Scholar doing the WHM job... what about enfeebling magic?Follow

As I've been soloing and duoing my way to SCH12, I have been on Dark Arts most of the time. So even if I had cared about Paralyze (and enfeebling magic in general), I would have been "right" being on Dark Arts swapping, swapping in MND+ gear for Paralyze. But now, as partying gets closer, I figure I probably will be doing the healing job more often, thus being on Light Arts and Addendum: White.

My style of playing a WHM mostly consists of getting enfeebling magic, especially Paralyze to stick and use the extra time I gained from the mob not attacking to have Regen II do its dirty work. You could call that "proactive", I guess.

Now the WHM enfeebling magic rating being at C isn't particularly great, but SCH's is even worse at D when on Light Arts. So I wonder how much a difference between Light Arts (D) and Dark Arts (B+) there is. Should I even bother about enfeebling magic or just play the "reactive" curebot that I'm not used to be, given that I will be resisted oftentimes?

I have already even thought about being on Dark Arts solely for enfeebling magic B+ and bearing the 20%+ on MP cost and (re)casting time. That probably was the most stupid idea I've ever had... ;-)

If this has already been answered before, please bear with me, because I haven't found anything. In fact, I just don't want to screw up on SCH this early, so any advice is appreciated.

+15 from body and legs AF too!

Oh, I didn't notice that. It actually even says so in the tooltip; if I only had ever cared to read that one. So now I feel bad about having asked, at all, but thank you very much for your answers.

I just saw what Dark Arts was enhancing and concluded Light Arts would boost "the other three" ratings.

/e: Typo.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2008 8:26pm by SKudo

Without even looking at the AF pieces, I'm guessing they are the ones that enhance Light Arts and Dark Arts effects. Since you cannot have both Arts effects active at the same time, you can't get +30 from having both. You just have to wear a different piece depending on which Arts you have on.

Fynlar is correct^^.

Body is for dark arts, legs are for light.

Tabula Rasa doesn't actually give you Light Arts and Dark Arts at the same time. It just gives you the same skill boosts that you would receive from having them active (in other words, all your core magic skills will be boosted).

For instance, while Tabula Rasa is active, you still need to switch Arts if you want to use the stratagems of the other Arts.

I don't know for sure if you wouldn't get +30 skill, but my guess is that you wouldn't.

No, "Black Magic" enfeebles are enhanced and modified by INT, whereas "White Magic" enfeebles are enhanced and modified by MND.

I think the reason that SE gave Enfeebling Skill to both Arts was due to the fact that under Dark Arts originally, you'd get an MP penalty and a timer penalty when casting Slow and Paralyze, because they were "White Magic" enfeebles.

Don't forget dia II and silence are white magic enfeebles also!

I think the only dark magic enfeebles are blind and gravity, or am I forgetting some?

Ah hah. I'll count sleep, since it runs off of enfeebling skill, but dispel and the elemental enfeebles don't run off enfeebling magic.

Looks like you're right. I just always thought it was dark magic. Not that it mattered much for me.