Give us mages a chance :(

I agree that mages need to be improved significantly. Statistically, you guys have barely any more damage potential than a good cleric, and you don't even get physical spells, or all the healing/buffing spells. Plus, I hear all your channeling times are long. IMO, the wizard should get a slew of debuffs and/or significantly more dmg. A drain life and/or drain life to mana (does damage to enemy, and restores MP according to damage) would also be cool.

yep It's true and I know it, I know wizards that glide throught the game.

You just have to know how to play your character wizards rock, all classes rock if you know how to play em

I have been playing a couple deferent classes and would like to give some insite. I currently have a lvl 77 wizard, a lvl 55 veno and a level 29 archer. It is true, if you learn your class well it is not that hard to level. However, It took me 3 months to get my wizard to level 60 and only 3 weeks to get my veno to level 55. The fact of the matter is - wizards are not good until demon/sage. After that they are extremely powerful, maybe the most powerful class. The difficulty is that wizards have limited buffs and depend on skills like freeze (force of will) and distance shrink to evade. These are all skills that are great to have and important to wizards, but the skills are not powerful enough to make the class competetive until much later in the game. My reasoning behind this is that Blade masters archers and barbs get an aoe freeze and a stun that is more effective and longer lasting than the wizards. Archers have a double advantage over wizards: more damage and more range (not to mentio they can fly at level 1 and run faster). Also, Venos with full magic actually do just as much if not more damage than wizards in the first half of the game. Venos also get a set of skills that alows complete recovery of hp/mp every 5 min if you play your cards right! venos also get fox form to buff p def and the have a pet and very good close range aeo magic. Not to mention a pet to take all your damage...... I can aoe grind with my pet as a full magic veno taking on 4-5 mobs at a time with my shoudo cub and tank most bosses. I aslo cleared half my fb 19 by myself before my squad got there! This is something that is not ever possible for wizards because of there lack of physical protection and inability to heal fast enough without using sutra. Your best bet as a wizard is to kill it before it can even get close - For example:

if the mob is weak to a certain element like fire - Start out with divine pyrogram, then pyrogram, knock back with will of pheonix then pyrogram again. If mob is not dead or get close again use your force of will and send it running, then kill it of.

Give up now on purposefully taking on multiple mobs until you are much much more powerful - or you are a good bit higher lvl than the mobs.

For larger and more difficult mobs with lots of hp, I use a different approach. Start out with Glacial Snare followed by gush to slow them down significantly. Then DD the **** out of them until they get to close, then us pheonix or force of will to send them away followed by another spell to drain there hp. Repeat process until mob is dead. If you mess up or the mob gets to close dont be afraid to use distance shrink to get a little more casting space. Remember - distance is a wizards best friend - If you just wanna **** stuff get a BM - wich is an equally difficult class but rewarding later on.

I hope that this info was helpful. If your a frusterated noob, just think of the long run. After level 79 - 89 you get a second stun (sleep spell) a host of channeling adds and magic power adds on your spells that will make your wizard a quick and super powerful death machine. You will pushing phoenixs and 1 or 2 hitting there veno masters. Another suggestion is that you start a veno character and use it to suppliment you financially and help you do TT and frost runs later on. I have lots of fun with both characters.

If I were to make one suggestion to add to the wizard it would be a set of 3skills similar to the rediculously overbalanced venomancer (lol - venos are easy street) : Metabolic Boost, Soul Transfusion, and Natures Grace. These skills allow you to imediatly recover 50% of you hp or mp and soul transfusion allows you to swap hp/mp. This would alow the wizard to get out of any sticky situation and grind for a lot longer. In my opinion THERE IS NO NEED TO SIT AROUND AND PICK YOUR NOSE WHILE YOU WAIT TO REGEN MP - THE WIZARDS ONLY WAY TO FIGHT - WHILE YOU WATCH SOME VENO OR AOE GRIND SQUAD TAKE OVER YOUR TURF......... BORING..... NOT FAIR......... This is the biggest unbalance/oversight. Other than this wizards are cool as hell!!!!!!!!!

you forgot when the game freezes and then your wiz is dead

Maruja - Heavens Tear wrote: »

My reasoning behind this is that Blade masters archers and barbs get an aoe freeze and a stun that is more effective and longer lasting than the wizards.

Your best bet as a wizard is to kill it before it can even get close - For example:

THERE IS NO NEED TO SIT AROUND AND PICK YOUR NOSE WHILE YOU WAIT TO REGEN MP - THE WIZARDS ONLY WAY TO FIGHT - WHILE YOU WATCH SOME VENO OR AOE GRIND SQUAD TAKE OVER YOUR TURF......... BORING..... NOT FAIR......... This is the biggest unbalance/oversight. Other than this wizards are cool as hell!!!!!!!!!

Just a little comment on these 3 quotes:

When does a barb get an aoe freeze? On the stun, well I don't know when I have enough SP to get that up. I need all of them to get my tiger/tanking skills maxed.

There, you give the solution yourself: kite. If I remember correctly, one of your first spell has a chance to slow. If you don't like to kite, like me, take a melee class, or get to light armor + earth shield.

You know a lot of classes like to purposely ks on barbs; we get easy aggro, so any class can out damage us and take the kill without taking damage.

To resume, I would say: All classes have their difficulties, even venos. Sure, as a barb I don't die as easily as a mage, but do you have any idea of the time it takes to kill a mob, the repairs we have, etc? You guys play the wizzard class, and some of you got to a really high lvl. Don't tell me a wizzie is **** and a pain to play. Something must have prevented you from changing to the all powerfull veno. And to be honest I'm glad there are still mages around, because mage + barb works really great b:victory