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@QuackOutLoud I've already made my UA I/L, and I'm liking it, but it's really weak and I'm going to be hitting so low with Chain Lightning.. What's a decent range for an I/L around 140?

Ice Lightning's are pretty fun!
Fire Poisons rely on Damage over time a lot, so its not AS great; while Ice Lightnings kind of just Freeze and mob everything. Ice Lightning's also get DoT with Ice Demon, Blizzard, and Glacial Chain, so its pretty nice! (I also recently figured out that Snow Demon and Glacial Chain DoT stacks!)

Fire Poisons are supposed to be stronger than Ice Lightnings though.

But Fire Poisons are rare, so if you'd like to contribute to the fairly low population of Fire Poisons, that could be nice!

@elmodahpimp: There are some attributes that they share, but they are also still very different. If you like your BW I'm sure you'd probabaly like your F/P, however F/P has more DoT and their main 4th job skills rely on DoT so if you don't like that I wouldn't advise being a F/P. Never-the-less the only true way to be sure is if you try it out yourself . I greatly enjoy mine and it's unique play style and I'd recommend it to anyone who genuinely likes mages.

@GoldenBow Do you think the playstyle of a Blaze Wizard is anything close to a Fire Poison, so if I end up really liking my Blaze Wizard I would know somewhat how a Fire Poison plays? And could ultimately decide on what class to make?

[quote=PaleGreen]I have a UA IL and it's my favorite class. I don't use Flame Gears ever, though a UA FP would be making use of it (often?).[/quote]
F/P UE who are smart will use their Gears. Due to the fact that it adds more DoT and ME gets a bigger bonus if you use it. Not to mention combined with misting in 3rd job I was getting amazing exp. Each R&J PQ I got over 60% at level 95+ [b]which is excluding the exp you get from finishing[/b]. I literally got 60%+ exp on 1x from killing roids with my party for about 10 minutes each pq. It was insane I just went from left to right misting, then right to left using gears. By the time I got to one side one of my skills was starting to disappear.

I made both and I love em both . I'd go UE for F/P though because it gets more use of gears due to DoT.

Thanks for you input! I've been leaning a bit more towards I/L to begin with

No doubt that I/L's are very fun. The thing is, at fourth job, Meteor is more powerful than Blizzard. Chain Lightning, IMO, is better than paralyze, because of it's distance. I/L's are also better because they can freeze, which makes it easier to attack, and no magic attack on you, while with F/P, you only burn, and still m.atk can be hit on you.
All in all, I/L's are powerful and fun!