Kurrat's all in one Magician Guide

Welcome P99er's to my all in one guide!

Within I hope to enclose everything someone might want to know about the Magician class; fresh Green server starts, mature server raiding, leveling paths, tips and tricks, the epic, item upgrade navigation, character creation, and more!

Character Creation

Below is how the developers described the class, I will add my comments throughout in italics.

Magicians are master summoners, able to call elemental pets to do their bidding and to conjure useful items from thin air. Magicians are primarily a magic-using class, with the ability to wear cloth armor and wield blunt weapons and daggers. This is all true, and in general a good way to describe the class. While certainly being a magic-using class, a Magician is more like a melee class than the other casters because the pet is such a big part of how you interact with mobs. It's sort of like playing a warrior, who can also cast and summon things.

Elemental pets are at the heart of a magician's offensive strategy, and typically accompany a magician in all his adventures. This pet provides protection for its master, along with powerful attacks and special abilities. Magicians have a large selection of fire and magic-based damage spells, allowing them to mount a damaging magical assault in support of their elemental pet. The pet is everything while leveling up, I wouldn't say they have a large selection of spells at all, if anything they have the least amount of any pure int or wis caster. Direct damage abilities are limited overall, to fire and magic, and mostly just fire.

Magicians have a wide range of summoning spells, allowing them to conjure such diverse items as food, weapons, armor, and magical jewelry. In battle, the magician can encase his entire group in a shield of fire, damaging any opponent that strikes them. Magicians also have spells that lower a monster's resistance to magic, allowing spells to damage them more easily. Item summoning is fun, and useful at all levels, none of them are game changing, but some are very desirable.

Their signature ability at later levels allow them to summon a group member to their location. A highly sought-after ability in both groups and raids. Call of the Hero (COTH) is a blessing and a curse, incredibly powerful spell that is often just used on COTH bots. If you plan on doing any raiding, this spell is your bread and butter.

Magicians are a very focused class, sacrificing some diversity for power in their area of expertise. Magicians are able to adventure solo, but also provide value in a group situation. The magician is a good choice for players who enjoy managing a powerful pet and using a tightly focused spell selection. Mages are a great solo class to level 55 (beyond is much slower), a great grouping class, a good plat farming class, and a necessary raiding class. Some say that high level raiding is boring as a Mage, but some might say that playing a Rogue or a Cleric is equally boring. While Mage is definitely one of the lowest Action per minute (APM) classes, it's a useful class on almost every raiding encounter, good for raid leaders or anyone who is managing more than themselves on a raid. I often think of Magician as a commander class, you spend more time watching and calculating than actually being in the action, whether it's solo, grouped or raiding. Mages control the action from afar and have time to think through what needs to be done to succeed.

Races

Magician can be chosen by five races, here is the basic information for race, and I will rank them based on a 10/10 scale for fresh start servers, mature raiding servers.

Dark Elf DEF

   Faction Alignment: Evil 
   Racial(s): Hide, Ultravision 
   Starting City: Neriak 
   Playable Classes: Cleric, Enchanter, Magician, Necromancer, Rogue, Shadow Knight, Warrior, Wizard 
   Experience Modifier: None 
   Armor: Medium, Small 

Best natural vision, although with Summon Coldstone any race can see as well as a Dark elf. Built in hide skill of 50, it work's 35-50% of the time, and is useful for AFKing in weird spots, avoiding trains. Hide isn't the most useful on a mage sadly because it will kill your pet. Second highest starting int. Fresh start 8/10, Mature Server 7/10

Erudite ERU

   Faction Alignment: Neutral 
   Racial(s): -5 Disease Resist, +5 Magic Resist 
   Starting City: Erudin, Paineel 
   Playable Classes: Cleric, Enchanter, Magician, Necromancer, Paladin, Shadow Knight, Wizard 
   Experience Modifier: None 
   Armor: Medium 

Highest starting int, and that bonus +5 MR is excellent! They start with 70 agility though, which is a serious handicap. Unless you put 5 points in at character creation you will have an AC penalty and often be running slower while encumbered until you get an item with +AGI on it. Fresh start 5/10, Mature Server 9/10 Gnome GNM

   Faction Alignment: Neutral 
   Racial(s): Tinkering, Infravision 
   Starting City: Ak'Anon 
   Playable Classes: Cleric, Enchanter, Magician, Necromancer, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard 
   Experience Modifier: None 
   Armor: Small 

High Elf HIE

   Faction Alignment: Good 
   Racial(s): Infravision 
   Starting City: Felwithe 
   Playable Classes: Cleric, Enchanter, Magician, Paladin, Wizard 
   Experience Modifier: None 
   Armor: Medium, Small 

Human HUM

   Faction Alignment: Neutral 
   Racial(s): None 
   Starting Cities: Freeport, Qeynos 
   Playable Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Enchanter, Magician, Monk, Necromancer, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Shadow Knight, Warrior, Wizard 
   Experience Modifier: None 
   Armor: Medium 

RACE	STR	STA	AGI	DEX	WIS	INT	CHA	BONUS
Dark Elf	60	75	90	75	83	109	60	30
Erudite	60	80	70	70	83	117	70	30
Gnome	60	80	85	85	67	108	60	30
High Elf	55	75	85	70	95	102	80	30
Human	75	85	75	75	75	85	75	30