2012 Wizard Guide Of The Future!!
MageFizban - Lost City
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YES, THIS IS THE GUIDE FOR THE WIZARDS OF NEXT YEAR!
First off, let's go over the builds.
BUILDS
Arcane Armor
Endgame, you won't want to use arcane armor. Sins will **** you nonstop if you do.
If you insist on this build, I would recommend sharding drakeflame stones into your armor (like prof) and at least statting 300 vit..
Light Armor
This is a viable build as the extra pdef might give you some time to blink before you're already dead after a sin unstealths on you. I wouldn't give it too much though because you'll get oneshot by everything else as well with this build. I'd recommend statting maybe 150 vit if you decide to do this build.
Heavy Armor
The ideal wizard build. This armor benefits the most from our Stone Barrier and gives us a modicum of survivability against sins endgame. I mean, what's the point of any other build? As one wise wizard once said "If you can't survive, you can't deal damage." or something to that extent. In this build, you could go without statting vit, but I would put in at least 100 to be on the safe side.
Now, let's go review the skills.
SKILLS
Distance Shrink - This is pretty much your best friend. If you manage to survive the initial onslaught, you should probably be spamming this skill so that you can tele out of melee range. Too bad they can shadow tele or telestun you making your resistance futile.
Force of Will - Limited use. Most likely going to be resisted on the sin's tidal protection.
Soporific Whisper - Same as FoW except with a longer CD.
Now, that I've covered all of the important skills, let's move onto pvp strategies!
PVP STRATEGIES
Really, all the variations of pvp strategies boil down to TWO different ones.
First off, my personal favorite is the RUNNING strategy. With this, sins have to chase you and it makes it more rewarding to know that they had to run around trying to double spark headhunt you for 5 minutes.
The other viable strategy is HIDING. I think this strategy kind of defeats the purpose of pvping, but if you can beat sins at their own game, good for you!
Okay, I've had my fun. Watch this come back to bite me in the butt. Oh well. Twas worth it.
First off, let's go over the builds.
BUILDS
Arcane Armor
Endgame, you won't want to use arcane armor. Sins will **** you nonstop if you do.
If you insist on this build, I would recommend sharding drakeflame stones into your armor (like prof) and at least statting 300 vit..
Light Armor
This is a viable build as the extra pdef might give you some time to blink before you're already dead after a sin unstealths on you. I wouldn't give it too much though because you'll get oneshot by everything else as well with this build. I'd recommend statting maybe 150 vit if you decide to do this build.
Heavy Armor
The ideal wizard build. This armor benefits the most from our Stone Barrier and gives us a modicum of survivability against sins endgame. I mean, what's the point of any other build? As one wise wizard once said "If you can't survive, you can't deal damage." or something to that extent. In this build, you could go without statting vit, but I would put in at least 100 to be on the safe side.
Now, let's go review the skills.
SKILLS
Distance Shrink - This is pretty much your best friend. If you manage to survive the initial onslaught, you should probably be spamming this skill so that you can tele out of melee range. Too bad they can shadow tele or telestun you making your resistance futile.
Force of Will - Limited use. Most likely going to be resisted on the sin's tidal protection.
Soporific Whisper - Same as FoW except with a longer CD.
Now, that I've covered all of the important skills, let's move onto pvp strategies!
PVP STRATEGIES
Really, all the variations of pvp strategies boil down to TWO different ones.
First off, my personal favorite is the RUNNING strategy. With this, sins have to chase you and it makes it more rewarding to know that they had to run around trying to double spark headhunt you for 5 minutes.
The other viable strategy is HIDING. I think this strategy kind of defeats the purpose of pvping, but if you can beat sins at their own game, good for you!
Okay, I've had my fun. Watch this come back to bite me in the butt. Oh well. Twas worth it.
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lolb:chuckle0
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I actually have followed this guide for several months already. YAY IT WORKS b:victoryPacks World International0
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OMG, I've been doing it wrong all those years.
Tnx for showing me the true path master9 out of 10 voices in my head say I'm not crazy... the 10th is singing the music of tetris0 -
If you say so MageFishban.b:chuckle0
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MageFizban - Lost City wrote: »The other viable strategy is HIDING. I think this strategy kind of defeats the purpose of pvping, but if you can beat sins at their own game, good for you!
Safety zone is my stealth, ijs . . . . ."And as for bragging, I don't need to brag. I am famous, yo. My accomplishments are legendary. I am BLOODMYSTIC, speaker of truth, bane of the Barbarians of Impulse, slayer of the **** of Narla, liberator of all the free peoples of the Archosaur server, former master propagandist for our leader in freedom, Proski, and Archtroll of the PWI Forums. And now? Amiable pve wizard, beloved by all, aka BLUEMYSTIC. Pleased to make your acquaintance."0 -
Sins are Scissors. Psychics are Rocks.
Archers, Venos, Barbs, Wizards, BMs, Mystics, Seekers are Paper.
...and Clerics are Mushrooms.
Paper beats Rock. Scissors beats Paper. Scissors also happens to beat Rock...until Rock gets 50k+ soulforce at which point Rock becomes an unstoppable killing machine that beats Paper... and would beat Scissors but it can't find Scissors, because Scissors are invisible.
So Scissors beat Paper and avoids Rock, and that is called BALANCE. -cheze0 -
BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur wrote: »Safety zone is my stealth, ijs . . . . .
blue name is your stealth, ijs...0 -
I'd like to request a mod to sticky this guide. I think it holds more valuable information than some guide on zhenning and this Streaker's wiz guide.
I'm glad you all find my infinite wisdom to be enlightening.0 -
Well I was gonna say this should be a "How to kinda (not really) survive a 1v1 with a sin" guide for wizards, but then I realized that by 2012, everyone will be playing a sin b:cry0
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this is amazing i request a sticky!!!!
much better than bloodmystic guide tbh.0 -
disagree. AA wiz is better than all the classes if you know how to play it. because if barbs get killed by sins and are HA and have low magic defense, so HA wiz would die fast and would have low magic defense too.0
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Kywe - Harshlands wrote: »disagree. AA wiz is better than all the classes if you know how to play it. because if barbs get killed by sins and are HA and have low magic defense, so HA wiz would die fast and would have low magic defense too.
i'm just going to ignore the fact that you actually thought this was serious. maybe you can edit in something humorous to brighten someone's day instead.0 -
this is amazing i request a sticky!!!!
much better than bloodmystic guide tbh.
er, it is more . . . . concise b:lipcurl"And as for bragging, I don't need to brag. I am famous, yo. My accomplishments are legendary. I am BLOODMYSTIC, speaker of truth, bane of the Barbarians of Impulse, slayer of the **** of Narla, liberator of all the free peoples of the Archosaur server, former master propagandist for our leader in freedom, Proski, and Archtroll of the PWI Forums. And now? Amiable pve wizard, beloved by all, aka BLUEMYSTIC. Pleased to make your acquaintance."0 -
BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur wrote: »er, it is more . . . . concise b:lipcurl
SEE? Being succinct is cool.0
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