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Originally Posted by Rimitto
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literally what the hell else do they do?
pretty sure you're screwing with me on this one cause, if the forums really don't think wizards are dps, then just.... dammmmmmmmnnn
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I have a wizard. Fairly recently hit 60 so I remember at least some of the grind. However, do understand I am a terrible wizard player. Rincewind. Take my anecdotes with salt.
Wizards aren’t dps. They aren’t much tbh. Their best spell is root, but have a couple of tactical stuns loaded too. Snare and harvest I keep memmed. A damage absorb is helpful. Maybe mem one nuke. The last slot is flavour - eyeball, maybe rain. Sometimes I even load the top up ds if there is no competing buffs. Basically wizards are bottom tier CC BUT they still do that better than dps.
Why aren’t they dps? Dps is a measure of sustained damage and the damage they can do vs medtime is not good. With bard, c2 and potG that isn’t the case neither is it the case in AoE groups, but those are exceptional circumstances. Not even nuke robe or a mana free pet will help tbh.
But what about their big fast casting nukes? Well, wizards do okay at instantaneous damage or bursts, but I don’t consider this dps. This is more like something they can do every 15 mins or so if you have been frugal with mana. It can be very helpful, but it isn’t really dps. It is just CC by elimination.
Anyway, thats how I see wizard in a groupcontext. On a raid boss they can dps okay, but I’ve found melee kill bosses fine so it is better to save mana for TL to pivot fast to next boss (i’m most likely to raid if i have free time and it is a quake).
Ymmv
Edit: i also wanted to throw in a hot take cos imo suggesting wiz in a clr vs pal thread is in itself an irrelevant hottake.