Bright Wizard Guide for Noobz

Post BY Dack The Hork
Anyway I have played a bright Wizard from Rank 1-24, and 31-34, I am an ex-Guildwars top guild PvPer and basically usually only play competitive games (I hate wow and never played it past 20).

Here is a shot of my damage score:
I usually finish first in damage, sometimes not but w.e. Also I have extensively ganked/dueled/scenario fought with a bright wizard. Mainly immolation spec.

Instead of going over everything in detail which would bore You I will start with the basics:

Dac The Hork's Guide to not sucking with Bright Wizard

First things first, you are squishy, you will need some heals with combustion mechanic or you will get fustrated,

immolation spec is the best spec for most cases. Incinerate is a far second to the power of Immolation, and AOE is situationally better in some cases like keeps (but you will have about the same power with rain of fire etc at 100 combust so don't sweat it.

Now then your utility tools will be:

A rank 2 Morale that stuns 30 foot PBAOE for 5 seconds <---- owns/demolishes/makes all Melee cry
Firecage: a PBAOE root that breaks when enemy is damaged, great in some cases
Smoke Screen: Your target does HALF damage to you,
Shield of Aqshy: Increases your armor a lot and reduces setback
Withering Heat: High level immolate skill that snares target 40% (they move slowerr) and delivers a lot of damage at high combust, possibly 4800 damage in 7 seconds, enough to kill some people outright.
Stop Drop and Roll: Knockdown 3 seconds with decent instant damage (500ish at high combust) comboes with ignite
Playing with Fire: Target recieves half the benefit from healing, and all healers who heal him take X damage (up to 500 with 100 combust zomgz IMBA)

So you have a crapload of utility you see. You should have a weapon for every situation and really are a juggernaut of Overpoweredness with the current combustion mechanic. If you want you can also AOE with Rain of Fire at 100 combust and hit for 900 every tick on up to 9 targets. Again there is no reason you should not dominate any scenario you enter.

Now let me get into how to play:

First things first learn to kite and cast. This is the most important skill you can learn, and it requires you not to be a noob clicker (you aren't a noob clicker right, and if you are this game you are gonna use hotkeys right?!).

Okay so you have mr marauder running at you, you obviously run BEFORE he gets to you because you understand that marauder running at you = marauder killing you in the near future if you don't. Now then, while you are running you can cast all your instants on him and ruin his day. This means you quickly whirly your face, get him in your cone of fire, cast, and keep running (easy and can be done VERY quickly). This allows you to continue running and casting at the SAME time gee wiz.

During this kiting and casting you can cast ignite, boiling blood, detonate, stop drop and roll, playing with fire, shield of aqshy, firecage, and smoke screen. AKA you still have a large portion of your arsenal besides withering heat. This means for all intents and purposes you should NEVER EVER let melee get close easily.

lets see it takes 6 seconds for them to reach you, you run away obviously now that time for them to catch you goes way up say to 30 seconds. Now you firecage them, knock them down, etc etc etc. You have escape mechanisms you just have to be smart and quick enough to use them.

Basically all you have to learn with BW is positioning! the key most element that good players understand. You have to keep awareness of where you are and kite/cast effectively while maximizing DPS.

A common Skill rotation for me:

Ignite-Detonate-Boiling Blood-PLaying with Fire-Withering heat

at 100 combust this will do ridiculous damage, with a high chance to do more burst with lucky crits. Basically at the end of rotation your target will be dead in most cases.

If the enemy is close such as a Witch elf who unstealths on you:

Ignite-Stop Drop and roll-ignite -> continue with DPS run, if target gets back on you shield/smoke up.

It pains me everytime I see the clickers sitting on the hill casting fireball (one of the overall worst skills in the game), while a marauder charges up to them (they don't run before he gets there), they die and then complain.

Basically the reason BW is overpowered now is because so many people are bad at playing it, get good and you shall own and dominate like no other.