Dark Wizard guide

The Dark Wizard gives you a taste of both of your Level 40 class choices: Spellhowler, the highly offensive caster, and Phantom Summoner, the powerful shadow summoner. Try out both kinds of magic (offense and summon) and decide what you want to be. Remember though, summoning gets much easier after Level 40. (No six-hour wait between summons!)

You get 2 types of summons: Shadow and Silhouette. The Shadow takes only 30% of the EXP gained when hunting with it, but costs more crystals. The Silhouette takes 90% of the EXP gained when hunting with it, but costs many fewer crystals. Consider using the Shadow for hunting and the Silhouette for any PvP or boss raids.

Your primary element is wind (though you do get other elemental spells as well), so try to find floating or earth creatures to hunt, as you get a bonus against them.

Aura Burn is the 'melee magic' skill; it is fast to cast and does a lot of damage, but you must be up close to your target.

Flame Strike and Poison Cloud are particularly useful spells. A lot of Wizards get through the mid-levels by herding. You "herd" by hitting a bunch of slow monsters once, then running in circles around them to group them together. Once the monsters are together, you hit them with an AoE (area of effect) spell, such as Flame Strike or Poison Cloud. In this fashion, you can kill ten monsters at once!

Think of Body to Mind as a reverse heal. It takes from your HP and gives to your MP.

If you find yourself being chased by too many monsters, use Sleep to make them inactive for 30 seconds. Note that Sleep is broken for a monster the moment it's hit.

As a Wizard, you get no more healing … but you do get spells that make up for it.

Corpse Life Drain is one of these. Like Vampiric Touch, Corpse Life Drain takes HP from a monster and gives it to you. Unlike Vampiric Touch, Corpse Life Drain only works on a dead monster, not a live one.

Not only can you use your Servitor heals and buffs on your summoned pets, but you can use them on "natural" pets (wolves and dragon hatchlings) too. This makes Wizards and Summoners the most effective pet users.

Of all the Mystics and Wizards, the Dark Wizard is the highest damage dealer — the dagger user of Mystics, if you will. Still, like the highest damage dealers of the Fighter class and like any Mystic, you are not a tank and do not take hits very well. Either find slow monsters and use the herding technique, or get into a group with a Fighter or two.