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Instead of telling people to not play DPS Sorc ingame, I'll now have a Wiki Page to do that work for me. BUT IT'S REALLY WIP

ALSO YES YES, IT'S ELE MASTER NOW, WILL CHANGE THINGS ACCORDINGLY WITH TIME. GUIDE'S NOT EVEN FINISHED AFTER 32 YEARS ANYWAY 

28/04/2023: done with sage descriptions, moving to prof
File:Pticon 3sorcerer.png Elemental Master
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Job Base:
Sage / Professor / Sorcerer
Written by:
Melz
Job Bonuses (@ Jlvl 70)
STR
AGI
VIT
INT
DEX
LUK
+4 +4 +8 +13 +9 +5

Elemental Master Updates

This is a list of updates to the game announced specifically after the guide was started. Strikethrough means it's already implemented in the NovaRO server.

  • Reworked elemental tables GOD FUCKING BLESS


Acknowledgements

Here goes my special thanks to those who helped (and put up) with the process of creating this guide, in no particular order:

  • Hel
  • Shay
  • Reina
  • Ara
  • Erica
  • Lillianne
  • OXD
  • Captain Sunbear
  • Callen
  • Jan
  • Jiba
  • Rocha
  • Leinarth
  • Candy
  • Loomus


About the author, and some ranting

Hello. I'm Mel, the player behind these:

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This guide is the distillation of all my hatred, acquired after playing damage dealer Sorc everything I've learned so far; maybe it can be of use to other Sage class lovers out there.


Beware though, I'm a salty motherfucker. Have this disclaimer.


D I S C L A I M E R

IS IT STILL VALID AFTER 4TH UPDATE? MOST LIKELY YES

I must stress that, in the current state of the game, the Sage branch is a very underwhelming class from a DPS perspective. Some factors hold it back:
1) The class has magic damage. Due to how the MDef formula scales, magic damage only really shines close to, or (ideally) at 100% magic bypass;
2) Magic is element locked; the only exceptions are Psychic Wave, Soul Reaper's Espa and Eswhoo, and the now reworked Performer's Reverberation. When dealing against specific elements (read: Holy and Dark), most magic falls flat (with the exception of neutral Psychic Wave, in Sorcerer's case);
3) Spammability is the name of the meta. If a class cannot spam an ability, it's DPS is most likely sub-par. This holds especially true for Sorcerer & Elemental Master, with skills gated by 5 / 2 / 1 second cooldowns. This issue can be relieved with some late game equips (which will be discussed later on), but it's still nowhere near the level of performance that other classes can achieve. And please don't tell me autoattacks from Spellfist are spam.

Sorcerer & Elemental Master's damage per second is very bad when compared to other magic users. The class either needs a rework from Gravity, or equipment that has yet to come to the server. Although, even if the problem is equipment related, Sage classes will still lag behind other magic damage dealers.


If you have any questions, or suggestions for this guide, message me either ingame or Discord (melzdash#6752).


With that out of the way, let's get to it.


[1] Introduction

So, the thought process I've put into my guide goes like this:

  • Explain mechanics that are relevant to magic classes. It's really important to know how the game works on a fundamental level, since these directly affect how to build your character, and teach what to expect (moreso in terms of dealing damage) when reading the information of a certain monster.


  • With basic mechanics in your head, you're now able to comprehend how to better utilize your skillset. I'll elaborate, when necessary, about effects or usage of a skill.

    On a quick side note: the skill section is particularly important for this class, since Professor and Sorcerer have quite a big arsenal at their disposal. A good understanding of your spells will enable the knowledge of what to sacrifice and what to prioritize; the Sage branch is infamous for being short on skill points.


  • The builds and gameplay section is the natural follow-up: you'll know what each build excels at, its barebones structure in terms of skill and status points distribution, and some guidance on how to play them.


  • Levelling actually isn't a very pleasant experience if you're a solo Sage, and that's my focus with this section in particular.



  • The theorycrafting corner is there to showcase my experimentations, illustrating (with numbers) how end-game gears (mostly) fare against one another.


Have fun.


[2] A quick aside for beginners

If you're new to Ragnarök Online, there is some stuff you should know to make your start on the server a bit easier.

And remember: you can only get good at this game by being curious and seaching what you need to know. The Useful Links section can give you a starting point when seeking for info.

Click on Expand to visualize the content from the sections below.


[2.1] Shortcuts, Commands and some Misc

1) Set some commands to turn on when you log in the server through the NPC Login Settings, inside the Main Office (@navi main_office 214 184). Desirable commands are: @autoloot, @noks and @blind. @hidepet might be useful, if you don't want to see yours and another's pets. Other good commands to input are /quake (removes the "shaking" effect that some skills have) and /wi (makes windows "stick" on each other).
/fastrefresh is great to cut the fading animation that occurs whenever you teleport/fly wing. @nopickup will prevent you from picking items from the floor, and can be toggled. @go will warp you to a city whose number or abbreviation you know; typying the command without any inputs will give you the list of available locations and their respective codes. @pity is the latest addition, and will display information pertaining to the drop of costume stones.
2) If you know an item's name or ID, you can search for its information with the command @ii (e.g. @ii fabre card).
3) To search items sold by player vends, use the ingame command @ws (e.g. @ws fabre card), or in NovaRO's market site. Alternatively, if you wish to search items sold by NPCs, @wn is what you seek (e.g. @wn meat).
4) Alt + M controls emotes you have in certain shortcuts. But you don't necessarily need to have just emotes in there; any command or text can be inserted, saving you time to type something you use often over and over again. As an example, this is what my Alt + M looks like:
File:MelShortcuts.png


5) In the same vein as nº4, BM/Shortcut Settings can be modified as we see fit. Something I enjoy changing is moving the F1-F9 shortcuts to 1-9. And learn how to use Battlemode, if you want to use your entire keyboard for skills, consumables and equipment swaps.
6) A very useful shortcut (that I wish anybody told me way earlier) is Alt + Right Click, in order to quickly send items from your inventory to the Kafra Storage, and vice versa. Just remember that this shortcut moves the maximum amount of said item; to choose the amount, you still need to drag. This action also works between your inventory and merchant classes' cart.
7) NovaRO has the Reset Man NPC inside Main Office's basement (@navi main_office 209 128), so don't worry about making mistakes in your Status and Skill builds.
8) After resetting, it'll soon become a hassle to click the little arrows in the Status window (Alt + A) to distribute your points. In order to save time (and mouse clicks), you can simply insert the command /"stat"+ "desired amount". Remember that if you wish to have 120 Dexterity after resetting, typing /dex+ 120 will result in 121 base Dex, since there's already 1 point allocated to it.
9) The favorites tab on your inventory is great to keep items that you absolutely don't wanna sell; just drag them to it, and later click the small lock to prevent the items inside it from showing in any NPC selling window.
10) Go read iROwiki's page on basic controls to learn more about the game, I guess? Knowledge is power.
11) Speak with Devon Aire inside Main Office's basement (@navi main_office 174 127) to affiliate yourself to the Arc Wand Clan, and grab the easy extra 1 point to Dex&Int. Keep in mind that Clans aren't Guilds; you can be in/create a guild and still benefit from the Clan's bonuses.



[2.2] How to make Zeny

Economy is a very important part of RO, since it enables you to buy items that other players no longer desire (and sell your own unwanted items). I'll give a few basic tips on how to make money below, but reading the Zeny Guide and Farming 101 is indispensable if you wish to understand more about it, specially the Farming section.

Just keep in mind one thing: unless you know what you're doing, Sorcerer shouldn't be your farmer.

1) Make a merchant, even if you intend to play another class. You don't need to job change it at first; the point is to have a character that can sell your loots at a higher price to NPCs via Template:Skill List, and buy cheaper consumables from these same NPCs with Template:Skill List.
2) Level a class that is able to farm fast and safely. The Geffenia Farming Guide mentions two classes that can perform really well with a low budget: Rebellion and Mechanic. Ranger is another class that farms well (safe positioning through ranged damage and easy access to elemental advantage), but can't hold as much items. Genetic, with its rework, also turned out to be a pretty solid farming class, with great movespeed, damage and cart to hold more loot (but needs some investment to speed up Cart Cannon's cast time).
3) The aforementioned Geffenia Farming Guide also touches on an interesting topic: the @aloot command. It enables the player to create a list of specific items to be sent to your inventory (or not, if you blacklist them), while the rest falls to the ground. Just keep in mind to turn off the @autoloot command, since it does make you loot everything at default behavior.
4) Another way of making money as a beginner is by participating in instances with another players. In this case, support classes shine the most. Their main role is to keep the party buffed and alive, and most of the time require minimal equipment to perform their duties. Minstrel and Arch Bishop are the most sought classes, with Wanderer and Sorcerer being more situational (but still essential when needed).



[3] General Mechanics

This section will touch on the inner workings of some game mechanics that are important to bear in mind when building magic classes in general.

The table below (adapted from https://ragnarok.gamepedia.com/Episode_Updates_(RO) ) lists changes that occured when Renewal was implemented in RO, considerably impacting the gameplay of magic classes. This information is included in here due to how I may discuss pre-Renewal times under some topics in order to elaborate onto specific points.


Pre-Renewal (2002-2009) Renewal (2009 - Current)
Players were able to achieve instant cast with high DEX and cards. Most skill casting is now composed of both a fixed cast time and a variable cast time.
Old formulas made magic users very powerful in battle. Revamped formulas nerfed magic users and buffed melee players.
Character performance was more stat-dependent. Character performance became more gear-dependent.


[3.1] Status

Status, or "Stats", is one part of the triad Status - Skills - Equipment that allows the player to customize a character's build. Back in pre-Renewal, stats exerted a much bigger influence on a build than equipments, as previously stated. This doesn't mean that one will be fine by randomly assigning these points, however.

Proper stat distributions will be explored under specific builds inside Builds and Gameplay section.

For simplicity's sake, each stat will only list effects that have relevance to the Sorcerer class. Consult iRO wiki's stat page for more detailed descriptions.


Stats
Stat Description
Strength Usually invested into in order to raise your weight limit, which is particularly intersting for farming or PvP.

Do note that only Str base points contribute to that end.

Every 1 point;

  • Increases weight limit by 30
Agility Mostly desirable for Spellfist builds, which rely on high ASPD for damage output.

Keep in mind that ASPD also contributes to skill spamming when ACD and Cooldowns aren't a limiting factor (they don't exist, or it's possible to deny the effects of such mechanics via equipment / buffs).
Sleep immunity is particularly important to achieve when playing support, but it is also attainable via certain cards / pet.

  • Increases your ASPD.
  • 100 total points (including bonuses) grants you immunity to Sleep and Bleeding status.

Every 1 point;

  • Increases Flee by 1

Every 5 points;

  • Increases Soft Def by 1
Vitality Essential for raising maximum HP.

Stun immunity is very important, whether you're DPS or Support.

  • 100 total points (including bonuses) grants you immunity to Stun and Poison status.

Every 1 point;

  • Increases Max HP by 1% of your base HP

Every 2 points;

  • Increases Soft Def by 1

Every 5 points;

  • Increases Soft Mdef by 1
Intelligence The main stat to invest in for magic damage. Int is specially important to Sorcerer, since many of the classes' damage formulas involve scaling with this stat.

Also contributes to Instant Casting ([VCT, FCT and ACD]).

  • 100 points total (including bonuses) grants you immunity to Silence status.

Every 1 point;

  • Increases Max SP by 1% of your base SP
  • Increases MATK by 1.5
  • Increases Soft Mdef by 1
Dexterity Main stat when it comes to achieving Instant Casting via stats ([VCT, FCT and ACD]). Also has a minor contribution to ASPD.

Usually neglected on builds based around percentage VCT reductions.

  • Slightly increases ASPD

Every 5 points;

  • Increases MATK by 1
  • Increases Soft Mdef by 1
Luck Secondary stat when it comes to raising magic damage.

It's important to stress that magic cannot crit. Critical hits observed in Spellfist autoattacks happen due to its physical portion, which has a negligible contribution to damage.

  • 100 total points or negative points (including bonuses) grants you immunity to Curse status.

Every 3 points;

  • Increases MATK by 1

Every 5 points;

  • Increases Flee by 1

Every 10 points;

  • Increases Perfect Dodge by 1


[3.2] Traits

Introduced with the 4th job update, the Trait system will appear in the Status menu (Alt+A) after evolving to a 4th job class, under Character Status:


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Leveling past base level 200 will grant Trait points instead of Status points, which obey the following 2 rules:

  • Every level grants 3 Trait points;
  • Base levels divisible by 5 grant 7 Trait points instead of 3 (e.g. blvl 200 itself gives 7 points when you job change).


It is important to stress that the Trait system is completely independent from the Status system, which implies in an important defensive core mechanic: Def and MDef bypasses do not affect RES and MRES whatsoever.

Another interesting observation is that, unlike Status, Traits are much more straight forward in terms of substats. Therefore, even if STR had some relevance to mages due to its influence on weight limit, POW will be completely useless, as it affects physical damage exclusively.


Traits
Trait Description
Power Useless stat for Elemental Master, since it exclusively furthers physical damage.

Every 1 point:

  • Increases 5 Status Physical Attack

Every 3 points:

  • Increases 1 P.ATK
Stamina Contributes to resisting physical damage. An specially useful trait for support builds, but also possible to spec into for damage Elemental Master.

Every 1 point:

  • Increases 1 RES

Every 3 points:

  • Increases 5 RES
Wisdom Contributes to resisting magical damage. An specially useful trait for support builds, but also possible to spec into for damage Elemental Master.

Every 1 point:

  • Increases 1 MRES

Every 3 points:

  • Increases 5 MRES
Spell The main stat to invest in for magic damage. As Int scaling was present in Sorcerer's AOE spells, so is SPL in Elemental Master's.
Not quite useful for support builds though.

Every 1 point:

  • Increases 5 Status Magical Attack

Every 3 points:

  • Increases 1 S.MATK
Concentration The new jack-of-all-trades, CON will improve both physical and magical damage, while also offering some defensive capabilities via Flee bonuses.

Every 1 point:

  • Increases 2 HIT and 2 FLEE

Every 5 points:

  • Increases 1 P.ATK and S.MATK
Creative Useless stat for Elemental Master, since it exclusively furthers crit damage and healing power (Warmer and Insignias have a fixed healing rate, based on MaxHP).

Every 1 point:

  • Increases 1 H.PLUS

Every 3 points:

  • Increases 1 C.RATE
Sub-Traits
Sub-Trait Description
P.Atk Increases final status physical attack and final equipment attack by 1% per point.
S.Matk Increases final status magic attack and final equipment magic attack by 1% per point.
RES Reduces physical damage taken, capping at 50%.
MRES Reduces magical damage taken, capping at 50%.
H.PLUS Increases heal power by 1% per point.
C.RATE Increases critical damage percent modifier by 1% per point.


[3.3] Activity Points (AP)

I've included this section to explain the new Activity Point (AP), a resource mechanic exclusive to 4th job skills.


CHARACTER PICTURE IN HERE


AP is visually depicted as the bottom bar, under SP, and will be progressively filled when 4th jobs skills are cast. The maximum amount of AP is 200, regardless of class.

It's important to stress that not all 4th job skills generate AP, so check their descriptions for that information. Elemental Master, for instance, will generate AP with their AOE skills, Template:Skill List, Template:Skill List, Template:Skill List, Template:Skill List and Template:Skill List.


The purpose of AP is to act as the single resource that allows the activation of certain “ultimate” skills. These ultimates consume variable amounts of AP, but one can assume that most of the 200 available AP is spent as a general rule. Elemental Master's Template:Skill List is an exception, having been reworked to consume 30 AP only.


Currently, there are 2 methods to obtain AP outside of spamming skills:


NovaRO customized AP to halve upon death (the original behavior being losing all of it). Entering PVP arenas do not remove AP currently.



[3.4] Magic Damage vs. Magic Defense

Def and MDef are composed of 2 parts: "Soft" and "Hard".

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  • Soft Def/MDef is the value that comes from your stats, and will be subtracted from the damage you take. If your character has 250 soft mdef, and it takes 10000 damage, the final damage will be 9750.
  • Hard Def/MDef comes from equipment, and reduces the damage taken by a certain percentage, according to the substat's formula. 50 mdef implies into a 30% reduction; therefore, 10000 magic damage will become 7000.


As seen in the example above, hard MDef is the portion of the substat that almost exclusively influences damage reduction. Monsters' MDef values act in the same way hard MDef does for players.


Back in pre-RE, both hard Def and MDef formulas were very straight forward: 

1 point in hard Def/MDef = 1% physical/magical damage reduction


Renewal came, and Gravity (for whatever reason that I can't grasp, since the substat was perfectly fine) reworked both formulas, MDef one now being: 

Damage after Hard MDef = Damage × [(1000 + HardMDef) ÷ (1000 + HardMDef × 10)]


Which results in the following graph:

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As far as I understand, Gravity rebalanced both Def and MDef with PvP scene in mind.


YO FUCK MY EXCEL WHICH HAD A COMPILATION OF ALL MONSTERS' MDEF WAS LOST TOO LMAO RIP MY LIFE MAN

HOW CAN I KEEP GOING WITHOUT MY GRAPHS PEPEHANDS



[3.5] VCT, FCT, ACD and Cooldowns (with a bit of ASPD)

All of these substats will directly affect how spammable a skill is in RO. Concepts follow below:


  • Cast Time : Conveyed by the green bar that appears on top of a character's sprite; when the bar reaches the gauge's end, the skill will be cast. Cast times may be:
1) Completely based on VCT;
2) Completely based on FCT;
3) Composed of both VCT and FCT.


  • Variable Cast Time (VCT): VCT can be shortened by 2 different means: stats and percentage reduction (only available through specific gear / gear enchants / cards).
Reaching Instant Cast (aka no more green bar, aka IC) via percentage sources is simple: sum up 100% or more, and it's done.
The current formula for VCT reduction via stats is (2 × Dex) + Int >= 530, and implies that as long as your total of "points" achieved through stats is at least equal to 530, your VCT will be non-existant. Examples:
145 total dex + 160 total int = 450 = 84,91% VCT reduction

175 total dex + 175 total int = 525 = 99,06% VCT reduction

180 total dex + 180 total int = 540 = 100% VCT reduction

265 total dex + 0 total int = 530 = 100% VCT reduction

It's very important to stress that stat and percentage reductions stack MULTIPLICATIVELY, and not additively, meaning it's impossible to achieve IC if you're mixing both sources. If your 145dex / 160int stats are coupled with 35% VCT reduction from equipment, what happens is 84,91% + [(100 - 84,91) × 0.35]% = 90,19%, and not 84.91% + 35% = 119,91% like one would intuitively assume.
PS: Remember that if you receive Clementia from a joblvl 70 Arch Bishop, the 17 Int & Dex will give you 51 points towards Instant Cast.


  • Fixed Cast Time (FCT): Unlike VCT, FCT can only be reduced (in a meaningful way) through equipment related means. FCT also doesn't allow additive stacking from different sources, which means AB's level 5 Sacrament (-50% FCT) and Temporal Dex Boots (-0.5sec FCT) do not sum up to -1 second of fixed casting.



  • Cooldown (CD): Refers to the time that must be elapsed in order to reuse a skill. While on cooldown, a skill's icon will be superposed by a translucent gray running clock-like effect.



  • After-cast Delay (ACD): this mechanic is also known as "global cooldown", meaning a skill's ACD doesn't affect only itself, but also other skills' activations. As an example, if one intends to cast Psychic Wave and then Diamond Dust, DD won't be available until PW's one second ACD timer is over. ACD is also represented by the translucent gray clock effect, but doesn't combine with Cooldown like the duo VCT & FCT.
The amount of needed ACD for a certain skill can be calculated in lela's gitlab.



  • Attack Speed (ASPD): Consider that you, player, were finally able to achieve the means to nullify Diamond Dust's cast time, ACD and cooldown.
QUESTION: how many DDs can you spam in the space of a second? As many times as you can click (10 times maybe)? Because well, there's technically nothing holding your sorcerer back, right?
Wrong. That's where ASPD enters the scene.
Every auto-attack and skill triggers an animation, meaning a certain number of frames is displayed at a certain speed. And it's ASPD that will dictate how fast this attack animation runs.
With this in mind, let's check the ASPD graph below:
File:ASPDgraph2.png


193 is the maximum possible ASPD, equating to 7 complete attack animations per second. This hard cap also applies to spamming skills, thus allowing a player to cast 7 spells per second at most.
One important observation here, though, is that 193 ASPD is necessary for max spam on skills that actually display an animation (Sorcerer extends their hand with every action performed). Warlocks stand perfectly still while executing their Template:Skill Info spam; since there's no animation going on, CL builds specifically do not need 193 ASPD to reach 7 skill casts per second (as illustrated in HairyWizard & Hayleen's WL guide).

@spam


[3.6] Tables of Elemental Advantage / Disadvantage

Any monster can be classified under 4 main characteristics: Race, Property, Size and Boss protocol (a monster is either normal, or a boss).

Property is the one that defines the element of a monster, and has 4 levels: the higher the level, the more attuned said monster is to the element, and stronger its influence will be.

It's a given that any class should try to abuse elemental advantages in order to deal (or mitigate) more damage, but this concept is core to magic classes, since offensive spells (generally) cannot have their own element changed.

Mage classes were always meant to rotate spells, choosing the optimal skill according to the enemy in front of them. Gravity coughpoopedcough on this concept with the passing of the years, causing the mage branch (and more specifically Sorcerer, who doesn't have a spammable offensive skill by default) to get the short end of the stick, when compared to Performers' rework or Soul Reaper's pseudo-elemental freedom.

Anyway, always research your enemies and use the tables to understand how to maximize damage output. The tables' values are percentages, meaning a Fire 3 monster will be hit by 200% damage of any water attack.


Original RO tables [AAAAAAAAAAAA]
Level 1 Defender Attribute
Neutral Water Earth Fire Wind Poison Holy Shadow Ghost Undead
Attacker
Attribute 		Neutral 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 90 100
Water 100 25 100 150 90 150 100 100 100 100
Earth 100 100 25 90 150 150 100 100 100 100
Fire 100 90 150 25 100 150 100 100 100 125
Wind 100 150 90 100 25 150 100 100 100 100
Poison 100 150 150 150 150 0 75 75 75 75
Holy 100 100 100 100 100 75 0 125 100 125
Shadow 100 100 100 100 100 75 125 0 100 0
Ghost 90 100 100 100 100 75 90 90 125 100
Undead 100 100 100 90 100 75 125 0 100 0
Level 2 Defender Attribute
Neutral Water Earth Fire Wind Poison Holy Shadow Ghost Undead
Attacker
Attribute 		Neutral 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 70 100
Water 100 0 100 175 80 150 100 100 100 100
Earth 100 100 0 80 175 150 100 100 100 100
Fire 100 80 175 0 100 150 100 100 100 150
Wind 100 175 80 100 0 150 100 100 100 100
Poison 100 150 150 150 150 0 75 75 75 50
Holy 100 100 100 100 100 75 0 150 100 150
Shadow 100 100 100 100 100 75 150 0 100 0
Ghost 70 100 100 100 100 75 80 80 150 125
Undead 100 100 100 80 100 50 150 0 125 0
Level 3 Defender Attribute
Neutral Water Earth Fire Wind Poison Holy Shadow Ghost Undead
Attacker
Attribute 		Neutral 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 50 100
Water 100 0 100 200 70 125 100 100 100 100
Earth 100 100 0 70 200 125 100 100 100 100
Fire 100 70 200 0 100 125 100 100 100 175
Wind 100 200 70 100 0 125 100 100 100 100
Poison 100 125 125 125 125 0 50 50 50 25
Holy 100 100 100 100 100 50 0 175 100 175
Shadow 100 100 100 100 100 50 175 0 100 0
Ghost 50 100 100 100 100 50 70 70 175 150
Undead 100 100 100 70 100 25 175 0 150 0
Level 4 Defender Attribute
Neutral Water Earth Fire Wind Poison Holy Shadow Ghost Undead
Attacker
Attribute 		Neutral 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 100
Water 100 0 100 200 60 125 100 100 100 150
Earth 100 100 0 60 200 125 100 100 100 100
Fire 100 60 200 0 100 125 100 100 100 200
Wind 100 200 60 100 0 125 100 100 100 100
Poison 100 125 125 125 125 0 50 50 50 0
Holy 100 100 100 100 100 50 0 200 100 200
Shadow 100 100 100 100 100 50 200 0 100 0
Ghost 0 100 100 100 100 50 60 60 200 175
Undead 100 100 100 60 100 0 200 0 175 0
NovaRO's Monster Hunter table [AAAAAAAAAAAA]
Monster
Hunter 		Monster Attribute
Neutral Water Earth Fire Wind Poison Holy Shadow Ghost Undead
Attacker
Attribute 		Neutral 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 89 100
Water 100 72 100 125 93 100 90 100 100 100
Earth 100 100 72 93 125 100 90 100 100 100
Fire 100 93 125 72 100 100 90 100 100 115
Wind 100 125 93 100 72 100 90 100 100 100
Poison 100 100 115 115 115 67 90 85 100 65
Holy 100 100 100 100 100 100 67 115 100 125
Shadow 100 100 100 100 100 85 115 67 100 65
Ghost 89 100 100 100 100 100 90 90 115 100
Undead 100 100 100 100 100 85 100 67 100 67


[3.7] How to calculate modifiers in RO

This section seeks to elucidate how modifiers in RO affect one's final damage, and how to balance them out.

First, assume that you, the player, wants to partake in some good PvP action. Players are "monsters" with Medium size, Demihuman race and Neutral element (assuming one doesn't use elemental armors, which would cause them to have said element at level 1). Also, since I'm a lazy bum and unwilling to create a magic example, let's say the PvP weapon we wish to create is a 3-slotted katar. Card options are:

  • Contaminated wanderer (+30% damage to medium size)
  • Hydra Card (+20% damage to demihuman race).


There are also cards (and enchants) that affect damage based on element, but it's dangerous to assume anything in pvp (one could choose to have advantage over the neutral element, though). In Ragnarok Online, different modifiers multiply, and same modifiers add up. Some 3-card variations for a pvp katar would look like this: 

3 Conta Wand = (1 + 0.3 × 3) = 1.9
3 Hydra = (1 + 0.2 × 3) = 1.6
2 CW + 1 Hydra = (1 + 0.3 × 2) × (1 + 0.2) = 1.92
1 CW + 2 Hydra = (1 + 0.3) × (1 + 0.2 × 2) = 1.82

As you see, although marginal, the most efficient combination is 2 Contaminated Wanderer and 1 Hydra card.

But not only characteristics pertaining to a monster (Race, Size, Property, Boss/Normal) need to be balanced in order to reach optimal damage. The player's own substats must be taken in consideration, them being:

  • Flat MAtk
  • Percentage MAtk
  • Elemental modifiers
  • Skill modifiers


Whenever I mention the necessity of "balance", it's due to the graph below:

File:MinmaxGraph.png


Consider Mods A and B, which vary in value from 1 to 100 each, with mod A starting at 1, and mod B at 100.

Since mods A and B are different, they multiply each other, according to RO's mechanics. Analyzing the graph, it's clearly noticeable that the curve reaches its highest when both A's and B's values are closest to each other.

This very simplified example goes to show how over-investing in a single mod can actually cause your character to deal less damage.

Have another: 

220% skill mods × 120% elemental mods (340 "total") = 2.2 × 1.2 = 2.64
170% skill mods × 170% elemental mods (340 "total") = 1.7 × 1.7 = 2.89


This concept is called diminishing returns: even if you can go higher on some modifier, depending on the values you're sitting on it's probably better to invest in another modifier, in order to reach a better result.

Now, of course this isn't a rule set in stone; there are times when you actually don't have that much freedom to choose mods, or your budget doesn't allow you to go further into minmaxing territory (because yes, it's expensive af). Just use these tips to reach the best possible damage output within your limitations.


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[4] Skills

In the following subsections, the skills from Elemental Master and its base classes will be enumerated, with what I judge to be the most pertinent portion of their descriptions. You can check Divine Pride's links on skills' names for more details; iRO wiki's page and NovaRO's Sorcerer page can also offer more info. Each skill will also be accompanied by a brief commentary on its mechanics, and not so obvious tips on usage whenever possible.

A quick reminder about Mage and Sage's Platinum Skills. Those are skills that are originally obtained via quests, but should be awarded to you as soon as you change jobs with the Job Master NPC, in Main Office's first floor (@navi main_office 183 186). If for some reason you don't have those, talk to the Platinum Skill NPC in Main Office's basement (@navi main_office 188 127).


[4.1] File:Pticon 1mage.png Mage Skills

Having acquired clarity of the world's elements, the Novice's journey has led him towards the path of becoming a Mage - a relentless pursuer of refined knowledge and power. Although often mistaken as emotionless individuals, a Mage's stoic demeanor is derived from absolute confidence in their erudition.

Believing in themselves and their role in the tribulations ahead, they rallied to the calls of their Lord, Tristan III, to defend Rune Midgard.


The magic users from the original 6 base classes, Mages are damage dealers that will often stay safe in the backline of a party, killing enemies from afar. Their offensive spells are imbued with fixed elements, which makes proper knowledge of elemental advantages extremely important if one wishes to deal optimal damage.


Due to cast times, Mages are stationary damage dealers, unable to move until their spells are deployed. Therefore, it's natural for these frail individuals to know not only of offensive spells, but also defensive and disabling ones, in order to preserve themselves from harm.


Mage
Skill Effects Notes
Template:Skill List
  • Property: Water / Fire / Wind respectively
  • Single Target skill
  • VCT: [0.2 + (Skill Level × 0.3)] seconds
  • FCT: [0.2 + (Skill Level × 0.1)] seconds
  • ACD: 1.4 seconds
  • Levels: 10 [selectable]
 Mage's bread and butter. All of these spells deal damage according to the level of the skill, each level adding one bolt with 100% MAtk modifier.

The final damage of the skill is shown as a yellow number, representing the sum of each Bolt's individual damage; this implies that these skills aren't a true multihit, and the entirety of the damage is already dealt when cast time ends, even though the visual representation shows otherwise.

Levelling with these skills at lvl 10 is only feasible when using Template:Skill List, disabling monsters with Template:Skill List / Template:Skill List, the monster is immobile (e.g. Geographer) or someone is tanking for you. Mage usually sticks with low level Bolts if soloing, since cast times are long (4.4 seconds at level 10).

Bolt skills are the foundation of Sorcerer's Template:Skill List.

Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
  • Property: Water
  • Single Target skill
  • Status: Frozen [35 + (Skill Level × 3)]% chance
  • VCT: 0.64 seconds
  • FCT: 0.16 seconds
  • ACD: 0.5 seconds
  • Levels: 10
 This skill's main perk is the chance to inflict Freeze status, which will render the opponent immobile, and force their element to water 1 (considering they're vulnerable to the status). A frozen opponent will stay disabled until any attack hits them, or enough time passes for the status to be cancelled.

Besides the obvious crowd controlling effect, the forced element change makes the opponent receive 150% damage from the next wind attack.

Template:Skill List
  • Property: Fire
  • Area of Effect: 5 x 5 cells [center on target]
  • VCT: 0.8 seconds
  • FCT: 0.2 seconds
  • ACD: 0.7 seconds
  • Levels: 10
 One of Mage's levelling tools, with relatively short cast. For better efficiency, one should try to mob enemies before spamming this skill.

Template:Item List2 strengthens Fire Ball considerably, but acquiring one (or two) of these cards isn't exactly feasible nor a priority for a true beginner. Also bear in mind that the card removes VCT only; therefore, 0.2 seconds of FCT will remain.

Template:Skill List
  • Property: Fire
  • Area of Effect: 1 x 3 cells
  • Duration: (Skill Level + 4) seconds
(Skill Level + 2) hits
  • VCT:
lvls 1 ~ 5: [1.76 - (Skill Level x 0.16)] seconds
lvls 6 ~ 10: [0.96 - (Skill Level x 0.08)] seconds
  • FCT:
lvls 1 ~ 5: [0.44 - (Skill Level x 0.04)] seconds
lvls 6 ~ 10: [0.24 - (Skill Level x 0.02)] seconds
  • ACD: ASPD
  • Levels: 10
 Places a wall of fire on the ground, which will knock back enemies that walk into its cells, inflicting fire property damage. The skill has a total cast time of 0.7 seconds at lvl 10 and will last for 12 hits, resulting into a significant window of time where you can reposition and cast your more powerful spells. Make sure to be always behind Fire Wall's 3 cell width, or the mob might simply walk beside it and reach your character anyway.

When dealing with opponents that have high movespeed or are undead (undead race cannot be knocked back, stoned or frozen), FW's 12 hits may not be enough; that's when Vertical Fire Wall comes into play. Vertical FW can be achieved by placing FW on the cells directly adjacent to a character's model, as seen in this old video.

Template:Skill List
  • Property: Wind
  • Area of Effect: 5 x 5 cells
  • VCT: [2.5 + (Skill Level × 0.2)] seconds
  • FCT: 1.5 seconds
  • ACD: 2.0 seconds
  • Levels: 10 [selectable]
 Thunderstorm isn't a very popular skill choice, and that's due to its own design and level it is available to be learned at. It's an AOE, meaning it could deal with mobs, but a party of low level players will most likely kill one monster at a time regardless.

Mage also isn't very well suited to mob by themselves.

One could Template:Skill List and then Thunderstorm, but there's only so much time before the first freeze breaks, therefore limiting how many monsters one can lure to begin with, thus making Template:Skill List & Template:Skill List a more efficient combo in the long run.

It also has a fairly long casting time (6 seconds at lvl 10), which doesn't allow the mage to mob water monsters and straight up Thunderstorm.

Finally, a Mage could attempt to Template:Skill List the mob and Thunderstorm, but monsters do tend to converge to the same cell while chasing a player, so FW's durability could be seriously compromised and break before expected.

A caveat must be made in here though. A Mage going into Sage will not learn many more offensive spells, making Thunderstorm a legitimate choice in the long run, when the character will have better casting time due to higher Dex, Int and gears.

Template:Skill List
  • Single Target skill
  • Status: Stone [20 + (Skill Level × 4)]% chance
  • VCT: 0.8 seconds
  • FCT: 0.2 seconds
  • ACD: ASPD
  • Levels: 10
 At level 6 and above, Stone Curse will only consume a red gemstone when the skill succeeds, and will apply the Stone status, which consists of 2 phases:
1) The opponent's sprite will be slightly darkened (around 25% transparency). During this state, they can move still: aggressive monsters will stop pursuing you, and players are able to use consumables.
2) The opponent's sprite will be darkened (around 50% transparency), and become completely immobile for a period of time. Their property will turn to earth 1, and any damage they take will end this state.

Keep in mind that recasting the skill on a Stoned opponent will undo the debuff.

Besides the obvious crowd controlling effect, the forced element change makes the opponent receive 150% damage from the next fire or poison attack.

Template:Skill List
  • Property: Ghost
  • Area of Effect: 3 x 3 cells [center on target]
  • Levels: 10
 Never actually used this skill for levelling purposes. It will be the first skill you skill up in order to unlock Template:Skill List, and that's as far as it'll go. Soul Strike lvl 3 already outdamages lvl 10 Napalm Beat.

There's really not much incentive to invest here beyond the points required to unlock other skills. Even if Template:Skill List forces you to level this up to 7, don't do it until absolutely necessary; skill points are too valuable when you're in the early levels.

Template:Skill List
  • Property: Ghost
  • Single Target skill
  • VCT: 0.4 seconds
  • FCT: 0.1 seconds
  • ACD: 1.4 seconds
  • Levels: 10 [selectable]
 I heavily favor Soul Strike when levelling, due to its fast cast and decent damage. The extra damage to undead monsters (Skill Level × 5%) is also very convenient, which made me design a route to blvl 85 based only on hunting said race (later explained in the levelling section).

I'd only go for Template:Skill List with preferably two Fire Condor cards.

Template:Skill List
  • Passive skill
  • Levels: 10
 A simple passive, which improves SP recovery with a tick of its own plus extra effectiveness for SP restoring consumables.
Template:Skill List
  • Area of Effect: 7 x 7 cells [center on self]
  • Duration: 10 seconds
  • Levels: 1
 Reveals opponents under Template:Skill List and Template:Skill List around the caster. This skill tends to see more use in PVP, but PVM may demand it against monsters with the aforementioned skills.
Template:Skill List
  • Duration: (Skill Level × 5) seconds
  • Durability: (Skill Level × 300) + [7000 × (1 + 0.1 × Job_Lv ÷ 50)] + (65 × INT) + Max SP
  • VCT: [4.4 − (Skill Level × 0.4)] seconds
  • FCT: [0.88 − (Skill Level × 0.08)] seconds
  • ACD: ASPD
  • Levels: 10 [selectable]
 Creates a light pillar on a targeted cell that blocks every form of close range physical damage until its durability wears off or it expires. Do note that very strong moves can break SW straight away, since the skill can only absorb so much damage, but you won't get hit by the "leftover" damage.

As an example, if a 30k HP SW gets hit by 1 million damage, the entire 1m is negated, and SW disappears.

Beware that Template:Skill List and Safety Wall cannot coexist in the same cell. While this may pose a defensive problem when either skill is poorly positioned, also consider that SW can be used offensively, in order to prevent Pneuma coverage in an specific cell (and vice versa).

Template:Skill List
Platinum skill


  • Self Buff skill
  • Duration: 5 minutes
  • FCT: 5 seconds
  • Levels: 1
 Reduces damage depending on your current percentage SP:
SP Remaining Damage Reduc. SP Drain / Hit
100%~81% 30% 3.0%
80%~61% 24% 2.5%
60%~41% 18% 2.0%
40%~21% 12% 1.5%
20%~1% 6% 1.0%

Energy Coat drains a percentage of your SP with every hit, so enemies hitting you at high ASPD will shred your SP; at 0 SP, the next hit taken will cancel the skill, and you'll have to recast it.


[4.2] File:Pticon 2sage.png Sage Skills

It isn't unusual for some Mages to feel a stronger inclination to the comprehension of Magic's inner workings, instead of learning stronger spells. In recognizing these differing philosophies, the Schweicherbil Magic Academy was established to aid those in their countless hours of study to become Sages.

Sages can creatively manipulate Nature's four basic elements, allowing them to augment both their own magical and physical prowess in combat, and that of others. Rumors run about, hinting that some academics even achieved means of nullifying Magic itself.

After an irrefutable proposal, the Academy selected a handful of those who have excelled in training to join in Lord Tristan III’s campaigns through Rune Midgard.


Sages are a PvP-oriented class with the role of caster/anti-Mage. They do not have the offensive abilities of a Wizard, but shine in their defensive abilities, centered around Land Protector and Dispell.

Many of their skills can only realistically be used in PvP, making PvM quite difficult. Thus, when griding for levels, Sage often plays a supportive role by endowing elements to their allies' weapons and casting Mage's bolt skills as auxiliary damage.

Battle Sage was a "for fun" build in pre-RE, being a powerful solo leveling method when matched with Soul Linker's Sage Spirit.


Sage
Skill Effects Notes
Template:Skill List
  • Property: Earth
  • Single Target skill
  • VCT: [0.7 + (Skill Level × 0.5)] seconds
  • FCT: [0.2 + (Skill Level × 0.2)] seconds
  • ACD: [0.9 + (Skill Level × 0.1)] seconds
  • Levels: 5 [selectable]
 Almost an earth version of the Bolt spells. The skill was buffed at some point, so it now deals the same total damage as its siblings.

Earth Spike can damage and reveal hidden enemies, just like its AOE counterpart, Template:Skill List. The restriction is that, since the skill is single targeted, it must be cast before the opponent goes into hiding.

Earth Spike cannot be used inside Template:Skill List, and is also unaffected by Template:Skill List.

Template:Skill List
  • Property: Earth
  • Area of Effect: 5 x 5 cells
  • VCT: [0.9 + (Skill Level × 0.2)] seconds
  • FCT: 0.8 seconds
  • ACD: 0.5 seconds
  • Levels: 5 [selectable]
 Usually used in PvP modes. Useful to reveal the thief classes and Doram. Also nullifies Doram's root, Template:Skill List; this works on yourself, allies and enemies.

As a levelling tool, Heaven's Drive poses similar problems as Template:Skill List. While it has faster cast than Thunderstorm, its property is earth, which makes the skill a subpar choice against fire and earth properties monsters, with the added twist that wind monsters aren't often present in common levelling maps (at least before level 99).

Template:Skill List
  • Supportive skills
  • Area of Effect: 7 x 7 cells
  • Duration: (Skill Level) minutes
  • Elemental damage boost:
x = Skill Level
For 0 < x < 6:
[5 + (11x/2) - (x²/2)]%
  • Deluge's max HP bonus:
x = Skill Level
For 0 < x < 6:
[(11x/2) - (x²/2)]%
  • Volcano's Atk & MAtk bonuses: [5 + (Skill Level × 5)]
  • Violent Gale's flee bonus: (Skill Level × 3)
  • VCT: 4 seconds
  • FCT: 1 seconds
  • ACD: 0 seconds
  • Levels: 5
 Each terrain boosts its corresponding element's damage (both physical and magical), while also granting a few perks to players standing inside their AOE:
  • Template:Skill List: increases max HP by 15% at max level. Deluge is the only terrain that can be superposed by Template:Skill List, and will double said skill's duration on the field. The skills that need "water tiles" as a catalyst (Aqua Benedicta can be used as long as Deluge lasts, and Water Ball consumes Deluge's cells) can be activated on top of it;
  • Template:Skill List: increases both Atk and MAtk by 30 at max level. Prevents Template:Skill List from being cast inside its AOE;
  • Template:Skill List: increases Flee by 15 at max level; this buff was relevant in pre-Renewal, but not so much anymore. Extends the time duration of Template:Skill List cast inside its AOE by 50%.


Only one of Volcano, Deluge, Violent Gale, or Land Protector can be cast at a time by the same player. Subsequent casts will remove the current land effect.

If you have an active Volcano, Deluge, or Violent Gale on the map, consecutive casts of the same terrain do not consume any Gemstones; changing from Deluge to Volcano does consume a new blue gemstone, however.

These skills cannot be cast on cells that are affected by any other ground skills, e.g., a previously laid Wall of Fog / Safety Wall / Pneuma will prevent any of these terrains to have their effects inside the already occupied area. One must first cast these terrains, and then follow up with the other desired ground skills. Only Insignias do not obstruct the cell placement of Deluge / Volcano / Violent Gale.

Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
  • Supportive skill
  • Area of Effect:
Lvls 1 & 2 = 7 x 7 cells
Lvls 3 & 4 = 9 x 9 cells
Lvl 5 = 11 x 11 cells
  • Duration: [75 + (Skill Level × 45)] seconds
  • VCT: 4 seconds
  • FCT: 1 seconds
  • ACD: 0 seconds
  • Levels: 5
 One of Sage's most important skills. Clears almost any ground targeted skills (trap skills are an exception, such as Fiber Lock, Ankle Snare, Land Mine, Shockwave Trap, etc) and prevents most AOE magic damage inside its area.

A very important consideration must be made in regards to what is understood as magic AOE. There are currently 3 kinds of magic AOE skills in RO (beware that those are my own terminology):


Those 3 cases imply into different behaviors:

1) True AOE skills are completely blocked by LP (Released Comet behaves just like cast Comet, and therefore it is also completely blocked);
2) Targeted AOE skills aren't blocked by LP;
3) Splashing AOE skills are almost entirely blocked by LP. Only targets standing on the outermost layer of Land Protector will receive damage.


This skill does not block non-magical damage (Dragon Breath, Rapid Throw, etc.), or boss monsters' Earthquake.

Template:Skill List and Insignias' (more on these skills' subsection ) effects aren't blocked by LP.

Successive casts will consume another pair of blue & yellow gemstones, unlike the terrains' behavior previously mentioned. Only one of Volcano, Deluge, Violent Gale or LP can be cast at a time by the same player.

If one casts their LP on top of another Sorcerer's LP, the overlapping section will be removed. In PVM, this destructive behavior is the reason why there are never 2 Sorcerers in a party (usually). In PVP, it implies into an offensive use of the skill, in order to gain ground against an enemy team.

An interesting mechanic is that Land Protector prevents normal mobs from teleporting if they're standing on it; players are also affected by this property.

Template:Skill List
  • Supportive skill
  • Duration: 5 x (Skill Level + 1) minutes
  • Endows physical attacks with Water / Fire / Wind / Earth property.
  • Bonus damage to Water / Fire / Wind / Earth magic skills: (Skill Level)%
  • VCT: 1 seconds
  • FCT: 1 seconds
  • ACD: 0 seconds
  • Levels: 5
 Endows enchant an ally's weapon, bestowing them with the following properties:
  • The ally's physical attacks will now have the same element as the applied Endow skill;
  • The ally's magical skills which match the Endow's element will have their damage raised by 1% per Endow level, capping at 5%.

Casting Endow will overwrite the weapon's native element, and other skills such as Aspersio and Endow itself.

Each cast of Endow consumes a Point from the corresponding element. Points can be bought from the NPC Master of Elements (@navi main_office 209 215), at Main Office's first floor.

Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
Template:Skill List
  • Self Buff skill
  • Duration: 5 minutes
  • FCT: 5 seconds
  • Levels: 10
 Automatically casts spells when autoattacking, with a (2 * Auto Spell Level)%probability, at (Auto Spell Level / 2)% skill level. E.G.: Auto Spell level 10 will cast lvl 5 Cold Bolt at a 20% probability.

The available spells are:

  • Fire, Cold and Lightning Bolts (unlocked at Auto Spell lvl 1);
  • Soul Strike and Fire Ball (unlocked at Auto Spell lvl 4);
  • Earth Spike and Frost Diver (unlocked at Auto Spell lvl 7);
  • Thunderstorm and Heaven's Drive (unlocked at Auto Spell lvl 10);


It's important to point out that:

1) Autocasted Bolts interact with Template:Skill List, meaning an extra bolt lvl 5 Cold Bolt might be cast at a 80% probability (considering Auto Spell and Double Casting both at max levels);
2) Autocasted skills do trigger their ACD normally.


Point 2 was what effectively prevented Spellfist builds from autocasting: the skill had a duration of 30 autoattacks, which entailed into manual Bolt cast > Spellfist periodically; since autobolts trigger ACD, the manual bolt cast would be locked until the last autocasted bolt's ACD had elapsed.

After Template:Skill List was changed to a 180 seconds self buff, the above concern no longer exists, and Spellfisting + autocasting opened up as a possibility.

Soul Linker's Template:Skill List will allow Auto Spell to use the highest level of Bolt skills learned. Keep in mind that Auto Spell must be recasted after the soul link for the effect to take place.

Template:Skill List
  • Self Target skill
  • Levels: 5
 A good skill to use while leveling, in case you want to stop a long cast.

Usually unnecessary later on since everything is gonna be too fast for you to cancel anyway, but still has its uses on Spell Fist builds.

Template:Skill List
  • Single Target skill
  • VCT: 1.6 seconds
  • FCT: 0.4 seconds
  • ACD: ASPD
  • Levels: 5
 Removes many, but not all, buffs and debuffs from the target. A list of undispellable buffs can be checked in Dispell's iRO wiki page.

In PVM, Dispell is usually used to remove skills like Template:Skill List, Template:Skill List, Template:Skill List, Max Pain and Agi Up, so that your ally DPS can deal damage consistently.

It's also possible to Dispell allies while holding Shift to remove debuffs or buffs (Sura's Template:Skill List comes to mind).

Template:Skill List
  • Self Target skill
  • Duration: [0.2 + (Skill Level × 0.2)] seconds
  • ACD: 1 second
  • Levels: 5
 Allows the Sorcerer to dodge any single target offensive magic for a short duration, while recovering (Skill Level × 20)% SP of the absorbed skill's original cost. If an enemy casts Template:Skill List and is countered by this skill, the Magic Rod user will absorb 20% of the enemy's Max SP.

There are 3 important mechanics inside Magic Rod:

1) Multiple spells can be absorbed in a single MR cast;
2) Walking will cancel MR, so avoid it if possible while under intense skill spam (like Warlock's Template:Skill List and Ninja's Template:Skill List, for example);
3) Template:Skill List, Template:Skill List and Template:Skill List are examples of targeted AOEs, and those can also be absorbed by MR. Keep in mind, however, that if a Performer targets you with Reverberation and you were to absorb it with MR, your allies in the surrounding cells would still be hit by the spell.

Magic Rod must be cast before the enemy spell hits you, so pay close attention to casting bars or cast it preemptively (which is often the case in PVP, where people will have Instant Cast).

If your build has no ACD reduction, at least lvl 4 Magic Rod is necessary for complete immunity against a barrage of opposing single target spells.

Template:Skill List
  • Single Target skill
  • Levels: 1
 Hitting Esc will close Sense's window. Beware of multiple Senses though, since only the very first window will disappear with the aforementioned method; the player will have to close manually all the other subsequent ones.
Template:Skill List
  • Single Target skill
  • VCT: 0.56 seconds
  • FCT: 0.14 seconds
  • Levels: 5
 Gives you a 10% chance to break the cast of a boss monster, or 100% to break cast of a normal enemy (including players). In parties, Spell Break can be spammed against bosses that have cast bars to cancel their mechanics (e.g. Kimi's cast for Max Pain activation).

When successful, this skill at level 5 can damage any target by 2% of their max HP, including boss protocol monsters.

Template:Skill List
  • Passive skill
  • Bonus ASPD: (Skill Level × 0.5)%
  • Levels: 10
 Increases ASPD and ATK when equipped with a Book weapon.

An important skill for Spellfist builds, due to the ASPD bonus. The ATK portion is negligible; physical Sage builds became less and less viable with the passing of time.

Template:Skill List
  • Passive skill
  • Dragon resistance: (Skill Level × 4)%
  • Magical dmg vs Dragon: (Skill Level × 2)%
  • Bonus INT:
Lvls 1 & 2 = 1 INT
Lvls 3 & 4 = 2 INT
Lvl 5 = 3 INT
  • Levels: 5
 Increases both damage and resistance against Dragon race enemies. These bonuses are particularly useful against one of Monster Hunter's boss, Garronath.

The skill also grants 3 Int at lvl 5. This bonus' value isn't as relevant as it was in the past, but it's still useful to Sorcerer regardless.

Template:Skill List
  • Passive skill
  • Remaining Movespeed: [25 + (Skill Level × 5)]%
  • Remaining ASPD: [50 + (Skill Level × 5)]%
  • Levels: 10
 One of Sage's more interesting passives, allowing autoattacking and moving while casting spells. Attack Speed and Movement Speed are reduced during spell casts, and higher levels reduce the penalty. Level 10 removes the ASPD penalty.

Repositioning during cast times opens up the usage of long winded spells, such as level 10 Bolts, while eliminating the necessity of hard crowd control spells (Template:Skill List / Template:Skill List / Template:Skill List) against certain monsters.

Works fine at lvl10 while levelling, since the class doesn't have too many impactful skills when considering PVM. At end game though, this is a skill that you either get at 10, 1 (to walk while casting Template:Skill List) or not at all.

Template:Skill List
  • Levels: 10
 This is a for fun skill. Higher levels give a larger pool of possible skills.

Each cast has a chance to give you a ???? skill, which can:

  • Tame the target monster (including boss protocol);
  • Transform the target monster into an MVP;
  • Transform the target monster into a Poring;
  • Steal Monster Level × 100 zeny from target monster;
  • Instantly kill the target monster.

Level 6 is when taming monsters becomes available, so it's often left at that if that's your goal. Level 10 allows transforming monsters into MVPs.

The cost of this skill cannot be reduced below 1 Yellow Gemstone.

Template:Skill List
Platinum skill


  • Levels: 1
 Creates an Elemental Converter of any of the main 4 elements:


These Converters can be used in conjunction with the skill Elemental Change or on their own to endow the user with an elemental property for 20 minutes. The success rate of creating an elemental converter is 100%.

Template:Skill List
Platinum skills
  • Catalyst: Elemental converter of the same property
  • FCT: 2 seconds
  • ACD: 1 seconds
  • Levels: 1
 Alters the elemental property of a single target permanently (aka until said target dies).

Originally, a Sage had to choose which of these skills they wanted to learn, but NovaRO's Platinum Skill NPC (and also the Job Master NPC) will grant the player all four of them.

The chance of applying the elemental change is affected by the level learned of the Endow skill of the same property, as well as DEX, INT and Job Level.

Template:Skill List
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[4.3] File:Pticon tscholar.png Professor Skills

Quenching their lifelong thirst for learning, Professors have accumulated a greater body of knowledge than ever before. Their newfound magic puts allies and alike at ease, while enemies find themselves overturned and swallowed in its wake. Don't take their lack of firepower as their shortcoming however, for a crafty usage of their abilities can spell your demise.


Scholars are the transcendent version of Sages. Through rebirth, Scholars aquire their signature trio of SP-manipulative skills: Soul Change, Health Conversion and Soul Burn. The two former skills enable Scholars to act as endless sources of SP, which makes them a favorable class for party play. The third SP-manipulating skill, Soul Burn, aims to offensively eliminate all of their opponent's SP, which enables interesting mindgames inside PvP and WoE.

Offensive power also gets a boost in the form of Double Bolt and Spider Web, making one-hit kills for INT-based builds a possibility.


Professor
Skill Effects Notes
Template:Skill List Covers an area in Fog. Units in Fog will take 75% less damage from ranged autoattacks, and 25% reduced damage from ranged skills. In addition, any skills targeted into the affected area has a 75% chance to fail.

Max Level: 1

Kind of like Pneuma, but only reduces ranged damage instead of dodging it completely. It's nice in that you can safety wall inside it, so you can block melee attacks and also reduce incoming ranged damage by an entire 75%. Not only that, but there's an increased chance for ranged attacks to miss, and targeted skills targets inside the fog has a 75% failure rate. Put a point in here, it'll be worth it.
Template:Skill List aehoo

Max Level: 1

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Template:Skill List Consume 1 Cobweb to snare an enemy. Fire damage against webbed enemies will do double damage, but destroy the web.

Max Level: 1

You can only Spider Web up to 2 targets at a time, and the limit lasts until the visual effect disappears. It's removable by land-clear, such as Land Protector, so if you LP your own Spider Web, you can cast another one since it's gone. Doesn't work in instances.
Template:Skill List Converts a portion of your HP into SP.

Max Level: 5

Use this with Soul Exchange to charge your SP, then give SP to your allies. Remember, the SP cost for this skill is 5 SP, so if you go under 5 SP you'll have to recover some SP first before using it. Also be sure not to die when you're low HP because of this skill.
Template:Skill List Exchange your SP with an ally. Half of both player's are consumed in this exchange.

Max Level: 1

Swaps your SP with your target ally's SP, and then halve both. For example, if you have 200 SP and your target has 50 SP, afterwards you have 25 and your target has 100. To target an ally, either use the party menu or shift-click on their sprite. When used on a monster, restore 3% SP.
Template:Skill List Has a chance to reduce a target's SP to 0. On failure, will reduce your own SP to 0. At level 5, will also do damage on the affected player.

Max Level: 5

I believe this only works in PvP, but gives a chance to drain all of your target's SP. If you fail, you drain all your SP instead, so be careful and carry SP potions if you use this. At level 5, will also do damage to your target on success and yourself on failure. Chance doesn't increase from level 4 to 5, so if you wanna use it in PvP you usually use level 4 to save you a skill point, since you save a skill point and the damage is negligible anyway.
Template:Skill List Halves the variable cast time of the next 5 skill casts.

Max Level: 1

Useful for lower levels, but at max level, you should have near instacast. Plus, doesn't affect fixed cast. This is consumed by any skill cast, including any skill that has no cast time at all.
Template:Skill List Increases an enemy's MATK by 100% while decreasing their Soft MDEF.

Max Level: 5

This skill is now disabled in WoE! There's no point in using this skill!!!


[4.4] File:Pticon 3sorcerer.png Sorcerer Skills

The Professors of Juno, after having long studied how to control the four elements, eventually hit a seemingly insurmountable plateau. Humans were just not inherently powerful enough, as they could bend the rules of nature, but were ultimately still governed by them.

Out of desperation, knowledge was sought from ancient magic books and secret records that described how new abilities from different entities could be lent; there was special interest in communicating with elemental fairies, beings capable of fully wielding the power of the four elements. Through the collective efforts of several Professors, the first version of a groundbreaking communication system to interact with these sprites was developed: the Fairy Communication System, a milestone in magical research.

Upon the Fairy Communication System's announcement, over 300 Professors gathered to witness its unveiling. As the first Professor used the scientific communication system to establish a contract with a Fire Fairy, the Academy applauded him as the first Sorcerer.


Sorcerers are magic practitioners that awakened their powers through affinity with spirits.

Through these newfound abilities, the Sage branch developed a vast array of skills that aim to control and take advantage of space: Vacuum Extreme and Insignias create new ways of interacting with enemies and the Sorcerer's surroundings; damage oriented area of effect spells are at last available, allowing for mob control; the new Summon Spirit system bestows the offensive skills with new effects, and also offers a great variety of defensive options.

Although less support-centric than its antecessors, Sorcerers are able still to impart significant buffs to allies' damaging abilities.


Sorcerer
Skill Effects Notes
Template:Skill List Inflict Neutral Property damage to an area. If the Sorcerer has a summoned Elemental Spirit at level 2, set to Passive Mode, Psychic Wave will do damage of the same element as the Elemental Spirit instead of Neutral.

Max Level: 5

Your main damage skill. Each tick of damage counts as a separate "hit," in a sense, so there's up to 7 chances per Psychic Wave to trigger on-hit effects such as Runaway Magic from Temporal Boots or Wickebine's Cat Ears' MDEF pierce. Does Neutral damage by default, but lets you use 4 other elements as well.
Template:Skill List Inflict Water Property damage to an area. Can Crystallize targets.

Max Level: 5

Crystallize is a very strong debuff in PvP modes. Affected units cannot cast skills, move, or use any items, and the only way to end Crystallize before the timer runs out is Clearance/Lauda Agnus from an Arch Bishop, Dispel/Warmer from a Sorcerer, Banishing Buster from an enemy Rebel, or being hit by any type of fire damage. Crystallized targets take more damage from Wind Property damage. In PvM, non-boss protocol monsters can also be Crystallized, but they will only be rooted for the duration. They will be able to hit you if you're within range, but they will not move. Does more damage based off the level of Frost Weapon (Water Endow) you have.
Template:Skill List Inflict Wind Property damage to a target and surrounding enemies. Has a chance to Stun.

Max Level: 10

Unlike Diamond Dust and Earth Grave, it's a targeted spell that has an AoE instead of being ground-based, similar to a Ranger's Arrow Storm. This means that you can use it on enemies standing on LP. This skill gets a lot of boots from stuff like Old Wind Whisper (from bio5) and Celia Alde Card (also from bio5). It's a real shame that we don't get a wind garment card to boost it yet (without going into MVP card territory) but still does very, very respectable damage if you build for it! Does more damage based off the level of Lightning Loader (Wind Endow) you have.
Template:Skill List Inflict Earth Property damage to an area. Can hit and reveal hidden targets.

Max Level: 5

Does respectable damage while revealing hidden targets. Keep in mind that it will NOT cancel or hurt someone using the Doram Hide. Does more damage based off the level of Seismic Weapon (Earth Endow) you have.
Template:Skill List Consume 2 Red Gemstone to place a Poison Cloud on an area. Enemies inside the area will take Poison Element damage and have a chance to be Poisoned.

Max Level: 5

A very good skill to proc on-hit effects with. At max level, it will do 48 ticks of damage over the entire duration, which is 48 changes for you to proc Runaway Magic, Wickebines', or whatever else you have.
Template:Skill List Inflict Poison Property damage to a Poisoned enemy. Removes Poison status effect on enemy.

Max Level: 5

Apparently this skill does a good chunk damage, but it has a cooldown. In addition, there's no poison magic boosting cards/equipment that I know of, so I wouldn't recommend investing into it. It's also annoying to actually poison the enemy in the first place.
Template:Skill List Cancels a bolt skill mid-cast, and channels the damage into your next autoattacks.

Max Level: 10

This skill can only be cast during the cast time of a Bolt attack. That is, Cold Bolt, Fire Bolt, or Lightning Bolt. Spellfist has a completely different build from normal sorcerer, so make sure you don't end up insta-casting bolts or else you're not going to be able to use this at all. Only works with manually casted bolts, so autocast bolts will not be able to be canceled into Spellfist. Your next couple melee attacks will do magic melee damage depending on bolt damage. Bolt-boosting cards and effects (Ju card, Imp card, etc.) will increase this damage. Dark Claw will boost this skill. Affects the next 3 * skill level number of hits. Level 10 is 30 hits!
Template:Skill List Allows you to leave behind a trail of Fire where you walk. Enemies that walk on the affected areas will take Fire Property damage.

Max Level: 5

Aehoo
Template:Skill List Allows you to leave behind a trail of Lightning where you walk. Enemies that walk on the affected areas will take Wind Property damage.

Max Level: 5

Template:Skill List Place a small tornado thing on an area. Enemies inside the small tornado thing will be unable to move for a short period of time.

Max Level: 5

An AoE root. Enemies who pass through this will be rooted for a couple seconds, reduced by their Base STR. Works kind of weirdly vs players, since players are stopped only when they reach their current movement. So if someone walks through your vacuum by clicking on a cell that isn't part of the AoE, they'll finish walking before they stop.
Template:Skill List Consume 1 Yellow Gemstone for a chance to inflict Deep Sleep status to an area.

Max Level: 5

An extremely strong skill in PvP modes, since there's no way to resist Deep Sleep. Chance scales with your INT.
Template:Skill List Buff an ally, giving them additional ATK and CRIT.

Max Level: 5

The ATK increase depends on your ally's weapon's level and the caster's Endow levels. The higher the Endow, the more ATK. Gives up to 172 ATK on an ally using a level 4 weapon, while your endows are maxed.
Template:Skill List Place a Warmer on an area. Units inside the warmer heal a % of their max hp every couple seconds. Units inside Warmer cannot be Frozen, Freezing, or Crystallized.

Max Level: 5

Combined with Agni level 2 in passive move, this little fire thing heals a lot of HP. At higher levels, its fixed cast is reduced but cooldown is increased. I like to use it at level 2 or 3 so I can move it around a bit more. If you cast Warmer on a unit with one of those 3 cold looking debuffs, it will get rid of it. Notably, YOU CAN CAST THIS ON ENEMIES. You CAN, but you SHOULDN'T. The maxHP recovery is extremely strong on high health bosses, so be careful. If you're using this to heal or something during a boss fight, take care to not let the boss stay in the Warmer. Get rid of it with Land Protector if you have to.
Template:Skill List Changes Flame Heart, Mystic Frozen, Rough Wind, or Great Nature into Red Blood, Crystal Blue, Wind of Verdue, or Green Lives, or the latter into the former.

Max Level: 2

Level 1 changes Flame Heart, Mystic Frozen, Rough Wind, or Great Nature into Red Blood, Crystal Blue, Wind of Verdue, or Green Lives. How many are produced are random. Level 2 converts 10 of the lesser stones into 1 greater one.
Template:Skill List Change your Elemental Spirit's mode.

Max Level: 4

Commands your Elemental to change modes. Level 1 is Passive, 2 is Defensive, 3 is Offensive, and 4....kills your elemental.
Passive: Gives various buffs to you.
Defensive: Gives various usually-defensive buffs to you.
Offensive: Commands your Elemental to attack.

Cast the same level twice to return it to Idle mode (not the same as Passive) where it doesn't do anything. When your Elemental runs out of SP, it will automatically go into Passive (level 1) mode.

Template:Skill List Consume 3 Crystal Blue/6 Crystal Blue/1 Mystic Frozen to Summon Aqua, the Elemental Spirit of Water

Max Level: 3

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Template:Skill List Consume 3 Red Blood/6 Red Blood/1 Flame Heart to Summon Agni, the Elemental Spirit of Fire

Max Level: 3

Template:Skill List Consume 3 Wind of Verdue/6 Wind of Verdue/1 Rough Wind to Summon Ventus, the Elemental Spirit of Wind

Max Level: 3

Template:Skill List Consume 3 Green Live/6 Green Live/1 Great Nature to Summon Tera, the Elemental Spirit of Earth

Max Level: 3

Template:Skill List Commands your Elemental to attack once.

Max Level: 1

For those who actually just wanted to play Pokemon, but didn't want to raise a Homunculus on a Genetic. Your elemental may take aggro/damage when you use this, so not recommended to use. They don't do much damage anyway
Template:Skill List Allows your Elemental Spirit to have more MaxHP, and reduces your own SP Consumption.

Max Level: 5

I personally don't use this at all, since Elementals die really easily either way, and I've got HP Conversion to keep my SP up.
Template:Skill List Consume 10% of your own HP and SP to restore 10% of your Elemental's HP and SP.

Max Level: 1

Honestly I like to just summon a new Elemental Spirit, but this is nice if your Summon spell is on cooldown still. Also saves you some Materials.
Template:Skill List Consume 1 Blue Gemstone and your current Elemental Spirit to cast Safety Wall and Pneuma on all party members on your screen.

Max Level: 5

Your Elemental Spirit will die when you cast this. :(

This is the only way to cast both Pneuma and Safety Wall on the same cell. Higher Levels only increase duration of the SW/Pneuma, so I recommend only taking this at level 1, since the SW/Pneuma duration seems to already be higher than the normal skills.

Template:Skill List Place a Water Insignia on the floor.

Max Level: 3

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Template:Skill List Place a Fire Insignia on the floor.

Max Level: 3

Template:Skill List Place a Wind Insignia on the floor.

Max Level: 3

Template:Skill List Place an Earth Insignia on the floor.

Max Level: 3


[4.4.1] Insignia and Elemental Spirit System

The Insignia & Elemental Spirit system is comprised of a total of 13 skills, and gives Sorcerer lots of utility and damage potential when correctly employed. Revolving around the 4 main elements, it can be categorized into 2 groups:

  • Insignias;
  • Summoning and control of elemental entities.


[4.4.1.1] Insignias

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Like Sage's terrains, Insignias are skills that occupy a certain area on the ground, and require specific catalysts, known as Points, to be cast. Points can be bought from the NPC Master of Elements (@navi main_office 209 215), at Main Office's first floor.


A very important consideration that must be made, first and foremost, is that Insignia's visual effects don't match their actual area of effect. As here depicted, the visual effect covers a 5x5 area, but the skill's effects take place in the inner 3x3 cells only. In addition, all Insignias have a cooldown of 60 seconds. Sorcerers must, therefore, be very deliberate and precise with their Insignia placement.


Every Insignia performs some basic functions, regardless of level or element:

  • 60 second duration and cooldown. This cooldown is shared across one Insignia's levels (e.g.: using lvl 1 Earth Insignia causes lvls 2 and 3 to also be on cooldown);
  • Insignias affect any unit that steps inside their AoE: the Sorcerer, monsters (including bosses) and other players, even inside PvP;
  • Any attack, be it magical or physical, will have its damage buffed by 25% if the Insignia matches the element of weapon / skill;
  • Any entity inside an Insignia will receive 50% extra damage if struck by any attack imbued with the opposite element;
  • Monsters and players (via element on armor) will recover 1% HP every 5 seconds if standing on same element Insignia, and will lose 1% HP every 5 seconds if standing on opposite element Insignia.


An obscure mechanic is that Insignia cells bypass Land Protector. The most important (and probably only) implication of this property is that an Insignia's effects can be applied on entities that are stepping on the outermost layer of Land Protector's cells. This very specific positioning, depicted in the image below, is key to tanking bosses that cast AOE magic:

INSERT SAID IMAGE BELOW

LP WILL CLEAR INSIGNIA WHEN COVERING ITS CENTRAL CELL


Below follows a table with every unique Insignia effect. For mnemonic purposes:

  • Level 1: buffs the Sorcerer's summons damage. This is hands down the most useless effect ever. Level 1 Insignias are used for their global effects at the low cost of 1 Point;
  • Level 2: concedes +10% atk and a forced endow to the Insignia's element for any entity inside its AoE;
  • Level 3: concedes 25 matk in conjunction with another buff (generally magic related). The ACD reduction on wind and 50 extra flat matk on fire are the most relevant ones.
Insignias' individual effects [AAAAAAAAAAAA]
File:Wind Insignia.png Wind Insignia File:Water Insignia.png Water Insignia File:Fire Insignia.png Fire Insignia File:Earth Insignia.png Earth Insignia
Level 1 Boosts Ventus' ATK by 20%, Doubles Ventus' HP and SP Regen. Boosts Aqua's ATK by 20%, Doubles Aqua's HP and SP Regen. Boosts Agni's ATK by 20%, Doubles Agni's HP and SP Regen. Boosts Tera's ATK by 20%, Doubles Tera's HP and SP Regen.
Level 2 ATK + 10%

Forces weapon to wind property

ASPD + 10%

ATK + 10%

Forces weapon to water property

Boosts incoming heals by 10%

ATK +10%,

Forces weapon to fire property

ATK + 50

ATK + 10%

Forces weapon to earth property

MaxHP +500, DEF +50.

Level 3 Increases Wind property magic damage by 25 flat matk.

-50% After-cast Delay on Wind property magic

Increases Water property magic damage by 25 flat matk.

-30% Variable Cast Time on Water property magic.

Increases Fire property magic damage by 25 flat matk.

+50 MATK

Increases Earth property magic damage by 25 flat matk.

MaxSP +50, MDEF +50



[4.4.1.2] Elemental Spirits

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Summons can't be hit by their own element eg Aqua and storm gust


Sorcerers have access to summons which help them with various buffs and effects. They each represent one of the 4 core elements:

File:Call Agni.png Agni (Fire), File:Call Aqua.png Aqua (Water), File:Call Ventus.png Ventus (Wind) and File:Call Tera.png Tera (Earth).

We will be calling them Elementals. They each have their own benefits and styles, choose the ones best suited for the situation.


You will use File:Spirit Control.png Spirit Control to change the elemental's state. Each level used will have different effect.

Has a fixed cooldown of 5 seconds and costs 10 SP at all levels.
  • File:Spirit Control.png Spirit Control Level 3: Offensive Mode (Elemental will attack any eligible target, autocasts their own skills.)



Skill Name Effect In-Depth
File:Spirit Sympathy.png Spirit Sympathy Passive. Increases Elemental's HP, SP and ATK.

Lowers SP consumption from Elementals being active.

Useful in it's own ways, it depends more on the player to get it or not. Elementals are often hit by AoE cast from enemies, this increases their longevity.
File:Spirit Cure.png Spirit Cure Consumes 10% HP/SP of caster to recover the same amount for the Elemental. Not viable. You got other ways of healing your Elemental and this is an extremely inefficient way of doing it. Use Warmer and Soul Exchange instead.
File:Elemental Action.png Elemental Action Forces Elemental to use one of their offensive mode spells regardless of state.

Does not change Elemental to Offensive state.

Mostly a for fun or extra skill, costs 50 sp and has a long 5 seconds cooldown.

It's not really viable for damaging. Using it also consumes your Elemental's SP rather quickly.

File:Elemental Shield.png Elemental Shield Sacrifices the Elemental to cast File:Pneuma.png Pneuma and File:Safety Wall.png Safety Wall on all party members on screen.

Costs 1 Template:Item List.

Extremely powerful but also extremely situational.

Be careful when casting on parties as you will most likely have a tank near the monster(s) and the Pneuma's effect of Elemental Shield may hinder your party's ranged attackers by protecting the enemy as well.

Cannot be spammed due to Elementals' long cooldowns. Use wisely. 


General Knowledge

Before we get to the (very extensive) individual buffs and effects list, here are the general rules that make it easier to remember what each state and level do.

  • A level 2 Elemental at passive mode will endow your File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave with their element, and increase it's SP cost by 50%. (F.A.Q.)
This will be listed on the effects' table as the "File:Psychic Wave.png+ effect (Element)".
  • Elementals consume the caster's SP continuously after being cast and their SP is continuously drain while they are at Passive or Offensive modes.
  • Elementals have a maximum time limit according to their level: level 1 Elementals last up to 10 minutes, level 2 Elementals last up to 15 minutes and level 3 Elementals last up to 20 minutes.
  • A level 2 Elemental at defensive mode will increase your resistance of their element by 100%, while decreasing the resistance to the opposing element by 100%.
  • Elemental's stats are mildly affected by yours (including bonuses).
  • Elementals are treated just like party members and can receive skill effects from yourself or other players (e.g. You can ask your party's Arch Bishop to use Heal on your Elemental if they are at low HP) you can use this to refill their SP bar if they happen to run out with your File:Soul Exhale.png Soul Change.
  • Any Elemental at offensive mode will attack and automatically cast their respective spells and consume their own SP. Their attack is neutral but the spell property is related to their element. The spells are listed below.


Summons [AAAAAAAAAAAA]
File:Call Aqua.png Aqua Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Aqua 1.gif File:Aqua 2.gif File:Aqua 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Aqua Play:

+40 MATK.

Increases File:Cold Bolt.png Cold Bolt damage.

Increases File:Frost Diver.png Frost Diver damage.


Cooler:

+80 MATK.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Diamond Dust.png Diamond Dust.

Increases Crystallization chance by (JobLv ÷ 5)%.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to water element.


Chilly Air:

+120 MATK.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Cold Bolt.png Cold Bolt at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.


File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Water Screen:

All incoming damage will be redirected to Aqua.

Similar to Crusader's Devotion.
Can negate deadly damage.

Enables 1.000 HP recovery every 10 seconds on player.

Water Drop:

+100% Water resistance.

-100% Wind resistance.

Water Barrier:

Casts a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

Reduces all incoming damage by 20%, -30 ATK, -30 FLEE.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Ice Needle: Low damage, single-target. Water Screw: Decent damage, 3x3 AoE.

Water Screw Attack: Decent damage, single-target.

Tidal Weapon: Very high damage, single-target.

Tidal Weapon: changes Sorcerer's and Aqua's weapon to Water Property for a short time.

File:Call Ventus.png Ventus Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Ventus 1.gif File:Ventus 2.gif File:Ventus 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Gust:

+5 ASPD.

Decreases fixed cast time by 1 second.

Increases File:Lightning Bolt.png Lightning Bolt damage.

Increases File:Thunderstorm.png Thunderstorm damage.

Blast:

+5 ASPD.

Decreases fixed cast time by 1 second.

Adds (JobLv ÷ 2)% bonus matk to File:Electric Walk.png Electric Walk.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Varetyr Spear.png Varetyr Spear.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to wind element.

Wild Storm:

+5 ASPD.

Decreases fixed cast time by 1 second.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Lightning Bolt.png Lightning Bolt at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.

File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Wind Step:

+100% Movement Speed

+50% FLEE

Wind Curtain:

+100% Wind resistance.

-100% Earth resistance.

Zephyr:

Creates a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

Negates physical ranged damage, FLEE + 25.
Same as pneuma, but can be cast over Safety Wall.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Wind Slash: Low damage, single-target. Hurricane: Low damage, 3x3 AoE.

Hurricane Attack: Decent damage, single-target.

Typhoon Mist: Very high damage, single-target.
Knockbacks enemies, chance to Silence.

Typhoon Mist Attack: High damage, single-target.

File:Call Agni.png Agni Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Agni 1.gif File:Agni 2.gif File:Agni 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Pyrotechnic:

+60 ATK.

Increases File:Fire Wall.png Fire Wall damage.

Increases File:Fire Bolt.png Fire Bolt damage.

Heater:

+120 ATK.

Adds (JobLv ÷ 2)% bonus matk to File:Fire Walk.png Fire Walk.

Increases File:Warmer.png Warmer healing by +10%.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to fire element.

Tropic:

+180 ATK.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Fire Bolt.png Fire Bolt at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.

File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Circle of Fire:

Incoming normal melee attacks will trigger damage and a 4 cell knockback to enemies within a 3x3 area around the player (including misses).

Does not work on skills.
Makes agni take aggro from monsters.
 Fire Cloak:

+100% Fire resistance.

-100% Water resistance.

Fire Mantle:

Creates a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

Each cell gains a shield that absorbs a single physical hit.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Fire Arrow: Low damage, single-target. Fire Bomb: Decent damage, 3x3 AoE.

Fire Bomb Attack: High damage, single-target.

Fire Wave: High damage, 3x3 AoE.

Fire Wave Attack: High damage, single-target.

File:Call Tera.png Tera Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Tera 1.gif File:Tera 2.gif File:Tera 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Petrology:

+5% MaxHP.

Increases File:Earth Spike.png Earth Spike damage.

Increases File:Heaven's Drive.png Heaven's Drive damage.

Greatly increases File:Stone Curse.png Stone Curse chance.

Cursed Soil:

+10% MaxHP

Adds (JobLv)% bonus matk to File:Killing Cloud.png Killing Cloud.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Earth Grave.png Earth Grave.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Poison Burst.png Poison Buster.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to earth element.

Upheaval

+15% MaxHP.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Earth Spike.png Earth Spike at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.

File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Solid Skin:

+2000 MaxHP.

+25% DEF.

Stone Shield:

+100% Earth resistance.

-100% Fire resistance.

Power of Gaia:

Creates a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

MaxHP +20%, Stone and Bleeding immunity, +25% DEF, Slowed Movement.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Stone Hammer: Low damage, single-target.
Chance to Stun
 Rock Crusher: Decent damage, single-target.
Slows enemies' movement by 25%

Rock Crusher Attack: High damage, single-target.

Decreases target's DEF.
 Stone Rain: Very high damage, 3x3 AoE.
Chance to Stun



[4.5] File:Elemaster icon.png Elemental Master Skills

Lá vem o EM correndo atrás de mim.

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Elemental Master
Skill Effect Notes
Template:Skill List Increases natural SP recovery and SP recovery from consumables.

Max level: 10

Exactly what the skill name is: Increases SP Recovery. If you don't have anything to do with your points, throwing them in here isn't a bad choice. Not only does it improve your natural SP recovery, it makes your SP pots better, so you technically save money.
Template:Skill List Reveals hidden units around you.

Max Level: 1

Useful for revealing hidden units around you!
Template:Skill List Inflict Ghost Property damage to a target.

Max level: 10

I pretty much only have this because it's a prereq for Safety Wall.
Template:Skill List Consume 1 Blue Gemstone to place a barrier on the ground. Standing in the barrier will block melee hits until the duration runs out, you take a certain amount of hits, or a hit exceeds the Safety Wall's HP.

Max level: 10

Higher levels will block more hits and last longer. Note that if the melee hit is like, super strong, it can break the safety wall in a single hit. On the other hand, very fast, weak hits can also shred a safety wall.
Template:Skill List Inflicts Ghost Property damage to a target. Does extra damage to Undead race enemies.

Max level: 10

If you're leveling on Undead Monsters, you can consider using this skill, but I only take it as the prerequisite for Safety Wall. I prefer using Fireball, which does damage in an area, when I fight Undead monsters to level, since a lot of them tend to be both Undead Race and Element.
Template:Skill List Inflict Water Property damage to a target.

Max level: 10

Cold Bolt is a good choice to use with Spellfist, because Aqua's bonus MATK is more useful than Agni's bonus ATK when summoned.
Template:Skill List Inflict Water Property damage to a target, and has a chance to freeze the target.

Max level: 10

I don't really use this, but I've seen some people use it in BG to apply Frozen to people, since not as many people run Frozen-immune nowadays.
Template:Skill List Consume 1 Red Gemstone to attempt to inflict Stone Curse on a target.

Max level: 10

At level 6+, failing the cast no longer consumes the gemstone. Keep in mind that the cast range for this skill is incredibly small. Like, melee range.
Template:Skill List Inflict Fire Property damage to a target and enemies surrounding the target. Enemies damaged by the splash will take 3/4ths the damage inflicted.

Max level: 10

My go-to skill for leveling to 85. You'll want to group monsters together to use this efficiently.
Template:Skill List Place a Wall of Fire on the ground. Enemies that walk into the cells will be knocked back and take Fire Property damage. Each cell of Fire Wall will break after a certain amount of hits. Undead Enemies will not be knocked back, but will take the max amount of hits per cell and break each cell immediately into walking into it.

Max level: 10

Alright I'm gonna be real, I suck at using this spell. But it's really good for leveling, keeps stuff away from you, and does a lot of damage to Undead stuff since they don't get knocked back, they just take all the damage head-on like a champ.
Template:Skill List Inflict Fire Property damage to a target.

Max level: 10

Use this before you get Fire Ball since you'll probably be in Payon Dungeon killing Zombies/Skeletons.

Tip: You can select the skill with your hotkey, and then scroll up and down to change the level you're casting this as. So you can calculate exactly what level you need to oneshot Zombies to save SP. You can also max this if you're playing a Spellfist build vs Undead or Earth element enemies.

Template:Skill List Inflict Wind Property damage to a target.

Max level: 10

For Spellfist builds, or if you're leveling by killing Water element mobs before you become a Sorcerer. It's much harder to boost Lightning Bolt damage vs Fire and Cold bolt, as there's no Imp/Siroma card equivalent, Elvira card is much more expensive than Mavka and Headless Mule, and there's no Faceworm Lavae/Nightmare Ancient Mummy equivalent released yet (not counting Gioia, an MVP card).
Template:Skill List Inflict Wind Property Damage to an area

Max level: 10

I've literally never even seen this spell outside of some GMT mobs casting it.
Template:Skill List Reduce damage taken at the cost of losing SP every time you are hit.

Max level: 1

Even vs attacks that do "non-reducible damage," Energy Coat will reduce it. If you wanna be tankier at the cost of some SP drain, make sure to keep Energy Coat on. Keep in mind that it takes some of your SP every hit you take, so someone hitting you at 193 ASPD will shred your SP. At 0 SP, the next hit you take will cancel Energy Coat. The reduced damage depends on your current %SP, higher = more reduction.

Also, this is a Platinum Skill so it doesn't cost you points. Talk to the Platinum Skill NPC in the Main Office, Basement, if you are missing this skill.


The new Elemental Master's debuffs are detailed on the table below. The "Cancels when dealing damage?" column refers to the behavior of the debuff itself, meaning:

  • If Yes: any source of damage will consume the debuff (as in Frozen, the second stage of Stone Curse, or Deep Sleep). The debuff can be reapplied after its previous instance is gone.
  • If No: it'll last for a determined amount of time. Reapplying the debuff will refresh its timer.
New Debuffs
Debuff Effect Cancels when dealing damage?
Blaze Endows target property to Fire 1, drains HP over time. NO
Severe Poison Increases damage taken from Poison property, reduces Def, drains HP over time. NO
Quench Endows target property to Water 1, unable to move, use items or skills, reduces Def and Mdef. YES
Torrent Endows target property to Wind 1, unable to move, use items or skills, increases damage taken from Earth property. YES
Concretion Endows target property to Earth 1, unable to move, use items or skills, reduces Mdef. YES

[4.5.1] Elemental Spirits

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Summons can't be hit by their own element eg Aqua and storm gust


Sorcerers have access to summons which help them with various buffs and effects. They each represent one of the 4 core elements:

File:Call Agni.png Agni (Fire), File:Call Aqua.png Aqua (Water), File:Call Ventus.png Ventus (Wind) and File:Call Tera.png Tera (Earth).

We will be calling them Elementals. They each have their own benefits and styles, choose the ones best suited for the situation.


You will use File:Spirit Control.png Spirit Control to change the elemental's state. Each level used will have different effect.

Has a fixed cooldown of 5 seconds and costs 10 SP at all levels.
  • File:Spirit Control.png Spirit Control Level 3: Offensive Mode (Elemental will attack any eligible target, autocasts their own skills.)



Skill Name Effect In-Depth
File:Spirit Sympathy.png Spirit Sympathy Passive. Increases Elemental's HP, SP and ATK.

Lowers SP consumption from Elementals being active.

Useful in it's own ways, it depends more on the player to get it or not. Elementals are often hit by AoE cast from enemies, this increases their longevity.
File:Spirit Cure.png Spirit Cure Consumes 10% HP/SP of caster to recover the same amount for the Elemental. Not viable. You got other ways of healing your Elemental and this is an extremely inefficient way of doing it. Use Warmer and Soul Exchange instead.
File:Elemental Action.png Elemental Action Forces Elemental to use one of their offensive mode spells regardless of state.

Does not change Elemental to Offensive state.

Mostly a for fun or extra skill, costs 50 sp and has a long 5 seconds cooldown.

It's not really viable for damaging. Using it also consumes your Elemental's SP rather quickly.

File:Elemental Shield.png Elemental Shield Sacrifices the Elemental to cast File:Pneuma.png Pneuma and File:Safety Wall.png Safety Wall on all party members on screen.

Costs 1 Template:Item List.

Extremely powerful but also extremely situational.

Be careful when casting on parties as you will most likely have a tank near the monster(s) and the Pneuma's effect of Elemental Shield may hinder your party's ranged attackers by protecting the enemy as well.

Cannot be spammed due to Elementals' long cooldowns. Use wisely. 


General Knowledge

Before we get to the (very extensive) individual buffs and effects list, here are the general rules that make it easier to remember what each state and level do.

  • A level 2 Elemental at passive mode will endow your File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave with their element, and increase it's SP cost by 50%. (F.A.Q.)
This will be listed on the effects' table as the "File:Psychic Wave.png+ effect (Element)".
  • Elementals consume the caster's SP continuously after being cast and their SP is continuously drain while they are at Passive or Offensive modes.
  • Elementals have a maximum time limit according to their level: level 1 Elementals last up to 10 minutes, level 2 Elementals last up to 15 minutes and level 3 Elementals last up to 20 minutes.
  • A level 2 Elemental at defensive mode will increase your resistance of their element by 100%, while decreasing the resistance to the opposing element by 100%.
  • Elemental's stats are mildly affected by yours (including bonuses).
  • Elementals are treated just like party members and can receive skill effects from yourself or other players (e.g. You can ask your party's Arch Bishop to use Heal on your Elemental if they are at low HP) you can use this to refill their SP bar if they happen to run out with your File:Soul Exhale.png Soul Change.
  • Any Elemental at offensive mode will attack and automatically cast their respective spells and consume their own SP. Their attack is neutral but the spell property is related to their element. The spells are listed below.


Summons [AAAAAAAAAAAA]
File:Call Aqua.png Aqua Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Aqua 1.gif File:Aqua 2.gif File:Aqua 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Aqua Play:

+40 MATK.

Increases File:Cold Bolt.png Cold Bolt damage.

Increases File:Frost Diver.png Frost Diver damage.


Cooler:

+80 MATK.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Diamond Dust.png Diamond Dust.

Increases Crystallization chance by (JobLv ÷ 5)%.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to water element.


Chilly Air:

+120 MATK.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Cold Bolt.png Cold Bolt at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.


File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Water Screen:

All incoming damage will be redirected to Aqua.

Similar to Crusader's Devotion.
Can negate deadly damage.

Enables 1.000 HP recovery every 10 seconds on player.

Water Drop:

+100% Water resistance.

-100% Wind resistance.

Water Barrier:

Casts a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

Reduces all incoming damage by 20%, -30 ATK, -30 FLEE.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Ice Needle: Low damage, single-target. Water Screw: Decent damage, 3x3 AoE.

Water Screw Attack: Decent damage, single-target.

Tidal Weapon: Very high damage, single-target.

Tidal Weapon: changes Sorcerer's and Aqua's weapon to Water Property for a short time.

File:Call Ventus.png Ventus Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Ventus 1.gif File:Ventus 2.gif File:Ventus 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Gust:

+5 ASPD.

Decreases fixed cast time by 1 second.

Increases File:Lightning Bolt.png Lightning Bolt damage.

Increases File:Thunderstorm.png Thunderstorm damage.

Blast:

+5 ASPD.

Decreases fixed cast time by 1 second.

Adds (JobLv ÷ 2)% bonus matk to File:Electric Walk.png Electric Walk.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Varetyr Spear.png Varetyr Spear.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to wind element.

Wild Storm:

+5 ASPD.

Decreases fixed cast time by 1 second.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Lightning Bolt.png Lightning Bolt at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.

File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Wind Step:

+100% Movement Speed

+50% FLEE

Wind Curtain:

+100% Wind resistance.

-100% Earth resistance.

Zephyr:

Creates a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

Negates physical ranged damage, FLEE + 25.
Same as pneuma, but can be cast over Safety Wall.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Wind Slash: Low damage, single-target. Hurricane: Low damage, 3x3 AoE.

Hurricane Attack: Decent damage, single-target.

Typhoon Mist: Very high damage, single-target.
Knockbacks enemies, chance to Silence.

Typhoon Mist Attack: High damage, single-target.

File:Call Agni.png Agni Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Agni 1.gif File:Agni 2.gif File:Agni 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Pyrotechnic:

+60 ATK.

Increases File:Fire Wall.png Fire Wall damage.

Increases File:Fire Bolt.png Fire Bolt damage.

Heater:

+120 ATK.

Adds (JobLv ÷ 2)% bonus matk to File:Fire Walk.png Fire Walk.

Increases File:Warmer.png Warmer healing by +10%.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to fire element.

Tropic:

+180 ATK.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Fire Bolt.png Fire Bolt at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.

File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Circle of Fire:

Incoming normal melee attacks will trigger damage and a 4 cell knockback to enemies within a 3x3 area around the player (including misses).

Does not work on skills.
Makes agni take aggro from monsters.
 Fire Cloak:

+100% Fire resistance.

-100% Water resistance.

Fire Mantle:

Creates a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

Each cell gains a shield that absorbs a single physical hit.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Fire Arrow: Low damage, single-target. Fire Bomb: Decent damage, 3x3 AoE.

Fire Bomb Attack: High damage, single-target.

Fire Wave: High damage, 3x3 AoE.

Fire Wave Attack: High damage, single-target.

File:Call Tera.png Tera Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
File:Tera 1.gif File:Tera 2.gif File:Tera 3.gif
File:Spirit Control.png Passive Petrology:

+5% MaxHP.

Increases File:Earth Spike.png Earth Spike damage.

Increases File:Heaven's Drive.png Heaven's Drive damage.

Greatly increases File:Stone Curse.png Stone Curse chance.

Cursed Soil:

+10% MaxHP

Adds (JobLv)% bonus matk to File:Killing Cloud.png Killing Cloud.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Earth Grave.png Earth Grave.

Adds (JobLv x 5)% bonus matk to File:Poison Burst.png Poison Buster.

File:Psychic Wave.png Psychic Wave is endowed to earth element.

Upheaval

+15% MaxHP.

Player autocasts Level (JobLv ÷ 10) File:Earth Spike.png Earth Spike at (JobLv ÷ 2)% chance when physically attacking.

File:Spirit Control.png Defensive Solid Skin:

+2000 MaxHP.

+25% DEF.

Stone Shield:

+100% Earth resistance.

-100% Fire resistance.

Power of Gaia:

Creates a 3x3 barrier centered on the player.

Barrier effect:

MaxHP +20%, Stone and Bleeding immunity, +25% DEF, Slowed Movement.
File:Spirit Control.png Offensive Stone Hammer: Low damage, single-target.
Chance to Stun
 Rock Crusher: Decent damage, single-target.
Slows enemies' movement by 25%

Rock Crusher Attack: High damage, single-target.

Decreases target's DEF.
 Stone Rain: Very high damage, 3x3 AoE.
Chance to Stun




[5] Builds and Gameplay

The stat distributions below (which by the way refer to Base Stats alone, not taking bonuses from equipment into consideration) do not mention specific values, since each player has a particular set of equipment or personal preferences according to their playstyle. Same applies to the suggested skills, where I showcase the absolute barebones structure of each build. Use those guidelines to experiment until you find a balance of stats and skills that satisfy your needs.

Also, be mindful that, regardless of the build you're going for, most of the time an Elemental Master is expected to contribute with at least Land Protector and Dispell. People may ask you for SP from time to time too.


[5.1] Player versus Monster


[5.1.1] Support Elemental Master

Stats
STR dump Could be 1 or as much as needed, as long as important stats aren't sacrificed.
AGI 100 total Sleep immunity via stats. If you plan to attain immunity through other means, there's no need to invest in here at first (but ASPD helps with skill spamming).
VIT at least 100 total Support builds will generally go above 100 base anyway, but keep in mind that 100 total is the bare minimum for stun immunity.
INT at least 100 total Depends on what you wish to accomplish with the build. More int investment will help with IC via stats and also more SP, which helps if you find people asking for Soul Change often. 100 total gives silence immunity.
DEX 120+ High dex helps with IC via stats, and at least 120 is needed if you're going for Dex Temp Boots.
LUK 100 total or negative value Curse Immunity. Care when going for negative luk, because Gloria will make it positive again.
Traits
POW 0 Absolutely useless trait for magic classes in general.
STA Balance with WIS Grants RES, which will improve survivability.
WIS Balance with STA Grants MRES, which will improve survivability.
SPL 0 Useless trait for supporting, since you're not dishing out damage.
CON 0 Even though this trait improves flee, the amount obtained would be negligible for 2 reasons: if a EleMaster must tank, they're either dealing with a mob of monsters or MVPs. Flee falls off sharply after tanking more than 3 monsters, and MVPs that require tanking will hit you regardless.
CRT 0 Absolutely useless trait for magic classes in general.


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There are 2 tips when building support Sorcerer:

1) Achieve Instant Cast.
2) Be as tanky as you possibly can while respecting tip #1.


One could break tip #1 depending on the circumstances, but it's not generally advisable unless you know why you're doing it.

Another really important thing is to never forget your consumables, specially gemstones. In the rare occasion that Sorcerer is needed for some content, it means that no one else has absolutely no fucking way of covering for Sorc, and not being able to use your skills means death for everyone (aka LP or Dispell). If you rely only on Template:Skill List in order to use Dispell / Land Protector, I'll personally hunt you down and burn all your Zeny on gemstones.


It's also relevant to point out that, at least in my opinion, Tank Sorcerers are just another variation of support, where they generally forego Instant Casting (or rely on party buffs to achieve it) in order to become as tanky as possible (by stacking racial resists or pure HP and Def + MDef).


Ara did a terrific job at describing things a support Sorcerer should keep their attention on, so I'll shamelessly copy her text and adjust it a little bit according to my own thoughts. Here you have it:

What does a Support Sorcerer do? Well, you have a couple of jobs, depending on what content you're running.
  1. Make sure everyone has SP
    • Turn on @showsp. This will change everyone in your party's HP bars into their SP bars instead. Keep in mind that you will not be able to see their HP when showsp is on. You'll see your own HP bar though.
    • Use the party window to target, since people walk around and the names in party window don't. Don't forget to hold shift + left click for Soul Change.
    • Remember that Health Conversion costs 5 SP to cast. If your target is at 0 SP and then you Soul Change them, you will be at 0 SP. Make sure you have some way of getting that 5 SP so you can start generating SP again. A place where Health Conversion's cost is relevant is in Nightmare Horror Toy Factory, where monsters will inflict Bleeding, which disables natural HP&SP regen, along with AOE SP drain.
    • Check the SP values in the party window. Make sure your target has less than half of your SP before you Soul Change them. Your AB isn't going to be happy if you're stealing their SP instead of providing for them.
    • If your party has 2 Performers, they may be using Song of Mana. If they are, you probably don't have to give SP, since that skill recovers 20% SP per use.
  2. Dispel certain enemies. You'll want to dispel buffed enemies that have statuses like:
    • Agi Up (Celia in Bio3/5, Beelzebub, Valkyrie Randgris)
    • Hallucination Walk (Stephan in Sky Fortress)
    • Defender (Thorns on Entweihen Croten in Endless Tower, Randel in Bio3/5)
    • Reflect Shield (Amdarais in OGH Hard, Randel in Bio4/5)
    • Max Pain (Kimi in HTF, Sorin in Bio3/5)
    • Magic Mirror (Fallen Bishop Hibram, Beelzebub)
    • And also allied Suras and other party members who ask for Dispel/Clearance

    Keep in mind that you also do not want to dispel enemies that your allies have already debuffed. Dispel will remove debuffs like Warlock's Magical Intoxication (from Comet), Guillotine Crosses' Dark Claw and Kagerou's Empty Shadow. If you dispel a boss that has one of these debuffs applied to them, your allies can and will flame you.

  3. Use Land Protector. Land Protector blocks Ground-targeted Magic. That means nothing Physical or unit-targeted will be blocked. Here's some common skills that will or will not be blocked.
    WILL BLOCK:
    • Comet
    • Storm Gust (kinda. Go read LP's writeup if you don't understand why)
    • Psychic Wave
    • Fire Wall
    • Meteor Storm
    • Pneuma
    • Safety Wall
    • Grand Cross/Dark Grand Cross
    • Earth Strain
    WILL NOT BLOCK
    • Earthquake
    • Hell's Judgement
    • Jack Frost
    • Wide Stone Curse/Wide Soul Drain/Wide Sleep
    • Dragon Breath
    • Ignition Break
    • Arullo

    Keep in mind that this is not even close to being a complete list of blocked/unblocked skills. In dungeons such as Bio5 (Tomb of the Fallen), you will be expected to keep Land Protector under the party (or under specific party members) at all times. If you have a Warlock in your bio5 party, be sure not to LP too far forward, since they cannot cast Comet on enemies on top of LP. In addition, you might want to LP over enemy pneumas so that your ranged DPS can hit them.

  4. Use Land-based Buffs at boss fights
    • Land-based Buffs include Deluge, Violent Gale, Volcano, and your 4 elemental Insignias.
    • Deluge, Violent Gale, and Volcano will boost damage of the same type. For example, if you're fighting a Water-element boss, put a Violent Gale under your party's DPS so their Wind-element damage is boosted.
      Keep in mind that these 3 skills do not work on top of other ground-based skills. For example, if you place a Safety Wall on the floor, and then cast Volcano on top of the Safety Wall, the 1 cell occupied by the Safety Wall will not have bonuses from Volcano, but the Volcano will still apply on all the other cells. Other common spells that block these ground spells are Neutral Barrier, Wall of Fog, and Pneuma.
    • Elemental Insignias will make units take more damage from the element the insignia is weak to, and boost elemental damage of the same type. It will also restore a % of HP to units of the same element, and do damage to units of the weakened element over time.
      Most Common Use: place a level 1 insignia of the opposite element on a boss (Level 1 Wind Insignia on a Water-element boss), or put both same and opposite elements top of the boss to negate the hp% healing and boost the damage of melee damage dealers some more.
      Ara originally suggested to place a same element under the boss (Level 1 Water Insignia on a Water-element boss) and opposite element on the party, but that's highly dependent on how much HP the monster has. Let's suppose one certain boss has 1 billion HP, thus resulting in 50 million HP regen each 5 seconds; if your party can't outdamage that kind of healing (or just barely), then the insignia's cons far outweigh its benefits.
  5. Use Targetted Buffs
    • Use Striking on any physical DPS in your party.
    • Use an Endow on any Magical DPS. For example, use Wind Endow on a Chain Lightning Warlock to increase all their Wind Magic by 5%.
    • Keep in mind to Endow Physical DPS when they ask for it, and not at the very end.


[5.1.2] Damage Dealer Elemental Master

It's general knowledge that magic classes are expensive, but Sorcerer skills have a twist to it: all cooldown reduction gear NEEDS high refine. Thus, you may find yourself investing in stuff that could very well pass as minmaxing so that the class can begin to maybe function as DPS.

Elemental Master skills have more sensible cooldowns (not 5 seconds), so the class works well from the get go. The fact that the AOEs now do change monsters' property also helps a lot.

Below follows a table with every card that grants magical damage to elements relevant to Elemental Master.

This is a link to Muh's calculator, so one can theorycraft their builds, and Black Intel's video on how to use it.

List of Elemental Cards
Neutral Water Earth Fire Wind Poison
Head Plaga

Plagiaron (rudus 4F)

Lichtern Blue

Vanilaqus (abandoned lab amicitia)

Lichtern Yellow

Fulgor (abandoned lab amicitia)

Lichtern Red

Fillia (abandoned lab amicitia)

Tikibalang

Litus (abandoned lab amicitia)

Diligent Vitata

Venedi (rudus 4F)

Weapon Magic-poisoned Plaga [only staves] Blue Pitaya [only staves] - Red Pitaya [only staves]

E-EA1L

Arch Plasma [only staves] -
Garment Purple Pitaya

Prime Corruption Root [with Realized Corruption Root]

Faceworm Larvae Arc Elder Nightmare Ancient Mummy

Prime Corruption Root [with Realized Corruption Root]

Deep Sea Phen -
Shoes Dio Anemos

Arena Dio Anemos (ep 18)

Tumblering (ep 18)

Boiling Marc

Ordre

Arena Ordre (ep 18)

Dio Anemos

Verporte

Arena Dio Anemos (ep 18)

Volcaring (ep 18)

Geffen Shoplifter

Arena Shoplifter (ep 18)

Volcaring (ep 18)

Ordre

Arena Ordre (ep 18)

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Accessory Dwigh

Jewlery Ant (+ ungoliant) [left]

Arena Dwigh (ep 18)

Ashhopper [left] (ep18)

Headless Mule

Crow Duke [right] (thana revamp)

Mavka

Ash Toad [left] (ep18)

Crow Duke [right] (thana revamp)

Mavka

Lava Toad [left] (ep18)

Crow Baron [left] (thana revamp)

Elvira

Firewind Kite [left] (ep18)

Crow Baron [left] (thana revamp)

Unknown Creature [left] (ep18)


[5.1.2.1] Caster

Stats
STR dump Could be 1 or as much as needed, as long as important stats aren't sacrificed.
AGI "dump" Mostly for sleep immunity. At the same time that ASPD helps with skill spam, caster Sorc actually isn't hard pressed (yet) to go very high.
VIT at least 100 total Stun immunity is important, but you could sacrifice vit a bit if necessary (aka 130 dex/int).
INT 120+ Int is very important for caster, since the stat enters as a variable in Sorc's AOEs damage formulas. Int Temp Boots needs 120 for the MAtk bonus.
DEX 120+ High dex helps with IC via stats, and at least 120 is needed if you're going for Dex Temp Boots.
LUK "dump" Helps with matk, so dumping here yields a bit more damage. Keep the stat in multiples of 3.
Traits
POW 0 Absolutely useless trait for magic classes in general.
STA possible "dump" Read CON deascription for more info.
WIS possible "dump" Read CON deascription for more info.
SPL 100 The cornerstone trait for magical damage. Go big or go home.
CON possible "dump" Ordinarily, this is where you would put all your remaining trait stats, since CON grants S.MATK every 5 points.

There is, however, a point to be made considering survivability. There might be occasions where STA & WIS could potentially become a better dump trait, since a dead mage deals 0 damage. This of course is up to experimentation, more often than not. If you feel values of STA and WIS on their 20s aren't really contributing to enough tankiness, then just go with a glass cannon trait distribution (max SPL & rest in CON) and fiddle with VIT and more defensive equipment instead.

CRT 0 Absolutely useless trait for magic classes in general.
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[5.1.2.2] Spell Fist

Stats
STR dump Could be 1 or as much as needed, as long as important stats aren't sacrificed.
AGI 193 ASPD 193 is a must, no excuses; do whatever you must to achieve that value (my first Spellfist boots were Temp Agi with ASPD enchant on 3rd slot). No amount of damage modifiers elsewhere can net more DPS than maxing ASPD.
VIT at least 100 total Stun immunity and good HP values are important, considering Spellfist is played at melee range. If your build is REALLY short on points for 193 ASPD, you could sacrifice points from here (although that would be an issue mostly related to low base levels, since lvl 200 gives a LOT of status points).
INT high Keep it at high values for damage, but 193 ASPD takes priority. There's also a fine balance between high int costs and luk matk, but one gotta test that out on their own builds. An argument could be made for 120 int minimum, since that's the value for Int Temp Boots' MAtk bonus.
DEX varies Dex in this build is mostly used as a leverage to raise ASPD, but one could invest in it if a faster cast is desired.
LUK mid ~ high Helps with MAtk. Keep the stat in multiples of 3. Reaching 193 ASPD takes priority though.

Also, Spell Fist does not crit. What you see occasionally is the crit animation for the physical portion of your autoattack (which is negligible, since you won't invest in physical damage).

Traits
POW 0 Absolutely useless trait for magic classes in general.

An observation must be made here though, since Spell Fist did start all the way back in autocaster Sage. Gear had limited options back then, thus making hybrid Sage a viable build, which focused on both on physical damage from autoattacks and magic damage from Template:Skill List.
Nowadays, investing half in magic and half in physical is a really bad call for 2 main reasons:
1) You'll have to split all your equipment and stats between both sources of damage, which most certainly will imply into mediocre DPS;
2) It isn't possible to achieve 100% def and mdef simultaneously with current gear.


This whole argument also applies to CRT as well. It felt necessary to me to make this commentary right here, because someone MIGHT come up with this idea again, and ask themselves if it's a viable alternative.

STA possible "dump" Read CON deascription for more info.
WIS possible "dump" Read CON deascription for more info.
SPL 100 The cornerstone trait for magical damage. Go big or go home.
CON possible "dump" Ordinarily, this is where you would put all your remaining trait stats, since CON grants S.MATK every 5 points.

There is, however, a point to be made considering survivability. There might be occasions where STA & WIS could potentially become a better dump trait, since a dead mage deals 0 damage. This of course is up to experimentation, more often than not. If you feel values of STA and WIS on their 20s aren't really contributing to enough tankiness, then just go with a glass cannon trait distribution (max SPL & rest in CON) and fiddle with VIT and more defensive equipment instead.

CRT 0 Absolutely useless trait for magic classes in general.
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[5.2] Monster Hunter

I tried tanking

You just cant

The damage is so inherently low that you can't balance being tanky + pulling out the necessary DPS

Also, Sorc has one of the lowest vit to HP mod conversion

If a sorc can tank the way it was meant to be, then the DPS he's holding the aggro for probably have as bad DPS as the sorc.


WAIT NEVERMIND I TANKED


https://www.novaragnarok.com/forum/news/angnar-eden-academy-patch-notes-183-r384/

https://www.novaragnarok.com/forum/news/kro-job-improvement-patch-notes-155-r331/

https://www.novaragnarok.com/forum/news/preparation-patch-notes-177-r374/

https://www.novaragnarok.com/forum/topic/15035-monster-hunting-developers-blog/


[5.3] Player versus Player

Mostly descriptive section? WEEP.


[6] Levelling (and a bit of Stat) Progression

blvl = Base Level
jlvl = Job Level

an important lesson as a mage with limited sp is to keep spells of various levels in your bar. Use the level that is just right to kill the monster, so you don't waste SP (gauging monster HP and not wasting SP)
you can also roll your mouse wheel to adjust a spell's lvl, but you waste way more time in that manner.

(REMEMBER ABOUT XP PENALTY ON LEVEL DIFFERENCE)

Stat progression is a concept that was way stronger in pre-re, but it is as important for someone who's just starting a class. It's something seasoned players developed a feel for, but I've never seen anybody mention it in any guide here in nova.

invest into int first ("A fast mage gets int first") . Having low dex generally isn't much of an issue, as long as you have a party / use defensive spells correctly / know how to kite 

(hit and run): cast sensor monsters & movespeed (mages love immobile monsters; immobility can be created by someone tanking)

disjointing damage


Note that several quests in this board in particular give you the option of rewarding you with normal Base and Job EXP, or give zero Base EXP and twice as much Job EXP. If you think a particular build or job class may have trouble with getting Job Levels, please suggest some Lv 91-99 quests for them, and mention the double Job EXP reward option.

If you have been giving solo leveling tips so far, you must give tips for leveling in a party in this section. Few job classes are able to level solo easily after reaching Lv 100, and players may have difficulty adjusting from solo leveling to party leveling. It's very important to explain once more the role of the job class in a party, what they can do to help, what skills to use and in which situation, and so on.

For the higher level ranges, please also add other hunting and item collecting quests from Eden Quest Boards in addition to Gramps. This is so that your reader will know how to level while Gramps is on cooldown. Adding a few pointers about farming zeny is also recommended, for the fresh new players that may be reading your guide.


BLvl 1 - 14: Mom's home. In mom's house, the first time you go to the basement, type /dex+ 19 to allocate all your status points to Dexterity. This will help you clean the mobs in there without much trouble, since physical hits can miss. These 20 dex are also important to kill mobs for the first time after you turn into mage, when you still have no access to magic.

levelling up to job 50 (around blvl 55) > payon dung , with soul stike lvl 10. From this point on, invest only on int. all the way up until 80 or 90 (I prefer 90 before going back to dex). Some people like to lvl with fireball, since the skill has a small AoE and can be improved via certain cards or weapons. But if you're a beginner in the server, or doesn't have a lot of magic gear, I'd favor soul strike instead for some reasons:

  • higher single target damage, even when ghost hits 100% on undead, vs fire's 125%.
  • slightly faster cast, making it easier to kite
  • no need to worry about mobbing, in order to make the skill more cost efficient (which that's what you'd do with fireballz). Conversely, you don't draw unwanted aggro, since SS has no splash.

Of course, nothing impedes you from grabbing both fireball and soul strike and experiment. The bolt skills are more appropriated in higher job levels, when you have firewall to protect yourself, or if you're with a party, since their cast time is significantly longer. (or if you have imp / siroma cards).

when SS breaks the 900 damage barrier, you can go oneshot soldier skeletons (804) in pay dun 2. Notice that Skeleton archers (1646 hp) have about the double HP from Soldier Skels, so keep this in mind when facing one.


(lvl 41 = 60 int / 20 dex)



job change into sage, then SS 10 in glast heim. Your priority is to level freecasting to lvl 10 asap, since it helps immensely your survivability by enabling safer usage of your spells.

When you hit blvl 71, go to eden (@go eden) and register yourself with Secretary Lime Evenor. Now grab quests from lvl [71-85 boards] for Evil Druid and Wraith (inside Glast Heim subitem), and instructor Ur's weapon quest, which also takes place in GH Abbey. Take those quests from Abbey GH over and over, until you're done with weapon quest and you're also lvl 85. Beware that you can't damage mimic if you're levelling with soul strike; since it moves too fast anyways to be bolted down, it's better to simply fly wing away and keep killing the undead monsters. Also avoid walking with low health, since Evil druid has a life draining ranged attack that hits for ~550 max damage instantaneously. Kiting is extremely important in GH Abbey, since monsters there hit considerably hard. If monsters end up in a mob, feel free to fireball them down.


From 85 and on, your best bet is to go for gramps, unless you got a party of friends to lvl with. At blvl 90, you should have dex at 90 too, if you did go for 90 int. At this point, I'd advise raising vit, to improve your survivability; alternatively, you can go for 99 int, keep dex at 90, and dump the rest into vit.

Sage isn't an easy job to solo lvl without proper equipment until 99. In pre-re low rate servers, my solo levelling strategy usually involved autocast build with sage link. Again, if you have siroma / imp (siromas are easier to come by), you could still consider levelling as a caster, since the damage and cast times are decent enough with these.


EXPLAIN GRAMPS, AND INSERT IMAGES



Remember that, as a low level sorcerer, it's counter productive to reset and go for 120dex right away (due to 0.5sec FCT from Temp dex boots), for 3 reasons:

  • Your spells use int as part of their damage formula.
  • Your cast time will be slow anyway.
  • Vacuum Extreme doesn't have fixed cast time.

Same applies for resetting and going for 120 int: even if you pack more punch, your spells will take forever to come off. This might result into you dying to something else due to reduced walking speed from freecast, or your party killing every monster before your cast is completed.


Memorize is not strictly bad, but ugh. The fixed cast is so big. It bothers me a lot. Also, you have freecast and Vacuum. Vacuum has no fixed cast, so you can mob > vacuum > PW etc. If you play vacuum corretly, you should never be hard pressed to cast fast. It's more about understanding how to control space when your cast is bad. You can also use ventus 1 defensive to have high flee and walk fast.


The point about PW is that it is Sorc's strongest spell

And it's a DOT, in a sense.

So if it doesn't oneshot, you could leave it behind and it'll kill anyways

The class is always meant to be played with space control in mind

PW controls space by existing for a determined amount of time in the field (and also hitlocking); diamond crystallizes enemies, rendering them immobile; varetyr stuns; Killng cloud does the same as PW, but with less damage and more emphasis on hitlocking. EG reveals opponents in hiding, but doesn't offer any sort of crowd control.

So, if you consider that PW already has "damage", then less CD allows you to spread multiple PWs while tping

You'll keep killing while offscreen

Which can be good and bad (if you need party drops)

But PW's dot nature always forces you to lure. Lure, put PW somewhere you estimate that mobs will walk to and TP away

And they'll die.




Stat Progression
Pulace horuder texto
Notable Level-Restricted Quests

COMPLETE WITH MORE RECENT QUESTS

Gramps' Brackets
Gramps quests are rotated at the start of every month. You can also hunt them outside of Gramps map. Use the @whereis (e.g.: @whereis poring) command to find out where a monster spawns.
  • Lv 85 - Lv 114: Level range to join the first bracket of Gramps quests.
  • Lv 115 - Lv 144: Level range to join the second bracket of Gramps quests.
  • Lv 145 - Lv 175: Level range to join the third bracket of Gramps quests.
  • Lv 175+: Level range to join the fourth bracket of Gramps quests.


[7] Gear Progression

Endless tables soon.


[8] Theorycrafting Corner

Various tests I realized regarding equipment combinations. Click on Expand to visualize their content.

FUCK ME THOUGH, MY LAPTOP WAS STOLEN AND MY TESTS EXISTED IN THERE ALONE


I) Mythbust (or reiteration of previous results from official servers): Baphomet Card doesn't interact with Spellfist


File:BaphoFist.gif


Rip in peace my son. Credits to Crimson for lending the card.



II) The one time I spent 1 week with Ara's manteau because was too lazy to test the damage (and there was no min-max damage on chamber yet)

God bless I sent Ara this screenshot. I'll fix with proper formatting later (maybe).

File:SURVMvsINTM.png


Conclusions were pretty interesting tbh. Was impressed at how a mere +8 int mant was able to clap +11 Double Spellbound 2 Illu muffler.

Sure, keep in mind that the card used was marsh arclouse, and that any elemental card could tilt the damage in muffler's favor due to refinement.

But when all is said and done, the available gear nowadays would gravitate towards either Automatic Wing or Int Manteau; any illusion garment with their respective rods (Illu Muffler + Staff of Bordeaux, Survivor combo) is probably unable to beat the combination of int manteau + welding.


Also, at that time my Auto Illu B was just +9. +11 is very close to Soutane if you consider Caster Sorcerer; +11 Automatic already wins for spellfist, and that's not even considering [ magic magic ShadowSpell ].




III) The 6-hour Spellfist damage test with Lillianne (because chamber was broken and I was afraid of a ninja patch).

aehoo




IV) The 3-way battle between Automatic B armors and Int Soutane.

Old test.

File:AutoautosoutOLD.png




V) The absolute test because I know rich people.

This gon take time tho



[9] Useful Links


[10] References


Change Log

  • ????: Conclusion of the guide's (first) final version.
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