RT Mage/Wiz Skill Balance Consequences?

Hey I'm leveling up a wizard right now and haven't played this game in a long time so I have lots of questions to get up to speed. I'm shooting for WoE/PvP build.

 

From the looks of the skill changes, AoEs now have longer cooldowns, so you can't cast it again right after the initial cast? Does that make Meteor Storm suboptimal now? What about Storm Gust and LoV. I also saw that 

 

If someone could give me the low-down on how delays works that would be awesome. There was a time long ago where instancast was possible, is this no longer the case?

 

 

Other random questions:

For PvP, what levels do you recommend for quag, ice wall, heavens drive? Also is sight useful still? I have it, and i see sightthrasher exists but that's never a skill I really utilized in the past.

Can't speak for other skills or builds but yes sight is still useful in PvP/woe. And no instacast is no longer possible. You can't spam SG/Ms/lov but you can alternate them. You can. SG then lov then SG lov and so on. Hope that helps in any way possible.

So that makes SG and LOV preferable to SG and MS pairing?

that's personal preference and depends on wich content you do the most.

SG+MS you can get multiple SG hits if the meteor keeps breaking monsters free.

SG+LoV you get a very stong wind aoe nuke against strong monsters.

Is it still possible to get multiple hits given the slower cast times? Also is there a test server or an updated place I can consult for the stat changes that came with renewal? I want to know more about combos, cast times and the other delays

general renewal info you can just check the wiki and forums about it

changes on the recent rebalance you can find in the "Sakray Test Compilation" thread in the Community Chat main area of the forums

Edited by Ashuckel, 26 May 2020 - 11:54 AM.

Understood. To be clear RT has all the renewal changes for things like stats, and then it has the recent rebalance on top of it? I'm hearing mixed info and googling for info has been more challenging given Terms of Service, Ro2 results. Is 99 dex less of a priority now that there is a fixed cast time? Does 150 dex still kill off the variable cast time at least?

It works completely under renewal mechanics. "classic"/pre renewal servers are not a thing anymore.