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Jr. Squires of Order and Archmage:

Aelthai must answer an emergency call to Dragon Claw Island, and the Archmage Kalanyr needs your help taking the Jr. Squires of Order on their annual camping trip! The journey will take you all over Lore, ending at the cave of an Ice Yeti; the danger… and puns… snowball from there! To go along with the updated quest, new and updated rewards include a new Archmage Armor - in traditional and CC variants!

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Spellcaster lean. 2 skills, 1 pays SP to reduce MP costs of water spells. Second skill casts a mana shield. Not quick cast, can stack with other man shields like the shield and with itself.

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The water witch was a reference to that old horror movie that scary movie did a parody of, made me laugh.

The rewards are plenty. Some old I guess revamped ones, with odd levels like the old days. News ones are..

Archmage Apprentice armor- Water spellcaster lean armor. 2 skills. a 97 MP gandolphin like clone, but also adds +12 blocking for 3 rounds and +10 status resistance. The status resistance I think is permanent. This costs a turn, though. So idk seems not worth it. <--Edit- NM, the usefulness of this seems it stacks with itself, so you can cast it every turn and the blocking and barrier build higher and higher for just 97 MP. The barrier *is* hitting your MP more via monster attacks, but this is acting like a perpetual defense builder, until you dont have Mana. This could be good use for beastmages trying to tank. The 2nd is a 345 Sp quick cast to make your next water spells cost less mana. I tested, and this doesnt work. Cant report by how much.

Light shield that takes 114 MP per turn @ L150 to do the Necromancer anima post-spell barrier. Two casts thus far has resulted in 84, and 89. It lucky strikes, and with frostval crown did 178. Im sure this will be called a bug and luck will be made less useful otra vez. It stacks with necromancer's for a larger amount.

Summon/Call iron golem- Earth guest (there's also a pet version, both are ztokens) that the description says one mode does greater damage versus I'm guessing monsters with INT, or those that spellcast. The other mode tries to hit the monster MP, reduce it to 0 similar to warlics oblivion sphere, or some such attribute. Not going to spend the tokens to find out. Hopefully an info subs will be there soon.

Abominable assault G (l149 ice spell) is there. I cannot remember what else but I think some lower level light spells. Blah forget the rest, not in the shop anymore

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The bosses were really tanky (Abominal Snowman and Iron Golem). Not only the universally low resists (50% at highest with fire) but also the even lower than usual damage cap. Usually damage caps are around 300-400, but these were very low.

Reading and comparing the old dialogue, there doesn't seem to be any changes to that.

A little tip for the Iron Golem Boss: Remember his MP attack is energy, and his normal attacks are earth. So keep that in mind. Otherwise it'll be a slogfest.

As for the items, it doesn't look like they updated the tiers for Jr. Archmage and Abominal Assault, although I would have hope they'd do that. Not the worst thing since they still go up to 149, but that extra up to 150 would have been nice.

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Updates to the Archmage Apprentice Armor from my last post. 1. The +10 status resistance now has added turns, where before it seemed permanent. But I have gotten it to list twice. Still bugged. The spell cost reduction is in MP only. SP cost spells do not get reduced. Also, the "spell reduction cost" seems to be the entire 653, but unsure if overcharged would wholly be reduced.

The armor is interesting. It's essentially converting your 653 spell cost to 392 SP, and instead is using your MP bar as a HP barrier. So this is indirectly very defensive, and stacking effects with geocastellum makes for some powerful results, especially the interactions between MP barrier stacking with HP barriers, like from dragonlord shields.