Gaining XP as a wizard

[Captain Faceplant]

Wizards are hands down the hardest class at low levels*. There's no easy way around it unless you have a group willing to carry you.

It starts to get better at 16, when the extreme range of your bolt will let you kill most blue mobs before they even touch you. (On this server, wizard bolts act as long range DDs. I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended; mage bolts are very buggy, so they may have done that to wizard bolts intentionally because they're a much smaller part of our class. The last one is level 16, while mages still have them in the 50's). Get comfortable with your bolt distance, running/stopping quickly, and always have root/gate memmed, and you'll have no problem soloing outdoors for quite a few levels.

Your hardest time will probably be 8-15. Take advantage of the distance and damage of your level 8 bolt. Get comfortable rooting things that reach you. Knowing how to root something that's beating on you will be about 95% of your survivability.


*the exception being a level 1-3 mage, which wins because they're nearly identical to wizards until 4, but wizards can nuke for 1 point (!) more.