Wiz Q

r00st3r
r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
edited August 2008 in Wizard
my Q

does wiz have aoe ? (i specialise in aoe in any game , pvp is hardly a concern)
can wiz have pets or can wiz buy pets ?
wiz like any other game is obviously a high dmg **** , but many games differ in high/low def & high/low hp .. will this wiz be having low def n high dmg or reverse or both ?
wat weps r used by wiz (ex fan, glove, sword, staff etc etc )
browsing the forums , i saw people saying " wiz is expensive" .. plz explain y ?

i love magic in any game n mostly choose wiz in all the game i ever played ... but ur opnion will matter a lot ..
Also if any other class is better in aoe , plz suggest me ..

ty for ur time , God Bless!
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  • r00st3r
    r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    another q ...( not increasing my post count , i give damn anyway)

    wtf is with this hybrid stuff ( hybrid veno, fox mage veno , hybrid cleric)
    does wiz have sub classes too?
    will holy/dark factions affect wiz skillz?

    ty again
  • matthew
    matthew Posts: 135 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Yes, wizard has AOE. Anyone can have pets, but only venomancer pets can attack. Wizard has high damage, but defense is mostly armor based; you are what you wear. Wizards use magic weapons mainly: staff, quoit, magic sword, wand. Wizard is expensive because they suck down mana like mountain dew, they need decent equipment, and they aren't as valuable as other classes for equipment farming parties later.

    My suggestion is if you want a high damage class go archer. Archer is pure easy mode. I do not recommend wizards for newcomers at all, they require skill, and experience with different builds, and other classes are more or just as desirable in most cases for what they do. If you want a strong AOEr that can aoe solo I recommend blademasters. They are less expensive then wizards and require less skill as well.

    Hybrid refers to a non pure build, typically referring to adding points into constitution to help you survive longer. There are no subclasses in this game. Yes holy or dark can effect your skills.

    In short, you need a game plan for wizard, otherwise some things might shock you or let you down. Not good for a first character, play the game with other classes, then make a mage once you understand a bit better.

    http://perso.numericable.fr/ecatomb/pw/skillpwi.html

    Go there to learn more about the skills.
  • r00st3r
    r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    matthew wrote: »
    Yes, wizard has AOE. Anyone can have pets, but only venomancer pets can attack. Wizard has high damage, but defense is mostly armor based; you are what you wear. Wizards use magic weapons mainly: staff, quoit, magic sword, wand. Wizard is expensive because they suck down mana like mountain dew, they need decent equipment, and they aren't as valuable as other classes for equipment farming parties later.

    My suggestion is if you want a high damage class go archer. Archer is pure easy mode. I do not recommend wizards for newcomers at all, they require skill, and experience with different builds, and other classes are more or just as desirable in most cases for what they do. If you want a strong AOEr that can aoe solo I recommend blademasters. They are less expensive then wizards and require less skill as well.

    Hybrid refers to a non pure build, typically referring to adding points into constitution to help you survive longer. There are no subclasses in this game. Yes holy or dark can effect your skills.

    In short, you need a game plan for wizard, otherwise some things might shock you or let you down. Not good for a first character, play the game with other classes, then make a mage once you understand a bit better.

    http://perso.numericable.fr/ecatomb/pw/skillpwi.html

    Go there to learn more about the skills.

    thnx bro ..
    but if only veno's pet can atk it means venos physical or magic def must me very low or negligible ..
    if blade master have stronger aoe i will train as blade master then go for a wizard .

    thnx for info bro!
  • matthew
    matthew Posts: 135 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    r00st3r wrote: »
    thnx bro ..
    but if only veno's pet can atk it means venos physical or magic def must me very low or negligible ..
    if blade master have stronger aoe i will train as blade master then go for a wizard .

    thnx for info bro!

    Venomancers are arguably the strongest class in game. No, the majority of their defense is based on what armor they have equipped. There are three armors: heavy, light, and robe. Heavy armor has high physical defense, low magical. Light armor is about even in physical and magical defense. Robe armor is high in magical defense, but low in physical. Its another rock, paper, scissor element to the game. Any class can wear any of the armor, you just need to put the points into your abilities to equip it. There are quite a bit of heavy venomancers with really high physical defense for example.

    Well, you sound like you want to have fun and solo AOE a bunch of mobs. This is difficult to do with mage unless you build it right with the right equipment, whereas most blademasters already are built to do this, and do it well. Wizards do AOE, but they do it in an AOE party, generally. In AOE parties(called zhen party) wizards, priests, and archers put up whats called an array. This spell does not stop once activated, unless you cancel it. You have a priest in the middle with a healing array, and archers/mages pretty close in a formation that have a damage array up. Barbarians, blademasters, sometimes venomancers pull mobs in groups into the area. So its not an active AOE grind, unless you are a puller. Wizard, cleric, and archer in an AOE party can go afk as long as they want, as long as they have a mana hierogram to keep the array going.

    Np. Hope that helps.
  • taelrak
    taelrak Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Wizards do have fairly strong AOE, and they have the most variety of AOE of any class that I can think of (hail, fire array, the 3 dooms, phoenix), and most have extra effects (stun, slow, knockback, 50% physical damage, paralyze, etc.). However, like in almost any mmorpg, the times when you'll be able to AOE will be limited - you can survive only a limited # of mobs at any one time, aoe tends to draw hate away from tanks if you're in a party, etc. etc. etc. If all you want is to be able to solo lvl with aoe, wizard isn't the class to be.

    Wizards aren't really any more expensive than other classes. They do have a large number of higher lvl spells that are upgradeable (3 dooms, etc.) compared to some classes (cleric comes to mind), which can get costly. You'll also probably sink a fortune into hieros if you go the zhen route, but no more than any other DD/healing class in your party, and certainly less than archers.

    Eventually, most of your money will probably go into getting good gear with many sockets (assuming you buy mats to make them instead of farming the runs yourself), and then enchanting those gear and filling those sockets with stones.

    To be sure, all that makes playing a lvl90+ wizard insanely expensive, but not any more so than other classes, who have to do the same.
  • koz
    koz Posts: 465 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    matthew wrote: »
    Anyone can have pets, but only venomancer pets can attack.

    This is wrong. Anyone can have pets that attack. They are called battle pets and they look just like people. But they are available in the cash shop only.
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  • r00st3r
    r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    thnx

    im not into parties alot ..i prefer solo aoe as matthew said ..

    i need to know if theres a class which can solo aoe @ early lvls (ex lvl 1-40)

    so far , i feel archers , blade masters r very interesting of a classes
  • koz
    koz Posts: 465 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    r00st3r wrote: »
    thnx

    im not into parties alot ..i prefer solo aoe as matthew said ..

    i need to know if theres a class which can solo aoe @ early lvls (ex lvl 1-40)

    so far , i feel archers , blade masters r very interesting of a classes


    Most of the good aoes u won't get until doom cultivation (level 59)
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  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    AoE solo levelling doesn't happen for a while. Before 40 is out of the question for any class.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • matthew
    matthew Posts: 135 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    ark wrote: »
    AoE solo levelling doesn't happen for a while. Before 40 is out of the question for any class.

    Fire array is a level 29 skill.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Yeah. And if you use it before 60 you've gotta have a death wish. IF you use it for solo aoe grinding at all, you must have a death wish.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • r00st3r
    r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    wat abt bladeboy , can bladeboy solo aoe before 50?
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Sure, but I wouldn't recommend it... Solo AoE happens usually after you're strong. That's after 60, usually. I wouldn't do too much AoE before then - I didn't when I played MY...
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • matthew
    matthew Posts: 135 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    ark you know nothing of wizard class, that's already been proven before. Don't come over here and spread bs. Mage can aoe solo with fire array early as they want with the right build and equipment.

    btw, ark, ive seen warriors in their late 40s early 50s at the least aoeing near sundown, apparently you don't even know warrior.
  • r00st3r
    r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    matthew wrote: »
    ark you know nothing of wizard class, that's already been proven before. Don't come over here and spread bs. Mage can aoe solo with fire array early as they want with the right build and equipment.

    btw, ark, ive seen warriors in their late 40s early 50s at the least aoeing near sundown, apparently you don't even know warrior.


    kewl ..
    last Q

    how long does it take to reach a certain lvl say lvl 60 ... if im a moderately hardcore player who can grind 8hrs everyday ..!!
  • taelrak
    taelrak Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    8 hours a day? You can probably get to 60 within 1-2 weeks, especially if you're willing to keep yourself equipped with hieros.

    However, considering that this game will start everyone off at level 1, you might have some trouble getting through cultivation boss fights and fbs if you just powerlevel ahead of everyone.

    Also, the economy won't be mature enough for you to have an endless supply of DQ mats either.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I know Warrior class quite well - I played to 87. Perhaps it's because I played swords that I didn't AoE grind much before 60 - I always felt single targets were more efficient. ... And yes, a Wizard doing fire array by himself is very dangerous before 60 when he can do it in a party. Being hit is not something a Wizard wants to be.

    What did you play on My-En? And what level did you get it to?
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • makubex
    makubex Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    if you do like Aoe's creat an fighter an AXE type! believe me almost of their attacks are Aoe's and they have lots of stuns!
  • r00st3r
    r00st3r Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    sry for being such a noob , but i have no idea wat a hiero or a dq mat is ..
    also axe is usually aoe in many games i played before (ex. Martialheroes)
  • erado
    erado Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    a hiero is a cash item that refills your hp or mp when it gets below a set %, it has a total amount of hp or mp that it refills, between 100k and 900k, depending on cost and wether its hp or m hiero.

    and a DQ mat is a quest item you need for a certain repeatable quest you can do after a while, i think it was at lvl 25 or around there. almost all mobs can drop dq items, but you need lots of them, and many different kinds.
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