2010-06-20, 12:26 AM
Rob Wrote: [color="#000080"] I wonder if people realize they should start training Archmages and Bishops like this:
[video=youtube;sXmBHP9exJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmBHP9exJI[/video] [/color]
Or you can play as a nightlord and be invited to boss runs with killing speed that's decent.
Or you can play as Aran and just...well we all know.
Or you can play as a hero and spam 73k hitting brandish at TOT.
Or you can play as, blah blah blah.
THE REASON WHY ICE DEMON SUCKS:
Ice demon was a cool idea, it helps make monsters NEUTRAL to your elements and makes ifrits damage greater. But I believe we'll be training at Chief Oblivion guardians now that they're weak to lightning, ice demon would screw this over. Negating it's use as a mage, seriously, also when you're THAT powerful, it's a waste of a skill. In the time that girl casted ice demon, it could have been used towards another chain lightning, wasting 30 SP just to make it stronger with ifrit just isn't worth it. Ice demon is only helpful on neutral mobs, and mobs that are resistant to your element, but why would you train there? Bosses are not affected by ice demon(as they shouldn't be) so there really seems to be little use for it.
I just don't see myself spamming ice demon like that, the only reason I got it to level 5 was for ifrit. If mages started training like an average dpser it would just ruin their advantage. Sure they would be a bit better at mobs, but having a BIT higher leveling speed and forcing yourself not to spam ultimates, compared to simply picking a better class and having the benefit of actually being IMPORTANT just doesn't cut it. This is not taking their recent buffs into account, the new system is something that sounds really interesting to mages, I wish my thunder spear would hit 5 times and have 80% damage, that would have been so AWESOME.
The only reason I myself will be getting CL above blizzard is because i want to be an lolAM that trains in TOT for easy pieces. That's about all I'll ever be able to do as a mage, since I highly doubt I'll EVER be invited to...hell I doubt I'd even make it to a Zakum run, and even if I did I would be so unimportant I'd get nothing out of it. What does a mage seriously have to offer(currently) besides spamming ultimates? I know ya'all hate the way mages train but...really... I was gonna say a lot more things but I forgot what they were while I was typing this...
EDIT: I remember. That video is a video of a level 143 I/L training at cornerians, there seems to be something wrong with that. Why would a overleveled I/L mage be training there? The only benefit was the terrain, which made it easier for her to kill things stylishly for the viewers aesthetic pleasure, ice demon DID come in slight handy in this video, but when it goes into actual practice at a higher leveled area(Chief obvlivions for example) it doesn't fare so well.