Goonhub
05-26-2017, 04:39 AM
The "glass cannon" thing is THE major problem with wiz.
You see, wiz hasn't actually changed much AT ALL bar the addition of 1-2 spells since tasers got nerfed, before you could take him down in one stray shot, requiring the wiz to use the teleport scroll (granted back then they could use it when they were unconcious), + the introduction of stamina and all that.
Essentially goon (re: cogs) agenda was to push towards longer firefights that were more thrilling and more fair. Wizard however remained very much the same, when in truth they should've changed their spells to reflect this change.
So the fix for wizard is to make him a lot less glass cannon-y (while still being super obvious). IFor clarity because we've been yammering on about a fix for wiz for eons, it was concluded in the last threads that it'd be better to:
- Buff the minor spells. So spells like ice beam and bull rush are now actually viable.
- Split the powerful spells. Notably fireball; the fire effect and explosion effect are now two different spells.
- Raise the spells allowance overall. This means that instead of 4 powerful spells, he has 5-6 less powerful. This means far more varied loadouts.
- Add more defense spells, or combine defense spells into more powerful defense ones, adding healing spells and the lark.
- Add more tools like staff of cthlulu for the wiz to play with. Y'know, wizardly stuff.
Essentially makes him less of a glass cannon and does the following
✓ It raises the wiz' ability to survive with various healing + defense spells. It also allows the wiz to do more gimmicky shit.
✓ It raises the crew's ability to survive with less bullshit spells like fireball
✓ It enhances the wiz ability to target multiple people, with more than 4 core spells, making the wiz the 1 vs many master.
✓It breaks down the "best 4 core spells" loadout that many wiz' pick, forcing wizards to properly diversify
✓ It does all this without a complete rework of wizard.
You see, wiz hasn't actually changed much AT ALL bar the addition of 1-2 spells since tasers got nerfed, before you could take him down in one stray shot, requiring the wiz to use the teleport scroll (granted back then they could use it when they were unconcious), + the introduction of stamina and all that.
Essentially goon (re: cogs) agenda was to push towards longer firefights that were more thrilling and more fair. Wizard however remained very much the same, when in truth they should've changed their spells to reflect this change.
So the fix for wizard is to make him a lot less glass cannon-y (while still being super obvious). IFor clarity because we've been yammering on about a fix for wiz for eons, it was concluded in the last threads that it'd be better to:
- Buff the minor spells. So spells like ice beam and bull rush are now actually viable.
- Split the powerful spells. Notably fireball; the fire effect and explosion effect are now two different spells.
- Raise the spells allowance overall. This means that instead of 4 powerful spells, he has 5-6 less powerful. This means far more varied loadouts.
- Add more defense spells, or combine defense spells into more powerful defense ones, adding healing spells and the lark.
- Add more tools like staff of cthlulu for the wiz to play with. Y'know, wizardly stuff.
Essentially makes him less of a glass cannon and does the following
✓ It raises the wiz' ability to survive with various healing + defense spells. It also allows the wiz to do more gimmicky shit.
✓ It raises the crew's ability to survive with less bullshit spells like fireball
✓ It enhances the wiz ability to target multiple people, with more than 4 core spells, making the wiz the 1 vs many master.
✓It breaks down the "best 4 core spells" loadout that many wiz' pick, forcing wizards to properly diversify
✓ It does all this without a complete rework of wizard.