I'll talk about the three mages of the game, their pros and cons and how they work. Hopefully this will give you a small insight into what type of mage you want to be. Don't take this as the final word though, the best way for you to know what you want to be is to try it out yourself.

Fa Shih (Human)

The powerhouse mage. They're easily the strongest mage compared to the other two, but they pay for it with high mp usage. They make up for the mp usage though with two different buffs. One buff increases hp regen and another increased mp regen. At level 10, it boosts regen by 10 HP/MP a second, which is very fast. Not only do they have high mp costs, but they also come with the highest casting times of the three mages. They can get the best magic defense, but their physical defense is still low like the rest.

Pros
- Can use three different elements; fire, water and earth.
- Highest damage possibilities.
- Highest regen.
- Has skills to slow down, and knock back enemies.

Cons
- High MP costs
- Longest casting times.

Yu Ling (Wing)

The support mage. They have a very large arsenal of support and attack skills, but normally you won't have the SP to max both trees out. The only class able to heal, and also have many buffs to increase offense and defense. Most attack skills only specialize to slow down and damage the enemy. They have a mana shield which lets your MP absorb the damage so you don't lose HP. Have many different types of heals and can revive and give you some of your lost exp back. These are a must for parties.

Pros
- Can heal and revive, wanted in parties.
- Buffs that can boost offense/defense by 60% at max level, and HP/MP regen buff that increases regen rate by 10 per second.
- Can dispel debuffs.
- Can debuff magic defense and physical defense

Cons
- Weakest at soloing, can't do a lot of damage, but can heal oneself.
- Only one element, gold.

Yao Jing (Werefox)

The summoner of the three. They easily have the weakest magic attacks of the three, but they make up that damage with their pet. Pets can be caught, sold, and traded and they're the tank for the werefox, and also a good source of damage. Werefoxes are the best at soloing of the three, and can even be considered the richest as they don't need HP or MP pots as much, and they can catch and sell pets. Though their skills are the weakest, they have the lowest casting times along with the lowest mp usage of the three.

Pros
- Pets, wonderful tanks so you will rarely take damage.
- Two skills where you regain MP, and one skill where you regain HP.
- Can solo monsters that the other mages can't.
- Only mage that has an attack skill that can stun an enemy.

Cons
- Weakest mage in PvP because pets aren't of much use there.
- Lowest regen of the three. (Without external buffs)
- Weakest attack skills.

Most useful mage in different situations. (My own personal opinion, not law)
PvP - Human > Wing > Werefox
PvE (solo) - Werefox > Human > Wing
PvE (group) - Wing > Human > Werefox

I have played all three, two not to a very high level, but I have some experience in all of them. As for once the English version comes, I will most likely play as a human mage.

I'm curious to why you put them in that order? What makes a werefox better than a human in PvP? Also what makes a wing not useful in a party compared to the other two? I also can't imagine a wing soloing better than a human.

But won't Wings be better in group because of their heal-ability?

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Moriko - Wings Cleric

Well in pvp everyone has their good and bad sides - yes werefox has a pet and this is like two players fighting one but against a powerful fashi or archer she doesn't have a chance.
In pve werefox are really the best - only healing pet and doing additional dmg to the one the pet is doing ... too bad they didn't allow a summoner to buff his pet (at least I know you can't)
In a group if there is a werefox a priest for healing is really not so needed but they still give nice buffs and are doing add dmg to the group. Fashi has aoe skills but this means only more hate - more dying so fashi could be really good in parties but thry could also kill it.
I think it's like this:
PVP They are equal (not one vs one though)
Solo Werefox > Fashi > Priest - he can heal right, but he's killing slow and it takes time ana mana to heal himself ... not to mention that he's said in 4-5 hits (most of the time)
Group Priest=Werefox > Fashi - a dead party is worse than a slow killing party

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When fighting monsters, be wary not to become one... When you gaze into the abyss, it also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

This is most Interesting. Thanks for the comparisons of the classes. ^^ I might have to make a Human Mage now...

What is the fox form of the Werefox good for? I've noticed there are skills that can only be used when playing as the fox... Looked to me as if the curses needed the fox morph skill unlocked to get unlocked, does that mean they can only be used in fox form? Fox form seems to be all melee other than the magic skills, too. I read all posts in this thread but I don't think I saw any mention about these things...

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But WereFox have "exchange" skill (HP<->MP)
Building for For :
1.Heavy armor : Hight HP + p.def . Accuracy is not problem You must having LamVan's ring (+50% accuracy
2.Robe : Using to capture animal

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The exchange skill gives HP and makes it into MP, it doesn't work vice versa. If it does, I'd love to know how. Also wings buff would be every mages best dream. +60% m atk? How can you say that isn't useful. The regen is quite huge too if you look at it from a bigger scale. +10 HP/MP per second regens 100 HP in 10 seconds, or 600 HP in a minute. Put potions on top of that and you have one nice regen rate. In a way, this is their best overtime healing skill, and the only spell that gives MP. Also every warrior has low m. def, this buff will let them survive a onslaught of mages. Plus how is p. def not useful to a fighter? They're only missing one buff which is p. atk and you say they suck pretty much.

Also where did you find this out on how int does not effect the spells for werefox? Because this 20-30% matk you speak of is called "spirit power expansion", and for every werefox spell it has spirit power expansion going from 55-100%.

I haven't seen any atk foxes in action, and from their skills I really don't like them, or would prefer them. This is a topic about mages and the fox isn't exactly the mage form of the werefox.

Though 30% will give a lot more than 300-400 at higher levels. I can see people getting an extra 600-1000 HP at the high levels. At level 40 I only get about an extra 150 HP on the heals though. Seeing how things don't even hit my pets for over 100 though, it's great. I really have to say though pets aren't exactly good boss tanks.

The "exchange"(forgot the name) skill swaps your HP and MP.

HP 500 MP 100 -> HP 100 MP 500.
Not really useful for PVP.

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