Whats the best strategy for getting armor as mage

[austere gull]

Their all way to high of strength

[fleet anvil]

It's just bad rng for you

Mage gets his armor same way as everyone else

[tacit zephyr]

what do you mean by high of strength

[austere gull]

Like 16 and 15 strength required

[tacit zephyr]

you can upgrade your gear to reduce its strength requirement, upgrade levels of 1, 3 and 6 reduce strength costs by 1, 2 and 3 respectively

[austere gull]

Also I cannot make it pass necromancers what's the best strategy for killing them

[tacit zephyr]

ignore their skeletons and kill the necromancer himself

its not worth to kill the skeleton because the necro will just heal very fast, and if you defeat it, it will do on-death damage like normal skeletons

and the necromancer will just summon another again

[austere gull]

And I keep dying on floor 7 any advice for me

[austere gull]

And is it better to imbue wands u find

[fleet anvil]

Whenever I play mage i wait until I get to lvl 8 before imbuing

So I can put 2 stars into wand preservation talent

The reason is because I prefer to use wild magic armor ability

Which you should get as many wands as possible for

Except warding

Also just so you know

Every class has one armor ability that is absolute dogshit

For mage it is warping beacon

It is significantly worse than the other 2

The only possible exception is duelist

Elemental strike can be good but

You need something like grim or vampiric for it to be good

Also huntress spirit hawk is alright but only when into darkness challenge is enabled

[fleet anvil]

Also don't use sous on your staff immediately

If you imbue a wand of higher level than the staff

The staff will be upgraded to the wands level for free

You can get a guaranteed +1 to +3 wand from the old wandmaker

Also honestly

Scholar intuition is not worth investing 2 stars into

1 is enough

Also ik that this is likely obvious

But read the tome of dungeon mastery