Low 1-1 attacks on mages/non-mages

Your auto-mp takes priority over auto-hp. If your auto-mp potion heals HP (% hp/mp potions), you can survive 1/1 easily as a mage.

 

I can related to OP. From my personal experience playing both mage (bishop) and non-mage (dark knight) and using potions that heal both % HP and % MP,

When my bishop gets 1/1 during zak, only auto MP activates. I use Ginseng on both auto HP and auto MP, but both my HP and MP only gets restored to 40% (1 x 40%).

When my dark knight gets 1/1 during zak, both auto HP and auto MP activates. I use sushi on both auto HP and auto MP, and both my HP and MP gets restored to 40% (2 x 20%)

 

My guess is it has something to do with HP checks for auto-hp, damage mitigation buffs (Magic Guard), and when damage is applied. There is nothing that mitigates mp loss so it behaves normally.

 

As you said, I feel it might be a magic guard bug.

There might be a way to test it:

1. Mage getting 1/1 without magic guard
2. Mage getting 1/1 with magic guard
3. Non-mage getting 1/1
4. Shadowers getting 1/1 with meso guard
5. Warriors getting 1/1 with achilles

The goal of each test is to see whether both auto HP and auto MP will procs from a 1/1 attack based on their individual scenario.

Although, as Nise mentioned, the issue with mages getting 1/1 can be easily circumvented by using potions that heal both HP and MP (ex. Ginseng, Elixers, Ginger, Power Elixers, Sushi, S'mores, etc)

 

Ohhh, I see. For me, however, the latter never fails to auto pot for me.

In my case, when my auto HP uses unagi (heals 1000 HP), and auto MP uses mana bull (heals 60% mp) , it would result in only MP being healed while HP stays at 1, which is my interpretation of the issue that the OP is trying to address.

And when I use auto HP = heal both HP and MP & auto MP = heal HP and MP, I would get different results based on the class/job I played.

On my bishop with magic guard, every time I get 1/1'ed, it would only result in one of auto HP or auto MP (haven't tested using different potions, but my assumption is auto MP) being proc'ed, resulting in a single potion use.

On my dark knight, every time I get 1/1'ed, it would most likely result in both auto HP and auto MP being proc'ed, resulting in double potion use.

Of course, this is only based on my personal experience from bossing @ zakum.

 

I actually put ales on hp and mp slots for my mages and it works perfectly 100% of the time

To add to the actual thread (and possibly repeat what others said): for me, the following works perfectly
1. Mages: ginger ale on both hp and mp slot. Never fails
2. Mules: hp potion on the hp slot and don’t have have auto mp, then hp never fails
3. More open clients means higher chance of pot fail, so try to not have too many clients open

I use separate hp and mp pots on my nl and that fails sometimes, but let’s just say that it keeps the game a bit more interesting

 

If I try to duogrind my bish and dk, both will die within 2-5 minutes if I don't manually pot

 

Auto-pot failing is basically a feature of this game. Finding work-arounds to these types of features is part of the player's responsibilities.

 

Staff has already specified that auto-pot should not work 100% of the time. It would make bosses like zak trivial for ranged.