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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4669887" data-attributes="member: 834">Okay, take all of this with a grain of salt;Fo one thing you shouldn't be pumping charisma.  The only thing it does for you is increase your diplomacy and your Infernal Wrath.  And last Day, I don't think you used your Infernal wrath once!  Beside probably simply forgetting it, in many fights, due to your style of play, you didn't get hit once which prevented you from triggering the power anyway...You could pump WIS ; You use an Orb implement after all!  You could also increase your WIS and reduce your CON.  You ended up day 1 with 6 surges!  You obviously don't get as much out of high CON as the other PCs.Or you could pump CON since the blood mage paragon path makes use of it.  If you choose CON, you should also take me on my offer to rebuild your PC and take the staff implement instead, since it uses CON.  But that would also involve changing your style of play (That kind of wizard gets in the face of his opponent, gets hit a lot and selects many close burst / close blast powers + defensive utilty powers .I must say, similar to the comment I made about Garrick, Mirage has a conflicting identity; He behaves like a control wizard but has stats and paragon path like a war wizard...War wizard elements : High Con, Blood Mage PP, spent a feat on Leather armor (which is fairly useless when your AC is targeted as rarely as it was in Day 1)Control Wizard elements : Uses the Orb, has almost no close blast or burst except those from the paragon path, focusing instead on ranged attack, especially attacks that restrict movemenst and impede the enemy.So, before giving sound advice, I'd need to know which of these wizard Mirage really is!  Unless you drastically change your tactics from Day 1, I say you are more the second type, in which case I'd start by recommanding lowering CON in favor of WIS, pumping WIS instead of CHA, swapping leather armor for something more useful if you stay out of melee and choose another paragon path for starter (Spell Storm is probably the best suited to the style you have demonstrated so far) .If you stick with blood mage, I'd pump CON, take the staff implement, probably pick a defensive staff +3, swap a few powers for close blast and close burst, (preferably fire powers such as Burning hand and Fire Shroud to take advantage of Hellfire blood), learn shield and other defensive utilities useful in melee and then get in the mindset of fighting side by side with the defenders.  Oh, and remember infernal wrath, you'll get a lot of chances to use it.IMO.</blockquote>

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