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Ok I m going to Try to explain something to everyone here. All i hear from people is that after lvl 80 or 90, the Fire tree will be obsolete to nukers because of the ice tree's Snow shield and phsyical defense. It will infact not be. A coulple reasons why.

1. You will be losing Phys defense, but you will be getting even more Mag defense to guard against imbues, which as most pppl know cause a good portion of the damage.

2. Fire has the highest Mag attack power.

3. Without fire tree, nuke chains will be hard to pull off.

The way i see it, you have 2 choices.

1. Go for the lower phys defense and gain higher mag attack,

2. Go for higher phy defense and lose mag attack power with the extremely weak ice nukes.


I'm not saying you MUST go for the Fire tree, I'm saying Ice or Fire is saying Defense or Attack for nukers.


The snow shield is a very good addition for nukers, but if you have full STR on equiptment and INT, and the Mag defense buff. You should have no problem With Glaivers and Bladers. But at the same Time thats harder than it sounds.

A drawback of the snow shield is, the higher the skill lvl, the more Mp is consumed and can cause your nukes to be stalled from MP reaching 0. Then your a sitting duck.

Nuke chains with lightning at the 90 cap will be easy: book 3 ends at level 86 and book 4 starts at level 90. Looking at the damage potential, the average damage per second of the lightning nukes and fire nukes are about the same.

Without cold, you won't live long enough in battles to fire off those fire nukes anyway, and without weapon skills it's hard to fight a 1 on 1 pvp/job fight. I guess it depends on how you want to play the game, and which parts of the game you like. I guess if you always war/job in groups, then you could consider dropping your weapon mastery before dropping cold. Dropping cold in stead of fire does not sound like a good idea to me though.

As for running out of MP: I have my autopot set at 80%; never had a problem since then. If it does become a problem, consider switching to protector or even garments.

My Masteries at 90 and 100 cap will be Cold Light and Fire.

Light and Fire Will be maxxed, but Cold will only have Buff, shield and passive. Cause i don't like the Nukes or imbue anyway and pointless to waste SP.

I guess it's an option, depending on how you wish to play the game. I've always found my bicheon skills to be quite helpful, especially with the chain effects, but that's only true in 1 on 1 situations, and against party mobs/giants. I'm running up a 2nd build that will use lightning, cold, and force, and I'll have to see how well that design functions.

I like the look of some ice nukes and light nukes are cool too, and since the point of making this build is to do the most damage while being tankish at the same time (read it in Ranigul's guide i think) Light and Ice would be the best option at 110 or 120 cap if fire nukes become stronger, im gona switch weapon tree to fire.

100 cap isnt even introduced in kSRO yet (say when im wrong though )
so DONT worry about 120 at all.. . we're like 2 years behind kSRO with the updates so u might have been stopped by then...
even 100 cap is a giant step

u say light nuke is stronger then fire but u make a mistake there is only 1 strong light nuke now but 3 strong fire nuke .And light nukes maxed at 9 but fire maxed at 18 and there are total 5 light nuke but 7 fire nuke at 120 gap if u choose light+weapon u ll have 1 strong nuke so u ll have to grind like a str weapon should be heuksal cuz gives u extra and more damage then bicheon

@ TS
your drawback of the snowshield isn't correct. Your mp is growing exponentially (or how you call that)

1 int point at level 89increases your mpMUCH more then 1 int point at level 5 for example. And when you are running a 60% snow shield (isn't it 55% btw?) you are good in garms too (lowers mp consumption tus more mp for snow shield)

yes it is...

Depends really.. If you wanted mag def u wear garm, and phys u get armor, so in theory.. If you took away ice and added fire you would want to wear armor, So if u took away fire and added ice, u could use showshield for damage abosrbsion using garment and still end up using 10% less of mp pots....