Celtic Heroes

level 48 with my fireshield mage and this is how I level solo:

Best area: Shalemont River

Connacht shieldmasters: can kill one with proper strategy, then have to recouperate. XP: 2400

Connacht ironclads: with proper strategy can kill 2 before recouping. XP combined: 3146

It lasts less time than it should be
Btw when you fight a ranger, first cast your cloak and your energy shield before you start, then stay close to the ranger because he'll start with bolas, cast lure of ice, then ice shards then a simple fire ball (you won't have time to lure the ranger with fire)
If he has low hp, he can be dead already, i'm hitting up to 1400 dmg with the 3 first spells.
Then he'll stay far and you can wait for your ice shards to be ok again, rush on him once bolas expired and cast ice shards then lure of fire then fire ball. He should be dead, if he isn't, cast energy shield again and do the same things

However i don't know if it's possible now because after the last patch our energy shield takes longer to cooldown

Mages really need a lot of energy, more than druids in my opinion, and a lot of vitality. Also, since skills can now be evaded, they need dex too.

Stop the press! So having dex prevents your spells from bieng evaded!? If this is true I'd like to have a book of rebirth lol because I used 2 already on my stats after the update .

Edit: after looking at posters level I had second thoughts about the validity of the idea that dex effects chance to hit with spells.

I'm now back to thinking that it is only your ability in a certain type of magic that effects chance to hit. Is this correct?

dex dorsnt effect your spells, just like str doesnt effect magic damage. mages dont need str or dex, just haelth and focus. my current build is : no str no dex 85 focus 155 vit. it works well for all styles, except energy shield.

fireboy
lvl 46
rosemerta
united

I've been using the 4:1 focus:vitality build

20/20 fire bolt
20/20 ice shards
20/20 fire cloak
9/20 energy shield

Fire cloak is more for grouping/bosses but is still useful solo. I plan to put points int energy shield until ithas enough health to make up for about 1.5x of my base health for the equivalent of a 1:1 build. Afterwards everything will go into energy boost to assist energy regen.

This build is intended to be decent with solo and groups. So far has worked well, though I'm not high enough to give serious testing in otherworld.

You definitely need -Cloak of Fire
-Ice Shards (this is a MUST for high lvl mages)
-Fire Bolt
-Lure of Fire
-Lure of Ice
-Energy Shield
MAXED!!

Maybe: Incinerate
FireStorm
Energy Well
Energy Boost
Sacrifice (if u have it )

Get most of your points on Focus. 80 points on hp is good enough, 5 dex, 5 strength, and the rest on Focus.

Hope this helps!

I've been using the 4:1 focus:vitality build

20/20 fire bolt
20/20 ice shards
20/20 fire cloak
9/20 energy shield

Fire cloak is more for grouping/bosses but is still useful solo. I plan to put points int energy shield until ithas enough health to make up for about 1.5x of my base health for the equivalent of a 1:1 build. Afterwards everything will go into energy boost to assist energy regen.

This build is intended to be decent with solo and groups. So far has worked well, though I'm not high enough to give serious testing in otherworld.

So has anyone else tried this build? The 4:1 focus:vit build? Is it successful?
I'm only level 63 with the following skills
15 firebolt
15 ice shards
15 cloak
3 energy shield
6lure fire
6 lure ice.

I just wanna see what other people say about this build...

I use a 250 vit everything else focus
All fire spells 20
Ice shards 20
Ice lure 12
growing Energy shield as I level.

I can solo any red, green or purple eye in OW. (except the bosses of course)
I don't pvp much at all. It takes me 7-8 hours to level on purple eyes.

My biggest frustration is in groups. I do more damage per second but warriors and rangers do more damage per half hour.
It takes me 2.5 minutes to regenerate 1800 energy, so I help kill one mob and rest while they go kill two more.

Kelpes have a lot of resistance so my fire bolt only does about 40 points damage and ice is 80. Trees are also tough but not as bad more like 100, 200. The main reason to partner level is so you can kill the higher levels and get more xp per min. But I tend to slow the group down so I end up soloing constantly.
BTW I have never purchased a single idol, pot, elix or sigil and wont with my mage. The class needs to stand on its own.