How to be a Mage in FFXV

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Why Would I Want To Be A Mage

  1. Because it is fun! You can literally explode a lot of enemies in the game with magic.
  2. You can enjoy the cool effects magic does! You can burn everything, you can make a lake freeze and trap the enemies, you can make metal places be electrified... All of these effects change the gameplay!
  3. The Ring of the Lucii!!! It is super powerful and cool! Using it against daemons is very enjoyable and effective.
  4. To craft magic, you have to use items you find around the world, or items you get from killing animals. You you are an explorer, magic will be heavily rewarded!

Mage Build

  1. The Royal Arms Scepter of the Pious and Bow of the Clever scale with magic! This means the more magic you have, the more damage you will deal with these weapons. So be sure to learn their movesets!
  2. Good weapons for magic stats: Wizard Shield (you can farm it near the entrance of Rock of the Ravatogh, after beating the game), Sword of the Father (Royal Arm you get at Chapter 13), Mythril Pistol (for Prompto) and Mythril Knives (for Ignis).
  3. You can also farm Circlets (they give you magic stats) near the camp at Vesperpool after beating the game.

Note: I did not cover all items. A lot of them you can find at the Menace Dungeons (the hardest ones in the game). But at least the weapons I said are the best.

Crafting Magic

  1. The DAMAGE from your spell depends on it's Potency, your magic stat, the enemies' resistance to the element you are using (Fire, Blizzard or Thunder) and the enemies' spirit.
  2. There are a lot of types of magic...
  • Freecast: Chance of making your cast free
  • Failcast: Super powerful spell but has a chance to fail
  • Powercast: Super powerful spell but can only cast at close distance
  • Blastcast: Super powerful spell but hurts the user as well
  • Maxicast: Limit break up to 99.999 damage

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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