Yosei's Guide to All Things Mage-like - Page 2

**MikeyG** · 01-16-2008, 08:26 PM

So by not including lightening bolt in
the guide are u saying its pointless lol? o.0

**Yosei** · 01-16-2008, 08:27 PM

Well, to me it is =/

xMIROx · 01-11-2008, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by Yosei

I personally recommend the party mage build( 25 SPR, rest into INT(Party/KQ mage). Its an MMO, why would you want to solo most of the time?

Empowerments
Magic Missile- cooldown
Firebolt- cooldown and/or SP decrease
Magic Burst- SP decrease/(and) cooldown(if you aoe a lot)
Magic Blast- SP decrease
Nova Frost- SP decrease
Inferno- SP decrease

Weapons[/U]
If you want more Damage, use a wand, if you want more crits and AIM, use a staff. You get to choose between the two when level 20+

So ...you said you recommend party build that you said it has 25SPR..if you have 25 SPR you crit almost all time..i got 15 and i don't stop from criticals.

I don't agree with most of the Empowerments..
I won't comment on Inferno because I don't hv it.But, from my opinion and many other of my mages friends Frost Nova doesn't need empower...it's pretty fast if you use MagicBlast and Burst after each use of Frost Nova.

FireBolt and Magic Blast need dmg empower..why use cooldown when their cooldown is so low you can use it after each skill you do...and i used last lvl of FireBolt now I use FireBall with also dmg empower and i always hit 1000+dmg and i'm happy with it:P

**Yosei** · 01-11-2008, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by xMIROx

So ...you said you recommend party build that you said it has 25SPR..if you have 25 SPR you crit almost all time..i got 15 and i don't stop from criticals.

I don't agree with most of the Empowerments..
I won't comment on Inferno because I don't hv it.But, from my opinion and many other of my mages friends Frost Nova doesn't need empower...it's pretty fast if you use MagicBlast and Burst after each use of Frost Nova.

FireBolt and Magic Blast need dmg empower..why use cooldown when their cooldown is so low you can use it after each skill you do...and i used last lvl of FireBolt now I use FireBall with also dmg empower and i always hit 1000+dmg and i'm happy with it:P

I think its a good idea to empower Sp decrease if you're going to be using it as a regular skill. It seems like in our 60s, most of our grinding is AOEing, so you're going to be using it a lot. So why not empower is with Sp decrease? Goes from 214 Sp consumption to 107.
Again, my build is based off of saving sp and time.
I don't use fireball and the lightning skills, because they have a slow cooldown, and they take up more sp.
And I didn't say to use cooldown on Magic blast, I said Sp decrease. Empowering both cooldown and sp decrease on burst will help mages who don't have Nova Frost and/or Inferno.
With my build I am going INT, and most mages will, so we naturally do a lot of damage, so why try to do more damage in a slower hit when you can still do a lot of damage, and be able to hit more, and save sp.

**a.L** · 01-12-2008, 12:01 AM

I think some people are forgetting that they don't have to follow the guide like a bible, and do exactly what it says. Things can be adjusted depending on playing style.

**Yosei** · 01-12-2008, 12:04 AM

Yup <.<
I just decided to make it incase people were lost and didn't know which to do. I am not a mage thats like "*twitch* must... have... more...DAMAGE!" I would much rather have my skills same me sp and money and still do a good amount of damage.
People still consider me a great mage, so whether people agree with me or not, its not the wrong way to go. Nor am I saying its the right.

islenska · 01-13-2008, 06:19 AM

thanks for sharing your ideas on empowerment. i do see why she goes on sp saving cos it'll really save us more money in a long term...to invest in better weapons? ^^ which i think is good!

**Spirit** · 01-13-2008, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by wackyboi

I think some people are forgetting that they don't have to follow the guide like a bible, and do exactly what it says. Things can be adjusted depending on playing style.

So true. My build is almost identical to Yosei's, yet I do not care about SP consumption, so none of my skill empowerments have been to SP anything. I put them all in cooldown or power increase. It just depends on your playing style.

Ethelinde · 01-14-2008, 01:33 PM

I thought of the SP investment as a rather bad choice due to the availability of life tap (mages solo'ing at higher levels just won't work well enough). You either duo with a cleric (tap/rest after the mob dies) or the tank take hits in AoE grinding, so health is generally not a concern associated with using LT. Aside from Burst/Fire other skills atm are rather useless any higher than l1, so the consumption are low as well (until you hit 49-70). P.s. so far I've been able to tap and kill nonstop duoing with a cleric. If the cleric is stingy simply throw a few silvers to cover for his/her stones (50 stones will last about 4-6 hours for my case) =)

**Spirit** · 01-14-2008, 07:28 PM

And that is fine if that is your playing style (I have nothing against it). Everyone has there own way of preferring to play. I just tend to party with the same people all the time and they are almost always all members of my guild, and I prefer to let the clerics tend to the tanks. Which we always have one, simply becuse they are our friends and fellow guild members.
I may view it differently if I partied with randoms, however, I really don't think I would. Life Tap to me is just not a skill I prefer to use. Not to mention, the cleric I am normally partied with is Loki (my mother).