Shields

I would say Stone Barrier is not too useful in PvE early on. (maxed out it boosts Phys. Res. by 100%, but as wizzies don't have high res. anyway it won't boost much)
Because you're on a PvE server, I would advise you get get Ice if you want. You won't really be using earth.

when i was in lvl70~80 i was looking forward to the demon version of glacial shield (more MP recovery)
only to run around in stone barrier 100% of the time
cause i dont give a cake on mana use anymore >_>




your spirit will always be extremely limited, until mid-lvl90

the Fire Shield is the most useless skill we have, alongside with Emberstorm

keep it at 1

Glacial Embrace is higher MP recovery, if you have a pure build, a decent weapon and kite mobs, nothing should be able to hit you
so why not get the extra MP recovery for quests


inside instances the Stone Barrier is mostly better xd (worth to lvlup, you need it when ur lvl-40+ish)





edit: most stuff that can be tanked with pyroshell can be tanked with glacial embrace too, and u save mana xd
only great uses i see is Warsong Fire Path and Wulord, high lvl stuff

MissxCleric - Sanctuary wrote: »

Thanks all
I don't like PvP. ;p
I think I'll keep Pyroshell lvl 1, maybe till I'm really high lvl. I'm probably gonna lvl Glacial Embrace first of all 3 then and when I got spirit left over, I'm gonna lvl Stone Barrier.
My Wiz is lvl 29 now and I learned Dragon's Breath, Wellspring Quaff and Fire Mastery. I also lvled Divine Pyrogram, and then I was almost running out of spirit, but I know Aqua and Earthen Spirit are good skills too, so Idk what to do, cuz at lvl 30 I can lvl Pyrogram and at lvl 31 Stone Rain. ;p
I should max Pyrogram asap right? And what about Stone Rain?

At January 1 I had restart of my Wizard at Raging Tide server.

I can say, that:
1. Pyrogram and Gush are good attack spells. They have low channeling time and same (or little less, depending from weapon) dps as high level attack spells.
2. Divine Pyrogram can be leveled later (after Pyrogram).

Dtone - Sanctuary wrote: »

Divine Pyrogram - A very slow casting version of Pyrogram

3. Wizards have good Fire defense, so if we will multiply it using Pyroshell by, for example 1,5 or more, we will have even more, significantly more defense and less damage from fire attacks of mobs and bosses.

Edit->
For example, you have fire defense 46%, using Pyroshell of 5th level you will have 55% fire defense (nonlinear progression). Mobs (or boss) will hit your hero less by 9%. <-Edit

4. Dragon's Breath can be useful if you have good physical defense. And it can be achieved at middle and high levels only. Same for Stone Barrier:

For example, you have physical defense 17%, using Stone Barrier of 5th level you will have 23% physical defense (nonlinear progression). Mobs (or boss) will hit your hero very hard still.

5. Stone Rain must be leveled at same priority as Pyrogram and Gush. This is attack spell of different element (Earth).

DP was my main opener until I got GS to 10.
I don't know why ppl don't usually use it, but I loved it. In time as you level it kinda' loses its efectiveness and you get better spells with better damage/debuffs than DP.
The fact that is a projectile spell (has a travel time and it's not an instant cast like gush) makes a DP-Gush-P combo quite a nice DPS one.
I haven't found GS to be as good until I got it to lvl 10. Yeah, the slow debuff is great, but under lvl 10 there are quite good chances to fail and the dmg isn't particularily great. PLUS I HATED the long cooldown time. Every mob I ever killed for same lvl quest was dead in 3 hits (unless Mag res or increase life), and I never had time for GS to cool down to be the opener for next mob. So i just ignore it for a really, really long time.
Keep your mastery lvl up for fire (DP and P) and water as much as possible.
Stone barrier is great for instances, but up to 70 you're not really going into real one. And unlesss you pvp/you're on PvP server, most of the time you're going to be with water shield up for mana regen.
Besides, not using SB in instances/while grinding will teach you how to kite. A very very important skill for a wiz. First learn to do it with mobs, then later adapt what you already do without thinking about to PvP.

The Problem with Glacial Snare at lower levels is the Range. You'll do better by just Opening with Gush by the time you get to learn GS. I left it at level 1 until level 73, when I levelled it right up to level 7. The cooldown is a pain, but you can just open on your next mob with Gush anyway.

Another thing is that I ALWAYS open with Either Gush or Glacial Snare, or if I'm feeling...experimental, Ice Dragon/Mountains Seize. (Although, tbh imo, the ultimates are horrible PvE skills. So I always spend my sparks on Spark Eruption+ or Sutra.

And erm...Glacial Snare does amazing damage, more than Sandstorm does at it's max level. For me, Divine Pyrogram is only useful in a Sutra combination. Sandstorm outclasses D.Pyro by a lot, but thats 20 levels ahead of D.Pyro. I always got on fine using Stone Rain as my nuke until Sandstorm; but I guess you can level D.Pyro as you want. I've found that I hate the skill, but I know others who love it.

For DPS, I've always believed Alternating Gush and Pyrogram provide the best DPS, but I might test that soon. A lot of important monsters are Water element at my level (Pole, Nob, some TT bosses) and alternating Sandstorm and Stone Rain could provide higher DPS for those (But I'll need to test this)

My general attack pattern goes like this (While im grinding on the Cheif Assassins on Nightscream Island, Level 80 Fire element)

Glacial Snare -> Sandstorm -> Gush -> Pyrogram -> Will of the Phoenix.
(If it's not dead by then, I blame it on my Light Armoured builds lower damage output. If it has any HP remaining, I can throw in a Pitfall to finish it off.)

I miss Undine Strike out because the time it takes to cast Undine, you could have another Gush out. Perhaps I should use Undine more; I mainly use it on Bosses only, but sometimes I use it after Glacial Snare, miss out Sandstorm, and go to Gush.

And Toliman, whats all this "Nonlinear Progression"? I have no idea what you mean by it, and it must be too confusing to help in this particular matter. I'd be curious to know what you mean, but it sounds quite dull.

Toliman - Raging Tide wrote: »

I mean something like Geometric progression, but may be better to say numbers describing curve similar to right part of parabola, starting from the vertex.

If we will use defense values for Y axis (ordinate) and percent of damage reduction for X axis, then those graph (curve) will be showing how a defense varies with percent of damage reduction.

If you don't understand it yet, then ...

I waiting for this Graph from beginning. Problem is that is not linear, or parabolic. I think it will close to hyperbolic curve, BUT you cannot have more than 90% reduction regardless of p.def, or m.def.
It could looks like this. Sorry I have no better tools to made graph and also you need to have lot of data to make right curve.
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8830/reduction.jpg

So made graph with some values of my wizard in excel.
http://img819.imageshack.us/i/reduction3.jpg/