Celtic Heroes

I just got back from a vacation and I'm not familiar with the new content. I've only been able to speak to a few of my friends about the new scavenger items but they all have mixed reviews.
My Mage is currently Level 74 without an offhand. I have 180k so what would you recommend me buying from the scavener?

Thanks

dont buy anything else, save up till 200k and get masters grimmore. adds a lot of energy. very awesome.

-cantorix, mabon masmar-

Im not sure yet. I've asked so many people now and they say that they don't know yet. Yeah masters grimoire seems good but I have a warrior that's level 88 that I've discontinued and I might use him later on, so I'm worried about buying an offhand thats only useful for my Mage. However if it was like EXTREMELY useful then I would buy it. Also I'm lacking in a main wand as well, I don't wanna buy a quartz wand though. I have diamond chest and pants sitting in my bank but I have a really bad wand now. Yulestave . I'm usin my 50% sled as my wep.
So I think I should ask whether I should buy the wand first and if so, what to buy? Wait for 6 levels and get diamond? Or should I go straight ahead and buy a offhand?

Frankly I havn't bought anything from the scavenger for my mage.
I have the crown shield of spirits from quigly and havent seen a good reason to replace it.
Our clans senior mage uses the ice trident.

My mage sucks. I'm not a mage guy, however I know a little bit about mages as I've listened to a couple of my mates complain about energy usage.

As you get up past lvl 90 you'll probably want to max out one or two of your spells, and with this comes high energy costs. if you're not a plat guy, (such as the man that Papi mentioned), you're going to run out of energy. I'd say go for the orb. It gives you 25 per tick instead of 15, and gives good resistances. If you are a plat guy, the grimore ads decent focus but you may have to rock afew restos/sigils to keep ur energy up... hard choice

So far as a weapon goes, if you can get a second hand quartz one, then what the heck? You can resell it for the 25k u paid, you're not losing much. However you're pretty close to 80 so its a 50/50 choice... maybe you should use your sled till u hit 80... or buy one of the crowns... I have the focus one on my druid... but I come with a bunch of sigils... the crown that ads 15 energy is good too

I've thought long and hard about this.

Trident, Royal shield of the mountain, or blade are the best options.

The best one to pick depends on how you built your mage.

1. if you like to have no dex, go with the trident.

2. if you like to put tons of points into focus and max energy shield go with the royal shield of the mountain (my pick)

3. if you like to put points into vitality and don't have much energy, go with blade of fire or ice (whichever lure is better).

I use royal shield of the mountain and my stats are: 5 80 400 140.

The orb is like the shield but worse. Only good if you don't have sigils.
The book adds 5% to your spell damage, not worth it unless you need energy.

Oh and I rocked the yulestave until lvl 106 when I could afford diamond wand. Wait for diamond, probably get offhand first, tough call.

Well I'll most likely be getting 1600 plat worth of sigils soon because this whole energy thing sucks
Still havin a tough time deciding because I know I'm going to restat when I get to OW. Currently my build is something with 300 health rest dumped into focus with my energy shield at 16.
:p not sure... Thanks though!

K, my suggestion is royal shield of the mountain for you but I will probably get flamed since it wasn't intended for mages. But you will not be disappointed

I believe for a Mage it really comes down to either the arcane orb of spirits or masters grimoire. I have had both so far and they have their pros and cons.

Arcane orb of spirits:
* pros - noticeable increase in evade and resistance and energy regen is sucky but the best they have at the moment.
* cons - while u can still achieve high damage with an arcane orb the energy it gives pales in comparison with the masters grimoire

Masters grimoire:
* pros - huge energy boost! It offers 100 foc which is several hundred energy. While it also provides 100 health I believe spell casters should look at foc which is the basis of spell strength.
* cons - no more super Mage evade with the orb so it's all up to your damage in spells from the focus. And of course you loose 10 regen points vs the orb which may sometimes make the difference in having enough energy to cast spells.

As of right now I use the masters grimoire in a dps build which does wonders:) I still can't seem to out dps rogues though -.-

The problem with grimore is mages are already focus heavy so we don't need more energy, and 100 focus will only add about 5% to damage.

Ever consider royal shield of the mountain? Mabye you can borrow one to compare. The evasion and armor does wonders to keep your eshield around longer.