Mage
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| Job Base: | Novice | ||||||||||||
| Job Type: | First | ||||||||||||
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Overview
Mages are spellcasters, who rely on magic to dispatch enemies quickly. They command the forces of nature to their disposal dealing elemental attribute damage, hence they can take advantage of the weaknesses of targets to deal more damage.
Mages primarily use Rods/Staves that enhance their magic output further, they can also use daggers in times of need. Mage spells are mostly offensive and bear an elemental attribute. So a Mage must know of the elemental weaknesses (or at least not use the element they are resistant to) of their targets to dispose of them quickly, else they would be doing subpar damage. Mages have the lowest HP pool among the classes, and can only use light armor, so their physical defense and HP would usually be one of the lowest, but they can make up for it with their defense spell Energy Coat in expense of consuming more SP.
Mages heavily rely on the INT stat to raise magic attack and partially reduce cast time, DEX will be the secondary stat to invest in which primarily reduces cast time and raises magic attack by a small amount. LUK will also raise magic attack by a small amount but bears a bit more weight than DEX.
A Mage can specialize in harnessing the elemental forces even further as a Wizard, or learn support/defense/magic counter spells as a Sage.
Job Change
Requirement: Novice Job level 10
Head to the northwest building in the City of Geffen (63, 177) and talk to the girl in front of the blackboard, confirm your decision to be a mage and she will ask you to create one of the 4 solutions to pass the test. The ingredients can be checked in the bookshelf on the west corner of the room, (the catalysts will be provided by the mixing machine).
List of the 4 Solutions for the Test:
Solution #1
Requires: 2 Jellopy, 3 Fluff 1 Milk, Yellow Gemstone, Payon Solution
Mixing Code: 8472
Solution #2
Requires: 3 Jellopy, 1 Fluff, 1 Milk, Red Gemstone
Mixing Code: 3735
Solution #3
Requires: 6 Jellopy, 1 Fluff, Blue Gemstone, Payon Solution
Mixing Code: 2750
Solution #4
Requires: 2 Jellopy, 3 Fluff, 1 Carat Diamond, Morroc Solution
Mixing Code: 5429
Milk can be bought at the milk merchant in Prontera (76, 133) for 25z if you have not obtained one while leveling.
Payon Solution is found in the Payon Archer Village (North of Payon Town). The NPC Dollshoi, is located at (118, 100).
Morroc Solution is found in the Pyramids (Northwest Portal from Morroc Town). The NPC Ponka-Hontas can be found at at the oasis which is close to the pyramids entrance (88, 147).
You can proceed to the mixing machine and input the required ingredients and mix them. If you get anything wrong you will have to obtain the ingredients again and repeat the process. Then give the solution to the Mage girl NPC, if you passed then she will finally acknowledge you into the Mage Academy.