I want to remake a mage, but which type?

I haven't played maplestory in a good 3-4 years, I think I quit just after NLC came out...? Not sure. Anyway, I used to play an F/P Mage; I loved it and got it to 80 before quitting. I didn't, however, love 3rd job as much... even 4th job didn't seem very "fun" to me. I've since come back and levelled my bowman to 100 and my cleric to 140 during 3x exp. (I miss it already! It spoiled me... eek!) I'm really wanting to level a good ol' fashion mage now. I like my bishop as a support role and I like my ranger (now my main) for seeing high damage numbers, but I would be interested in having a high damage-dealing magic class. I was never one for melee classes, and most of the new classes don't "grab me" so I don't really want one of those...

Anyway, I can't decided what type to roll, a F/P or I/L mage, an evan, a battle mage or a blaze wizard...

Coming back from a loooong hiatus to all these new classes and changes is kinda overwhelming and I don't really know the difference between each one, the main one that is grabbing my attention is the evan, only because the dragon is so adorable... Battle mages also seem fun to, but I don't know much about them.

What would you suggest? Which of the above is the most fun and viable?

I like dealing high damage, but not obsessed with it, I also like skills that look cool - as well as having some sort of mobility skill like teleport or double jump...

Thoughts?

February 13, 2012

10 Comments • Newest first

soursake

@Hideykun: Oh, my mad. I totes didn't read that. ._.;

Reply February 24, 2012

soursake

A battlemage would be good to start off. <: Biased answer, yes.

With little funding in the beginning you can dish out nice damage. We get our own little HB, that doubles our HP due to being a close combat mage. In addition to teleport, we have yellow aura, which increases movement speed. As the first poster said, come Resistance revamp, we will be able to stack all three of our auras.
Fourth job things get really good with some invincibility with Twister Spin and Party Shield. We get a dark version of Genesis and Stance, which prevents KB at 90% once maxed.

I will warn that you may want to invest in some kind of estaff. Reason being our quintuple/finishing blow are based on speed. And you can really tell the difference in attack speed when using a slow/normal speed staff and going to a fast speed staff.

Well...no melee but I'll leave that in case.

Anyways...I would say i/l or f/p then rofl. Mages got a revamp a while ago~
I lean more towards i/l just because I like the skill set more. You're also good to go as an i/l in terms of mobbing in the beginning and even til 4th (not sure if this applies to f/p since I haven't tried).

Evans are cool looking and all but the though of spending nx on guidebooks is a turn off. ._.;

Reply February 24, 2012 - edited

Arcana27961

[quote=kaisxx23]i suggest BaMs. they do alot of damage compared to the other mages bcuz of ADA...[/quote]

Not really.

Reply February 24, 2012 - edited

wizardq

[quote=Segumisama]Maybe one of these other "which mage should I make?" threads should help you. They were all made in the past few weeks.

http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2353138
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2350231
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2352435
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2351877
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2352063
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2349911
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2349593
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2347574
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2346852
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2345906
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2345301
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2336991
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2336878
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2335496
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2331778[/quote]

So many puppies

Reply February 24, 2012 - edited

Segumisama

Maybe one of these other "which mage should I make?" threads should help you. They were all made in the past few weeks.

Reply February 24, 2012 - edited

lilnarutoboy

Black mage