The Mana Master:The Ultimate Build

• Cardplayer wrote on 2010-06-07 19:45

  Quote from Archibald;53293:

  That kinda confirms my build for me also. Your very very good at melee from your vids. But no one can avoid the occaionsal hit, unless they are level 900 running ciar normal.

  
  
  or 100 alby beginner XD
• Trigger wrote on 2010-06-09 04:54
  After looking over enchants on the wiki, I found that it is entirely possible to replace the near-impossible Musician's enchant with Fearless -- the wearer sacrifices only 5 HP/MP/SP for the extreme convenience of the enchant. Well worth it imho. Polished can also substitute for Musician's. Both Polished and Fearless forego the risk of stepping enchants and losing durability that comes with the R8 Musician's enchant.
• Tyson wrote on 2010-06-09 11:11

  Quote from Syrphid;52673:

  That's my mantra too, but on a good day I eat like 20 hits. If I never get hit I'm running dumb dungeons.

  
  :U Well, Sucks to be you~
  
  

  Quote from Kyle;52699:

  Bro you can't talk about not getting hit, I see you get hit all the time and then you're dead.

  
  Really...'_';
  So what? Just because i dislike Fake Die (Hide) Spamming or running like a little *****, Doesnt mean others cant.
  And might i add i was without armour, high defense, high health, nor protection
  
  
  

  Quote from Syrion;52670:

  i feel like this thread has come full circle

  
  >:3 Help me make it into a square!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
  
  Circles make me feel bent :(
  
  Note: I like to Magnum spam....So my advice (Win as it may be) May not be relevant to all of you
  
  Question: Cant you just Firebolt to not get hit?, Not that i've ever used Firebolt except in Dueling
• Syrphid wrote on 2010-06-09 18:11

  Quote from Tyson;58752:

  Question: Cant you just Firebolt to not get hit?, Not that i've ever used Firebolt except in Dueling

  
  
  I don't see how that works for anything greater than 2x aggro; fb spam one and pet boltcounter the other. With 3x aggro the other one will kill you.
• Tyson wrote on 2010-06-15 07:40

  Quote from Syrphid;59024:

  I don't see how that works for anything greater than 2x aggro; fb spam one and pet boltcounter the other. With 3x aggro the other one will kill you.

  
  
  I wasnt meaning spamming, i was meaning, If a monster charges at you just Firebolt it away
  
  Also, Theres Pet Revolver, And Elf tactic 101
• Syrphid wrote on 2010-06-15 19:03

  Quote from Tyson;64898:

  I wasnt meaning spamming, i was meaning, If a monster charges at you just Firebolt it away
  
  Also, Theres Pet Revolver, And Elf tactic 101

  
  
  Defeating single aggro is trivial. The point of mana master build is to tank shizloads of aggro, something firebolt would fail at.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-06-15 19:35

  Quote from Tyson;64898:

  I wasnt meaning spamming, i was meaning, If a monster charges at you just Firebolt it away
  
  Also, Theres Pet Revolver, And Elf tactic 101

  
  
  Try soloing ciar adv Hardmode with play dead and pet revolver, can you say...40 hours? The point of this build is to be able to do the hardest dungeons in the game with little to 0 deaths solo. It works nice for party play to since no matter who else is dying. Your always alive.
• Zatrox wrote on 2010-06-16 19:19
  What is the Mana Master's strategy for being juggled?
  I know mana shield can tank the hits, but doesn't it have no way to fight back? Golem control is impossible when you're being juggled (you are kicked back constantly). I'm speaking in a situation with 5x mobs with near-instant aggro.
  
  WM I'd assume? But you're using either a Wand or a Cylinder, both of which have pathetic melee damage and you'd have problems killing the mobs at hand.
  
  Guide needs a video (just have an Elf in Hide record for you) for full completion IMO.
• wolfram wrote on 2010-06-16 19:33

  Quote from Zatrox;66446:

  What is the Mana Master's strategy for being juggled?
  I know mana shield can tank the hits, but doesn't it have no way to fight back? Golem control is impossible when you're being juggled (you are kicked back constantly). I'm speaking in a situation with 5x mobs with near-instant aggro.
  
  WM I'd assume? But you're using either a Wand or a Cylinder, both of which have pathetic melee damage and you'd have problems killing the mobs at hand.
  
  Guide needs a video (just have an Elf in Hide record for you) for full completion IMO.

  
  
  The point of mana master isn't to get juggled. All that def/prot with mana shield just means you can survive quite a few hits when you get hit. Zyrus guide does say that you should build Barriers and learn how to use pets for aggro control. Although if they ping you, Blaze works.
  
  Zyrus has said that it takes about 2 hours to complete Adv HM style dungeon, which this build was designed to solo. That's a lot of footage for a video.
• Syrphid wrote on 2010-06-17 06:15

  Quote from wolfram;66453:

  Zyrus has said that it takes about 2 hours to complete Adv HM style dungeon, which this build was designed to solo. That's a lot of footage for a video.

  
  
  Vids of various situations such as typical rooms, handling wall/pet fails, party play, etc., would be very useful. 5 minutes can say as much as 2 hours.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-06-17 13:14
  Ok been very busy lately but I'll try to get a vid up. The truth is that the strategy is no different than say any normal Mage strategy except the fact that when You have to Melee you use Golems and when you want to heal you use Lifedrain/healing. I'll see whos free and well record 1 room of ciar adv HM and 1 room of peaca.
• Warhead wrote on 2010-06-23 16:40
  I have some questions about this potion poisen:O 1. Does it take that many stam pots to be poisend? 2.how long does it last? 3.does tranzing cure u?
• wolfram wrote on 2010-06-23 17:24
  it doesn't take that many stam 30's to get pot poisoned, but you want to be deep in pot poisoning to maximize the mp gains from drinking an mp pot. You want the message to flash "Drinking any more of this may be dangerous to your health" or something like that to flash on the screen. Then drink some more, this level of potion poisoning goes away fairly quickly if your not constantly drinking pots so you want to be in as deep as possible.
  
  Although your level of pot poisoning goes away fairly fast if your not deep into pot poisoning or constantly drinking pots, the effect from pot poisoning last for a great while. The effects you'll notice most from drinking stam pots is the 0 strength and 0 will you will have. That effect on your character will last a while unless you utilize the hot springs correctly to regain stats.
  
  As for the question about trans, trans will boost your stats, but when you are that deep into pot poisoning, you will see little to no gain in your stats. Personally i have gone from 0 strength to 0 strength when I trans-ed when in pot poisoned status.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-06-23 17:36
  Tanking is fine and all, but I don't see how you are soloing Ciar Adv HM in like 2 hours or less. What are you doing to kill the rooms so fast?
  
  If you going to show a video, do it without blaze, since you say you are killing Ciar Advance HM/Peaca really fast back then.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-06-23 19:06
  Well I used to use Thunder Chain like this.
  
  5 charges > 1 charge > 2 Charge > 1 Charge > 2 Charge ---until dead. You have to be precise with your Thundering so as not to mess up your own aggro.
  
  Now its much easier to spam icespear and move 3-5 mobs into a corner then on last icespear charge a full charge of blaze and take out the whole room. This method is much safer and takes about the same time.
  
  Sidenote: I'm getting ready for Grad school right now and am only logging in about 1 time a week. Not sure when I can make the Video.
  
  Once you have this skillset try it out and mess with it. At this point in the game you should have mastered using pets, developing a good AI maybe, handling aggro as a mage and using alchemy like barrier spikes effectively.