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Book of Mages: Dark Times

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Guide your mage to the top ranking in Book of Mages! RPG with great story&multiple-endings

Book of Mages is a deep RPG game with great story, multiple-endings and a complex turn-based combat system. Choose who you want to be in the world of mages. Will you join the evil Black Robes, or the righteous White Robes? Will you become a traitor, a hermit, or even the Great Mage?

This is a game that will keep you entertained for ages. It has a great sense of adventure and huge amount of detail. It has multiple endings and 6 clans to choose from. Will you join the evil Black Robes, or the righteous White Robes? It's all you could ask for in an RPG. Put on your best robes and have it!

The learning curve might be steep, but it is worth it as you can replay the game many times with different outcomes!

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Mage themed RPG flash. Graphics had a nice variety of colors and details. Gameplay would be improved with many more spells, attacks, and upgrades.

This was and still is one of my favorite games.

You can defeat Magesblood as Poison Water when he attacks.

(spoilers)

You need to give up higher level magics in favor of using just paralyze and poison wave, giving you more points for mana and health. According to my old notes, I needed: 90 life, 330 mana, one high and one low basic spells maxed (at least one attack), maxed poison wave, paralyze. He'll die to poison, maybe because he makes the mistake of not using bloodbath because he's under some health threshold.

You don't even need to take the mana orb from Bloodusk, and can still have a skill point over.

One of the best flash games. The big challenge is figuring out how to beat the assassin when he attacks you. You're level 47, at most, and only get two clan spells and three high-level spells (which will either be additional attacking bolts or additional defending bolts).

Corruptor can be easily beaten as a Dark Wood mage - just let him pare you down to low health, then swap health with him and use the "30 damage to each" ability.

Magesblood is a bit harder. He has 200 health and 330 mana, and maxed out offense - his HL spells are AHA and ALA, so you can't get any hits in without letting him get the same amount in. The point, I guess, is to get him to run out of one or the other before you do. To face him, you have to come from one of the water clans.

Battle flow:

- The first four turns are simple. You attack with high or low, then your opponent does. After the first two, extra bolts come into play.

- The enemy uses 15 mana for every basic attack, plus 5 once the extra bolts come into play.

Clans:

- Poison Water feels like it'd use poison wave and try to delay. Paralyze costs mana, which is at a premium, so I don't think it can be used. Reduce special is for aggressive builds, which you don't have the points to afford. Poisoned death needs poison effect and a lot of points, making it non-viable. I don't think you can get enough mana to outlast him.

- Ice Land can't afford Freeze Attack or Freeze Defend, Icy Death doesn't work for the reasons stated above, and there's no way to get freeze effect onto your opponent reliably, I think. The only build I can think of is using your high-level spells to get the effect on him, then using regeneration, but that leaves you with nothing for mana or health.

- Great Sea has mana leak, which would seem to be what you want from an anti-mana build. Get past the first four turns, mana leak him, then outlast his mana with the aid of Mana Drain. Absorb Damage is too mana-expensive to be viable, so you're looking at maxing out one offensive bolt to mitigate damage. After that, you either max out the other, or you use mana leak every attacking turn to avoid facing the other attack. I think the obligatory spend is (9 + 10) for standard and additional attacking bolts, and (9) for getting mana leak to max. The rest is for health and damage. Since you're taking two guaranteed hits of five for each non-main bolt you don't put a point in, you may as well save 22 mana and go for 9 points of health instead. Either way, you're out nine more points, for 37 guaranteed spend. Leaves you ten for health and mana, but you get three mana from mana stone. I was able to get him down to 10 mana left on the turn that he kills me by maxing HA and ML, and the rest in health and mana. Lasting one more turn would've been it, but before that turn I had 10 health and 43 mana left. One less mana and I can't cast mana leak, meaning I die. One less health and I'm already dead.

Build:

260 health, (110+60) mana, 10 HA, 20 ML

Any point taken from ML gives the enemy (4 casts * 2 turns)*2 more mana on the last turn, so pulling enough out to buy enough health to survive would give it enough mana that surviving that turn doesn't matter.

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Anyways, did I miss something, or is it just impossible to defeat Magesblood the first go around? There's a trick to Corruptor, so I figured someone must've found a trick for the other guy.

holy crap, i forgot about this game and i'm so glad i found it once again

I WOULD KILL FOR A BOOK OF MAGES 3, IVE PLAYED THIS GAME SO MUCH AS I GREW UP!!!!!!!!!

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