Lightning Mage's first six weeks: 3,000 coil, Lv.30 rune
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Buy the coil for 3,000 gold, push class level to 30, pick Thunder or Force Field — not Veil. Taiwan’s patch notes give prices: Disc Coil (圓盤線圈) 3,000 gold (level 25+, sold by all three old-town blacksmiths), the S version 11,000 in Bangor. The Master of the Flash (閃光之主) event runs to 10/21 and counts class level, not character level; of its five gifts the valuable one is Lv.30’s Elite Accessory Rune Selection Box — Thunder, Force Field or Veil. Korea’s two mainstream sets use Thunder (the area set) and Force Field (the single-target set); Veil is in neither. Whichever set you run, take that rune. Class Lv.30 is about 150 Traces of the Spirit if pushed by traces alone (player measurements); anyone fighting normally reaches it inside six weeks. The same shape will hold on an English server: the weapon is cheap, the emblem is 5 medals, the runes are the time.
What the notes give: prices, not coefficients
Three numbers.
The Lightning Mage section of the notes has no skill text, but the shop section prints the weapons:
| Item | Where | Price / condition |
|---|---|---|
| Disc Coil | Ferghus (Tir Chonaill), Nerys (Dunbarton), Armis (Colhen) blacksmiths | 3,000 gold, level 25+ |
| Disc Coil S | Edern’s Blacksmith (Bangor) | 11,000 gold |
| Emblem | Dunbarton emblem shop | 5 class master medals (same as every class) |
| Crafted weapons | Magic craft | life guide adds recommended Lightning Mage recipes |
| Other gear / items | Blacksmith / Molly’s Relic Exchange | gold / Crimson Abyss Fossils |
The scale of 3,000 gold: the maintenance compensation mail alone carried 70,000. In other words the weapon is not the gate; of the three things the day-one article named, the coil is settled with pocket change; the emblem costs 5 medals; the three accessory runes are where the time goes — and the event happens to hand you one.
Master of the Flash: five gifts, by class level
To 10/21 05:59, once per server. The condition is Lightning Mage class level, and the notice says explicitly “achievable even without owning the class emblem” — equip the coil, fight, and it counts.
| Class level | Gift |
|---|---|
| 10 | small silver box ×10 |
| 20 | outfit ticket ×20, dye ×10 |
| 30 | Elite Accessory Rune Selection Box: Lightning Mage (Thunder / Force Field / Veil, choose one) |
| 40 | Epic Alchemy Reburn Catalyst ×2 |
| 50 | Rough Star Prism ×3 |
The valuable cell is 30: a class-specific Elite accessory rune, normally a drop or a promotion. The two Epic Reburn Catalysts at 40 are not small either. The three Rough prisms at 50 are, after the gem rework, exactly half of the 6 needed to unlock Elite promotion.
Class Lv.30: about 150 traces, or six weeks of monsters
Class level and character level are separate lines. Pushed directly with Traces of the Spirit, Korean player measurements (unofficial): Lv.1→25 about 88, 1→31 about 150, 31→35 about 450. So the Lv.30 cell is roughly 150 traces — most players already hold that many.
It is reachable without traces: class experience follows combat, and anyone running dailies on the coil reaches 30 inside six weeks naturally. After 40 the curve steepens (31→35 alone is 450), so the 50 cell is October for a pure fighter. Set the six-week target at 30; 40 on the way; 50 not required.
The choice: Thunder, Force Field, Veil
All three are Elite. Korea’s descriptions (site rune data):
- Thunder (雷霆 / 천둥): modifies Lightning Strike — fewer charge stages, more strikes, slightly lower single-target focus. Area-oriented.
- Force Field (力場 / 역장): modifies Electromagnetic Storm — when the storm ends, a field remains that pulls and damages. Grouping-oriented.
- Veil (帷幕 / 장막): modifies Plasma Cloak — while active, follow-up hits and vital evasion rise; evading releases a lightning wave. Survival-oriented.
Korea’s two mainstream accessory sets (site loadout data, Korea):
| Set | Necklace | Ring | Ring | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt-Conduit-Field | Lightning Bolt (벼락) | Conduit (도관) | Force Field | single target |
| Thunder-Conduit-Discharge | Thunder | Conduit (도관) | Discharge (방전) | area |
Both use Conduit (Epic, not in the box); they differ in the other two. Of the box’s three, Thunder sits in the area set, Force Field in the single-target set, Veil in neither. So:
- Mostly daily dungeons, hunting grounds, wards → area set → take Thunder.
- Mostly bosses and the 9/21 raid → single-target set → take Force Field.
- Veil: no. Its value is solo endurance, and this game’s solo content is hunting grounds, which want area.
Taiwan received the season-0 Lightning Mage; Korea’s two sets are conclusions from two seasons — right in direction, in-game text wins on detail.
In passing: two events with money in them
- Lightning Mage Training Plan (傘電，電擊術士養成計畫) (to 9/23): post a guide in the designated Discord channel; 20 winners receive MyCard 1,000 points each. Needs Nexon–Discord linking and the campaign name in the post title.
- Challenge Packages (to 9/30) and the class package (to 11/25): cash-shop items; the spending rule does not change — collect the five free gifts first.
One thing people mix up
“Master of the Flash needs the emblem first” — the notice: “the challenge can be achieved even without owning the class emblem.” Switch to the coil and fight, and class level accumulates. The emblem is worth buying (it is your long-term equipment slot), but it is not the event’s prerequisite.
Second: “the S coil is better, so buy the 11,000 one” — the S version is in Bangor; the level-25 coil is in all three old towns. Push class level on the 3,000 coil first; the weapon’s performance improvement comes later.
What to do now
- Any of the three town blacksmiths: Disc Coil, 3,000 gold.
- Run dailies on the coil; watch class level on the event page.
- Decide the set before opening at Lv.30: area → Thunder, single target → Force Field.
- Holding 150+ traces and in a hurry for 9/21: push straight to 30 for the rune.
What would overturn this: the three runes’ effects and the two sets are Korean data — if Taiwan’s rune text differs, in-game wins; the trace figures are Korean player measurements, unofficial; the gift thresholds follow event notice 3541087, and any mid-event adjustment follows the official addendum.