Intro:
I know your not sick of me writing these yet so now it is time for warden/mage. The second of the support wardens. I would also like to say please do not bash about wardens, we all know they need a rebalanced.
Knowing your class:
Warden/mage is much less support then warden/druid, and more dps. Since it still has support skills i will call it a support warden. This basically transforms warden into an aoe dps class. You will still have good single target damage, but all your skills will mostly be magical aoes.
Elite Skills:
Wind Chop- This will be your spamming skill especially at lower lvls. It does both physical and magic damage. So when your main skills are on cd you will use this
Tough Oak- All pets get a huge increase to pdef like 50% or so. Also spirit of the oak’s cool down for punch is reduced by 1 second.
Oak Blessing- This makes the Heart of the Oak buff much stronger, so you may be better off using Spirit of oak for buff and use crystal as pet at this point.
Nature’s Revenge- This is a very strong new skill for nature crystal. It is an aoe that takes 2 seconds to charge up with no cd and does more damage then Beam Attack, so you can pretty much through beam attack away.
Spiritual Feedback- Reduces the HP consumption of Spirit Attack by 10% so now it cost 20% of your pet’s max HP. Also can increase you and your pet’s magic damage by 12% for 20 seconds.
Crystal Protection- If Nature Crystal dies all damage suffered by people in your group is reduced by 20% for 20 seconds, but you may not summon nature crystal for 40 seconds. This is kind of a win lose elite. Less damage taken can me helpful, but nature crystal does a lot of damage when it is summoned.
Narrow Escape- This is soul bound for your pets. However because of the elite that says nature crystal can not be re summoned for 40 seconds this skill will not work on him only the other 2, so i do not use this much.
Crystal Boost- This makes it so crystal explosion will no longer kill the nature crystal. It will drain 80% of his max hp and restore about 1000 mana to everyone nearby, along with hurting the mobs.
Mage Skills:
Fireball- Does a decent amount of fire damage to the target. 6 second cd
Lightning- Does some damage to the target and roots them for about 10 seconds. 20 second cd
Wisdom- Increases your Intelligence by a large amount.
Intensification- Increases your magic damage by a large amount for 20 seconds. 2min cd
Silence- Used mostly for pvp it makes it so target can not cast skills for 10 seconds if mob and 5 seconds if player. 24 second cd(strange cd)
Fire Ward- You will take less damage to fire type skills. This can be useful i never really use it though.
Pets:
I only like 1 pet for this build, because it is such a magic build.
Nature Crystal- This pet will do mass destruction on warden/mage. You can cast intensification then summon him for extra damage. This pet will do huge amounts of aoe damage if you are built correct. In pvp and pve he will be good.
Gear:
This class will stray away from everything i have said in warden general he will use different gear and different skills.
The weapon-
Root of Nightmare/Raksha Magic Staff
The main set-
Holy Tree Crown/Flower God Headress
Elemental Flame Robe/ Flower God Robe
Elemental Flame Boots/ Flower God Cloth Boots
Elemental Flame Shoulder Guards/ Flower God Shoulder Guards
The secondary set-
Guardian Leg guards
Labyrinth Frost Belt/Kawak’s Belt
Maxim’s Gloves/Raksha’s Gloves
Labyrinth Cloak or Rebirth/ Savage Light Cape
The accessories
Vahto’s Magic set all of it!
for stats you will want
Int/Str
Str/matk or Int/patk
Stam/Int
Stam/Pdef or Stam/HP
Int/Wis
Str/Patk
Skills:
One of the only wardens who will need different skills then what i have said. Forget about charge chop and all that junk and go.
Frantic Briar- It is an matk aoe
Soul Attack- It is a magic spam skill that uses your pet’s HP to save mana.
Briar Shield- ok you can still lvl up this.
Crystal Explosion- It is an aoe that is pretty much only usefull on wd/m or wd/d
Elite Skill:
Wind Chop- you will not use it too much, but can be good single target dps.
Tough Oak- Crystal will die less!!!!!
Nature’s Revenge- It does a ton of damage.
Conclusion:
This is one of the more interesting wardens since it does not act like a warden at all. This one is if you like to see large amounts of aoe damage. spam Nature’s Revenge and Frantic Briar and watch everything fall.
Credits go to Xeph.
