Low Level Wizard - What to Spec?

[Marron827]

I am a low level wizard, with 6 AA points.  I am trying to decide in what branch of sorcery to specialize.  If anyone has any advise, let me know.  I am primarily a soloer, and I am sure that my raiding days are very far ahead of me, so I don't think that enters too much into consideration.

[Force Weaver]

Alot of good comments have come about from upping the Magi's Warding in the Wizard tree or upping the Icicle Debuff are within reach with 6pts you've got in hand atm. KOS trees are good but if you don't think you'll be getting 16 more aa points super fast then you may have to wait quite awhile before you "see" the KOS tree benefits. The stickied spell list and AA thread at the top of the forum will really help you plan what you want long term.

[Noaani]

<p>My advice, especilly if you plan on soloing a lot, is to spend your first 21 points in getting Manaburn.</p><p>After that, start playing around with the Sorcerer AA trees and find the ones you like.</p>

[Faheuc]

<cite>Noaani wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>My advice, especilly if you plan on soloing a lot, is to spend your first 21 points in getting Manaburn.</p><p>After that, start playing around with the Sorcerer AA trees and find the ones you like.</p></blockquote> i dont see why you would want manaburn to solo tbh, just a drain on your power. id start working my way down the kos trees, at low level probably wis or agi.

[Leandrin]

<p>As a soloer  i would defenately choose in order:</p><p>1. KoS: Wisdom line / 8 pts in brainstorm / 6 points Ward - Sagacity</p><p>2. EoF: Magi's Shielding 10 points</p><p>3 KoS: PvP server: Stamina line / 8 pts Fervor / 6 point Armor - Manashield            PvE server: Strength line / 8 pts Spell Expertise / 6 points Parry - Catalyst</p><p>After that (59 pts) go down the heat/cold lines in order you prefer.  </p>

[simpwrx02]

<p>If you are a soloer and are going to do KoS go down Sta first, sure wis gives you 8% base damage increase  that is great and all but when your one root breaks and you get 3 shoted by the mob that 8% means squat.  Sta will basically double your mitigation and make those 3 shots take 6-8  more than enough time to reroot the mob, you will also get less interuptions since you can also add a good deal to your focus/disruption using the sta line.  The Wis line is for increaseing damage sure less nukes means the mob dies faster, but personally I would rather have the extra survivability.  The EoF Magi shielding is awesome as well at low levels and manaburn is a very viable option for soloing....it only drains your power by 1/10 of the mobs health.... so if the mob has 2000 health it will only take 200 power from you.....the only mobs that will leave you totally drained of power are instance bosses and raid mobs  every other mob you will have power left.</p><p> I currently raid with my 70 wizzy pull top 3 dps every fight have 42.5% mit ( can get to 45% ) and around 48% avoidance self buffed, in raids I normally have a little over 50% mit and with a conj in group 52% or around 3400 mit.  In guild groups when the tank goes afk for something I become the tank, I have pulled and tanked plenty of yellow con heriocs in groups and a few named. With this setup soloing is a breeze if it is non heroic I just nuke as if I was in a group, heriocs I still root and nuke, but I dont get 1 or 2 shoted anymore.</p><p> I will more than likely be switching my set up back to agi/wis due to the fact that I raid and I really should max my dps.  My current set up if you are curious is sta 4/8/8/8 str 4/4/8/5 or at 70 this gives me 700 mit, 11% parry 42 disruption/focus 8% crit and a 150 point permanent damage shield also the extra 32 sta gives 100 more health I would guess. </p><p>And to Leandrin you can only spend 50 points in each tree.</p>

[slashalot]

<p>as a mid-leveled WIZ and mainly solo one at that I would suggest:</p><p>first 10 in shielding- can not count how much this alone has saved my but!</p><p>after that it's preference until you are level 40 and get mail of frost. at this point i respected and got manaburn as i can really shine with most non-heoric group mobs but the ^^-^^^ are tough. and when i get in a group the named mobs drop like flies from the MB. Landed a 15K burn on epic x2 for a killshot when it was yellow in HP. but manaburn is not a 'every fight' spell even if it doesn't use all the mana. mainly use it for named mobs in groups which are ussually high yellow or orange to me. used it on angus last night when he was yellow but it didn't kill him and he was on me like kids on candy (forgot i was mentored so not as big a hit as i expected only 12K) anyhow...</p><p>after the EoF tree has 21 AA's then i went down the DoF wis tree for Freehand and Brainstorm.</p><p>thats as far as i have gotten with 38 AA's</p>

[Leandrin]

<p>To<b> simpwrx02</b>: the 3 steps in my post need 59 points (49 KoS/10 EoF) . So your remark doesnt make any sense</p><p>And i stick with my choice. The wisdom line is...by far....the best starter for a soloer. 12% less mana used, kill mobs much faster with the 8% damage + the every minute freehand sorc nuke. And a regenerating ward.....so much less downtime between and during fights then any other starter.</p>

[simpwrx02]

<cite>Leandrin wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>To<b> simpwrx02</b>: the 3 steps in my post need 59 points (49 KoS/10 EoF) . So your remark doesnt make any sense</p><p>And i stick with my choice. The wisdom line is...by far....the best starter for a soloer. 12% less mana used, kill mobs much faster with the 8% damage + the every minute freehand sorc nuke. And a regenerating ward.....so much less downtime between and during fights then any other starter.</p></blockquote><p> Ahhh sorry about that I must have mis read it, my apoligies.</p><p>I hear what you are saying however the sta line will be more mana efficent as you will get almost no resists and therefore will not have to cast spells moer than once to get them to land.  Also you will not be able to debuff the mob as it will break the root, how ever with the sta line you can still root and nuke only you will not get any resists but you will do 8% less damge.  Basically the main difference in our 2 thoughts is you want to do more damage faster and I want to not be made of paper and not get resisted.   </p><p>All of this is goning to be based on being level 70, but it can all be scaled down to any level.  you want wis 4/4/6/8/2 which is 24 points in KoS and you get freehand 22% increase once a minute, 8 % base damage increase and at lvl 70 is around 270 for the ward and 12% reduced power cost.  My AA line would be 4/4/8/8 which would give 2.2% parry a 100 point damage shield 700 mit at lvl 70 and 42 disruption/focus at lvl 70. or in terms of % gives about 85% more mit and 12% more disruption and with the diminishing returns curve this will probably double your survivability since solo you have no healer.</p><p>Until you get the group root I think that sta is way safer as roots break way more than the discription says and get resisted a lot.</p>

[Leandrin]

<p>True, there will be more resists when you start with the wisdom line. Note that the root has the same chance being resisted whether you have the fervor achievement (stamina line) or not.</p><p>I doubt tho that the stamina line is mana efficient. I chose the wisdom line first and i had the resist from time to time, but it was not as bad as i was afraid of. Items with +disruption were and still are my priority</p><p>Its all about playstyle, but I think with the stamina, wisdom line and max magi's shielding the wizard is the best, safest and fastest soloer in the game. Im only lvl 52 atm but with only direct damage and 2 roots i soloed a white named yesterday in a respectable time (between 1 and 1m30s) and a full green bar left (with 2 blows). My other toons (conjuror/fury) were not able to do this at that level. At 70 with enough +disruption items I may switch to Str/Wis but now, i love the Fervor in both pve and pvp - cant remember i had any resist yesterday <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Noaani]

<cite>Faheuc wrote:</cite><blockquote> i dont see why you would want manaburn to solo tbh, just a drain on your power. id start working my way down the kos trees, at low level probably wis or agi.</blockquote><p>The reason you want Manaburn as a solo wizard is so that you can walk up to a yellow ^^^ mob, root it, debuff it, cast ball of fire, fire chamber, then manaburn it. You now have a dead mob, ~5% xp, and if it was a name, a very high chance of a master chest.</p><p>Manaburn is the single most overpowered spell for any class in the solo aspect of this game. </p>