wizards where have you gone?Follow

I recently started playing eq again after a years leave for swg, which was a huge mistake but live and learn. One thing I notice is the noticable absence of wizards. Am I missing something but I remember a time on rallos when porting from one place to another was an adventure with pkers waiting around every turn. Also I remember wizzies camping the books/spires waiting on hapless citizens to stroll by. Where has all this gone and are wizzies that far out of the loop now?

Varus

They're probably ignoring your stupid, bigoted ***.

Duhhh, I don't like your political opinions from one post so I am gonna talk crap everytime you post, duhhh, my name's Grady and I am a ***** willow...duhhhh. Prolly plays a buff Ogre SK to make up for what a pansy he is in RL. Let it die man, it was his opinion in one post. Would you like somebody posting on every thread you started talking crap, because they didn't share one of your opinions?

Gulkraad you are a ********

I'm the bigot? That sounds about right considering the rage in your voice. You wanna **** off a lib try the truth and then duck and cover.

In eq it's all about class...I don't get nearly the shouts when i'm on my wiz than my pally. I think a lot of people don't like being a wiz because there is so much freedom and independence, I can be just about anywhere in the world with the click of a button. I know pok has a lot to do with it but a well played wiz in groups can make the difference whether you finish a ldon on time or not.

Varus

I was merely flaming a flame is all. I still think it stupid to talk **** about a guy from one post he made on another post. Its immaterial at this point. Especially regarding his question.

It amazes me how tolerant and what-not all liberals are of everybody...except republicans. This really isn't the place for these kind of posts, so from here on out I am staying out of ALL politically charged posts, for the obvious reason.

Varus and I are of a like mind on one fact, that liberals are to quick to point fingers at the WRONG people. WE didn't destroy the WTC did we? WE didn't invade our allied neighboring nation did we? So why is it that WE always end up the bad guys in the liberal's eyes? Liberals can never see things as they are, they merely paint a pretty inflammatory picture of the situation to grandstand their own political agendas.

I have to say that Varus and I agree on most counts, except the raghead thing, I am not down with such a broad slur myself. Facts are though that the Al Qaeida AND thier supporters came after OUR people, and it was either take it to thier streets or they could continue to take it to ours. I like the way we did it personally. Now that we have accomplished said task, it is time to leave though. All I have to say...

Except until you freedom loving liberals have the balls to put YOUR *** on the line for your country in a combat zone, I think you should keep your yaps shut about how cruel and evil our administration is. Whatever inequities abound in our country are usually 10 fold or more rampant in any country we are raising arms against. We have never fought a war OR police action against a pacifist nation, or even a half way decent one. Bear in mind I mean the ADMINISTRATIONS of these countries, and not the populace.

And in regard to the actual question originally stated, I have not noticed any real decline in the wizard populace on VZ anyway. Still plenty of em running around there to group with.

Upon further review Grady, I understand what you are saying. The raghead statement was a tad narrow on Varus's part. However, it was a heated discussion and I understand where he was coming from, and have said such slurs before in a heated moment. If Varus really does feel that way about all sandy skins, then he will lose his biggest ally here. (Me. <--Half turkish.) I however refuse to villify the US administration for the sake of the poor mistreated and misunderstood TERRORISTS, sorry.

You know what offends me is when people call me a redneck...when in fact i'm actually a hillbilly. As for the raghead lighten up I know variety is the spice of life and enjoy traveling to different countries so I figured raghead would take less time to type than radically evil muslims bent on world domination.

Varus

Gee, on the two servers I play on, I rarely see a wizard LFG for anything, including LDoN. Love having wizards in the group that DPS is great, and the evac/succor/porting don't hurt either.

I suspect the class is a low percentage play, and doing a lot of soloing. Even on the Zek servers. I just don't see them to often. Hmm maybe it's time to make one, I do wish there were more LFG.

That's basically what I do I jump from place to place checking for rare spawns like the ac. When I'm doing this it's difficult to force myself to be patient and wait on a good group to form. Although my bro is high lvl barb warrior so finding groups isn't hard I was just basically wondering why i've seen so few high lvl wizzies around.

Varus

Edited, Tue Jul 20 17:19:53 2004 by varrussword

I used to be a raider, not anymore.

I payed a bud 100K pp in-game for a wizzy account he was letting rot, thinking I was going to join up with another bud and AE the hell outta zones.

I leveled the wizzy up to 65 (from 63)...the ONLY way I would have ever owned a 65 wizzy.

I've played him a total of maybe 20 hours.

If you don't raid, they're sorta....boring =/

Nice nuke numbers for sure, though, but their extreme focus on only one area of gameplay (well, travel being the other, but seriously..you can't level from your various modes of transport!) are ultimately their downfall.

Very good points above there. It does seem if your making a choice between a druid, and a wizard, most are going with the druid.

Wizards do get those negitive resist mods to those nukes, making a red con, like a white. They do get that massive burst damage if they learn when to cast it. No tash or malo needed.

It would seem that if your group had a wizard, and a rogue, depending on the rest of the group, of course. You could cut thru the butter, with a hot knife, so to speak.

The few times I have played with a wizard they have been good players. The fights are just that much faster, the exp flows that much better. And when it's all over, and that wizard has no more use for me, I get a one way ticket to bind, or a group port into the nexus. If the encounter blows up in our faces, I get, a get out of jail free card with a handy evac.

P.S. Gbaji keep pulling the wool<sp> over my eyes I like it.

Wizard is the most difficult class in the game to play. That's why not many people want to play one. It can be very fun and rewarding when it's played well though. With the exception of the occasional mindless tank yelling don't take aggro while mob came up from behind out of nowhere, it's a cool class.

You bought your wiz toon from someone and lvl'd it from 63 to 65. Wow. How impressive your gameplay is. Makes me wonder why people play this game sometimes. You didn't have the stuff to start one of your own?