Frenzy On Genie Yay Or Nay

Elendria - Dreamweaver wrote: »

The wizis that told you that this skill is completely useless, either have no TW experience, or are completely clueless. Maybe if they don't run around with the jones blessing and face players with at least 40 def lvls this skill might be useless.

But with everyone running around with Jones Blessing that gives you 30 attack lvl basis, frenzy gives you for a few seconds another 20 attack lvl on top. So if you suddenly attack another player with 50 attack lvl of course you will hit harder.

What your wizi friends probably ment was that they prefer other skills in TW to increase their survivability instead of using frenzy to hit harder. With genie skills it is the same as with your regular wizi skills. It always depends on the situation you are in.

If you have a lot of your own people around you taking the fire, you are free to hit an aoe, use frenzy and kill a bunch of people instantly. But if you find yourself suddenly all alone on the battlefield as your ppl around you died, you might instead think of absolute domain or apoth and holy path to get out of there as fast as possible.

But yeah if you are free to fire, frenzy can give you godly dmg b:dirty

BLOODMYSTIC - Archosaur wrote: »

I think a good rule of thumb is that a genie needs to be more heavily weighted for survival for pk, and more heavily weighted to amp damage for TW. Any good genie will have a little bit of both, of course.

I think frenzy isn't necessarily a MUST have, since alot depends on how you play, even within the limited context of TW only. Do you look for groups or hunt single targets? Do you support catas or defend the base? All that makes a difference.

Generally speaking though, I think its hard to go wrong with frenzy as a wizard, particularly in TW. Unlike extreme poison, it amps damage for everyone in the range of an aoe, not just a single target. And it doesn't lower your defenses.

If you pk, or usually find yourself targeting the harder to kill single targets in TW, extreme poison might be a better choice to some, since it not only amps your damage on that target, but everyone elses . . . .

See adroits genie thread. Its the most comprehensive location of genie-speak for wizards on the forums. Disorganized and a somewhat burdensome to sift through (not his fault, of course, its a thread - lets see if I can avert his trolling in advance), but worth the read if you are looking for a place to start getting the gist of how to build a genie for an end game wizard.

The best is to just experiment. See what skills are on your genie that you never seem to use (either because the opportunity doesn't present itself, or because you use other skills alot more and your genie is always on cooldown) - then swap those out for others, or think about changing out the big energy draining skills and see if you can live without using them so you get more use out of the others skills. I used to have second wind and/or tree of protection on my genie, and they saved me a good bit of the time, but more and more I would go through even 3 hour TWs and not have clicked on them once so I dumped them. And Adroit in particular seems to be an advocate of dumping high energy skills and using only those with low energy cost so you can spam the skills.

Of couse, a good all purpose genie thats pretty easy to get is just one with holy path, absolute domain, any damage amp, then pick anything else you like and can fit within those affinities. You might always be able to customize to better suit your needs or play style, but with that base its hard to go terribly wrong.