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[MajesticMind]

Which skills and stats should I get as sage? I don't know what type of sage I'm going for, I'd just like to know the best sage build and skills.

[CatMuto]

Well it really all depends on what you want to go for as Sage-Scholar-Sorcerer later on.
Do you mainly Solo or join a Party?
Are you interested in War of Emperium/Player VS Player or simply fighting monsters?

Bolt Sage

You basically copy a Wizard's Build, but with the various big AoE spells missing.
However, you can use Firewall and Frost Drive to immobilize or keep monsters away from you.
Thunderstorm and Heaven's Drive are used to kill mobs.

AGI - 9
INT - 90-99+
DEX - 90-99+

PVM (Or the Endow-Slave)

Of course you want high INT for Spell Damage with the limited arsenal that you have, but you can also double as an Endower, if you choose to join a party. This is a pretty solid build, actually, as it does get you to Level 99 pretty fast - especially if you are joining with a Priest, for example.

AGI - 9
VIT - 10-30
INT - 120-130 (Total)
DEX - 110-125 (Total)

These are the two I would suggest for simply getting to Level 99 and rebirthing.
For scholars, well, they become much more popular to join Parties because of SP Draining skills.
For more info, check: http://irowiki.org/wiki/Scholar

As far as Skills go, well, you definitely want Fire and Cold Bolt maxed, same with Fire Wall - Fire Wall can be a life saver. Also get at least Level 1 Frost Driver so you can freeze and immobilize some monsters. You probably also want some points in Napalm Beat and Soul Strike - just to widen your arsenal of elemental attacks.

C-A

Edited by CatMuto, 26 November 2012 - 03:26 AM.

[cloudblue]

You can also go battle, which in my opinion is better than bolt sage, because it combines two sources of damage: magic and elemental melee attacks.

Heres a rough sketch of stats based on my successful build:

50 str (50 for sage diary*)
70-80 agi
20-40 vit
70+int (70 or sage diary and spells*)
30-50 dex for hit
1 luk

*- There are 3 books that are useful to use: Sage Diary, Encyclopedia, and Ledger of Death (if your rich). Sage diary gives +5% MATK if your BASE int is 70 and +5% ASPD if your BASE str is 50. Encyclopedia is good for more crit oriented builds, which is not bad considering that luk now gives MATK, Flee, Hit, and ATK, in that case i would get 30 luk and 20-30 dex. Ledger of Death adds a percent of ASPD based on refinement level, and has a chance to do a 1500% ATK damage and curse everything in 27x27 area (which goes off a good number of times).
(I would not bother with daggers, books give off more aspd and damage...)

Skills:
http://irowiki.org/~...GAdocBaiHSrA5Jy

Now if you want, you can take 4 points from frost driver and 12 points from the endows and put them into thunderstorm and heavens drive for mobs,at the cost endows having a 20min duration and 80% sucess where else you have to put on the weapon and cast again . Increase SP recovery is to prevent running out of sp during hindsight and casting. Freecast 8 is still good, the moving speed and aspd loss is little and saves skill points.

Useful links:
http://irowiki.org
http://irowiki.org/~himeyasha/skill4/
http://calc.irowiki.org/

If you need help, you can PM me =P

Edited by cloudblue, 26 November 2012 - 03:37 PM.