Optimization Guide

Every soul is a good soul. But some are better than others at doing their job. This is an attempt at systematically classifying every combat soul, and contains some tips for proper optimization.

Army Magician

Pros:

• Extremely high raw damage output. (4th highest in game at 155% damage dealt)
• Excellent DoT damage
• High, Specialized Affinities
• Strong Skills
• Potent AoE

Cons:

• Poor HP
• Poor access to armor
• Low defenses
• Low accuracy
• Has no natural healing mechanism

Recommended Secondary Souls:

• Ninja (Strong hpbuffer passive)
• Medicine Souls (Allows equipping field medicines)
• Dark Knight (Heavy armor access + Vampiric passive)
• Pet Souls (Machine Priest, Golem Crafter for tanking pets)
• Windrunner (Niche item. Fine Tuned/Heavy/Guided short bow + attack and accuracy passive]]

Avoid:

• Cover souls (Fighter, Crusader)
• Fire souls (Lightning caller!!)

Building souls for Army Magician is very simple. Avoid high fire/air magic overlaps and focus on shoring up the extreme weaknesses of this DPS centric soul. Cover makes you take damage for allies. Avoid!!

Recommended Items:

• Flame of the Creator(Venomous/Creator Inspired/Heaviest = 83 base damage over 4 rounds)

• Parrying blade (Fine Tuned/Heavy/Guided/Large) = Much needed 20 defense + 10 accuracy buff that is cheap and fast! Stronger with Heavier / Heaviest usable with Light weapons affinity)

Recommended Dedications

Optimal:

• Sphinx (Damagebuff + Technical on the Answer)
• Phoenix (Healing + free Revive)
• Elementalist (Tank pet or Healing pet)

Ok:

• Elemental Dragon (Some resists)
• Siren (AoEguard in party to take less damage)
• Cerebrus (DoT attack + some resists)

Avoid:

• Kraken (AoEmod capped at +1 target. -damagebuff hurtful)
• Kirin (Cover)