TDS with mage

[howbadisbad]

Does magic hit enough that it would be worth using magic instead of melee with my low melee stats?

 

Thanks in advance. (I can afford any type of gear tbh.)

[Quyneax]

Yes it would, especially since magic doesn't require a weapon. On the ancient spellbook, you can very easily mix melee and magic.

[manitstinks]

Im 100% sure he wants to range + mage

[Owned_Nex]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

[xpx]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

As far as i'm aware, and this is true for any other demon, demons are extremely weak to all magical attacks, with tormented ones not an exception. Magic is great to use there if you have a team of four as you can kill loads in that way, but of limited use when soloing as the dps just isn't fast enough. It might be worthwhile with a steel titan as you could cover all the bases then, but the fact that you need 4 piles of runes is a huge turnoff.

[onedaysoon]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

 

That is incorrect.

I have been on numerous trips with friends where one of us has maged, another ranged and the other meleed. From what we gathered using claws of guthix and charge, the magic generally out hit the range. That was with 99 Magic and ahrims top/bottom. No Stream or Arc ss. SO maging would be a fine option. Just don't forget that you will still need to melee in the form of Darklight.

[SirIzenhime]

it's good for teams, but not really on solo. You loose inventory space and DPS, as well as needing to use armor which doesn't protect you as much

[Owned_Nex]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

 

That is incorrect.

I have been on numerous trips with friends where one of us has maged, another ranged and the other meleed. From what we gathered using claws of guthix and charge, the magic generally out hit the range. That was with 99 Magic and ahrims top/bottom. No Stream or Arc ss. SO maging would be a fine option. Just don't forget that you will still need to melee in the form of Darklight.

If magic is outdamaging range, then you are doing it wrong.

 

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

As far as i'm aware, and this is true for any other demon, demons are extremely weak to all magical attacks, with tormented ones not an exception. Magic is great to use there if you have a team of four as you can kill loads in that way, but of limited use when soloing as the dps just isn't fast enough. It might be worthwhile with a steel titan as you could cover all the bases then, but the fact that you need 4 piles of runes is a huge turnoff.

Demons aren't particularly weak to magic. Most demons have low defense in general. TDs are much differnt from your average demon. I've tried Ice Barrage, and I failed quite a lot even in good magic gear.

[AnneFrank]

Maging is a nice option, if you don't like to melee.

 

 

But remember bring a dark light.

If you have trouble bringing the shield down try bringing a rune defender or unholy book.

[howbadisbad]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

 

That is incorrect.

I have been on numerous trips with friends where one of us has maged, another ranged and the other meleed. From what we gathered using claws of guthix and charge, the magic generally out hit the range. That was with 99 Magic and ahrims top/bottom. No Stream or Arc ss. SO maging would be a fine option. Just don't forget that you will still need to melee in the form of Darklight.

If magic is outdamaging range, then you are doing it wrong.

Magic has a higher DPS than range so you are doing it wrong.

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

As far as i'm aware, and this is true for any other demon, demons are extremely weak to all magical attacks, with tormented ones not an exception. Magic is great to use there if you have a team of four as you can kill loads in that way, but of limited use when soloing as the dps just isn't fast enough. It might be worthwhile with a steel titan as you could cover all the bases then, but the fact that you need 4 piles of runes is a huge turnoff.

Demons aren't particularly weak to magic. Most demons have low defense in general. TDs are much differnt from your average demon. I've tried Ice Barrage, and I failed quite a lot even in good magic gear. Then you must be doing it wrong since everyone else says mage is great for teams.

 

Btw, your doing it wrong, apparently.

[bedman]

it's good for teams, but not really on solo. You loose inventory space and DPS, as well as needing to use armor which doesn't protect you as much

You are praying so protection doesn't matter. Woox still goes in d'hide because it's good enough.

[Smapla]

magic is good in trios, otherwise the higher cost and hassle, combined with loss of inventory spots makes it impractical.

 

tds seem neither extremely weak nor strong against magic. i must note however, that my experience of maging tds is limited to arcane stream / staff of light, ahrims, and other very high mage bonus gear. if you go in mystic, mage sucks (have seen that)

 

if you are soloing, you'll have to sacrifice using staff of light because just turning off the autocast takes up the entire turn of combat. i really don't recommend it.

[muggiwhplar]

Mage is probably the best attack style there, however it's not practical unless you're trio'ing. The autocast messes you up such that you can't hybrid with magic.

[onedaysoon]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

 

That is incorrect.

I have been on numerous trips with friends where one of us has maged, another ranged and the other meleed. From what we gathered using claws of guthix and charge, the magic generally out hit the range. That was with 99 Magic and ahrims top/bottom. No Stream or Arc ss. SO maging would be a fine option. Just don't forget that you will still need to melee in the form of Darklight.

 

If magic is outdamaging range, then you are doing it wrong.

 

 

Yes I am probably doing it wrong. Did you really feel the need to say that lol? Kinda makes you look ignorant.

Read the other posts if you disagree with me, you'll find that you're wrong.

[glasscube]

Mage absolutely destroys TD's if you have all the damage boosts.

[howbadisbad]

You can't mage them. They have a extremely high magic and defense level.

 

That is incorrect.

I have been on numerous trips with friends where one of us has maged, another ranged and the other meleed. From what we gathered using claws of guthix and charge, the magic generally out hit the range. That was with 99 Magic and ahrims top/bottom. No Stream or Arc ss. SO maging would be a fine option. Just don't forget that you will still need to melee in the form of Darklight.

 

If magic is outdamaging range, then you are doing it wrong.

 

 

 

Yes I am probably doing it wrong. Did you really feel the need to say that lol? Kinda makes you look ignorant.

Read the other posts if you disagree with me, you'll find that you're wrong.

 

Really, none of them stated magic has less or more dps than range. I have maxed mage bonus (arcane stream instead of 3a ammy tho) I can switch pretty fast too and even if normal spells won't work I'll just use ancients.

[Obtaurian]

Mage is probably the best attack style there, however it's not practical unless you're trio'ing. The autocast messes you up such that you can't hybrid with magic.

 

This. I would consider using magic there if the left click on the modern spellbook wasn't autocast. <_< But, yeah, they're just as weak to magic as they are to melee and ranged. It's good on teams.

 

EDIT: One time I did a small mass with my last clan, and they all brought ranged and melee while I was using claws of guthix. The demons were using mage protect about 50% of the time, lol.