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 you may consider using in PVP combat. The first section of the tutorial will explain what procedures you should take when facing another mage.

PVP Combat

• 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.

• Warriors hate running targets, or being unable to target spellcasters they cannot see/reach. If you have the skills skip or invisibility, use them tactically to your advantage.

• If they can't move, you can't be hit. Flash Freeze and slow down your opponent for a maximum of eight seconds, so if you're low on health, use it and abuse it, then flee!

• Push them away! Use the knockback from Thunderbolt and FireWall to keep them away from you.

• Use the elements to your advantage- Mages have a wide variety of elemental skills; 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.

• While warriors have devastating physical strength, it is important to know if you're facing a tank or a DPS warrior. 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 dealing damage and try to stall until your team can assist you. They gain extra fury from being attacked and will be able to deal damage if you hit them.

• 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 heals with a flash freeze or disrupt magic. As healing priests usually have all their skills in one element, disrupt magic would be very effective. A team without healing can quickly be dispatched.

• Avoid damage from other mages with the skill disrupt magic. They can smite your casts and leave you silenced. Time your disrupts carefully- they drain excessive amounts of mana at once, and the casting time is very short, so if you miss, you're in deep water, and you'll have to wait another loooong 15 seconds for the cooldown. If you're lucky, it's possible to disrupt their disrupt magic.

• Remember to use elements to your advantage! Enchanted wind, water, earth, and fire potions can help block the damage from other mages and warriors with elemental gloves or enchantments. The less damage they deal to you, the more damage you deal to them!