Wizard hats

[mralexs]

Acids melting hats is the only couterplay you have against a cautious wizard. Otherwise, just run Teleport, Doppelganger and the already default Phase Shift (or whatever it's called?) and you're invincible. Shifted into a room full of sec? Doppelganger and watch them waste the tasers. Still somehow got caught? Well taking your hat takes a long time, just teleport away, ez.

Wizards are impossible to catch if they don't want to be. If they manage to get a baton or, better yet, a taser shotgun, they can literally pop up next to a guy and stunlock them before they had half a second to see the wizard sprite.

I do think that the various nerfs were unwarranted. Staff of Cthulhu + Empower slapping you from outer space was iconic, yet rather counterable by just.. walking away. If melting hats can't be done anymore, we're back to "only sec can actually fight them" and that's a bit of a bummer to the rest of the crew.

You couldn't walk away from empower wiznerds in space because it stunlocked in part due to the stave's brain damage