Mage battle tactics

Causing extreme frustration and pain to your opponents as a mage requires strategy, skill, and mass output of damage. This tutorial will cover more advanced techniques for general use and you may consider using them in PvP combat.

Use the elements to your advantage- Mages have a wide variety of elemental spells; study the table of elements and you will become proficient in maximizing your damage output utilizing your opponent's element. Take caution- experienced players may purposefully drink elemental potions with the hope of decreasing your damage towards them. Counter this by using a variety of spells in battle. Acting unpredictably is to your advantage. If you are facing another mage, find out what element your opponent is using (ex. Fire Element Spells, Water Element Spells, etc). Depending on their element, find out what spells and skills they know and use this to your advantage.

Choosing and Building the Right Elemental Set

Part of a Mage's repertoire of spells depend on how you use your chosen element to the best of your ability. Not only do you have to consider about the elemental weaknesses of your opponent, you also have to consider the cards that you are dealt with and how you can use them. A Mage can choose from four elemental play styles, but the general assumption is that you stick with either Fire, Water or Wind in PvE combat, while you have the additional option of Earth in PvP.

Recall that a Mage becomes weaker if one possesses more than one element in their build. For Wind and Earth builds specifically, there lies a problem due to the excessive number of points that you wouldn't otherwise have in Fire or Water builds. For this reason, those builds need to incorporate a few skills from other elements in order to improve their performance. But, there is a scarce amount of points that you do have to make use of those incorporated skills, so you can't just go ahead and spend it on whatever you like. Very likely, one of these two builds will become a build that you use to dump your teleport skills and invisibility skill on to get around. You have to keep these aspects in mind when you are deciding on a proper set that maximizes your damage output.

PvP Combat

• When facing another Mage:
  • Mages require mana to cast spells, so it is vital to find ways to drain your opponent's mana or burn fury while conserving yours at the same time. Mages often use Mana Shield to conserve health and avoid damage, however, it drains mana. So attack! This burns their mana quickly and leaves them vulnerable to damage.
• Avoid damage from other mages with the skill disrupt magic. Time your disrupts carefully- they drain excessive amounts of mana at once, and the casting time is very short, so if you miss, you'll have to wait another loooong 15 seconds for the cooldown.

• When facing Warriors:
  • Warriors are slow at chasing running targets, and they are helpless if unable to target spellcasters they cannot see/reach. If you have the skills skip or invisibility, use them tactically to your advantage. Position yourself on a platform that may be difficult for a Warrior to reach.
  • If a warrior reaches you, they can smite your casts and leave you silenced. Keep warriors at a distance with the knockback from Thunderbolt or Fire Wall. If they can't get to you, they can't melee or use any of their skills. Be wary- warriors usually counter this with Charge.
  • If they can't move, you can't be hit. Flash Freeze will immobilize your opponent for a maximum of eight seconds. Stay on your toes- a Schwartzwald Trinket will allow the victim to dispel the freeze.

• While warriors have devastating physical strength, knowing if you're facing a tank or a DPS warrior will be to your advantage. Usually, you can judge this based on their armor and skills.
  • If facing a DPS warrior, keep distance between you and use knock-back skills and freeze to keep them from landing hits on you. They need to be able to land solid hits to gain fury, so if they can't touch you, they can't deal very much damage.
  • If facing a Tank, avoid casting spells that will generate fury and try to stall until your team can assist you. Tanks gain extra fury from being attacked and will be able to deal damage if you hit them.

• When facing Priests
  • Damage priests often have a wide range of skills that prevent them from having elemental weaknesses. It's quickest to simply deal as much damage as possible to prevent them from denting your team's health. Silence them with Disrupt Magic or Freeze them until they can be disposed of by a warrior.
  • Healing priests are extremely important to the other team- halt their healing with a flash freeze or disrupt magic. As healing priests usually have all their skills in one element, disrupt magic is very effective. A team without healing can quickly be dispatched.

Remember to manipulate elements to your advantage! Enchanted wind, water, earth, and fire potions can reduce the damage received from other mages' elemental spells and attacks warriors with elemental gloves or enchantments. The less damage they deal to you, the longer you survive to wreak havoc upon the other team!