Mage's Fireball trick.

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Posted it on my guild's site, but thought i'd throw it here too.

This one's for the mages.  Works well in the early rounds of MA, but if you're soloing past round 4, this will probably get you killed unless you follow with crisis escape, shadow cloak, or get lucky with lullaby.

In later rounds though, if you have rain cast or a rain caster in your party, there's a more powerful set up, but it uses meteor so it's only once per 15 mins.

Go to an end, lrod.  Load meteor while the mobs move back into the middle.  Strike meteor when you can get all the mobs, or nearly all.  Fireball, snap cast fireball, then lrod again as shown in the video above.  Since this is intended for rain cloud, or if the combo will kill all the mobs, i would advise using crisis escape after the lrod.  All the mobs should be under the cloud again at that point.  So you'll have successfully done a large area aoe burst.  It can do nearly half the hp of all of fleta's round, with high m. atk and all the related skills, including elemental masteries, at r1.