User talk:Varst
Supportive Spells:
Protection
Gives 25% bonus to your armor's physical and magical defense.
More useful for melees, less useful for mages (as clothes have low defense)
Haste
Gives you extra action speed.
Useful for almost any type of gameplay except bleeding.
Its effect is more significant when you progress in levels.
It may or may not help mages to shed off damage, depending on the number of creatures which can react after a mage cast a certain spell.
As for melees, a definite plus to stun.
Shadow Veil
Gives you 20% increment in evade.
Since it depends on your CURRENT evade (which in turn depends on your burden), extra burden means SY is more inefficient.
So it's useless for heavy melees now (who has almost 0 evade)
Partial effective for gossamer mages and kevlar melees (who has some evade, but not much)
Effective for EDB mages and shade melees (who has full evade)
Absorb
A universal spell.
Not that good at lower level because
1. It only targets magical attacks. (from elementals/bosses/legends/gods only)
2. It cannot prevent critical hits. ( can be solved in conjunction with bewilder)
3. It only has 75% success chance.
4. There's something called scroll of absorption which has 100% success chance.
It can be good for high-level players when casting with surplus channeling.
Spark of Life
A universal spell.
A spell you'll eventually use when running through arenas.
There're better alternatives in some situations
ROB against gods for mages -> use scroll of life to lower SP cost
ROB against gods for melees -> silence is better
Spkies
Useless for mages. I don't think they're useful for melees.
But hey, you can train your prof. with spikes! (since it has lowest cost)
Arcane Focus/Heartseeker
I don't think I need to explain it, right?
A must pick for their individual playstyle.
SP shield
Another universal spell.
You need this spell when you play high-difficulty areans/normal EODs.
A very good substitute for spark, but it's less useful once you progress in levels.
Eventually you'll need SP shield together with spark.
Curative Spells
Cure 1
Good. You should pick that, and you'll always need that.
Cure 2
Still good. Not as useful as cure 1 though.
Cure 3
It sucks. Even heavy melees don't need them now. Bye Bye.
Regen 1/2
You need them because they can smooth your hp recovery rate.
You probably would like to cast these spells because of its high cost.
Deprecating Spells
Poison
Good against bosses/legends gods.
The damage is not the main focus; it's the reduction in monster's SP/MP regen rate that it's useful.
Because of its long duration, you probably need to put 1 AP only, till you meet gods.
1 AP should provide you with enough duration to kill most of the enemies/bosses/legends.
Slow
It slows down monster's action speed by 50%.
Not that useful at lower level, mainly because of its short duration.
This spell will get better once you have better action speed and depreciating prof.
Weaken
Reduce physical damage by 50% and prevents crit.
A very useful spell for both mages and melees against bosses/legends/gods.
Also useful when you play in x25 difficulty.
Sleep/Confuse
Not a very useful spell.
The problem is that it's too easy to break, and it has low duration.
Bewilder
Reduce magical damage by 50% and prevents crit.
Not as useful as its physical counterpart, but can be used in conjunction with scroll of absorption against magical attacks.
Blind
Reduce physical/magical hit chance by 25%.
A very good spell, but it will not be your first priority.
Silence
Prevent monsters from using special attacks and magic.
Bread and butter for melees against gods. Also useful against bosses/legends.
However
1. It will dispel blind and weaken. It means you'll take more damage and crits.
2. It only prevents monsters from using its skills. It doesn't drain monster's SP/MP, so monsters will still use them whenever silence is off.
It's not that useful for mages because you can'y use silence with weaken, which means you'll get more hits.
Nerf
Bread and butter for any type of gameplay.
It reduces damage, lower monster's evade and resist chance, and reduce monster's defense.
With offensive and defensive potential, it's certainly a must-pick.
X-Nerf
AOE version of Nerf.
Not a must pick, but useful against 3 or more enemies.
MagNet
Reduce monster's action speed by 25% and make them unable to evade attacks.
The later part is more important when you play in the last round of lv.300 arenas, against those dragons.
Otherwise it's just another slow.
Lifestream
Absorbs HP from monster.
Because the damage dealt is so low, it simply doesn't worth it.
