Should a "Wizard Class Improvement Patch" were announced to be released...

as i'm week in english, i don't want to say so many things
but i 100% agreed with all the post here.
our wizard class really need to be improve
PLEASE!!
PLEASE!!
b:sad

I'll pitch in my two cents cuz I want to see my new siggy b:laugh.

Well it took me about a week to get used to the damn cast times, but I can deal with that (they almost kinda make sense, my last game had instant cast and the whole thing was an unbalanced mess).

So far I even think the skills are fine and altogether leave the class pretty balanced in PvP & PvE, so I don't think we need to many changes there.

MP/SP capacity is pretty fair too, however the way our skills drain MP is ridiculous. At the moment I can only kill between 3~5 mobs before I have to use a pot & sit down. This makes for extremely slow leveling; level 40-41 had me sit almost two hours resting in between killing stuff, and that's with me running through 50k worth of potions.

So yeah, in my humble opinion, the skills drain too much MP (I hear clerics have the same problem)

Miss_Tika - Lost City wrote: »

I agree with Amour and Biggyluv. I'm pretty well pleased with my class. I'm not sure what you're all complaining about, but just because you chose a wizard, dont expect to be blowing things up right away. Im my opinion wizard takes some decent skill to play, and ive learned sooo much leveling to where I am now.

Of course they're moves that dont make sense and need a change, (what were they, ... hailstorm crown of flame?). They all have some sort of purpose. I've found using Pitall/Crown of Flame is a great first initial move to not take aggro when fighting a boss or simple mobs like in HH or an FB. I dont use these skills but i guess that's their purpose lol. Hailstorm is a cool little aoe attack, and it freezes mobs more than you realize. It's also good in air pvp when you're trying to catch someone/freezing them in place for a few seconds. It sucks, but hey at least it does something.

Pyrogram sucks? What the **** are you talking about.

In mass pvp we are amazing, probably doing the most damage to the popular classes. Blademasters, Barbs, archers, LA/Heavy venos are the usual jobs people pvp with. Clerics can be handled with a nice timed tempest b:bye

We can be pretty squishy, but Distance Shrink is like my favorite move ever!! Wizards are pretty good at running away and avoiding attacks. Just takes time to learn how to do it.

But ya, we need a reliable stun lol. Seems that Sutra + Mountain Seize is the best thing we can do stun wise

Edit: one last thing, wizards shine at 90, shut up and level

Yeahhh im 90 now :P

+100% physical defense isn't enough?

Do damage over time spells stack like a poison? I’ve never had the opportunity to check it and, in my case, they are still very low level, so it would be hard.

They should, and they should stack even from many players. That in my opinion would make them very useful in case of fighting bosses with lots of HP. It should be enough that one of wizards just refreshes the skill within15 sec from the last cast and the damage rises and continues to take place. That would be awesome.

Edit button is there for a reason
I still stand by mages needing a stun.
Too easy to run from one :<

My first post here, I thought I'd chuck in my thoughts about this.

First off - I'm a pure PvE Wizard. Never tried PVP and I probably won't for another 30 levels, it's not what the game is about for me, so I have no experience with that. This is coming from a pure PvE perspective.

I'm the leader in a small friends-only faction. We just play the game for fun, we're not interested in the politics of the bigger factions.

Now I have been playing the game the longest, so I'm a good 10 levels higher than the other members of the faction. However, rather than this being a bonus for me, it's the oposite, it's a nightmare.

Consider this, you have picked a class, and your level is much higher than the people you normally play with. In a FB:

Cleric: - Great, much better healing on the tank, keeps the squad alive, buffs are better
Barb: - Great, much better tanking, you can take more damage, stay alive longer, keeps the squad alive
Veno: - Great, you can take over as the primary tank, to keep the squad alive, or become a better off-tank with your pet
Blademaster: - Great, you can become the primary tank, or be a better off-tank, staying alive longer to pull more agro off the others
Archer: - This one is a bit like the wizard, not great as you pull agro, but at least you stay alive longer than the wiz.

Being a high-level wiz in a group with smaller players is useless. Everything you do pulls agro from other players (even a simple gush pulls if they're not down at half health) so you have to be very careful on who and when you attack. You have practically no buffs for the party so you're useless that way, and you're too low on HP/PhysResist to tank or start pulling agro. We have no decent crowd control spells, and the only single decent spell that could help the party (Morning Dew) takes so long to cast, the only use of it is when it's Sultra'd.

The only time I'm any use to anyone is when I'm tanking a magical boss, and that's rarely.

In a standard 1v1 monster PvE enviroment, I'm fairly happy with my wiz. He kills things before they hit me (which is needed as I take rediculous damage), and I can level fairly quickly.

What I want is some better way for a wizard to be useful in a squad when you've not got the ideal squad (with multiple clerics, Barb, etc to keep agro and stay alive).

My suggestions are:

1. Sort out Morning Dew. The channel/cast times are far, far too long. Take the channel down to 2.5 secs and the cast to 0.5 secs. That way you're viable as a secondary healer, and our ultimate (sultra) does what it's mean to do, be a one off special on it still

2. Buffs. Clerics should give defensive buffs - we're a wizard, we should give offensive buffs. Make people want to squad with us because we seriously increase their damage output. And don't say that Frostblade is used for that, the spell is useless.

3. Give us some kind of damage absorbing spell that rips into our mana. For those times when you're more interested in staying alive than killing vast amounts of monsters.

You forgot the fact we are REALLY squish and our heal has a 4.5 cast -_-;

no it won't stack. otherwise a wiz would be doing >10k on the hardest bosses after a few minutes of pitfall/crown of flame.

Leonator - Sanctuary wrote: »

You forgot the fact we are REALLY squish and our heal has a 4.5 cast -_-;

Really squish? It depends. Yesterday I was attacked by some higher lvl bm (about 40 i think, not wearing 1 rank equipment). It ended up him running in fear lol. Vit wizard ftw b:victory

I agree with Amour, we lack of target control skills.
I would go for a physical skill too. We cant dont anything good on "increased magic resistance mobs"

Rinnve - Lost City wrote: »

Really squish? It depends. Yesterday I was attacked by some higher lvl bm (about 40 i think, not wearing 1 rank equipment). It ended up him running in fear lol. Vit wizard ftw b:victory

More level 3 - 5x proclaiming they can cause a higher level to coward in fear.
Will the ignorance never stop flowing?

Vit wizard... b:chuckle