I haven't played in a while, so I was wondering what has changed in terms of what all a Mage can do to protect himself from this:

Ixion razes your magical shield with a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword.
2408h, 3896m, 3338e, 10p, 10892en, 18164w ex-
Ixion whips a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword through the air in front
of you, to no effect.
2408h, 3896m, 3338e, 10p, 10892en, 18164w ex-
Ixion swings a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword at you. Ixion cuts off
your left ear, and blood fills your ear canal, making you somewhat dizzy.
A prickly stinging overcomes your body, fading away into numbness.
877h, 3896m, 3338e, 10p, 10892en, 18164w exp-
You are too stunned to be able to do anything.
877h, 3896m, 3338e, 10p, 10892en, 18164w exp-
Ixion swings a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword at you. A long, bleeding
rend is cut into your belly.
The blade shears through your body before coming clean through the other side
with a strangely quiet swish, momentarily surprising you with its force, before
you feel distinctly unwell and collapse to the ground.
You have been slain by Ixion.
The corpse of a serpentine starsucker falls out of your inventory.
A bit of light essence falls out of your inventory.
As your soul leaves your body, the elixir vitae courses through your spirit and
suddenly bursts in a bright light, forming a new body around your soul.
Hmmmm. Why must everything be so difficult to figure out?
1820h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10892en, 18164w ex-
You stand straight up
There's water ahead of you. You'll have to swim in that direction to make it
through.
1820h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10902en, 18170w ex-
There is no exit in that direction.
1820h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10902en, 18170w ex-
Ixion swings a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword at you. Ixion cuts your
left leg, striking a major artery which splurts blood in all directions.
A prickly stinging overcomes your body, fading away into numbness.
289h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10902en, 18170w exp-
You let out a massive belch into the air.
Clarification is in order.
289h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10902en, 18170w exp-
Sparkling water splashes up over your body, healing your wounds.
409h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10902en, 18170w exp-
Ixion swings a exquisitely crafted draconic broadsword at you. Ixion cuts your
right arm, striking a major artery which splurts blood in all directions.
The blade shears through your body before coming clean through the other side
with a strangely quiet swish, momentarily surprising you with its force, before
you feel distinctly unwell and collapse to the ground.
You have been slain by Ixion.
0h, 3896m, 3338e, 0p, 10902en, 18170w ex-
You are dead and cannot do that.

Credits aren't an option at the moment, so basically what I'm asking is what the best items I can acquire are. (I heard something about Greathelms being changed so mages can't wear them anymore, things like that).So far I'm just planning on acquiring some great robes and maybe a shield, depending on what you guys tell me.

Robes, just raise the hood on them, and no more easy head-chops
Shields are OK, get Trueshield in Combat if you want it to be effective.

Have shields been limited at all? (Tower shield is the best stat-wise right?) If not then I'll try to get one.

Avoid Ixion...

You can use all kinds of shields, in Lusty there only two types and noone use normal ones. Everyone are running with tower shields. So get a tower shield.
Then get a enchanted greatrobes, remebre to raise hood and get magic and electric proofing on robes.
And get cloak and coat with fire and cold proofing also.
Thats all that you can get from items unless you have credits for transing tailoring and getting splendor robes.

And get fire and frost potions and sip them, they give a little protection against cold and fire.
And use your defensive skills like stoneskin and such.

And what Forren wrote. Ixion is OP.

Nothing like Inept Resilience.

With trans resilience, trans combat, and decent parrying, you'll still die in a few combos at that level guaranteed.

Kinda wish that didn't happen. Annoying to vitae then start out with an affliction and health less then full. And probably bleeding from what I've experienced, though this log doesn't show it.

Honestly, all you could do is -try- to run. For your level and skill, and system for that matter, there is nothing you could do against Ixion. There are some players in Lusternia that you should avoid fighting when you are not confident with your skills and experience yet. Ixion is one of them. *twiddles thumbs*

Also you annoy him by staffcasting him from afar, and then running like crazy. And when I say running like crazy, I really mean running like crazy. I doubt you would survive though, but its worth the thrill.

I'm not expecting to get some armor and start pwning Ixion tomorrow. It's just discouraging to die in a single combo to anyone, cause the only defense against it is not fighting that person. I'm fine with dying due to lack of skill, lack of equipment (although it's more annoying), and even to really buffed out characters, but I'd like to have at least one decision made in the fight before I die, in otherwords I'd like there to be something of my wrong doing instead of just say, a difference in credits.

Ixion is pretty much the definition of really buffed out character.

No theres nothing wrong with you. HONORS IXION to see his rank in Lusternia. He's one of the high-leveled character. He can really kill in one or two combos. See the Ixion thread in the General section to read more about him. That way you'd feel a lot better knowing your not alone.

Theres another thread with him killing Soll in two combos.

And if you say your fine with dying to really buffed up characters.. Theres no discussion left.

Ya.. well you didn't give us much in that log to go by but I'll try.

First of all I didn't see any curing happen you'll want to collect affliction lines like...

Ixion cuts your left leg, striking a major artery which splurts blood in all directions.
Ixion cuts your right arm, striking a major artery which splurts blood in all directions.
Ixion cuts off your left ear, and blood fills your ear canal, making you somewhat dizzy.
A prickly stinging overcomes your body, fading away into numbness.
Hmmmm. Why must everything be so difficult to figure out?

...are some of the affliction lines in your log, so you'll want to know what cures them, and cure them instantly, with something like stupidity and paralysis, that's extra needed, because they will prevent you from even moving.

Also autosipping health during a fight is necessary, it takes to long to manually do it, something I've found out the painful way.

You don't have greatrobes? ah, well they are absolutely NEEDED against warriors, with the hood on the robes raised, RAISE HOOD.

You'll also want to proof the robes with 2 proofs, I think Ixion uses lighting runes to convert some of his damage away from physical? Anyway, I useally go magic+lighting on robes and then put fire or cold on a cloak, or just carry 2 cloaks if I've got the funds at the time.

You'll also need a decent shield, with at an absolute minimum of 50% master in combat, so you can use PARRY which, if you parry a body part 100% knights have something like a 75% chance of missing that part.

You also didn't have rebounding up, they need to raze that as well to bring it down, all that means in this short of a log is two raze’s instead of one.. but in a more even fight it'll make a differences.

so.. shield, robes, pipe with faeleaf, sipping healing, curing afflictions. Those are -very basic- things you weren't doing in that log that I can point out to you.

Yeah, I haven't even started on warriors in my new system. And in this particular situation it doesn't matter how well I could've healed, one thing that the log doesn't show is that I had no time to do anything. It was just death and death back to back, so while I guess from a technical standpoint dying with a few less afflictions, he still would've still killed me just as quickly, which is I guess what my point is, that even if I had the best system in the world, I'm still screwed against Ixion

So is most of the playerbase. It's kinda one of those facts of life. It takes around 4 competent paladins to even make him -consider- it might be bad to attack them...

uhm...


your armor, level and health




Ixion

"In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?"

Greatrobes and a tower shield.

I'm not sure how long you've been gone, but if you don't know already, the best teritary skill for Aquamancers in terms of damage resistance is Telekinesis. Psionics offers some basic defenses (such as psiarmour, which increases defense to cutting/blunt damage, and biofeedback, which can be used to negate some of the lightning element from Ixions runes), while Telekinesis has forcefield, which allows you to siphon damage from your health into your ego until burnout. This is especially useful for races with low con and high charisma like imperial merian. Additionally, I'd advise you to be around level 80+ to even consider making a good go of Ixion, and to have as many health-raising buffs as possibly (e.g. Tosha, con platters).