Difficulty Playing an Arcane Caster

[AirbornedChild]

Warforged. Fleshies can't compete until they have accumulated sufficient levels, gear, and/or both.

Only Warforged are born OF and FOR arcane power.

Disagree. Read lore, man. WF are fighters, not arcanes.

[Thurbus]

The other day I was at Sorrowdusk, fighting ogres and trolls, we were a 4 player party: me (elf sorcerer), a WF monk, a human fav soul and a human ranger with a rogue splash. That said, we went in for one of the chain quests, where we must fight our way to the end boss with lots of trolls and ogres surrounding him. Well, the WF monk and the healer died fast in the trap they couldn't avoid. I got behind the trap, my elf sorc had less HP than everybody else in the party. The rogue couldn't disable the trap, too high DC for her in elite, so I went on one step at a time between the force waves. We carried on ahead, killing everything on the way. Yes I was doing massive damage but I had to stay back and drink health pots a few times. We were not above quest level limit, so care was the word. At the end fight, ogres popping from all over the place, got me pinned down, but as the ranger got their attention, I managed to stabilize with -5 HP or so, after what I filled myself with ennough health pots to get decent HP. Then more slaying and shocking them all over with force and electricity spells. Diehard feat is a must for a caster.

I enjoyed your story, msdesign! Sounds like the kinda tale we adventurers like to trade down at the Wayward Lobster.

2. People tend to rely only of technical information and data, pure numbers, to achieve "THE best toon ever". I don't care about that, simple. I play for fun. I want to play with a toon that pleases my eye. I want to try some things that are given to me, I want to choose them, I don't need the others to customize my own toon. They make theirs, I make mine. The key is not in the character abilities, but in the player ones.

My playstyle's much like yours. I like coming up with cool names and back stories for my characters. I still like to kick butt though, which is why all of this arcane caster advice has been so helpful!

[Thaxlsillyia]

playing a caster is a bit hard in the initial levels, except may be for tincan casters who get 2 ways to keep them selves up, pots and spells.
for fleshie wiz who go necro lvl 6 is a breaking point with self healing from aura. till then try to hold back, throw a few webs, charm a few if you are zerging through to the end and let the barbarian yap on and on and on.... well you get the picture

die hard might be a tad useful at lvl 1-5 where mobs tend to get you below 0 but almost never hit hard enough to kill you outright. beyond that its just a wasted feat