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Thanks guys.

I wanted to answer this one because, for the longest time, I was confused over the wording IA's description. The latter is correct.

The spell you put on autocast will constantly be active, and it consumes a little bit of MP during each action you take. For example, if you set Haste on IA, it won't spend 100 or whatever MP at the beginning of each round - instead, Haste is always active, and it drains a small amount of your MP each time you attack, etc.

The MP drain is very manageable with Mana Draughts.

At your level, I'd focus on picking up serviceable equipment first, if you haven't already.

My equipment is just a mix of averages/superiors from drops but it's good enough to let me live through nightmare arenas and hell random encounters/lower arenas. Or should I be able to withstand a higher difficulty at my level?

should I be able to withstand a higher difficulty at my level?

I don't remember specifics of my extreme early game experience (it was like two years ago), but that sounds about right.

Eventually I found my way into an Exquisite Rapier and Force Shield, and that let me play on IWBTH and PFUDOR.

Thanks guys.
My equipment is just a mix of averages/superiors from drops but it's good enough to let me live through nightmare arenas and hell random encounters/lower arenas. Or should I be able to withstand a higher difficulty at my level?

That's about right for the 100s. Your heath pools aren't large enough yet to go higher. High 100s, the expansion of your mana/health pool will make hells a little easier. The steady increase in your pool sizes in the 200s will also simplify your approaches. But as pool sizes are affected by gear, hath perks, etc, YMMV.

BTW, if you have a shot at innate arcana 1, then you can put spark of life on there, and it /will/ make it much easier to manage casting.

So I found out that an explosion happens if I use Drain on an enemy that has an elemental debuff.

Is there a way for me to boost the damage of the explosion?
I'll post a pic of what I mean.


Edit : Ugh, I fucking hate that Donald Trump pet. It's just instant game over for me if I get him in the battle. An enemy team of 7-10 in PFUDOR? It is a problem, but I can beat it. Donald Trump in Hard mode? I'm dead.
For fucks sake, that pet deals around x8-x12 of my health in a single spell attack, which is especially stupid. The only, ONLY enemy I have trouble defeating is the Donald Trump enemy.

This post has been edited by Epicskunk: May 12 2017, 16:36

may I ask for some weapon recommendation???
I'm playing DW light with this main and offhand...
but i feel too squishy when I play RE on nintendo, casting heal too often...
when I check on the wiki, it says that rapier waki combo is much better on def than club rapier combo...
the problem is that the rapier of slaughter I have are only these mag rapier and exq rapier...
the other rapier are mostly balance one and 1 battlecaster...
so should I swap my club with one of those rapier??? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
and which one of these are better for the offhand weapon???
Leg waki swift, mag waki swift, mag ethe waki balance...

So I found out that an explosion happens if I use Drain on an enemy that has an elemental debuff.

Is there a way for me to boost the damage of the explosion?
I'll post a pic of what I mean.

guess this happens because deprecating spells are still seen like forbidden ones for certain things.

Edit : Ugh, I fucking hate that Donald Trump pet. It's just instant game over for me if I get him in the battle. An enemy team of 7-10 in PFUDOR? It is a problem, but I can beat it. Donald Trump in Hard mode? I'm dead.
For fucks sake, that pet deals around x8-x12 of my health in a single spell attack, which is especially stupid. The only, ONLY enemy I have trouble defeating is the Donald Trump enemy.

this guy is the one you may want to yell at: https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showuser=940068



just kidding. you may not want to (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

may I ask for some weapon recommendation???
I'm playing DW light with this main and offhand...
but i feel too squishy when I play RE on nintendo, casting heal too often...
when I check on the wiki, it says that rapier waki combo is much better on def than club rapier combo...
the problem is that the rapier of slaughter I have are only these mag rapier and exq rapier...
the other rapier are mostly balance one and 1 battlecaster...
so should I swap my club with one of those rapier??? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
and which one of these are better for the offhand weapon???
Leg waki swift, mag waki swift, mag ethe waki balance...

try to switch the offhand rapier you're using now as mainhand, and... uh... one of the wakis as offhand. do your tests. if you had a nimble i would've told you to use that one.
your armors?

plus, DW can be quite dangerous at that level since shade armors aren't strong enough yet. do you have a shield in your inventory?

guess this happens because deprecating spells are still seen like forbidden ones for certain things.

And...?

Edit : Ugh, I fucking hate that Donald Trump pet. It's just instant game over for me if I get him in the battle. An enemy team of 7-10 in PFUDOR? It is a problem, but I can beat it. Donald Trump in Hard mode? I'm dead.
For fucks sake, that pet deals around x8-x12 of my health in a single spell attack, which is especially stupid. The only, ONLY enemy I have trouble defeating is the Donald Trump enemy.

When I was around your level, I liberally used Silence during harder battles to shut down multiple tough mobs (Better Silence = hits multiple targets). Spamming mass Silence + mass Weaken helped my survivability a great deal in rounds with 7+ mobs because it prevents sudden damage spikes from enemy spirit attacks. And as a bonus, I now have 270+ deprecating proficiency thanks to all that debuffing (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Oh, and don't expect to ever escape Trump. I'm currently level 374 and I encounter him at least 50 times a day (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

try to switch the offhand rapier you're using now as mainhand, and... uh... one of the wakis as offhand. do your tests. if you had a nimble i would've told you to use that one.
your armors?

plus, DW can be quite dangerous at that level since shade armors aren't strong enough yet. do you have a shield in your inventory?

these are my current light armor
(head, body, hands, legs, feet)
the best nimble waki I have is this waki, the others are too low for my lv...
as for shield, these ones are the shield that not too far for my lv...
exq buckler of barrier, sup agi buckler of protection, sup mithril buckler of nimble, sup kite shield of protect
should I change to 1h heavy build with low prof on 1h and heavy???

And...?

These explosions are a feature mostly used by melee currently.

It seems that in the past, it was interesting to exploit explosion damage and be a "rainbow" mage, so you would cast a sequence of elemental spells or be casting holy/dark spells in turn to get explosion damage every turn, but in the current patch, it's better to focus only on a single element as a mage to deal the most damage possible.

The fact that deprecating spells cause explosions to happen with the breached defense status effect is, like Scremaz said, because deprecating spells seem to be considered as forbidden.

This might be corrected in future patches, but if you want, you can try grinding your deprecating proficiency to see if the damage increases, but your best option would be just level grinding until you get to lvl 310, to get the 0 cooldown imperil that hits 3 targets.

Other deprecating spells aren't that worthy casting as a mage, offering little advantages in spite of the mana cost, even more on low levels when most abilities are still locked up, and spells still hit only 1~2 targets.

When I was around your level, I liberally used Silence during harder battles to shut down multiple tough mobs (Better Silence = hits multiple targets). Spamming mass Silence + mass Weaken helped my survivability a great deal in rounds with 7+ mobs because it prevents sudden damage spikes from enemy spirit attacks. And as a bonus, I now have 270+ deprecating proficiency thanks to all that debuffing (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

yep. i already suggested him to unlock it.

Oh, and don't expect to ever escape Trump. I'm currently level 374 and I encounter him at least 50 times a day (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

so true... it remembers me of when the biggest problems (when i was around his level) were celestials like Akroma.

these are my current light armor
(head, body, hands, legs, feet)

if nothing else, at least you should have a bit of ADB and evade...

the best nimble waki I have is this waki, the others are too low for my lv...

nah. most important stat for a waki of nimble is parry, and that's on pair with the Leg waki you already have. at that point, use the Leg.

as for shield, these ones are the shield that not too far for my lv...
exq buckler of barrier, sup agi buckler of protection, sup mithril buckler of nimble, sup kite shield of protect
should I change to 1h heavy build with low prof on 1h and heavy???

hmmm... the best you have is the buckler of nimble... try to check on FreeSHop if there's anything useful, and give it a try to a build with the rapier of balance, the shield and those shades. slot 1H abilities, ofc.
it may give you a bit of fresh air.

These explosions are a feature mostly used by melee currently.

wasn't it by mages? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

It seems that in the past, it was interesting to exploit explosion damage and be a "rainbow" mage, so you would cast a sequence of elemental spells or be casting holy/dark spells in turn to get explosion damage every turn, but in the current patch, it's better to focus only on a single element as a mage to deal the most damage possible.

yep. it was a sort of a try to boost spell damage. imperil made all that useless.

Other deprecating spells aren't that worthy casting as a mage, offering little advantages in spite of the mana cost, even more on low levels when most abilities are still locked up, and spells still hit only 1~2 targets.

unless you're struggling to survive. at that point, whatever you have is useful. silence in primis.

wasn't it by mages? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

I don't know any mage using it at the current patch.

All I see is people reforging their weapon to try to get the best elemental strike to go with their spike shield.

Do mages still make use of it?

That would be another point that makes holy better than dark then I guess.

if nothing else, at least you should have a bit of ADB and evade...
nah. most important stat for a waki of nimble is parry, and that's on pair with the Leg waki you already have. at that point, use the Leg.
hmmm... the best you have is the buckler of nimble... try to check on FreeSHop if there's anything useful, and give it a try to a build with the rapier of balance, the shield and those shades. slot 1H abilities, ofc.
it may give you a bit of fresh air.

well I still don't have OFC till now...
only have 1 pony atm...
hmm...
i'll try to check for shield on FreeShop then...
which stat should I prioritize for shield??? block chance???
should I search for parry chance too???

are the eq lv not so important for shield???

This post has been edited by Greshnik: May 12 2017, 17:53

I don't know any mage using it at the current patch.

All I see is people reforging their weapon to try to get the best elemental strike to go with their spike shield.

Do mages still make use of it?

That would be another point that makes holy better than dark then I guess.

no, no. there a bit of wrong here. explosions are triggered by EDB, therefore only if you deliberately cast a spell. melee's elemental strikes aren't magical and (even less) based on EDB. they are physical and based on ADB.
therefore, the only way for a melee to exploit the effect of a spike shield or a spell is to enjoy the mitigation reduction which comes from the effect.

to exploit, saying, a Breached Defense proc and trigger and explosion you have to cast a Forbidden (or at least a deprecative) spell. for, saying, a Searing Skin, you have to cast a Cold spell. hitting the target with an Arctic weapon isn't enough.

well I still don't have OFC till now...
only have 1 pony atm...
hmm...
i'll try to check for shield on FreeShop then...
which stat should I prioritize for shield??? block chance???
should I search for parry chance too???

Block is the priority, but if you end up having to choose between some options, get the one that offers the best for you, like STR DEX and END primary attributes(PABs), or more defense, like protection or nimble suffix, or even both things if you can find one.

Try getting a decent block and good suffix, no matter even if the shield has only 2 PABs, then you can look for more specific stuff when you are a higher level.

no, no. there a bit of wrong here. explosions are triggered by EDB, therefore only if you deliberately cast a spell. melee's elemental strikes aren't magical and (even less) based on EDB. they are physical and based on ADB.
therefore, the only way for a melee to exploit the effect of a spike shield or a spell is to enjoy the mitigation reduction which comes from the effect.

to exploit, saying, a Breached Defense proc and trigger and explosion you have to cast a Forbidden (or at least a deprecative) spell. for, saying, a Searing Skin, you have to cast a Cold spell. hitting the target with an Arctic weapon isn't enough.

Oh, I see.

Thanks for clearing that up.

This post has been edited by Kinights: May 12 2017, 17:55

well I still don't have OFC till now...
only have 1 pony atm...

it doesn't matter for now.

i'll try to check for shield on FreeShop then...
which stat should I prioritize for shield??? block chance???
should I search for parry chance too???

block. which means force shields or bucklers of barrier.
i looked for parry just to take use of what you already had. don't mind that class too much.
as appreciated bonuses, PABs (especially DEX and END, and particularly DEX).

When I was around your level, I liberally used Silence during harder battles to shut down multiple tough mobs (Better Silence = hits multiple targets). Spamming mass Silence + mass Weaken helped my survivability a great deal in rounds with 7+ mobs because it prevents sudden damage spikes from enemy spirit attacks. And as a bonus, I now have 270+ deprecating proficiency thanks to all that debuffing (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Oh, and don't expect to ever escape Trump. I'm currently level 374 and I encounter him at least 50 times a day (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

I had never seen Silence, so I looked it up. 40 proficiency in deprecating to even get the spell.

Mine is a little less than one. So how does a 1h heavy push deprecating up? Build a broken mage persona and work on things like that?

And yes, I see Trump plenty. But 1h + heavy doesn't notice much that Trump does, other than live a little longer.

Block is the priority, but if you end up having to choose between some options, get the one that offers the best for you, like STR DEX and END primary attributes(PABs), or more defense, like protection or nimble suffix, or even both things if you can find one.

Try getting a decent block and good suffix, no matter even if the shield has only 2 PABs, then you can look for more specific stuff when you are a higher level.

it doesn't matter for now.
block. which means force shields or bucklers of barrier.
i looked for parry just to take use of what you already had. don't mind that class too much.
as appreciated bonuses, PABs (especially DEX and END, and particularly DEX).

I already requested a shield from FreeShop...
for now I'll try to use shield from my inventory before my request granted then...
thank you very much for your advices... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I had never seen Silence, so I looked it up. 40 proficiency in deprecating to even get the spell.

Mine is a little less than one. So how does a 1h heavy push deprecating up? Build a broken mage persona and work on things like that?

And yes, I see Trump plenty. But 1h + heavy doesn't notice much that Trump does, other than live a little longer.

Ok, did an experiment. I started Grindfest on Hell, an easy setting for me, and as I killed mobs, I cast one Weaken on each. Did 20 rounds and quit, and my deprecating almost doubled, to 1.56. There are ways, though any other suggestions appreciated.