Mage Basic Guide [Archive] - Outspark Forums

nanasi

07-19-2007, 08:14 PM

This is a guide I originally posted at?fiestafan (http://www.fiestafan.com/) wiki (http://www.fiestafan.com/wiki/).

But not all people registered fiestafan.

So, I have decided to post this
version of the guide here but any further updates will be on the
fieastafan wiki.

Introduction

So you have chosen to become a Mage. The Mage is weak of body, but
incredibly powerful in the arcane. The advantage of the Mage is the
ability to strike down the enemy before they can reach him.

In addition, mages are always casting spells.
It's most busy class to press your keyboard.

Skills

(Colors mean:Advantage, Disadvantage)

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Magic_missle_01.png Magic missle

Shot a magical missle. It has medium attack power, short cooldown and low SP consumption(at lvl1).

Spamming level 1 is good for total damage and SP consumption.
Using max level and hit and away is good for avoiding risk of damage(if you are solo).

-Recommended empower: Cooldown, Attack power(if you use at max level)

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Ice_bolt_01.png Ice bolt

Shot a ice bolt. It can maybe slow target but low attack power and long cooldown.

Effect of slow down enemy is useful for kiting.

-Recommended empower: Nothing

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Fire_bolt_01.png Fire bolt

Shot a fire bolt. It has high attack power but long cooldown.

When empowering attack power, the effect is proportional to base attack power.
So, empowering attack power of fire bolt is very useful.

-Strongly recommended empower: Attack power(5)

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Lightning_bolt_01.png Lightning bolt

Shot a lightning bolt. It can maybe cause additional damage(show by red text) but long cooldown.

The additional damage frequency increases to two times when duration
time is empowered(I empowered duration time +5, but additional damage
frequency not increased to three times).

-Recommended empower: Duration time(2)

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Magic_burst_01.png Magic burst

Cause magical burst around yourself. It's AoE(Area of Effect) and short cooldown but low attack power and high SP consumption.

If you are solo, it's useless because you use the HP stones very fast. But you usually cast this spell in a party. Decrease SP consumption of magic burst is useful.

-Recommended empower: Cooldown, Decrease SP consumption

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Magic_blast_01.png Magic blast

More powerful spell of magic missle. But it has casting time.

Magic blast[01] is stronger than Magic missle[08], but weaker than fire bolt[08].

However this skill has short cooldown(only 4sec). It's useful.

-Recommended empower: Attack power

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Ice_blast_01.png Ice blast

More powerful spell of ice bolt. But it has casting time.

-Recommended empower: Nothing

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Fire_ball_01.png Fire ball

More powerful spell of fire bolt. But it has casting time.

-Recommended empower: Attack power(5)

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Chain_lightning_01.png Chain lightning

More powerful spell of lightning bolt. But it has casting time.

-Recommended empower: Unknown

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Life_tap_01.png Life tap

Convert your HP into your SP but conversion efficiency is not good.

There is no reason used at solo, and I think you should not use this for saving cleric's SP even if you are in party.

-Recommended empower: Nothing

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Dispel_01.png Dispel

Remove 1 curse or debuff(bleed) effect from yourself or other player.

NOTE: Clerics can't cure these effects by spells.

-Recommended empower: Unknown

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Mana_burn_01.png Mana burn

Burn target's SP(only useful in PvP). It has long long cooldown.

NOTE: Even if all SP has burned, monsters can specially attack.

-Recommended empower: Unknown

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb230/koedame931/Purge_01.png Purge

Remove one buff from target. It has long long cooldown.

-Recommended empower: Unknown

Skill combo

Using skill in this section: Magic missle(M), Ice bolt(I), Fire bolt(F), Lightning bolt(L)

Basic combo:

M[max]->I[max]->L[max]->F[max]->M[max]

I think it's basic combo.
However, we usually can't defeat a enemy. We need to deal more damage.

7-hit combo:

M[1]->I[max]->M[1]->L[max]->M[1]->F[max]->M[1]

I think it's the advanced combo.
You can deal more damage than basic combo but need more time for cast 7 spells, and you will maybe get some damage from enemy.
It's risky but you can beat monsters faster. If you want to get more XP than money, it's recommended style.

Sheapy's combo(9-hit):

F[1]->M[1]->L[max]->M[1]->F[1]->I[max]->M[1]->Fire[1]->Missle[1]->

run around till Missle appears->Fire[1]->Repeat with other bolts


Sheapy posted: http://www.fiestafan.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6223&postcount=24

Please note certain between Fire bolt[1] and Fire bolt[max] a considerable difference in attack power.
(Especially, if you have high level of fire bolt or empowered attack power.)

And you need more time for cast 9 spells though damage is almost same as 7-hit. It's too long time for normal battle and you got more damage from monster.

So, I think my 7-hit combo is better when normal battle.

Hit and away(kiting)

If you want to save your HP instead of killing enemy faster, hit and away is also good.

For example:

I[max]->L[max]->F[max]->M[max]->run(*)->M[max]->run(*)->M[max]->...

*run away until your missle is readied. You can run away easily by clicking ground while you are casting.

However, you sometimes obtain aggro from monster that is behind you.

General FAQ

<ul>

Q.Should we put skill points into decrease SP consumption?

A.I think it's NOT necessary because you use the HP stones
faster than SP stones. However, if you use Magic burst in a party, I
think empower for decrease SP Consumption is also good.

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<ul>

Q.Should we put skill points to decrease cool down times for Ice(Fire, Lightning) bolt?

A.I think it's NOT necessary because it's enough that you use
those bolts once in each fight(I think also skill point is insufficient
for empowering as many as three bolts).

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<ul>

Q.I'm pooooooooor!!!11!1

A.At least, you should use max level weapon that you can
equip.(refine is taboo if you can't buy another weapon if broken). Please defeat a low
lvl(green named) enemy who can knock it down by receiving damage only a
little.

BTW, I'm poor too, you can give me some money? j/k lol
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EDIT: The color is changed from blue to green for legible.

EDIT: Add guide of skill combo and FAQ.

EDIT: Add guide of hit and away.

JimJimster

07-19-2007, 09:02 PM

nice guide, i hadnt notice the author name so i expected*a guide of the first 4 spells

then i saw sig and i was lik&quot; oh crap nvm&quot;

ya very nice.

if i were u i would post good combos(7hit combo, u no)

Keenan

07-19-2007, 09:05 PM

yeh i wanna know what this 7hit combo is all about.

JimJimster

07-19-2007, 09:20 PM

*u need: lvl 1 magic missle, highest ice,lightning, and highest lvl fire

1-magic missle

2-ice

3-lightning

4-fire

1-2-1-3-1-4-1 etc

very fast damage and constant hits

nanasi

07-19-2007, 10:17 PM

@JimJimster

I just forgot about combos and added now =)

JimJimster

07-19-2007, 10:41 PM

nice man, ^^pro*

Skeith

07-20-2007, 08:17 AM

nice guide! Fireriot is real PRO! =)

JimJimster

07-20-2007, 09:15 AM

i wonder wat those skills that u buy without the money but with fame are like, because they were all pretty cool sounding but i hav no idea wat they are

SexyAkuma

07-20-2007, 02:41 PM

loving your guide, i cant wait to do combos.

JimJimster

07-20-2007, 05:03 PM

me either, i jsut no a lot bout em cuz i read all about em

i found them out right after cbt1 ended*

Resandben

07-21-2007, 03:20 PM

Fire is PRO /sites/all/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif

Zooner

07-22-2007, 10:30 AM

thanks man that will help me out alot that guide so when i log in on the 25 ill already be ready

Joe-Fantasy

07-22-2007, 07:18 PM

Nice guide, I think I'll use it...

coolzteenz

07-23-2007, 06:52 AM

Nice guide! That's quite some helpful combo!

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[Fiesta CB 2]~Cheerios!

JimJimster

07-23-2007, 07:57 AM

u bet, and after u get the 2nd elemental spell set its even more powerful

Utakata

07-23-2007, 08:22 AM

You guys are telling me you didn't do this before? What did you do use 15 second cooldowns and just stand there? &gt;_&gt;

Although the 9-hit combo may skip people's minds because they may not realized fire bolt 1 has a considerably smaller downtime, which I think was a typo accident in the code [5 second instead of 15 I think it is, probably missed the 1 on accident]

nanasi

07-23-2007, 08:37 AM

I'm just spamming magic missle[1] after 7-hit combo.

Utakata

07-23-2007, 08:39 AM

Yeah that's a good idea if they're low hp. I usually just 7-hit or 5-hit [Magic missile-&gt;elemental skills-&gt;magic missile] and if they're not dead I just run the opposite direction until I can magic missile [max] again, or if they're really low hp just magic missile[1]

nanasi

07-23-2007, 08:50 AM

I think,

5-hit-&gt;missle[max]/run is good for save your HP.

7-hit-&gt;spamming missle[1] is good for killing faster(and avoiding monster's aggro.).

At lvl49, I got magic blast.

It has only 4sec cooldown but need to cast 0.6sec.

I'm thinking about the combo again.