Guide - How to play a wizard from 93-105 the pro way.

[eqmule]

Ok, so over the last few days I have had so much fun tweaking my wizard using the conditions aspire2008 gave me as a baseline.

I include a zip with kissasist ini files for wizards all levels from 93 up to 105. The file also contain my version of kissassist 9.24
which as a couple fixes for buffing as well as some other stuff which works well for me. The inis will NOT work with vanilla kiss.

I run a crew with a lvl 105 sk, lvl 105 clr, lvl 105 enc and 2 wiz merc. Currently in EOK zones.
you can pretty much play in any zone with this crew.

I put a lvl 85 heroic wiz in, and he leveled real quick, which is why I didn't start saving the inifiles until he was lvl 93.
back porting them and creating lvl 85-92 should be real easy though (although somewhat timeconsuming), so I leave that up to you guys.

To start the macro I create a hotkey on my wizard with the following text in it:

/tar id ${Group.Leader.ID}
/mac KissAssist924wCond ini Kissassist_${EverQuest.Server}_${Me}_${Me.Level}

and that's it, that hotkey now scales up as he levels, just remember to click it when he dings so it uses the new ini... and uhm, mem your new spells...

Happy hunting!

If anyone tweaks one of the inis or find a better combination of spells, post it.
All inis have the [myspells] section filled in so you can see EXACTLY what spell lineup I used for each level.
The only thing I would change would be what robe u need for mana, but I didn't bother, I just let him wear his heroic robe up to 105 when he got his Cohort's gear...

 

[DarkDevil]

I think you would find the following spell set and order will increase your DPS.
1. Ethereal Skyblaze
2. Ethereal Fuse
3. Claw of the Flameweaver
4. Flashchar
5. Ethereal Rimeblast
6. Dichotomic Fire
7. Hoarfrost Vortex
8. Cloudburst Stromstrike
9. Shocking Vortex
10. Twincast
11. Frostbound Alliance
12. Quiescent Harvest (Gambit is too much of a gamble imho)

All of mine are RK III but I think RK 1's would out DPS the other set and I know RKII's will. (Combat dummy tested)

All of the Irae Faycite Shards should be equipped. (Katta Deludge Aug Vendor)
Kerafyrm's Prismatic Familiar. DD increase by 40 to 60% + 2400 Mana and regen +10

Add
Distilled Mana Tonic
Ancient Hedge Wizards Brew

 

[jimbob]

Or, load your spell set, and /plugin mq2afnuke then /nuke resume. I suppose I could make it memorize level-appropriate spell sets too...

It is always great to have alternatives though.

 

[Sum1]

Or, load your spell set, and /plugin mq2afnuke then /nuke resume. I suppose I could make it memorize level-appropriate spell sets too...

It is always great to have alternatives though.

Does that use all the AA abilities, buffs, etc. as well, or just nuke from the spells memorized? What kind of logic does it apply?

 

[DarkDevil]

If I recall when I used mq2afnuke, it weaved the AA's into the spell routine. I know for sure that EokNuke does because that is what I use now. I have been experimenting with eqmules KA as well. We wizards are DPS whores. We are always looking for anything to squeeze out that last % of DPS. If drinking a beer through a Scooby Do straw increased DPS, we would.

 

[jimbob]

Well... It uses jimbob logic (I tried to mimic my raid spell set and casting order), and does use AA nukes (they can be turned off). There are still some bugs with med and mount (I've been lazy, sorry), but if you turn those off, it does some fine DPS. Burns can be enabled, and it burns on 3+ mobs in camp (also configurable). I use it regularly with 3 wizards in EoK zones to melt shit fast. It does have an option to test on a combat dummy, but don't leave that option on outside the GGH. There's a whole thread about it and a wiki too. I'd like to get a good comparison to EoKNuke and this new KA mod, but I'm a little busy with RL stuff at the moment.

 

[DarkDevil]

I will do that. Seems like a good idea and something to do this weekend.
Will set them up, and post some parses, etc.

- - - Updated - - -

Began testing today and will post the results as I finish the specific test.

First up is the plugin MQ2AFNuke. With the plugin's spell set.
No discs up. FULL RAID BUFFS
Combat Dummy Beza on 5/21/2017 in 258sec


WIZARD
--- DMG: 26238697 @ 101700 sdps (101700 dps in 258s) [100%]
------ Total: 26238697 -- DirDmg: 25818697 -- DoT: 420000
------ Normal rate: 59.3% (27.5% of DMG) -- Critical rate: 40.7% (72.5% of DMG)
------ Attempts: 241 -- Hits: 241 -- Misses: 0 -- Defended: 0 -- Accuracy: 100%
Total
--- DMG: 26238697 @ 101700 sdps (101700 dps in 258s) [100%]

Produced by GamParse v1.5.2.6

Combat Dummy Beza on 5/21/2017

WIZARD - 100
--- Claw of the Flameweaver Rk. II - 2
--- Cloudburst Stormstrike Rk. II - 3
--- Concussive Intuition III - 3
--- Dichotomic Fire - 1
--- Ethereal Fuse Rk. III - 6
--- Ethereal Rimeblast Rk. III - 20
--- Ethereal Skyblaze Rk. III - 23
--- Force of Flame VI - 11
--- Force of Ice VI - 11
--- Force of Will XVIII - 17
--- Harvest of Druzzil IX - 1
--- Quiescent Harvest Rk. III - 1
--- Received Twincast - 1
--- Shocking Vortex Rk. II - 1
Produced by GamParse v1.5.2.6

This run is with the spell set I use. Which is the spell set from EOKnuke.
No discs.

Combat Dummy Beza on 5/21/2017 in 266sec

WIZARD
--- DMG: 33095342 @ 124419 sdps (124419 dps in 266s) [100%]
------ Total: 33095342 -- DirDmg: 32188142 -- DoT: 907200
------ Normal rate: 16.8% (4.4% of DMG) -- Critical rate: 83.2% (95.6% of DMG)
------ Attempts: 232 -- Hits: 232 -- Misses: 0 -- Defended: 0 -- Accuracy: 100%

Total
--- DMG: 33095342 @ 124419 sdps (124419 dps in 266s) [100%]

Produced by GamParse v1.5.2.6
Combat Dummy Beza on 5/21/2017

WIZARD - 130
--- Claw of the Flameweaver Rk. II - 20
--- Cloudburst Stormstrike Rk. II - 24
--- Concussive Intuition III - 3
--- Dichotomic Fire - 2
--- Ethereal Fuse Rk. III - 5
--- Ethereal Rimeblast Rk. III - 7
--- Ethereal Skyblaze Rk. III - 15
--- Force of Flame VI - 13
--- Force of Ice VI - 13
--- Force of Will XVIII - 21
--- Received Twincast - 1
--- Shocking Vortex Rk. II - 7

Produced by GamParse v1.5.2.6

Conclusion: The EOK spell set produced 23k more DPS over similar time periods.

Next Up is MQ2AFNUKE with /doburn on

Got to run some errands first.

 

[aspire2008]

Your parses are only ~300 sec (~5 min) parse= burst dps. It'd be nice to see what happens if you run it for at least some realistic settings like a normal mq2 person would i.e camping in 1 spot for 3-4 hours at a time. What happens to your mana running that setup for 3-4 hours continuously without dropping out of combat? Unless you have a bard, enchanter, beastlord in group constantly keeping your mana regen up, I'm sure you are going to be just sitting there waiting out of combat every 3 minutes to refill your mana with that setup or else you'll reach 1% mana and the bot will cast its lowest mana nuke over and over when it has enough mana to cast that nuke. While your setup might be nice for bursting on namers and raid, most people that use mq2 are playing over 2-3 hours at a time in a group setting.

There's nothing wrong with your setup for bursting, but there is no way you will keep your mana up with that setup staying in combat for even a hour.

I'm not trying to be harsh on you with your setup, but realistically there is no way to run that setup without an ideal group (beastlord, bard, enchanter) keeping your wizard's mana regen above a level of how quickly you are depleting your mana with the spell set you are running. There are very few instances I play at 5-30 minute intervals at a time, I"m sure most mq2er's are in the same boat as me. And not many of us run our wizard with bard, enchanter, and beastlord in group as well either.


I do like that you used Gamparse though, instead of the awfulness of mq2dpsadv or KA's built in dps mode!!

 

[DarkDevil]

Well, I think since there were no discs up I would think that the dps would stay close to what you see, over an extended period of time.
Of course all testing on a combat dummy means that you do not loose any buffs. So when Twincast is cast, Twincast stays in effect for the entire time
that you are testing.
I run EOKNuke in a "camp" setting now and have plenty of parses I can pull from that.
What I plan on doing is to run MQ2AFNUKE in the same setting as well as a couple of the other ones as well and will post the results here.

 

[EQman0311]

will a 105 Wizard on AfNuke out dps a zerker?

 

[Sum1]

will a 105 Wizard on AfNuke out dps a zerker?

It depends on how well your zerker's kiss.ini (or holyshits) is setup. If it's decent, the zerker will probably win over the long term, but if your .ini is shitty afnuke will likely do better.

I run 3 wizzies and 1 zerker across two groups, and with proper support the group with the zerker usually is more consistent with DPS.

 

[EQman0311]

Yeah I just got my wizard to 105 and all he does is snap aggro from tank and run out of mana hahah

 

[Sum1]

Yeah I just got my wizard to 105 and all he does is snap aggro from tank and run out of mana hahah

Modify the engagement percentage so the wizard waits a little longer to engage. My wizzies never steal agro from my SK or warrior.

 

[EQman0311]

What's your spell line up look like? And would you share you ini.?

 

[aspire2008]

will a 105 Wizard on AfNuke out dps a zerker?

I highly doubt it, maybe on burst now since the zerker nerf. I don't play a zerker so take it as you will. But currently wizard sustained caps out around 55-70k dps (with no extra adps classes), think zerkers are still well over 100k dps sustained.

What's your spell line up look like? And would you share you ini.?

Use the ini setup I posted for 105 wizard, that's about the best you can do on sustained unless you have an ideal group to push your mana regen on wizard (i.e. beastlord, enc, bard).

 

[william12]

will a 105 Wizard on AfNuke out dps a zerker?

No and its not even close. Even after the nerfs your zerker should be pushing 100k sustained with the proper support. Im not talking about killing 5 mobs every hr either. Over 200 kills an hr my group zerker does 120k and my raid one does 250k.

 

[surfdog21]

Try this. Pretty consistent. Really dont run out of mana and the dps is good! Tried and true for many many hours/days/weeks/months yada yada....

[General]
KissAssistVer=10.0.4
Role=Assist
CampRadius=30
CampRadiusExceed=750
ReturnToCamp=1
ChaseAssist=0
ChaseDistance=25
MedOn=1
MedStart=10
MedCombat=0
LootOn=0
RezAcceptOn=1
AcceptInvitesOn=1
GroupWatchOn=0
EQBCOn=0
IRCOn=0
MiscGem=12
HoTTOn=0
CampfireOn=0
GroupEscapeOn=0
CharInfo=Wizard|105
CastingInterruptOn=0
DPSMeter=1
MiscGemRemem=1
ScatterOn=0
MiscGemLW=0
DefaultUI=TRUE
ConditionsOn=1

[SpellSet]
LoadSpellSet=0
SpellSetName=KissAssist

[Buffs]
BuffsOn=1
Buffs1=quiescent gambit|Mana|10
Buffs2=Harvest of Druzzil|Mana|50
Buffs3=Kerafyrm's Prismatic Familiar
Buffs4=Armor of the Codex
Buffs5=Shield of Consequence
Buffs6=NULL
Buffs7=NULL
Buffs8=Pyromancy
Buffs9=NULL
Buffs10=NULL
Buffs11=NULL
Buffs12=NULL
Buffs13=NULL
Buffs14=NULL
Buffs15=NULL
Buffs16=NULL
Buffs17=NULL
Buffs18=NULL
Buffs19=NULL
Buffs20=NULL
RebuffOn=1
CheckBuffsTimer=20
PowerSource=NULL
BuffsSize=20
BuffsCOn=0

[Melee]
AssistAt=90
MeleeOn=0
FaceMobOn=1
MeleeDistance=75
StickHow=snaproll
AutoFireOn=0
UseMQ2Melee=1

[MQ2Melee]
standup=1

[GoM]
GoMSHelp=Format - Spell|Target, MA Me or Mob, i.e. Rampaging Servant Rk. II|Mob
GoMSpell1=NULL
GoMSpell2=NULL
GoMSpell3=NULL
GoMSize=3
GoMCOn=0

[AE]
AEOn=0
AERadius=50
AE1=Twincast|3
AE2=Arcane Destruction|2
AE3=Selrach's frostfire robe|2
AE4=Call of Xuzl|2
AE5=NULL
AE6=NULL
AE7=NULL
AE8=NULL
AE9=NULL
AE10=NULL
AESize=10

[DPS]
DPSOn=1
DPSSkip=0
DPSInterval=1
DPS1=Ethereal Skyblaze|99
DPS2=Ethereal Fuse|99
DPS3=Ethereal Rimeblast|99
DPS4=Force of Flame|99|weave
DPS5=Force of Ice|99|weave
DPS6=Force of Will|99|weave
DPS7=Frostbound alliance|99
DPS8=Thricewoven stormstrike|99
DPS9=NULL
DPS10=NULL
DPS11=NULL
DPS12=NULL
DPS13=NULL
DPS14=NULL
DPS15=NULL
DPS16=NULL
DPS17=NULL
DPS18=NULL
DPS19=NULL
DPS20=NULL
DebuffAllOn=0
DPSSize=20
DPSCOn=0

[Aggro]
AggroOn=0
Aggro1=NULL
Aggro2=NULL
Aggro3=NULL
Aggro4=NULL
Aggro5=NULL
AggroSize=5

[Heals]
Help=Format Spell|% to heal at i.e. Devout Light Rk. II|50
HealsOn=0
Heals1=NULL
Heals2=NULL
Heals3=NULL
Heals4=NULL
Heals5=NULL
XTarHeal=0
HealGroupPetsOn=0
XTarHeal2=0
HealsSize=5
HealsCOn=0

[Cures]
CuresOn=0
Cures1=NULL
Cures2=NULL
Cures3=NULL
Cures4=NULL
Cures5=NULL
CuresSize=5

[Burn]
BurnText=Decepticons Attack
BurnAllNamed=1
Burn1=Fury of Kerafyrm
Burn2=Improved Twincast
Burn3=Fundament: Second Spire of Arcanum
Burn4=Arcane Fury
Burn5=Silent Casting
Burn6=Frenzied Devastation
Burn7=Focus of Arcanum
Burn8=Fury of Ro
Burn9=Call of Xuzl
Burn10=selrach's frostfire robe
Burn11=Manaburn|60
Burn12=NULL
Burn13=NULL
Burn14=NULL
Burn15=NULL
UseTribute=1
BurnSize=15
BurnCOn=0

[Pull]
PullWith=Melee
MaxRadius=350
MaxZRange=50
PullWait=5
PullRoleToggle=0
ChainPull=0
ChainPullHP=90
ChainPullPause=30|2
PullLevel=0|0
PullMeleeStick=0

[AFKTools]
AFKHelp=AFKGMAction=0 Off, 1 Pause Macro, 2 End Macro, 3 Unload MQ2, 4 Quit Game
AFKToolsOn=1
AFKGMAction=1
AFKPCRadius=150
CampOnDeath=0
ClickBacktoCamp=1

[Merc]
Help=To use: Turn off Auto Assist in Manage Mercenary Window
MercOn=1
MercAssistAt=92

[GMail]
GMailHelp=Events currently support - Dead,GM,Level,Named,Leftgroup
GMailOn=0
GMail1=NULL
GMail2=NULL
GMail3=NULL
GMail4=NULL
GMail5=NULL
GMailSize=5

- - - Updated - - -

No and its not even close. Even after the nerfs your zerker should be pushing 100k sustained with the proper support. Im not talking about killing 5 mobs every hr either. Over 200 kills an hr my group zerker does 120k and my raid one does 250k

Thats sick!