Mage Rants/Flames

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So, I am an experienced MMO'er and probably twice the age of the average Fiesta'er. I have several complaints about the class and wanted to know how you guys feel.

Rants:

1) There is no way to "skill" your mage in this game. Apparently you attack something and cast as much shit as you can on it before it gets to you. Once it gets to you, you just eat the damage and spam spells.

2) Spell spam. There is no better way. Rank 1 AM is the spell you'll be using 80% of the time, most of the time. I have tried all different "specs" and there seems to be no other viable spec for mage at my level.

3) Aggro. No way to tell when you're about to get agro from a mob. Could be poor tanking or over casting, cant tell, cant avoid.

1) You can also try kiting. a.L said that once you get a higher level lightning bolt, you can work out a combo of skills to use, and during that combo, you can run + cast lightning at the same time, then finish off with a higher MM at the end or something.

You can kill things without being hit, just gotta work out a good combo I guess. I personally don't kite because I'm too lazy to, but I think kiting will save a lot of pot and stone money.

2) What koager said.

3) Yeap, dealing a large amount of damage will easy take aggro if the mob was not kicked/mocked properly by the fighter. Clerics face the same problem - if they heal too much, they also take aggro (bloody smart mobs!). You kind of get used to it later, and you will eventually know how to "limit" your damage to just enough.

Though for me, taking aggro usually happens when I AoE too much and not all the mobs were mocked properly. If you were just hitting one mob and you still took aggro from the fighter (and you guys are only attacking that ONE mob), then I'd say that fighter needs to kick more! It should be no problem to keep aggro of one mob. But if you guys were attacking more than one mob, I'd say go for the mob that the fighter is fighting to be safe.