Second attack and BMGs

[Imoutgoodbye]

Use haste when training your weapon. It will cut your training time in half.

Also Rank up always using a Practice weapon, for the same reason.

1 attack and no enhanced damage, leaves you with a awful meele output.

Keep a staff for PK. Or a weapon with good coded damage, like the short Katana, or the staff of fangs.

Some Bmage prefer to use a shield on off hand due to AC bonus.

I say use a staff/wand.

Sanctuary, curatives, or Word can save your day. As most non c/c will go for the dirt a low-mid ranks leaving you with the chance to Sanct up even blind.

Use slow in a Savant area while mastering spells.

Master Terra by 30.

Master Dancing blades by spam-casting as soon as you can.

Master rust.

Master Flashfire. Colour spray will go up as you rank.

If you need more advise just ask.

*falls over laughing*

[L-A]

Don't spam blades - it will master by lvl 50. As wil dancing blade.

Don't train colour spray - you'll probably have it to 97 or so by the time you stop casting it.

I never even bothered training a bmages weapons - just rotate them ranking. All to 80, then all to 90 and so on. Staff will master VERY fast - and you use that for mastering parry. You already have a lot of defenses that discout blindness and whether you know the weapon type. If you're betting on parry to save you then you're doing it wrong.

Terra is spamable - I'm unsure if you can train it faster like a normal defense. I don't know if its reall necessary by lvl 30 though it is nice to have. If you don't have anything better to do I guess - but don't give up a group for it.

Metoer swarm also rocks...

L-A

PS - sharpmetal masters by lvl 50 if you cast it while ranknig too.

[Pali]

Terra is spamable - I'm unsure if you can train it faster like a normal defense. I don't know if its reall necessary by lvl 30 though it is nice to have. If you don't have anything better to do I guess - but don't give up a group for it.

Can't train it like a normal defense... and until either 25 or 30, it's pretty useless in PK anyways, so wait until then to do it unless you're just using the casting exp as a way to rank.

[Mudder]

I could've sworn I have "gotten better at terra shield" through using it as a defense..

Actually, I think it was blur. One of them anyway.

[Pali]

I'm pretty sure neither of them do. It's been a while since I've played a bmg, I'll admit, but I can remember trying to do those through use without it working.

[-Totenkopf-]

I am sure in the OLD OLD OLD days that terrashield used to train like dodge and parry.

Cant tell you now. Been about 8 years since my last battlemage.

[inscribed]

I am sure in the OLD OLD OLD days that terrashield used to train like dodge and parry.

Cant tell you now. Been about 8 years since my last battlemage.

still like that.

[Pali]

Huh. Could've sworn it didn't. *shrugs*

[mya]

It does but you will not want to train it like that.

It SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!