Wizard class goes up in Flames...

[Ithious]

I did DV+ Fire Wave and the monsters hp went from about 1400 to around 900 on a 180% resistance. I also tried frostbite and fire wave. That does awesome dmg too.

[Luneth]

I prefer to just do no Frostbite, just palin old DmFw Pwn...

[Drago Goldenwing]

And this is the kind of thing I was talking about. There's NO LOVE for Melee builds in the AQ staff.

Paladin? Mana-intensive, which means high Int which means Magic build.
Necromancer? Mana intensive, which means high Int which means Magic build.
Mage/Wizard? Magic.
Dracomancer? Magic.
Dragonslayer? Only useful in a very small handful of situations.
Rogue? Ranged and it blows.
Ninja? Not that useful anymore.
Vampire Slayer? Magic AND it blows.

Fighter/Knight, AKA The Only Attempted Melee Character Classes Attempted To Date? Generally considered among the most useless in the game.

And you just watch them. They'll find a way to make Beastmaster a Magic class too.

It's starting to !@#$ me off honestly.

[Sano]

Man Fire Wave is frkn wicked. Though after trying it without DM it was pretty bad. So unless you use it with DM it's not gonna do you much good, but very good still. I got a Steppe Mastodon from like 1000 something down to around 400 something.

Drago, I agree with you comepletely. Melee based characters and builds are practically isolated and ignored.

[scarecrow]

you mostly all dont know me because im new here but i got these new robes today to try them out there way better than normal wiz robes especialy if you use dm then fire wave you hit like 2 500s

[[MF]]

^Ow. And yea, Fire Wave is fricken' amazing, my highest hit (on DM) is about 900-odd.

[Huang Di]

drago said:

And this is the kind of thing I was talking about. There's NO LOVE for Melee builds in the AQ staff.

Paladin? Mana-intensive, which means high Int which means Magic build.
Necromancer? Mana intensive, which means high Int which means Magic build.
Mage/Wizard? Magic.
Dracomancer? Magic.
Dragonslayer? Only useful in a very small handful of situations.
Rogue? Ranged and it blows.
Ninja? Not that useful anymore.
Vampire Slayer? Magic AND it blows.

Fighter/Knight, AKA The Only Attempted Melee Character Classes Attempted To Date? Generally considered among the most useless in the game.

And you just watch them. They'll find a way to make Beastmaster a Magic class too.

It's starting to !@#$ me off honestly.

No offense intended Drago, but we heard you the first time, and the second time, and the third time. If you have enough time to tell us this again and again, then you have time to go sift through the noobs on the AQ forum and try to get a response from the staff.

[animalking]

Here is an idea for wizard robes that I heard and that is too make one for every element like ...Water= Hydromancer.

[[MF]]

Pyromancer-Fire
Hydromancer-Water
Geomancer-Earth
Solarmancer-Light
Shadowmancer (Necromancer?)-Shadow
Gustomancer-Wizard with gusto. Lol
Piemancer-Baker.
Spamamancer-power of Instant Messengers
Pornomancer-PR0n OMFG!
Awesomancer-Pure PWNAGE.
1337omancer-NumText Spamming Power.
Coolomen mon min mancer-JOOH CARNT SPEHL.
ORLYmancer-I say old chap! I can't help but express my astonishment at this claim! Is this fact, or indeed a CLEVER RUSE?
Trickymancer-Drug addict.

[animalking]

Ok it was just an idea you didn't have to get too carried away. The the first few are good.

[Drago Goldenwing]

frogzardlover said:

drago said:

And this is the kind of thing I was talking about. There's NO LOVE for Melee builds in the AQ staff.

Paladin? Mana-intensive, which means high Int which means Magic build.
Necromancer? Mana intensive, which means high Int which means Magic build.
Mage/Wizard? Magic.
Dracomancer? Magic.
Dragonslayer? Only useful in a very small handful of situations.
Rogue? Ranged and it blows.
Ninja? Not that useful anymore.
Vampire Slayer? Magic AND it blows.

Fighter/Knight, AKA The Only Attempted Melee Character Classes Attempted To Date? Generally considered among the most useless in the game.

And you just watch them. They'll find a way to make Beastmaster a Magic class too.

It's starting to !@#$ me off honestly.

No offense intended Drago, but we heard you the first time, and the second time, and the third time. If you have enough time to tell us this again and again, then you have time to go sift through the noobs on the AQ forum and try to get a response from the staff.

1: And you're going to keep hearing me complain about it whenever doing so fits the thread and/or topic.

2: I have seen the results of trying to propose the idea that maybe the staff is doing something wrong on the official AQ Forum. All you do is attract people who bury any point you try to make under "THEN QUIT YOU LOSER!" and "LOLZ THEY DONT CARE" and "YUR TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU SAID BUT IM NOT GOING TO BOTHER EXPLAINING WHY".
It is not worth the time, trouble, or stress.

3: The staff obviously WANTS it this way or the game wouldn't be so skewed towards magic users already.

[Berethor]

I completely agree, Drago. This is pretty much what the staff has been thinking lately...

"Alright you guys, after Frostval part 2, we're going to release an actually decent Melee Light Weapon to make Warriors a little less suckish in comparison to Mages. Then during Frostval part 3, we're going to give Mages a pwnzorific Wizard Robe to totally annihilate any chance of Warriors being in the Mage's league!!!"

Warriors aren't getting crap anymore, which sucks. I want to be a Warrior, but it's just not contending with Mages right now in terms of power.

And DM + FW = o.O ZOMG TEH AWESOM3 PWNZOMANCER ROBE LOLOLOL!!! o.O[/rant]

[Drago Goldenwing]

The problem is that the AQ staff are approaching this from the viewpoint of regular RPGs, where Mages are generally peple carrying Instant Nuke Buttons with them and can one-hit kill things.

But AQ isn't balanced that way! In those games, mages all have low defense and HP so that yes, they can hit a button and things drop dead, but if anything even breathes on the mage in the process, you've got a dead mage.

But in this game Mages can have the same HP and defenses as the hardest warrior tank build. That severely unbalances things, because then there's zero reason to play a Warrior. Mages in AQ are just warriors with Int instead of Str and have the same stats, but Mages in AQ get to equip weapons that do 100-130 damage (Spells) instead of 10-30 like Warriors. So why would anyone in their right minds want to be warriors when everyone is the same couple of builds, but melee gets vastly inferior equipment?

This leads to the majority of users being spellcasters, which just reinforces the percieved need for more better Mage stuff versus Warrior and Rogue stuff.

[Huang Di]

What rogue stuff are we talking about. Last I checked, all the ranged weapons did their specials every single turn.

I realize this and now I'm having my own issus.

I'm tring not to let myself become one of those noobs on the AQ forum, not to UM or DM+Uber spell every fight. I'm currently a hybrid and i'm trying to stay a hybrid but the AQ staff isn't making it easy.

Anyway, who here wants to bet the if Drago switches to a mage build, that mages will instantly be nerfed to the center of the earth? That would be just his luck.

[[MF]]

*Raises hand*
Stay warrior Drago.
Please. For the sake of 75% of AQ.