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[Experiment] Melee Mage Build

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#1

Hi everyone, I’ve been doing some experimenting with my Melee Mage build for a while and I think it’s better to share and get more opinions and hopefully reach the IMC’s dev.

Originally, my build is a Support-DPS, but I see many potentials with the melee auto attack (mainly dagger) so I gave it a try.

There are several keys in this build:

Enchant Fire: Temporarily grants the fire property to you and your party member’s attacks. Fire DMG is improve-able by obtain ‘Fire Attack’ bonus (same mechanic as Sacrament, only smaller buff range).

Swell Left Arm: Enlarge the size of your and party member’s hand and increase attack. Increase P.ATK & M.ATK. Important to improve Dagger’s dmg.

Quicken: Temporarily increases the attack speed of you and your party members by manipulating time. Attribute increase 2% Crit Rate per level.


Or any dagger with Fire Attack and decent Physical Attack. (I couldn’t get this so I use Arde Dagger instead)

Here’s video of me testing the build with many stats allocation (INT/STR/DEX) and conclusion of it.

Full STR give you extra dmg, but weapon dmg > STR and it’s enhance-able, you’ll also miss a lot.
Full DEX give you crit rate but your crit dmg is crap, evasion is a plus.
Full INT, not gonna talk about it.

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#2

Nice one pal.

I wanna do something like that, but i stop my tries on calculation step. Right now mele mage builds are not powerful enough to even try them.

Main problem is that you receive too much damage from mobs and you need a lot of sustain\def, but if you get them, you will not have enough damage. Basic mage stats, hp multiplier and damage multiplier are too bad for mele.

I really like idea of mele mage builds cause of my main RO build was Hindsight/Spell Fist sorcerer. This kinda builds are not demand, but in good hands they can easily beat anyone.

As a suggestion:
maybe c2 wiz (reflect), c1 pyro(enchant) and c3 thaum(almost all) OR c1 wiz (reflect), c1 pyro(enchant), c1 linker(all skills), c3 thaum(almost all) will look better.

P.S. My English sucks(

#3

there is always a huge difference between theory and experimentation…

#4

Thanks, and also I agree getting Thaum 2 for Swell Right Arm is better than Quicken, and Linker to make your attack AoE.
Quicken seems to be doing nothing to Attack Speed, so only the Crit Rate attribute worth it which only need C1