Aion Spiritmaster Guide(part 1&2)

So I’ve been fooling around on C-Aion (Chinese Aion) for a few weeks now, and originally wanted to play as my favorite Assassin, but it was too laggy to play on C-Aion due to latency and ended up playing Spiritmaster. After a quick search for level 42 – 45 Spiritmaster on the C-Aion server and found 0, I decided to write an Aion Spiritmaster Guide for the underdog class.

If you are looking for a more complete Aion leveling guide for every class, earning kinah, and much more…
then you should check out:Aion Guide
What is the Spiritmaster?

For those who haven’t played Aion yet, and is wondering what is the Spiritmaster class in Aion here are some general information’s. Spiritmaster is an archetype of the mage class, their primary ability is to summon and command elemental pets, they have strong Will, and Knowledge. Spiritmaster uses magical spellbooks and orbs as their weapon of choose, and basic cloth and robes are their armors. They are not the best choose for solo pvp, but they are the best class for solo PVE.
Role as Spiritmaster

Being the underdog of all Aion classes, the Spiritmaster are usually misunderstood and not given enough credit for their power. Many players has the wrong impression about the Spiritmaster. Unlike the Sorcorcer which is design for doing massive amount of damage, Spiritmaster is design for crowd control, debuffs, and shut downs. Bottom line is your there to be annoying, keeping your enemy fear, slowed, and debuffed, making their skills useless.
Spirit Master PVE

Spiritmaster is the best class for solo PVE in Aion, having a pet to tank and deal extra damage makes allows them to handle and kill higher level mobs allot faster than any other class. Although they are widely known to be able to solo elite mobs, and high level boss mobs. Although Spiritmaster is design to be the best class for solo PVE, it has also been said by level 50 Spiritmasters players on Korean servers that after level 40 you would have a much harder time soloing than level 40 and below. Also an added bonus to being able to kill higher level mobs and boss, makes the Spiritmaster the ideal class to farm for unique gears from boss and make money.

Spiritmaster is also great for group PVE, their pets debuff, they can slow, snare, debuff, and most important of all they are the only class with fear and remove enchantment/buff skills, all and all makes Spiritmaster an valuable class in a well organized group or raid. If your group or raid ever get into a tough situation and is over whelm by mobs, the Spiritmaster can easily use massive area fear to crowd control.
Spirit Master PVP

Sadly being a Spiritmaster most likely you’re not going to be on the top of the list for PVP rank. The Spiritmaster isn’t there to solo PVP, you don’t have the best DPS (damage per second) as a caster cast, and you were robes and cloth just like the Sorcerer making you valuable to physical attacks especially Assassin and their ambush skills. Now that doesn’t mean Spiritmaster cannot PVP at all they are just not ideal for solo PVP, an well managed and skilled Spiritmaster can do very well in PVP. I have seen Spiritmaster easily take town almost every class equal or high level to them in PVP with fear, and their shut down skills.

Although the Spiritmaster is not the ideal class for solo PVP, you’ll be showered with love for group PVP. Ever PVP group needs a Spiritmaster to strip/remove buffs, it cost them money to buy high grade enchament scrolls while it only cost you mana to strip/remove them . Best of all as a Spiritmaster you can remove templars’ famous armor buffs and watch them cry as they can no longer tank 10 people at once.

Although none of the Spiritmaster pets can fly or follow you in the air (maybe in the future), the skill Wing Root definitely makes up for the lost of pet. Wing Root allows you to cut down your enemies fly time, causing them to panic as they fear of dropping to death.

PVP Tips From Level 50 Spiritmaster Players:

* Use Erosion and Seldom Orbs as your main damage skills, as they save your mana pool usage.
* Use pets as a harassment tool, keep your enemies annoyed.
* Fears, Magic block, Magic Combustion, pet skills, Wing Root and your AOE DP is you friend, you will use them a lot during pvp.
* Don’t worried about your DPS, worried about your control skills.
* Beware of other Spiritmasters.

Choosing a Pet

Most people wants to know which is the best pet to have, the answer is there isn’t “the best pet” they are good for different situation, here is a breakdown of all the pets and their abilities.

Fire Spirit:

Your very first pet is the Fire Spirit, out of all spirits the fire spirit is probably the most balanced, they have the second most of HP, good DPS, and average defense. The fire spirit is no not the best choose for PVP, however they are used during pvp because of the Command: Substitution skill, which allows the Spiritmaster to redirect all damages towards the fire spirit. The fire spirit also works well in groups for PvE, as they can lower physical defenses, as well as fire resistance of your enemies, and because their HP is second to the Earth Spirit allows them to survive a lot long from any attacks and AOE. The Fire spirit are also great for solo PvE because they have the best taunt skill, so when your dyeing they can get the mob off you. As a quick note the fire spirits commands(skills) are burst damage, and they have the best taunt skill

Wind Spirit:

The Wind Spirit is my personal favourite, not only that they look cool but they are also the best and primarily used for PvP. The Wind Spirit is weak and has the lowest amount of HP, however they have the fastest running speed allowing them to catch up to your enemies easily. The wind spirit also has the highest melee DPS, and they can stun if you use Command: Disturbance. Not many people use the wind spirit for solo PvE, unless they are kiting the mob and use the wind spirit as extra DPS. Unlike the Earth and Fire Spirit, the Wind Spirit training book can acquired from drop from Wind Spirit related mobs, or purchase from other players that are selling them, and depending on the server they can be costly. Just like the Earth spirit, Wind spirits also has a mix of burst and DoT skills.

Water Spirit:

The Water Spirit just like the wind spirit, it’s training book can only be acquired from mob drops. The Water spirit also has really low HP, which makes them very vulnerable to attacks. However to make up the weakness of having low amount of HP, the water spirit is the only spirit that does range and magical damage. It’s ranged attack does a great deal of damage, and allows it to attack your enemies in the air, which makes it a must have for Abyss PvPs where flying is allowed everyone in the zone. The water spirit also has an advantage against Sorcerer’s root skill, while all your other spirit while rooted would make them pretty much useless, the water spirit range attack can still make them super effective. Like the Fire spirit, the Water spirits commands are burst damage.

Earth Spirit:

The Earth Spirit is also known as the tank pet, they have the highest amount of HP, defense and the second best taunt right after the Fire Spirit. The Earth spirit is great for solo PvE, as they require less of your care in healing the with your own HP, and they can tank boss mobs, or elite mobs much longer than other spirits. Most of their commands(skill) are either DOT(damage over time) or burst base, also they are able to heal them self with the skill Command: Disturbance.

Magma Spirit:

The Magma spirit is one of the two special DP summon in the game, the other one is Tempest spirit for the Elyos Spiritmaster. The Magma spirit spellbook is only available to level 50 spirit master and it is only for the Asmodian Spiritmaster, opposite of the Tempest spirit. Unlike Fire, Earth, Wind, and Water spirits, which will not be un-summoned unless it dies, or command un-summoned, the Magma spirit will only last for 5 minutes before it disappear. However to make up for the short duration and long cool down of the skill, Magma spirit has extremely high attack, defenses, and HP. The spirit is a unique mixture of Earth and Fire spirit with very cool graphic features. The Magma spirit is an ideal choose for group PvP and PvE, because of its ability to debuff, and high DPS. Because Magma spirit is a highbred of two different spirit upon using Command skill, it has the ability to execute both attacks at once.

Tempest Spirit:

The Tempest spirit is the opposite of Magma spirit, it is a mixture of Water, and Wind spirits, it is only for Elyos Spirit master, and it also has a long cooldown and short duration of skill. Just like the Magma spirit, the Tempest spirit also has a mixture of Commands. The Tempest spirit is strong in a 1 vs. 1 dual with the Magma spirit, due to its ability to use both stuns and crash all at once. But over all Tempest spirit has slight lower stats then Magma spirit, because it is a range attack pet.
Spiritmaster Stigma Guide

The Aion Stigma system allows you to equip unique skills and customize your character skill tree, for more details on stigma check out my Aion stigma guide or check Aion Complete Guide. Stigma cost rare drops from mobs, so often you going to buy from other players and they can be very costly so it is wise to choose and known which Stigma are best for you.

For Spirit Master PVP Stigma I recommend:

* Weaken Spirit (Must have)
* Fear Shriek (Must have)
* Command: Substitution (Must have)
* Body Root (Important but optional)
* Strengthening Spirit: Recovery (Important but optional)
* Magic Blocking (Important but optional)

Since you can equipped up to a total of 8 Stigma, 5 regular slot, and 3 advance slot for patch 1.5 you can equipped all 6 recommend stigma listed above. However you can always play around and be creative, find the best fit for your playing style.
Spiritmaster Gears

Armors

When it comes to gears as a Spiritmaster you don’t have that much of choose, Spiritmaster is archetype of mage class, you can only where cloth. Although you don’t have any choosing the types of armor to wear, but as you get higher and higher in levels it is a must to equip yourself with the best stats unique armors. There are generally two types of armor in Aion regular white name armor with no bonus stats, and unique green, blue, and gold equipments with bonus stats.

As a Spiritmaster you really want to look for two bonus stats on unique armor that is to increase HP or Magical Boost. Above all other stats HP is probably the most important to Spiritmaster, because Spiritmaster can only wear cloth makes them extremely vulnerable to physical attacks, having more HP will allow you survive a lot long in PvP and PvE. The second most important stats to look for Magical Boost, because it increases most of your magical attacks but not your pet Commands and attacks (Pets, and Summon: Servants are not scaled by Magical Boost).

The downside to looking for HP and Magical Boost gear, is that they are hard to find! You’ll find a lot of MP and Magical Boost gears but not HP, because that’s just the way the game is design. However don’t be too stressed about not finding the right gears, because Spiritmaster has pets as tank, so you don’t really need to depend on gears to level fast but PvP on the other hand do require you to have good gears.

Two other bonus stats to look for are Flight Time and Casting Speed, they are not as important as HP and Magical Boost. But when you get in to the range of high 30s to 50 you will probably looking at either blue or gold gears, which has more than 2 bonus stats sometimes.

Weapons

When it comes to weapons, the Spiritmaster has two choice, Orbs or Spellbooks. Orbs has high Magic Boost, low Magic Accuracy, which your spell will do more damage. Spellbook has low Magic Boost, but high Magic Accuracy, which makes them essential for crowd control spell for PvP or PvE. Good thing Aion is design to allow you to carry two different weapon and can easily switch between the two.

Manastones

In Aion all gears has sockets for manastones, depending on the gear it can have anywhere from 1 to 6 gears on a single piece of gear (Note: accessories gears don’t have sockets). When a piece is equipment is stocked with manastones, bonus stats of the manastone is added to the gear.

HP, and Magical Boost are again the most important manastones for a Spiritmaster. Another useful manastone is Magical Accuracy, because it decreases the chance of your crowd control spells being resisted, thus it’s very useful for PvP or group PvP/PvE, . It is ideal to have two sets of armor, for optimal effectives in PvP as well as PvE. As mention above in the armors section, while Magical Boost increases the damage to some of Spiritmasters attack, it does not scale the damage of your pet or Summon: servants spells. Thus this will affect your damage only by alittle in PvP, so your better of adding more HP to your character to increase his/her survivability. Now, if you can’t afford or don’t have the time to obtain two different sets of armor, just focus on getting the HP one first, but if you like do more damage than make a Magical Boost set.

Thats all for the Aion Spiritmaster Guide, keep in mind that this just a general Aion Spiritmaster guide, there is a lot I havn’t covered in this guide.