Earth wiz

[Molten Lava]

I have a lvl 20 Earth wiz on Excal and I need some explanation about the following......

I learned that on average 1 out of 10 players is a wiz
I learned that on average 1 out of 20 wizzies is and Earth wiz
So I learned that on average 0.5% (!!) of all Albs on Excal are playing an earth wiz.....my question why?

I reached 20 last night and directly entered BG 20-24 I managed to get some points in killing yellows with my bolts and lava spells and groups wanted me (get that Freak in our group.....he's an EARTH-wizzy so where do I go wrong?

We have an awesome bolt (most damage of all bolts) (?)
We have a nice AoE Root/damage combo
We have, next to the normal earth buff, a nice damage shield for our groupmates....
We will have (1.51) some awesome new spells in the next patch.

So where is the problem with earth-wizzies? cant we get a group in the Gobby-levels (30-40)? and after that? do we get worse compared to other classes on higher levels? Please tell me....maybe I can still quit this one

Thanks for any advice (and sorry about my English.....not my native language as you can see

Molten

 

[old.Hendrick]

We have a lvl 44 earth wizard in our guild and she is very happy. Loves her AOE.

 

[old.Mitsu]

The lack of a singetarget spec dd is quite a loss. Earth have been lacking some nice spells for it to be a viable main route
And with the new fire bolt line - fire just got a lot better.

Still nice to see people doing something out of the ordinary.

 

[Meatballs]

I thought it was an aoe w/ snare not "AoE Root/damage"?

The only problem with earth wizard in group is a lot of the time a direct damage is the only safe spell to use, and an unspecced dd is going to do pretty poor damage

In RvR this not such a big issue, but sorcerers are going to hate you braking their ae mezz

 

[old.mattshanes]

nice to c that mate i gonna make an earth wiz too many ppl go for fireballs coz they look the best so they say but i gonna try earth aswell it seems good and at 1.51 gets better.

 

[Myshra]

im all fire for a good reason, i do damage, and lots of it.

my final template is...

50F
10I
18E

was gonna be 50/11/17 but theres a new GTAoE in earth at 18E which i think ill have kindly.

this will give me:

lvl spec 50 bolt for 331Dmg or something like that
Spec AoE
crap but not completely useless AoE + snare
a GTAoE
Spec DD
first PBAoE for lord keep defence, but tbh ill let meep do that job
a crap dmg shield (give it to newbs, they love it)
also the first AoE root from Earth, which is not as bad as most people think
a crap DoT

and the usual non spec list
single target root
melee dmg add
ice DD
fire DD


this way ill be full dmg, but have some little tricks up my sleeve, the AoE is a wonder for keep attacking, repairing the door when someone is aoe'ing hte thing aint easy when someones attacking it, plus ill get the first AoE root (bout 30 secs), an earth eddies, the first GTAoE which apparently looks like a bag being blown up!

 

[old.mattshanes]

Just choose any line u want they all do good damage its just what u like really.

 

[old.mattshanes]

i just wanna prove ppl wrong that earth is great and can hit hard as the other 2 elements and will be great in patch 1.51

 

[Myshra]

out of interest, whats your earth spec?

43earth 32 fire?

 

[old.mattshanes]

i would put rest into ice for rvr to stop those stealthers.

 

[old.Kladen]

dont underestimate the usualfulness of snare. rvr its brill on gimps who are trying to run away and to snare tanks so they go uber slow. in PvE if u have things hitting u and try to run u can quickcast snare and run.

earth wizzs are cool mainly coz of the buffs they do. their is a lvl40 earth wiz in my guild and he seems happy (hehe )

i dont like fire wizzs as they only hit things and have nothing else but damage. ice wizzies and a cool PB and snare+DD which do very nice damage considering it slows that target down by half speed. (130 damage at lvl 24)

 

[old.mattshanes]

personally i dont listen to ppls opinions i just do something that i will enjoy and is different also fun for me.