Ilusionist Spelll - Damage Problems

[Whisperlea]

<div></div><div><div>As an illusionist I understand I am not the nuke all class but atm I wand does more damage then my nukes.  I thought at level 5 I would get something better and all I received was Cure Arcane.</div><div> </div><div>My point is I can't kill anything.  I can stun them grand and then run for the hills.  Level 4's mobs are kicking my bum.</div><div> </div><div>Please help! </div><div> </div><div>This is my spell line up to level 5</div><div> </div><div>(anyone else having the death of never ending?  The mob knocks you unconscious and you regen health enough to stand up, for him to knock you down again....my longest death was about 30 minutes before the wolf finished me off.)</div><div> </div><div>Phantasmal Shock - 3 to 4 damage</div><div>Sleep - Stun</div><div>Confusion - Stun,  confuse and decrease of power</div><div>Migraine - 2 to 3 mental damage (7 to 9 mental damage on termination)</div><div>Magi's Shield - Shield</div><div>Arcane Augur - HO</div><div>Bind Sight - What use is this?</div><div>Binding Light - Root</div><div>Cure Arcane  - Cure</div></div><p>Message Edited by Whisperlea on <span class="date_text">01-15-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:09 AM</span></p>

[Maroger]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Whisperlea wrote:<div>I understand as an illusionist my main spells shouldn't be nukes or whatnot.  But I can't kill anything.  My weapon does more damage then my shock.  Here is my spell line up - up to level 5 where I have currently given up.</div><div> </div><div>Phantasmal Shock - 2 to 4 damage lvl 1</div><div>Sleep -  </div><hr></blockquote><p>I started an illusionist and agree 100% - the spells are pathetic. I have to tank everything all the time -- which makes the starting area way too hard for this class.</p><p>They need to make the spells do more damage or the mobs less.</p><p> </p>

[Whisperlea]

<div></div><div></div><p>Exactly.  I have about given up on this character for the time being.  Please, please fix our damage.  We are after all - a mage. *grins*</p><p>Message Edited by Whisperlea on <span class="date_text">01-15-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:10 AM</span></p>

[Sedden]

<div></div>What happen is they cut the damage on every class in half when it comes to spells and combat arts.which is makes low lvls harder then it needs to be. Also all the meanful upgrades aren't upgrades. My lvl 1 and lvl 8 combat arts are the same damage wise but yet the lvl 8 spell is supposed the upgrade to the lvl 1 spell and the lvl 8 combat art costs more power for the same damage

[Rijacki]

Trying out a coercer, I was having more problem with running out of power than anything else.  I could stun them so they couldn't hit me, but that would take out nearly all of my power.The coercer nuke refreshes fast, so it can be used often, but.. it's the power.The power use on the coercer spells (and presumably the illusionist ones) is high on their stuns.  Without a power regen in-combat, yet, it's.. 2 casts and then the wand to beat on it. <div></div>

[Leostri]

<div></div>There is something very wrong. I started an illusionist and saw that my DoT dealt as much damage as my nuke with one tick, and that should never happen. Nuke damage needs to be upped badly.

[Kurg]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Whisperlea wrote:<div></div><div><div>As an illusionist I understand I am not the nuke all class but atm I wand does more damage then my nukes.  I thought at level 5 I would get something better and all I received was Cure Arcane.</div><div> </div><div>My point is I can't kill anything.  I can stun them grand and then run for the hills.  Level 4's mobs are kicking my bum.</div><div> </div><div>Please help! </div><div> </div><div>This is my spell line up to level 5</div><div> </div><div>(anyone else having the death of never ending?  The mob knocks you unconscious and you regen health enough to stand up, for him to knock you down again....my longest death was about 30 minutes before the wolf finished me off.)</div><div> </div><div>Phantasmal Shock - 3 to 4 damage</div><div>Sleep - Stun</div><div>Confusion - Stun,  confuse and decrease of power</div><div>Migraine - 2 to 3 mental damage (7 to 9 mental damage on termination)</div><div>Magi's Shield - Shield</div><div>Arcane Augur - HO</div><div>Bind Sight - What use is this?</div><div>Binding Light - Root</div><div>Cure Arcane  - Cure</div></div><p>Message Edited by Whisperlea on <span class="date_text">01-15-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:09 AM</span></p><hr></blockquote><p><font color="#ffff00">Better get used to it ... sad but true</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00"></font> </p><p><font color="#ffff00">My best DD (at lvl 59) does max. 560 dmg at Adept 3 - while my good Wizzi friend nukes for 4.500 to 6.500  :smileysurprised:</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">I know, I know ... "If you want do dmg, roll a wizard"  - but nevertheless, our DPS is totally out of balance - even my wife´s Templar nukes for the same amount of dmg that I do - LOL</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">All we have that does decent dmg are our DoTs, but with these soloing becomes really not easy, because our root keeps breaking quite 100% of the time if you cast 4 DoTs on a mob and root checks at every tick of every spell if it breaks.  :smileymad:</font></p>

[schrammy]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Kurgor wrote:<div></div><p><font color="#ffff00">Better get used to it ... sad but true</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">My best DD (at lvl 59) does max. 560 dmg at Adept 3 - while my good Wizzi friend nukes for 4.500 to 6.500  :smileysurprised:</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">I know, I know ... "If you want do dmg, roll a wizard"  - but nevertheless, our DPS is totally out of balance - even my wife´s Templar nukes for the same amount of dmg that I do - LOL</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">All we have that does decent dmg are our DoTs, but with these soloing becomes really not easy, because our root keeps breaking quite 100% of the time if you cast 4 DoTs on a mob and root checks at every tick of every spell if it breaks.  :smileymad:</font></p><hr></blockquote><p>560 DMG? omg thats 5 times a necro nuke <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Well, they turned our nukes into fast dots, but the splitpaw thing nukes for around 400</p>

[Rijacki]

<span><blockquote><hr><font color="#ffff00">My best DD (at lvl 59) does max. 560 dmg at Adept 3 - while my good Wizzi friend nukes for 4.500 to 6.500  :smileysurprised:</font><p><font color="#ffff00">I know, I know ... "If you want do dmg, roll a wizard"  - but nevertheless, our DPS is totally out of balance - even my wife´s Templar nukes for the same amount of dmg that I do - LOL</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">All we have that does decent dmg are our DoTs, but with these soloing becomes really not easy, because our root keeps breaking quite 100% of the time if you cast 4 DoTs on a mob and root checks at every tick of every spell if it breaks.  :smileymad:</font></p><hr></blockquote>A wizard has a mez for a single target that stuns the wizard for the entire time the target is stunned.  The wizard root has the same issue as you root (the breaks and auto-warps).  The wizard can only regenerate power for self or someone else as a single pop that takes from health and has a slow recast.  The  wizard's big damage spells are on both a slow cast and slow recast timer.I haven't played an illusionist or coercer beyond sampling on briefly on the island.  The problem there, though, I think was power regen.  The coercers DD had a much shorter cast and recast timer than the wizard's, same with the stun.  But the power... it might have been the race (gnome for wizard and iksar for coercer) but.. I personally think it would be ooooodles more useful (and class defining) if one of the first spells is a power regen rather than a mez. BUT, the enchanters really are more of a group oriented class where they absolutely shine. </span><div></div>

[Belizarius]

<div></div><p>ROFL</p><p>So it took the scaling down of the Illusionist spell line for sub level 10 characters, for people to actually realise how terrible our damage spells are?</p><p>Illus were much better off under the archetype system at lower levels, because Mages could still kill stuff.</p><p>Aah those were the days...</p><p>Can only hope that fixing low level chanters will have a ripple up effect.</p>

[Rowain deWo]

<div></div><p>Can only agree with the OP. </p><p>It is sad that my Inquisitor can kill white Mobs while my Illu has problems with blue ones. (at lvl 5 & 6)</p>