Which mage to fund?

Yes what you're proposing (making a mage to fund/help grind an attacker) makes perfect sense, and honestly speaking could be considered the "meta" of this server.

For the choice of mage, most would say to go cleric-> bishop since the party buff, holy symbol, is invaluable for party levelling. Also clerics practically don't use any money on potions throughout 2nd job, so you save loads of money there.

You could also go for ice-lightning mage, which is potentially the easiest class to grind up out of all classes. The downside to that is that when you're grinding up your attacker, you need holy symbol anyway- so you'll need to make a cleric at some point.

Lastly about fire-poison: it has the easiest 3rd job levelling out of all classes, but (similar to I/L) needs a cleric for hs anyway, plus the 2nd job can suck really badly when you don't get area spells like clerics and I/L do.

Lastly remember not to put any AP in LUK

 

If you want funds, go for a cleric. They grind for free (after level 45 or so) and are pretty lazy (gs2 ftw). Be sure to level heal -> mp eater -> teleport. The order of the rest doesn't matter that much.

If you're not interested in late game stuff, ignore anything you see about hp washing. If you think you'll want to do some late game stuff at some point, definitely start hp washing asap.

 

1. Get some ilbies, luk gear, atk wg and maple weapons (weapons are starting from level 35, use a garnier until then). They don't need to be expensive at all. Like 15m should get you well on your way.
2. Yes, always create new characters on a different account. You can vote on all your accounts for extra nx anyhow, so there's 0 benefit from multiple characters on the same account.

 

I would recommend you to make him on a second account, so you can vote with 2 Accounts.
Also you can Level your own SIN and get some HP Washing done (anyway Recommended).
If not, i am actually first Charing a SIN tho.
Sadly it is kind of Impossible to play w/o Fundings. For Example a Dexless Sin needs a Mapleclaw / Dexless Claw wich cost after level 35 7Mil +
That is no Amount you would reach. Then you need a Atk Glove with atleast 6-8 Atk wich is another 4~12 Mil.
Ilbis are 400~600k per Set, a Bathrobe with some Luk 2~20Mil.. and so on..

In Terms of Playing that Char for a while i'd Recommend Washing.. later or earlier you goanna regret not doing so..
A Bish is first Choice for being a MesoDigger.

 

To be sure, those prices are massively outdated. I feel its actually a good time to get started.

A maple claw these days does not cost nearly that much, an 8 atk glove is like 2m, ilbis are 200k, luk overall and earring scrolls are extremely cheap so its easy to make yourself a decent starter kit for your NL.

I think dont be intimidated. But yes just go mage, everyone wishes they had a priest for holy symbol, just crucial for any kind of grinding really

 

A bit off topic for OP probably and correct me if I'm wrong but if you have an account on which you are going to do alot of washing wouldn't it help to make a second adventurer on there to get more AP resets (through events and PQs)?

 

Perhaps with events, but the PQ nx just isn't wroth it

 

As an alternative to overpriced maple claws.. you can get 5 dex earrings and scroll the lv 15 claw. They are insanely cheap and more importantly have a higher attack speed than garnier(and you dont need to use the slowest claw til lv 35). Could use them right up to shinobi bracer lv 55 which is much much cheaper than kandayo. Or switch over to kandayo at that point if you need.

 

Best bang for your buck would be illbis, wa gloves (8-10 attk is okay), and zhelm. Though if you want to get zhelm by level 50, you'll either have to wash to meet the minimum 3.6k hp requirement or buy an afk run, which will obviously cost a bit more. Even if you're not washing, the extra dex and luk from the helm is pretty big.

 

This is my exact question and situation hahah. I started playing again yesterday, and got my char to lvl 8 to be magician.
Good to know I should delete my 2nd char and recreate on a diff account