Ok well i know we are derailed this with a bit of a wiz and zerker dps talk but since its being brought up I wanted to say this.
While the glad change effected pretty much every dps class, and i do understand why it was fixed, imo it really did hurt the wizards the most.
Before that glad change were changes, fixes really, to wizards agro as a lot of their 70 custom spells were not doing proper hate values. This changed the way many wizards and even a lot of tanks played. But despite that change we could still do good dps with them with a good tank and good rotation and some jolts here and there.
But combine all of the changes and what we have now is a agro magnet that does lower dps than almost every other dps class of equal gear and buff/debuff scenario.
Now i know i have put a LOT more time and effort into Mary and that she has donor legs buff for a nice dps boost while loki has no donors. it just seems weird that my bard who is a utility/dps class is doing more dps using a non-donor disc. while loki is a wizard the pure high dps but with risk from no other options other than doing dps, and he is doing less dps than my bard.
I can totally understand with a lot of the changes and fixes that have been made and agree with the reasoning behind them. I just hope some changes are made in the future to bring wizards back up. I know we are always in a constant state of balance, and that wizards often go up and down. and yall do a really great job at balancing the many classes in EQ. But I feel the wizards are pretty down atm.
Regards,
Sticky