HI i have a lvl 50 death wizard and throughout wizard 101 i have realized that the spell weakness is overused by monsters. Weakness is a spell that puts minus 25% to your next damage spell and ALMOST EVERY SINGLE MONSTER IN THE GAME uses weakness. It is usually the FIRST spell they use and it costs ZERO pips. Sometimes they will use it OVER AND OVER. Once they put FOUR weaknesses on me back to back! Now it is fine that balance wizards can use it but i think that ONLY balance monsters should be able to use it. It is byfar the most annoying spell that monsters use and it ruins the game. I would like to know if others think the same, thanks,
It is definately abused. But, since it is a spell found on the learnable spell list from the balance teacher(s), they do realistically have a chance to legitimately have it.
However, the fact that every single monster out there is using it (once you're out of WC), and seems to cast it on you within the first 2 rounds (and subsequently afterwards when their pips are low) is clear proof that, regardless of what the moderators here try to tell us, they do not work off of a deck in the same manner that we do.
I feel that Weakness needs to be removed from the regular monsters, and a limit placed on the Elites and Bosses ranked monsters.
It is very annoying, yes, also the elf abuse needs to stop. If I had a choice to change Weakness or the Elves. My vote would go to Weakness, Hands down. All wizards should have a a spell to dispell things like Weakness, and any Elf, by the cost of Pips to use.
Yeah, Weakness is annoying and that's coming from a Balance Wizard! Whenever that happens I just use the Balance Blade spell so my next attack will be normal power, but you're a Necromancer so I don't know what to tell ya :(
I disagree with you. As frustrating as weakness can be, it makes you think. You have to change your strategy. This makes the game more interesting.
Plus all monsters don't cast it.
Outside of WC almost every mob and boss fight uses weakness. They not only use it, they SPAM it constantly. It doesnt make me think, it irritates and annoys me when ALL mosters open thier attack with Weakness and are not Balance. I have more weakness cast on me by every other school than the school it actually belongs too.
What change to strategy??? If I go second my opening move most times is a wand/sword attack to remove the weakness I know is coming. I would say it work 50% of the time and allows me to save my blades (Balance School). There is nothing strategic about spamming one spell over and over again. Hmmm, we call Storm wizards using Wild Bolt every round Bolters, what should we call all the Monsters Spamming weakness?
It has made me make 1 simple change with my parnter, she is Myth, guess what spell she throws as early as possible to stop the Weakness Spamming? That's right, Blinding Light. If you stun the stinking weak spamming monsters for a round you can get clean shots the next and kill them all. Thanks for the weakness spamming without it I wouldnt have thought of this tactic (For Fire its Choke, Myth can at leasat Earthquake later to Stun again).
I suppose the tens of thousands of damage a character can do makes no nevermind to the complainers eh? If a character can learn a secondary school spell, then there is no reason an enemy cannot
