Help needed. Guide on Ice Mage n Cleric after Big Bang

[Stephen Quah]

Hi,

Anyone can guide me along for SP n AP distributions after Big Bang for both Ice Mage n Cleric/Priest ?

From Lv 1 to Lv 200 will be best. Thank you

[Tesiqurasa]

Bleh, I think you made a thread asking for every type of character post BB -_-

I'll address AP and 1st job. Level up and ask again when you need a guide. If necessary, I'll be happy to provide an in-depth I/L and Bishop guide, but I don't want to write an essay for nothing.

AP: Stay lowluk/lukless early on, and use your gear to equip your weapons. If you're on gms, take advantage of the free Maple weapons, and go lukless until late 80s, at least. You should aim to stay below 23 base luk as a priest, and roughly ~50 as a Mage (but only if you can find/afford an Estaff8).

In 1st job, max everything except magic bolt.

[Thorr]

In 1st job, max everything except magic bolt.

Don't dignify the existence of Magic Armor by maxing it out.

[FailFTW]

A useless buff is better than a useless attack.

[Tesiqurasa]

It's not half bad early on, when a minimal amount of defense will be somewhat noticeable. Magic Bolt is just too weak for a single attack. It's just 40% more than Claw, doesn't pass through barriers like Claw, and only hits one. Technically you could get use out of Magic Armor far more often than Bolt. The only class it may be useful on would be Cleric.

[FailFTW]

I thought the two hits combined on Claw was weaker than Bolt, but that doesn't matter because mob move > single target move in 1st job.

[Tesiqurasa]

Oh yea, that was a typo.

Normally single target attacks are significantly strong than their mobbing counterparts, but Bolt is just insanely weak. If you're 1 hitting with Bolt, you'd probably be 1 hitting with claw too (or you'll be damn close). If it was something like....~80% more than claw, it might be more reasonable, but 240 vs 280 is just too minimal, especially since you basically never go 1-50 while relying on a single target att.