earth wiz

[0ld.mili]

does anyone have a wiz specd full in earth and if you do can you tell me how it compares to fire and ice wizs? i read on a spell list that earth wiz gets an 18sec DoT but that was on american site and could be a different patch to ours, do any earth wizs know if thats in our patch?

thanks.

 

[Bodzilla]

i think Rumble (lvl 42 wizard) is fully earth

 

[0ld.mili]

i hope he reads the boards then

 

[Meatballs]

its not in this patch

(im not and earth wizard but I know its not

 

[old.Witchunter]

Some changes to Earth wizzies made them overpowered... so they've been nerfed in the 1.5x patch or so. Might want to check it up before rolling one

 

[old.Takahome]

Advice, don´t roll one.

Atm earth wizzys sux BIG time, only useful a bolt, a dmg add and some inconsistent ae dds, nothing compared with fire or ice wizzy, actually I tnk they r rarer than spirit spec cabalists...

Wot they made em uber was giving em an AE STUN, and GT AE DD, that GT crap (not crap if u know wot to do) is doable, but an AE STUN in a realm with pbaoe WASN´T allowed by Mythic (but now look at midgard, they´ve got healers with AE STUN and SM with pbaoe, wonder if Mythic really read about wot they say...) so Mythic changed that to an AE root.

Overall earth wizzy´s still pretty soft, only GT ae can be considered ok spell with dmg add and bolt, no spec strong DD makes an earth wizzy´s life V hard.

 

[old.Jadow]

Hmm

Earth wizzies get a nice AoE which does cumulative damage (not DoT) and includes a speed debuff...

I rather like that. Especially because few people bother with earth resistance in RvR...

May want to talk to Tera sometime...

Jadow
Level 49+ Infiltrator
Order of The Knights Templar

 

[0ld.mili]

GT crap (not crap if u know wot to do)

how do you mean, is it complicated to do or is it rare when you can actually do it and make it succesful?

 

[old.Takahome]

Coz it´s not in game yet, heheh. If u tried to fire a catapult/trebuchet, u´ll know it´s not that easy to aim. Therefor it´s quite good if actually u can target right, but few ppl seem to be able to do so.

Btw everybody knows AE does LOW dmg and that snare´s broken afaik, AE only has got uses like rp farming or mez breaking, actually to kill an invader with an AE DD is HARD and it´s more when u find that u´ve got no decente dmg DD but baseline and we all know that baseline DD with few spec sux big time ^_^

Stats of earth AE DD highest lvl: 134 dmg, cast time 4 sec, dmg type HEAT. That dps´s highly inconsistent, every 4 sec 134 dmg´s not v high afaik, void sux DD´s 180 dmg every 3 sec ^_^

 

[Rumble]

I am a fully specced Earth wizzy, here are my insights.

Ice & Fire are superior but im holding out for the 1.51 patch stuff which should be quite interesting

First up have a butchers at the statistics.

http://daoc.catacombs.com/test_spell2.cfm?classname=Wizard

The PBAoE that Ice wizzys have is pretty damn good and make them very handy in RvR keep defence. Sitting at a keep door blasting away when the enemy are attacking said door can cause a lot of pain.

Fire wizzys basically are the main damage dealers. They can Bolt, DD and AE DD to great effect and you will find more Fire wizzys in the game than any other line.

Earth wizzys are quite weak at the moment, hence the 1.51 patch stuff being rolled out to make them a viable choice. Dont know if I went against the norm here but I created a short Briton so that im harder to pick out in a crowd (Avalonians are a tad taller) and also that I have a bit more health so I can take more damage than Avalonians.

Not entirely sure if speccing in Earth gives a greater benefit towards the Earth buffs, I 'think' that there is a slight increase between an Earth specced buff rather than the other lines but dont quote me on that.

Bolt damage is not as high as the Fire bolt on paper but its still quite effective. The only thing thats handy at the moment is the AE DD snare. Some people may scoff but its actually quite effective in a party when you use it correctly. As Jadow points out

Earth wizzies get a nice AoE which does cumulative damage (not DoT) and includes a speed debuff...

With the snare reducing the movement of your target you can get one more round of AE off that the other lines wouldnt be able to do. If you cast at the right time and at the right range you can get 3 rounds off with a quickcast 4th. If you are very lucky you might have damaged the majority of the mob so that their health is so low that they are naturally slowed down and u can get 4 rounds off and quickcast a death dealing 5th round.

As a general guide to others im doing approximately 200ish damage on the Tangler Goblins which con orange to me and on a good day I can kill one of them (need criticals ) and reduce the others to about 25% health before they reach me. Its also quite handy when its gone tits up and theres shedloads of monsters in amongst your group and the clerics are yelling their heads off.

You might ask why not use the Fire DD and the answer is that I do, quite a lot really. Only problem is that I havent stuck any points into the Fire line so the damage varies quite wildly. The Earth AE DD/Snare is only used in anger or when its a sensible time to use it.

In RvR the damage is not too bad but nowhere near as good as Fire wizzys damage. One rather interesting/quirky thing to me is that the prepatch AE damage was very handy because it would appear as orange globes (similar to Bladeturn/Magma shield) around the enemy thus highlighting their position to everyone, with the latest patch its been changed to the Earth Melee Damage buff graphics which do not highlight the enemy to the same extent.

Now with the upcoming 1.51 patch the Earth wizzy might very well become a viable option. The DoT will be a handy addition to our offensive capabilities, the AE Root is going to be very handy both in PvP and PvE, the AE DD is almost on a par with the current Fire wizzy and the Ground Targetted AE DD should be really interesting. (I can forsee the other lines complaining about not having a similar spell). Targetting is a doddle by the way, pressing F5 to bring the targetting cursor and depending on your mouselock thingy being on or off you can position the cursor with either the keyboard or mouse.

In closing, at the time of writing, Ice and Fire are more common and do more damage but there are some benefits in choosing Earth. For starters they are not common and theres going to be some really cool stuff for them in the near future. Of course you could just do whatever you want and wait for /respec, perhaps start a Fire/Ice wizzy to get a feel for how they work and consider respeccing later on for some of the Earth stuff.

I might have got some of the information wrong about the Ice and Fire lines but dont shout at me....im an Earth Wizzy and dont pay much attention to those lines

Good luck and have fun with your wizzy.