Should I give ice spear to my assistant elf or human (main)?

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Kelvas wrote on 2013-11-25 21:26

I'm close to getting ice spear, I'm just missing the two most expensive pages (IS2,EJ3)
[If anyone has EJ3, I'll buy it for 1mil on Alexina]

I'm still thinking on what to do with the skill. Should I teach it to my assistant elf character, or my main human mage who already has thunder?

If I teach it to my human then I can get the elemental master title. However, I always find myself low on APs, and I still want to rank magic weapon mastery (to make my bolts better) and thunder, and won't have any left for ice spear. My human mage uses a speed casting lightning wand for thunder, which is at r5, and mana knuckles for it's ability to double as a staff. Due to my focus on thunder, I most likely won't use Ice Spear often. :fail3:

You probably already know that elves have a much lower mana cost for ice spear, but the thing is that my assistant elf character is an archer, not a mage. :shoe: (R3 Ranged Attack, R4 Magnum, RB Bow Mastery and RA Critical). [I'm too lazy to rank life skills] Would making my elf into a magic/ranged hybrid a good idea? (If I do, I'll probably just focus on the ice element)

I already have an ice wand prepared, which I can just transfer to either character.

When I finish collecting the pages, would it be a better idea to teach ice spear to assistant elf, or human mage?
Ninjam wrote on 2013-11-25 21:32

Mabinogi rewards you for focusing on one character. If your human is a mage, get icespear on it, even if you don't think you will use it often. You will need to rank it later anyway as it gives stats and is needed for later ranks of skills such as spellwalk.

Every skill does not need to be ranked immediately, keep icespear on your human so you don't have to hunt it again later.
Kelvas wrote on 2013-11-25 23:10

Quote from Ninjam;1173122:
Mabinogi rewards you for focusing on one character. If your human is a mage, get icespear on it, even if you don't think you will use it often. You will need to rank it later anyway as it gives stats and is needed for later ranks of skills such as spellwalk.

Every skill does not need to be ranked immediately, keep icespear on your human so you don't have to hunt it again later.

Good point. Collecting pages, especially for ice spear is annoying. Thanks for a quick response!