Techknow:Mage Macabre Guide
Contents
About
My guide on the Macabre Olympiad guide anyone towards completing it on a Mage Human or High Elf. Why another guide? The quest will have you go through so many monsters that are element resistant and immune, which requires mages to be versatile in magical elements. Unfortunately this makes Mages weak due to spreading skill points everywhere and take much longer to kill monsters than other races that focus on a single melee element. I am going to figure out a way to optimze a Mage's skills, spells, and equipment to beat this quest.
There are a lot of details I found that I feel are essential to Mages not in the main guide that I will go over here.
Despite writing this guide I feel it will not give anybody who is reading this a significant edge. At the moment I have a level 26 human mage and the farthest I gone in the 17th map until I got stuck and killed by a Cacodemon (but I dodged death and lost no XP!). It took me 4.5 hours to get to that point - this is truly a marathon!
Challenges
To further justify this guide I will outline the challenges a mage will face in the Olympiad.
Skills
As a level 26 Human Archmage, my character has 101 skill points to spend, 20 Mediation, 100% Extra Mana, and -5 to skill weapon skills but staves and whips. So here is how I allocate them:
| Skill Point Allocation | |
| Skill | Amount |
| Find Weakness | 17 |
| Lore | 13 |
| Water Magic | 12 |
| Earth Magic | 11 |
| Fire Magic | 5 |
| Air Magic | 6 |
| Spirit Magic | 7 |
| Mind Magic | 2 |
| Life Magic | 4 |
| Strength | 4 |
| Spirit Travel | 0 |
| Whips | O |
