How many wizards are respeccing to ice?

[old.Wildfire]

"lots of fire wizzes doing a good job already"

If there were do you think a muppet like me would be the #5 wizard on the server?

 

[Uriron]

LOL at Wildfire..

ok i'll rephrase that to lots of fire wizzies already (fullstop)

If you are #5 of wizzies any chance of giving sharing some of your experience in RvR when i get into my mid 40's? I'll hassle you when I get there (about 4 weeks).

Unless of course you are one of those uber RvR folks who doesn't want us NooBloods to do our bit (which judging from your previous posts you dont seem to be )

 

[Pin]

Originally posted by PKSilver_
beginning of the onset of buffbots? 24% energy resist buff anyone?

Resist buffs change in 1.52 to be group-cast, 10 minute buffs, costing power, not conc. So not exactly tailored to the buffbot.

 

[Qte Eth]

qc stun and then pbaoe will give u like 6 seconds interupt so in the whole stun length ull give 1 pb max what can be done by qc pbaoe and be sure ur spell wont be interupted.Aslo there are some kind of hero and champs in hibernia who can slam enemy who is attacking casters ^^
and as mana ench qc stun -ffs hes oom after 3 qc stuns or so

 

[K0nah]

yeh keep defending a self-castable 9sec stun on a nuker for free on ~50% of a realm, the rest of us who've felt it know better and are laffing our socks off at u... :sleeping:

 

[old.Wildfire]

Always willing to help someone willing to learn, gimme a shout sometime

 

[korhal]

hmm

i wanted to respec to ice but now i dont know..

 

[old.SadonTheGrey]

Well, as an ice wizard, in RvR I find the lack of bolts crippling.

They may be bugged, but you learn how to use them eventually.

In the 48 lvls of ice-spec, I've managed to use pbaoe twice in RvR, once in a Caledonia keep defence (when ppl used to go there) when I managed to send 2 full groups of hibs packing, and once in RvR, when I was defending DC at level 42 as the only pbaoe'r...well, you can imagine what happened, I died

I'm definitely NOT staying ice.

 

[hotrat]

qc stun and then pbaoe will give u like 6 seconds interupt so in the whole stun length ull give 1 pb max what can be done by qc pbaoe and be sure ur spell wont be interupted.

Thats if your hit before you stun, if u see a mezzed target stood away from the rest just run up to him, stun, pbae pbae dead.

Sorc would definately feel the benefit of stun as they never ever need to use single target root, they got single target mezz in baseline.

How often would a mentalist use the root? Just a few points in mentalism buys them a 30 sec mezz, same with light eldritch.

Its not that stun is that overpowered in all situations, its just its a lot more usful than root in most situations.

You would think that as hib has better baseline spells their spec spells would be a little worse, but they aren't, their tanks can still slam. The only slight disadvantage they get is their main healer (druid) cant cast a 1000 range stun, but wait they get instant root, instant ae root, castable ae root and group purge so it aint all that bad.


Sorry to rant a bit, but basically earth is better than ice, gtae at your feet if you like the idea of pbae
Also at a keep defence you could stand nice and safe away from the door and still gtae all the tanks attacking it

 

[Flimgoblin]

gtae will never do the damage of pbaoe

bolts are badly broken at the moment

you can use them to pick off enemy casters at range (assuming you don't get nearsighted first), that's it. Nothing else.

Ice is really quite good the baseline nuke is as good as the fire one... you don't have the damage of the fire spec nuke admittedly, but you do have your snare/nuke with decent damage.

 

[Danya]

Castable stuns for clerics and hib casters get a 35% power reduction in 1.52 so qc stun will suck less power.