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Whichslife, Great Sea is indeed a great clan. If you choose additional attack bolts, Great Sea has a similar advantage in attack bolts as Chaos desert. With White Mage items Great Sea could deal 150 damage to a Poison water Mage each attack. Poison Water has great strength that other clans don't, they never have to actually attack with bolts, they use poison wave and decrease special instead, so the great Sea Mage wouldn't have anything to absorb in a fight with a well-played Poison Water. Poison Water would either have to have enough health to endure until ready for Poison Death, or have enough mana while being mana leaked to empty the Great Sea Mages health.
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I think Chaos Desert and Great Sea would make a great challenge for Poison Water.Great Sea takes a bit more skill to play than Chaos Desert. If you have enough mana(in the 1000s), you can spam "Absorb damage" and "Absorb life". Chaos Desert is just OP with its "decrease special" and additional attack bolts. It can cleanse Poison effects too.
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Which clan do you all think is the best clan? I think it's Poison Water, they're able to defeat any other clan, but only if they have extremely high mana and a decent amount of health.
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I WOULD LOOOOOVVVVEEEEE A BOOK OF MAGES 3 THIS GAME IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE GAME ON KONGREGATE AND I BELIEVE THIS GAME HAS ITS OWN "COMMUNITY" AND IF YOU MADE A 3RD BOOK OF MAGES IT WOULD GET SOME REALLY GOOD FEEDBACK AND SUPPORT!!!! sorry about the all caps its just i was REALLY exited to type this i just got done getting all the titles
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I played it long before now but I didn't remember it until it appeared on recommended badges. A true masterpiece. It's really a pity there's no sequel (I see many people asking for it in the comments). The poison water wave+paralyze is nasty :)) love it.
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I feel like I should just lose when I have no mana and they have mana leak on me where I will never gain mana yet no I have to sit here while they slowly do all 510 plus life with 1 damage bullet things
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everytime i replay this game i get ever so closer to the best ending you could get in this game just one more battle and it would of been over
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Burning Hill vs. Poison Water Basic: LAB - max. Clan magic: BE - 5 points, IS - 1 point, All the rest in mana and life
Cast IS on all attacks and let him do his loop of PW and RS until he runs out of mana then do two LAB with BE and watch him burn :)
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Abilities + Strategy (that i had and used)
LAB - Low attack bolts
HAB - High attack bolts
PW - Poison Wave
RS - Reduce Special
PAR - Paralyze
BB - Blood Bath
TL - Trade Life
BE - Burn Effect
IS - Increase Special
Poison Water vs. Dark Wood Basic: LAB - max., HAB - max.(investing no points here could work here) Clan magic: PW - max., PAR, All the rest in mana and life
Strategy is simple cast PW on attack every time and on defense PAR and he will eventuely die of poison plus his own BB
Dark Wood vs. Poison Water Basic: LAB - max., HAB - max.(investing no points here could work here) Clan magic: TL, BB - max. (might need a bit less, could save a point of two), All the rest in mana and life
Here it is a bit harded bassicaly defend well to get your life low but not to low to die and than use TL and BB him to death
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How to win the assasin fight before tournament
- This does not change the story and it only gives you +1 skill point so it is not exactly worth it by itself but it is the hardest fight in all game
so it was a chalenge for me.
- The information is correct if you get max skill before (win every time) and get the mana orb. It might not be possible otherwise.
- List of info about fights for different mage types.
You vs. Assasin
Poison Water vs. Dark Wood - possible
Dark Wood vs. Poison Water - possible
Burning Hill vs. Poison Water - possible
Chaos Desert vs. Poison Water - not possible
Great Sea vs. Dark Wood - not possible (but so close)
Ice Land vs. Dark Wood - not possible
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would love to see a third book of mages or more updates to this one maybe another guild like earth and/or air and maybe talking to a person shouldn't take a month neither should fighting some one just my opinion over all its a great game
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Wow. After playing this game and coming back to it over several years I have just now found new endings. Just . . wow. The sheer depth. (If you lose as Great Mage (White/Black) there are different endings)
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To add to StefanTadic's guide: The assassin DO favour low attacks, so always conserve LA as many times as you can.
Raise health to 150+ and Bloodbath to 25
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I wondered why Great Sea Mages could steal mana, until I learned drinking Ultrapure water takes the nutrients(mana) out your body after consumption.
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To beat assassin before young mage competition:
-Be dark wood (only clan I could beat him with).
-Raise high and low attacking bolts to 10 each. Don't bother with defense at this point.
-Get blood bath and swap life.
-Pump life up to like 130, that was the sweet spot for me.
-My mana was 230 but I had a bit left. That being said I took the mana stone.
-Power doesn't matter, it was at one for me, also I had no high attack or low attack extra bolts. You kill him by letting him get you down to below 30 and then you swap life and blood bath to kill him.
-After he poisons you he will always paralyze the next attack. Because you have no defensive bolts, that is bad and he will kill you. So make sure to attack with the opposite attack of the one he favors (he may always favor lower attack, he did for me, and by favor I mean the one he has 15 attack bolts on).
There honestly should have been an achievement for that...but meh.
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nice game. as a neutral i managed to find some kinda secret opponent,after getting the number one spot on the book of mages, you can fight him if you keep asking the mysterious hermit after reaching number one a few times,and he will fight you.
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Tried this after it was recommended by a friend. It's games like this that make keeping the gaping security whole that is Flash installed on my computer still worthwhile. The grammar and etc could use a little polish of course but the combat is fun and has a surprising amount of depth and I love the art style. I've only played it once and from what I've been told I've barely scratched the surface of the content available.
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I keep coming back to this game! The combat is strategic and it feels good to land attacks. Your decisions throughout the game matter, and it's fun to try to bring as many mages as possible to your side. I really want a sequel, but it's been so long that I'd be surprised if we got one. Either way, thanks nobstudio for a great game!
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I come back to this game all the time too. I try to intentionally limtit skillpoints in order to experience as many storylines as possible while still trying to win as many fights as I can. Sometimes I end up as Greatmage anyway, but even then it feels much more satisfying to narrowly achieve that without even having reached lvl 100 at the end of the game.
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This game is so underrated. Wish developer would have made a 3rd one instead of dropping off the face of the earth and only reappearing every 2 years.
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Book of Mages 3 would be a dream ;x.
Nobstudio Changed their website and I can't find any of their games on it anymore
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Name: Asshole
Clan: Burning Hill
Side: black
Position: GREAT MAGE
Book Of Mages Ranking: 11
Fame: Legend (488)
Reputation: Satan (-346)
:)
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Eight years later, three years after I completed this game for the first time, I want to praise this game once more. Even now I am revisiting, retrying another story in order to enjoy this again. Please make a third installment!
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I love reading the names of the mages, wave-puke, burn-ghost XD very creative and made me smile even more during this great game
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I am still playing this game. I think I will play this game time to time whole of my life xD Mysterious hermits told me that.
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Clearly I'm doing something wrong, because with every single fight after the tutorial, the enemy has more than 3x my health and mana, and more bolts than I could ever counter. Sooo.... what's the point of trying to wring some fun out of this game?
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There will probably never be a book 3 because the coder has switched to making mobile games. : ( I wish he did and this game will forever live in my heart as one of the best strategy games I have ever played. Thank you NobStudios for one of my favorite games all times.
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Poison water mages are practically invincible
paralyze if enemy is too powerful
poison enemy kills them slowly
but requires lots of mana
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book1 vs.book2
red fire:mana drain. burning hill no mana drain
dark fire dark shield dark WOOD!(not even fire)no dark shield
mana burn is an attack option no mana burn