I'm very new to EQ2 and am having difficulties specing out my AA trees. I'm currently a level 43 Wizard with 44 AA's. and initially went down the STR line to get Catalyst. I decided a bit later that was a mistake and respec'd to 4-4-4-8 in STR to max out crits and 4-4-4-6 in WIS to max out base damage (I spent 5 in magi shield before I realized I should max out sorcerer tree first). Overall, this is what "I" believe I should end my spec with. However, I'm not retarded enough to think I know what I'm doing, so I'd really appreciate some input on what most high end Wizzies spec.
Here's what I'm going for at the moment
Sorcerer Tree:
+ Familiar: 1
+ STR: 4 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 1
+ WIS: 4 + 7 + 4 + 8 + 1
Wizard Tree:
- Power
+ Amplify x 5
+ Painful Meditation x 5
+ Accord x 5
+ Essence Harvest x 5
+ Manaburn
- Cold
+ Cold Whirl x 5
+ Ice Coment x 5
+ Surging Tempest x 5
+ Frostbound Gift x 5
+ Iceshape
-Shielding
+ Magi Shield x 8
Edited, May 21st 2007 7:58pm by NiresUnrest
Edited, May 21st 2007 7:59pm by NiresUnrest
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I spec'd myself to try and do the most raid dps I can do...
For Soercerer tree I do
STR - 4 - 4 - 6 - 8 - 1
WIS - 4 - 8 - 4 - 7 - 1 (i dont think its makes a huge different whether brainstorm or freehand get the extra AA...probably more preference)
and I just see a slight problem with your wizard tree...it can't work that way.
First off...for that tree I use..
the manaburn way. I used my points slightly different...I added some extra of the distribution to Cardinal Intromission...to speed up its casting time since its so slow.
And I went down the cold line
rending icicles - 5
Ice nova - 5 / Shocking Flash 3
Surging Tempest - 4 / Glacial Wind - 1
Fusion - 5
Then I got the iceshape ability and i maxed out my Frigid Gift AA.
Now the reason your mentioned way wont work is cause of a couple reasons.
1) surging tempest maxes out at 4 AA ranks
2) To get ice shape you need 20 pts in COLD. Not 15 in cold + 5 in frostbound gift, that doesn't meet the 20 requirement to start using iceshape.
Unless you plan on being a non-raiding player, I would just leave the magi sheild AA alone. Only wizards I seen with huge wards on them are chinesse farmer wizards who fight ^^^ named mobs all day - it doesn't really benefit our dps at all. I only put AA into my two encounter DoT's so that I can get to fusion. Having fusions ranged doubled and resistability increases is really nice.
For Soercerer tree I do
STR - 4 - 4 - 6 - 8 - 1
WIS - 4 - 8 - 4 - 7 - 1 (i dont think its makes a huge different whether brainstorm or freehand get the extra AA...probably more preference)
and I just see a slight problem with your wizard tree...it can't work that way.
First off...for that tree I use..
the manaburn way. I used my points slightly different...I added some extra of the distribution to Cardinal Intromission...to speed up its casting time since its so slow.
And I went down the cold line
rending icicles - 5
Ice nova - 5 / Shocking Flash 3
Surging Tempest - 4 / Glacial Wind - 1
Fusion - 5
Then I got the iceshape ability and i maxed out my Frigid Gift AA.
Now the reason your mentioned way wont work is cause of a couple reasons.
1) surging tempest maxes out at 4 AA ranks
2) To get ice shape you need 20 pts in COLD. Not 15 in cold + 5 in frostbound gift, that doesn't meet the 20 requirement to start using iceshape.
Unless you plan on being a non-raiding player, I would just leave the magi sheild AA alone. Only wizards I seen with huge wards on them are chinesse farmer wizards who fight ^^^ named mobs all day - it doesn't really benefit our dps at all. I only put AA into my two encounter DoT's so that I can get to fusion. Having fusions ranged doubled and resistability increases is really nice.
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Thanks for the info, Dakkotaa. As I'm just about finished with my sorcerer tree, it's nice to have your setup to use on my wizard tree. I totally looked past the fusion aa's (mainly because I had no idea what the spell did until last night) and can see how nice that will be.
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