AA build for a "melee" wiz

[govtcheeze]

<DIV>So my last post on this subject was about raiding, and well my schedule has since changed to make raids no longer doable. So I am left with 2 boxing, and my plan is to play with a twinked pally as the tank / healer with all mastercrafted gear/spells. I will be mentoring from level 1 thru 70.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>My current gear is about 80% T7 raid quality, about 60% masters and the rest ad3. Current mit is about 1.1k and avoidance 6k (29% i think?).</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The best build I could come up with was the following:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>4/4/8/5 STA</DIV> <DIV>4/8/8/8 INT</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This would give me +82HP, +2.3% parry, +700 mit, +6% avoidance, -10% threat, and a -1470 point dehate. The goal is of course to still go hard on nuking, being able to control aggro passively, and being able to dehate / survive if aggro is pulled without wasting heals.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I had also thought about going this route:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>4/4/5 STA</DIV> <DIV>4/4/8 WIS</DIV> <DIV>4/4/4/8 INT</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Which would give me +82HP, +0% parry (nullified by not having a secondary for wis line ward), +438 mit, +352 ward, +3% avoidance, freehand sorcery, -10% threat, and a -1123 point dehate.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone else done the 2 boxing with a pally (or other melee) and can shed some insight on this build? I know the amends line starts at 21 along with some decent heals, so I am hoping aggro will not be an issue. That is my biggest fear by far, DPS is not a problem with me <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ideas, comments, etc all welcome.</DIV>

[standupwookie]

You wil die often.A case could be made for the two plate priest classes going melee for their AAs as they have some nice ones PLUS their 1st AA point gives them 20% haste and a chance to double attack.  That, along with their plate mitigation helps a lot...its still tough to melee as you get interupted a lot.But as far as wizzie going for the AA melee route, dont bother.  The Damage shield is great, but you need to be hit.  Problem is as you level up your chances of getting one shotted increase dramatically.  So, if you root back up and nuke, then why go melee at all?  Cloth armor wizzies are just too weak to melee level appropriate mobs.

[CharonDeryni]

Since they're removing the chance of being one-shotted, trying to melee build won't be as odd.

[JarredDarque]

If your using a pally as the other toon, why wory abotu aggro.  Pallies have amends...41% hate transfer at master1,  it costs about 5p on my server.   the pally can basically auto attack then and keep aggroJust place the wizzy on auto follow and play the pally and bot the wizzy for his nukes.<div></div>