For a solo wizard, is there any reason to upgrade non-DD spell past Adept 1?

[MrJekylls]

<p>From reading through posts here, my understanding is that a solo wizard basically relies on root, stun, and their big DD. That would imply to me that, for a solo wizard, they only really need to upgrade their big DD (and to a lesser extent their stun and root) beyond Adept 1.</p><p>Is this accurate, or am I missing something?</p><p>Thanks for your time. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[SacDaddy420]

you are missing the fact that you will be MUCHO more successful as a solo'er with at least ad3 spells. Better nuke = quicker, safer kill. Die 100000 times because all your roots were resisted then come back here and ask this question

[Wilko1981]

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva">Enjoy your repair bill if that is your approach, agree with Sacs points</span> <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Mirander_1]

If you're a soloer, you want to upgrade these, at the least: All DD nukes (Ice Comet, Fireball, the mini-nuke) single- and group-roots stuns Your buffs things like DoTs, Icesheild, and Surge of Flames/Frigid Gift also have their place, but the above would be the minimum.

[HaCkHaCkER]

<p>i agree, the most important upgrades are </p><p>1.   roots, single and multi target 2.   large DD, IC, BoF, etc... 3.   then i would go with the damage shield 4.   then buffs</p>

[Ul]

I'm a new player and i'm trying to figure out the difference between upgrading spells. Just looking at the damage variance between apprentice 1-3 spells it seems like a big waste to even upgrade the spell to 3. I don't know how this pertains to Adept or Master though. I guess I'm just totally lost about upgrading spells. =(

[Mareth]

<cite>Ulao wrote:</cite><blockquote>I'm a new player and i'm trying to figure out the difference between upgrading spells. Just looking at the damage variance between apprentice 1-3 spells it seems like a big waste to even upgrade the spell to 3. I don't know how this pertains to Adept or Master though. I guess I'm just totally lost about upgrading spells. =( </blockquote>Just ignore apprentice 2-4, and go for adept1's if you're poor, adept 3 if you got the rares, and masters if you can afford them <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> It's a huge upgrade from apprentice spells to adept, and so on.

[Alku]

Also don't just look at the damage, look at the resist rate.

[Cakassis]

<p>For the person asking about the difference in spell levels...</p><p> The difference between each level of spell, App1, App2, etc is about 15% per level.  The App2 is about 15% better than the App1.  The App3 is 15% better than App2, and so on.  This means the AD1 will do about 60% more damage than the App1 version of the same spell.</p>