Starting a Mage. Tips and advice wanted!

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Among the 4 Elemental Mastery staves:

Water - Phinigel - Relatively easy to obtain, find a puller and 3~ pet classes to chain pet him to death
Air - Stupid PoAir Quest that requires drops from Islands 6-8 including both 7 and 8 bosses. Don't hold your breath trying to get this.
Fire - PoHate trash (or does this even drop yet?). I don't think I've ever seen one drop, although I haven't spent much time in Hate.
Earth - Innoruuk drops this, and if you have this, you basically have your epic rendering all the other staves useless since epic pet is far superior.

tl;dr Only the water one is feasibly attainable unless you raid a lot.

A-Team had a fire staff drop in hate last week. It is the only one I've personally seen I think, but I've only cleared hate maybe 6-7 times.

[Daldaen]

Okay, so Water and Fire are feasible to obtain.

Air/Earth not so much and Earth if you get it, you are more or less done with epic.

[Solb]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Among the 4 Elemental Mastery staves:

Water - Phinigel - Relatively easy to obtain, find a puller and 3~ pet classes to chain pet him to death
Air - Stupid PoAir Quest that requires drops from Islands 6-8 including both 7 and 8 bosses. Don't hold your breath trying to get this.
Fire - PoHate trash (or does this even drop yet?). I don't think I've ever seen one drop, although I haven't spent much time in Hate.
Earth - Innoruuk drops this, and if you have this, you basically have your epic rendering all the other staves useless since epic pet is far superior.

tl;dr Only the water one is feasibly attainable unless you raid a lot.

Thanks for this info, I got all the lower level focus items. Nice to know what to expect later on.

[Vyal]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A-Team had a fire staff drop in hate last week. It is the only one I've personally seen I think, but I've only cleared hate maybe 6-7 times.

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From years and years back both of mine, fire staff vanished one day and I never got it back.
I notice the info has changed on them from when I used to play, must have changed in a patch.