TEASER
Are you wasting your time/money to finally get Agny Necklace? You don’t have Scout 3 or want more character farmers? Time to get your silver back or getting more silver. I get level 150 with Wiz - Pyro 2 - Link 1 - Chrono 1 and tried my last dungeon run today by soloing 145. Surprisingly I can do well, but I didn’t fully cleared it because 2 reasons: Agny get 0 durability and disconnected while I decide to get going. 20 minutes and the second gate was opened (almost 2nd boss). There are many mistakes with 0 durability, not enough SP potions, and few more so this can be a bit faster if I’m preparing things plus pumping attributes
This is still in experiment obviously and I likely need new character that built specifically for this farming. If you know me so well, most my characters are Cleric class and this is pretty much my only one Wizard character right now (+only Archer Scout 3). But after just a half-done run, it shows potentials (I’ve used the silver gained for Fireball attribute)…
OVERVIEW
MUST CIRCLES: Pyro 2 - Linker 1
- Fireball and Joint Penalty are your main combo here. JP then Fireball one monster (and hit linked monsters). Use 2nd Fireball and kite rest monsters
- Flame Ground, and Fire Pillar to use when JP combo cool down. Best to use as preemptive attack (cast it far away when monsters not notify you yet)
- Enchant Fire for Auto Attack when nothing to use or just kite monsters until FBJP cool down over.
- Flare and Firewall are useless, period. Just my opinion but they need high levels to shine and eat other skill’s point. I don’t see they are better.
- Sleep and Lethargy are nice, but not necessary. Earthquake can be used to just to stop monsters chasing you (so sleep then quake for “double stop”). Energy Bolt and Reflect Shield have no use. Kinda waste since my character pick Reflect 5, so if you plan new character you know what to do (even if you want Reflect just leave level 1)
- Stat is pretty much INT and CON, distribution is up to player. Of course INT is better for farming only but then maybe you want more HP at least since fresh 145 get troubles with flower mage and roktor archer thing…
- Rank 5 and above are basically open discussion. I don’t familiar much with Wizard class.My thoughts currently : Pyro 3/linker 2 to boost FBJP, Sorcerer (if you can get summoners stuff), Chrono 2 (my future class,probably for Haste and Slow?), Thaumaturge (Swells for more EXP/silver), Warlock (not sure but hey I’ve seen a lot of dark balls), Sage vs Enchanter for their utilities (if you go full farmer might as well get Enchanter right?)
EQUIPMENTS: Agny Necklace and Arde Dagger/Ledas Shield. I’m using Ledas since I get defense and multi-character use. Nothing special other than those two. I simply bought market cheap junks. Of course you can get better weapons but most good weapons are level 170++ (I personally need weapon advice but not 2-hand to keep Ledas Shield unless you can explain X weapon deal more damage than 1 hand+Ledas)
PREPARATIONS at least for fresh level 145, you need to enter dungeon with AFK-services. This includes Pardoner Buffs, Weapon maintenance, level 15 repair, Enchanter’s armor durability. Fill your inventory close to 100% weight with HP and SP potions (SP just need few, assuming you get level 15 you won’t use it often)
COMPARISON WITH SCOUT 3
This is just subjective and my opinion so I won’t say Scout 3 was worse when I played both characters… To me, there are many advantages to choose Pyro+Agny as your investments
- Pyro 2+Linker 1 is one of easiest character to level. Solo questing will be cake and better performance on party dungeons.
- You start the farming as soon as entering level 120+getting Agny. You can solo farm dungeon 50/90 as starter
- Agny Necklace is pretty much your big investment. Fireball attribute is cheap since it’s rank 2 skill. Arde/Ledas can be obtained later. My problem for Scout 3 is raising Split Arrow’s attributes and need more SP potions or level 10 SP cards (okay farming cards sounds easy with Dullahan or DG 50 but they take time)
- You only need 4 ranks for Pyro so you can make battle characters with rank 5 above OR make specific farm build.
- End game is pretty much the only Scout 3 moment getting better+faster with Split Arrow killing fast and no cool down. For Pyromancer, Even without Agny, you can start farming DG 50 with similar FBJP setup and buy Agny once your silver ready… At same time you can level up or farm something with Pyro with many options…
- Pyro does not limited to flying monster only and can farm as well to every dungeons, including after kToS change (145 to 170). Trying level 175 dungeon (when it’s removed after kToS change) as Scout 3 and I’m not having fun with it…
That’s everything from me. Let’s get huehuehue with Pyros