YES it’s TRUE! Less INT! You can bash me if tell lies. Of course, will not tell a lie. ^_^

The main STATS For Critical SAGE is AGI and LUK only. You may add a little INT or STR to boost damage of your choice.

Let me explain why AGI and LUK only…

AGI – This boosts the Attack speed and Flee rate. So Sages can dodge physical attacks.
LUK- This boosts Critical rate, Perfect Dodge, ATTACK DAMAGE AND MAGIC DAMAGE.

Now, how can Critical Sage improve damage if LUK was the only damage maker?

This enters the skill priority of SAGE.

As a Mage,your offensive skill is STONE CURSE. MAX THIS. It acts like poison and frost diver in one skill, and kills defense too! NO more problem if you just slash enemies with daggers. They won’t even attack you!

Your bolts will be almost to LEVEL 3 only. And this is the hardest days of Mages. Make sure that your bolts will reach LEVEL 3 (Fire Bolt, Cold Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Soul Strike, Napalm Beat). Maximize your Increase SP Recovery to LEVEL 10. Get FIRE BALL to LEVEL 2 and FROST DIVER to LEVEL 1. THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. Pick SIGHT to LEVEL 1. Remaining points is up to you. ^_^ You can still get SAFETY WALL only LEVEL 1, pretty useless.

As Sage, get Hindsight (Auto Cast) and Free Cast. These should be always level 10. Now your final desicion is here. PICK ONLY ONE ELEMENT! My recommendation for you is to pick FIRE AND WATER ELEMENTS ( FLAME LAUNCHER, VOLCANO, FROST WEAPON and DELUGE). These skill increases ATK, MATK, HP. Make sure you wear armor with elements that corresponds to your skill.

But if you want to increase your flee rate, WIND ELEMENTS (LIGHTNING LOADER, VIOLENT GALE) are PERFECT FOR YOU.

THE DOWNSIDE OF THIS BUILD. >>>>> SUPER, DUPER, MEGA, ULTRA EXPENSIVE!
Almost all of your skills were using GEMS. If you want to build this type of character, invest zeny first.

Second, this build lacks MP. So do not cast spell if not needed to.

DO NOT USE BOLTS TO ATTACK ENEMIES! TOO MUCH MP will be wasted. Let HINDSIGHT (AUTO CAST) DO THE CASTING. ALWAYS CHOOSE FROST DIVER AND FIREBALL for HINDSIGHT. IT IS SUPER EFFECTIVE. But you can still use other skills, when needed.

But I doubt that all of you will complain if you see your Sage whack and smack with HIGH ATK and MATK in same time, with high Critical Rate, Perfect Dodge and Flee rate.

I disagree with some advices from the guide. The best use of Professor is support. If you want to do damage, play HW. A Bolter Professor can do some damage, but you’ll never do as much damage as HW, Champion, Creator, WS, Sin X or even LK, so it’s best to let them do the killing part.

Most of times, my build is something like that:
60 Vit 80 Int 99 Dex

If you have any point left, put it in Str so you can carry more gems and Potions (believe me, they are really heavy to carry on WoE). I play low rate resetless servers, so I get some Int, Double Bolt and Foresight for leveling. I just make sure my int (with blessing and bonus) reaches 105, so I can do decent damage with my Firebolt. You need super high dex for fast cast of Magnetic Earth in WoE. That’s the most important skill of Professor in WoE, and the best way to break through a well defended Emperium Room, so you need to be able to cast it the faster you can once you got past the Classical Pluck.
You don’t need higher levels of Heaven’s Drive, cause you’ll use it just to find hiding Stalkers or Sin X, so level 1 is enough. Dispell MUST be level 5 and Magnetic Earth must be at least level 3. Soul Syphon can be level 4, because the less important, is the damage it deals. Fiber Lock is a good skill, but in resetless servers I don’t recommend it, because you’ll lose 9 valuable Skill Points (5 to 9 of Free Cast, 4 of Dragonology and 1 in Fiber Lock).
In PvP, you can kill most of your opponents, but you’ll always win with patience and counter attacks. A good Professor knows that his strength isn’t a high damage or fast kill. His best weapons are the hability to avoid enemy attacks with Safety Wall, Blinding Mist, Magnetic Earth, Magic Rod and Spell Breaker and his debuffs, like Stone Curse, Frost Diver (I don’t use it, but it’s an option), Dispell, Soul Syphon, Soul Exhale + Indulge.
In most cases, a Professor who just tries to attack and do more damage quickly than his enemies, will get himself killed. Even in PvP, where the magical damage is not reduced, you can’t do more damage than Snipers, Gypsies/Clowns, Creators, WS, HW, Sin X, Champions, Linked HP, LK or Paladin, so you’ll only prevail ifyou make use of your debuffs and avoid skills. Once you’ve got your opponent SPless, Stone Cursed, Buffless or prevented him from using his best skill on you, than you should attack. Otherwise, if you intend to attack directly and do high damage, I recommend you to play HW or another class.

Nice guide..i will give this 5/5..i think i’ll recommend to you to play again..you must see the new stuffs..i just returned playing after 6 years..im on pRO Valkyrie server now..i also played in high rates and PK servers..so, in other side i understand this FOOLS who played in high rates but i must say there is no sign of TALENT in them..even in high rates Profs are very hard to deal with..who would want to face a Prof in a naked battle..?especially with this hindsight build you are totally FUCKED-UP..!even those big donators you can easily kill them and imagine to see their faces full of awe and frustration..!

@everyone

xile015, on August 9th, 2009 at 6:32 am Said:

@imperial
playing professor is not just about spamming firebolt. fiber lock gives 50% increase in firebolt. there is double bolt, and elemental change skill.

professors should take advantage on their enemies’ elemental weaknesses that’s why we also have lightning bolt or cold bolt. its your choice on what element to specialize, and that’s why we have elemental change. to give us more advantage and support our ‘element’.

maybe you can’t play them well hehe :) don’t worry. profs are only for PROs and you don’t have to be one :D

The Last Line is very well said…! LOL