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[Phobos]

to do so, you must have had alot of patience. my mage is stuck on 17 now, and i have no idea where to train. can someone give me some tips, and tell all of nightmist how many mages you've trained to arch?

[Malavon]

Mine didn't reach arch.. got bored/stuck at level 29. However, I mostly trained on demonic soldiers with a cleric, and about 5 low level thieves (in covert, all with adv mana). Decent exp, you come back with more gold than you went in with, and it's close to town. The only downside with that is the pkers, but if you do it at the right time they shouldn't be a problem.

Edited by Malavon, 21 February 2004 - 06:31 PM.

[alone]

Trained none for 1-30.. But am in the process of a 29-30, 22-30 and 8-30

The hardest part isn't mana for me, it's HP. I much prefer training Mages as a solo type class, which causes alot of problem, hense the HP.

All you really have to do is find a nice small area, near to a pub, and keep running back and forth.. Mindless, but worth it (I think).

Here's an idea, get a map (or make your own) of the grassy path, and go slaughter everything there, Brown Bears are the hardest (unless you get near the Tunnels, then Orcs n Granites), and they're even pretty easy. You'll make enough gold, plus you'll get alright exp (not the best, but it should do).

Let us know how it goes.

[Phobos]

i was thinking staying in Silversail. just use 100 gold to refresh everytime you need it, and go on scorps/vipers or whatever is around. of course you'll need a cleric and stuff too.. but i was thinking that at level 20+.

at the moment, i was told Trolls are the best. i was getting about 3k per flame in orc caves.

[alone]

Phobos, on Feb 21 2004, 06:52 PM, said:

i was thinking staying in Silversail. just use 100 gold to refresh everytime you need it, and go on scorps/vipers or whatever is around. of course you'll need a cleric and stuff too.. but i was thinking that at level 20+.

at the moment, i was told Trolls are the best. i was getting about 3k per flame in orc caves.

That's where I'm doing the Master right now. If you work it right, you need not use any other crit bar the Mage, just got to know how (or be crazy enough).

[Silverwizard]

Mages do not have the HP to solo in my opinion and nor the mana to carry adv healing.

[Phobos]

Mages definately don't have the HPs to solo a scorpion/sand spider.

[Kalypso]

The most I've trained a mage from is 1-26 and that was back when Arilin Arena had regular xp.


I think most of the games lvl 30 mages were trained back when Jahanna existed or when Sarka had regular xp. I don't know of many who've trained with the current system.


Any recently lvled 30 mages out there?

[Eternyte]

Get me a 6 stat gnome, and I'll train it as a mage to level 30 within 2 weeks

Edited by Eternyte, 21 February 2004 - 11:20 PM.

[alone]

Eternyte, on Feb 21 2004, 11:20 PM, said:

Get me a 6 stat gnome, and I'll train it as a mage to level 30 within 2 weeks

Any idea on how much game time that'll take you? I've been trying to work things like that out..

[Squee]

Zephie, on Feb 21 2004, 03:00 PM, said:

I think most of the games lvl 30 mages were trained back when Jahanna existed or when Sarka had regular hp. I don't know of many who've trained with the current system.


Any recently lvled 30 mages out there?

I trained Mip to level 30...I rolled it and trained it after the elf stats were re-vamped. Was that before or after Jahanna and Sakra?

[alone]

I think Zephie's refering to the fact that alot of people trained using old Jahanna Town as a base point, using the tavern there..

The alternative now is Silversail (no point trying to keep it a secret anymore).

But you've done all your mages without either Sarka or Jahanna.

[Squee]

I trained Mip entirely on black and brown bears... o_o

[Osaris]

Being a lvl 30 Human Mage rolled and trained all the way myself (Yes it used to be possible) Jahanna was the prefered hunting ground, bears, granits and spiders the experience providers and trained as solo alt using the tavern there for heal for 100 gold.

[alone]

Squee, on Feb 22 2004, 12:51 AM, said:

I trained Mip entirely on black and brown bears... o_o

Mhmm, I remember.. I also remember the pain you had of being PKed at master alot. Poor Squee

P.S: << Bahthius, so you know (if you remember me).

[Squee]

Gasp! *glomps Bahthius!*

Yeah...training on bears wasn't exactly the best thing to do when you're a master mage. ^^;;

[Malavon]

Zephie, on Feb 21 2004, 08:00 PM, said:

The most I've trained a mage from is 1-26 and that was back when Arilin Arena had regular hp


I think most of the games lvl 30 mages were trained back when Jahanna existed or when Sarka had regular hp. I don't know of many who've trained with the current system.


Any recently lvled 30 mages out there?

lol, I think you meant EXP, not HP?

[Flux]

Best way to train a mage:

Macro-based hit and running. ALWAYS leave one stam left for invis, should you get mortally wounded. Sand spiders are the way to do it. Ideally, train with a coverted thief (level 25+) to hand you pots when you most definately will need them. Macro invis for your thief as well, just incase he gets spotted. This way you can run to town and re-set up your attack plan. Or just stick it out and kill the spider.

[S3it0*]

couple of questions here 1) how come people use gnome mages??? i never quite figued that out, would you not rather have more mana (using elf)than like 1/5000(exageration) attacks miss?
2) how much does a mage (21int 20wis) hit sand vipers/spiders for with blast @ lvl 21ish? if its like 35s, then wouldnt trolls be better exp seeing as they are 70* xp(same as MAS), but have next to no wis?(hit them for 50s) *works it out*
35pod*90xp_pod-¹=3150xp_hit-¹
50pod*70xp_pod-¹=3500xp_hit-¹
hmm come to think of it, you would only need to hit 40s on a spider to get more
40pod*90xp_pod-¹=3600xp_hit-¹

anyway just wanting to know i guess how much it would hit for
thanks,
S3it0*

[THC]

As havanor said but i did it with Ogres and Trolls. Ive trained 2 mages to arch, one from 25+ on Ogres and Trolls.

Edited by THC, 24 February 2004 - 12:30 PM.

[newb]

Gnomes were eleet Mages before the stat changes. They are still pretty good, but I would prefer an Elf. Trade-off is dex/wis.

[Kalypso]

Malavon, on Feb 22 2004, 03:50 PM, said:

Zephie, on Feb 21 2004, 08:00 PM, said:

The most I've trained a mage from is 1-26 and that was back when Arilin Arena had regular xp


I think most of the games lvl 30 mages were trained back when Jahanna existed or when Sarka had regular xp. I don't know of many who've trained with the current system.


Any recently lvled 30 mages out there?

lol, I think you meant EXP, not HP?

Yeah, my bad

[Iron_Maiden]

My mage is almost lvl19 and its tough i normally train on the Lost Trails killing trolls i get around 2/3k exp per flame then just run back and heal at BT Inn...

[Vagabond]

My mage has been lvled 1-29, early on i trained it with my nomal party in orc caves then when they turned to nuts gnoll fort. wasnt the best exp available but b4 i knew it i was lvl 25 and the rest off my party 30's.

From 25-27 i trained in the desert with my archmasters getting full invents of mana and going back and foward from nm. Then silversail opened + a couple of well timed x2 exp days and im on me way to arch

WOULD NEVER DO IT AGAIN THO!!!!

[green_mantis]

my formula for leveling a mage: lots of time+lots of painkillers+lots of patience+dsl or a second phone line=an arch mage

please tell me if i missed something

[Jester]

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green_mantis posted on Feb 29 2004, 07:56 AM
  my formula for leveling a mage: lots of time+lots of painkillers+lots of patience+dsl or a second phone line=an arch mage

please tell me if i missed something 

Prozac...

[Thunderja]

Thunderja is a Male Elf Archmaster Mage. He looks normal, very wise, fast, and sexy. In one hand he holds an Auric Staff, which glows with a magical aura, the other a Wooden Bracers. He is wearing a Golden Robes, and a Circlet protects his head. Around his neck sits a Hades Amulet. He is wearing a Crystal Ring, and Spider Gauntlets on his hands. His feet are protected by Boots of Time. He is a Founder (R€ñ€G@Ѐ) of the aviators and he is in a healthy condition.

FINALLY lvl 1-30 in Total Game Time: 28 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes.
Most of that talking nuts tho

[Despair]

two Despairs one gnome and one elf from 1-30

First Despair was

9 21 20 17 19 10 trained him a lot in RH arena when exp was normal and moved to Jahanna hitting and running sand spiders at the gates

then second Despair (current one)

16 21 19 18 20 21

trained to 15 on varius stuff then from 15 to 30 in the desert (loads and loads and loads and err loads of mana )

[Wisdom]

I own two mages Both elfs. A lvl 21... 11 21 19 18 20 14 and a lvl 26... 13 21 19 18 20 20..

Orgasmo and Satanic, I bought them both. I bought orgasmo at lvl 15 and got him to lvl 19 in about 6 hours. In about a day I got him to lvl 21, with a lil help from a friend.

If everything works out as I plain, I'll get satanic arch in one week and Orgasmo arch in a week an a half.

Maybe less depending on how offten darla is on to help.

She as a lvl 22 mage that both of us are working on, so with total of 3 mages to train to arch that is going to be alot of work. Together we could do it.

[Eternyte]

Wisdom, on Jul 8 2004, 06:40 AM, said:

If everything works out as I plain, I'll get satanic arch in one week and Orgasmo arch in a week an a half.

You make me laugh with your training times Howie. Like Wisdom was master for like 3 mths, yet it was only going to take 2 days.

p.s. Nothing ever goes according to plan. Good luck though