Originally Posted by
Fusionstrike
I know everyone on the forums is in love with talking about PvP, but there's a whole other part of the game. You know, that place where all this gear is farmed, aka PvE. And in PvE the survivability with fiery is next to zero. Pretty much every boss from Fang, Humania and BSM can one-shot a pure int mage no matter which set we're talking about. I still play my pure int mage, but it's mostly out of stubbornness; the only rational thing to do is go str/int. There's basically nothing a pure int mage can do but watch the boss battle from out of range of their steamroller attacks or else just run in and hope the big shots land elsewhere. And of course the big AoE attack bosses like Edward and Vlod are certain death. You can't just run mana shield 24/7, which is what would be necessary to survive these battles using any of the current high-level sets.
P.S. Everything I said above applies to pure dex as well.
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