Pandora's PVP Wizard Guide

sophoric whisper us suppose to last 4 seconds. just like force of will is suppose to last 5 seconds.

blade tempest has a 4 second chanting time.

you have 3~ seconds after force of will, you have no time after sleep.

do the math, ****.

I'll do the math once you learn to spell.

Forp - Heavens Tear wrote: »

force of will last 5 seconds, but it has a 2 second cast time. that's 3 seconds left.

blade tempest has a 4 second chant time.

3 seconds.

4 seconds.

got it?

have we made a break through?


sophoric whisper is instant. no chant, no cast. it has a chance to work, but with these people only having the -3% from their weaponry, it wont.

got it, ****?

I dont tihnk u understand. the 5-sec duration is AFTER the skill is cast. so 5 seconds. -~.5 secs between skill uses. 4.5 sec to channel BT. dont use ****. as for plume shell or w/e, just glacial snare /SS after blade tempest. then start attacking if they still alive. or soporific whisper

and now the 25 is going to tell me how a skill he's never seen, used, or have an prior knowledge of works.

the duration of a skill is reduced to you by the amount of cast time. that means.. hang on here little guys, this is kinda tough:

if it has a 5 second duration, and a 2 second cast time. that means, to you personally, there would be exactly 3 seconds for you to use a 4 second chanting skill.

plume shell is cast in .5 seconds and has absolutely no chanting time. that means even if you have 499 ping, you will indeed get plume shell off in time to avoid full damage from blade tempest.

i know, that's a lot to take in all at once.

Forp - Heavens Tear wrote: »

..from a pure mage. and even then, unless that priest is cayeon, i don't think they're going to die so easily to a mage.

what kind of priest let's a mage use tempest without plume shell up anyways?

Sutra ... Fow.. BT .. Boooooyahhh instant BT

Throw in a spark pot if you dont have 3 sparks

pro logic, ty anders.

Pandora - Lost City wrote: »

Ark, by the way, used to play a full int robe mage and VERY recently restatted to light, because of the test I'm about to explain.



To be honest, I was planning on restatting to full INT at 90. However, I have a full int mage (still full int for leveling) in my guild named dddddfunLOL, and he is the same level as me. So, to see the damage difference, we stripped all of our gear off, I shot undine then sandstorm for 2900, took my sword off, gave him my sword, he equipped it and then shot undine then sandstorm for 3100. There was a moment of silence, followed by him going "... What level is your mastery?"

My mastery was level 7, and his was level 10, making the damage difference based on int even smaller.

We were... Impressed at how little 100 int matters. So we gave it another go, on a different target.

... Same ****.

At this point, I am a firm believer that "full int rocks endgame!!!!!" is the same rumor that brought you "light mages suck until 90!!!!" and I have noticed this game is full of rumors about endgame that people buy into blindly because people say it and it turns out it's not true at all.

From what I can see, int on a wizard is a lot like str on a warrior. Yeah, you'll get a bit of extra damage, but it's so very minimal that light armor just overtakes it...

Despite how minimal the difference is, by the way, con sucks. Just throwing that out there, again.

there's his post bout the damage diff, you don't get undine till 79 so he was at least 79 when he did this test, and this test was pvp damage, in pve the damage diff was about 2k i think

kaito777 wrote: »

So at higher lvls i should buy resets and turn pure right?
But wat lvl do ppl usually do that? X____X

90.
10chars

So at lvl like 60 or 70 or even 80 LA and Pures hit almost the same???

Kannone - Heavens Tear wrote: »

There's a few things to take into consideration about damage and the small difference between LA and pure:

★The vast majority of your final damage (the number over the targets' head(s)) comes from weapon multipliers built into the skills. So the total damage difference is only at most equal to the difference in magic, where 1 magic = 10 m.dmg & a difference of 100 magic by level 70(ish) is only going to be 1000; this is really only important if you're going to be grinding all the time which, with a LA build you won't have to grind- you can do rebirth at 73~75 (depending on quality of gear) and level to 85 in two weeks (arcane can't do that no matter how hard they want :P)

PvE (grinding) or PvP (still do rebirth which is the fastest leveling)?

Arcane can do rebirth......there are already a couple vit builds who have completed gamma....

Light armor is a legit build, I agree with most of what u said.

kaito777 wrote: »

What is rebirth? X___X
My highest was lvl 48 so idk about that stuff lol but 75-85 in 2 weeks sounds really good to me right now
By what you said it seems LA is the way to go until lvl 90 xD

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=258492

why waste your money on reset notes when you can just find 2 different mages o.O?

the damage difference will be the difference of m.attack x 0.25 in PvP... not really sure why you need a test when the numbers are all available.

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=c16a9b6446c7267b

versus

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=5991f972e3eca81f

I'll reiterate something a lot of mages seem to be forgetting: the vast majority of damage comes from the weapon. My sandstorm reads: "Inflicts earth damage equal to base magic attack (what you see in your character window) PLUS 300% of weapon damage (that's weapon damage x3) plus 4288.4 ...

So like how much of a difference does 1k extra m.attack do? in PvP that's a total of one gigantic whopping 200-300 damage... wow (and you're stupid... *say it again* stupid for attacking robe classes in TW anyways).

Now in PvE you sacrifice m.def (ouch at later levels) and about 1k damage (my pyro hits lv. 75 mobs for 3.7k, a pure with my same weapon should hit about 4.7(?). So: when you get quest reward armor keep the robes... duh. Have a cheap set of robes with which to grind & always have buffs (LA buffed damage = pure unbuffed damage at my level).

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=79c83d4bc78cc364 <- me in TW

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=569b5673cd98ca9b <- me when i grind (beat a herc in 1man army race today b:victory)

So to address those who say the defense difference is minimal :facepalm:. To address everyone who says one build is better than the other always :facepalm:

pre-90: pure mages pwn in PvE (except in TT & rebirth before delta (idk 'bout delta yet)). LA mages pwn in PvP (huge p.def difference w/ minimal damage difference).

why am I still typing? because WQ is being mean and taking forever today and i still have one more to start before midnight b:cry

Kannone - Heavens Tear wrote: »

the damage difference will be the difference of m.attack x 0.25 in PvP... not really sure why you need a test when the numbers are all available.

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=c16a9b6446c7267b

versus

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=5991f972e3eca81f

I'll reiterate something a lot of mages seem to be forgetting: the vast majority of damage comes from the weapon. My sandstorm reads: "Inflicts earth damage equal to base magic attack (what you see in your character window) PLUS 300% of weapon damage (that's weapon damage x3) plus 4288.4 ...

So like how much of a difference does 1k extra m.attack do? in PvP that's a total of one gigantic whopping 200-300 damage... wow (and you're stupid... *say it again* stupid for attacking robe classes in TW anyways).

Now in PvE you sacrifice m.def (ouch at later levels) and about 1k damage (my pyro hits lv. 75 mobs for 3.7k, a pure with my same weapon should hit about 4.7(?). So: when you get quest reward armor keep the robes... duh. Have a cheap set of robes with which to grind & always have buffs (LA buffed damage = pure unbuffed damage at my level).

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=79c83d4bc78cc364 <- me in TW

http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=569b5673cd98ca9b <- me when i grind (beat a herc in 1man army race today b:victory)

So to address those who say the defense difference is minimal :facepalm:. To address everyone who says one build is better than the other always :facepalm:

pre-90: pure mages pwn in PvE (except in TT & rebirth before delta (idk 'bout delta yet)). LA mages pwn in PvP (huge p.def difference w/ minimal damage difference).

why am I still typing? because WQ is being mean and taking forever today and i still have one more to start before midnight b:cry

dude, i have to lol at your build for TW.
http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=26f1163e2a2d4d3d self buffed
http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=9d54ecaf55658d2f full buffed.
that was at lvl 78. Since then I added more than 1k pdef and about 250 more HP

Now, if u look closely at those builds, u unbuffed vs me unbuffed:
Magic Atk. 3181-3225 vs Magic Atk. 5077-5138
Full buffed
Magic Atk. 3840-3893 vs Magic Atk. 5827-5897

If I still know how do to math, that's a 2k diff in magic dmg no matter how u put it, and that 2k in PvE comes up to 500 in PVP. Not even near the 100-200 u LA guys are throwing around as being the difference. And even in PvE, when each of my shots have 2k more dmg than yours, those crits u have from time to time won't compensate to be in par as DD. Ever. With the TT80 wpn and some 82 ornaments full buffed dmg is somewhere between 56xx - 63xx unbuffed and 64xx-72xx with cleric buff. I really want to see a LA wizz at 82 come in a 1k dmg interval to have that "irrelevant" 250/dmg diff in PvP.
And that HP as LA...rofl. True, you're not refine and gear is so-so. But u don't do dmg and u don't have HP/mdef. U have some pdef, true...but...that's all u have. And that Mdef u have is just a **** fest for Clerics/Venos/Wizards

True, I am refined/sharded, I have expensive equipment, but I never said ( and no guide has ever said) that being a robe wizz is cheap.
When I've said the other day that LA is the cozy way to play a wizz some ppl didn't agree. Now, I think these 2 builds compared can say the whole story.