[Guide] Battle Mage

[Efficiency]

advanced auras are passives that beef up your regular ones



e: tbh i'd drop advanced dark chains to 11 since that's where it gets 8 mob pull, max out reaper and put that last point into more blood drain tho

You can't add your 3rd job sp to your 2nd job... I was planning to do a build about maxing reaper instead of adc keeping it at 13 only, but i need to do the other things first like training area's...

I actually maxed Teleport first, as the quests involve just running around the place constantly. 1 Triple Blow worked well enough until Teleport was maxed.

Also, is it just me, or does Booster stack with Yellow Aura? Because it looks like it does...

Yeahh booster does stack with yellow aura haha.

[Megadeus]

quick question: for "Summon Reaper" when it says "when you attack", does that mean it can summon multiple reapers?

[Poisonous]

yes, every single hit has a chance to proc a reaper

[Megadeus]

yes, every single hit has a chance to proc a reaper

And that's why there's a low % chance to summon, so there's no reaper-mass-summon-spam?

also, respond to my PM already.

[Poisonous]

And that's why there's a low % chance to summon, so there's no reaper-mass-summon-spam?

yes

[grim]

on the 3rd job you can't add to Body Boost above 6 until you max conversion

[Efficiency]

on the 3rd job you can't add to Body Boost above 6 until you max conversion

That's not true. It's currently glitched, people who didnt max it before the patch have to wait till Nexon fixes it.

On a side note i'll be updating again tonight.

[Frondnoir]

Summon reaper buff's description is misleading. you can only summon after u kill the monster. I also wonder why maxing advanced blue aura. I feel that its kinda useless against bosses that can use skill to make ur hp and mp to 1 and kill u if there is a party member who get affected as well. share your disccussions. cheers

[Efficiency]

Summon reaper buff's description is misleading. you can only summon after u kill the monster. I also wonder why maxing advanced blue aura. I feel that its kinda useless against bosses that can use skill to make ur hp and mp to 1 and kill u if there is a party member who get affected as well. share your disccussions. cheers

Summon Reaper Buff's description isnt misleading. Every single hit has a chance to summon one. And true there's that downside of that 1/1 hit when using Advanced Blue Aura but it also has a passive effect when you're not using it which helps in training (Abnormal Status Resistance: +20%, Elemenatal Resistance: +20%).

Okay it is kind of useless against bosses like Zakum and Pap, but why would you use advanced blue aura there? You'll should be using Dark Aura. Advanced Blue aura would be use at boss like Horntail ( Last time i check it doesnt have a 1/1 hit).

Differences between Blue Aura and Advanced : - Credits to johny2toes.

Spoiler!

Blue Aura only takes away 20% dmg then distributes 30% dmg equally.
Adv. Blue Aura only distributes 10% dmg and takes off 60% of it.
If you don't realize how dramatic of a difference there is with that then there's something extremely wrong.

Let's say a boss did 30k dmg
With a party of 6
Blue Aura would result in taking away 6000 dmg and distributing 7200 equally
So from a 30k hit you'd be taking 17000 dmg

Adv Blue Aura would result in taking off 18000 dmg and distributing 1200 equally
So you'd be taking 11,000


If you can't see the major difference between taking a 17,000 dmg compared to a 11,000 dmg hit then I think you need to try HP washing a character to tank 17k.


+ there's 20% elemental resistance in Adv which makes dmg even less.

So basically you would have taken 1200 damage due to it be distrubted evenly among your 6 oarty members instead of takung the 30k hit.

But it really is entirely up to you, wheather you're a person that likes to go bosses or solo. If solo i wouldnt max Advanced blue aura leaving it at only 13.

[xBowlCut]

Just thought I'd throw this in, a brief video I made of my cycling the Gigantic Spirit Viking map that you may want to add in the 120+ training section. (which is, apparently, coming soon!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fSrfie1P4
Embed if possible? XD

Just to chip in a little more, I personally never use reaper during training, I don't even have it hot-keyed and I very rarely use dark shock. My training mainly consists of casting Blow+Tele but I do tend to use Finisher at bosses as the 20% defence reduction comes in handy.