So since the update I have kinda avoided playing some of my wizards. And I have a few. A pure 20, a 18/2 rouge splash, 11/6/3/ fighter monk splash, and a x/6/1 ranger/monk splash. All of them were super fun. But with the changes….
So to do a little testing I called up Samiusbot (20pure) Ench Archmage, aka my epic runner. And boy things have changed. Holds almost last 15-20 seconds. Dance spells are about the same. But we can instant kill now. So that is a nice change. But it was not good enough to stay Archmage, yep I am back to Pale Master. And things are about the same, except now as a PM dps is a lot more sustainable.
The good: epics now allow a larger range of strategies, where before make mobs helpless and beat down was the best option.
The bad: Everyone needs to be helpful. Before even a less then good player/build could be a help. But now… I think albatrosses are a lot more noticeable then before.
I haven’t gone over my other builds, yet. I think I will make Java a Clr, and As400 will get cleaned up but remaining a 18/2, he will be fine. I am not sure what to do with Samyus my ranger splash.
Change… its not always good. But I think these changes will be fine, but might alienate some and make getting into epics harder.
❤
Samius Gurobo 
Maybe I’m imagining it. But it seems that they have been extremely punishing with Wizard casting cooldowns. Last night, it seems that I spent most of the night waiting on cooldowns to roll through. 😦
Longer cooldowns – DO NOT WANT!!
I know that the timers have gotten longer but with more spells worth casting I haven’t really felt at a loss of things to do.
My main disappointment is some of my favorite spells are almost worthless now. I like/liked a lot of the cloud spells. And now their durations are so short we are almost better off casting more WoFs or standing and spamming necro burst/blast.