Wizard bolt spells

[old.Dugald]

Before rolling my wizard i considered what i wanted to be my 50th lvl template (37 fire, 38 earth, 9 cold) and went this way since from the start u could get a base fire bolt and earth spec bolt.

since the fire spec bolt was added a few patches ago u can have fire base, fire spec and earth spec bolts. problem is u cant cast all three. u can only do fire base/fire spec combo or fire base/earth spec combo.

questions
1) is there any point being earth specced now as i'd get two bolts in fire anyway?
2) any1 know what patch earth lines get their DoT and AoE root, which, unless they patch it so u can cast all 3 bolts, maybe the only thing keeping me earth/fire?
3) should i just feck it all and go fire/ice (don't want to full spec in one line btw - i aint gonna be a one trick pony )

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Dugald 50th Penthouse rezzer
Lint 41st Fire/Earth gimp?
and about 20 other alts besides

 

[Pixie.Pebr]

Knowing you get GTAE and DoT and AE Root and you still asking if you should keep Earth?

Keep it, damnit!

 

[Psy|:m00:]

Originally posted by old.Dugald
3) should i just feck it all and go fire/ice (don't want to full spec in one line btw - i aint gonna be a one trick pony )

You might have more spells, but trust me, better to be a one trick pony and hit hard, than to multispec and hit like a gimp...

Multispeccing doesn't work for casters, pick a line and spec full in it, be it Earth, Ice or Fire, just don't for pities sake think you're gonna be better off having every spell to mid level than one set to high level...


Oh, and bolts are broke, ergo they suck monkey balls right now

 

[Roalith]

Earth spec AoE root, DoT and GTAOE are next patch, 1.52. Believe me, I've looked into it

 

[Jenkz]

lvl up as fire or somthing easy then respec to earth if ur gonna do so as earth can be harder to lvl than the other 2 specs and fire is much easier at lower lvls.

 

[Fightersuntzu]

In 1.52(?) they change it so that the specline earth and the specline fire bolts are on different timers, meaning you can have 3 bolts[your spec is similar to the many tri-bolt specs floating about on VN]

next q - next patch, AE roots, AE dmg + snare, DoT, and GTAE are added to earth line.

last q, i would recommend you stay earth/fire like you are Ice wizzies have a tendency to be suicidal

 

[Akuma-San]

Originally posted by Fightersuntzu
Ice wizzies have a tendency to be suicidal

Blaah, my test subject ice/earth wizzy aint 'too' suicidal

 

[old.SadonTheGrey]

What ever you do... don't go ice... don...don't go ice

<begins sobbing to himself something like 'pbaoe' as he crawls back into his hole, talking jibberish about how to use pbaoe>

<Gelid's corpse was found two days later in the silo in emain, its obvious what happenend...>

 

[<Wels>]

In some patch they put the earth bolt on a separate timer so with that specc you would have 3 bolts.

 

[Roalith]

Originally posted by Fightersuntzu

next q - next patch, AE roots, AE dmg + snare, DoT, and GTAE are added to earth line.

Earth already has AE DD + snare, in fact it's the only direct damage earth specification can currently do

I'm levelling my earth guy up from scratch as earth though - gives you the best feel for the limitations of the class, I think.

 

[old.drac]

Earth spec would be a very interesting line if they added a spec DD, unfortunately Mythic have continuously stated they wont:-(

fire does some reasonable dmg, but forget about the bolts. You have to be damn lucky to get into bolt range , without being bolted back, nearsighted<scream> or used as a pincushion.

Ice..tis a pity that Albion doesnt use it more, but before you start one up your con..and be prepared to get some serious rp's cos imo MoC and McL will be a must..and because you have to right in there, the way things are going Purge.

Whatever you gor for expect to be killed with regularity by just about everyone, dont expect Uber dmg, sure with fire you may one shot an even con caster every so often(see my fire appraisal).

whatever happens just enjoy it while you can because spellcrafting isnt too far away.

 

[Sarum TheBlack]

Basically Earth is quite an interesting line, but a lack of a spec DD is a big weakness (everything is AE, so if you're in PvE and need to single target DD to avoid breaking mez, expect to run out of power very quickly) Earth wizzies promise to be the keep offence/defence casting Gods.

Fire does a reasonable amount of damage, but not nearly its potential, since everyone and his dog has high heat resist in RvR (PvE is a different story, you get a bonus on a lot of mobs).

Ice's main selling point is PBAoE, which in the right situations is devastating. Expect to die a lot in RvR, because you have to go stand in the middle of a big group of tanks to do any real damage... but you'll probably still make a kill or two first.

Whichever way you go, you've got big damage potential and big death potential. Choose one and enjoy it, nuking stuff is fun

 

[SilverHood]

teoz ice nuked me for 1100 dmg in 4 secs.... Ice seems nice

 

[Meatballs]

teoz doesn't use ice dds, he isn't even a wizard...

 

[pbuck]

Teoz is air specced Theurgist(209DD) with wild power III(15% better chance for critical strike).
Ice(even the Ice wizards DDs)cant be compared to air or fire DDs

 

[walkerb]

multispec wont work as wiz seeing how weak 1line can be sometimes, i can just imagine how hard it will be not having the top dd/bolt

 

[Sarum TheBlack]

The problem is, that unlike combat styles where the damage is governed by your weapon primarily, and so even if you use a low spec style you can do have decent damage, spell damage has a cap depandant on the spell. And it's a lot less for a lvl 30ish nuke than the top level nuke (it's a bit like using a lvl 30 weap on a lvl 50 fighter). I don't know the caps off the top of my head tho.

 

[Danya]

Cap = 3x spelldamage rating (plus RAs to boost it).
For fire that's:
47 Major Conflagration 219 - cap of 657.
vs
30 Conflagration 137 - cap of 411.
Quite a difference.

 

[old.Bubble]

Personly dug i'd go 50 fire
don't multi spec

 

[shani]

I've specced 50 fire, dumped the rest of my points in earth... Now get me that GTAoE