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  • ancient magic?

    whats ancient magic aside from its a drop and has insane casting times?....whats the damage compared to all the normal spells?
    whats the use of the spells?.....ect
    blk/rdm/whm

  • #2
    Damage is big..

    Regular freeze can hit for 750 or so..

    Magic bursted it can hit as high as 1200 or so..

    drinks mana, roughly 310 a cast

    takes forever to cast.

    A lot of people use it when they first get it for magic bursting..

    just make sure it will kill the mob you cast it on.. otherwise its gonna head right for you

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    • #3
      You should try searching first.

      I typed "ancient" into the search and here's a topic that talks about it...

      http://b.ffxionline.com/forums/showt...hlight=ancient
      "From the void all things are born.
      To the void all things return."

      -philosophy of the Walahra

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      • #4
        I wish I could have the 350k that I spent on all of the anc magic spells back (no Flare) because the need for them is so infrequent it doesn't warrant the large-ish pricetag. In a nutshell as a hume at lvl 62:

        casting 3 version 3 spells: 1150-1400 dmg, 330-350mp
        casting Flood: 920dmg, 368mp

        Doing either of those takes approx the same amount of time to cast, yet the large advantage goes to the former. This is not to mention that Thundaga2 bursts for 800-900 for 196mp.

        Anc magic doesn't make much sense to me just yet =(
        Shwiggy
        blm/whm
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        • #5
          cause you haven't had to fight maat yet

          see how useful ancient magic is when you have to fight that old bastard
          observe the splendor of ping pong balls!

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          • #6
            Freeze => Burst => Freeze

            GF old man
            For The Horde!!
            Current Gil total spent on gear:
            3,235,000
            Current Gil Value of gear:
            1,151,000
            Laughing when new players complain about prices:
            Priceless

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            • #7
              I've used them for bursting regularly in one pt.
              I was lvl 60 we had no whm

              Pld/war
              Sam/rgr
              DRK/sam
              Rdm/whm
              Blm/whm
              BRD/whm

              We were lvl 58-60 and fighting cockatrices in Cape Terrigan. It was a rather simple formula Guilotine/Sidewinder/Burst= Dead cockatrice. Refresh + MBI +MbII = constant supply of mp. The nearby groups thought we were insane.....

              There was the one tpw due to large scale petrification and a goblin add. Otherwise we were burning thru xp at an incredible pace....

              Unless you are fighting Maat showing off because you are about to lvl or trying to impress a noob stick to the gaII or elementalIII spells. Or you have a brd and a rdm in your group to actually make it easy.
              Has more time played on AKosygin's character then he does....
              BLM:70 WHM:34 RDM:14 THI:15 WAR:16 MNK:14 BRD:10 RNG:10 DRK:27 BSM:1 DRG:15 PAL: 15 NIN:10
              SMN:8 SAM:10

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              • #8
                good point.
                For The Horde!!
                Current Gil total spent on gear:
                3,235,000
                Current Gil Value of gear:
                1,151,000
                Laughing when new players complain about prices:
                Priceless

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