray for everything in 5 yards of what I am targeting. Of course, problem solved when I hit level 40 and got SS.
40-45 (this is where i a atm, Sudden storm (SS) is amazing, and once you get it, it will solve your aoe problems. Its on something like an 8 second cd and does about a third of mobs health per hit, only problem is that it can be hard to aim, but that a player skill thing that gets better the more you use it.
All in alll my thoughts on the CW is that he doesn't have enough control. I don't know a single CW past level 30 who went Control powers > damage powers. General consensus is that we STILL lack control, so it becomes better to just go with the idea that if you kill them before they kill you, you win. I wish this were not so, I wish this would be changed; But I saw two posts from Admin/devs saying it would be... and yet it feels even worse this beta from last.
Final thought, please release the Scourge warlock/Archer ranger sooner than later. If I have to play a damage focused caster I would like to play one designed to BE a damage focused caster.
*~Serixil Kor'hedron- Drow Trickster~*
Nonsense, you need nothing - it comes down to managing your skills and timing
we have quite devastating AoE spells imho
Yep, I'd start with this. Almost all AoE spells need a buff in a couple of areas (damage, area, etc.).
For AoE, opening with the lightning at-will (I forget the name) followed by a spell-mastered Chill Strike will kill most 'lesser' mobs before they can take more than a couple steps toward you, leaving you to toy with the bigger one/s however you like. Steal Time stuns mobs in a large area for ~5 seconds, does decent damage, gives a ton of AP (which lets you cast the incredibly OP Arcane Singularity all the time), and also gives you a full 5 stacks of Arcane Mastery as long as you hit a single enemy with it, buffing your single-target CC and damage.
For single targets, Entangling Force holds an enemy for ~6 seconds at 5 Arcane Mastery, Chill Strike stuns for ~2-3 seconds, Repel gives you up to ~6 seconds until the mob gets back to you - depending on the open space and whether the mob is ranged or has a charge skill. You can easily keep a single target CC'd permanently, as long as it's not immune.
What we really need is something to make us useful against bosses who are immune to CC, other than killing adds. Maybe some more debuffs or something.
Ofcourse, anything but power and crit is pointless, since at most I could change 1 or maby 2% in recovery or life-steal. This might change in end-game, but for getting there, I would say that the CW, just like a striker, needs to focus on Power and Crit.
The class is fine. I just hope that Non-chill based play stays viable at end-game. I did not like that kind of play, since it became managing levels of chill, and popping skills in according to a set series, which was what turned me off other MMO's.
Some like it, fine, but I hope that the two versions of play stay equally viable.
Crit + Recovery works best, I've found. At level 35 I was sporting around (I think) 1200 recovery. With stat bonuses, that let me rotate chill strike + entaglement and keep a big mob or quest boss perma-locked (unless I did something stupid and missed my timing).