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For destroy: prio ablaze (lv 1 burn) above everything and you will never get destroyed. The downside is that it's possible to stay prone the whole time, but magi can't really capitalise on that alone. Tumbling away past walls/piety/ghands/etc until you're cured also works very well. Also , if you see magi drop ret, just leave unless you can get the first hit on them which should be some sort of prone+paralyse or whathaveyou.
there's more, but those are the very basics to fight again magi.
Now to go kill myself for betraying my own class
You also need to consider that it's pretty easy for a magi to stack up salve affs, because of timeflux (+50% salve balance times) and their attacks (usually two salve affs per), but it's not quite as easy to prone (only one salve aff when they prone, unless plague gets you). Usually this means 'curing arms when standing, cure legs when prone'. If you always prio arms you'll never stand up, if you always prio legs, you'll never attack.
In general, curing scalded at all is a bad idea unless you know the magi isn't going to be able to capitalize on the window they get to transfix (scalded is cured AFTER blindness on epidermal to head, which means you need to apply epidermal twice to cure scalded and there's a 1.5s window where they can transfix you). You'll give them free parry bypass, but that's better than giving them free parry bypass AND having your momentum grind to a halt from transfix. You're a druid, so you might, for example, have a priority swap to raise scalded whenever you see them shield/reflect or when you do bind + maul/staff hit and swap it back down after 2-3s.
Magi set ups are fundamentally about abusing your long restoration window (unless you're squishy/they have high int + collar, in which case they can just straight damage you out but that's another story). A common set up, for example, is to prone + break your leg, then do things that stack up non-resto salve affs that lead to their kill condition. For example, prone + break, then deepfreeze (two levels of cold), waterstaff (cold) + hypothermia, then pummel x2-3, or pre-dehydrate, prone + break, then scorch x 3, destroy. This makes it a zero-momentum execution, but it also means that it's vulnerable to fake/no apply/tree/passive/active that something like DSB wouldn't be. You can do things like: use might on prone break to get rid of lingering mending breaks, while saving tree to use on shivering or ablaze, tumble over icewalls, fake apply to legs and tumble when prone + break, and only apply restoration after they've used their follow-up under the assumption that you already did it. Some classes are better at implementing certain strats than others. Runies and Sentinels for example can get away with no-apply a lot better because when they tumble, they can almost guarantee no chase, while people with actives can use the tree stuff to their advantage a lot better.
I'm going to be SO RICH.
How you go about that? I've not a clue.
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right. so. I've been told that as a magi I should intelligence focus... but multiple people have stated that I should focus on con until I'm well into my 90's in level.
To me it seems counter productive for a magi to focus on con... so what are the pros... and cons?
If you're still hunting and leveling outside of killing other people, the damage bonus from Int is even smaller and the importance of being able to tank damage even more so.
If your only focus is going to be hunting, I'd go 12 or thirteen int and dump the rest in con. If PVP, particularly light group fights pique your interest, you'll snake a lot more kills with an int focus. With artificing(more one on one focused) int is still important(most of the golem attacks scale off of it I think) but it is far less required for one on one now days thanks to golem destroy and pummel hitting like a mac truck regardless.
Was taking 60% per pummel with Trans minis, ring, etc. Used to only be ~47%
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EDIT: and I suppose it's always plausible Someone made a mistake!
Even still it's higher than it used to be from memory. Don't recall dying to 2 non sensitive pummels ever.
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