I'd agree that in patch 15 the wizard seems to have some lacking single point damage when compared to other classes. I'd also be willing to admit that based on the numbers we see now (for higher level skills) that the wizard looks a little lack-luster further down the road. All that being said, It's probable that the internal build that blizzard uses has already addressed this concern (if even necessary - I'll explain what I mean in a minute). What we see "on paper" is usually easier to "feel out" in actual testing - and blizzard has a whole crew of people working on just that...
All the numbers aside, there's a lot of things to consider other than just raw dps.. mobility, survivability, benefits of ranged vs. melee during encounters, resource spending and regeneration, the ability to lay down multiple skills at once....
Meteor for instance is something you can cast in conjunction with another skill since it has a delay (delays aren't always a bad thing) and a dot.. add the damage from meteor to any of the signature spells and suddenly it's not so terrible...
I'm not saying there's no tuning that needs to happen, I'm just saying there's a lot of factors that are harder to quantify - especially when you can really only test a very limited portion of the game...
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All the numbers aside, there's a lot of things to consider other than just raw dps.. mobility, survivability, benefits of ranged vs. melee during encounters, resource spending and regeneration, the ability to lay down multiple skills at once....
Meteor for instance is something you can cast in conjunction with another skill since it has a delay (delays aren't always a bad thing) and a dot.. add the damage from meteor to any of the signature spells and suddenly it's not so terrible...
I'm not saying there's no tuning that needs to happen, I'm just saying there's a lot of factors that are harder to quantify - especially when you can really only test a very limited portion of the game...
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