Buff Mana Reflection

A while ago, many of the other mage skills were buffed, which was a great help in making mages less like bots that just stand in one spot and spam meteor/blizzard/genesis all day. It was a welcome change that increased the value of other highly underrated skills and made other tactics and playstyles more enjoyable.

But unfortunately, there is still one other mage skill that remains lackluster: Mana Reflection.

I realized this as I fought against the Samurai boss of Ninja Castle. With this monstrocity immune to my most powerful single target spell, resistant to my other attacks, and only weak to my familiar (who hit pretty hard but extremely slowly), I slogged through around two hours of eating 8-9k magic attacks and not feeling like I was dealing too much damage back.

I thought I would always have an extremely difficult time with this boss and then I remembered the skill Mana Reflection. On the tin, it has a chance to reflect magic damage I take back on the monster. It sounds nice but in practice that is still insignificant damage. When maxed, the skill would activate 60% of the time and reflect double damage back. I could take an 8-9k damage hit and turn that into 16-18k damage on the enemy. 60% of the time... In the end, this is small potatoes compared to my familiar or 50% penalized attacks.

Looking at bbb.hiddenstreet.net, they actually showcase a different version of this skill: https://bbb.hidden-street.net/character/class/arch-mage-firepoison

This version of Mana Reflection deals 10x the damage that would have been taken at max level. Now imagine the same scenario, dealing 80-90k damage back to a formidable boss. In the grand scheme of things, it's not much compared to snipe, HH, or a well-geared NL, but I think every little bit helps when it comes to making mages not so horribly weak when it comes to bossing.

There is one caveat to this, however. Rumor has it that the skill Mana Reflection will completely negate the magic attack on your character, thus, act more as a protective buff more than anything, preventing 31% - 60% of incoming magic attacks. If this is the case, I may call it fair, as preventing 60% of damage dealt is a nice thing in itself already.

I know the staff members here tend to do things based on if something was implemented a certain way on some official server at some point in time however, so with this buffed version of Mana Reflection being public knowledge, my fingers are still crossed for a buff.

 

I don't even have the skill points to invest in it yet! But depending on how it may or may not work, this will likely affect where I put points in later.

 

That's weird. You would think that attack from petrifighter is a physical attack.