To All Wizards Respeccing To Earth

[--Eraser--]

the 2 sec timer on DD spells is awsome!!!

best and most successfull rvr i have been into today!!!

think twice before you respec..thats all i have to say...

 

[lac_desariel]

Having respec to Earth i dont regret it for one min.. however as a lot say think to what you know and besure before respec earth is not to every ones liking... you may love it like me or you cound hate it.
Think careful

 

[old.Astrix]

The base-fire DD is 'nice' although a lot less powerfull, still does 'nice' damage... But the power it uses is just too damn high...

Probably because you used a Fire Focus staff instead of an earth focus staff

 

[hotrat]

Oh, but be carefull with GTAoE on Hibs, because it sends their enchanter nuke-pets (which nuke WAY harder in 1.52) on you... And they shoot without LoS too...

good to see they improved the previously extreemly nerfed chanter pets.

 

[old.Wildfire]

Yay chanter pets, three cheers for basic human intelligence

Wizzies I now know have gone earth: Dhs, Lac
Wizzies I now know have gone/stayed 50f 18e 9i: myself, Ziro
Wizzies I now know have gone ice: ???
Wizzies I have always known were gimped, and always will be in my eyes: Zoyster

 

[Flimgoblin]

Originally posted by old.Astrix


Probably because you used a Fire Focus staff instead of an earth focus staff

He's casting a _fire_ spell... why would using a fire focus staff be a problem?

 

[--Eraser--]

Wizzies I have always known were gimped, and always will be in my eyes: Zoyster [/B]

rofl...nah i bet he got his beloved and long time missed lvl50-bolt now for sure

 

[Flimgoblin]

Originally posted by old.Wildfire
Yay chanter pets, three cheers for basic human intelligence

Wizzies I now know have gone earth: Dhs, Lac
Wizzies I now know have gone/stayed 50f 18e 9i: myself, Ziro
Wizzies I now know have gone ice: ???
Wizzies I have always known were gimped, and always will be in my eyes: Zoyster

Still an earth-gimp here...

then again I have 10 levels to go before I can actually hurt something in RvR

(I managed to root a skald last night... then DoTted him, so he ran over and chopped me up .. ho hum, next time I'll get max range and tribolt him so I can tickle him before I die)

 

[--Eraser--]

just found this in the rvr section, hehe...

Originally posted by Zoyster

I respecced from 48 Fire to 50 Fire.....

 

[Madonion Slicer]

Well i went a head and did it, respec to Earth. At first i thought i had done something horribly wrong and wished i never done it, i headed out to find some prey and came across Dunters Yellow and Orange when i was fire spec these would be no problem bolt, bolt, DD and if they not dead another DD.......BUT with Earth i found that the Earth Bolt was very good and hit hard the fire base bolt missed 50% of the time and the fire base DD was resisted alot meaning soloing a yellow con dunter was trouble aghhhh.

Then i got a bit move used to the spells, using a different staff with Focus in both Earth and Fire, instead of the high focus earth staff i had, i would now use Earth Bolt, Root, Earth Bolt, DD and the DOT because by this time the Dunter would be running back to camp but the DOT would kill it.

But where the Earth spec excels is in groups, i could give a much better EB to tanks and a damage shield if Sorc or Theug missed root/mez i was there to save the day, my DOT is pretty damn sweet and if things went really bad tanks all have one mob on i hit my GTAOE in the middle of them all.

So i am no longer the solo killer i once was, but then again who solo's from 35-50? , my life at the Gobo's and Pygmy should be a little easier as i can now offer a group alot more than Nuke Nuke Nuke.

But i really must find so earth items, ticking me off not having and +earth items.

 

[-Wedge-]

Well I stayed 50-fire, used my respec to get 18 Earth and 9 Ice (kinda gimped my half-ding skills)...

So I got awesome (at least I think so ) DD's and FB's ... Got 26s AE-Root (if it sticks, which so far it hasnt) and a low-level GTAoE to uncover stealthers and annoy healers & casters at keep raids...

Anyone had the low-level GTAoE hit a high level person yet? (might be that I aimed wrong or something, but havent hit anything with it yet)

For my play-style (and what I like the most) this is a good spec for me, I dont like AMG/MMG camping, and I dont like keep-defense that much (Although a firewizard is still pretty good at it, if he has enough 'support')... The open battle 8vs8 (or smaller) battles is what I like the most...

Anyways, I was pretty pissed yesterday, since I didnt get that many spells off at all due to all those damn instants in the game now

And each melee hit I got was 400-500 at least in damage... Oohwell...

 

[Afroninja]

Yeah, on Gorre the gtaoe was hitting for 130-ish. Tried the low level Earth Eddies on grey clerks and nothing

the aoe root didnt even stick on 2 blue clerks either..

 

[-Wedge-]

The low(est) level GTAoE should hit people, shouldnt it?

Even if its for 20-40ish damage, it still should hit, otherwise its useless...

Gonna try it tonight, see what happens...

 

[Flimgoblin]

it might be bugged in this version... I remember lots of posts about it - ask on the VN Elementalist boards if it works in 1.53

 

[Afroninja]

The high level gtae works fine, just the lowest spell seems to do nothing. not even a message saying it was resisted. maybe it only works in rvr

also, i thought the fire nukes were supposed to be 2.8 seconds, not 2.0? Is this a mistake on the shift-i screen, because they certainly dont feel like a 2 second cast

 

[Flimgoblin]

base fire and ice are 2.6
spec fire is 2.8

base/spec fire used to both be 3.0 I think

 

[Afroninja]

aye, but the delve screen says different

 

[old.Odysseus]

Im confused too - camelot herald says 2.8 and frankly 2.0 sounds a bit wild, that would make wizzies non-gimped .

2.8 is a fine adjustment, it stops me from matching their damage with DD so they can benefit from the 219 vs 209 base damage on DD.

Now we just need a makeover of the bolt code and wizards start being dangerous

 

[Flimgoblin]

If they made bolts good, then wizards would be worth it for the lack of defence/utility. Two bolts from a fire wizard, one and a half from an earth wiz, three from a wacky dual-spec wiz

They also need to sort out the wizard/eldritch pbaoe compared to the enchanter/spiritmaster ones... it's not right that the damage dealers have less damage over time than the pet classes.

Best thing about the new earth spells is the effects I get to do the whole cleric 'rubbing static' thing to cast my gtaoe and root funky waves of electricity too (tis quite difficult to time it on the pygmys though, have to cast just before they reach the yellow thing quite often miss them completely

Speaking of that the targetting seems weird - might be lag or the effects going off after the damage or something...
but if I time it so they're right on the marker when it fires - they often don't get it.

If I leave it a second or so, then I hit them (despite thinking they'd be past it)

Oh and the hand effect for the root is just too cool

 

[old.SadonTheGrey]

i like the new efects too ><

 

[Danya]

All spells delve as rounded down values. The spec fire nukes are 2.8s cast.

 

[old.Zoyster]

OMG Wildfire, I've only just relaised what u said.........I want 3 P for all my l3wt Skills u have pirated......

btw I am LVL 52 Fire now !

 

[old.Wildfire]