Pandora's PVP Wizard Guide

very useful guide, thanks a lot

Skyannie - Lost City wrote: »

So what you're saying here is you weren't wearing the right magic gear and got hit for 1.5k, so you prefer LA.

...no, considering I was still wearing two LA pieces, the defense difference would've been relatively small.

man that guide hurts my eyes.but yea it seems to be a pretty good guide and probually took u long "waste of time"and yes u are correct about LLama being a fail mage just like lushes and oz (they cant kill me 1v1 even when im inbuffed and spirea also forgot about that nub)about the pvp skills u were also correct

I'm not sure exactly, why do people say even if you're LA its better to be pure 96+? If theres no point in going arcane cause its overkill and LA has much higher hp / survivability, why does arcane stop being overkill at 96?

poorteg wrote: »

Is it possible for you to write a quick strategy VS each class? Like what skill is best, or skill chain is best. Thanks

too hard to make. strategy/skill change a lot concerning level, build, weapon and even network latency.

Fjalar - Heavens Tear wrote: »

and how would you address the supremacy every non-melee class will have over you if you're in light armor?

At my level at least, Light Armor isn't all that far behind. Other wizards hurt you more on average hits, but a wizard can't kill another wizard with normal attacks, since you know which spells the other can use, meaning you can FoW/Blink when things get rough. The only way to kill another wizard is Ult/Sutra/criticals. And Light Armor allows you to take a Tempest more easily, and your critrate is the higher one. You're at a disadvantage, but it's not horrible.

Clerics... are going to be bad either way. Either you get **** by plume shot or a combination of other spells. Self healing, sleep, debuff, high mdef, and so on. An equal level cleric is something I'd avoid with both gears unless I know they're dumb and will allow me to get a tempest off.

Venomancers rip a hole in you either way, bugged bleed and stun(s) **** you over, along with higher movement speed, ability to debuff, whatever. At least Light Armor gives a little more survivability against the pet.

Don't know what to say about archers. I haven't used a HP hiero yet, I PvP without too, and I've managed to kill equal level archers one on one by just spamming event pots (2500hp/10sec), so either the archers I've fought suck/are idiots or you actually have an advantage over them. Personally in Light Armor I'm not worried about them, and with a hiero it'd be even easier. I assume this changes at higher levels, but I dunno.


^not facts, but that's what I've gathered from my own experience. I fight people with hiero's all the time, without using one myself, and I manage...

I'm asking for commentary on the downfalls. I've known how to make the builds; I've played this game since the last unmentionable server launched. My own observations with wizards in light armor is that they either found that it didn't stack up past the mid-levels simply in terms of PvE/leveling or, if they did make it work, they did so with extremely refined armor with high-end shards and expanded slots for said shards. The thing is, with that much of a financial investment, you could make an arcane character robust too. As to pure magic, you are a target, pure and simple but again, the only real solution to this is a lot of money. How much % physical reduction would a light armor wizard have at my level outside of ultra-refinement? If it's something like 75%, I'm not sure that's worth the obligatory potential loss of ~1350 free hp, which may constitute a larger percentile loss in functional durability than the increase in physical reduction or that it's close enough to justify the moderate unbuffed mdef of light armor. Should there be a disclaimer to say this guide is for those ready to make +8 armor or are archers, clerics and venos really going to blindly rely on physical attacks against you over and over again once they know what you're packing? Also bear in mind that the innate critical rate from a light armor build at my level would only be 5%, which is nice, but it's not substantial to enough to consider it a selling point.

how is vit more expensive? if anything, giving you base hp gives plenty of room to chock your armor full of pdef gems and refine pdef jewelery. same damage, but a higher survivability rate due to the boost in hp(1,200ish more hp at 84). i'm not sure i know of any affordable gems giving that much hp.

stacking every possible socketed piece of armor with g5 gems, all maxed, even your wep, is +650 hp. i'd take the 1,200 over 650.

i guess crit is the only thing from light armor that's even worth it then. but, on the other hand, you could simply get some crit rings.

i did hear there was a lot of ****ed up builds in lost city. what good is a barb with no vit? that's almost as bad as nixlands, where they have light barbs.

Forp - Heavens Tear wrote: »

i did hear there was a lot of ****ed up builds in lost city. what good is a barb with no vit? that's almost as bad as nixlands, where they have light barbs.

lol, just because they're str built doesn't mean they don't have vit. Not every barb dumps all their remaining stat points in vit.