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You can test this yourself very easily, Use Dark Arts and see what your Elemental/Enfeebling/Dark Magic Skills jump to. Now put the gown on and check again. Lastly take the gown off and see what happens. Once you've done that you'll know you need to wear it to get the bonus. Sorry for being a smart ass but this is really easy to check in a few seconds.


The only thing good about Cobra gear is the feet until you get Yigit. Even if you have the full set you'll get more damage out of mix/matching other gear.



Phantom Always, unless you're trying to make a 320/120 build then the report might actually be useful.



For EXP Errant always, even for a lot of events and or NMs/HNMs Errant.



At the very least yes. Snow Ring x2 or Omniscient Ring x2 are better.

Yes the Cobra Feet was the only piece i was eyeing.. and i know Yigit is great and i am working towards them. i am planning to mix and match between AF, Cobra, and Goliard (and yigit once i get some)

Ok this is my first mage job.. and i have only healed so far.. what is a 320/120 build?

as far as the gown.. again i have yet to really nuke.. i mostly pretty much only heal right now in EXP and have yet to have the need to break out Dark Arts. but thanks for the reply even if it was a little snarky :)

but wait.. Gown has to be worn to get the bonus.. so why would i still stick with Errant on End game? wouldnt the +15 skills > the Int?

I use Morgana's on my RDM/SCH (same Elemental skill cap as SCH/RDM, just no Tier IVs) on all but the most resistant mobs, which I use Royal Redingote with mACC/MAB, and it works great. The mACC-8 looks daunting, but consider how easy it is to floor resists on most things with Errant, and then consider that there is only a 13 mACC difference between Errant body and Morgana's. Swap Vicious Mufflers to Goliard (+4 mACC -1 MAB), and Philomath Stole to Elemental Torque (+7 mACC ~-1.5 MAB), and you're pretty much there to switch Errant to Morgana's (-13 mACC ~+3 MAB). Although you probably won't even need to do that.



I don't know how much reading you've done on SCH, but unlike melee jobs, on mage jobs Skill pretty much is the same thing as Magic Accuracy; there is no damage bonus that comes with high skill, so a 320/120 (320 Skill/120 INT) exists for resistant mobs. It won't deal as much burst damage as an unresisted max damage nuke, but it will land much more consistently. As opposed to melee jobs, where +Skill = +Attack/+ACC, +Elemental Skill = +Magic ACC.

Edited, Sep 25th 2009 11:46am by Aliekber

Use a mnd+ neck for stoneskin (promise badge or morganas choker), pick up an enhancing torque asap for phalanxga and enspellga. Enhancing magic raises the dmg of enspells as well as lessening resists on them. Also phalanx/enspellga in af pants/torque and as you get a chance to better your gear add relic body, augmented fay staff and augmenting earring into the mix. Theres a sea cape with enhan+ also iirc.

Thank you guys for helping a Mage noob! I am almost 74 and will get 75 asap and be able to start having fun nuking... thanks so much for the info and patience :)

now i just gotta learn how to solo/kite big mobs :)

yeah i just gotta practice and master the art of Gravity... Bind.. Bio 2... Helix... nuke.. Stoneskin.. Blink.. rinse and repeat... i guess this is how it goes..



Edited, Oct 2nd 2009 10:54am by Akibakei