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Nephandus - Heavens Tear
Nephandus - Heavens Tear Posts: 39 Arc User
edited September 2009 in Wizard
Hi All,
I am having an issue with which skill to invest in next... or the next several ones after that...

Where should I focus on for the next few levels? Mainly concerned for those in Red...

THX in Advance...

Here is what I have now: (if it is not listed, then no levels have been taken)
Skill Level
SS 6
WoP 6
DB 5
BT 5
F.Mast 5
E. Mast 5
FoW 4

Quaff 5
Shrink 3
Hail 3
Dew 3
FBlade 3
CoF 3
Ember 1
GSnare 1

Maxed: =)
Pyro: 10
DPyro: 10
Gush: 10
SR: 10
PyroSh: 10
StnBarr: 10
GEmbr: 10
Sutra *
1 Spark *
2 Spark *
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  • Kristoph - Lost City
    Kristoph - Lost City Posts: 2,016 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Sandstorm is the most important right now, max that first, as soon as you can. After that I'd say max Distance Shrink and Phoenix.


    Crown of Flame, Pitfall, Emberstorm, FrostBlade, Morning dew, Wellspring Quaff and Hailstorm are either useless or fine where they are, leave them alone for now.


    Dragon's Breath is fine where it is for now... BT isn't very important, the 3 up there are priority. FoW, Snare and masteries also come after those 3, in whichever order you want, depends on your preference.
    Wondering how much longer these **** packs are going to be around.
  • Nephandus - Heavens Tear
    Nephandus - Heavens Tear Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    I also need advice on Rings and Belt not sure which ones to get.
    I just replied to this thread, as not to make too many threads.

    Should I craft them or Buy 'em?

    I know they should be PDef and/or Vit bonuses, but I want to know namely, If one is preferred over the others, and which ones I should be looking to get for Later Levels.
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  • Nephandus - Heavens Tear
    Nephandus - Heavens Tear Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Kristoph - Lost City wrote: »
    Sandstorm is the most important right now, max that first, as soon as you can. After that I'd say max Distance Shrink and Phoenix.

    Why Shrink? I rarely use it, only time I do is when Path is in recharge.

    But aside from that...

    SS #1
    WoP #2

    FoW, Snare, and Masteries come 3rd, 4th, and 5th in any order, correct?

    I am waiting to do Masteries when I can catch all the remaining 5 levels at once...
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  • Nakhimov - Lost City
    Nakhimov - Lost City Posts: 1,829 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Nephandus - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Why Shrink? I rarely use it, only time I do is when Path is in recharge.

    But aside from that...

    SS #1
    WoP #2

    FoW, Snare, and Masteries come 3rd, 4th, and 5th in any order, correct?

    I am waiting to do Masteries when I can catch all the remaining 5 levels at once...

    You baddie, don't you ever kite?
    Bladestorm lets you spin around like a carnival ride and do damage. Not using it is almost like having a move called Confetti Rocket Power Leap and saving it for "emergencies"
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  • Kristoph - Lost City
    Kristoph - Lost City Posts: 2,016 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Vit bonuses suck actually, go for HP bonuses. Just buy your gear, making it is more expensive. You could've just sold all the mats and gotten something good with the money. Honestly on a PvE server I'd go with +matk +mag bonuses for faster grinding, worry about hp/pdef when you get to 80 or 90. Belt? There's a pretty good quest reward one, you get it at lv61 after killing mantavip.


    Distance Shrink is just useful for everything, moving, kiting, etc.
    Wondering how much longer these **** packs are going to be around.
  • _makina_ - Sanctuary
    _makina_ - Sanctuary Posts: 747 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    If all your going to do is pve then you can forget shrink for a bit but you will need it for tw and anyother pk to successfully kite melee players.
  • Nephandus - Heavens Tear
    Nephandus - Heavens Tear Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    In all actuality I am swinging more to doing Rebirth than PK or TW.

    I am hoping to find a group soon...

    Been working on my armor, but I need to make some adjustments.

    THX for the Advice and keep it coming...

    http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=1aee7eab807caf15

    However, the Cap has Flawless Citrines, it would not let me up them from 1's...

    My HP is 2408 and MP is 6905 - also my Mag is 325 w/bonuses


    Headgear ☆Cap of the Soothsayer /P-Res +69 /HP Rec +5 /P-Res +69 F-Cit F-Cit

    Footwear ☆☆Boots of the Sacred Tortoise /P-Res +45 /Vit +3 /Evas +30

    Ring2 ☆Ring of Windy Skies /Vit +3

    Belt ☆☆☆Amulet of Eight Treasures /HP +90 /P-Res +72
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  • Kristoph - Lost City
    Kristoph - Lost City Posts: 2,016 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/


    Please learn to use that if you want to show us your gear (and build), its a lot easier to see than that... list. b:surrender


    One thing I did notice was the cape... ditch it. You don't need the magic defense, get a cape with HP bonuses. I used a 60 hp 4 mag cape at your level with 3 avg HP shards. It'll do you more good than that, especially since you could probably sell that cape for quite a bit of money.
    Wondering how much longer these **** packs are going to be around.
  • CeliaZ - Sanctuary
    CeliaZ - Sanctuary Posts: 901 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    (To OP)You're on a PVE server... GLACIAL SNARE! You'll use it as an opener on EVERY mob, I love it! The slow is amazing and really gives you enough time to kill it before it hits you.
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  • Nephandus - Heavens Tear
    Nephandus - Heavens Tear Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Kristoph - Lost City wrote: »
    http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/

    Please learn to use that if you want to show us your gear (and build), its a lot easier to see than that... list. b:surrender

    Fixed it in above posting...
    Kristoph wrote:
    One thing I did notice was the cape... ditch it. You don't need the magic defense, get a cape with HP bonuses. I used a 60 hp 4 mag cape at your level with 3 avg HP shards. It'll do you more good than that, especially since you could probably sell that cape for quite a bit of money.

    How MUCH Money? o.O

    Otherwise, I will give the Cape to my Veno... And get a different one as you suggested.

    Also to note: I am looking at getting the Steppenwolf Robe and Sea Captain Sleeves to replace the Snow Dance ones...
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  • Kristoph - Lost City
    Kristoph - Lost City Posts: 2,016 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Those capes go for 8-9 mil on our server, clean.


    Things I would replace:
    - Necklace, find a better one @ 72
    - Cape, not worth it, find one adding HP, lv67 one or something
    - Gauntlets, mold ones @ 77
    - Belt, just find a better one at 75 or use the lv61 one from the mantavip quest
    - Ring, 3 vit is useless and can easily be replaced by a better one
    - Boots, they're low level, find some lv66/76 ones with pdef/hp, shouldn't be hard
    Wondering how much longer these **** packs are going to be around.
  • prof
    prof Posts: 1,111
    edited September 2009
    I think I posted this here before:

    http://pwcalc.ru/my/?char=479fe158e30acc7b

    that was me at 8x. everything I have there I found in the ah, except the sleeves, sword and belt of course. felt like everything I needed out of my armour. I also agree with Kristoph, that cape doesn't fit a mage. get something from the ah and sell that mold. it goes for 6-7m in my server(and my server has been around for at least double the time as his)

    later 8x I got the quest pants: http://www.pwdatabase.com/my/items/12578. those lasted me until 90 when I got my hh90 green, and I also got my current cape(that I'll use until I level and refine my 96 cape properly), which gives +140hp and +4int just from the mods, +295 total. because of those quest pants I don't think getting mold pants is worth it, but that's just me. I was trying to save money for when I got 90


    I've maxed every skill to at least 10. at 80 you should have the following maxed:
    Pyrogram
    Gush
    Stone Rain
    Stone Barrier
    Distance Shrink
    Divine Pyrogram
    Will of the Phoenix(my opinion. I do a lot of world pk, and this skill hits hard as hell so, so fast at level 10. makes bypassing hieros sooo much easier.)
    Sandstorm
    Earth/Fire passive
    Sutra(helps a lot before you get a higher refined weapon)

    you should have, at other skills:
    7+ Blasting Point
    6+ Glacial Snare(again, my opinion. this skill hits HARD, and it slows to an extreme. usually by time a wr gets next to me after using this, I'll have used phoenix and he'll drop to his knees)
    5+ Wellspring Surge
    5+ Water passive
    5+ in at least 1 doom(personally, I had 8 tempest as soon as I hit 80, and level 5 in my earth doom. my water doom stayed at 2 until I got the sp to max it all at once(not recommended))
    Dragon Breath - if you gv or zhen, level 10. unless you're holy it really has no purpose in any other situation unless you solo aoe grind with it in past maps, which you would have the sp to max all skills at that level

    at 79, it's hard to have enough sp to afford your level 79 skills(I know I didn't get my debuff until 85, and sleep until 89. at 93 I got the mdef buff skill, regret it)

    that should eat just about all of your sp at 80, or maybe you wont have enough if you skipped some quest along the run there.
  • _makina_ - Sanctuary
    _makina_ - Sanctuary Posts: 747 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    prof wrote: »
    5+ Wellspring Surge

    I think you miss your cleric too much :P
  • prof
    prof Posts: 1,111
    edited September 2009
    I'm just not accustom to the pwi mage skill names, and everybody always **** when I call them by the malaysian terms that I know them by. and the skills have identical names b:surrender
  • MagicHamsta - Lost City
    MagicHamsta - Lost City Posts: 10,466 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    prof wrote: »
    I'm just not accustom to the pwi mage skill names, and everybody always **** when I call them by the malaysian terms that I know them by. and the skills have identical names b:surrender

    me don't o.o' me already know you play malaysian PW although still not sure why you roam the PWI forums. ah well as long as there be information going around the forums. d(^.-d) hopefully correct info.
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