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==How To Play As A Mage==
Playing as a mage is hard... You need to use the [[Scepter of the Pious]], one of the hardest [[weapons]] to play in XV. You also have to be careful and not hurt your party... Magic has friendly fire. It does not give a lot of friendly fire damage, but it makes the party members vulnerable for some time.
1) First, use the wait mode. You can turn it on in the Menu/Combat. You can scan enemies with it and learn their weakness. It also makes easier to cast spells.
2) Learn the movesets from the two Royal Arms I said before... Scepter of the Pious and [[Bow of the Clever]].
3) Cast spells in the beginning of the battle! The party probably wont be in the way!
4) Each cast has around 30 seconds of cooldown... So what do you do while you wait for the cooldown to end?
Use the 2 royal arms.
Use techniques to pass the time.
Use the ring, specially against daemons.
5) But there is a problem... When the cooldown is over, the party can be in the range of your spell. You don't want to hurt the party, right? When you cast a spell, you can pass the time with the ideas I showed you before. When the cooldonw is around 15 seconds (the cooldown bar is half way), you can do some tricks to avoid the party being on the way. You will have to control the battlefield...
Try running away from the enemies... When you do that, the party tends to follow (Igi will always follow you, because he has an AI to always be close to [[Noctis]]). So for example... if Igi is on your way, run from the enemy, it will make Igi follow you and let the enemy alone for you to explode him with magic. The other member partys follow you too. If you doubt it... than watch my video, because I showed a lot of examples there.
Try to attract the enemies. You can attack them and run from them. They follow and than BUM!, spell at them! Again... there are multiple examples in the video for you to understand this better. You can also use Moogles (even some daemons can be attracted by moogles)
Look for the enemies that are alone. When the cooldown is almost over, try to look at the battlefield and check which enemies are alone. You can have patient and wait for the best moment. You combine all the tricks I said before...
6) How to make the party Mages too?
[[Gladiolus]] is weak at magic, he does not have techniques that use magic neither. But in a Level 1 Playthrough, everybody has almost the same stats, so equipping him with a spell is the only option.
Prompto is also weak at magic, but the has the technique [[Gravisphere]], that does magic damage. You can check the video for some tips about it.
Iginis is strong at magic, so you can equip him with spells. He also has 2 techniques that use magic... [[Libra Elemtentia]] is a bit weak but can deal any element damage (Fire, Blizzard and Thunder). [[Sagefire]] is super strong but only does fire damage.
You can also combine [[Starshell]] technique from Prompto against daemons with Igi techniques, with the ring and with spells. Starshell debuffs all stats from the enemy.
==Good Recipes To Use As A Mage==
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