Fire/Poison Wizard skill build

1. Lv. 10-17: max Energy BoltIt is your only real attack until 2nd job. One point goes into Improved MP Recovery at 11 for its MP regen.
2. Lv. 17-23: Magic Guard 3, Magic Armor 1, Max MP Increase 1, then the builds splitThe first points of each are worth the most. Then Budget maxes Max MP Increase for a bigger MP pool, and Pro maxes Magic Guard so less damage reaches your HP.
3. Lv. 24-30: finish Magic ArmorYour Magician SP locks at 2nd job, so spend all of it before you advance.
4. Lv. 30-40: Teleport 1, then max Fire Arrow or Poison BreathBudget maxes Fire Arrow, which passes Energy Bolt at level 6 (15 without its burn). Pro maxes Poison Breath, which hits up to 6 monsters, and keeps Energy Bolt for single ones.
5. Lv. 41-50: max the other oneBoth builds have Fire Arrow and Poison Breath maxed by 50, and from here on they are the same.
6. Lv. 51-70: MP Eater 3, Meditation, Teleport, MP Eater, then 1 SlowMeditation is a party Magic ATK buff, and a maxed Teleport costs far less MP.

You get 1 SP per level as a Beginner, 1 SP at each job advancement, and 3 SP per level after that. Wizard SP can't be spent on Magician skills, and an SP Reset Scroll from the Cash Shop resets every skill except Beginner skills.

Skill points cost nothing, so both builds follow the same route with one swap per job. What sets them apart is where your mesos go: gear, scrolls, potions and buffs. Both wizards share the Magician book and its weapons, so the gear is the same as in the Ice/Lightning Wizard skill build. Prices are what each item sells for on HubCW, so they move with the market.

Gear, slot by slot

Where two overalls share a step, the first is the male version and the second the female one. Any earrings do for Pro: they all have 5 slots, and the INT scrolls are what count.

Pro scrolls

One tier in each family gives the most per slot on average without any risk to the item. Pro fills every slot with it, or buys gear where every slot already passed.

Scroll	Success	Slots	If all pass	Price	Per success
Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+28 M.ATT	-	-
Staff Magic Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+28 M.ATT	-	-
Gloves Magic Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+20 M.ATT	-	-
Overall Armor INT Scroll: Intermediate	60%	10	+20 INT	-	-
Cape INT Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 INT	299,000 mesos?	498,333 mesos
Earring INT Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 INT	91,999 mesos	153,332 mesos

The other tiers, on a wand: Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Lesser is 100% for +2, Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Greater 10% for +8, and Wand Magic Attack Scroll: Chaos 10% for +10, but 50% of its failures destroy the wand. Try them in the scroll simulator first.

What the money buys

Each build's best attack on one monster, per cast, in its own gear and with its own skills at that level: pure INT, with only the LUK that gear needs, and the burn counted in full. Pro counts every scroll slot as passed and Sap of Ancient Tree running; Meditation is left out because both builds get it. Monster defense is left out, so treat the numbers as a comparison.

At 40 Pro's points are in Poison Breath, so on one monster it still casts Energy Bolt while Budget casts Fire Arrow. On a group of 3, Poison Breath does more than either.

Pick your level to see where each skill should be, what to add at that level and any breakpoint you just reached. Switch builds to compare the alternatives.

36Wizard (Fire, Poison)

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Lv. 10Lv. 17Lv. 19Lv. 23Lv. 30Lv. 32Lv. 36Lv. 40Lv. 46Lv. 50Lv. 58Lv. 64Lv. 70

Magician build Budget: Magic Guard 3, max Max MP Increase Pro: Energy Bolt and max Magic Guard Magic Claw instead of Energy Bolt Wizard build Budget: Fire Arrow first Pro: Poison Breath first Meditation before Poison Breath

At level 36 Fire Arrow 15 → 18

Beginner9 / 9 spent

Three Snails3/3

Recovery3/3

Nimble Feet3/3

Magician61 / 61 spent

Energy Bolt20/20

Magic Guard3/15

Magic Armor20/20

Improved MP Recovery3/15

Max MP Increase15/15

Wizard (Fire, Poison)19 / 19 spent

Fire Arrow +318/30

Poison Breath0/30

Meditation0/20

MP Eater0/20

Teleport1/20

Slow0/20

You advance in Ellinia at level 10. From then to 30 you get 61 SP for six skills that would take 105 to max, and whatever you leave here at 30 stays that way. Both builds max Energy Bolt first; then Budget puts the mid-game points into Max MP Increase and Pro into Magic Guard. This part is the same for both wizards.

Magic Guard or Max MP Increase?

At 2nd job you get 1 SP, then 3 per level: 121 by level 70. Maxing all six Wizard skills would take 140, so one stays short, and that is Slow. The current client has no 3rd job yet.

Level 1 and max values from the game data. Each name links to its full per-level table.

Energy BoltMax Lv. 20

Max by 17

MP cost

8 → 16

Basic Attack

90 → 130

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

Your attack until 2nd job. On fire-resistant monsters, which Fire Arrow can't burn, it stays ahead until Fire Arrow 30.

Magic GuardMax Lv. 15

Max by 23 (Pro)

MP cost

8 → 12

Budget stops at 3; Pro maxes it by 23. Levels 6 and 11 are the big steps.

Magic ArmorMax Lv. 20 · needs Magic Guard 3

Max by 30

MP cost

8 → 16

Weapon Def.

40 → 120

Magic Def.

40 → 120

Duration (s)

300 → 600

Level 1 is the best point at 1st job. Each later level adds a little DEF and 15 seconds.

Improved MP RecoveryMax Lv. 15

Stop at 3

Lv. 1

Regenerates 1% of Max MP every 10 seconds; increases MP recovery from items by 10%

Lv. 15

Regenerates 1% of Max MP every 10 seconds; increases MP recovery from items by 25%

Level 1 already gives all the MP regen. Take 3 to unlock Max MP Increase.

Max MP IncreaseMax Lv. 15 · needs Improved MP Recovery 3

Max by 30 (Budget)

Max MP %

10 → 25

Budget maxes it for a bigger MP pool and cheaper refills; Pro stops at 3.

Magic ClawMax Lv. 20 · needs Energy Bolt 1

Skip

MP cost

10 → 20

Basic Attack

45 → 65

Hits

2

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

Same damage as Energy Bolt for more MP and less range. Take it instead of Energy Bolt, never alongside.

Fire ArrowMax Lv. 30

Max by 40 (Budget) or 50 (Pro)

MP cost

14 → 28

Basic Attack

120 → 180

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

DoT damage

20 → 50

DoT time (s)

3

Your single-target attack: the hardest hit in the book, plus a burn on anything that doesn't resist fire.

Poison BreathMax Lv. 30

Max by 50 (Budget) or 40 (Pro)

MP cost

20 → 40

Basic Attack

50 → 80

Max enemies

6

Chance %

45 → 75

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

DoT damage

10 → 40

DoT time (s)

5

Your attack for groups: up to 6 monsters, each with a chance to be poisoned. Below 3 monsters in range, Fire Arrow does more.

MeditationMax Lv. 20 · needs MP Eater 3

Max by 58

MP cost

15 → 25

Magic Attack

5 → 25

Duration (s)

100 → 300

A flat Magic ATK boost for you and every magician in your party.

TeleportMax Lv. 20

Max by 64

MP cost

55 → 15

Range

110 → 150

Every level cuts its MP cost. Level 1 is expensive, so don't spam it.

MP EaterMax Lv. 20

Max by 70

Chance %

30 → 50

Gets back MP from monsters that have it, once every 5 seconds. Most training monsters at 40-70 have 50-150 MP.

SlowMax Lv. 20 · needs Teleport 5

Stop at 1

MP cost

15 → 8

Max enemies

6

Speed

10 → 30

Duration (s)

10 → 20

Slows up to 6 monsters for kiting. It is the skill the SP budget can't cover.

Magic damage scales with the skill's Basic Attack and with your Magic total: half your INT plus the Magic ATK on your weapon, gear and buffs. Each hit rolls between a minimum and a maximum, and Mastery raises the minimum. A burn or poison that lands adds its own Basic Attack once more, at the top of the roll and ignoring Magic DEF. The comparisons below use the community's damage formula at 180 INT and count every burn and poison in full; treat them as relative.

What the burn and the poison add

Skill	Basic Attack	Burn or poison	Adds	MP cost	Per MP
Fire Arrow 1	120	20 Basic Attack over 3 s	+22%	14	1.03×
Fire Arrow 10	138	29 Basic Attack over 3 s	+27%	17	1.07×
Fire Arrow 20	158	39 Basic Attack over 3 s	+29%	22	1.04×
Fire Arrow 30	180	50 Basic Attack over 3 s	+30%	28	1.03×
Poison Breath 1	50 × 6	10 Basic Attack over 5 s, 45% chance	+12%	20	0.28× 1.66× on 6
Poison Breath 10	59 × 6	19 Basic Attack over 5 s, 54% chance	+22%	26	0.29× 1.73× on 6
Poison Breath 20	69 × 6	29 Basic Attack over 5 s, 64% chance	+32%	32	0.32× 1.91× on 6
Poison Breath 30	80 × 6	40 Basic Attack over 5 s, 75% chance	+40%	40	0.35× 2.07× on 6

"Adds" is the burn or poison on average (times its chance to land) as a share of the hit. "Per MP" is damage per MP on one monster against a maxed Energy Bolt; Poison Breath's second figure is for a full group.

Other multipliers

• Elements: ×1.25 on weak monsters, ×0.75 on resistant ones, which also can't be burnt or poisoned. Monsters immune to poison take nothing from Poison Breath (×0 in the community formula), so use Fire Arrow or Energy Bolt on them.
• Burn and poison: they ignore Magic DEF, so they count most on high-MDEF monsters like the poison-weak Fairies (500 MDEF). Whether one can finish a monster, and what a second cast does to one already running, isn't confirmed; a monster you kill in one or two quick casts gets little of it.
• Magic DEF: damage × 100 ÷ (MDEF + 100). Most training monsters have 0-50 MDEF; Iron Hogs have 100 (half damage) and the Tree Dungeon Fairies 500 (a sixth).
• Level gap: monsters above your level take less, ×0.89 at 5 levels above you and ×0.71 at 9.

Every monster in the game data that is weak to or resists your elements and spawns somewhere. The rest take normal damage. Fire-resistant monsters can't be burnt by Fire Arrow and poison-resistant ones can't be poisoned by Poison Breath; the few the data marks immune to poison take no damage from it at all.

TipA maxed Fire Arrow does 2.25× a maxed Energy Bolt on fire-weak monsters. Resistant to fire but not to poison: Fire Boar, Copper Drake, Drake, Malady, Red Drake. Use Poison Breath there. Resistant or immune to poison but not to fire: Curse Eye, Jr. Boogie, Stone Golem, Commander Skeleton. Use Fire Arrow there. Resistant to both: Dark Stone Golem. Neither element gets its extra damage there.

The monsters that give the most EXP per cast at every 5 levels. Each is up to 10 levels below you and has at least 10 on one map. Casts are how many spells a kill takes on average after the monster's Magic DEF and element, for each build in its own gear and skills, with whichever of its spells below kills it fastest.

Energy BoltFire Arrow

Ranked by EXP per cast for the Budget build. Spells aren't checked for misses, and burns and poison aren't counted. Spawn speed, map layout and other players change what an hour really gives, so try the top two and keep the one that feels faster. The Training Finder ranks the monsters for any level by EXP per HP.

You get 5 AP per level, and a new Magician starts with 4 STR, 4 DEX, 12 INT and 5 LUK. Put everything into INT except the LUK your next weapon needs; the INT requirements look after themselves. Half your INT goes into your Magic total, so +14 Magic ATK on a weapon is worth about 28 INT.

Shields along the way: Pan Lid (Lv. 10), Mystic Shield (Lv. 22, 34 INT / 12 LUK), Esther Shield (Lv. 35, 60 INT / 25 LUK). Spell casting speed doesn't depend on weapon speed, so always use the highest Magic ATK you can equip.

No weapon in the game data has a fire or poison element, so a Fire/Poison Wizard uses the same wands and staffs as an Ice/Lightning one.

• From the game data: skill numbers and prerequisites, monster elements, HP, MP and MDEF, and item requirements. They update when the game does.
• Poison Breath: the game data's level stats only hold the droplet, so its damage, poison chance and DoT are read from its level texts and its targets from its description. Its explosion area (260×100, 300×100 from level 16) and Meditation's area from level 11 come from the client's skill data and are written in by hand.
• From players: SP per level, the 2nd-job SP lock and the damage, DoT, element and defense formulas come from community testing (meowdb). How a DoT ticks, whether it can kill and what a second cast does to a running one aren't confirmed; the numbers here count one full burn or poison per cast.
• Calculated: the Fire Arrow crossovers, the Poison Breath break-even and the DoT shares use those formulas with example stats. Misses, crits and positioning all move real results.
• Budget and Pro builds: the gear picks are written by hand. Prices are the median HubCW sale of the last 30 days, or the median Free Market ask when nothing sold; a dash means neither. The Magic totals assume 25 starting stat points and 5 AP a level.