The Complete Elemental Master Guide by Goldie: Difference between revisions

Gone are the 3rd job days where every magic classes, with the exception of Performers (and to some degree Soul Reaper), have the problem of being elementally-locked behind with whatever skills they have available. Sorcerers had it worst because while they have skills with different elemental properties, these are all hindered by their long cooldowns (CD). Their main skill '''{{#skill:2449}}''' and its companion skills like '''{{#skill:2447}}''', '''{{#skill:2446}}''', and '''{{#skill:2454}}''' all suffered the same fate, and are locked behind an agonizing 5 seconds CD each. While their cooldowns can be reduced with Shadow Gears, and some equipment like {{#item:550012}}, it still wasn't enough to have Sorcerer enter the meta as a main DPS class. Also it's important to point out that even though Psychic Wave can be endowed to the four (4) basic elements (<span style="color:red;">Fire</span>, <span style="color:blue;">Water</span>, <span style="color:green;">Wind</span>, & <span style="color:brown;">Earth</span>), the old elemental table wasn't exactly in favor of them. For instance, any monsters that was either Holy 4 or Dark 4 would resist your magical attacks and so most of the time you'll either stick to <span style="color:gray;">Neutral</span> Psychic Wave or "overgear" your Sorcerer just so you can deal an okay amount of damage to those monsters.  

* EMs excel in space manipulation and crowd control skills.  

* One of the most useful skills you'll learn as a Mage. Put 10 skill points on this one as this will help you replenish your SP passively when standing in one spot as you do DPS, and also improve the potency of SP regenerating potions

Additionally, Sages have the ability to craft '''Elemental Converters''' [ ({{#item:12114}}, {{#item:12115}}, {{#item:12116}}, and {{#item:12117}}] with their skill '''{{#skill:1007}}''' so long as you have the right materials with you. Your physical player friends would probably be interested to request you to craft some of these for them or you could craft them to sell to players cheaper than NPC price of course.   

* Higher levels will give you more spell varieties to auto-cast, and will also increase the chance of it procing up to 20%.

* This skill works best when buffed with the Soul Reaper's '''{{#skill:449}}''' skill as this will allow you to auto-cast the highest level of your bolt skills casted from Auto Spell.

* Note: Only 1 Land Protector, Volcano, Deluge, and Violent Gale can be activated from the same caster at a time. Casting any of the elemental floor buffs will replace Volcano.

* At max level, Deluge gives +20% <span style="color:blue;">Water</span> Damage which directly interacts with the elemental table and it only means if you're doing 100% <span style="color:blue;">Water</span> damage on a monster you'll do +120% instead. Also gives +15% MaxHP which works perfectly well with HP-based builds of the Inquisitors and Dragon Knights. It also gives more HP% on your Elementals and High Elementals—we'll talk more about it in their [[The_Complete_Elemental_Master_Guide_by_Goldie#How_to_keep_Elementals_&_High_Elementals_Alive|own section]].

* Note: Only 1 Land Protector, Volcano, Deluge, and Violent Gale can be activated from the same caster at a time. Casting any of the elemental floor buffs will replace Deluge.

* Note: Only 1 Land Protector, Volcano, Deluge, and Violent Gale can be activated from the same caster at a time. Casting any of the elemental floor buffs will replace Violent Gale.

* Note: Only 1 Land Protector, Volcano, Deluge, and Violent Gale can be activated from the same caster at a time. Casting any of the elemental floor buffs will replace LP. When casting LP by accident and you want to completely remove it, you can cast any of the three elemental floor buffs.

* Always an available skill to have as a Sage once you've talked to the Platinum Skill NPC at the Main office (@go 50). Technically a debuff but you'll have better debuffs that behave the same way as this skill on your 4th job skill '''{{#skill:5369}}'''.

* Always an available skill to have as a Sage once you've talked to the Platinum Skill NPC at the Main office (@go 50). Technically a debuff but you'll have better debuffs that behave the same way as this skill on your 4th job skill '''{{#skill:5373}}'''.

* Always an available skill to have as a Sage once you've talked to the Platinum Skill NPC at the Main office (@go 50). Technically a debuff but you'll have better debuffs that behave the same way as this skill on your 4th job skill '''{{#skill:5372}}'''.

* Always an available skill to have as a Sage once you've talked to the Platinum Skill NPC at the Main office (@go 50). Technically a debuff but you'll have better debuffs that behave the same way as this skill on your 4th job skill '''{{#skill:5370}}'''.

* Always an available skill to have as a Sage once you've talked to the Platinum Skill NPC at the Main office (@go 50).  

In this section, we'll be talking a lot more about the Sage skill '''{{#skill:288}}''' (LP) in-depth on how it should be properly placed, what level of LP should you use in different scenarios, and what's the extent of the "hittable zone" and "danger zone" of LP. From here on out, I'll be referring to Land Protector as LP only for simplicity's sake. Okay then, let's get going! As what can be seen from the image above, LP is divided into three AoEs. Levels 1-2 LP produce the 7x7, Levels 3-4 LP produce the 9x9, while only Level 5 produces 11x11. In most situation, you'd likely use 11x11 LP most of the time whenever you'd need to put an LP underneath you to protect you or your party from strong ground magical skills from MVPs. However not all the time would you need to use 11x11.  

When placing your LP, it's important to know what's the maximum range you can go for to readjust its positioning. This is important because when you're faced with an MVP and the MVP is in close melee range, you wouldn't want to move and lure it further to your LP since you'll need space between you and him so you can set-up your insignias while he's outside of LP. Now, LP has a '''three (3) cells range''' from the position you're standing from. Going above three (3) cells will make you move and lose your position. Be consciously aware of this as this will help you, especially once insignias are taken into consideration. More info will be discussed regarding LP's behavior in correlation with insignias in this [[The_Complete_Elemental_Master_Guide_by_Goldie#Land_Protector_&_Insignia_Interaction|section]].

* This allows EM to casually spam their ultimate skill Elemental Buster with 0 restrictions anytime they desire to do so. DS has a 1 second cooldown so for every second, they can freely do just that. Exciting!

* This allows EM to casually spam their ultimate skill Elemental Buster with 0 restrictions anytime they desire to do so. Like DS, TD has a 1 second cooldown so for every second, they can freely do just that. But wait there's moreee~

Furthermore, insignias provide one of the strongest debuff in the game. Each insignia has the ability to '''boost the counter element''' no matter which level you use. For example, if you use '''<span style="color:red;">{{#skill:2465}}</span>''' at any level, '''any units''' '''inside''' the insignias' 3x3 AoE will take 50% more damage against <span style="color:blue;">Water</span> elemental attacks. If EMs are standing inside the <span style="color:red;">Fire</span> insignias' AoE, they, too, will receive increased damage against <span style="color:blue;">Water</span> elemental attacks of the MVP. This rings true for the other elemental insignias. Okay this part is important, now if you use a '''Lvl. 2''' '''<span style="color:green;">{{#skill:2467}}</span>''' in a party because you have a melee class user and you plan on buffing him with its buffing effects ('''Endow weapon with the <span style="color:green;">Wind</span> property''', +10% ASPD & +10% ATK),  and since he is in melee range and you need to adjust so both of you stand inside <span style="color:green;">Wind Insignia</span> as well as the MVP and you have a '''<span style="color:blue;">{{#skill:2466}}</span>''' placed underneath both of you and the MVP; the MVP will also have its weapon element endowed to <span style="color:green;">Wind</span> which means his attacks will hit like a truck and could possibly kill you both since you two are standing on a <span style="color:blue;">Water Insignia</span>. This can be prevented if you just used a '''Lvl. 3''' '''<span style="color:green;">{{#skill:2467}}</span>''' instead and that way you could have avoided endowing the MVP's weapon to <span style="color:green;">Wind</span>. Conversely, if you wanna tank Lasgand's basic attacks, and you happen to use <span style="color:darkred;">Ardor</span> on '''Lvl. 2''' '''{{#skill:2456}}''' ('''Defensive Mode''')  you can place a '''Lvl. 2''' '''<span style="color:red;">{{#skill:2465}}</span>''' underneath Lasgand to forcibly endow his weapon attack to the <span style="color:red;">Fire</span> element so you can tank his hits head on.

Now, let's talk about the interaction of insignias with Land Protector. Oftentimes, you will find yourself needing to place LP as a defensive layer to protect you and your Spirits from getting wiped out. But at the same time, you still want to place your insignias to speed up the fight. Well, you can do just that but it will require technique, patience, and a thorough understanding of the interaction between LP and Insignia. First, decide which level of LP you're gonna be using. If you still remember in the [[The_Complete_Elemental_Master_Guide_by_Goldie#Land_Protector|LP section]] of this guide, we've talked about how it's ideal to use Lvls. 1-2 LP when you're soloing instead of Lvls. 3-5. Well here, we're gonna be discussing the importance of one's [[The_Complete_Elemental_Master_Guide_by_Goldie#Proper_Placement_of_Land_Protector|mindful placement of LP]].  

* Already got your Dimensions combo? Great! Now you'll have lesser skills to include in your rotation. That's because the Dimensions combo {{#icon:400536}}{{#linkitem:400536|Time Dimensions Rune Crown(Elemental Master)}} + {{#icon:540079}}{{#linkitem:540079|Dimensions Elemental Magic Book}} lets you autocast '''{{#skill:5380}}''' every time you cast '''{{#skill:5369}}''' while {{#icon:400536}}{{#linkitem:400536|Time Dimensions Rune Crown(Elemental Master)}} + {{#icon:540080}}{{#linkitem:540080|Dimensions Elemental Spell Book}} lets you autocast Elemental Buster every time you cast '''{{#skill:5373}}''' so long as both combos are '''Grade A'''.

* Now if you're wondering why VS specifically that's because for the DS combo, you would want '''{{#skill:5372}}''' to be on CD first so that by the time you go back to it after doing your sequenced skill rotation it's already off-CD AND it gets skill modifiers for the DS combo so it hits harder than LL. You want Conflag to be laying on the ground doing damage as you sequence your skills. Meanwhile for the TD Combo, Conflag doesn't get too many skill modifiers only from the {{#icon:400536}}{{#linkitem:400536|Time Dimensions Rune Crown(Elemental Master)}} (only up to 15% assuming your crown is +15). And in this combo, VS gets more skill modifiers than Conflag so what you do is you cast your LL first, proceed to VS then TD with proced autocasted Elemental Buster then Conflag then back to TD with proced autocasted Elemental Buster and then go back to LL. '''Rinse and repeat'''.

 

* Now you're finally a Sorcerer, you now have more AoE skills but all of them are gated behind 5 seconds cooldown each. You have 3 options:

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