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@speedypants, this is the FIRST Book of Mages game, so this is the beginning, and, yes, not as great as The Dark Times, but still pretty good.
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I was the clan leader of chaos fire and failed to win in the great mage election. Then the clan leader of chaos fire became great mage. hehehehe
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I wonder what if we could somehow.......Bring back the mage we descended from.Like say im a poison water mage and there was once a powerful mage that passed away.Maybe just maybe a darkfire mage could i dont know bring him back as a skelton? (Suggesting darkfires begin able to do nercomancey).
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hm, seems to be impossible to beat the red fire clan leader as a dark fire mage with his huge mana pool and 6hd, 6la. Good thing I didn't have to fight him at the Grandmage election, as he was somehow impressed with my amount of Mana
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lol i was in chaos fire clan and i became number 1 in book of mages in great mage election poison water clan leader says im not to powerful i would have liked to respond by u brain dead monkey ive defeated all the magic master XD
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And then...goes on to the GREAT MAGE election where "The Clan Leader of Red Fire Clan" speaks out having no objection to me being the great mage. Didn't I just beat this guy in my own clan's arena to become the Clan Leader of Red Fire Clan. Why am I talking to myself saying I have no objection to being the great mage? This part of the dialogue needs a check to see if the player is already a clan leader and delete the text. It doesn't make sense.
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Tavern Master: Good Evening, Wilson. Rank 5 mage is the Clan Leader of Red Fire Clan, you can find him in the Great Hall of Red Fire Clan. [character is Rank 6, goes to Great Hall] Who do you want to talk to? Clan Leader: You are Clan Leader now. SO I'M FOREVER STUCK AT RANK 6.
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The timeline for historical events are too rigid. In order to succeed in say, the Apprentice Challenge, you basically need to train 2 mana burn, 2 low defense, and 2 high defense....leaving only 1 in attack. This goes for any clan since the specials don't kick in and you're so limited on time that you can't train anything else. Not much RPG to it in order to success...you're pretty much set one path in order to beat the game.
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I love playing Poison Water. It is one of the harder mages to play, because you have to know which spells each clan is bad at and use it to your advantage.
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Actually, for me, it was always easy to defeat Red Clan mages (as Ice Clan). Just use low defend, they'll low attack, then use low attack, and you'll get one hit. If you keep using that, you eventually will get enough special points for freeze 2, and then you'll get 5-6 free hits on them.
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In my opinion, Red Fire is the most overpowered of any clan. After you fully upgrade everything, start challenging the mages in every clan. Don't use special 4, use special 7. Use mana drain every turn, and if they rest, use low attack. Use high defend for high attacks, and use low attack for low attacks. Become the Clan Leader, and then challenge High Mages as soon as you are in the Book You will get to rank 13. Use these tactics on the Great Mage challengers, and you will win!
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After playing it thoroughly, I have to say it is actually terribly designed. I am in the chaos clan now, 3rd opponent of the apprentice mage contest. If I attack with high attack magic, I do 10 damage on him. Then he goes by attacking with log attack, which takes away 20 of my health. So after that I switch strategies, and start mana burning him. It doesn't matter it only takes away 5 mana. He instead goes to attack with high attack, which I have higher and I take him away 10 HP. Repeat till dead. Terribly designed combat system, you just have to learn how to exploit each and every single opponent, but because you have no saves, it is really annoying to do.
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Let's see... Me (Leader of Chaos Fire Clan): Nooo! I lost the election!
Some grand mage: The Chaos clan leader has won!
Book: Wilson was defeated and the Chaos clan leader won the election.
Wait what?
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I never became evil, for the simple reason that it was more boring to assassinate the great mage. yeah, thats really the only reason. otherwise i'd be a Gold Roger
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"Reputation: the most evil mage in history!
Rank: Number 1 at his time.
Winner of the apprentice contest, became the leader of his clan, became the great mage.
Great mage Wilson--also known as 'SATAN'."
Oh you guys, your making me blush. Now go turn on your own people. :P
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there should be a retry button after your defeated like if u made a silly mistake in battle and died because of it + if u agree
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Uhh huh. I beat Clan Leader of the Chaos Fire Clan and became the Clan leader myself. Now that I need to challenge him to become #1, I can't because when I click on the great hall, it just says that I'm the clan leader. Damn it.
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umm.... my next target to become rank 5 is red clan leader.... thats me..... umm the game just made it impossible to become number 1 if you are a clan leader...
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Its nice coming back to this after sequel and seeing how far things came. Also interesting to see at the end how The Dark Times was apparently planned under a different name :P Nice job nobstudio, you guys made 2 great games, hope theres a 3rd on the way :3