Help!!!

[Silver Ice]

i quite don't understand why a fire mage will succeed over a ice/light being the fact that ice/light can cast slow as well as attack multiple monsters and freeze monsters for a period of time.

currently... an ice mage can use lightning to attack multiple monsters... but lightning is weak

an ice mage current has fire drakes to fight at high lvls, they drop steely throwing stars which are now 10M each.

a fire mage can hunt lycanthropes at higher lvls, which drop illbis, which are over 60M each(i think the last one went for 60M+steely)

eventually ice mages will be able to hunt bains, but for right now, fire mages can hunt pretty much any monster... they arent stopped by ossyrian monsters, which are usually strong against cold. fire mages can use psn... which does massive dmg to any high hp monster. ice mages have freeze, which would really suck if you are fighting an ice based monster. fire mages have fire arrow, which is the strongest mage attack in the game, with a whopping 120 base dmg when maxed, vs a ice mage's beam doing only 100 base dmg.

here are some advantages of fire
-strongest magical attack
-has psn which is very strong
-can hunt any monster efficiently except bains and fire drakes
-can hunt lycans and werewolfs for illbis and evil wings

and for ice
-can freeze enemies so theres no chance of getting hurt
-will be able to hunt bains for expensive items later on

sure ice mages will be even with fire when lvl 70+80 items come out so hunting bains would be useful since they drop a lot of lvl 80 items, but for now, fire triumphs.

and as for the 3rd job skills, ice mages do get thunder spear, which has the highest base dmg when maxed.