Future warm-body: what classes do raid guilds need?

[Toxigen]

just go SK you never be asked to do anything

[evilwizard]

as a wizard, if you ever hit 60, you'll spend 6+ months trying to get vs for your epic. then, maybe get a clicky robe - still won't be able to farm anything cool except for lower level mobs for a slow trickle of plat.

depending on how raid guilds are now though, you could always save your dkp for stuff to sell in EC and make enough to twink out an alt to have fun on for a few months before you decide to quit playing

[Treefall]

Originally Posted by evilwizard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

as a wizard, if you ever hit 60, you'll spend 6+ months trying to get vs for your epic. then, maybe get a clicky robe - still won't be able to farm anything cool except for lower level mobs for a slow trickle of plat.

depending on how raid guilds are now though, you could always save your dkp for stuff to sell in EC and make enough to twink out an alt to have fun on for a few months before you decide to quit playing

Is the life of a Wizard really that bad? You can sell ports without having to go yourself.

You can mass AE low level mobs.

You can hold down a lot of x minute 1-2 spawn cash camps.

You can quad money mobs.

There definitely are way better farming/plat classes, but I don't think a Wizard is at the bottom by any means. Especially if you're a person that likes to knock out a few mobs and go do something else for a bit. Would definitely recommend DE for hide though.

[evilwizard]

Originally Posted by Treefall [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is the life of a Wizard really that bad? You can sell ports without having to go yourself.

You can mass AE low level mobs.

You can hold down a lot of x minute 1-2 spawn cash camps.

You can quad money mobs.

There definitely are way better farming/plat classes, but I don't think a Wizard is at the bottom by any means. Especially if you're a person that likes to knock out a few mobs and go do something else for a bit. Would definitely recommend DE for hide though.

Selling ports/TLs is boring, but viable I guess?

There are quite a few low level camps that I PBAE by using epic / pulling with flux / jylls / pants / jylls. It's ~ok~ but not great.

Quadding money mobs can be hit or miss. HGs are off the table due to the new way that they spawn. Mobs that drop gems can net you absolutely nothing after spending hours doing it.

I'm a DE, hide is 100% better than any other racial for a wizard imo

[Treefall]

Originally Posted by evilwizard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Selling ports/TLs is boring, but viable I guess?

There are quite a few low level camps that I PBAE by using epic / pulling with flux / jylls / pants / jylls. It's ~ok~ but not great.

Quadding money mobs can be hit or miss. HGs are off the table due to the new way that they spawn. Mobs that drop gems can net you absolutely nothing after spending hours doing it.

I'm a DE, hide is 100% better than any other racial for a wizard imo

See, I am not saying you are a great farm class - but there is no way that capability is at the bottom.

[Vexenu]

Wizard is really only worthwhile if you want to raid while expending the least amount of effort possible to stockpile DKP (or are just a lazy player in general). It's quite a fantastic class in that regard, actually.

[Foxplay]

Played and raided with most classes (see sig)

If you want to warm body and never be asked to do anything other than the occasional CR / body dragging I would say rogue....

Wizard is a great choice as well but there is a lot of things wizard can do that rogue cannot that goes beyond the "warm body" descriptor... Wizards can help move people around for different targets / windows which that alone is a lot more time and "involvement" than your typical rogue log in, auto attack backstab... they can aggro kite better than any other class

Rogue is always in higher demand than wizard, simply because melee dps takes center spotlight in velious (unless you are extreme wizard stacking with guild bots... but at that point the same amount of rogues are probably going to have a similar effect in plastering the boss into oblivion anyway)

At that point it becomes what are your gearing and goals outside of just warm body raiding.... a Rogue cant really do much on their own even with extremely good gear their solo play is laughable compared to other classes. Even for small man plat farms most teams will just bring a monk/enc/shm or cleric. Wizard can solo decently, Rend robe, epic, and Manna Robe(or manastone for oldworld) and Wizard feels like a new class entirely (just root and click things to death) So long as they dont summon your gucci

[Foxplay]

Originally Posted by evilwizard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

as a wizard, if you ever hit 60, you'll spend 6+ months trying to get vs for your epic. then, maybe get a clicky robe - still won't be able to farm anything cool except for lower level mobs for a slow trickle of plat.

depending on how raid guilds are now though, you could always save your dkp for stuff to sell in EC and make enough to twink out an alt to have fun on for a few months before you decide to quit playing

If you want to farm plat play a Enc , shm, or bard.... no amount of gear will overcome what these 3 classes can do with just their base kit and game knowledge