A Puppy Dies Every Time...

Thrieya - Lost City
Thrieya - Lost City Posts: 732 Arc User
edited April 2013 in Wizard
... an LA wizard logs on without the express intent of immediately restatting and regearing to AA.

... anyone says level 1-10 Emberstorm is a useful skill.

... someone who bought their wizard says Distance Shrink is a useless skill.

... a wizard thinks putting Occult Ice on their genie is a good idea.

... somebody has to ask "What's zhen?"
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  • XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary
    XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary Posts: 1,173 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    ... Someone in end game gear uses glacial embrace for anything but the water pavilion in warsong
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  • soundslegit
    soundslegit Posts: 472 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    So Michael Vick is watching wizards play?
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  • XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary
    XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary Posts: 1,173 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Michael Vick plays a LA wizard that spams level 6 emberstorm, doesn't have distance shrink or know what zhen is, has occult ice on it's genie, and walks around in glacial embrace.
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  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I must kill a lot of puppies, I use emberstorm fairly frequently b:cry
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  • Thrieya - Lost City
    Thrieya - Lost City Posts: 732 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Well, is it level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 Emberstorm?
  • opkossy
    opkossy Posts: 11,177 Community Moderator
    edited April 2013
    Seeing as I need level 1 emberstorm to learn blade tempest, I'd consider Emberstorm level 1 a very useful skill as well. f:cute
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  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Thrieya - Lost City wrote: »
    Well, is it level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 Emberstorm?

    It isn't anymore.. but I use it exactly the same way I did as when it was level 1 lol
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  • Thrieya - Lost City
    Thrieya - Lost City Posts: 732 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    ... every time someone calls Morning Dew a useless skill.

    Well, you don't kill puppies any more, but every time you use Emberstorm, a psychiatrist has to explain to a mother why the light and joy has inexplicably died from her baby's eyes, like a dark force came and wiped the very life essence from her child's soul.
  • Herrote - Harshlands
    Herrote - Harshlands Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I personally don't think Emberstorm was a useless skill. Sometimes, when I'm PVP'ing against a sin, I'd target the nearest mob and double-click it and HOPE MY *** OFF that it hits the sin knocking them out of stealth.
  • ArmaniEx - Harshlands
    ArmaniEx - Harshlands Posts: 191 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I use demon ember inbetween a pile of ppl fighting to dig in NW, I use it in PVp....pitfall I use before hailstorm since it channels quicker.

    The demon version says 50% but it feels more like 80-90%...maybe I'm just lucky ?
  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Emberstorm is good for knocking sins out of stealth, an instant 20 chi, or to one shot a group of nubs for fun. I can't tell you how hard I laugh by casting ice prison, running into a group of nubz and doing a full charge emberstorm.. with 20k+ hp most the poorly geared targets often times take between 10k and 50k.. definitely good for some laughs :)
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  • mynameiswizy
    mynameiswizy Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    Emberstorm is good for knocking sins out of stealth, an instant 20 chi, or to one shot a group of nubs for fun. I can't tell you how hard I laugh by casting ice prison, running into a group of nubz and doing a full charge emberstorm.. with 20k+ hp most the poorly geared targets often times take between 10k and 50k.. definitely good for some laughs :)


    b:cry b:cry I Laugh so hard, emberstorm did do that b:chuckle
    LMFAO
  • Sassy/ss_ - Sanctuary49
    Sassy/ss_ - Sanctuary49 Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    Emberstorm is good for knocking sins out of stealth, an instant 20 chi, or to one shot a group of nubs for fun. I can't tell you how hard I laugh by casting ice prison, running into a group of nubz and doing a full charge emberstorm.. with 20k+ hp most the poorly geared targets often times take between 10k and 50k.. definitely good for some laughs :)

    Yea sins+chi emberstorm isn't that bad :o

    Mine will stay level 1 unless i get sage which probably isn't worth my coin buying or spirit learning sinc i jsut instacast it :o
  • XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary
    XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary Posts: 1,173 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    OPKossy wrote: »
    Seeing as I need level 1 emberstorm to learn blade tempest, I'd consider Emberstorm level 1 a very useful skill as well. f:cute

    No one is questioning whether we should get level 1, and demon is undeniably useful. Even sage has it's uses. However, when a 3k hp r8/tt99 wiz uses it and it's not demon, I kind of want to pull them aside and be like wai you be noobin it up b:surrender
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  • HexOmega - Dreamweaver
    HexOmega - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,342 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Thrieya - Lost City wrote: »
    ... an LA wizard logs on without the express intent of immediately restatting and regearing to AA.

    1 dead puppy
    i enjoyed 4 days of being light armor 5.0 aps Deicide wizard

    ... anyone says level 1-10 Emberstorm is a useful skill.


    2 dead puppies
    suicide bomber wizard seemed fun

    ... someone who bought their wizard says Distance Shrink is a useless skill.

    ... a wizard thinks putting Occult Ice on their genie is a good idea.

    ... somebody has to ask "What's zhen?

    3 dead puppies
    well i guess at some point in 2009? around lvl50-60 i may have asked that    "
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  • Fissile - Archosaur
    Fissile - Archosaur Posts: 607 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I was restatting my genie today and I almost put occult ice on there just for the heck of it. My genie doesn't have enough affinity points to get the skill combination I want so the last skill slot is interchangeable as far as I am concerned.
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  • AshenSkies - Heavens Tear
    AshenSkies - Heavens Tear Posts: 949 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Fissile - Archosaur wrote: »
    I was restatting my genie today and I almost put occult ice on there just for the heck of it. My genie doesn't have enough affinity points to get the skill combination I want so the last skill slot is interchangeable as far as I am concerned.

    I always laugh when arcanes use occult ice on me...then get mad when it screws up my combob:angry
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  • Kniraven - Lost City
    Kniraven - Lost City Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    A puppy dies every time Adroit kills Kniraven.
    Stop the mindless puppy xenocide! T~T
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  • Thrieya - Lost City
    Thrieya - Lost City Posts: 732 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Kniraven - Lost City wrote: »
    A puppy dies every time Adroit kills Kniraven.
    Stop the mindless puppy xenocide! T~T

    ... puppies are not aliens, Kni. Or you need to get a new dictionary. Try the latest Oxford, I find it particularly helpful.

    ... and every time a Sage wizard pontificates to a Demon wizard about how to play our class.
  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Thrieya - Lost City wrote: »

    ... and every time a Sage wizard pontificates to a Demon wizard about how to play our class.

    What are you implying? :o
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  • Thrieya - Lost City
    Thrieya - Lost City Posts: 732 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    What are you implying? :o

    That we wizards live in nothing but a mere ochlocracy run by the Sages.
  • _Raido - Archosaur
    _Raido - Archosaur Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I admit... suicide bombing as a pure HP Sharded/Vitality MG with Occult Ice and Spark was pretty fun with demon emberstorm.b:laugh

    4.0 was pretty fun too, too bad using 3fury doesn't help me at all.

    ...What's zhen?
  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Thrieya - Lost City wrote: »
    That we wizards live in nothing but a mere ochlocracy run by the Sages.

    What makes you say that? lmao It seems to me that sages are the minority.
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  • XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary
    XSonOfCircex - Sanctuary Posts: 1,173 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    What makes you say that? lmao It seems to me that sages are the minority.

    I find that more old school wizzies are sage, and more new ones are demon.

    I rolled my first wizzie back in '09 and went demon on her, and everyone thought I was crazy since everyone was going sage then. When I decided to make a new sage wiz a year and a bit ago a lot more people were demon and thought that was the "right" decision. Really glad I switched though.

    I'm not sure the breakdown on other servers but I'd put money on more sanctuary wizards currently being demon than sage.
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  • _Raido - Archosaur
    _Raido - Archosaur Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    In a PK situation it's a difference of playstyle, that's what I think determines cultivation.

    Demon allows me to tank nearly everything, and every time I play I have to conserve chi in order to save myself and I can't go and just ulti everything I'll have no chi in order to save myself etc.

    Sage allows me to play more aggressively with lots of chiflow and damage, I can go all gung ho and kill everything, dropping ultimates 24/7.

    Anyways, I think the worst sin any MG can do is to go LA.b:shocked
  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    _Raido - Archosaur wrote: »


    Demon allows me to tank nearly everything

    I'm getting tired of hearing this. Demon stone barrier reduces physical damage coming in slightly better than sage stone barrier (and sage stone barrier reduces incoming earth damage slightly better than demon stone barrier), but a VAST majority of your survival comes from other sources (gear/skills/genie/apoth).. and I'd be surprised if the difference in survival between the cultivations amounted to even 1% of the total survival of your character. To add to that, sage wizards certainly get more chi and are therefore able to use the immune on sparks more often (and sage spark gives damage reduction.. which demon mages do not have access to).. AND sage wizards are less likely to need to use chi pots or cloud eruption to get more chi, so genie/apoth is more likely to be available for defensive purposes. It is more or less a wash when it comes to survival between wizard cultivations.. I'd probably give it to you if you said demon had a slight survival advantage (although I'm not even convinced this is the case).. but pointing to your cultivation as being the reason you can tank stuff is dumb.

    It'd be like me saying I went sage because I want to do damage.. it'd lead an uninformed reader to think that sage wizards have some significant advantage in terms of damage.. which we do not.
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  • _Raido - Archosaur
    _Raido - Archosaur Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    It'd be like me saying I went sage because I want to do damage.. it'd lead an uninformed reader to think that sage wizards have some significant advantage in terms of damage.. which we do not.

    Quaff.
  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    _Raido - Archosaur wrote: »
    Quaff.

    As in sage wellspring quaff? How is that relevant?
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  • Saeidon - Heavens Tear
    Saeidon - Heavens Tear Posts: 322 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The reason I went demon is for extra ability to lock things up. Demon hailstorm / pitfall / emberstorm are lovely.
    Demon Stone Barrier had literally no effect on my decision at all, difference is minor.

    But back on topic.
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  • Thrieya - Lost City
    Thrieya - Lost City Posts: 732 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    What makes you say that? lmao It seems to me that sages are the minority.

    After a whole lot of consideration, I take back my earlier statement. We wizards do not live in an ochlocracy, but rather a kakistocracy.

    And I chose to be Demon 3 years ago when everyone was going Sage on their wizzies purely because I wanted to be a unique and special little snowflake. There's no fun in blindly following someone else's advice instead of actually experimenting with builds and playstyles of your own. That said, I genuinely enjoy playing as a Demon wizard, even with all the problems it comes with.

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