Phys or Wizard

For either toon in NW, you will need decent endgame gear if you want a chance. I started my psy in NW at lvl80 and with the equalizer buff did quite well averaging 80 tokens per night. But when I hit lvl 100 you lose the buff. At this point, anyone level 100 can easily get g15 so everyone has it. You are squishy and always will be in comparison to an HA wearer.
Wizards are slightly less squishy due to their buffs however, psy's have naturally fast channel time where as wizzy needs a lot of channel gear to do well with their 3 sec channel times (psy's are ave. .5 -1sec). Psy's get black voodoo(attack level increase) and white voodoo(def level increase). If used properly, they will save your butt,

Wizzys... Psy are fishes.. fishes smell b:laugh

Wizard full + 12 Josd > psy of same tier

Wiz is more fun in mass pk due to high survival, psy gets focused and will surge bye.
Wiz can break 30k prefer fully buffed or near it psy has no base pdef buff
Wiz spike damage is higher at cost of longer channel (demon wiz awesome channel) vs a psy that casts quick.

Psy is broken as ** in white voodoo with puri proc...but wizzard genie spark is just GG.

I had this dilemma when I left BM for a caster, and it's personal choice however wizz has the best of. Both worlds, defense and offense while a psy is a glass cannon in black voodoo and a tank on white....you can't be both at the same time like a wizard

Euthymius - Heavens Tear wrote: »

What is this "Phys" that you speak of, OP?

it is a common typo for 'psy', which is short for 'psychic'

#uselesscommentsareuselessb:bye

From what I know, a psy is a good option because as you said you don't have the money so even with non-endgame gear you can still do many things with a psy. You can use Glacial shards to freeze a bunch of people and you have many aoe and cc skills. Skills such as soulburn, soul of retaliation and soul of stunning which are very useful skills in mass pvp.
As for a wiz, I have yet to raise one to a higher lvl.
-oHelixSykar

So my in game wife is a Psy and I wind up squadding with her for basically ever nation war, so these are the major differences I see:

She hates me for distance shrink. Any wizard who calls it useless is actually an idiot, and you should disregard everything else they ever tell you. If a BM runs up and stuns, I can badge/distance shrink away, she needs to either badge and apoth, use a directly defensive genie skill like windshield and stay at the mercy of the bm, or hope for a purify spell or SoS proc (she has 45k soul force now so the SoS isn't unlikely)

Both of us LOL all but a handful of the servers sins. R9r3 archers make both of us cry inside.

Tanky stuff drops faster to me, even though she has a +12 weapon and mine is +10. She does not 1 hit equally geared people. If I spark someone and use sage divine program (the 20% fire resistance reduction stacks) I can easily hit >25k, even if they're buffed. My ultimates hit harder but I can't use them as much. They also take longer to channel so it's kind of a heads up for everyone in range to gtfo if they can.

She gets more noobs and more kills in general, due to the faster channeling (if I'm doing 12k ever second and a half, and she's doing 9k every 1.2 seconds, I do more overall but she kills that 7k hp person before I do)

While we both do decently in the pits fighting for flags, I tend to have to drop in to do aoes, since wizards are limited to hailstorm and 2 sparks for our ranged ones. She, on the other hand, can spam them from the edge. However, Ice Prison can freeze pretty much every enemy in the pit and either make them sitting ducks for the aoe fest or force them to use apoth, either is a win in my opinion.

Both of us have r9r3, though she has better refines on her weapon and a couple other pieces and has some NW forge gear, while I don't.

Adroit - Lost City wrote: »

The debuff on sage d.pyro does not stack with undine, so if you undine first (I usually do) the sage benefit has no effect. If you spark people without undining though, then you do get that little extra benefit from sage d.pyro

I know, but sometimes I avoid the undine since it gives someone a heads up if it's my opening attack. If I just start casting sage d pyro and cast spark while it's at 90%, it doesn't give them long to react.

If it's someone I want to take down before they can return fire, mainly.