Between wizard and mage.

[Ooloo]

Hmmm... kinda wanna make a wizard now. Wiz and bard are still the only two classes I've never played, and I hate bards from all the experiences of them swarm kiting near me, so I refuse to play that class out of spite.

[Ravager]

Mages are tethered to merchants selling reagents. I never played a mage, but that seems like it'd be a pain in the butt for a non-porting class.

[sajbert]

Wizard is a comfort raiding class and with Velious you may want to have a Rogue for raiding anyway. A rogue will also get you into end-game dungeon groups and you get your epic with ease, unlike with the Wiz epic which is pretty difficult to score. Since the class isn't popular you'd think it wouldn't be that hard but nah, the top guilds are full of wiz alts.

The early levels are atrocious but can be made easier with the soloist's wand. Leveling overall is slow and generally revolves around 6 minute camps. Quadding now is better available even if they nerfed some spots. There's less competition for locations and you have all the spells you need, you will need jbots though. Quadding gets boring but it's fun doing it a few levels. Both 6min camps and quadding makes the wiz an excellent afk-leveler.

I wouldn't recommend Wizard since a Druid can do everything a Wizard can except exel at raid target burst. When the option is Mage though, eh, I find mages to be possibly even more dull and that's another class which goes nowhere once you hit 60.

[Balimon]

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

Mages are tethered to merchants selling reagents. I never played a mage, but that seems like it'd be a pain in the butt for a non-porting class.

It's not a big deal at all, you have to sell sometimes right? Well just sell where you can buy malachite, and if not, bring 1-2 bags worth with you before you go. The biggest limiting factor on mage is finding camps that have enough single pulls to get your maximum exp per hour, definitely not reagants!

[PatChapp]

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

It's not a big deal at all, you have to sell sometimes right? Well just sell where you can buy malachite, and if not, bring 1-2 bags worth with you before you go. The biggest limiting factor on mage is finding camps that have enough single pulls to get your maximum exp per hour, definitely not reagants!

Yeah I think I ran out of malachite one time. Just not an issue if you plan ahead at all, 2 x10 slot bags last a good while

[Jimjam]

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

It's not a big deal at all, you have to sell sometimes right? Well just sell where you can buy malachite, and if not, bring 1-2 bags worth with you before you go. The biggest limiting factor on mage is finding camps that have enough single pulls to get your maximum exp per hour, definitely not reagants!

just have a druid parked in the same area. Log to the druid to harmony the camp, snare park some away from eachother - whatever needs doing then switch back to mage, summon and destroy the now broken camp.

[ReoDobbs]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you’re solo killing a single mob wizard can’t even come close to mage. Quad kiting sure you will be more efficient but a mage can get through two to three mobs with a full bar of mana with ease and still get full exp

Sure, now you only have to find that single solo spawn that doesn't aggro others every level range and you're all set!

[ReoDobbs]

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

just have a druid parked in the same area. Log to the druid to harmony the camp, snare park some away from eachother - whatever needs doing then switch back to mage, summon and destroy the now broken camp.

And you think managing this would somehow be quicker than leveling with a wizard? You're now leveling two different characters, even if you can somehow rationalize that this is faster

[Jimjam]

Isn't harmony like level 5 or 15 ? don't need to level it far. Just a handy tip, especially if you already got a ranger or druid.

[tadkins]

Wizard is a fun class, and the highest leveled one I managed to get on this server thus far (53). It's simple, fun, and effective in many ways. Love being able to delete mobs in seconds, and then go back to alt-tabbing to YT videos and such while I med.

The issue is that I really wanted to explore dungeons and join groups, and wizard just isn't going to let me do that. I was entirely solo from 1-53, only making a party when someone wanted a port. I wondered how I was going to be able to get my Concussion spell as no one in my last guild really wanted to help me. When I expressed a desire to do some dungeon content they just shrugged me off. I heard Wizards become infinitely more fun when they get their various class clickies, but if I could never get a Highkeep group back in the day, what hope was there of ever getting into a Kael one?

Essentially I wanted to do more with my wizard than quad kite and port people, and it wasn't looking good on that front, so I've been rerolling ever since trying to find that one class I could identify with. Maybe I will pick him up again one day as I did enjoy the class, and he's in DaP now making money for my reroll projects. I just don't want to be forever that guy who still gets lost in SolB, you know?

Mage was also a pretty fun class, got that one to level 45. My concerns there were the extreme difficulty of their epic, their ability to solo at higher levels, and their raid viability. I heard mages only get brought to raids to summon mod rods, and how many mod rod vendors do you need in a raid? I heard they weren't even allowed to summon pets in them.