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demon ironwood is extremely sporadic (and extremely unreliable, at least for me). i went demon, and have demon venomous, ironwood, blazing, foxform, and maybe another skill or 2 lv11.. personally i cant stand how rarely demon ironwood procs: i'd rather have the 40% debuff for 20 seconds that works all the time. and i've…

kowlin and ninetail firefox can be pretty handy in frost on the superslash nuke of aoe doom boss because they can run in, debuff, throw some ream and extra damage, and make it out of the aoe nuke of doom's range before it happens so the pet's still alive and ready to be sent back in when its safe. definitely neither…

also, since you're arcane armor, wear pdef ornaments. pdef pdef pdef (and arcanes with all 5 elements). Arcane armor itself gives enough magic resistances, but has very low physical defense. I'll bet 90% or more of the mobs that kill you are either melee or archer (physical attack). for sharding (later on) its either…

veno definitely doesn't have a real nuke (even parasitic nova's actually pretty weak compared to what other classes ultimates can do damage wise) and i think bramble hood and guard having been intended to be functional (otherwise why spend the time coming up with it and putting it in the game) is also part of why veno…

this thread has so many wrong things in it that i dont know what several of you are smoking, but you seriously need to lay off it. (not all of it though - there's several posts that are good&accurate.. just several that have at least one grossly wrong thing in 'em) - it dosen't take +6 to make it worth being HA. - there is…

really its more of what you like instead of what people say is 'best'.. my 91 veno's "HA/AA" - wears full heavy more often than not and can survive soulbanisher's aoe without BB or anything of the like (think i was even w/out buffs), an arcane friend about the same level has a bit of fun surviving even in BB. my (at that…

unless i've got my pet set on defense because i'm going afk for a minute in something like FB51 area where a mob might respawn (and a cleric or other squishy might need to hide behind my herc... or the cleric might be AFK too and i wouldnt want one of the respawned mobs to kill me)... or i've got my nix on defend with…

and yea there's already a slew of good pets out there, even outside of cash shop pets: dark wanderer can put out some nice normal hits DPS, varicose scorpion puts out nice damage, glacial walker's a pretty good tank pet with good damage too, armored bear is also a good tank pet, petite sawfly and cloud skatefish for high…

if you really need to ask how to beat any class as an assn, you're playing the wrong class. oh and dont bother starting an earthguard... i hear they actually require some thinking.

a veno with a good tanking pet (dosent even HAVE to be a herc.. armored bear can tank some bosses in there) is useful in frost. a veno with leveled up aoe's (noxious gas and parasitic nova) is useful in frost. (nox nova nox does quite a bit of aoe damage in a short time... even with my nova being lv1 and me being a…

totally not worth it if it only lasts for an hour. you'd be better off using that to get claw for a non-nix and still have coin leftover out of that amount lol (reason i say non-nix is b/c nix already has it)

funny thing is... Born_Again_ actually had an extremely valid point (at _least_ one, mby more), but everyone dismissed 'em as an idiot or whatever... not even gonna bother saying what it/they were because y'all would probably think you're shooting it down as stupid again, but if you want to think of it/them that way.. that…

looking at the skills, summons, and plants... i think mystic could definitely have a use in pvp. is it OP.. i dont think so. but any skilled player can make a class seem more powerful (and i'm not talking about +12 refines **** either lol... talking about skill)

it'll be meteokre pdef and mdef (compared to the specialized armor types) and pretty low MP pool and MP regen... but i have seen LA work pretty well on one cleric in particular.. not downing LA, but there is a reason my veno went HA lol (and i might try it on a mystic too... but the veno has WAY lower MP usage than a…

usually that level range is pretty rough on heavies, especially like when you go out to broken bow bluff and start doing the quests there with the magic attack monsters. life powders help alot, but you'd need to pick herbs and level your apothecary a bit to be able to make 'em

thats another possibility. i dont see a summon ressurect anywhere in the mystic skilltree, so the mystic should be able to just resummon another, or even the same one (unless it comes back with reduced HP like we do when we're res'd... then another summon would be more appropriate to catch with) and for tweaks: i'm…

BM and seeker both could be called the "squad's policemen"... but VERY few that plays bm plays that role from what i've seen. most bm's would rather run ahead and rambo / leeroy jenkins when they really shouldn't. (and usually end up getting themselves killed, or end up starting things toward a squad wipe) (but there are…

unless they've changed ToP recently, str+dex would actually give a better ToP heal than just strength alone (considering at some point all the stats start taking 2 unused points to make one stat point)

if you cant hotkey it does that also mean you cant put it in any of the hotkey spots (like one thats not currently attached to a keyboard button) and click it? would stink if that were the case, because the only other way i know to use a skill is to open the skills and click on it there..

i went demon on my veno, and it really stinks how infrequently ironwood works, i'd much rather have a 40% debuff that always works (and for 20s to boot), than a 0pdef debuff that rarely works. sage leech with 100% chance to heal 600? hp would also be nice... it seems when i need that bit of HP to save my butt, my lv10…

"random squads" for the most part (especially on lost city) haven't been 'trustworthy' or much capable of anything from what i've seen (and for quite some time)... but mostly comes from people's selfishness or being too worried about they'll get ripped off so they take off with all the loot... or simply not being…

Symbiosys - Dreamweaver, could you make your character on pwcalc.ru/pwi and post a link to it (with refines n all)? i'm curious what it took to get a mystic to 10k pdef (and IIRC, you said that wasnt even fully buffed) i'm also curious how your summon compares to hercules with that kind of gear at that lvl (compared to a…

wizards are an endgame class that hit for massive numbers with a single hit. they dont need any improvement lol. if you want channel times to take less time, stack channel- gears. if you want to have fun with your wiz get it leveled up. wiz and archer are both powerful at high levels, but takes patience to get there. yes…

the two's pet heals... as a veno i am also jealous theirs maxes at 50 something, but another thing i noticed about mystic's petheal.. its channel and cast times are considerably shorter than veno's petheal.. and while it uses considerably more mana, it *can* also be spammed alot more often than veno's petheal (even…

alot are saying they woulndt consider veno an aoe DD class... which in the regards of being able to constantly cast AOE's, veno isnt.. but where it really matters, like in frost, everything that the group is aoe'ing should be dead long before, or just after the veno casting a 3rd aoe (nox > nova > nox)... not to mention…

even doing luring the old way (actually had to unsummon the pet and resummon it or summon another after), we had to get our pet to hit the mob or boss or it would come and hit us. being able to lure is one thing i'll miss if i start up a mystic lol

mystic cant pass sparks to the cleric mystic cant lure mobs like the veno can mystic dosent have bramble that everyone melee likes in instances sure, its a cleric/veno mix, but there's always gona be things veno can do that mystic cannot. just like there's always going to be things cleric can do that mystic cannot.…

well there is a venomancer petskill called pierce that does a flat amount of damage regardless of buffs (and maybe even armor defense values)... so perhaps this skill was meant to work in a similar fashion. it does, after all, have quite nerfed stats for players whereas its skill description looks totally painful to…

LA is junk compared to AA, HA, or HA/AA mix for defenses... its why my veno went heavy armor at 72 (was LA).. but i wouldnt reccomend anyone going to HA on a veno or mystic unless you've collected and hoarded tons of neck, belt, rings, cape and headgear with mag+/str+/dex+ (or it wont work right at all, and you'll be…

going with the logic that the only viable HA caster class is veno because of foxform, you could also consider verdant shell lv10 which gives an 80% boost to phys def, which dosent require going to foxform and losing all ranged attacks from the character's skilltree... IMO mystic could be quite a viable HA caster class,…