Great Mage (Recode)

* Great Mage (Recode)
* Trainer

## Description

**Great Mage** is the super class for those who use spells. This class is centered around dealing AOE damage at a range with the ability to support allies with some healing.

Refer to the classes page for more information.

## How to Obtain:

1. Have the Mage base.
2. Find all the plaques scattered across the map with ingredients on them.
	* This step can be skipped if you already know all the ingredients.
3. Combine all ingredients into a cauldron to make a magic orb.
	* Cosmic Flower (found in the Overgrown Woodside)
	* Icicle (found inside the basement of a house Despairful Woodlands, next to the Berserker door button.)
	* Flying Flower (random drop from the plant guardian inside the Overgrown Woodside)
	* Blood Tear (random drop from the fiend in the corner of the Whispering Grotto)
	* Hex Core (random drop from the crystal slime near the citadel entrance in the Cleanrotten)
	* Molten Core (random drop from the Headless Fire Golems located in the Innards of the Volcano)
4. Head to the Overgrown Woodside and head to the corner of the area on a hill.
5. Talk to Fenvalur, the trainer. Each skill costs 300 gold (1200 gold in total, 4 skills) 125 for the Wand and 195 for the Armor. (A total of 1520)

## Abilities

### **Active:**

* **Maledictum**- Player casts a purple orb and a glowing, red target at their cursor within range. The orb will quickly shoot towards the location and explode dealing AOE damage and inflicting the Hex debuff.
	+ Damage: 6
	+ Cast Time: 3 seconds
	+ Cooldown: 25 seconds
* **Minou**- Player fires a large, red projectile that slowly moves towards their targeted location specified by their cursor. Enemies within a fixed range around the projectile will take DoT (damage over time).
	+ Damage: 18 (5 more dmg with hex debuff)
	+ Cast Time: 2 seconds
	+ Cooldown: 25 seconds
* **Tree Of Life**- Player summons a tree at their cursor with varying effects.
	+ **M1:** Player summons a healing tree at their cursor. Once the tree is summoned, it lasts for **2** sec. and heals all users in range rapidly.
		- Damage: 0.25 Healing
		- Cast Time: 3 seconds
		- Cooldown: 40 seconds
	+ **M2:** Player summons a damaging tree at their cursor. Once the tree is summoned, it lasts for **2** sec. and damages all users in range rapidly.
		- Damage: 0.5
		- Cast Time: 3 seconds
		- Cooldown: 40 seconds

### **Passive:**

* Apparently it's just **Tree of Life M2** LMAO.

## Pros & Cons

### **Pros:**

* **(+)** Large AOE's on all actives.
* **(+)** Maledictum can lead to very high damage due to Hex.
* **(+)** Has support value using Tree Of Life.
* **(+)** Great Mage's armor provides nice natural HP regeneration.

### **Cons:**

* **(-)** Most expensive Mage branch.
* **(-)** Its easy to accidently hit your allies due to large radiuses.
* **(-)** Long casting time with all of its actives.
* **(-)** Low burst damage output.
* **(-)** Tree Of Life can heal enemies or even hostile NPCs apparently.

## Notes

* Used to be the sole Mage superclass during pre-recode. When Recode released, it was removed. Now it's added back.
* Currently the most expensive class in the game, at 1520 gold (runner up is several different classes with 1000)
* Great Mage's wand deals 3.3 damage per LMB instead of 3.