Fireball or Ice? For elite maps..

[Madnex]

Good point on Orion, I just threw in a random figure because those AA buffs always seem too small to be 5-6 seconds to me. I'm not actually using passive damage either at the moment since samael got my full attention from the moment he popped out but I had been kicking butt in both PvE and PvP with Ribbit and Clyde back when I was full legendary.

Damage and critical rate passives aren't really changing a lot, that much is true. That's the reason I went with versatile hybrid builds in all three of my class characters. You can't quite cut down a perfect build unless you're only using a specific pet so I'd just put enough critical passive to reach a specific plateau and then use the remaining points in gale force for faster KM3 - Jarl runs.

[Kreasadriii]

As for pets, the list below goes from lower to higher priced pets. Price doesn't always reflect the quality though, for example Ribbit is an excellent choice for any sorcerer:

• Ribbit
• Orion
• Malison
• Crawly
• Clyde
• Haze
• Slag

Thanks a lot ^^
Only haze that I don't have yet hehe

I'll try to reach that critical point too, it's amazing damage impact.
So lightning on for fighting the boss, right?

[jb57542]

Thanks a lot ^^
Only haze that I don't have yet hehe

I'll try to reach that critical point too, it's amazing damage impact.
So lightning on for fighting the boss, right?

So many people forget to include ethyl in their list of mage pets. He is very cheap and I consider one of the top 5 pets for a mage.

[Madnex]

So many people forget to include ethyl in their list of mage pets. He is very cheap and I consider one of the top 5 pets for a mage.

Nice note, I was focusing on the non damage% pets and missed it. Added.

[Kreasadriii]

So many people forget to include ethyl in their list of mage pets. He is very cheap and I consider one of the top 5 pets for a mage.

Agreed about ethyl, especially ethyls skills the most usefull to control mobs ^^
And also cheap of course hehehe

[Crowsfoot]

Mages that are best crowd controluse fire and ice. Fire is a nice area of stun but the potential perma freeze of archers leads me to choose ice over fire given the option of one. From a tanking position, mages reduce our damage intake dramatically by stunning/freezing high damage units like archers (and healers if possible). Because archers usually hang back behind the main pack, ice is fairly easy to use on them without missing.

[Haligali]

Both.

Fireball, Frost bolt and Timeshift is a base of every pve build. Lightning is not so important as a one-target attack skill, thats the rogues job, but you can help them to kill bosses with it.

[Zapix]

Both.

Fireball, Frost bolt and Timeshift is a base of every pve build. Lightning is not so important as a one-target attack skill, thats the rogues job, but you can help them to kill bosses with it.

This is the answer move on.

[Kreasadriii]

Both.

Fireball, Frost bolt and Timeshift is a base of every pve build. Lightning is not so important as a one-target attack skill, thats the rogues job, but you can help them to kill bosses with it.

Yep. I use these skills in PvE and get a lot of kills ^^
Soon I'll take lightning, should I take only damage and critical, or full upgade?

[Haligali]

Yep. I use these skills in PvE and get a lot of kills ^^
Soon I'll take lightning, should I take only damage and critical, or full upgade?

If you do elites, then get only damage and critical, if you do tombs, then get the aoe chance upgrade, if you do pvp and sometimes without fireball, then get the stun chance upgrade.

[Bigboyblue]

Yep. I use these skills in PvE and get a lot of kills ^^
Soon I'll take lightning, should I take only damage and critical, or full upgade?

Damage and Critical only. The AOE is only 25% chance if you kill with it. So it is less than 25%. Lighting is only used when running non elite maps and boss fights.

As for the main question use both fireball and ice. Although if you are running elites ice is the more important skill imo.

[ALlIsWell]

Only thing i got from reading this post is CONFUSION

[Kreasadriii]

Only thing i got from reading this post is CONFUSION

We are talking about which skills better for elite maps on mage classes, and thats okay discuss little bit comparison about pet and another skills,
Wish it helpful