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[ari]

Merry Belated Christmas!

[zan]

Here are 2 caps of my new mage kickin some ass with Lightning Bolt. There are a few really bad parts about being a mage but its getting better as my levels go up. If I get time to play tonight she should be pretty good by the end of the night. Here are some screens.

[ari]

Dude, I just LOVE my mage, though I'm going the firewall/firebolt route till I get the wizards lightning spell. The hardest part about it atm is actually getting to the places I'm supposed to level at. Don't really have much eq I _need_ to level, just stuff that'd help, which is completely different than my acolyte and thief.

(Space reserved for screenie. =))

[zan]

Yeah I read a mage faq of how to create a mage and Ive been doing pretty well, I decided to go the lightning route so im stuck underwater making some nice exp. I learned a little too late that dex decreases your casting time so im playing catch-up with dexterity to help my mage cast faster. After tonight through I should be pretty good. The worst part is your spells get interupted by monsters and you have to make a run for it. Im not that impressed with the Thunder spell so Ive just been boosting the lightning bolt and SP regen skills for now. Ill get more screeners tonight about him. Good luck with the fire mage, Ive read that the firewall/firebolt mage is pretty deadly but I didnt want to play that. Maybe well team up sometime later and see how we do as a team.

[ari]

As far as Dex for a mage goes, I read a lot of posts and agreed most with the idea that faster casting is good, but you're losing damage, sp regen, and max mana everytime you don't pump int. I've pumped every single point I have into int, and will keep doing so until it's maxed. There are indeed drawbacks to it, but with firewall lvl 10 the cast time is low, and that gives me a chance to run, hit firewall, and throw another firebolt. I'm sure in a few weeks though I'm going to be very impatiently waiting to pump dex to max. :P

[zan]

I have a bunch of points into intel right now so I decided to put some into dex so I dont screw myself later, I usually try to split the points and try to raise intel by 1 and dex by 1 each level. Ive been pumpin intel since novice and it made the novice levels go REALLY f'in slow but it made it much nicer once I started the mage class. Hopefully the mage will continue to grow and not get stopped at the leveling speedbump

[ari]

First screenie is me killing a mantis, on my way to the 2nd screenie, which is an argiope I was trying to kill, before the screenshot lag kicked in and he broke through my firewall. Still takes me 2 firewalls, and 2 firebolts to kill these guys, and if they hit me once I'm dead.

[zan]

Nice screenshots. Love the damage. It is a shame we are one shot whores though, one hit and were on our backs.

[iNViSiGOD]

Damn nice hits!

[ari]

Yeah, I like them. :) First one is on fire vuln mob with lvl 9 firebolt. I leveled on my 2way to the 2nd, and you can see I added 2 more INT and my Matk went from 125-205 up to 144-207. Also, the 2nd screenie is fire bolt 10, which is also another reason I died. I normally use 8 on them, because my dex isn't high enough to cast 10 fast as I want to. I like a little safety buffer, because like Zan said: Mages are one-hit whores.