READ THIS FIRST: Consolidated Wizard Thread

[SacDaddy]

well technically you should go ahead and make a new thread becuase this one is kinda for a different, general topic.

But to answer your question Kodo. Yes. Build your wizard offensively and play to your strengths. Wizards arent defense.

[Udoaka]

That being said, I did tank all of labs in EoF as a wizard while being spec'd fire and ice.

I was a monster though.

[hotmess]

Originally Posted by SacDaddy

For the control-immune stuff I usually pull something like this off: Say hello with a charged up ice comet, then spam Numbing cold until the mobs hit by it, then KITE. do stuff like back out and cast fusion so that it land just as the nameds walking into range. use heavy hitters, if you cant kill it before that first numbing wears off you prolly aint doing it unless dakkotas' with you.

In a nutshell: successful soloing is more about style than spec IMO

manashield/mitigation spec is for deuling.

eww i don't agree with this at all...

1st for soloing on named immune to root..say named like in coa...
try this casting order

iceshield, iceshape, frigid gift, storming tempest, ice spears, ice comet, hail storm, magma chamber, ball of magma, flames of velious (kite if necessary) but preferred to stand there and take it like a man...so continue the barrage...fusion has a nice knockdown for u too

2ndly if you are going to play tank the mitigation is hugely important, your "duel spec" what i call my pvp spec on nagafen is actually quite effective for soloing and tanking. I don't understand how someone can even feasibly put down the power of 8 points in battlemage armor. I mean yes we can tank as well as your average level 79 enchanter without any mitigation, but the second u get one add more than what u intended, and u try to tank that as well ur healer isn't goign to be able to keep up. Or if your healer gets stunned/stifled/feared, you need to have an answer other than "oops i died"

if you tank you have mitigation..that's all there is too it

[SacDaddy]

yea dude, cept...

my shit hits those things in seb so hard that after one comet, and one fission. they are dead.

PS - DOT ticks remove the frigid gift snare.

and I only have one spec.

[dakkota]

Originally Posted by hotmess

2ndly if you are going to play tank the mitigation is hugely important, your "duel spec" what i call my pvp spec on nagafen is actually quite effective for soloing and tanking. I don't understand how someone can even feasibly put down the power of 8 points in battlemage armor. I mean yes we can tank as well as your average level 79 enchanter without any mitigation, but the second u get one add more than what u intended, and u try to tank that as well ur healer isn't goign to be able to keep up. Or if your healer gets stunned/stifled/feared, you need to have an answer other than "oops i died"

Cause I tanked all 3 floors of EH on my wizard in my normal spec. That being said, get leet healers, I aint jackin' my dps for some bullshit spec when a healer can keep me up in my gangster dps spec.

Adds are also no problem, I know I survived a ton on Sarik the Fang in EH cause Bane Warding did 16k dps lols. So I know I was getting hit by liek 30 fuckin adds. And If I get more than what I intended and I can snare them, I just jolt around in a lil 10m raidus if my HP is about to drop. As long as you dont run outta the healers range hit one of those uninterruptables and get the hell outta melee range for 2 seconds, it can be enough to get a save heal.

[Balkolth]

Originally Posted by hotmess

1st for soloing on named immune to root..say named like in coa...

real men don't root/snare they just kill it before it can run to you tbh

[dakkota]

Try what with the names in shard of love! =p