Did they do a stealth nerf on wizards damage output?

[xcell]

<DIV>Was doing low damage prior to the big patch a few weeks ago that boosted us up a LOT...</DIV> <DIV>been doing in the 300+ range (at level 23) until last night, now I am not even breaking 200.</DIV> <DIV>Anyone else notice what looks like an unmentioned (so-called Stealth) nerf on wizards damage output?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Pkac]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> xceller wrote:<BR> <DIV>Was doing low damage prior to the big patch a few weeks ago that boosted us up a LOT...</DIV> <DIV>been doing in the 300+ range (at level 23) until last night, now I am not even breaking 200.</DIV> <DIV>Anyone else notice what looks like an unmentioned (so-called Stealth) nerf on wizards damage output?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>you might need to clarify that a bit further, as there is no way on earth you were doing 300+ DPS at level 23. Are you talking max hit?

[xsvhrs]

<P>He never said DPS.</P> <P>He said 'Damage' or 'Damage output'.</P> <P>It's fairly obvious he's talking about out put from his new spell, Ball of Fire.</P> <P>To the OP, as I recall, you're probably just recently going from XPing in Antonica to XPing in TS. There's a big difference in mobs going form Tier 2 to tier 3. That could explain your 'less' damage output form that spell. As you grow into that tier more, you will hit for more and more damge with that spell.</P>

[killzo]

<P>Yes I noticed this too.  It is a problem with either resists or our debuffs.   One of the two is not working right.  Either they messed up the scale for elemental resists or our debuffs are no longer debuffing elemental resist.</P> <P> </P> <P>Last night in Lavastorm and Solusek, fighting stuff I've fought for the last several months,  I noticed my spells RARELY landed for full damage (i.e. within the damage range of the spell) and where quit often fully resisted.  I think I was able to land 1 out of every 2 Ice Comets and even at adept 3 it was doing under 2000 damage.</P> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If this was an intentional change, then it is time to retire the Wizard again as my dps was truly pathetic.  Worse than before we got the damage increase.</DIV><p>Message Edited by killzone on <span class=date_text>03-23-2005</span> <span class=time_text>07:23 AM</span>

[Qq]

I noticed mine went down a as well, took an extra spell to kill the blue roamers i have been killing for the past week

[killzo]

I think I figured out the problem.  They messed up something with the debuffs stacking.  I usually cast piercing icicles followed by icy coil and I bet instead of stacking elemental debuffs it's overwriting it.  I tried reversing the order and was getting better results (although not as good as when they used to stack.)

[Zcenicx]

<P>They still stack correctly.</P> <P>Icy Coil should always be cast first though to lower the resist rate of Piercing Icicles. </P> <P>To the OP, they corrected an issue where there would be great leaps between the zones when talking resists, so for example a 23 mob will be harder than before while a 28 will be easier than before.</P>