Wizzard rebalance required!

Mages get a big boost around dodh, when they get multiple swarm pets and pet affinity.

They can make the top 10, but as with any dps class, the fight duration and situation matters.

100 times this.

So many guilds incorrectly
1) just blindly stack the monks with a bard, even on stuff like Gore where it'd be more efficient for the monks to go all sit AFK at BW zoneline so the healers wouldn't waste mana on them or
2) don't debuff or don't debuff fast enough, debuff in the wrong order (like fire debuffs in Velious from druids), or stop occulusioning after slow lands

Even without a bard, wiz can still top DPS on a lot of Kunark fights despite getting feared. If you're not high up there, you're probably
1) using the wrong spells,
2) not comfortable enough with belly caster hit box to use rains without killing yourself, or
3) aren't paying attention to judge the amount of aggro the tank has

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/something-about-wizard-dps-on-tlp.273244/

This is a very indepth guide. Follow this and you will top pretty much any parse Classic->Luclin (except the already mentioned fights).


For the group play portion... you are not meant to start landing nukes at 80%, you are meant to finish off mobs. And as also someone else already mentioned - have a bad pull or a rare that needs to get sent to the Moon asap? Here is where a Wizard can shine.

It's a decent guide to start with for a new wizard, but there are better spell choices on some of the mobs than what was mentioned.

As for groups, I have no issues nuking above 90%, if you wait to "finish a mob" you are a waste of group space.

I’m irrationally bothered by the “if you need to burn a rare down ASAP” thing people always bring up. The way kill credit calculates DoTs you’ll never beat a necro in that regard. Yeah you’re not bad at it, but like 3-4 other classes can lay down more kill credit than you easily. Plus it’s a dumb argument. Rates have like no HP. Also the number of times that situation will come up if you play for 4 years is probably 0-3.

Heh, I wasnt being overly serious about mages. Never had an issue putting out dps, only issue is the MOTM giving all the aggro to the mage when the class was designed around the pet carrying their share