snflanigan

I looked at the sticky thread and it seemed to be more geared towards a raiding mindset. I was wondering what the consensus was here on the route one should take for AA's for soloing and group instances on the Sorc/Wiz trees. I'm not too concerned about the TSO stuff atm.

dakkota

same as raiding

In raids you want max dps...I wouldn't want anything less than max dps for solo'ing and grouping as well.

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snflanigan

I had kinda figured that, but I wanted to make sure before I did anything. Thanks!

Ailees

For solo, I use a different AA set. Well, I use it only when I know I'm gonna have some difficulties, when I am sure I'll take some hits.
then I go less DPS more protection :
MANASHIELD and some AAs also that give more protection.
The AA that gives a little shot and gives a -1 in agro order is useless anyway. (game not loaded, I don't remember name)

For example, an HQ quest needed me to enter a little zone and kill a warrior (83^^^^) I went there with a templar friend, rooted, manashield and ran inside. Waoo ! did you ever feel like passing UNDER a tank ?

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Nimrodel

Usually the max DPS line will work for most groups, instance farmings, etc. etc.

If you really need to solo, than root nuke is your strategy.

However if you wanna take few hits, then stack points in MagiShielding, and Manashield.

This will let you eat a few hits. I have this spec just for soloing fast when I dont feel like root/nuke. Dont bother with root nuke in the spec unless you are going up against a ^^^. Anything lower, you should be able to kill before they get to you.

I would also want to say a hello to all the wizzies on flames!

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dakkota

overkill

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LightCC

I agree on the alternate spec... works wonders in certain circumstances and don't drop too much dps.

But on the AA you mention - bewilderment, you are totally wrong. It's a high dps spell regardless of the deaggro, and the deaggro helps a bunch. Even when you are casting it without having aggro, it's still dropping you in the order, and it's high dps to boot (not sure where exactly in wizzie list now, but it's top 8 of warlock spells and about 50% highers dps than distortion, our main nuke...). It's just deceptive becaause the damage isn't too high, but the cast time is so quick it's high dps efficiency.

For 1 AA if you don't get this you are wrong...

dakkota

If anything thunderclap and bewilderment are amazing because you can cast them on the run. Dps when your charging a mob, running in for fission or other aoe's, getting kb'd, getting spammed with interrupts, repositioning, moving on mobs like growth/tangrin, running away from a charging mob :p....

Just all the times we had 0 dps opportunity because we had no uninterruptable spells, it is really nice having spells that give us dps in those circumstances.

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Ailees

not in solo ;)

and the DPS part is OK, and not expensive, I admit, recast is almost 1 min, that's why I don't use it much in solo fights.

BTW did not know that those spells were usable while running ! always thought buffers only were, then I never tried, good to know, thanks for info.

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Perm

It's got a .44 sec cast time - why not use it?