Don't underestimate magic attack enchants.The magic attack enchants turn negligible. As much as I'd love to just keep using a magic damage set, it'd still be better to use rosemaries or hebona set with mana reduction so I'll probably use them anyways. I just wish they would buff the enchants to be 4 matk/1.
There is no +INT enchant that replaces them aside from Use (Staff enchant).
In addition, someone with a Merlin avatar claimed in a topic here somewhere that basically, all magic will be doing like 2x-ish damage in the future, and nobody disagreed with them, and there were even people putting up Hail Storm numbers that helped support this. Unless if I'm remembering wrong. Combining that with the new skills and the cast speed fix... It would be laughable to call this a nerf, but if all you see is those formulas you couldn't really be so sure.
PRE (s5 hermit, 10 matk, 1000 int, 23% hermit, magic mastery title, blank pre)
2400 * 1.75* 1.17 * 1.28 * 1.1 = 6919
POST
[2400 + (321 * 12)] * 1.15 = 7190
You must have missed the bit about the cat and I discussing this very point for hours.
Magic does get a buff at endgame, however, only certain skills (Firebolt, Hailstorm to a degree due to the hailstorm reforge) will be doing double or more damage. Right up till endgame, you'll actually be losing damage on certain skills like Ice spear and Thunder. Even fireball, which has the second highest skill modifier:
In addition, we're missing a few pieces of the puzzle as to how the koreans are doing 40k hailstorm unless someone did an accurate calc on that one page I missed, in which case i'd love to see it.
And considering you can do like 20-30k hailstorms at the moment...
In my opinion, the major buff is to bolts and the casting speed fix. The curve is now geared more towards endgame, but this 2x damage concept is pretty laughable.
At worst, magic will be used because of Snap Cast and Meteor Strike. People who "main" magic will have more options at their disposal to include Chaincast Firebolt which will then be worth the heavy costs involved.
I'll Snap Cast Fireball and Thunder while using Ice Spear w/Blaze or Hail Storm depending on the situation. Meteor Strike will see use in really shitty situations like the Belvast Hostage Crisis ambush.
Fireball and Thunder shouldn't see much use outside of Snap Cast barring very specific situations.
Edit(1):
I recall some discussion earlier regarding Blaze. Would it be better to S-Type or R-Type a Savage Ice Wand?
:( makes me sad people are killing their egos and switching to Mage just so they can spam firebolt all day long ;c inb4 needed firebolt nerf.
The magic attack enchants turn negligible. As much as I'd love to just keep using a magic damage set, it'd still be better to use rosemaries or hebona set with mana reduction so I'll probably use them anyways. I just wish they would buff the enchants to be 4 matk/1.
Yeah they did this so mage enchants wouldn't be obligated and let you hybrid with something else without having to change every piece of your gear (even though I was waiting for them to x4 the enchants aswell)
But from what i've seen on KR, a full geared mage (max roll on everything, 1500 int) can get a rough 700+ magic attack.
Making enchants x4 (Coma gives +7 m-atk on max roll x 4 = 28) would take things too far XD.
I'd like to see a source for this because I was led to believe that matk is +4 per level.
Wait. so the discussion for savage wand upgrade path was never addressed. Which is it after the update?
I went S-Type because fuck the price of Red Upgrade Stones. You'll probably end up with slightly higher average damage with an R-Type magic weapon as opposed to an S-Type magic weapon but magic has for the most part always overkilled enemies with anything resembling a critical hit.
My testing and evidence has proven that it's 4 Magic Attack per level. It's seen on KR live and KR Test. So therefore 200 magic attack from reforges is impossible and that's fact.
In addition, we're missing a few pieces of the puzzle as to how the koreans are doing 40k hailstorm unless someone did an accurate calc on that one page I missed, in which case i'd love to see it.
And considering you can do like 20-30k hailstorms at the moment...
Go back and reread the thread. You missed the conversation I had where I showed the calculations for 50k+ Hailstorms. I'm too lazy to look back through the thread and find it for you.
Decided to not be lazy. Here's the two posts:
http://mabination.com/threads/74288-Mabinogi-Zero-Merlin-Update-(Information-Consolidated-and-Organized)?p=1141426&viewfull=1#post1141426
http://mabination.com/threads/74288-Mabinogi-Zero-Merlin-Update-(Information-Consolidated-and-Organized)?p=1141423&viewfull=1#post1141423
So no, we aren't missing any part of the main magic formula. Only thing we are missing is blaze and ego wand.