confession of a lvl 50 illusionist (and also the leader of Illusionists Annonymous)

[Miracole]

<div></div>hi, my name is ratiger, i am a lvl 50 illusionist, and  i am a buff bot. i go to raids, i stay in insight range, i take a nap. sometimes i stay awake and cast spells, but none of them work. they don't want me in mt group because i am not cool enough, so they put me with healers and mages. and i have no one to cast prismatic strifle on. sometimes i cry. sometimes i don't. sometimes i wish i was a bard. sometimes i even nuke, and seeing the number "375" popping up makes me happy, for a short while. sometimes i get to mezz a little bit, but no one likes it because aoe kill them faster than i can mezz. sometimes i drool on myself and i never wash my robe. i once went to a raid and actually did something, the raid was successful because i was able to mezz the adds, but that was only because we were short on people. sometimes the troub mezz too, and i get confused. sometimes i cast color shower just for fun and drain my power in 5 casts, so i don't do that anymore <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />... i solo too. i used to solo very well, now i die a lot. i used to be able to kill a solo mob in a min, now it takes me ten, and i die sometimes because we are both in red and i think i can take it out but then i realized i only nuke for 375 and the mob will whack me for 500. i cry a lot when i solo, so i don't solo anymore, i have lfg tag on at all times and sit in my tradeskill instance and sob.  sometimes i get a group but most of the time i don't. i always considered myself a handsome rat, but apparently people don't like rats. but i am still an illusionist, and i think i need psychiatric consultation. please sign up for illusionist annonymous below. so i don't have to cry alone. thank you very much.<div></div><p>Message Edited by Miracole on <span class=date_text>11-17-2005</span> <span class=time_text>07:38 AM</span>

[Darmash]

/cry<div></div>

[Nephretiti]

Hello, my name is Neph, I too am an Illusionist.  Please don't get excited as the term'Illusionist' is just an illusion - I have no illusions that are unique or even cool to look at.  But please don't feel too bad for me because my illusions suck.  You see, the rest of me sucks too.  My crowning glory is the ability to help my group-mates regen their power.  We are so overpowered at this with a regen of almost 30 points per tick!  Except we can only help our groupmates now.  We used to be able to help all of a raid...but now we can't.  And never mind the fact that others can out-perform us in power regen.  Or that Anyone can buy drinks that regen better than we can.  What's that?  Yes, I know that only works out of combat.  Ask yourself this though:  how long does combat last?  Ask yourself this too:  What if healers could only regen groupmates health at 30 hit points per tick?  So we aren't really THE power regen class.  But all is not lost!  We recently had a BAD issue with our roots.  Remember?  I knew you would.  Except that it is still a problem.  Who would ever guess that a Master Lvl root would hold for less than a second?  I'm sure the flavor text on all of our spells are really just illusions.  But, as i said, there IS hope.  The guy who REALLY cares about us, Lockeye (may he burn in the depths of Ro's hottest pit for all eternity), looked at these issues and INCREASED the amount of damage from our dots, and decreased the number of applied hits from those dots.  This lowered the number of times a root resist was checked for breaking.  Some would say HOORAY! for Lockeye!  What a great job!  I say what a horrible mistake.  Some of us realize why.  Those of us that use Dynasm for instance realize that when he did that - he also decreased our DPS from Dynasm.  WTG.  We can still mezz stuff though.  And generally, that works.  Except then our pet breaks mezz.  Or if you're in a group, the tank breaks mezz.  Or the whole group wonders aloud at the strangeness of this whole 'mezz' concept.  Why bother?  Still - it must have been too imbalancing as one of our 45 second mezzes was decreased to 22 seconds.  I am sure we deserved that, though.  I have so much more to declare - and yet I am late for a birthday party...so I will stop here.  I will go to the party and think quietly in my mind how lovely it would be to slow roast certain DevTeam members over birthday cake candle.  I will smile.

[Sug]

Yeah, I was useful once, it was a pain, casting breeze non-stop gave me repetative stress disorder, but I recovered, well my class didnt, see they dont need me anymore, there isnt that "hey great we got a chanter this will makes things much easier" anymore, because you see my power regen isnt that great anymore, not actually enough to make a difference, even on raids when the battles are longer, I guess I have to reroll a new char, cause nobody likes me anymore, nobody needs me anymore, that [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] troubador is laughing at me, he stole my abilities and doesnt have to wear a dress, and he can even melee too, I guess I have to get used to it, I didnt think it would go this way, but it has. Some people call me a buff bot, and if I was I would feel useful, see that [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] wizzy keeps negating my spells, cause for some reason the gods above dont approve of people working together to be able to stack anything.  So now I am harvesting, harvesting harvesting harrvesting.  It's fun, sometimes a little sound wakes me up and yellow words appear on my screen, so that's kinda cool, I am glad I picked an Illusionist because now I can harvest more with my LFG tag up.    I made 20 plat in 2 weeks selling the rares that I harvested, wow see if I was wasting my time getting groups and loot, then I wouldnt have made that money, I was thinking of upgrading my spells, but what for?  I wont use them, they dont help with harvesting at all.

[Sub]

/cry I'll join along with you and cry with you, while I am well accepted and loved in my guild we also dont have any higher level bards in the guild yet either.  I constantly get laughed at for my spell usage and poor dps, I even started a fury that has a higher damage nuke at 26 than my 57 Illusionist /sob. I had hopes and dreams that spellshield would make me useful but it seems it is going to be nerfed here real soon.  And even though we are suppose to be masters of crowd control our biggest dps come from doing AE spells on a crowd which still totally confuses me. <div></div>

[seamo]

<P>Hello , Level 60 Illusionist here and i am God =)</P> <P> </P> <P>I can solo as well as my persona , And my god awesome root can last up to 3 seconds .</P> <P>We are over powered , we can totally drain the crabs in in EL , why even the fairies are no match for us .</P> <P>As for our dps , who needs a warlock with me around . Why at master level on shimmering beam i can nuke for a godly amount of 500 damage . ( Granted furies can out damage us even at level 50 , but who needs them )</P> <P>I have two great spells that would likely cause epics to fall over dead if i were ever to be put in a mt group , Yes spellshield and prismatic havoc are so usefull . ( Warning : don't use this spell if not in mt group , liable to take aggro from mt ) </P> <P>I am the master of power regen bar none , except its not noticeable even on raids . </P> <P>Our buffs well need i say more ? ( well i would if anyone noticed them )</P> <P>Best of all i wear the same purple robe i wore at level 20 . And am now a member of Barnie's club . ( all little ones get to join for free ).</P> <P>So you see , all of you whinning Enc/Illusionist/Coercers At least we look good while we take our naps and harvest .</P> <P>I am so wanted , mostly to look at................................................ .................................................. ................................................. Hey everyone needs a nitche .</P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P>Illusionist looking good and proud of it =)</P> <P> </P> <P>Sea</P>

[Miracole]

/grouphug<div></div>

[Fidjit]

Wow i recently started playing my illusionist alt again.  Just dinged 29 yesterday.  Screw that time for a new alt!<div></div>

[Mad_Hatt0r]

<P>wow... the truth hurts...it hurts really bad</P> <P> </P> <P>52 illusionist, Madhatt0r -- oggok</P> <P>The Debt Collectors</P>

[Manyak]

<DIV>OMG i just realized it....we DO have usefull illusionis.......</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We get to turn al those ugly [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] ogres and trolls in the group beautiful again by makin them humans! See? not only do we get to mess with peoples heads, we get to play makeover as well.</DIV>

[Ebarel]

<DIV>yes my fellow Illusionists, thou shall not forget our utility spell - Group Invisibility.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>YES, you can safely lead your lvl 50+ group through antonica and even Thundering steppes! Ok, you cannot do that usefully through dangerous and tedious journeys like solusek any more - it is too likely that there will be a see-through-your-crappy-mage-invis mob around - especially where there are those 20 other ones that didnt see you before your invis broke.</DIV> <DIV>I used to guide my fellow guildies through those dangerous places back then - now after dying a couple of times the threatened me with kicking me from the group is i use that spell any more while fighting down there. Ohhh, what have i done wrongly.....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sits back near his oven and turns a few of his cardamom cookies into coal......</DIV>

[Dingiswa]

<P>Holy crap, I'm  troubador and I thought our boards were maudlin... I think I'm going to join IA just so I'll have somewhere to go the next time they nerf Precison of the Maestro. </P> <P>A 375 nuke? Man... still, at 52 we get a spell that has a 1 in 10 chance of proccing a ward that then has an 8 in 10 chance to reflect non-physical damage. /thumbsup</P> <P>Hang in there guys.</P> <P>Kweli L'Overture, 58 troubador, Warlords of Lavastorm</P>

[Crychtonn]

If any of you sad and lonely Illusionist are 57-60 and on Mistmoore send me a /tell, Troubador's also.

[lik]

<DIV>Last friday night, We did a  few  hours  of  x4 raids,  good  time  )..........,But then ( 3:00 am) there was  13 players still on line after  most  logged out for the night,  i was the  only  Illusionist on at that  time, The  guild  Leader  asked  if  i would  to  writs, so  they  could  take  the  57  Monk.. At  first  i was  kinda  mad,    Then i realised ,are  Guild  leader  was  correct....I had  nothing  to  offer the the  raid  for  the  x2  mobs  in  silent city.      / uses DEV team as a dart  board</DIV>

[Jambon]

I'm an illusionist who spent more time crafting than adventuring. I thought one day, when I max out sage, I'd be able to go out and finish all those quests I gathered slowling grinding my way up to 35 play the enchanter I've missed since before the shattering. Then the day came! Level 60 sage and I can go out and start gaining experience adventuring. More and more, I found I wasn't needed. I remember a time before the shattering when having me around was a gift; breeze, mez, debuffs. Now I get yelled at for mezzing, and I only have one which reallly works. I'm a sub-standard mage who feels useless. This game NEEDS more challenge. It's really turned into City of Heroes... mabye it should be called City of Fantasy Folk. I'm just mashing buttons with no need for strategy or thought about how to kill. -- Introduce mobs who will run away when their group numbers get low... maybe they might get away and bring some mean friends. -- Bring back more areas where there are multiple ^^^'s we could mez. TS, Nek, and EL are a joke now. I'm beginning to feel like it's not a virtual world but a virtual theme park with monsters who might pat me on the bum a bit if they could catch up to me. -- Difficulty sliders for instanced areas with sliding loot tables as well. If I'm a good player who uses tactics instead of button mashing, I should get rewarded for THINKING -- Death needs penalty! This game now has a lower death penalty than it's competitors and what's the point if dying doesn't mean anything? -- More mobs need to root or slow you in zones. The run rates are great, but running through a group of mobs is not a big deal any more. Leg biters are reallly annoying, but some annoyances add flavor to the game. I don't know any more. I hate to rant and complain, but the game isn't fun. I've even got some old friends to come back and play, but I find myself getting bored when I'm playing with them. When will they get bored too? <div></div>

[ryuk]

<DIV>I Have a lv 50 Illusionist, and a lv 28 coercer and im really sorry to say i love em both, you say were buffbots, but thats only if your a lazy son of a *****, cuase as far as i know dps is only there if your actually doing stomething useful... whats useful?.. oh idk prismatic line? or maybe our dots? or maybe getting with people that know how mez works so we can mez? Go ahead one star me, but unlike all of you i love chanters, soooooo suck it.</DIV>

[Azamien-Dermorate]

<div></div><p>I've played my illusionist exclusively for a year,  I play 3-4 hours a day every day and more on the weekends and have never had an alt higher then level 20.   That is untill Dec when I decided I was truely bored of not being usefull and decided to make a bersker alt.   7 days played nearly all solo and I am 10% from dinging level 46 now.  I have to say playing a tank class is amazingly differnt then playing as an illusionist.   Mobs cannot hurt me, I solo 48^ and 49 no arrow mobs with easy.  I love being able to train thru zones and places to get where I want to go ... and not dieng the first time I get stunned.  My dps as a zerker is definatly on par or greater then my illusionist was at that level and my surviablity is more then double.  I try things solo that I was scared to even consider as an illusionist.</p><p> </p><p>and yet my illusionist is still my favorite character,  I still raid 5 nights a week and still looking forward to a new expansion and new levels with my mostly broken Illy :p</p>

[Gweeto]

I've recently started playing this game agian after several months. I picked an illusionist cause I thought it would be fun. I have just recently hit level 30. I come to these boards and look over posts for useful guides, places to hunt, advice, and having the ultimate goal of saying to myself "Yeah! These guys are right, my toon is fun." But I end up reading threads like this. It makes me wonder why I'm wasting my time on this character. I get all sullen, I look at other classes boards and see how much info and tips are getting passed around.... and I wan't to be a part of that. I lstart the game up with the intent of setting up my shared bank, and finding someone to hold onto my cash. But then I log on, and I get a tell from someone asking me to join a group... I figure "What the hell?" I have fun. I play, I do my part, I have a good time. I guess thats what matters. I'd probably have fun playing another class as well, but why start over and play the content I've already played? Maybe I just haven't been an illusionist to long. I don't know how they were before all the LU. Well, I'm not going to give up. I'll play this toon till its boring and then I'll start another one. Maybe its time for a lot of you to either wait for the expansion or just start another character. Don't spread your doubt and sullen thoughts to other players.Love,Gweetoe<div></div>

[Pins]

Honestly, Illusionist are great, till you raid : I am a god in groups, a god at soloing(even if it takes forever, I can solo anything that is heroic and not too orange, 65s are no issue). Once I start fighting against raid mobs, I go from a god, to a mindless DPS class in 80% of encounters. Great class, terrible raiding.

[SunT]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Pinski wrote:Honestly, Illusionist are great, till you raid : I am a god in groups, a god at soloing(even if it takes forever, I can solo anything that is heroic and not too orange, 65s are no issue). Once I start fighting against raid mobs, I go from a god, to a mindless DPS class in 80% of encounters. Great class, terrible raiding.<hr></blockquote><p>Correct.  We are the ultimate Group Enchanter.  A very fun Group class.  We excell in small broken/non-traditional groups. </p><p>The reason these boards are so negative is old dogs rolled thier toons to raid and now are lame raid classes so we are disgruntled. </p><p>It is a great class outside of raiding.  I am looking forward to leveling to 70 since I will be in groups once again...and my Defiler will be with me so god knows what I will be able to take down.</p>