Do you think they will ever

My problem with there not being a 25% reduction to holy damage is just the fact that bishops are hogging ALL the wands instead of taking the cheaper secondary ones since they would all be the same to a bishop, therefore keeping the prices high. There are currently 1 or 2 lvl 130 Ice wands in Bello I believe, and I know a bishop has one. Seriously, why would a bishop need an ice or fire wand? What difference does it make if it was ice/fire or poison/lit for you? It's not like you're using it to it's true potential. The difference in money for those two is a lot so I'm not sure why you'd chose to waste money on a different colored wand that was probably more than twice as expensive as another differently colored one with the same stats, while we can actually use them to train faster.

Have you ever considered that not everybody prices items the same way? Maybe some of us got lucky and found Wands that were cheap? Not to mention that since they're kind of rare, Bishops will buy whatever Element Wand they can get their hands on.

In Scania for example, I bought a clean Fire Wand 148/3 for 700mil. Currently, there is a 149/3 Fire Wand for sale with a current offer of 2bil. Seems like a nice deal? Plus, you don't really get much cheaper than 700mil for any Element Wand 5-8 so why not buy it?

For more examples, check this out.

http://www.southperry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=548

So the only good area for you is skeles. I think that wins over newties since I'm pretty sure you can 2 hit those pretty early on, at least earlier than we can 2 hit newties, and even worse if we do not have an ele weapon. You're complaining skeles is the only map you're good at? That's probably the best map for training in the higher levels.

Arch Mages can 2hit Skelegons almost as soon as Bishops. And Arch Mages aren't exactly hard to train at lower levels. And Skelegons isn't always the best place to train. Soloing Jr. Newties is faster than soloing Skelegons and we all know who perfect 1hits Jr. Newties 40 levels before Bishops. In the past, I have seen plenty of 19X Magicians train at Jr. Newties rather than at Skelegons. What I'm trying to say is that there are alternative training maps that favour Arch Mages. If an Arch Mage truly wanted to Skele with a Bishop, I imagine it would be an easy task as all servers are swarmed with Bishops. Plus, if an Arch Mage can't two hit a Skelegon, then there's probably a better place to train. Training doesn't revolve around Skelegons.

You think it's so easy making money by merching and bossing. Merching is how I make a living, but I still can't get to nearly enough for an ele wand. I've seen windia's fms. They span like 2 channels or something. Ours doesn't even fill 1 channel lol. I don't even think half the rooms are full lol. Recently, I've seen the lightning one sell for 600-ish. With the lvl 130 ice or fire ones, I doubt it will be that low. Thank god for apq, which gives (if you're lucky) 1 apple per apq. We only need like 200-300 of those for a wand. With 3 apqs a day, we could do it in about 88-100 days, IF we got an average of an apple per apq.

Well, that's your misfortune for choosing to play in a Server with an inactive Free Market. You could have probably figured that out when you joined that server (Bellocan I believe, or Windia?). Choosing a small populated server like Bellocan would clearly not have as large a market as a populated server such as Scania.

For APQ, just do more of them? It's not like one can acquire an Element Wand in just one day without Gachapon...

As for bossing, we can hardly boss. Zak runs do not give that much in splits, ht is not possible for a under lvl 150 AM to get into, and we have to go like 16 times til we get splits or so.

Like I said, that's the consequence for playing in an unpopulated server. And I don't really know what you mean by saying you have to HT 16 times before getting splits...

Pap may be good, but there's no way to solo pap without either being high lvl/lukless/ele wand/staff cause it would take up so much time and pots it won't be worth it unless something dropped, I have not tried pianus yet, but I hear AM have a hard time with it, and I'm pretty sure we can't survive a crow hit til like 130+ (I have 1.7XX K hp, and crow does 8.6XX K, which equals a 1.7XX damage on us. If we survive, we won't have much to survive with), I don't think there is a need to comment on anego. We're not given a lot of options here. if you're thinking of tagging on for a boss run, bishops are still prefered over AMs. Bishops can heal, bless, holy symbol, dispel, res. What can we do? Give everyone a whooping +20 matk. Plus I doubt any nl/4th job warrior/bm/shad even need anyone else to help them if they plan to solo pap, and even if they did, we would not be top priority.

My Bishop soloed Clock Boss at the early 13X, and it took 40 minutes. Not bad, just be patient with yourself. Pianus is Fire Mage friendly I think. And as for surviving crow, go talk to some Night Lords and especially Archers who frequently fight Crow. I think Crow's damage is double their HP. At least you have a possibility to survive.

As for being wanted at Bosses, you have unfortunately chosen the wrong class for that. Even if Bishops couldn't use any of the Element Wands, your situation wouldn't change...

Bishops are needed as Support, so maybe we get the best of both worlds - Training and Support/Needed at Bosses. Arch Mages have faster training. If you care about Bossing so much, make a new character. Otherwise, if you really want an Element Wand, just go Merchanting.

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As SekushiKun says, let us Bishops waste our mesos on the things we want. It's kind of like buying a purse from a dollar store and a high quality, leather purse. Same function, but then aesthetics also are a factor. Why would people buy the expensive leather purse when they can just buy a cheap plastic one from the dollar store? They do serve the same purpose after all...

I was one of the first in mardia to get an ice elemental wand in mardia. I paid 1.2billion mesos for mine. I had been saving up since i heard about these wands.

This is a wonderful statement. Arch Mages are, in fact, able to acquire Element Wands. Just takes a little hard work.

I think it would be safe to assume that any Arch Mage capable of affording an Elemental Wand, has one already despite how empty the Free Market is.

*Looks at Yellonde and Demethos Ranks only to see many players equipping an Element Weapon*

Who knows how many more Element Wands are being covered by Cash Shop weapons...

I think all in all, since Element Wands are indeed the End Game weapons for the Magicians, it would require hard work to acquire them although the difficulty may vary from server to server... Just plain Hard Work.