Mage
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See also: Combat classes
Mages, or wizards, are players in RuneScape who mainly use magic for combat. Their magic can also be used for alchemy, smithing, and other skills. A mage generally wears robes and carries a magical staff with them. Mages are strong against warriors, as warriors' armour conducts magic, but are weak against rangers, whose leather armour can absorb magic attacks, and whose arrows can easily pierce mages' robes.
When casting spells, mages use different kinds of runes, which are magically-charged stones that are used up when a spell is cast. There is also a kind of mage referred to as a pure mage - mages that only raise their magic level - but in 2008 this became less popular as runes became more expensive.
Mage's armour includes, but is not limited to:
- Wizard robes - This is the most popular robes for Free-to-play.
- Mystic robes - Popular with medium- to high-level mages, due to its relatively low cost.
- Ahrim's robes - Popular with high-level mages, especially in Player-Verses-Player combat.
- Splitbark armour - Useful for medium-level mages who like to use close combat mixed with magic, as this armour gives improved defence to melee attacks, but gives no defence to ranged attacks.
- Arcane spirit shield - Gives the highest magic attack bonus of any shield slot item.
Mage's weaponry includes, but is not limited to:
- Staff - A basic staff.
- Magic staff - Popular for amateur mages.
- Elemental staves - Very popular, due to the ability to provide infinite runes of its type.
- Elemental Battlestaves and Mystic staves - Battlestaves give improved melee combat abilities, and also give infinite runes of their type. Mystic staves give even better melee combat abilities.
- God staves - Very popular due to the fact that they're the only staves that can cast the God spells.
- Wands - Popular among mages striving for the highest magic attack bonus.
[edit] See Also
- Combat classes
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