galka mage at endgame

[azagarth]

Just curious as to the overall consensus of galka mages at endgame. I am well aware that all races can do any job. However Out of blm sch and rdm which would a galka be best at? All 3 interest me and I have experience on them from a taru char. My galka needs get a backline job badly. I have heard a lot of galka mage bashing but I do need to level a mage job for my shell.

[SaviorSelf]

Would BRD count? Galka MP is just so horrible...

[azagarth]

ya no brd ;D just those 3.

[Saxon]

Galka Blm are fine, maximum mp isn't too much of a burden at endgame, the only time it would really become troublesome is lowman/solo where you don't have the opportunity to rest.

[Rafbacca]

personally i think it's a terrible idea, yup.

real bad...

uh huh...

oh wait...

[Overburn]

We had a Galka BLM in my last LS and he did fine. He didn't even have stellar gear and he was still one of our better BLMs.

[ronin sparthos]

Just curious as to the overall consensus of galka mages at endgame. I am well aware that all races can do any job. However Out of blm sch and rdm which would a galka be best at? All 3 interest me and I have experience on them from a taru char. My galka needs get a backline job badly. I have heard a lot of galka mage bashing but I do need to level a mage job for my shell.

Probably SCH would be your best bet since the job naturally squeezes effecient MP use and Sublimation wins due to Galka HP.

Look into RSE and eat food to cover low native MP,

If you've played taru then all you are doing is playing with slightly more restrictions which comes out good for you in the end.

[Plow]

Galka mages are fine, the int/mnd matters more than anything outside of extreme low man/solo situations. You're never going to match a taru doing the same job, but seriously, +mp is the last thing casters worry about these days.

[Thunder]

Galka mage will always always always be at a disadvantage mp wise. Eat mp food? Lost out on int food. Wear mp gear? You're gonna lose it all when you switch into different gear for the first spell you cast. Sorta sucks because you're not always at events with 18 people and your melee and mages can go naked and still win. There will be times where your group is the bare minimum required for a win. And in those situations your mp will hold you back.

[Abandon]

I have to disagree with Thunder. I play sch at... a lot of my shell's endgame situations, and I do just fine with mp. It's all about using your mp wisely and not wasting it. I don't wear mp+ gear at all unless I'm in light arts. My being a galka, I'd say, is one of the best parts about sch, as my hp and merits allows for me to pull off a 365ish Sublimation which keeps my mp pool looking rather flashy when I actually need to use it.

All in all, play whatever you want to play.

[Meat]

Do blm; endgame blm is a good hmp\drain\aspir sets anyway.

[Thunder]

Sorta sucks because you're not always at events with 18 people and your melee and mages can go naked and still win. There will be times where your group is the bare minimum required for a win. And in those situations your mp will hold you back.

Are you sure you didn't just skip over this part? Don't mistake my emphasizing for belittling but I'd venture to say your endgame events consist of well organized parties/alliances and you, like everybody else, doesn't need their mp. I wasn't sarcastic about the melees and mages going naked in these situations and winning, either.

There will be those times where you'll need every bit of mp to keep hp up(I guess in the case of galka blm and sch it'd be different but you'll face mp issues soloing on pets otw to 75, farming things like obis/hq aern organs solo. Anything solo you'll face mp issues.) and that's when you'd be better off taru.

Though, at any low man event or solo it always will be xxx amount(I really have no idea how much a naked taru would have over a naked galka but whatever it is(200-300 maybe?) that's always how much more taru will have over galka at any event because if it's lowman like I said the taru will start resting later than the galka but neither will ever rest to full in these situations.)

Tbh, my post isn't too relating to the OP's question pick whichever of the mages you'd like. They'll all face the same problems just as hard. Like Plow said, the int/mnd values of the races is more impacting unless all you do is solo.

[Meian]

RDM? Seems less to lose overall in terms of gear (mp would lose INT and vice versa etc) and I knew a great RDM Galka on our server who did well

[Yugl]

Are you sure you didn't just skip over this part? Don't mistake my emphasizing for belittling but I'd venture to say your endgame events consist of well organized parties/alliances and you, like everybody else, doesn't need their mp. I wasn't sarcastic about the melees and mages going naked in these situations and winning, either.

There will be those times where you'll need every bit of mp to keep hp up(I guess in the case of galka blm and sch it'd be different but you'll face mp issues soloing on pets otw to 75, farming things like obis/hq aern organs solo. Anything solo you'll face mp issues.) and that's when you'd be better off taru.

Though, at any low man event or solo it always will be xxx amount(I really have no idea how much a naked taru would have over a naked galka but whatever it is(200-300 maybe?) that's always how much more taru will have over galka at any event because if it's lowman like I said the taru will start resting later than the galka but neither will ever rest to full in these situations.)

Tbh, my post isn't too relating to the OP's question pick whichever of the mages you'd like. They'll all face the same problems just as hard. Like Plow said, the int/mnd values of the races is more impacting unless all you do is solo.

Sometimes I agree with this sometimes I don't. Elvaan SCH with about 570MP Base and I can still soloed Pets/Obi mobs. Taru or not, you'll face MP issues in the end since MP isn't infinite. That also brings me to another topic about when *NOT* using MP items over enmity items (For Healing) becomes a burden rather than smart gearing, but that's for PMs.

[Kaylia]

Mage are mostly limited by their mp refresh rate, not max mp. I'm not going to say having a large manapool is useless, but you could say the same about Max HP. There is plenty of situation where you will be happy to have 400 more hp than a Taru.

[azagarth]

Hmm so it sounds like blm be best choice overall then. Rdm was looking very interesting seeing as it has best refresh rate which makes the max mp not as large of an issue. But seeing as i will never get a refresh body it kinda turns me away from it.

[chiyio]

MP doesnt matter on BLM. If you chain nuke till you're out of mp, youre probably dead.

[evilpaul]

That is pretty fun though!

[SaviorSelf]

MP doesnt matter on BLM. If you chain nuke till you're out of mp, youre probably dead.

Yeah, but only being able to cast an AM2 and a T4 before resting is pretty useless as well.

[azagarth]

I think in nuke gear with mp merits you sit around 700~mp that is good enough for 2 Am2!

But yes i realize galka have poor mp pools. Kinda the reason I have not lv one on this char. I do need a mage job though but they are hard to stomach for me. the 3 i listed are the only ones i can really stand since its not just cure spamming. I love healers I just am not one haha.