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Classes_-_Magician 1. What exactly does Summon Dragon, a Preist spell, do? Does it literally summon a dragon to fight for you, or what? As it says, you summon a dragon which will fight with you. You need a magic stone everytime you summon them. Magic stone can be acquired from monsters or you can later buy each at 5000 which is not really a big deal at that level for extra attack power. 2. Which is better, in your opinion, at soloing? Cleric? Cleric is always the fastest and the most convinient for level-up. However, to keep the speed, you have to stick in 'certain location' since heal only damages certain monsters. If you go other places, cleric will be the slowest among all. You may be get very bored sometimes. If you go cleric, ironically, you may have trouble party playing at 2nd job since you will not have strong attack for normal monsters. 3. Which is better, in your opinion, at soloing? Lightning/Ice, Fire/Poison? Lightning/Ice, Fire/Poison have moderate speed, though still much faster than the others.Lightning is good since there are few monsters which are strong against lightning. -> though there are few monsters weak at lightning.Ice is decent since it freazes target except ice type monsters. However, relatively weaker than the others.Fire is good since it is stornger than the others.Poison sux. I guess it is well balanced. You get Fire but get poison at the same time. :p 4. Is Holy Arrow any good damage-wise? This is data when it is maxed. Magic Claw: 40*2=80 Holy Arrow: 70 (Demon type: 105) Fire Arrow: 120 (Ice type: 180, Fire type: dunno. maybe 60 or 90) Ice Beam: 100 (Fire type: 150, Ice type: dunno. maybe 50 or 67) 5. Do you have the data's on Lightning and Poison though? Yeap, but they should not be directly compared since they work differently. Lightning: 60 (Water type: 90) Poison: 70 (Poison type and stone(?) type: errr, again 2/3 or 1/2) Lightning hits up to 6 targes, so 60 to 360. Poison hits only one but the damage goes over 40 seconds and never actually finish the target. 6. Poison damages a monster every how many seconds? It is said that Poison does damages around 5% of the rest of the HP of the target if maxed.It may be good against strong monsters but again time consuming may not good. N.B. all the boss monsters i.e. mushmom and balrog have resistance against poison and will get 1 per sec. 7. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Partial esistance -Partial Resistance You get less damages in percentage from certain type of magic attacks.Fire/Poison and Ice/Lightning(The only magic attack by monsters which has certain type is a lightning attack from Tauro Masis, or whatever it is) 8. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Element Amplification -Element Amplification Add more attack power to you elemental magic. ie. not applicable to magic claw or energy bolt 9. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Magic Booster -Magic Booster Your magic attack delay will be decreaded.(Generally, the delay of magics of 3rd job is long.) 10. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Explosion -Explosion Fire area attack which does damage up to 6 targets around you. 11. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Poison Mist -Poison Mist Upgrade version of Poision Breathe. You make a mist around you which poison EVERY target around you. It is cool because it affects EVERY thing but it is rarely used since it is POISON. 12. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Magic Composition -Magic Composition You mix two elements and attack one target. Basically, this magic has two elements. Ice/Lightning: much powerful than ice beam and freeze at the same time. Fire/Poison: much powerful than fire arrow and poison at the same time. 13. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Seal -Seal Monsters except boss cannot cast magic. 14. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Element Resistance -Element Resistance You get less damages in percentage from magic attack regardless of the type. This is 'magic' version of invincible. 15. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Holy Symbol -Holy Symbol This one rocks. This increases experience you and your party get temporarily. 16. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Dispel -Dispel As it says, you can dispel the status affect on you and your party and also up skills casted on monsters. 17. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Mystic Door -Mystic Door You can open a door temporarily which link you current map and the nearest town. Only you and your party members can use and you have to consume one magic stone every time you use this skill. 18. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Shining Ray -Shining Ray Area attack version of Holy Arrow. 6 maximum. This one is powerful not like holy arrow. 19. Can you tell me what these skills do? -Doom -Doom The targets will be changed to snails etc. The success is dependant on skill level and monser's level.(I don't know if your level is also affect this skill.) 20. do you suggest i lvl a> multiple lightning or b> ice bolt Ice Beam first: Traing safely. Earn lots of money. Slow training. Lightning first: Traing lightning fast. Dangerous since you get to hit by monsters. You earn little money or you may LOSE money. Up to you. 21. Is Ice Strike better, or Thunder Spear? -Ice Strike Ice Strike is cool. You attack 6 targets, it is powerful than Lightning you had in 2nd job and at the same time FREEZE targets. -Thunder Spear Powerful. More powerful than magic composition but delay is SO LONG. 22. Can you list these, in order, from strongest to weakest damage? ExplosionIce Strike Thunder Spear Thunder Spear>Explosion>Ice Strike BUT Thunder hits one, explosion does not freeze target. 23. Should I use any points when I'm a Wizard to max Magic Guard (By the time I'm a Wizard, it will be at 17.) Should I leave it at 17 or go ahead and gradually max it? It is up to you. By getting 17 only, you will save money because of low conversion percentage and save sps. (You have to know, HP:Meso=1:1 MP:Meso=1:2 from the shop.) Downside is that you will have to use it more frequently, but long enough though, and you may not have enough protection for strong monsters. 24. What skills do you recommend maxing with Mage before the lv30 job advancement? And in what order? Mage: MP Max, MP Regen, Magic Guard, Magic Claw(,or Energy Bolt if you really like it.) 25. Which is stronger, Explosion or Shining Ray? What about Shining Ray compared to Ice Strike? These are the things I know. Shining Ray: 105 Ice Strike: 90 Explosion: dunno Ice Strike freezes target. I do not have exact data for explosion but I am quite sure that explosion is more powerful than shining ray. 26. with mage does this seem like a good plan of lvling my skills? 1 E.Bolt Max MP Regen Max Magic Claw Max MP Max Max Magic Guard or in what would should I do it? 1 E.Bolt MP Regen 3 or 5, can't remember, just to put sp in MP Max Max MP Max Max MP Regen or Max Magic Claw(Just mix as you wish.) Max Magic Guard 27. should you start with max mp? does it gives you a higher overall max if you max it earlier? The earlier you max MP Max you get higher max MP. 28. Another question about priest's Dragon Tamer: Since you need a magic stone to cast (worth 5000 each), how long does the Dragon stay with you? Until you die? Or a time limit? And what is the dragon's damage based on? Your int + n times skill level? I'll translate what the description in KMS says. At 30, Requires 1 Summoning Stone, For 140 seconds you summon a dragon which has attack of 150. It does not specify the dragon's health so the dragon will not die. 150: I think this is just like the number in magic skills. eg. 80 in Magic Claw So I guess it is related to your Int. 29. Where should i level as a cleric in lvl 40s? As a cleric, just skip curse eyes. They are not for you. However, you have better spot! Just go into zombie lupin's tree which i told you. You will like it if you maxed heal. (so 40~ for clerics not 50~) If you are bored, you can go and hunt another monster if you do not mind climbing Shumi's 2nd quest. Go to the last map just before you click the chest. There are lots of Jr. Laces and it is really good spot for you if you maxed out heal. 30. For Cleric, is it worth it AT ALL to get Holy Arrow? For Holy Arrow, well, it is up to you. You may get bored and want to get some evil type monsters with Holy Arrow. eg. Dark Golem which will be so popular in EMS too I guess. However still it is up to you to learn or not. 31. How muc hdamage will a maxed out heal do? Compared to a maxed out holy arrow? Hdamage will be as much as Holy Arrow damage as far as you hit one target. However it will be weaker if you hit more than two. If you add up all damages you have done on multiple targets, it will be more than the damage you can do on one target though. So heal works in quite efficient way. For single target, it works as powerful as a sigle-target-magic and for multiple target, it will work as a mutiple-target-magic. The only down side is that you can deal damages with heal to only limited types of monsters. 32. Whatever Holy Arrow can kill, so can heal, no? And I'll get Shining Ray, the stronger version of Holy Arrow anyways... Demon, or evil, type: You cannot deal damage with heal. Theses types are weak against holy arrow and shining ray so they will take more damage than the other monsters. eg. Dark Golem, Witch Melody, Barlog, ( Crimson Balrog, Lunar Pixy and all the black monsters in Osyris) Holy type: You cannot deal damage with heal. Theses types are strong against holy arrow and shining ray so they will take less damage than the other monsters. eg. (Star Pixy) The other types: You cannot deal damage with heal. These types are not weak against holy arrow and shining ray so they will take normal damage. (monsters in bracket are not implemented yet.) and I cannot guarantee the exact type of monsters but generally right... I guess.Anyway, it works like that. 33. Can you please recommend a good skill order for cleric, coz I'm not sure if I want to go heal or arrow first and then there's those support spell in the middle and so on. Definitely go for heal first. It doesn't matter the others. Put sps in the order you want. (Max Heal, Teleport and Invincible and choose among Holy Arrow, Mana Eater and Bless.) 34. Is Magic Claw's max level dmg 40x2 or just 40? Cuz if it's 40x2, then I wont bother getting holy arrow (70)... Magic Claw is 40*2=80 but has no elements. Holy Arrow is 70 but strong against evil monsters. ie. 105 for them. However if you want to ignore Holy Arrow, do as you wish. 35. for any mage spell, what does the mastery% listed mean? Mastery: Damages between Max and Min damage. If you have 60% mastery, you will deal min damage at least greater than 60% of Max damage. 36. for poison, can i poison an enemy twice in a row and get double the poison damage? when poison is maxed what are its final stats/length? Poison damage will not be doubled even though you use twice. 37. mana steal looks VERY good, is it as good as it seems? It is good but is not good as it seems. The problem is that monsters do not have much MP but who knows? MP Steal is for future investvemt. 38. is it worth it to max both fire arrow and poison or just one? Well, ppl do not raise poison at all or several points just for fun. :) However, definitely max fire arrow. 39. Should I get Claw or Bolt? Should I max em or level 10? I recommend Claw. It is a bit more powerful than bolt and it is not affected by the land. 40. You stated earlier that Cleric levels up faster than any of the other 2 Wizards. Can you state how and why? Thanks! Err, because if you see the main hunting ground for cleric which is the last map of Shumi's quest or zombie lupin's tree, there are huge mobs there. The more powerful your attack power is, you get more of them faster. It applies the same to Thunder mage. However, multiple-target magic generally makes you hit by monsters a lot. So you have to bear money loss. However, Heal heal yourself. Can you see the idea? BUT, as I said, it could be very boring since you cannot go just other places and hunt since your attack will not be powerful enough. If you are bored, you may not gain exp quick enough though. :) 41. Can Cleric's Bless, Invincibility, Mage's Magic Guard and Magic Armor stack? Or is there one that cancels the others? Bless, Invincibility and Magic Guard stack. Magic Armor, Invincibility and Magic Guard stack. Magic Armor and Bless do not stack. The relationship btw Bless and Magic Armor is just like that btw Iron wall and Iron Body. Say, you maxed both. If you use bless first(AD+20,MD+20,Avoid+20, Accu+20 now) and use Magic Aromor later(AD+40),it will be AD+40, MD+20, Avoid+20, Accu+20. If you use Armor first(AD+40 now) and then bless later, it will be AD+20, MD+20, Avoid+20, Accu+20. It just like that. the amount does not matter. How big, negative or positve does not matter. As long as both the potions or skills affect the same stat, the later one will take effect. By the way, simple trick to avoid Fury takes down your MD. When Fury is maxed, your attack will be incresed by 10 and AD will be decreased by 20.(+10 attack, -20 AD now) If you use iron body level 1(+2 Ad for several seconds), you get +2 AD, +10 attack and after several seconds you get +0 Ad and +10 attack. :) This is for non-magicians. Err, by the way, attack stated in weapon, gloves, potions and skills are different from attack stated in your stat. You will see later, if you increase 10 attack in those and you will see 100s or more incresed in attack in your stat. 42. How is teleport used? You use by press teleport key and arrow key at the same time. You disapeear from the place where you are and wil appear the distance stated by the skill to the direction which you pressed the arrow. You'll use teleport as almost your normal move all the time later when it does cost less MP because of High skill level and you can afford those MP usage because of your high MP regen. 43. How far can you teleport from where you're standing?(measure in how many screens please) No way that you can teleport in the measure of screens. You will teleport several centimitres. Trust me, teleport is a great skill. Put one as soon as you become 2nd job. Though put only one in early levels. Invest later will be wise. 44. Can teleport go through walls? Yes. But there is no wall that is thin enough. If you mean rought terrain which is in your way of teleport, yes you can. 45. In your opinion, is teleport worth getting even 1 skill? Or is it worth it to get more than 1 skill point to reduce MP usage? 1 at 30 and max it later levels. ie. max at 50,60 or 70. 46. In your opinion, if I were to only spend a total of 10 skill points into MP Eater and Teleport, which combo would you recommend: 10 MP Eater + 0 Teleport 9 MP Eater + 1 Teleport 0 MP Eater + 10 Teleport 5 MP Eater + 5 Teleport Err, there are worsk skills than MP Eater and Teleport. Why are you planning only putting 10 in those? 47. At maximum level, how much damage does heal do to undead? Say there are about 10 around you. First of all, you can hit up to 6 targets only with heal. Also heal is just like other magics, power of which is realted to your int stat, the skill level of heal and magic defence of the target. 48. How many points does it take in MAGIC CLAW to have its damage be better than an ENERGY BOLT with 1 point in it? At skill level 7, Energy Bolt: 29, Magic Claw: 14*2=28 At 8, Energy Bolt: 31, Magic Claw: 16*2=32 At 9, Energy Bolt: 33, Magic Claw: 18*2=36 At 10, Energy Bolt: 35, Magic Claw: 20*2=40 So, 9 MC > 10 EB 49. Are magic guard/magic armor passive skills? Magic aromour and magic guards are not passive skills. 50. What is the MP cost of Thunder Bolt and Cold Beam? Also, does the cost rise at sometime? Ice Beam: MP: 1~15: 12, 16~30: 24 Thunder Bolt: MP: 1~15: 20, 16~30: 40 Seems too much? You can afford that. 51. Would it be wise to only have teleport around lvl 5 and put the rest into bless or mana eater? =/ No. Not a good idea. Teleport is much better than mana eater or bless. Max Teleport. 52. For the elemental Magicans the 3rd stage (Archmage), the total skill points needed to max out all skills is 160. however you are given 180 skill points right? (is this a misprint for the skills? or does the archmage only have 160 points to distribute?) The actual total is 190. You have (120-70)*3+1=151 to spend in 3rd job. 53. My question will be as follows; MP-eater doesn't seem TOO useful for me, as is not bless either if I'm not in a party. All the others I think I should max, but what would you put in Bless, Teleport and MP-eater? There is one skill I can't max... Which do you think that should be? =\ Teleport: max it So it is btw Bless and MP-eater. I personally recommend MP-eater even though it is not that useful. However, I think it is still better than Bless and will be much better later when monsters get lots of MP because MP-eater drains in percentage. 54. Since you'll be soloing, i think MP eater would be good. I'm leaving teleport at 1 and invincible at 5 for requirements of bless. But that's just my me ^^ Err, max invincible and Teleport. They are much better than Bless. Bless is good... because it looks goood. :) and probably another party skill. 55. If I didn't put any skill points into holy arrow, would I be able to use shining ray? There is no pre-requirements from the 2nd job for 3rd job level skills. Hence, Shining Ray does not require Holy Arrow. 56. Why is teleport so good it should be maxed?? and i was thinking of DEFINATELY getting Bless. Is it not as good as it sounds? and what would be better in your opinion, mana eater or holy arrow? If you want to get Bless, do as you want. Then, however, do not give up Teleport but MP eater. I'm telling you, you will use Teleport all the time and you will really regret if you do not max teleport. At 1: distance:130, MP:60 At 30: distance:150, MP:13 There is huge difference between MP 60 and MP 13. That's the reason that you have to max Teleport. I don't know but I'd rather giving up Holy Arrow instead of giving up MP Eater if I were you and had to choose btw the two. This is my opnion only though. 57. Er, this is technically not a "which class is best" question. Of the three second jobs for mages which (if any) is the most popular in KMS? What order do they tend to rank in as far as popularity? Err, It seems the "Best Job" question. lol Anyway, Cleric is the most popular one but it does not apear much in the Rank because, A. Cleric was the worst before. You could not attack with Heal before. B. There were no 3rd jobs before. Priest's skills make Cleric so popular now as well as its Heal. C. There were not many monsters which are evil type or undead type. 1/3 of the monsters currently in KMS in Osyris, the new island, are evil type or undead type. (Another 1/3 is Ice type and the last added and the most powerful monster is Fire Type.) 58. How do you suggest Ice/Lit mage to level up? I'm level 33 with all points in Lit and 1 in Ice, and I guess my real question is, which is the most useless skill that I shouldn't max? From your other posts, I've seen that Teleport and MP Eater are worth maxing, but what about the others? Err, Definitely you have to max both Ice and Lit since both are good skills unlike Fire/Poison. However, it was not wise to put 1 in the other in that early level. You could put 1 in teleport, which is still worth with 1 sp, and start maxing one of the skills. My suggestion, 1 teleport - Max Ice or Lit - MAx Ice or Lit - Put sps as you wish. It seems that for Ice/Lit wizard, it will be best to give up Slow because Ice Beam attack and freaze a target at the same time and Ice Strike for Mage attack and freaze up to 6 targets. 59. I second the question "Why is teleport so good?" Give 1 in Teleport and try it. You will like it, though you cannot use it that often because of its huge MP cost: 60. However, in later level when you maxed Teleport, MP Cost of 13 only, and your huge MP regen, more than 100 in 10 seconds at 60 LVs already, you will use it all the time. One tip for using Teleport in training. Press your attack magic key and then quickly press Teleport key you assigined and the direction you want. Then, you will teleport and attack at the same time. You can attack and teleport back or forth, at the same time. You will use this at normal training and later when you are fighting boss monsters. 60. Right now i use teleport to evade enemies, and sometimes to travel a BIT faster (but the latter isn't that important). Is there more opportunities later in the game where it will become more useful? because right now i practically feel i could do without, especially when compared to mana eater and holy arrow. I guess im just looking for examples of when it will really become useful. Also, how noticeable is the difference between 150 distance and 130 distance? 'The differenc btw 150 distance and 130 distance are not that noticable. Teleport can be used anywhere. Keep using it and you will find. You can evade. This one is important. Later, you may get damage of more than hundreds and you can use teleport to avoid this at MP cost of 60, or 13. You can travel really faster. The problem is that it is lagging and you cannot use teleport that frequently. (I guess it is the PING problem.) 61. I want to know more about the attack that isn't thunder spear or ice strike. The one that needs 30 sp and is at the bottom of the skill list. It's suppose to be some kind of attack that uses lightning and ice at the same time. You mean the magic composition skill, right? It attacks single target with elements of both ice and thunder. It freezes target. It is a little bit less powerful than Thunder spear. However, it is said that the magic composition skill is better than Thunder Spear since attack speed of the former is faster than the latter and also the former freezes the target. 62. how does that Composition skill work on elements? If I use it on Ice, will it do half damage? I don't know since it's 2 elements. It does half damage on both ice and lightning type monsters. However, do not think it as a disadvantage. As far as I know there is no lightning type monsters. 63. Which is faster EXP: A. Maxing Cold Beam first and killing things like Wild Boar in one hit. B. Maxing Lightning first and killing tons of weaker enemies? A. Maxing Cold first: Slow EXP but will earn lots of money. B. Maxing Lightning first: Lightning fast EXP but will earn little money or lose money 64. How do you calculate the damage done on undead using heal? Not a group, but only 1. For example, when heal is maxed. Which is 300%, does it take away 30% of the monster's HP? Or is it based on the char's int as well as the monster's magic def? I have no idea how the damage done on undead using heal. However, it seems that the damage gets more powerful if you hit one than multimpe targets and when not healing yourself. Also 300% does not mean that it damages 30% of the monster's HP. I do not know how it works but I am sure that Heal damage is nothing to do with the monster's HP. It is only related to your magic attack, which is again affected by your int, and magic defense of the target. 65. You said that leveling Lightning first is faster leveling, but you also said that the best place for a mid 30s wizard to level up is the Wild Boar area. If I were to level up Lightning first I wouldn't have a spell strong enough to the kill wild boar in one hit. Is leveling up Lightning first really faster than Cold Beam first? Or is there some different spot to level up for a wizard who mastered Lightning first? At 30s, you still have skills from 1st job and would not have maxed any skills from 2nd job. Hence, it is indifferent whether you go for ice first or for lightning first at least up to around 37lv. After around 37, ice one will want to train at Fire Boar's area and lightning one will at Curse Eye tree with team mates. 66. If I were to choose to become a fire/poison mage at the second job advancement, what skills would I want to invest in and in what order? Since Poison is known as useless at least up to now, you do not raise poison. My suggestion: Teleport 1 - Fire Arrow 30 - Slow 20 - (Meditation 20 - Teleport 20 - Mana Eater 20 - Any skill 11) As usual, the order of skills in bracket is not important and you can choose the order you want. Fire mage can hunt Stone Golems, but not Dark Golems!, from as early as 40 level. This is very early compared to the other jobs. Also, there will be LOTS of ice type monsters all around the new continet, or island. :) 67. How many monsters are actaully weak against Ice / Lightning? There's little to none compare to the numbers of weak to fires as far as I know... Maybe in 3rd island? Is there more? Weak against ice: Fire Boar, Red Drake, Fire Dog weak against lightning: Clang, Lorang in Florina Beach. 68. Is Lightning only faster than Ice when you are in a party, or doesn't it matter? Lightning is always faster than ice except there is only one monster around you but the problem is that you will not have enough monsters to hit at once. So I recommend train in a party. 69. When I hit level 35 and my Lit is level 15, should I save my SP points that I get after that until level 40 and then max Lit by adding the last 15 points? Or should I just keep adding 3 points everytime I level and not worry about the increase in MP cost when the spell is over lvl 15? Save your sps up to around level 38. lv24 Lightning is very worth spending double mana. :) Of course you have to max it though. 70. I'm thinking about maxing everything except mp eater, does this seem like a good idea? My justification: 1) Right now, monsters seem to have such little mp, that it doesn't seem worth it at all. 2) I've heard that your mp regen increases by 1 every level, so I assume that when I get to level 70+ mp will not be an issue at all since I'll be regening so much (on top of the fact that I can always use potions.) It is good not to max mp eater even though I have different opnion, but I agree with your points. 71. You said that the third advancement attack skill for clerics (I can't remember the name right now >_<) was a stronger version of holy arrow and attacked more than one target at once. Could you be a little more specific? Does it attack all targets around you like lightning, or all targets in front of you like slash blast or the 2nd advance crossbow skill (can't remember the name) that goes through enemies in front of you? And does it do more damage on a single enemy than on multiple like heal? And how does the damage on each enemy compare to the damage for holy arrow on one enemy? Its attack range is just like lightning not like slash blast. Heal is the only attack that does more damage on a single target than on multiple targets.Hence, Shining Ray does equal damage on single target and on multiple targets. Err, I forgot but Shining Ray is much powerful even though it can hit up to 6 unlike holy arrow. 72. Just to clarify: once you have Shining Ray you will never have any need to use holy arrow, even on a single enemy or boss, since ray does more damage to each enemy than arrow does to just one? Sorry about all the specific little details, but I was thinking I was going to max holy arrow since I figured it would be useful against hard monsters or bosses that are weak against dark, and now I'm thinking it's not really worth my time in light of shining ray (ooh, bad pun >_>). You will never have any need to use holy arrow when you have shining ray unless you hit really weak monster or monster which has a few HP to save your MP a bit. Shining Ray is also strong against dark and undead monsters just like Holy Arrow. 73. This might be a dumb question, but how do the Level 70 Mage attacks look? Are they just basic little effects like the lvl 30 wizard attacks, or are they more spectacular? All 70 level skills are better looking than 30s. 74. hi there is too many pages to go through so im not sure if this has been said or not but if im going cleric, how high should i lvl up mp regen, magic guard, magic claw? currently i have mp regen at lvl 10 magic claw at lvl 10 and 0 in magic guard. i heard that you dont need magic guard as a cleric so i havent put any points in it yet. im currently lvl 19 with 3 sp to use and im not sure what to put it into. Max regen, max guard and max claw. You can live without magic guard up to certain point, but you have to use it anyway. Powered by SmallCapitalBusiness.com Modified by starlitsky to have more than 10 categories and increased line limit. |