Runes of Magic US / AU

Im a Mage/Priest, with questions.

Can someone please tell me why a Mage/Warrior is best for PvE.

If anything its Mage/Druid. But Im extremely curious to know why there saying M/w is best. Please, enlighten me.

Tell me what you know and Ill compare

Ok. That seems fair but.

Its already eazy to reach .5 Flame casting, Ancient spirit, Fire training, etc etc etc etc

M/p get a Elite called
(Disable- A successful Flame or Plasma Arrow hit has the chance to decrease the targets resistance to magic critical hits for 15.0 seconds (can be used only once every 20 seconds)

As for Matk, we get
1)Essence of Magic- Raises magical damage by 10.0 (+6.0 per upgrade) points for 900.0 seconds.
WHICH IS WRONG cause it raises the MATK not DAMAGE. Well RoM Wiki is wrong.

1.5) I also get another 10% Matk from Magic drain, which not only helps me but the party also. Which also debuffs the boss
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2)Magic Drain- Steal the target's attack power, and lower the target's magical and physical attacks by 2%. It will also increase your own magical attack by 2%. Effective for 15 seconds.

Mine is level 51 atm, instead of 2% its going on 11%, so thats a BUFF AND DEBUFF at the same damn time.
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3) Intensification- DOESNT WORK STILL. I asked a M/w to post his Intense, it said it added about 3k MDamage because its a Elite added on to it, Mdamage is basically STAFF damage, so you gotta think, 3k Mdamage from a M/w Elite, and it DOESNT work. Id complain if I was a Mage/War and it didnt work. Id switch to M/w just for that one skill, cuz +3k Mdam is crazy.

So lets fix intensification. Whenever I cast it and Flame something neither one of my damages change, Crit or non crit, Intensification is a waste, Id love to see this FINALLY FIXED.
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4) As for aggro, look up the item set skills, aggro is not a factor. (Ill get the item set name later)

Quoted from "GarryL;531906"

Easy comparison.
I play a m/d & I often run instances with a m/w. Same gear, same pots/food. The m/w blows me away on scrut.
That same m/w is a m/w/d & when playing as a m/d we are even on scrut. If I didn't hate levelling so much I'd also make a 3rd class warrior for PvE.

Curious to know your rotation..

Quoted from "kingzamorak;531917"

Berserk, 33% more magic attack for 30 secs, will be used every boss fight.

Elemental explosion, another Energy influx.

Meditative, 38% faster casting for 10 secs. So as you say it is easy for any class to get to .5 flames, a m/w can be doing it for longer.

Intensification, adds 24% More Crit damage. So all crits are increased by 24%. Crit damage can only come from rings and food, so this is a big advantage.

Essence of Magic + Magic drain, 20-22% Matk given at lvl 70 for both skills. And Berserk is a 1 min cooldown, 30 seconds of use. Essence is 30 mins, but magic drain is 15 seconds. So I can see what you mean there. But any mage with a rotation can put somethign beautiful together, and dont forget when you cast pots and stuff there in effect while your casting other pots so they are wearing down.

No version of intensification works. In any kind of way, its broke, always has been. Test it. If this skill did work infact for M/w, Id add a 3rd class just to get M/w. But it doesnt work.


Meditative, 38% faster casting for 10 secs. So as you say it is easy for any class to get to .5 flames, a m/w can be doing it for longer.
(True, thats the only thing I can see thats right) But, is it overwritten by any skill?

So M/w can cast faster for 10 seconds longer. Thats about it. Which isnt BAD, but I like Immuning.

Your point has been semi made to me. But Im still a bit non convinced, as a mage/priest, with no 3rd class.

Quoted from "Nytefall;531921"

Intensification does indeed work, though it does not show up on your character sheet (the menu that appears when you hit the C key.)

This has been reported to the developers several times, and each time they have told us they can verify that it works, but that it will not show up on the character sheet.

Ive had it tested on me..It doesnt add 23% damage, it may add SOME damage (2 or 3%), but it does NOT add 23%. Log onto Indigo and msg me, Ill have my friend show you.

And the post before this one is what Ive been tryign to say. It doesnt work..trust.

You would DEFINATELY notice 2 or 3k added onto your Mdamage. Like right now, I have a Raksha t9. Been afk a while so dont laugh at me. Its damage 5.7, with Intense at lvl 55 it add almost 3k. Now, thats half my staff damage, so what Im saying is when I have Intense casted, I should be hitting for AT LEAST 30% more damage than normal. MINUS the Catalysis.

Im saying tell the developer that it doesnt show up in NUMBERS on the BATTLEFIELD.

Quoted from "kingzamorak;531949"

Is that to the GM or to me about the 23% extra crit?

Intensification does not work in the way it says the skill does. It works in another way. Unless the GM's in RW are reading the skill in German and the translation changed the meaning when put into English

To the GM.

And yeah thats quite possible to, like the way you think.

But either way it doesnt add 23% crit damage to the M/w damage while casted, thats certainly a difference that would be more than average, do the math on it. Flame on something for 100k then cast Intensity and Flame, Bet 5k diamonds it wont be 123k next time you crit.

Quoted from "Borella;531979"

Lol mage rotation. Mages don't have rotations. It's flamex1000000000000.'

And Mage/Warrior is certainly much better than M/D. There's a reason most endgame mages play M/W.. it's the best. (M/S is close!)

Well I guess thats it.