new wizard questions sword/shield or runestaff ?

[compmenacer]

I have gotten to level 9 using the warmage build but my 30 days is up so I needed to re adjust my skills since I only have about a day remaing. I have a decent amount of wands saved up but I was wondering if I should 1x ohe/shield till level 25 or so and then fix skill it out later. Not sure how hard it would be to solo hunt with a runestaff build with wands. My str is high enough to swing with haste I think. Here is what he looks like now. I would of gotten to a higher level but don't have a smuch time as I used to.

Vrazik (at level 9), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 20 4
Physical Fitness...................| 50 10
Arcane Symbols.....................| 50 10
Magic Item Use.....................| 50 10
Spell Aiming.......................| 90 20
Harness Power......................| 50 10
Elemental Mana Control.............| 50 10
Elemental Lore - Fire..............| 45 9
Perception.........................| 50 10
Climbing...........................| 10 2
Swimming...........................| 10 2

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 8

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 8

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 4
Training Points: 240 Phy 13 Mnt

Any advice would be appreciated on any of my training.

[Jymamon]

INot sure how hard it would be to solo hunt with a runestaff build with wands.

It isn't necessarily hard, but it is mind numbingly tedious. I solo'ed as a runestaff user from level 0 (without wands, even, as I hate them to this day), but you're going to be spending a LOT of time in fire phantoms and guardians. Those'll get you through 16 (18 if you don't mind underhunting a bit for those 2 extra levels).

After there, your options start opening up quite a bit. Vereri aren't bad, several varieties of trolls are feasible, large ogres, etc. Post-20, it just keeps opening up more. (I think I hit my next slump somewhere in the high 40's - then I discovered slushes which melt oh-so-well with fire spells.)

Of course, that all assumes you're hunting the Landing area. For EN, I have no low level wizard experience and don't know how feasible it is.

All that said, I'm not sure I'd do the same again if I started over. From level 2 - around 16, I seldom saw anything outside of the volcano. (With bounties now, it's probably not quite so bad.) Warmaging up through those levels will certainly give you more variety.

[Jayvn]

lore is pretty pointless that young... there's some tp's for you
I capped shield/open hand, shields don't get disarmed.
if you're going haste/ohe don't worry with spell aim
if you're going twig you should be able to easily triple in spells
you have to figure out what won't bore you to death, hacking at something, or bolting it... wizards = ezmode

[compmenacer]

Thanks for help I think I will just single in ohe/shield till about 25 or 30 then fixskills to pure. I want to go pure but I know it will drive me crazy to have to rely on wands since I wont't be able to hunt on my own mana for a while. thanks for the info about dropping the lores when should I start adding that in to my training? I wanted to go the immo route. When you say shield/open hand you mean you just trained shield no ohe or brawling ?