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Is getting physical skills at all worth it if...

Discussion in 'Mage' started by gadgaurd, Jul 8, 2017.

  1. gadgaurd

    gadgaurd Well-Known Member

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    ...I always have a pet/Merc with me for Proation? Looking at some builds I see lots of suggestions for skills like Shield Bash, She'll breaker, etc for the express purpose of handling Proation. Which is brilliant. But if I'm always gonna have a pet and/or Merc with me is that necessary or a waste of points? I figure I'll need at least 1 to break parts, but the actual Mage skills(Javalin and Spears, specifically) seem much more appealing as alternatives to Impact and Storm.
     
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    You cant solo everything with your merc and eventually you'll also find yourself in a party. If you keep on spamming magical skills , you'll find yourself at the bottom of the attack ranking , it's primally the reason why we use physical skills in combo is to ensure proration is always in our favour. As selfish as it can get , there's nothing we can do about it as we are the only magical class ingame.
    Also magical skills are bad as filler for combos as mostly they also have very long animations as compare to physical skills.
     
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    Unfortunate. Guess I'll go over the Martial and Shield trees to see what I can get.
     
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    Hi! me also! I build the best proration merc for myself lol xD

    If u say can u build a full spam magical with merc and pet then i'll say YES, why not? merc can always keep up more than what u prorate anyway.
    Plus if u r in party, Mage will always help physical spammer prorator.

    But still, I'll suggest you to build Mage/Dagger/Arrow instead. beside increaseing proration, you can create more damage (maintaiing ur long range) with no useless MP charging time by combining ur combo with these skill.
     
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    And the next reply immediately contradicts the first. Hmm.

    So I can invest in physical skills to handle proation myself. OR I can invest in a pet and side character to do it for me and spam magic. Admittedly I've been doing that already and only started looking at Shields to increase my survivability.

    But there's at least two areas in the game where I can't do that, so perhaps I need to look at my skills again.
     
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    It's worth it to use physical skills. Not only does it speed up combos, it, of course, balances your own proration, or if you're using arrow mage, or Dagger, with the right combo you can actually prorate yourself.
     
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    u cant always rely on merc/pet on proration.. if ur a shield mage u have high survivability so staying close range is easy for u.. having martial skills will do use shell break for aggro also for mp regen and proration like 3birds in 1stone.. u just need to formulate ur own combo to suit ur playstyle
     
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    and the 3rd option is to raise your atk stat :p
     
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    I got a super prorator merc, I almost have a super DPS pet, but my char still able to prorate herself ._.)/
     

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