honestly I don't have many adept 1 spells.. I have been fortunate enough to find the adept 1 summon, Seism Adept 1.. and bludegoning earth Adept 1, storm of lightning Adept 1... everything else is at app III.. so I don't use nukes often..
I mainly use dots typically I have 2 on the mob at any given time as my pet tanks...
following up with an HO and hoping I get Arcane storm instead of arcane fury so I can use my more powerful finisher... regardless by this point the mob is severly beaten down by my pet and DOTS so even with an Arcane Fury finisher I can bring it down swiftly.
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Well, I can solo some green ^^s IF root holds. IF. I mean, a green ^^ on me shreds me pretty fast. And I only DoT if I'm using this tactic (root-dotting). DDs break root too fast.
yeppers that's very true.. for a summoner or conjuror ^^ greens are cake.. thanks to pet tanking (if your pet is Adept+).. for other mages.. welcome to the pain. Perhaps if you had two different root spells to alternate between it might help.. unless they're linked on the same timer.. dunno.
I'm still working on an effective solo tactic for non-pet mages.. but my only mage duo's mainly soooooooo I don't have many opportunities to examine possibilities.