Arch Mage (Ice/Lightning)

Explorers · Magician

A map-control caster who freezes with Ice to stack Freezing Crush, then bursts Lightning — and whose Freezing Breath is a 13s bind that doubles as a long i-frame.

Primary weapon

Wand · Staff

Secondary

Shield · Magic Book

Main stat

INT · LUK

Playstyle

Freeze · shock · control

Link skill

Empirical Knowledge

31% on hit to mark the highest-HP enemy — +5% Damage & +5% Ignore DEF per stack (×3, 10s).

Lv9 31% on hit · +5%/stack

Stacks ×3, one per Explorer Mage at master level.

Legion bonus

INT +10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 100

Wand or Staff applies a 1.2× multiplier (attack Stage 7 with MP Boost + Agile Magic). A Wand adds +5% crit rate.

Inner ability

Bossing

LegendaryAttack Speed +1

UniqueBoss Damage +10%

EpicDamage to enemies w/ Abnormal Status +8%

Mobbing

LegendaryAttack Speed +1

UniqueBoss Damage +10%

EpicDamage to enemies w/ Abnormal Status +8%

Buff sequence

Absolute Zero Aura

Mana Overload

Meditation

2 minMaple World Goddess's Blessing

Epic Adventure

Glacial Fury

Infinity

Elquines

Thunder Sphere

Frost Ark

Freezing Breath

Frozen Lightning

Chain Lightning

Raise toggles and summons, ramp Infinity, build Freezing Crush with Ice skills, then burst Lightning (Chain Lightning) inside the Frozen Lightning window. Draft order — confirm with the Explorer Mage Discord.

6th job leveling order

Coming soon

Binds & iFrames

Freezing Breath13s bind · 10s i-frame · 120s cd

Frozen Lightning10s · 360s cd

Map clear

Blizzardnear map-wide

Frost Ark20s · 120s cd

Spirit of Snow30s · 120s cd

Defense

Lightning Orb−50% taken · 60s cd

Base stats from skills

Totals count near-permanent sources. Values in (parens) include temporary buffs at full value. Freeze-scaled values shown at cap.

Weapon multiplier

1.2×

Innate to the class — no skill sources

Attack speed

Stage 7

base Stage 4

+1+2

Weapon mastery

95%

base +25%

+70%

INT

+60 · +15% AP

+20+40+15% AP+400% APTEMP

Magic attack

+4% · +70 (110)

+4%+30+10+30max +40 IceTEMP

Crit rate

+40% (45%)

incl. +5% base

+5%+30%+5%

Crit damage

+13% (23–29%)

+13%+2%/Ice hitmax +16%TEMP

Damage

+90% (189%)

+50%max +40%max +9%+10%TEMP+20%TEMP

Final damage

+188.79% (384.91–398.76%)

+40%×+91%×+12%×+1%/Ice hitmax +8%TEMP×+18%×+8%×+21%

Ignore DEF

+20% (54.14%)

+20%max +9%DEBUFF+30% MDRDEBUFFmax +10%DEBUFF

Ignore elemental resist

+10%

Buff duration

+50%

Untagged — Untagged — permanent / near-permanentORB — per Combo OrbTEMP — cooldown buffDEBUFF — vs debuffed enemiesAXE — axe equipped

Community resources

Grandis Library MapleStory Wiki Class Discord

Data structure inspired by Grandis Library & community infographics. Class images and data sourced from Nexon.