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hi im a evan and i am level 91 and i am lukless and i hit 10k per line with dragon thrust and i use the beginner set and a level 56 staff i spend nothing and i only have 3m left what should i do heelp me

Ok, after thinking about it all I have concluded this:

I will max all of my skills
I will get link skills when I feel up to leveling up
I will keep empress and potential scroll it and cube it in events
I will try to get attack boosts on the way (mark of csomethingsomething)
I will try to raise more money to get strong armours that add to what I already have (not seen on surface shoulders and stuff) and let it be %int

I wont sp reset unless there is an event because it is too hard and I can make it up with %int
I will keep my ele staff for now because it is fun and it has 20% damage increase for lightning and 15% for ice so thats good to do

... so I shall head my way now. Thanks everyone! I'm locking this thread soon, but I got quite some from it!

The full empress set gives really nice set bonuses but 4 pieces aren't enough.
You can buy 3% int items and get really nice results for 10% of the price of empress, so you'll have much more money for other stuff.

What you should do imo is:
- You'll get a significant boost for equiping 6% int earrings (here in Bello 6% stat earrings are 10-20m).
- Buy 3% int armors - shoes, overall, gloves, hat (1-6m in Bello).
- Max your passive damage boosting skills (Arcane Aim, Infinity, Elquines, etc...)
- Keep your empress set in your inventory for cubing in the future.

P.S.
I can't believe anyone still cares about damage in lhc.
A single well-funded lumi can kill a whole spawn wave without even moving.

LOL your character is so cute I could just eat you up
Anyway here's what I'd do to get myself a higher range:

Get a MoN, it gives you 10-12 MATK and is obtainable from Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest.

Kanna link skill (Took me 2-3 days to get her/him to 100 for the 10% Damage boost link)

There is currently an AP reset available in the Sengoku Shop the costs 50 coins, to make an easy 40 coins you have to do the Party Quest Master event quest which requires you to complete 5 set party quests 5 times each so you can bring that LUK down to 0 and raise your INT.

Sell that Ele Wand (Please correct me if I'm wrong here as I have no clue how good they are) to get yourself a Loveless Staff/Wand instead, they have really high base MATK and if you manage to land a 5 Star Enhancement Scroll on it after you're done scrolling it then its MATK will go much, much higher. I don't know how much they cost over there in Windia but they're cheap in Bera. It's risky with the 5 Star Scroll so it's your choice on whether you want to do it but the reward is great.

Try to get %INT on your Earrings, Belt and Cape. it shouldn't cost you much at all.

I'm not really experienced with Magicians but that's all I got for now.
If my advice about changing your weapon was bad then someone correct me.

Well, I have infinity, chain lightning, blizzard, buff mastery, and glacial chain all maxed out. I'm working on arcane aim (right now level 7) so maybe that'll change things a lot.

Its true I use the ele wand 4 - its so pretty with that gold floating ball and rainbow borders - and so that's why I have luk. I don't really like to rely on equipts for luk so I think with that I'll try to get some %int or something to cover that. If a sp reset comes maybe ill lower the luk I have to 110 (i have 124 luk right now, 103 is needed to equipt the staff!). It's not the strongest - 151 ma + 21 int, but I like it so I'll make it up with % int anyways.

I actually only have 1 single character, because its fun that way harhar but I guess perhaps I can consider getting some link skills after the classes open up again and If I feel like training new characters. Im sort of really lazy he.

I guess I'll build up my financial reserve in maple with the usual eventing stuff and go from there, because Im horrible at buying and selling - I'm a classic monster drop meso collector all the way.Fortunetly I am a monster card collector and I have all the cards except for empress, von leon, horntail, the showa bosses, and zakum!

It's a relief to hear that the yellow damage I do at one single point in time is not my final range! I can do lots with infinity thats true! Up to 120k per line of cl! THanks for all that info! And people reading this post, keep telling me more! I like to read stuff!

Well, there are some thing that you can check to see if you can help your range to go up a bit.

First, do you have your skills maxed? The important skills are Buff mastery, Chain Lightning, Glacial Chain, Infinity, Arcane Aim, Elquines, and (if you can afford it) Maple Warrior). AA gives you 40% total damage when training continuously, Infinity boosts your damage tremendously but for a short period of time, Glacial Chain gives DoT to LHC monsters so you deal an additional 20% total damage (we are up to 60% right here, and this is without infinity). Elquines is just for some additional damage, that is always useful when training.

Second, you said that you are not lukless. I suppose this is because you are using a Ele staff 4 right? I recommend to try and equip it while being lukless (or as low luk as possible), those extra points in INT help.

Also, you can get the kanna link skill (10% total damage), the Angelic Buster link skill (50% total damage for 10 seconds [this gets extended by buff mastery to ~15 seconds]), Phantom link skill (10% crit will give your CL a lot of crits everywhere, and criticals help with damage enormously), Mihile link skill to make your training less tedious (100% stance for 90 seconds [120 seconds with Buff Mastery]), and Luminous link skill (10% PDR).

If you are unfunded, you gotta merch with the money you got, and amass many little boost (for example, I have all the link skills except hayato's, I use an effective character card deck, I also use either Aqua Road or Leafre set from the monster book, and some other things).

Ice Lightning Arch Mages do not do their true damage immediately when fighting. Our damage rises and rises until we have 60% total damage (I'm talking about LHC mobs, that have the HP to last for a few seconds of attack spamming) and is kinda cyclical when when using Infinity.