[Lucky and Elizabeth]

How do you turn a skill chain into a magic burst and how do youi know what spell to use and when to use it?

[neighbortaru]

when you cast a spell of the same element as the skill chain and it lands right after the effect (you have a 3-4 second window), you create a magic burst.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Lucky and Elizabeth

How do you turn a skill chain into a magic burst and how do youi know what spell to use and when to use it?

The trick is to cast a magic spell of the appropriate element within a window of 4 seconds (or five?) of a Skill Chain being completed.

A quick rule of thumb: When you see the message "<player> readies <weapon skill>" for the last person in the skill chain, you want to start casting the appropriate magic spell. You'll ususally finish up the spell a second or three behind the weapons skill finishing.

The skill chain names only sometimes give you a bump of direction as to which element you want to use. Here's a quick cheat sheet I use:

Level 1 Skill Chains -> Elements
Reverberation -> Water
Compression -> Dark
Transfixion -> Light
Detonation -> Wind
Liquefaction -> Fire
Impaction -> Thunder
Induration -> Ice
Scission -> Earth

Level 2 Skill Chains -> Elements
Gravitation -> Dark or Earth
Fusion -> Fire or Light
Distortion -> Water or Ice
Fragmentation -> Thunder or Wind

And keep in mind, you don't have to just Magic Burst nukes, and also magic burst efeebles like Paralyze (Ice based), Rasp (Earth), etc.

[AlexisLucia]

And, if you're using my skill chain calculator (www.magitekarmy.com/skillchain.php), you'll see pretty little icons and what-not of what to burst (as well as the english names)

[Lucky and Elizabeth]

Thanks

[Omniblast]

Aden's Skill chain chart on Wikia (boo, lol j/k)

Skillchain definition and how to use them on Wikia

Unfortunately BG didn't update their skillchain page yet, but their website is found here BG-Wiki