Magic use? that important?

[Hitokami]

Hi everyone, I am level 14 and my magic skills are terrible. I only do 1 dmg if anything and my enfeebles are resisted. Should I be conserned and raise my magic skills?

[Ednoon]

its not that important to cap them as drk, everywhere you go you are in xp pt. there are mage will do the others, however when it comes to backing up you do want to have skill to do that.

i remember one time running to cloister of gales with a xp pt i lost sneak and aggroed a raptor, quickly casted sleep2 and put it to sleep active flee, use prism powder, luckily the raptors are advoiable after the long goblin tunnel in cape of teriggan . i made it to cloister of gales entrance and changed to 3rd person view before zone in i saw the raptor caught up and i took 2 hit from it, they are uber fast.

just an advice all melee should carry one stack of prism powder and silent oil.
if you want to work on enfeebling magic sub white or red on skill up PT and chain cast dia1, dia is unresistable it lands 100%, you can see the skill go up very fast.
elemental magic i MB as much as i can when PT is not mp heavy group and its always my 2nd capped skill. dark always cap first.

oh and if you are doing darkness skill chain you can put a poison2 on mb if not you can cast it on water renkei to work on you enfeebling magic

[Mithrael]

Once your enfeeble skill gets far enough behind, it's very hard to catch up. Ednoon's advice is great! I'll have to remember that... Makes total sense, but i hadn't thought of it.

Definitely keep your dark magic skill capped, it is what you bring to the table in an exp group that nobody else can from lv.33-64... At your level, pull with poison when you pull for the party, when your enfeeble skill gets too far behind, pulling with poison is pointless since you get 0 skill gain if you are resisted. When you reach that point, start pulling with stone instead. After a level or two of pulling with stone, your Elemental skill will be capped, and the MP useage is not excessive. Also, magicburst when your renkei is strong against the enemy. I.e. Magic burst thunder on crabs (blizzard too, but it's resisted a lot more often than thunder) and your skill will go .5 at a time.

[Kyo_SR]

Absorb-Vit in a fight is very useful. It is very good and makes a big difference in the total damage not only from you but the other melees too.

[Norelco]

hrmm....this is good advice.

i'm totally backwards....my skills are as follows:

elemental 85
enfeeble 45
dark 30


i should probably get that dark up. all i have right now is bio and drain....i still need to do the quest for aspir