2009-07-09, 01:46 PM
eos367 Wrote:The piddly ass 5 mp per level you'd lose to washing isn't going to even make a dent in that. Even if you lost a full 1000 MP by your later levels which of these is more useful:
How on earth did you get a 5 mp per lvl lost? Do you mean it costs 5 mp more per lvl to wash due to int gain?
For a mage the amount of mp reduction is based in the skill "max mp increase" and the ammount of intelligence. I tried a couple on a lvl 50 cleric back in the day and she gained about 8 hp and lost about 45 mp every time. For an arch mage this loss would be significantly more due to the amount of int.
Therefore the most efficient way (but not cost effective way) is to reset all your sp in max mp increase into something else before you wash, and reset all your int into something else before you wash. After washing reset it back. To do this you would obviously have to lvl and have a few spair ap laying around (or already applied to hp) because you will have a hard time lvling up once you don't have any int.
Due to the high cost involved (both high mp loss and high dollar cost to avoid high mp loss) most mages do not bother to wash, they just get some hp equips to wear when they want to have more hp (El Nath cape + MoN does wonders, and if you really need more you can always do top, bottom, gloves, sheild though that will reduce atk more significantly).