Zyrus's Mage leveling Method : Fireball

• Archibald wrote on 2011-02-10 18:36
  Setup:
  Mission: Offering Hardmode
  Skills: R1 fireball, Boltcomposer (any rank), R1 Fire Mastery
  Stats:600+ int
  Equips: S3 Fireball Wand
  
  
  Since g13 and bolt composer and new int formula I have been messing around with this. I used to do only offering adv but the exp is slow. So now I have a new method to do my leveling in Hardmode offering.
  
  [video=youtube;9q7UHztkfTA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7UHztkfTA[/video]
  
  Enjoy.
• Wing wrote on 2011-02-10 18:50
  Very nice.. Is this faster than soloing kings? O o
• Archibald wrote on 2011-02-10 19:06
  I solo kings in about 12-14 mins. The average experience for that is around 340k with a 2x pot. With a 2x pot 15 mins = about 450-600k exp for offering Hardmode depending on mob groups.
  
  figuring I can do about 9 Kings in 2 hours and 7.5 Offerings
  
  Offering Hardmode = 3.375 Mil --> 4.5 Mil
  New Kings Hardmode =3.060 Mil
  
  So offering is superior in Exp. I also think it has lots more gold. Although you miss on a chance for snow webs and some other rares.
• Wing wrote on 2011-02-10 19:10
  Ahh that's nice O_O..if I ever play again I wanna start a mage or rank magic skills xD
• Joker wrote on 2011-02-10 20:04
  i'll prob spam g13 lol.... if not then prob... SCC >.>
  
  great tactic for pure mages
• TropicalCat wrote on 2011-02-10 21:10
  Awesome guide man, cant wait to start magic!!!
• Username wrote on 2011-02-10 23:12
  If i play that far after alchemy; that seems pretty fun. But im not that great with using pets as a use in battle.
• newpants wrote on 2011-02-11 01:30
  so... do you end up finishing offering?
  
  or do you kill the mobs till time runs out?
• Phunkie wrote on 2011-02-11 01:33
  Hey, you know you can make your pets target your enemies with Ctrl+Shift. :P
  
  Also, this looks rather annoying though. Having to handle the pets and whatnot. I recall seeing a video where someone used Thunder in between the tents and didn't really get attacked. She used pets as well, but not as much as you did.
  
  Perhaps that's a better spot?
• Archibald wrote on 2011-02-11 02:04
  Thunder literally will take 6-7x the mana pots, I've done both. I can use less than 1 stack every 15 mins with fireball. I have watched that video, and lots of his videos, and corresponded with that JP player about these things.
  
  As far as controlling pets, for some reason when I have a magic skill loading like fireball I cannot use control + shift with pets. I have to stop loading the charges, use ctr shift, then start charging again. So while charging I just right click the mobs. It looks like I'm doing 2 things at once but really I am not.
  
  Another thing about using thunder, you will not be able to get the drops until the mission fails at about 15 mins. With fireball all it takes is 1 crit in middle of the circle and the whole group is gone. Use a fast horse and pick up the drops and rush back to get ready.
  
  With -10% clothes on and fire master title and r1 fire mastery I use 92 MP per fireball. The total cost of 15 mins of offering HM is about 3k mana. Often times I level within that 15 mins (since its 450k+ exp) or have trans. Personally I have over 800 mana all the time and 900+ mana with my mana set on. People with lower mana totals will use more pots but that goes for thunder as well. If I get desperate for mana I have demi god capped too.
  
  Fireballing in the middle is also a mistake. Unless you have barrier spikes up you will never get the second fireball up. That method might work with trinity staff but the slower load time will be annoying + all of the barriers you would use+ charging the skill to start. I will test and see if I can make that work though since the idea has merit.
  
  
  I have been using offering adv to level for 7 months and I have finished only 1 mission. I was trying very hard to make the mobs land just right but fireball is not the right weapon for it. Once I finish Hailstorm I plan on setting 2 rows of barrier spikes up and using that skill to solo offering HM AND finish it.
• Justified wrote on 2011-02-11 02:10

  Quote from Archibald;329929:

  As far as controlling pets, for some reason when I have a magic skill loading like fireball I cannot use control + shift with pets. I have to stop loading the charges, use ctr shift, then start charging again. So while charging I just right click the mobs. It looks like I'm doing 2 things at once but really I am not.

  
  
  I'm able to control pets normally as long as I do not have the 5th charge fully loaded.
  For that reason, I usually hold off on the last charge until I see an appropriate set up.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2011-02-11 05:17
  How is this compared to like soloing SCC HM?
  
  Fireballing seems like it cost a lot of mana pots as opposed to spending only Stamina pots in SCC.
• gentrone wrote on 2011-02-11 05:42

  Quote from Tropacat;329367:

  awesome guide man, cant wait to start magic!!!

  
  
  This is not much of a 'guide' actually.
• Archibald wrote on 2011-02-11 14:33

  Quote from EndlessDreams;330538:

  How is this compared to like soloing SCC HM?
  
  Fireballing seems like it cost a lot of mana pots as opposed to spending only Stamina pots in SCC.

  
  
  Well when I finish clay mastery to r1 I'll let you know cause I doubt it could compare t0 4-6 min SCC runs. With a 2x pot my average SCC gives 240k Exp. Currently since I'm a mage, with only 350 dex for range and not a great max set for crash, and I don't have enough melee to melee it, I do have r1 alchemy mastery and r1 golems but without clay I don't feel like trying that yet.
  
  Its a mini guide. It gives a clear cut method to leveling as a mage.
  
  As for mana pots I only use 1-1.5 stack per 15 mins.
• TropicalCat wrote on 2011-02-11 15:32

  Quote from gentrone;330588:

  This is not much of a 'guide' actually.

  
  
  and who really cares?