Guide to maximize our awesome skills effectiveness in elite map
Have you wondering why the rogue cry when trap is working (pull enemy) and 1 sec later all mobs scattered again? Or warrior that curse when they pulling and holding aggro and suddenly a mage ruin it all by using gale force? Feel free to read this guide as I observe that 75% of mages in elite does nothing but spam skills.
I will do skill by skill explanation on what you guys are doing right or wrong in elite.
Main skills
Fireball
Charge or uncharged? It depends on situation. I bet 99% of you here knew the 5 mobs formation before jarl spawn in brakenbridge map. 2 archer and 3 melee enemy right? As you can see, all of them already close to each other. So what you guys should be doing is charge fireball and release it to knockdown all the 5 mobs. Then proceed by using charged ice and clock (refer ice and clock guide). Also some boss can be stunned like bael so it will be very useful (rook nest boss).
So when can mage use fireball uncharged? Use it when u saw mob is scattered to help warriors pull all the mobs in one place. Or boss that can't be stunned. Or mob that already frozen by ice and in a clock. Charged fireball can pushback and knockdown enemy. So if you charge and the enemy is in the edge of the clock, they can actually escape from the root effect from the clock.
Frost Bolt
This is the most OP skill if it actually works in pvp. Can dev make it works for one season only? Please..
Pve wise, if you use this skill, it will only freeze one target and slow others. People keep asking me how do I freeze multiple target? First, make sure the mobs were tight in one place. Then, get NEAR them (I mean melee range). And then release the charged frost bolt and I can guarantee all the mobs will be frozen in place, not just slowed. This is actually really useful to help reduce the pressure to warriors and dagger rogues. You can practice this in several easy tombs to see the effectiveness.
Always charge this skill unless you are dealing with boss or just 1 leftover enemy. Some boss can also be frozen like bosses in wt1 and kraken mines 2 (if I'm not mistaken).
Time Shift
If you're in a party and have this skill, you can be either a leverage or a helper with this skill.
Firstly, never ever ever ever use this skill before enemy get tight. If enemy don't get tight ever, just don't use it. Enemy will be so scattered and can't be grouped because they are rooted in place. This leave your dagger rogue cry to death as they can't hit multiple enemy at once.
Exception is if you want to make it as a barrier (too much mobs to handle for warriors). Then you can use a charged clock first, then uncharged
fireball to attract mobs, then run back behind the clock.
Use this skill only after enemy get tight as this skill will root the enemy. The enemy can't move but CAN attack if they are in the clock. And please charge if you use this skill. Otherwise it's useless as you only deal the initial clock drop damage with no DOT if you do uncharged clock. I know the DOT is low damage but it counts.
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Other skills
Gale Force
I take my word back, it's ok to use this skill in elite as long as you know how to use it. Never even dream to use this skill unless you know what you're doing.
You can use this skill to force leftover mobs to be in clock or to make the mobs get tighter.
Curse
I do saw someone use this, I think it's effective if you use this skill on grouped mobs to maximize the number of mob affected. I do understand some pvp mage didn't have the plat to respec and use this skill, but if you have the curse exclusively for pve, I prefer you get all the main 3 skills above.
Lifegiver and shield
Shield is preferable more than lifegiver because everyone has pot and mage die in seconds. But if you stupid enough like me to put 70 points in str, stick to lifegiver. Don't pay attention much to rogue that ask for mana. But if you're kind enough try to run to them then give them mana. I have a rogue myself and smile everytime when mage give me mana. Rogue that see this, please say thanks to all the kind mage that give mana.
I will add pic later. Sorry if your eye hurts by my grammar because I'm not born to be a native english. Feel free to pm or post a corrected grammar of my post if you're OCD enough. Post if you disagree with me. Maybe we can develop a better strategy together.
Originally Posted by moot
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