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I want to be a great mage .. The damage they do is soo strong! I know i should first rank all my close combat skills first ... But my INT is super super low. Im a noob so i haven't rebirth, only 1 time. Because MY STR and INT are like opposites does that mean i shouldn't be a mage ????
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Talk to duncan reset your skills
Pick and age that gives the most INT and choose the mage talent,
Getting to level 200 before saturday happens would give 250 INT (since its almost saturday i'd wait till sunday)
From there investing INT skills and you should be doing decent damage with magic skills.
Other tips...
use your beginner ice wand (choose mage at first rebirth to obtain it from duncan) if you´re short on money for repairs, learn fusion bolt and use it with this wand. With the current event use a durability hammer to create a chaincast firewand (costs some gold thou and you will only use it for a max firebolt - really powerful for the beginning. make sure to rank up all fire masteries, bolt masteries and magic weapon masteries to maximize damage). You should slowly obtain your advance skills like Thunder but the wand(s) needed to be good with them are expensive.
if you ranked other stuff besides magic reset your skills at duncan to lower your cp (concerns the powerful, very powerful, boss requirements from skills) to make training easier. Plus you will need the AP... You can rank the other skills back up anytime by only clicking Advance x times.
oh and if you enjoy music, composing and musical knowledge are fairly nice for INT... just book hunting can be ouch :c I got to 200 INT with just a few ranks in music.
P.S. experience from starting my elf alt on magic once without support from my main.
P.S.S. Oh and about INT and STR being opposites... not wholly true. Your STR adds physical defense and your INT magic defense, There´s a class called gunner that profits from both STR and INT. Myself I´m going to be a master spellsword (close combat+magic hybrid talent)!
PLUS in some situations mobs are magic resistent... not sure how it goes nowadays (been gone for a bit) but it´s good to have more areas covered.
INT trains crazy fast, Musical Knowledge and composing give huge amounts for very little AP while a majority of the mage spells give good amounts as well.
Until you get strong enough to get the INT spells like Thunder, Fireball, and Ice Spear, Fusion Bolt and Firebolt will be your bread and butter. It’s very powerful and useful don’t underestimate it. I’d work towards Lightning Rod in terms of ADV magic. Meteor is pretty good but costs money or is a lot of work, and Hail Storm is pretty meh.
Short version is, you’re totally fine going pure mage!