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Well I'm having no trouble with the MA/Mage hybrid. I just tore through the demigods >>15533713. I'm about 100 hours ahead of where my previous character was in comparing what I achieved back then compared to this guy. I credit my success to just knowing more about the game now than what I did back then.

The truth of MA is that it's a skill for people that are fine with working a bit harder and being weaker than their peers at the beginning of the game for a much better payout later.

At the beginning of the game weapons do more damage than your fists and weapon users get to enjoy being able to swap out weapons for weapons that have better dice and nice effects. Their weapon skill also has a better damage multiplier than MA. I think MA is half that of a weapon skill. Hard not to feel envious but if you have the tenacity to just forge ahead you'll see that the scale starts to tip in MAs favor. I started to feel this around skill level 300 personally. As MA increases the damage dice increases and eventually your fists will actually have more dice than most weapons in the game. While the MA multiplier is lower than a weapon users, special actions such as attribute closes the gap a bit and as MA and Tactics build you begin to overtake weapon users.

This lead is further enhanced when you reach the point where you don't even need tonfas anymore and just use your bare fists to get up to eight attacks. For me anyhow, the writing is on the wall. MA is going to beat out the other weapon skills. I'm already stronger than both my previous pets who were much higher in skill level than me in both two hand and dual wielding. Both of them had 2000 strength and 1000 in their respective skills. I don't have that and I'm beating them in damage. My dual wielding pet also can only seem to get four attacks(she only has two hands though) while I can get up to eight.

Also, I've had damage in the 100k. My previous character needed a magic storm spell in the lv 1000 range to reach those numbers. The very fact that my fists are currently doing more damage than my meteors on my current character makes me feel odd and I'm not exactly a slouch in the magic department with my current character either.

At any rate though, a lot of people think 300 martial arts is a lot. To me that number is actually on the small side. If you really are going to succeed you need to start seeing 300 as just a stepping stone instead of some final goal. If you really don't want to put in the work then it really is a good idea to go with weapons instead. It's a whole lot easier and it's not like they're weak or anything. They can easily clear the game and my pet which is a two hand wielder actually killed the god Itzpalt all by herself. Or you can just go pure wizard. Spell damage is a proven winner. You'll have to deal with some headaches from some encounter situations since you don't have the flexibility of a hybrid but you can definitely make it work. Then there's the magic device users too. They do awesome damage as well.

Now if you do plan to go hybrid you really do need to devote work to both aspects of your character to really take advantage of the reason you rolled one in the first place: flexibility. I personally used all my AP and bonus points from levels all on MA. I didn't spend any points anywhere else. The kicker though is that my casting skills are for the most part, vastly ahead of my MA skill which saddens me because I feel like I'm working harder to level MA. However, I do more damage currently with my MA than I do with my spells do to the spell changes that have been introduced. I'm currently trying to get my spells to be on par with my MA but it's rough currently.

You can attend magic school to about lv 100 in your spells but after that the platinum sink for just raising your spell levels become pretty bad. On the bright side, you can train your ball spells without having to even attack enemies but then you have to worry about restoring spell potential.

Anyhow, the point I'm trying to allude to here is that you may get this whole the grass is greener on the other side feel but in all honesty you'll have trouble regardless of what you pursue if you're not willing to grind.

On a side note, what are you guys using for fonts? I'm using Calibri at the moment because I was having problems with the default font scrunching numbers and having text collide with my numbers making things unreadable. If there's a better font that solves the problem I was having I'm all ears.