genie skills

Tree of Protection and Holy Path are very popular.

Check the debuff skill for archers stunt is very usefull

tweakz wrote: »

Tree of Protection and Holy Path are very popular.

This.

A few others that may be of interest are:

- Wind Shield (damage reduction, works in air & on land)
- Fortify (brief stun immunity)
- Thunderbolt (metal damage, can be considerable)

Another good skill is Lightning Chaser. It cancels the target's channeling and has a 100% success rate at level 1. Good to help the tank out on magic heavy bosses like Wurlord and extremely useful when you need to catch up on heals for your pet. Essential when fighting Belial when he starts randomly aggroing people. Plus, the spirit investment is minimal since you only need it at level 1.

yup Vidalaire has right, skills with channeling intrerupted,attack rate decreased and casting speed decreased are best.Tree of protection can be v usefull for archers or clerics.I can recommend these skills :

1. Eruption fist (basic 1st skill for Longevity genie) = has 10% chance to remove auto-buffs(debuff) from mobs and more important from bosses too

2. Searing Heat = Fire damage and Decrease target's attack and chaneling by 10% (lasts 9 secs)

3. Blinding Sand = Decrease accuracy of target and all enemy around 10 meters with ../% (45% for lvl5) and decrease cast speed with 10% (last 8 secs)

Like Vidalaire said its important to reduce the hiting speed/channeling and accuracy of a boss so u may catch your full heal on your pet, and if pet has shriek too u have high chance for success b:victory (I can do solo a fb19 tabed or untabed at 31 lvl with magmite and i use these skills very good when the boss might auto-buff himself/beneficial effect to debuff him,slowing him or intrrerupt some hits).Another good skill is that Thunderblast or Lightning..whatever is called which slowing down too. Good luck b:bye

I suppose this is as good a place as any. The three increase damage skills are Extreme Poison, Tangling Mire, and Hollow Fist. (I exclude Eruption Fist because 4 seconds of debuff for 100 energy is practically worthless). All stack with each other and with the regular veno Amp/Ironwood. I've tried them all and settled on Extreme Poison. Here's my reasoning.

First, why one? The only time you really need these is when fiighting stuff with a ton of hp like bosses. Regular mobs die fast enough, and their loot typically isn't worth the stamina it costs to use these genie skills. When fighting stuff like a boss, the main constraint on how often you can use these skills is your genie's energy regen rate. So having 2 or 3 of the skills doesn't really do you any good - your genie only regenerates enough energy to keep one skill applied on the boss.

Extreme Poison

• Cheap to cast - 55 energy, or 30.5 sec between casts at 40 mag
• 1 sec cooldown, makes the skill spammable
• Lasts 5.5 to 10 sec depending on level, or 33% time coverage at L10, 40 mag.
• +20% damage, +24% at 40 dex
• Single target
• Stamina cost from 150 to 600
• Can be used to pull single mobs from a group

Overall damage amplification is 7.92% at L10, 40 mag, 40 dex. But can be higher in the short term as you can keep it applied until your genie runs out of energy.

Tangling Mire

• Cheap to cast - 35 to 53 energy
• 30 sec cooldown, can't spam this skill
• Lasts 10 sec, 12 sec at 40 dex, or 40% time coverage at 40 mag
• AOE
• 12%-30% movement speed decrease and phys defense debuff
• Only increases physical damage, at L10 works out to about a 18% extra damage against bosses
• Stamina cost from 220-400

Overall damage amplification is 7.2% increase to physical damage only at 40 dex and 39 dex. The AOE is handy if you have AOE physical damage (herc reflect, fox AOE damage skills).

Hollow Fist

• Expensive to cast - 95 to 122 energy, 53-68 sec between casts at 40 mag
• 20 sec cooldown - recast limited by energy regen in practice
• Lasts 9 sec, 11 sec at 40 dex, or 16%-21% time coverage at 40 mag
• 20% reduction to phys defense, works out to about 12% increase in damage against bosses
• Single target
• 419 -1081 damage, 100 - 1000 bleed
• 390 - 1281 stamina cost

Overall physical damage amplification is 2.5% at L1 and 40 dex, 1.9% at L10 and 40 dex

So looking at the overall damage amplification, Hollow Fist is a big loser. Yes you get damage, but the high stamina and energy cost eliminate it as an option IMHO. I'd rather use one of the lower energy skills and save the extra energy for an emergency Tree or Holy Path.

The choice between Tangling Mire and Extreme Poison is not so clear cut. Overall damage amplification is about the same if you're a fox doing physical damage. Caster venos should probably go for Extreme Poison. But if you're AOEing a lot with a herc, Tangling Mire may be better. OTOH the fact that Extreme Poison can be used to pull singles makes it a better multi-function skill.

Of course you can put Tangling Mire and Extreme Poison on different genies, and use whichever one seems most appropriate for the situation.