Thinking of rolling a wizard
 

Is this a class that is viable and needed on this server? Would I be better of going mage? I used to have troll SK on teams back in the day but screw that with this XP rate. Otherwise, the extent of my experience is a 55 enc on blue but as you can imagine I'm pretty sick of casting clarity and haste on people and would rather just shove an ice comet in their face.

Can get my brother in on the red too, most likely a troll shaman so we will be partnering up and seeing how many other people we can wean off their Dota 2 addiction for some EQ goodness.

Got a 24 wiz on blue and it just doesn't feel right. Really want to know what these big sweeping changes are going to be for this server, though.

Shaman/wiz sounds fun to me.

:(

You don't really have to worry about casting Clarity/haste on people here. You won't see anyone around and if you do you will most likely be casting gate not clarity.

Wiz are fun, hard/slow at first but can solo alright and fun in pvp IMO. Every guild wants high lvl wizard too if that is a concern. No one wants to group with you but there is no one to group with as hippo noted so not a big consideration.

Not really a good class to duo with though (except bard probably). If you are going to be grouping a lot with your brother who is a sham i would not suggest wiz. Nearly every other class has more synergy with sham.

My sham is nearly 39 and for the first time ever someone casted clarity on me.

Yeh definitely a lack of players, quite nice to play non-twinked though, actually feels like playing a game rather than grinding. Barely got to level 2 before the server packetlossed me into oblivion hehe.

Also thanks for the replies guys, maybe I can get him to roll a bard, he does love those trolls though :)

you will get beat down by guilds with 5 t-staff monks

Ogre or iksar for shaman. Good class for sure but 1-30 is pretty slow even with a partner. I don't think a wizard makes a particularly good partner for them though, as the most effective strategies involve either slowing/tanking the mob (wizard doesn't help here) or root-rotting (wizard nukes break root, no DoTs). Honestly, I would make the argument that a wizard is the worst class to pair with a shaman, as the shaman strengths (DoTs, melee debuffs and melee buffs) are really opposite of what a wizard is all about (fast single target kills, quad kiting, staying out of melee range).

As for what is needed, melee dps and clerics are always in demand. I would not make my decision based on this though, as classes that excel at a single thing (dps, healing, tanking, CC) are typically the classes wanted for raiding but in general make the worst solo or duo classes because of their one dimensional nature. Shamans, druids and necros for example make excellent solo/duo characters but aside from a shaman or two for buffs they are not needed for end game raiding. Necro mana pumping will become more valuable in Velious with longer fights and the donal's BP nerf but it takes a special kind of person to do that (or be a mod rod dispensing mage) and enjoy it.