Unfortunately wizards get a bad name because of the people that will get play them that get in a group and burn the first 3 mobs a group pulls and then afk until they are fom. That is being a bad wizard. If you use your mana wisely you can ghetto mez mobs by root parking them, help get a mob off the enchanter/cleric/whatever by stunning them, or you can
selectively burn mobs down. I say selectively because sometimes burning a mob is appropriate and sometimes it is being a bad wizard (see above). Say you are fighting
hags in unrest, they are wizards and their spells hurt, they also have low hp. As a wizard you can save the cleric valuable mana by burning them down as fast as possible so that they cannot get off nukes (You can even use your dd/stun to interrupt them while doing good damage!)
Players of all levels hate it when mobs flee at low health, this is why snare is so nice to have in a group. At lower levels people tend not to snare because you kill too quickly and then waste all of your mana on a snare. So instead of stopping them form running by someone snaring, you can stop them from running by starting a nuke late, say 50% mob health, and it might land at 25% health and then kill them right infront of the tank. People love to see that in groups and it makes your dps seem impressive. Get the timing down right and you will land your nuke for full dmg and have the mob barely be able to move when it begins to flee.
They have a lot of tools, people just need to be made aware that not all wizards are afk.
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