How are you supposed to play with the mage?

[Pantteri Mix]

Kill 2 basic guards, all mana gone. Then what? Slap them with a stick 2hp at a time? Can't get through anything with the mage as its basically useless after a few shots.

[phatsolew]

use your blue juice mmm smooth down the hatch regen that mana

[Calsetes]

If you want an easier time, you could look up where to get the Meteorite Staff early and use that. I did that for my mage run and it's been pretty smooth sailing, outside a few rough spots where arenas are too small for a mage to properly work well, or enemies who resist magic but not physical. Sling Rocks has helped with the latter, but it takes a while to cast.

[Moonfear]

all mana gone? WTF are you doing?
1) you have mana pots
2) you can clear full camp with one bar if you start with astrologer

[Pantteri Mix]

Originally posted by Moonfear:

all mana gone? WTF are you doing?
1) you have mana pots
2) you can clear full camp with one bar if you start with astrologer

I dont get that. I literally ran out of mana after the couple first guards in the forest, and as you spawn with 1 single potion, it aint helping much.

[Pantteri Mix]

Not to mention that it would never last a whole boss.

[phatsolew]

Originally posted by Pantteri Mix:

Not to mention that it would never last a whole boss.

you have to allot potions, move the red ones to blue ones, the pick up golden seeds to get mroe flasks and sacred tears to make them more powerful

[KaiZar]

You can set the number of your sky? tear flasks (I have no idea) to 3-4 at the spite of grace.

[SirFuzzWuzz]

When u find a weapon that scales with int it'll be easier and don't forget to upgrade ur staff for more dmg.

[Viper]

did you pick Astrologer. Amount of mana you have is determined by the mind stat.

[Lesmir]

Originally posted by Pantteri Mix:

Kill 2 basic guards, all mana gone. Then what? Slap them with a stick 2hp at a time? Can't get through anything with the mage as its basically useless after a few shots.

level up mind to get more FP , seek golden seed for more FP potion , as a mage i usualy just keep 1 or 2 for healing and everything else for FP , dont use staff or hat that consume more FP until you get a lots of them , use spell that have good FP/damage ratio ( you gonna use that peble spell til the end of the game ) use stealth for a lots of sneak attack that dont require spell , use a int scaling weapon ( there is plenty of them ) or a ash of war that make the weapon scale with int ( like cold or magic )

[Umbral Priestess]

You need a back up weapon (one that scales with INT), you are not going to make it full caster, as you need to split your flasks for FP. Don't be surprised if the first half of your game is melee more than casting.

Though in your case it sounds like you need to level mind as well as distribute flasks to some FP.

[Elizabeth]

You can re-allocate your flask split between HP and FP flasks. If you're trying to go pure caster, you want around 2/3 of your flasks to be FP. It doesn't leave you much room for heals, but any less and you're gonna struggle hard to get from one grace to another in dungeons. Make sure you're using FP efficient spells when you're fighting mooks too, the high DPS spells are only for escaping ambushes and bossing, they'll empty your reserves way too fast if you use them all the time. Keeping a melee weapon with a magic imbue is important too, if an enemy is down to a sliver of health save your FP and just dust them with a swing instead. Make sure your Mind is high enough that your FP bar is roughly equal to your per-flask recovery. Other than that... unless you follow guides and skip straight to optimal items, mages take a long time to get to a spot where they feel comfortable, so just grit your teeth and go.

[Viper]

I am playing a Mage...I have 6 flasks right now.5 for FP 1 for health potion. I can cast a whole lot of pebble spells.

[Ragosta tin Dei]

It's unfeasible to run pure mage. You will need a sidearm a weapon that doesn't require FP to work. A blade usually.

[festizio]

put points in mind