not to brag but i am feeling really good about myself as a wizard now. i
wasn't sure if i was good or bad, but i play exactly like you and Crier have
described. guess i picked it up from my wizard friends or it just seemed a
smart way to play.

Shada Bladestorm, L50 Wood Elf Bard
Tyria Sarkin, L37 High Elf Wizard
<Afterlife> Mithaniel Marr Server

> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, JasonF wrote:
> >
> > I have to sing the praises of smart Wizards (there are a few). I
> > occassionally get to group with a really bright Hong Kong
> player who is a
> > high level wizard. He plays his wiz in almost a clerical
> fashion and it
> > works quite well. The puller brings a mob and the wiz is
> medding. The
> > tanks begin to beat on the mob. When the mob gets
> sufficiently aggrod on
> > the tanks the Wiz stands and casts a nuke *bam* then sits
> his ass back down
>
> I watched a wizard from my guild play for a bit in Mistmoore.
> He'd made a joke about people commenting to him "Wow! A
> wizard that stuns instead of nukes!" but I'd forgotten about
> it. Anyway, he was in a melee-heavy group whose healers were
> a ranger and a bard. They pulled a mob, he immediately
> stunned it. Melee guys beat on it. Stun wears out, mob is
> aggroed on the melee guys by now so they take a bit of damage,
> he stuns it again. Repeat until mob is dead. Never aggroed
> the mobs onto himself, drastically cut down on the damage the
> group was taking. The only time he nuked was when they had
> multiple mobs. I was impressed. The class is not as
> one-dimensional as I'd originally thought.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...