Build Basics

Difficulty: Hard
Hometown: Arabian Nights
Stat Order: Mind, Dexterity, Perception, Constitution, Strength, Spirit

Arabian Nights is chosen as a hometown because it is the only hometown that can learn third circle words.
Spirit is chosen last because there is a lot of great spirit gear and the target spirit isn't that high.

Target Stats

• 20 strength
  • 20 strength is the minimum for balance
  • If you want to be able to use the throw skill, you'll need 25 strength
  • Strength will also decide how much weight you can carry (40 + strength in KG)
• 105 mind
  • Mind gives bonus spell damroll and spell critical chance
  • Mind gives bonus maximum mana
• 60+ dexterity
  • 60 dexterity is the minimum requirement for tumble
  • Once you have met requirements of other important stats, dump all extra stats into Dexterity
  • Having higher dexterity will give you lower AC and higher tumble/dodge/parry chance
• 40+ constitution
  • While only 30 constitution is required for this build, you'll want the extra HP to last a little longer in fights
  • Having more constitution will give you more HP
• 40 perception
  • 40 perception is the minimum requirement for Rudh
• 43 Spirit
  • 43 Spirit is the minimum requirement for Meditate

Build Goals

• Having max mind to gain more spell damroll and spell critical chance
• Having near max spell damroll (50), spell critical chance (50), and mana reduction (50)
  • It is very difficult to have a build with max in all three stats, but try to get close
  • Order of importance is mana reduction > spell damroll > spell critical chance
  • Arcane Mastery gives an innate 25 mana reduction, so you will only need 25 from equipment
• Having near max mana regeneration (20 from equipment)
• Having high dexterity and the benefits that come from it
  • High AC
  • High Dodge/Tumble/Parry changes
• Using no weapon to gain the benefits from arcane mastery

Required Skills

• Chant
• Arcane Mastery
• Meditate
• Dodge
• Tumble
• Balance

Build Description

This build is a very good and versatile build that can do well solo and in groups, but is also very difficult for a few reasons. Creating an equipment list for this build is quite the balancing act, as there are so many important stats to improve while trying to maintain minimum requirements. The other difficult aspect of this build is learning all of the intricacies of playing a mage, learning words, learning spells, and learning how mobs react to each spell. Playing this build requires you to remember how each mob reacts to you and learning a different way to beat some of them.

For typical solo mobs, you're going to be using sleep, meteor, and immolate spells. Weaken, clumsiness, and curse are great spells to use on some of the harder mobs. Idiocy is good to use if you want to try to stun the target as stun compares the mind of the caster to the mind of the target in order to decide success. Stun is a great spell against mobs that cannot be slept. Mobs take 66% more damage from all sources, including spell damage, when they're sleeping or stunned.

In groups, you'll need to spend your mana more wisely and use mostly immolate instead of meteor, as immolate is more cost effective. Meteor is really only good in groups when you need the target to die really quickly.