Guide to Nexus Classes: MAGE. Page2.

One of the big things for a mage to know, if you hunt with someone else they will forget you have almost no vitality compared to them, and tend to get you killed alot.  Therefore, there will be times when its either they die or you die, at which time you should be hitting the return spell or using a yellow scroll to leave.  It is NOT the mages job to take care of the party, as a lot of fighters and rogues believe, it is the parties job to take care of each other.  When it comes to death though, don't die if you can help it, it costs a lot of experience.

When hunting on your own, which only a mage can really do at lower levels, you have to learn to hunt like a mage. This means finding a place where only one creature can attack you at a time, or a place where you can attack them over a wall and they can't get to you.  The main motto of a mage should be cowardice, avoid direct contact at all costs.  This will change when you get to level 99 and convert all your experience to stat points, but until then be a mage, you don't have the vita to be a fighter.

At level 99, you will turn your experience into status, 20 million points for each 50 mana or 100 vita.  The best thing to do is buy equal numbers of each so that your vita is always just about double your mana.  A lot of mages go get as much mana as they can, leaving their vita at 3k or so, which makes it practically impossible to hunt in the higher level caves without getting killed. People that have had multiple level 99's say that no matter what class you are, always purchase in 40 million lots, 20 million for 100 vita, 20 million for 50 mana, so that you don't end up in the level 3 caves or even higher without the stats to back it up.

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