Wizard Feedback
So I burned through my 50 bulbs, then got the 80s Action Hero challenges done and a few bulbs while doing so, and yes burned through some rainbow stars to unlock the wizard by barreling through the g...
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Also, while I haven't PvPed yet, if you see a wizard wind up his staff and slam it on the ground, that's the sign he's casting spell disaster. It is accompanied by a large purple AoE on the ground around him too, this AoE also exists when he's a co-star and has no staff to slam so watch for it! Once the orbs are released, you can avoid them as even when they have the homing bonus for co-star they are pretty slow, but if you get out of that AoE before the orbs are released, it gives you an even better change of evading damage.
@Iron_Guard8 I'm nowhere near obtaining Wizard, but ran into several last night in both Turf & Ops.
I'm reserving judgement for now but first impressions of being in opposition to them were that the slow moving orbs were easy to evade by all except the completely oblivious who wouldn't notice a Mech standing next to them 😂
It was hard to gauge the power of the other abilities as there was so much going on (especially in a game I had with multiple wizards) but the ability to jump rapidly from one character to another made it almost impossible to kill a wizard in co-star mode from what I could see.
I witnessed a string of changes from Imp, to Scientist to Parrot, for example.
I also "received" the Wizard as well, but again found it difficult to assess what they were doing & what help it was to me & my character. I think time will tell, but fun while he might be to play, atm I'm still on the nervous side regarding PvP balance.
I'm reserving judgement for now but first impressions of being in opposition to them were that the slow moving orbs were easy to evade by all except the completely oblivious who wouldn't notice a Mech standing next to them 😂
It was hard to gauge the power of the other abilities as there was so much going on (especially in a game I had with multiple wizards) but the ability to jump rapidly from one character to another made it almost impossible to kill a wizard in co-star mode from what I could see.
I witnessed a string of changes from Imp, to Scientist to Parrot, for example.
I also "received" the Wizard as well, but again found it difficult to assess what they were doing & what help it was to me & my character. I think time will tell, but fun while he might be to play, atm I'm still on the nervous side regarding PvP balance.
@ToastedSarnie the orbs are indeed pretty easy to avoid, I saw some weeds avoid them at times. There is an upgrade where you do a point blank AoE at your feet when you cast it in addition to the bulbs, but I'm not sure how much damage it does as I don't have it yet. I still think this is the ability most people will complain about as it's 80 damage per orb and the one upgrade where it makes players unrevivable is linked to vanquishing them with this ability.
I rode a parrot in Ops once but the Pirate was flying it erratically so I jumped off. It was weird being a cos-tar on a Doctor Heals.
It was fun seeing teammates being confused by this, "OMG! There's something on my head!" 🥳
- @Iron_Guard8 Pretty much how I felt!
Along with, "Thanks mate, the plants were ignoring me until you jumped on board!!!" 🤣Before I forget, I wanted to say with great relief that we did not get wizard challenges this month, it's 80s action hero, Sceintist, Citron, and Peashooter. I'm glad we don't have challenges for the new character yet as that would have really bad optics.
Also, the wizard's reload animation is great. He takes the bowling ball (and if you look closely, the sphere in his staff is indeed a bowling ball) out of the staff with his left hand and shakes it before putting it back in the staff. Nice touch! I can see one of the skins or emotes having it act like those old 'magic 8 balls' where you shook it to read the floating piece with the fortunes on it in future.
