The Legendary Joe
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RE: Help fix my fail Wiz
Most mage classes get as much dex as they can to speed up casting. Especially wizards since??their Area of Effect spells usually take quite a while to cast. (15 seconds for level 10 SG, 15 Seconds for any level of meteor storm, I forget about LoV, but it's slightly faster when maxed).
Jupital thunder is a little stronger than Lightning bolt (it hits skill level +2 times so a maximum of 12 bolt hits that knocks back), and??it's power can be amplified by the extremely common Hill wind card. I honestly wouldn't get more than what's needed for prerequisites for other skills, like say thunderstorm (lvl 4 LB). And that's just a Prereq for the bigger spells like Meteor or LoV.
Actually,??you're pretty low level yet, Put 4 hill wind cards in your Rod [4]??and??JTing Siroma's might be an easy way to do things, but??you'd want to Frost driver the Roween and Zap them when they freeze, and Fwing away from Gazeti.
UNless??you know how to play the class well,??I'd say you should stick to the??High int build you got and do the boring??way of leveling by one shotting single targets Like siroma or Leshij until you have enough dex to mob with any amount of grace. Some people do this their entire lives until they get to nameless,??but I don't think too many of them are really all that great at wizzing.??There are exceptions though.
In parties, people will complain and maybe insult you if you don't have Storm gust. It's a strong skill, and definately worth having, but it's not everything.
It's rare that it gets used (due to lack willing profs to use deluge and lack of water covered maps where it's useful), but when it does get used, Waterball is almost always amusing to have, but that's one of those personal preference skills.
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| 11-24-2009, 09:02 PM |
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mahawirasd
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RE: Help fix my fail Wiz
+1 to all the things the two pros above me has said...
side note:
try to get in touch with ppl who play on the same time slot as you, especially priests and bards
i am bored as hell with nameless, but i have to admit that it is probably the fastest and easiest exp source especially at 9x
so once you've got a few friends to play regularly with, you're set...
here's the thing about dex:
bards most certainly will have dex, so if you can wait for parties with bards dex won't be too much of an issue, but if you want to solo then my suggestion would be to get 7x-8x base int so that you can get a total of 91 INT without other ppl and then go up dex to 99.
Or if you're still low level and want to cast considerably faster then just get base 70 int and then pump dex.
imho one should never ever pump any dex before hitting 70 base int...
now the 2 most useful skills is definitely SG, quag, and JT. SG is useful for nameless and party situations (even WoE), especially combined with quag. JT is for soloing water and neutral enemies... lots of wiz seem to spend a considerable amount of time soloing siromas/seals/alligators/etc...
in party situations, shortcut SG lv 1 and SG lv 10 and use them in that order where the 1st would be for crowd control and the second for damage. Of course the bard's INT would play an important role on this issue, and more often than not there will be a second wiz... but i always believe that a proper nameless party only needs 4 ppl: priest/HP, wiz, bard, hunter...
-w-
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