Witch Guide!

i saw many guide in the mage section for wizards, but however i dont see any big big guide for witches . so i came out with my very own witch guide, which may contains mistakes as my english skill is limited.

first of all, before choose witch u have to know that witch is a completely diffrent class as the mage before job change that u r familiar with. unlike wizard who likes to solo and use big big skill to sec kill mobs, witch is mainly a curser+ buffer, as usefull as a healer in a party, if not more usefull . this makes witches very welcomming in the parties in price of a slow killing speed. notice that there is only one single witch skill which deals demange : hp drain. thats why very few people goes witch. but unlike templar and cleric, witch is a gr8 pker, with all her mysterious cursing skills.

be warned that witch isnt a good choice as the first char, as she needs alot of sp in order to max her skills… so if you are new to this game, make a healer and go to the healer section.

any way, lets get started

SKILLS:

as a witch, there is very few att spells for use. so i suggest lvl all the magical attak spells to lvl4, which includes

energy bolt (fast cast speed)

energy cutter(long range, hight dmg)

flame storm(the only AOE attak which deals dmg)

arch enemy(hight dmg, fast casting speed,but close ranged. beware that haste does not increase its casting speed. this skill may get useless as you lvl up and got the last mage skill to link, but it is great for low lvl use, so… if you have free sp just get it, looks cool tho . also people said that it doesn’t work well with a wand, still looking into it…)

energy field(personal dungeon skill)

transformation( thats why people say that they can never find a healer without hp and a mage without mp )

i discovered that personal dungeon skills are the bests for the classes like witch, cleric and templar knight. in the dungeon you lvl really fast, so i suggest get that skill as soon as you are in randol. dont worry u have enoughf sp.

all the passive skills are for maxed except for the skill anti magic, u can allways get it later as there isnt much mob who uses magical attak on early lvl. you can first of all lvl the passives to +4 then when you had free sp then you can max them

there is some other skills which are worth getting and max:

mana recovery (thats why witches are called mana battery)

chakra shield (makes you run faster, in the game it says that it also increase the dodge rate, still looking into it)

haste (there is many confusion caused by the poor korean translator of this game for this skill… the main effect is that it actually makes you cast faster. it also increase your skill refresh rate. at lvl1 not that noticeable at lvl2 ull find out how weak u r before getting this skill. somehow it dont really rise the casting speed of arch enemy… maybe it is already powerful enoughf and gms dont want make it an invincible skills for mages:P)

scud (increase your att speed alot should have that)

spell focus (i’ve test this skill a couple of days ago, probably couple of weeks when u see my topic. and i’ve found out that this skill gots somehow useful after the latests updates. i’ve used it in demon party and every one discuvered that their skills almost dont miss anymore. you can test it by your self by attaking a much highter lvl monster while having the spell focus on. also this skill is extremely useful if u cast it on a sorc’s spirits.)

nova break (a super important gear for your witchy bulldozer , anyway u cant job change without this skill maxed)

now for witch skills…all of them are usefull, so ill simplely tell you all the effects of the active skills in an understandable speech , choose wisely:…
im am not mentionning the passives, as all of them are for maxed right away.

stone:
wut this skill does is that it makes your target unable to move for 10 sec, but it also remove all the buff/debuff of the target. notice that it may fail, and fail the skill stone duriong pvp most likely means death for witches. the highter the lvl it is, the highter the chance of succes it is.. . this skill is normally the first one u are going to cast in the arena… u sure can attak your target while it is immobilized, take out all your hight magical skills and blast him/her til he/shedie

blind:
i had a hight royal knight friend, who almost always own in pvp… yeah, a true lord of arena. one day when he is causing every one walk away in fury from the arena, a purple goose holding a candy comes in, and suddenly all my friends game background goes black, he was wondering if there is a bug and then, BANG, he dead…after that, he had never fought a witch again..
this is blind, one of the most fun skill in the world of iris, the highter the lvl it is, the darker the darkness it is…be warned it does not work on mobs

decay:
an other usefull pvp skill….it actually decrease the dmg of the targeted player’s skills. also works on bosses.

HP drain:
i suggest get this skill right away after reaching lvl 38. this skill leads you out of the drug of hp pot… it is like a handy pocket healer for you, which makes you able to solo like wizards. wut i always do is that cast drain and then transformation and then decay till the mob die…so much fun. this is the skill which makes many wizards dream of change to witch, cuz they actualy drink hp and mp pot like cocacola…

state poll:
the ulimate cursing skill for witch…your opponent became much much weaker when this spell is casted…when maxed it -50 of all the targeted players state. oh yea it will go under zero…. normally after casting this skill u can 4-5 normal att kill the targeted player, works on mobs.

sleep fog:
finally the last skill covered by the mysteries…it is an aoe att, wut it does is that it makes 1 target and 6 surrounded target fall asleep for maximent 18 sec if the skill is maxed… immagine the ways you can use this skill… use it as a surviva skill when you’re about to die, or pull all mobs on the way fall asleep and rush to boss, fun fun fun..

LVLING:
we know that witch is a class which gots alot of skill to max. unlike wizard who got all her skills useless after getting terra spear, most mage att skill is still usefull for witches even in lvl 70+(like energy bolt, believe me..) these special ability of witch determine that she can never rush on lvling, and always have to kill green and white mobs before 31 in order to keep an equivalent income of sp

LVL 1-10
this periord is easy….most mobs out side of randol like fox and wolves will fill your satisfaction. un fortunatly you cant have a guardian if you follow my instruction

lvl 10-20
better spend these time in the personal dungeon… dungeon is the right place if you need sp. i can get 6 sp in a single balrog quest run at lvl 16 which costs me 4 mins. so wut i did is that ive lvled all my armors and my stave and make my mage stuck at lvl 16 to make her earn sp to maxed 1 or 2 skill..after my sp bag is emptied i make her die in the dungeon of dratan which is faster for reload till the exp bar is empty, then i return to randol and sp farm again…this gives you sp really fast, try it or if u dont like to do so u can still lvl in sasquatch til 15 then going to dratan temple kill mummies and ghoul til 20. you can also go to the quest rescure the princess, your hight char sure got thousand of useless personal dungeon ticket 2, well its time to use them.

lvl 20-32
a hard period…until you got the skill haste… right, it makes you cast like a crazy chicken @_@ … you can take over 5 orcs at lvl 21 in a few sec when this skill is casted…i suggest get it right away, even start saving sp at lvl 19 in oder to max it right away when u got 20. but still this skill isnt perfect, you better have a healer with you for orc killing, tell her to stay back and heal when you are kick the mob’s @$$, dont worry, your killing speed is fast enoughf for two person to share the exp and sp. you can kill harpies til 22 then go to the temple to kill orcs til 28 and then go to butcher in merac til 32.. remember to save sp at lvl 30 to max the skill nova break.

lvl 32-38
this is the hardest period for witches player, in this period you have to play wisely. first of all find your self an active guild which is about your lvl, then always go to LARGE party for lvling. dont solo, just try it if you dont know why. dont worry, you are welcomed in the party even if you dont kill anything but only buff. notice that the mana recovery skill is the skill which most of the players care about, make sure that they are always buffed. as a smart witch, do not show your hidden true power: stone yet, any way it will not help much in big big parties. once again if you are curieus and wondering why, try it and you will see people’s reaction…eh well i better tell you my own experience before you got banned… be cause the lack of knowledge on witches, people normally dont know what this skill does and sum chars like rogue knight titan and sorc will never stop trying cast their own stun skill on them… and finally they got mad cuz their spell does not work on it anymore and ask you to stop, so sad…

or if you want, get sum personal dungeon ticket 3(harder to find) and lvling in the dungeon lvl3, by now you will see how important the skill energy fieuld is.

lvl 38+
after 38 your life will be much simpler be cause of the skill drain. you are able to solo very hard mobs on your own, you will find your own way through the lvling. ps: dont forget to check out dungeon quest 4

ARMOR & WEAPON

weapon
the diffrence between a staff and a wand is that staff attaks slower but does more dmg, wand attaks faster and does less dmg, they have almost the same att speed if use normal attak. however they have the same casting speed too, soo… i suggest use a staff before 31 to make you cast better. me my self was using a wand only because of the lack of knowledge and, any way, mages do looks better with a wand.

many witches said that they like to use wand to cast skill then switch to staff to attak. in my personal opinion, you dont have to do so. a double upgrade for wand and staff costs alot. and anyway witch gots skill which will increse the attak speed of wand. witch is a cheap class to play, dont want to make it expensive and tricky for nothing…

well me my self is very poor in the game, but the first thing i really cost to make for my witch is the dragon magic wand. many people says that dragon weapon are expensive and useless, they are right because they made the dragon weapon when they are already 50 or sumthing… at lvl 50 weapons better than dragon weapon are way easy to find, but at low lvl it is a super usefull tool, still when u get highter it can be a backup if you have accidently broken your own weapon. it will allways be the same lvl as you and have an effect of a weapon that is fully upgraded… alot of shinning and glowing effect and more deadly hit…. so i do suggest you to get it as soon as possible to help you save up sum cents that you are going to waste on heaven stone for later use. to make the wand you need three pet parts, dragon scale, dragon tail and dragon blood, they altogether cost 20m, and there is still a chance of failling, good luck.

armor:
i dont recomment getting knghtmare armors right away, full knightmare armor costs like crazy and it has a crazy low chance of succes, plus it only have alittle bit extra def of the armor that your can wear 4 levels highter than you. the only parts of knightmare armor which is worth getting is the knight mare boot and gloves. as you lvl up the glove and boot will be harder and harder for you to find, but still, wait until 50+ to make them. you can normally find other armors from mobs. do not up grade them highter than +3 if you dont have an extra one for backup. any way, 1 single part of knightmare armor is enoughf to give you the largest fairy. ps: mage looks like the TX terminator in the terminator3 when got full knightmare armor

what is going to happen if once there is no more beauty hot wear for your size in the store and you cant find right type and size stuff for you on mobs neither havent yet got unlimited strangeable dragon weapon and knightmare armor? make your own! you do see something called manuals dropped off from mobs, well this is time to use it… at the very begginning i have already mentionned that witch isnt the first char you are going to get on lc, so if you have an old main char who got nice production skills, use him/her to make your armor. if you dont you can always buy them at players for a price which is hight.

pet:
well actually there is two way of getting mount. me my self did buy my own mount, because i used to use curse then use agressive spells on mob to "force chock" them. this way does end up the battle faster but my pet will not get xp at all during the attack. i tried to developpe a drake and gave it up cuz i find it too hard. i suggest u to buiy a lvl 31 horse first then when you have enoughf money, sell the lvl 31 and buy a lvl 37/38. thois method will make your game abit easier.

the other way of getting a mount is use your hight witch curses on mobs and end them up with normal attack which will give little bit of exp to your pet. this way does kill slower but, with the strong force of curses, the mobs are usually as weak as a hungry lost pork…so ull be fine… if you are lower then 32 just get the skill curse and slothe max (or at least lvl 4) as low debuff skills for low lvl use. the skill curse actually decrease the mob’s walking/running( or w/e moving) speed alot at lvl 5, and slothe decrease the mob’s attaking speed. i did not put them as usefull skills on the front is because that i dont really want getting my self in that kind of "a million skills even before doing dmg" situation .any way, witch does already got enoughf debuff skills, doesn’t she?..

make sure your first pet/mount is a KNIGHTMARE(yea i know it sounds weird…) but not a DRAKE. the reason why i said that is that knightmare’s skills are buffs which will greatly help you. dragon’s skills are mainy agressive which does work well with clerics, but not that useful for a mage. so make sure that you are getting a knightmare first then if you want, a dragon as a pet.

ps: i love the new white pet colouring crystal! now i look like prince charming!

…well, princess charming actually

some say witches magical attak is depend on dexitery, actually dex doesnt really increase your dmg …i did a test with accs, i dont notice big dmg diffrent when wearing +dex acc but + int acc. i’ve also asked a GS about the problem and he told me that dex actually doesnt do anything to a witch at all, maybe it gives more evasion? …. lc should have fixed that…

any way there is a link for the way of adding state point in oder to get all skills, thanks to efflixi – ona who made the chart and Branislav9 who has post the link on mage section
http://lastchaosinfo.wetpaint.com/page/Witch+31%2B

my first mage char is a wizard. at the very first weeks i feel gr8 about it. they can kill large collection of mobs very easily, a true killing machine. but a couple of weeks after i started realize that maybe wizards are abit too machinal. the way i fight is click a mob, cast spell1, spell2, spell3, mob die. i soon got bored with wizard. an other bad thing about them is that they need alot of hp and mp pot which is like a drug for them, they really cant survive without them. they cant even use transformation as they are super lack on hp. so i had left my female wizard in peace.

witches fight in a completely diffrent way. they got hundred of cursing skills which can form thousands of combinations. the most important part is that they work very well in parties. unlike wizard they got free hands to chat abit and have fun with other players, and always got respect from every one. they also got hidden dark power which are super for pk but still they kill alot slower than wizards. so make your choice wisely..

well i was planning to make a fighting&pvp guide for witches, then i discovered that the way the witches fight is too complex, every witches fight in a diffrent way. some of them are always on the very first fighting line, well some stay back and make sure everyone’s mana bar is full. some of them like to pwn mobs up with their coolest tricks, while others like to curse and then kill the mob gentlely while enjoy chatting at same time. some of them like to attract group of mobs agressively with flame storm, while some others like to use sleep fog and get on the way safely and then peace. some of them like to show their foe the fear with blind, while others like to show them the desperation with stone….her skills are completely depend on what you want to do. we can see that witch plays alot more role than other chars, and these role plays made every witch unique.

very very last piece of advice: dont use stone that often or u’ll find witch the worst char in the world of lc ever!

hope this guide helps, ty 4 reading
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Credits go to korben0 for putting this guide together!