EverQuest 72-Boxing: Are Wizards the BEST DPS class in Classic? Let's See

Hey guys, here's a video of my 72-box team's parse over the past week. As we can see, the 7 wizards are doing 32% of all the damage, making them the top DPS by far.
However, there are specific situations where a Wizard is not ideal at all.
Check out the video to learn about why wizards, my favorite DPS class, are amazing in Classic, except for a few situations.
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[@richardwallis9374]

Yea it’s always been that way if you are including trash. In guilds tho trash doesn’t really count for much. Before the raid window I do remember the KS group in the raid usually at least 3 wiz and the exp was great.
If I remember wiz dropped off the in pop. Kunark gave lures, Velious had dragons/giantsbane, and so many meele didn’t have bane weapons in luclin. My experience may not be universal.

[@jonhawken9364]

Interesting about the wizards. In classic I started as druid and switched to warrior/ shaman 2-box just before kunark. Druid became the pwr leveler and port box, sometimes just needed backup heals and snare. Tried enchanter to lvl 60 but only for clarity, haste, and mez. I do not remember if parsing DPS was available back in the day.

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

Wizards have little to no defense, making them tough as solo characters. No heals, no debuffs (outside of snare), and no pet to take damage. But in a group, wizards are amazing, at least in earlier expansions. They start to fall off in PoP, as another person commented

[@timothygrediagin6497]

I was a raider on alkabor. Wizards outdpsed melee on most fights. Yeah fights get higher hp, but wizards do more damage per nuke.

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the average boss has less HP in PoP than in Vex Thal, up until late PoTime. VT bosses are notorious for really high HP, and in PoP not only do many mobs have less HP, but wizards get stronger nukes and more AAs to increase DPS

[@joetee5105]

With clarity i assume I have a 60 wiz on p99 and I'm always oom 😂

[@badgaf21]

You may have answered this question in the past, I apologize if that is the case, but I just now found your videos. However, what kinda of rig do you use to run 72 boxes on? Are you using server hardware with a CPU that has several cores and a lot of RAM?

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

My CPU has 24 cores, I use 64 GB of RAM, and I run off an M.2 SSD. I'm assuming most Alienware PCs with 64 GB of RAM can do 72 characters but don't quote me.

[@GES1985]

You should see *just* how fast you can burn old bosses with a raid using as many wizards as possible

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

Like 72 wizards? LOL that would be hilarious. I gotta think about that

[@GES1985]

@EverQuestBoxRaids lol.. assuming you don't need any tank/heal/Buffs, sure. Lol.

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

@@GES1985 72 wizards at level 60 would theoretically do about 2000 damage each every 7-8 seconds, with 1-3 wizards dying each interval. The first interval would do upward of 144k with decreasing damage every interval. I'm definitely going to look into this one weekend

[@GES1985]

@@DaveOfDavelandGaming I eagerly await that video series, where you basically run around norrath like Kerafyrm and destroy everything/everyone in your path

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

There is an AOE routine in e3.... what would happen if I had 72 wizards AOEing a swarm of raid mobs? I think I would crash the server honestly but it might be fun lol

[@Kipmaslonka9]

How much higher do would a rogue do with a pretty good weapon though?

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

Poisons in PoK were taken out of the Emulator at some point. Prior to this happening, if you put those poisons on your rogues, the rogues would be up there, if not beating, wizards at almost every level. It was pretty broken. Right now, rogues are strong in longer fights where wizard mana begins to run out.

[@Avengent]

I played a Wizard at the start of one of the TLPs and they're terrible in classic on Boss Fights. Many people don't like them in group because you end up only being able to cast once per mob. I loved being able to port around, but they are bad in classic and especially in the Planes.

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

It's strange that you had that experience because I was often top DPS or near top when I played a wizard from Classic through Luclin on a TLP. There are specific bosses where we are terrible, but the average boss we usually excel. Against trash, casting one spell is okay when there's a big raid because you're one spell will deal upward of 800+ damage, which is a lot more than a typical melee will do when 40+ people are beating on trash.

[@Avengent]

@@DaveOfDavelandGaming To be fair I had no idea what I was doing at the beginning. Later in Luclin my dps became much better but it's very hard to mitigate threat.

[@DaveOfDavelandGaming]

@@Avengent I had a combo that was something like Big nuke, 2-3 clicky concussions, small nuke x 3, 2-3 clicky concussions, repeat. When mob falls below 10%, spam big nukes. This worked well in Vex Thal where bosses have extremely high HP.