.: Play Guide: Black Wizard and White Wizard :. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE ETERNAL FANTASY USER HELP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***** Information and strategy for playing Black and White Wizard. ***** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The second tier provides a great deal of utility. While expensive, these spells provide powerful buffs and debuffs. It's impractical to keep every Sage buff active at once, or to enfeeble an enemy with every Sage debuff, and these spells are meant to be applied strategically, for example by prioritizing Addle against enemies with high attack power, or Slow against enemies with high speed.
Another approach to maintaining the MP for these spells, useful against enemies with no elemental weakness, is to forego elemental spells and stagger opponents entirely with Scathe. However, this will result in lower DPS.
Each class also gains a spell that provides an extra defensive benefit above simple healing. Black Wizard's Manawall creates an HP shield that absorbs damage, while White Wizard's Excogitation provides an automatic cure. When cast before a fight, these spells reduce the need to heal in the middle of battle.
Perhaps the most important upgrade at this level is the Anima Mundi trait. When fighting multiple opponents, damaging spells will target all opponents, taking twice as long to cast regardless of the number of opponents. This trait can be bypassed by selecting an individual target, e.g. 'flare imp'. Note that additional spell effects, such as Scathe's MP healing, will only trigger once.
The Kathekon and Haecceity traits provide 2.5% MP and HP every 6 seconds, respectively, or 25% per minute. It can be useful to switch your stance off between fights, and to leave it off against easier opponents that don't require high DPS to defeat.
Finally, the Abjection and Verstehen traits distinguish the Starlight and Cure spells more at this level. Starlight's ability to critical heal may provide higher healing numbers than Cure, but Cure's ability to purge status effects and debuffs can be absolutely critical for defeating difficult opponents.
See also: help sageguide1 - Black Mage and White Mage help sageguide3 - Magus and Devout help sageguide4 - Sage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |