Mestre dos Magos (wizard 40) -OUTDATED-

[jonuhey]

I consider this build outdated with the recent changes to divination and conjuration not having them is quite a issue when trying to damage or instakill.

The name: Mestre dos Magos is the name of the character from Dungeons and dragons, Dungeon master, here in Brasil. It doesnt mean really dungeon master, it means "Mages' Master" instead.

This is my wizard build, really good to play in hells. And I bet he will do really good in abo/ely as well, but still didnt have the opportunity to go there.



What I want in this build:

• Max int
  
• 5 epics (necro, evoc, illusion, trans and abjuration)
  
• Greater ruin
  

What is bad here:

• Saves at low 50s
  
• needs pandect to get shield proficiency or items with it
  

Human/Genie
60 Wizard

Starting stats at lvl1:
Str:8
Dex:14 (16)
Con:14 (16)
Int:18 (24)
Wis:10
Cha:8

Feats:
@lv creation : Luck of heroes

pre-epic:
Spell focus: Illusion
Greater spell focus: Illusion
Spell focus:Transmutation
Greater spell focus:Transmutation
Spell focus: Evocation
Greater spell focus:Evocation
Spell focus: Necromancy
Greater spell focus: Necromancy
Silent spell (can trade this for shield proficiency if you dont want to wait for the pandect, or dont have amulet of eramus or Ur-ward)
Extend spell
Empower spell

from lvl 20-40:
Greater Int I-VIII
Epic spell penetration
Epic spell focus:Illusion
Epic spell focus:Necromancy
Epic spell focus:Transmutation
Epic spell focus: Evocation


Legendary feats:
Legendary spell penetration
Legendary spell focus:Illusion
Legendary spell focus:Transmutation
Legendary spell focus:Necromancy
Greater Int IX
Greater Int X
Epic spell: Greater ruin

Tome: abjuration
Pandect: shield proficency
Artifact: Int

Stats @60 with arti (x2demi)
Str:20 (24)
Dex:28 (32)
Con:28 (32)
Int:68 (72)
Wis:22 (26)
Cha:20 (24)

AC 115 and 80% conceal (119 with gird)

Saves at lvl 60:
Fortitude: 51
Reflex: 51
Will: 54

Gear Im using (not perfect gear, but it is the best I have in hands):
Head: A position of strenght (fear and stats increase, cept for wisdom)
Gloves: Thids gloves
Armor: Shimmering Robes of the silvermoon (+1 DC for lv1-6 spells and cover elemental immunity)
Boots: Legendary boots of defense
Ammy: Amulet of the axerian grandmaster
Cloak: Cloak of the axerian grandmaster
Shield: Ur-ward or Impasse of impulse (UR-ward is better for hells, because of the extra 5% exotics)

This is my basic spellbook (it does not include bestow, because I dont like to be near things to use it, I prefer wasting a round using a mord scroll than this, but sometimes I get them, especially if the druid is slacking ) :


Spells and what to do with them
These are the ones I use normally:

• Mage armor: It gives you some dodge ac, good for hells. Especially if you cast them regularly during a run on x1 demi toons.
  
• Endure Elements: Gives 10% to all elements and also is very helpful for x1 demis, or new players.
  
• Burning hands: Only used to break walls
  
• Expeditious Retreat: Run forrest run!! Cast an extended version always. Nice to position yourself faster and avoid aoo.
  
• Fire weapon: Buff players' weapons, but ask first before doing it, cause a lot of things heal by fire if you are in a high demi party.
  
• Ghostly visage: Use extended version. I always have it in my first quickbar, and use it mainly for a reposition in a random or nasty mob.
  
• Ice storm: I have only one memorized in case I need to break a wall fast and completely
  
• Gust of wind: Fumes killer and removes clouds from creatures like nighmare. The DC isnt the best in town, but after an Energy drain it often hits fast.
  
• Elemental shield: Gives 50% cold and fire. beware!! if you are being hit by a party wide KB creature, use GV and reposition, cause this will cause KB for the entire party.
  
• Energy buffer: 60/- to all elementals is uber, never leave your home without it =)
  
• Enervation: It gives 10% vulnerability for all elementals and drain levels if the creature fails the save. Really good reason to fish for 1's during nasty boss fights or to finish creatures not immune to level drain. Usually try it after energy drain, but not always.
  
• Ethereal Visage: This is your AC, 80% conceal ftw. Without it you are squishy, so put it in the first place in your autocaster.
  
• Greater stoneskin: Damage absorption
  
• Flesh to stone: Really good spells with nice DC. Try to stone Machines and Kocrachons. Paragon machines are immune to this. I only use it if the cleric and druid is slacking doing their jobs =P and if my disintegrate failed.
  
• Eyebite: Lower saves like the prayer spell. Use it only if the cleric isnt using prayer effectively. It is single target unlike prayer.
  
• Shadow shield: Necromancy immunity, 100% negative immunity and death magic immunity. Really nice.
  
• Tensers: Extra HP and AC for you. The timer is short, cast an extended version.
  
• Disintegrate: Mini implosion spell. Really good for killing machines, and lesser creatures.
  
• Circle of Death: Instant effect spell for death magic. Super uber.
  
• Greater sanctuary: use it if you need etherealness for a long time.
  
• Energy immunity: 50% to a single element. Short duration, so cast extended.
  
• Premonition: Damage soak.
  
• Mind blank: Protect against common mind effects and heals scrypted abilities like confusion/stunned/dazed. Good to have because you will be often the one not affevted by this, cuz you are in the back. So heal your mates for the win.
  
• Bigbys Clenched: Damage and more damage. Use it on mobs that cant be insta-killed like bosses, males, pit fiends and others.
  
• Energy Drain: Way to lower saves and get extra temporary caster levels/DC/Sp for your spells. If possible always get the red aura around you, it makes everything so much easier. Having a soul jar from catacombs helps a lot.
  
• Bygbis Crushing hand: Use it on rakhasas as soon as possible. And never use it in things with KB. Paragon rakhasas needs to be morded before using this spell.
  
• Wail: Extra large death magic spell. but it takes a while to force the mob te save, good during spawns, especially if you cast before they spawn, and while the animation is going on, they appear and the bard curses and the cleric prays =) then, the effect appears. (this doesnt happens often, and most of the times you'll be unable to penetrate SR, sadly)
  
• Weird: same as wail, but respect mind spells and fear. Good Advespa and rakhasa killer. beside other things.
  

Other spells:

• Bigbys interposing
  
• Bigbys forceful
  
• Bigbys lv 7 (forgot the name lol)
  
• bestow curse
  
• Spell mantle
  
• Gate
  
• IGMS and lesser variations: NEVER USE THIS IN HELLS PLS, THX ;D
  
• Stone to flesh
  
• Mind fog
  
• Rainbow pattern
  

Obs.: Will add more information later

[jonuhey]

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[jonuhey]

Updated with some quick spells notes.
would love other wizards input about the spells descriptions, and if I missed any good one, or said something wrong.

will try to add more specifics situations, like "what creatures I should use the "X" spell".

Jonuhey

[Rain]

This is my wizard, with feats more or less the same but with a few changes:



Race/Subrace:
Human/Genie


60 Wizard
Specialization: Necromancy
Barred Schools of magic: Enchantment and Dinivation/Conjuration



Starting stats at lvl1 :
Str:8
Dex:14 (16 after subby change)
Con:14 (16 after subby change)
Int:18 (24 after subby change)
Wis:10
Cha:8

Stats at double demi:
Str:24
Dex:32
Con:32
Int:72
Wis:26
Cha:24


Feats:

before Epic:
Luck of Hero
Great Fortitude
Extend spell
Empower spell
Spell focus: Illusion
Greater spell focus: Illusion
Spell focus:Transmutation
Greater spell focus:Transmutation
Spell focus: Evocation
Greater spell focus:Evocation
Spell focus: Necromancy
Greater spell focus: Necromancy


from lvl 20-40:
Epic spell focus:Transmutation
Epic spell focus:Evocation
Epic spell focus:Illusion
Epic spell focus:Necromancy
Epic spell penetration
Greater intellegence I-VIII


Legendary feats:
Epic spell: Greater ruin
Legendary spell focus:Transmutation
Legendary spell focus:Illusion
Legendary spell focus:Necromancy
Legendary spell penetration
Greater intellegence IX - X

Tome: Abjuration
Pandect: Shield Proficiency
Consumed artifact: Eyes of Vecna (int arti)


Skills:
Max: Concentration, spellcraft, lore, parry, appraise, craft armor, tumble, search, spot, pick pocket, taunt, heal.


Saves at double demi:
Fortitude: 55
Reflex: 53
Will: 56



Gear Setup:

Non-Demi:
Helmet: Crown of uncanny stability
Main hand: Tia wizard staff
Off hand: Ur-Ward
Armor: Shimming robe of silvermoon
Cloak: Tia Wizard cloak
Amulet: Tia Wizard amulet
Belt: Tia wizard belt
Boots: Legendary Boots of Defense
Rings: switch it a lot depends on which layer it is


Demis:

Setup1:
Helmet: Helm of Zeal
Main hand: Tia wizard staff
Off hand: Ur-Ward
Armor: Shimming robe of silvermoon
Cloak: Tia Wizard cloak
Amulet: Amulet of Eramus
Belt: Tia wizard belt
Boots: Styxwalker (asmo boots)
Rings: Ring of the planewalker + bur ring(depends on the layer)



Setup2:
Helmet: Crown of uncanny stability
Main hand: Tia wizard staff
Off hand: Asmo shield
Armor: Shimming robe of silvermoon
Cloak: Tia Wizard cloak
Amulet: Amulet of the Pharoah
Belt: Tia wizard belt
Boots: Tia Wizard Boots
Rings: Ring of the planewalker + bur ring(depends on the layer)


Personally i stick to the 2nd gear setup cuz i have the amni immune ring to replace asmo boots. but if not i'd suggest using the first gear setup. Both setups cover 35/- elemental resistance, 20/- exotic resistance, 20/- physical resistance, fear/poison imm and +12 to all stats.
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I chose to go specialized wizard this time cuz i really enjoy that extra 2 DC on necro spells, especially making my Circle of death have the same dc of a maxed dc x2demi caster cleric's implosion DC. the loss of the whole Enchantment and Conjuration school spells donot have any negative for me yet( for bbod i use stygia rod, never actually bother to use scrolls while i can have the rod), but it's not predicable if there'll be any useful enchantment/conjuration spells added in future. but currently the +2DC to necro spells is a lot more valuable than getting access to the exsistent enchant/conj spells.

However, not everyone has access to the stygia rod for bbod. so if you can only use bbod scrolls and still wanna specialize in necromancy my suggestion is to bar divination instead of conjuration. this you're at a cost of no premonition. but can still use greater stoneskin which is 10 points less soak than premonition.

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My usual hell spellbook:














Spell Instructions:

Jonuhey has already made a great spell instruction there. i'm just gonna mention a few things:


1. Bigby crushing hand for Rakshasha and Orthons(especially para orthons); Bigby grasping hand for Ice fiends, uncursed para machines and Orthons(especially para orthon). bigby wonot daze para orthon but it can immobilize them which makes them not able to get close to casters with low fort saves.


2. Bigby interposing hand for nasties including some para randoms, para pf/male/serpent/ichors and all the bosses.


3. remember to switch to Cone of cold in underwater areas where u want to break walls, blocks cuz burning hand doesnot work.


4. use Mind Blank(MB) as an essential party buff. a CL41+ mb is the real mb that can protect once from confuse/stun/daze.


5. use Elemental shield in tia, min, stygia(except the 3rd map) and nessus(except in the maze) mainly. other areas may result in party kb.


6. Eyebite is not to be spammed unless there's no cleric/bard doing prayer/wail of doom. but i still like some for some paragon, random spawns.


7. Mords are mainly mem'ed for raks' spell mantle. not like mord from scrolls, mord from casting saves 1 more action per round which buys time to grab raks.


8. Timestop i usually have 1 mem'ed for these situations:
1>. a swarm of para raks spawn which u need to buy urself time to mord their spell mantle and then grab.

2>. to unsummon ur own dominated monster.

3>. a nearly party wipe to buy urself time to res the whole party in a short time


9. Shadow shield is a spell that doesnot need CL to make the full effect so just from items like tia staff/shadow orb suffices.


10. Starfire not only does damage but it knocks down mobs too. it's especially useful on rakshasas cuz kding raks buys you more time to grab them.


11. Death of Magic is quite a powerful epic spell. making raks unable to cast non epic spells like mords, making icefiends unable to cast earthquakes and making sahuagins unable to cast implosions.

[jonuhey]

What spell is that in the first level?? besides endure, is it ray?
You dont memorize wail because you use CoD instead, right?
With so few clenched, what you do to kill PFs/Males/boss?? Energy drain and enervate, maybe enfeeble too untill party kills them??

I didnt know about shadow shield, thought it was better after CL 41 as most spells are.
I was wondering about specializing too, but reincarnating a wizard is so painful that I prefer being able to cast all spells now and still be able if a good conj/ench spell comes. And with the addition of lots of gear with greater spell focus, makes these spells usable using draughts.

Thx rain =)

[Rain]

The spell in the 1st lvl slot is ray of enfeeblement. i donot actually use it much in hell but it's still good to lower mob's stats and fort/reflex save when u successfully energy drained it. and it makes druid easier to land IoM too.

This spellbook is mainly what i will commonly use but not exactly what i use. i do mem lots of wail in layers like tia/min/phleg and have only 3-4 weirds mem'ed for randoms like raks/orthons/swarms.

I donot actually find me use bigby much unless it's in mala, cania and nessus where they're lots of pf/male. mostly in other layers i'd focus on insta kill or grab/stone first. even though i'd still prefer to use enveration more since the DC is pretty good with SSF:necro.

[Acaos]

Also rather than pasting screenshots of the entire spellbook, sometimes it's easier to do: !list spm

Acaos

[StrykerOfChaos]

Jun 19, 2009 17:52:54 GMT Acaos said:

Also rather than pasting screenshots of the entire spellbook, sometimes it's easier to do: !list spm

Acaos

Wow!!!!!!!!! That's awesome

[jonuhey]

Jun 19, 2009 17:52:54 GMT Acaos said:

Also rather than pasting screenshots of the entire spellbook, sometimes it's easier to do: !list spm

Acaos

And you tell me now???

I didnt know about this one, would've cut 10 minutes editing that image lol
Now Im even thinking about doing that for other areas besides hells and post here.

[buddhamind]

Thanks for the spellbook tips. I have a wiz that just got immo.

[jonuhey]

There are a few different things on the spelsl now, especially for damage purposes, but I'll try to update it later. This build will probably change abjuration for conjuration, but Im not sure yet on what to do.

[jonuhey]

This build is a bit out of date, I wouldnt consider playing it if you are trying to play in abyss or harder runs.