Originally Posted by Pep
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This topic has been discussed again and again, and the posts before sum it up already, but meh, here I go:
there already exist classes for situations that get out of hand: enchanter (number one choice personally: charm, mez, root), bard (mez and charm) and the rest of the root-classes (druid, cleric, shaman, paladin, necromancer).
They all bring something to the table: heals, haste/slow, stuns, rezzes, lulls, AC buffs, twitches, tanking, and a long list of etceteras. A group has a maximum number of six players, why fill a slot with a sub-par class? To add insult to injury, most wizards will just sit and leech exp. The class has very little to offer to an exp group, and their players know it.
If a wizard is going to be saving mana in case he needs to quickly burn down a bad-pull or cast an evac, we may all as well put in a half-assed effort and save hit-points and heals and what-not for those one bad pulls. Even better, lets pull single mobs and wait for the whole group to hit full-mana before pulling another single mob "in case something unexpected happens".
The server is pretty mature at this point: most pullers are pretty proficient. And even if they aren't, there's usually someone in the group who can provide tips on how to pull the camp. And even then at higher levels pullers will rather die a champion's death during a bad pull than train their group and cause a wipe.
Not even for porting are they a prime choice (Hate/Sky raids excluded obviously), druids can invis evil races just like a wizard, and more importantly they can SoW. This class is fail, Sony/Verant did a fabulous job balancing all classes, wizards are the only glitch.
All in all, wizards may be an excellent class to control 0.5% of the bad pulls that the chanter has no mana to lock. Me, I'd much rather focus my group on performing great on the other 99.5%. And for the record, I'm also one of the people who wouldn't mind (too badly) having yet another hybrid penalizing everyones exp if that player is at least sort-of fun or just needs some exp.
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