I want to make a new character (mage) just for fun but also so I can sell leech in the long run. I already have a HS mule so im not looking to make a bishop. So, I was wondering if there are (if any) differences between a fire poison or ice lightning mage? I don’t really mind leveling either but if one is clearly better for selling leech, I would like to know Thanks a lot!
I would highly recommend Fire Poison lvl1-71 is slow compared to I/L but F/P is currently royals one of the best leveling class from lvl71~120 second to shadowers. Heres a video i found on youtube on regards to mist training. Its very old though. That aside, 4th job quest. Meteor is a lot easier to obtain which only requires you to talk to NPCs back and forth. compared to I/L's Blizzard. Hunting Cold Heart usually takes 3-4hours. I have a 2 I/L Mages and took me a god knows 6hours ish to complete both wanted to kms after Both are the same in terms of selling leech. Trio duku is popular nowadays and making 2 F/Ps along side with a bishop might be something you might want to consider as well.
Same damage from both, the only difference comes from their bossing skill. If that's not something you're interested in then I'd make it based on the animations.
I'll add to what Jooon's said (F/P is a lot faster to grind post level 70 and the quest to unlock meteor shower is way less tedious) and point out that an Elemental Wand 7 is relatively more expensive compared to an Elemental Wand 5 if they both have the same magic attack since wand 5 can get additional INT points to start off (which results in more magic attack) while wand 7 gets LUK. This results in F/P mages being easier to fund in order to reach the 1-hit magic requirement for petris and dukus. Other than that and personal preference (I'm personally making an I/L mage at the moment), there are no differences as both classes need the same amount of magic to 1-hit petris and dukus with level 30 meteor / blizzard.
F/P: + Ele wand 5 (fire) is cheaper than Ele 7 (ice) + Poison misting at 3rd job (most commonly used in petris) + Meteor easy to get, basically just turning in Eye of fire. - Crap in CPQ1/2 I/L: + Very good in CPQ - Blizzard quest is a pain - Ele 7 is expensive (comes with luk instead of int which makes scrolling high TMA wands harder and is rare compared to Ele5) People basically make I/L for 2 reasons: 1) it looks cool 2) you can freeze dukus while selling trio duku leech which makes for easier sweeping of loot. For you (assuming you aim for ulu1/2 and petri) i'd recommend F/P.
F/P 100000000%. The training is faster and you can use a poison Elemental Staff to get better damage for training at higher level mobs at a lower level. Training with an F/P is a BREEZE. You can do like 50-120 in a day if you wanted to.
I/L is harder to level but it has higher potential, it can do ob maps and is also better at bossing cause there are many bosses who are weak to lightning. It's also much better at neo Tokyo since most mobs/bosses there resist fire/poison but are weak to lightning So it depends if you really want to play the char a lot and if you plan to do these things or just leech
