Runes of Magic US / AU

Intro:
I know your not sick of me writing these yet so now it is time for warden/mage. The second of the support wardens. I would also like to say please do not bash about wardens, we all know they need a rebalanced.


Knowing your class:
Warden/mage is much less support then warden/druid, and more dps. Since it still has support skills i will call it a support warden. This basically transforms warden into an aoe dps class. You will still have good single target damage, but all your skills will mostly be magical aoes.


Elite Skills:

Wind Chop- This will be your spamming skill especially at lower lvls. It does both physical and magic damage. So when your main skills are on cd you will use this

Tough Oak- All pets get a huge increase to pdef like 50% or so. Also spirit of the oak's cool down for punch is reduced by 1 second.

Oak Blessing- This makes the Heart of the Oak buff much stronger, so you may be better off using Spirit of oak for buff and use crystal as pet at this point.

Nature's Revenge- This is a very strong new skill for nature crystal. It is an aoe that takes 2 seconds to charge up with no cd and does more damage then Beam Attack, so you can pretty much through beam attack away.

Spiritual Feedback- Reduces the HP consumption of Spirit Attack by 10% so now it cost 20% of your pet's max HP. Also can increase you and your pet's magic damage by 12% for 20 seconds.

Crystal Protection- If Nature Crystal dies all damage suffered by people in your group is reduced by 20% for 20 seconds, but you may not summon nature crystal for 40 seconds. This is kind of a win lose elite. Less damage taken can me helpful, but nature crystal does a lot of damage when it is summoned.

Narrow Escape- This is soul bound for your pets. However because of the elite that says nature crystal can not be re summoned for 40 seconds this skill will not work on him only the other 2, so i do not use this much.

Crystal Boost- This makes it so crystal explosion will no longer kill the nature crystal. It will drain 80% of his max hp and restore about 1000 mana to everyone nearby, along with hurting the mobs.


Mage Skills:

Fireball- Does a decent amount of fire damage to the target. 6 second cd

Lightning- Does some damage to the target and roots them for about 10 seconds. 20 second cd

Wisdom- Increases your Intelligence by a large amount.

Intensification- Increases your magic damage by a large amount for 20 seconds. 2min cd

Silence- Used mostly for pvp it makes it so target can not cast skills for 10 seconds if mob and 5 seconds if player. 24 second cd(strange cd)

Fire Ward- You will take less damage to fire type skills. This can be useful i never really use it though.


Pets:
I only like 1 pet for this build, because it is such a magic build.

Nature Crystal- This pet will do mass destruction on warden/mage. You can cast intensification then summon him for extra damage. This pet will do huge amounts of aoe damage if you are built correct. In pvp and pve he will be good.


Gear:

This class will stray away from everything i have said in warden general he will use different gear and different skills.

The weapon-
Root of Nightmare/Raksha Magic Staff

The main set-
Holy Tree Crown/Flower God Headress
Elemental Flame Robe/ Flower God Robe
Elemental Flame Boots/ Flower God Cloth Boots
Elemental Flame Shoulder Guards/ Flower God Shoulder Guards

The secondary set-
Guardian Leg guards
Labyrinth Frost Belt/Kawak's Belt
Maxim's Gloves/Raksha's Gloves
Labyrinth Cloak or Rebirth/ Savage Light Cape

The accessories
Vahto's Magic set all of it!

for stats you will want

Int/Str
Str/matk or Int/patk
Stam/Int
Stam/Pdef or Stam/HP
Int/Wis
Str/Patk


Skills:
One of the only wardens who will need different skills then what i have said. Forget about charge chop and all that junk and go.

Frantic Briar- It is an matk aoe

Soul Attack- It is a magic spam skill that uses your pet's HP to save mana.

Briar Shield- ok you can still lvl up this.

Crystal Explosion- It is an aoe that is pretty much only usefull on wd/m or wd/d

Elite Skill:

Wind Chop- you will not use it too much, but can be good single target dps.

Tough Oak- Crystal will die less!!!!!

Nature's Revenge- It does a ton of damage.


Conclusion:
This is one of the more interesting wardens since it does not act like a warden at all. This one is if you like to see large amounts of aoe damage. spam Nature's Revenge and Frantic Briar and watch everything fall.

Any questions?

Quoted from "SeanD123;372714"

i suddenly wanna drop my wd/s and make wd/m O.O
questions: where does 1 find str/int stats?
-Wouldnt it be better to go with chain gear and just stack INT stats on it, my reason being u can have more survivability and at the same time have a good windchop and natures crystal only benefits from Int and not mattk right?

Str/int is a temple mod. Nature Crystal does benefit from matk as far as i know. Also escape did not work on crystal when I last tried. Maybe they have fixed it.

I have new things to test now like matk with crystal and escape

Edit: yes matk does effect crystal this is a pain to figure out when you are wd/w.

Quoted from "remilafo;373584"

you need to add suggestion for gear that is at the lvl 55 area, your gear suggestion particularily the weapons come out fo the hardest place in the game at the moment. I don't know what Osha is like but do you have this kinda of access? i think it would be hypocritical to suggest other wardens try to get this gear if you don't have it yourself.

Yeah i kind of rushed the last few guides i do plan on adding this. Also i do have most of this gear myself, but i will change to have some of the second best gear and such.

Edit: KK i added a few new gears idk how the Holy Tree crown works, because i actually don't have that one. (so hard to find Origin groups)

Quoted from "WardenxXx;373782"

Will you need some dex with this class? for hitting stuff of course.

I am mainly doing a magic build. If you wish to do a warrior build with spirit of the oak pet then you can go to my encyclopedia and follow the stats for wd/w and use the gear i said in there.

Quoted from "WardenxXx;373875"

Don`t get me wrong I also wanted to use a staff and stuff.

But once you hit a certain amount of m-att diminishing returns get to bad. so you could pump some p-att to boost your dot, whitehits, root and wind chop.

For whitehits and windchop accuracy would be needed.

Also I guess a requierement for wind chops magical part to kick in is to hit with the chop itself before hand. Right?

This is true, i am more of a pvp(though i play on pve server :p), so i enjoy stacking a ton of matk. As far as i can tell nature crystal does a ton of more damage with matk. TBH wind chop is my least favorite skill in this build with all the aoes. In pve you will miss bosses a lot, but i only use wind chop for when soul attack is on cool down and it is a bad idea to use aoes. For wd/m i prefer to stay away from DoTs, but you are right your root will suffer. Though in pvp i have noticed that each time you use a root the next root doesn't last as long. For example if i lightning a warrior then movement restriction them the movement restriction will only last for 5 seconds totaling 15 seconds. Anyways for pve this is a bad class your damage suffers a lot in WA and up since magic damage is low and a lot of those bosses will not let you use a pet. Hopefully they do something about magic damage in the higher instances soon.

Quoted from "WardenxXx;373898"

According to your overall warden guide he does not increase by prue m-atk but int and m-damage only.

I guess int + p-atk might be a nice idea, as well as staying away from pure m-att stats while going for a large variety of

int + something stats.

as you allready suggested but you might want to kick out that str + matk stat.

I said matk increases him in a latter post i will add it to the actually guide.

Quoted from "burntsugar;374412"

I'm having a hard time deciding between wd/m and wd/w it seems like wd/w works good together but wd/m will become more powerful. And also the 50% defense increase with a pet sounds great. But is it worth not going melEe? Err and I meant earthenleaf my iPhone auto changed your name.

lol spell check. I will try to get the wd/w guide up today to see if that helps.

Quoted from "burntsugar;374488"

I'm playing with one person who loves to heal. Druid. He's thinking of going Druid scout for the heals. Now I'm using warden and we do well together. But I was thinking what's better to mix with wd. Warrior or Mage. It seems like Mage would be more powerful end game but I don't know. How would you rate them on a number scale from 1-10? Should the Druid go scout or Mage or rogue possibly? Were both trying to figure out what would work better together. You seem to be the master, what do you think?

If they love heals go d/w. I love d/w, because they have a group heal. Since magic damage is broken end game wd/w will do better in pve and good in pvp. While wd/m will do good in pvp and not so well in pve, because bosses have way too much magic defence and not a lot of mobs to use aoes on. I would rate wd/w and wd/m both 8 star, because of how fun they are.

If you druid likes heal they should either go d/s for single target heals or d/w for group heals. Then mage for good dps and rogue for debuffs.(feel free to correct me here remi the only druid i have are d/w and d/r)