WARNING: This guide is intended for fast leveling, and reset skills at lv40. After reset, one may have to adjust to their desire elemental skills. (Especially for water mage, damage will drop by a lot).

*****First is to ditch that staff, yes, that staff is really isn't very useful for mage in Latale. Staff attack is weak and slow, charging attack really useless and it only increase magic accuracy by 5%.**********

Lv1 - 7 :
use knuckle, either buy one or will get one from early quest.
Equip a fire stone from lv3
Skill points:
Lv2- fire mastery basic,
Lv3- fireburst
Lv4- earth mastery basic
Lv5- earth dragon
Lv6- daggers mastery basic
Lv7- sonic daggers

Follow quests, use skills learn and heavy attack in between cooldown. Try to keep up with the gears, use the higest gears you can, lv5,6,7 gears are sold in traveler's camp.

From Lv8 to Lv 20
One obtain sonic dagger, time to switch to dagger and shield
Shield gives more defense and at this point, you can spam skills. One of the 3 skills should be always ready to use at anytime.

The sequence of adding skill points to which skills is not that important from this point on.
Lv8 fireburst lv2
Lv9 fire mastery basic
Lv10 fireburst lv3
Lv11 - 13 fire mastery basic
Lv14 - 15 sonic daggerlv2 & 3
Lv16 - 18 magic upgrade
Lv19- save this point.
Lv20 - flameburt lv1 and assassin dagger lv1

From lv21 to Lv39
Keep up with gears and elemental stones. At this point earth dragon damage will reduced a lot compared to fireburst. Skill spamming should start switch to the 2 fire skills and 2 dagger skills as earth dragon out lived its usefulness.

Lv21 - 24 fire mastery skilled/magic upgrade
Lv25 - 26 flame burst lv2 and assassin dagger lv2
Lv26 - 29 fire mastery skilled/magic upgrade
lv30 - 31 flame burst lv3 and assassin dagger lv3
lv32 - 39 fire mastery skilled/magic upgrade

At lv40 Buy skill reset from NPC and reset to the element of your choice.
Skill reset cost 100k ely + all the skills need to be purchase over again e.g. magic upgrade.

Note:
personally I don't think fire enchant is worth it due to limited damage added, only elemental buffs seem useful are wind walk and stone armor.
Join a lv2+ guild to gain guild bonus.
Each elements have different style skills, may takes time to adjust to after reset.
Always have iris fragment handy, wrap out when you are about to die.

Builds after reset for wind, earth and fire at lv40. (Really there is no point doing water, there is healer guide around)

Wind
- weak damage, fast cooldown, low sp cost per skill, damage reduce from 2 or more mobs(except aero slicer). Wind can chain its 3 skills at lv40 continuously. Due to weaker damage and continuous spamming skills, general sp consumption may not lower than earth/fire.

Build
- Wind Mastery basic 5
- Wind Mastery skilled 10
- Wind Cutter 3
- Cyclone Cutter 3
- Aero Slicer 1
- Magic upgrade 10
- Wind Walk 5 - 45% speed increase.
- Mind Square (if you are the resting type), Undine heal/Dione Heal (if you are the healer type) or Elemental harmony (if you are non supportive pot user) 2

From lv41 to lv80
After revising elemental mastery expert and the points need to get to elemental master, I reconsider wind mastery
expert is worthwhile since elemental master takes too many points to get to, almost need to give up few mastery skill and buff to get to.
There are a noticeable damage difference with wind mastery maxed out (thanks to darkoda).

lv45, 50 - aero slicer 2,3
lv59,60 - save that point from 59 to get tornado swing at 60
lv64,65 - tornado swing 2
lv69,70 - tornado swing 3

All 30 points in between those lvls:
- Resting type add total of at least 5 points to Mind Square (so 3 more here). Then add wind mastery expert then misc skills: elemental harmony, elemental protection and elemental master
- Self Healing type add 2 points to Undine Heal low, mid, and high. Then go for elemental harmony, elemental protection and elemental master
- Non supportive pot type just ignore those above and go straight for wind mastery expert, elemental harmony, elemental protection and elemental master(this is the reward).

Earth
- moderate damage, moderate cooldown, high sp cost per skill, damage reduce from 3 or more mobs. Unlike wind skills can't chain continuously. I recommend dagger skills in between waiting time. Earth skills are all one hit skills except gold dragon.

Build
- Earth Mastery basic 5
- Earth Mastery skilled 10
- Earth Dragon 3
- Sky Dragon 3
- Twin Dragon 1
- Magic upgrade 10
- Stone Armor 5 - absorb 2 dmg per lvl, 20 dmg reduced when maxed.
- Dagger mastery Basic 1
- Sonic dagger 1

From lv41 to lv80
Just as wind, I reconsidered about earth mastery expert, and think it is worthwhile to get. Easier access than elemental master. My suggest earth mage build is tight on skill points.

lv41-44 - Sonic dagger, Assassin Dagger.
lv45 - Twin Dragon 2
lv46 - 49 - Stone armor
lv50 - Twin dragon 3
lv51 - Stone armor
lv52 - 57 - Dagger Mastery basic/earth mastery expert
lv59,60 - save that point from 59 to get gold dragon at 60
lv64,65 - gold dragon 2
lv69,70 - gold dragon 3

Not that many points left in between those lvls:
I recommend max out stone armor reduce 20 damage per physical hit helps a lot.

- Non supportive pot type just follow above.
- Resting type add total of at least 5 points to Mind Square before or between dagger skill and stone armor.
- Self Healing type add 2 points to Undine Heal low, mid and high. Then work on dagger skills and stone armor.
- Straight magic/no dagger type - ignore all the points added to dagger skills and put them on earth mastery expert than misc skills: elemental harmony, elemental protection and elemental master.

Fire
- most damage, slow cooldown, high sp cost per skill, damage reduce
from 3 or more mobs. Unlike wind skills can't chain continuously. I recommend dagger skills in between waiting time. Fire skills are also one hit skills except fire blaster.

Build
- Fire Mastery basic 5
- Fire Mastery skilled 10
- Fireburst 3
- Flameburst 3
- Illusion Fire 1
- Magic upgrade 10
- Dagger mastery Basic 3
- Sonic dagger 3
- Assasin Dagger 1

From lv41 to lv80
Get this mastery expert.

lv41 to 44 - Dagger mastery Basic, Assassin Dagger
lv45, 50 - Illusion Fire 2,3
lv59,60 - save that point from 59 to get fire blaster at 60
lv64,65 - fire blaster 2
lv69,70 - fire blaster 3

- Non supportive pot type just follow above add in between skill points to fire mastery expert than misc skills.
- Resting type add total of at least 5 points to Mind Square before or between dagger skill.
- Self Healing type add 2 points to Undine Heal low, mid and high. Then work on dagger skills.
- Straight magic/no dagger type - ignore all the points added to dagger skills and put them on fire mastery expert than misc skills: elemental harmony, elemental protection and elemental master.

Note: save the point on lv79,80. Sorcerer skills needs 2 points. Bards will get skill reset.

Wind, Earth and Fire mage and hybrid healer build - with no intention to reset.

Disclaimer: I have little experience on healing, this guide not the "best" or "only" builds.

I recommend all mages to start with knuckles than switch to dagger and shield around lv5 and shield; also try to keep the armor up to level.
Mage's staff normal skills are bad, a slow short range staff swing and a long time charged attack are worthless.
Dagger gives better normal attacks and shield for extra defense, I personally think that is better than +5% magic accuracy increase from staff.
A mage relies mostly (if not always) on their skills.
The true weapon of a mage is their elemental stone, dagger level rarely matters unless you picked up dagger skills.
*******Mage does less damage than explorer in general, don't hope to out damage an explorer (especially xbow)*****
Privarin dagger will help increase magic damage slightly, either farm privarin or save up ely for the urn - this one is not a must.

Wind - no reset
Wind skills are lower in damage, but cost less sp and faster cooldown time.
Wind user will have a HARDER time from lv1 to 40, because this build takes into account after lv40, wind skills short cooldown will allow the 3 skills to cast continuously, therefore no need for dagger skill. This no reset build will give the user only 1 skill till lv20 and 2 skills till lv40.

Lv1-3 wind mastery basic 1 and wind cutter 1
lv4 wind mastery basic 2
Lv5 Wind cutter 2
Lv6-8 wind mastery basic 3,4&5
Lv9 Magic upgrade 1
Lv10 Wind cutter 3
Lv11-14 magic upgrade 2,3,4,5
Lv15-19 wind mastery skilled 1,2,3,4,5
Lv20 Cyclone cutter 1
Lv21-24 Wind mastery skilled 6,7,8,9
Lv25 Cyclone cutter 2
Lv26 wind mastery skilled 10
Lv27 Wind walk 1
Lv28 magic upgrade 6
Lv29 wind walk 2
Lv30 Cyclone cutter 3
Lv31,33,35 wind walk 3,4,5
Lv32,34,36,37 magic upgrade 7,8,9,10
Lv38-39 Elemental harmony 1,2
Lv40 Aero slicer 1
Lv41-44 Wind mastery expert 1,2,3,4
Lv45 Aero slicer 2
Lv46-49 Wind mastery expert 5,6,7,8
Lv50 Aero slicer 3
Lv51-52 Wind mastery expert 9,10
Lv53-58 Elemental harmony 3,4,5,6,7
Lv59-60 Tornado swing 1(need 2 skill points)
Lv61-63 Elemental harmony 8,9,10
Lv64-65 Tornade Swing 2 (2 skill points)
Lv66-68 Elemental protection 1,2,3
lv69-70 Tornado Swing 3
Lv71-77 Elemental protection
Lv78 Elemental master

Wind/Healer build - for minor healing skills for self and others
Lv1-3 wind mastery basic 1 and wind cutter 1
lv4 wind mastery basic 2
Lv5 Wind cutter 2
Lv6 Undine heal low
Lv7 F undine heal low
Lv8-9 wind mastery basic 3,4
Lv10 Wind cutter 3
Lv11,wind mastery basic 5
Lv12-14 magic upgrade 1,2,3
Lv15 Undine heal mid
Lv16 F Undine heal mid
Lv17-19 Wind mastery skilled 1,2,3
Lv20 Cyclone cutter 1
Lv21-22 magic upgrade 4,5
Lv23-24 wind mastery skilled 4,5
Lv25 Cyclone cutter 2
Lv26-29 Magic upgrade 6,7,8,9
Lv30 Cyclone cutter 3
Lv31 magic upgrade 10
Lv32-36 wind mastery skilled 6,7,8,9,10
Lv37 Undine heal high
Lv38 F. undine heal high
Lv39 Wind Walk
Lv40 Aero slicer 1
Lv41-44 Wind mastery expert 1,2,3,4
Lv45 Aero slicer 2
Lv46,47 Dione Heal low
Lv48,49 F Dione Heal low
Lv50 Aero slicer 3
Lv51-6 Wind mastery expert 5,6,7,8,9,10
Lv57-58 Mind Square 1,2
Lv59,60 Tornado Swing 1
Save points for tornados and use in between points to either increase heals,cure, mind square or wind walk.

Earth - no reset
Earth skills have longer cooldown time, I recommend dagger skills for both easier early leveling and increase overall damage by elimiating waiting for cooldown.

Lv1-3 earth mastery basic 1 and earth dragon 1
lv4 dagger mastery basic 1
Lv5 sonice dagger 1
Lv6 earth dragon 2
Lv9 earth mastery basic 2
Lv10 earth dragon 3
Lv11-13 earth mastery basic 3,4,5
Lv15-17 sonic dagger 2,3
Lv18-19 earth mastery skilled 1,2
Lv20 sky dragon 1
Lv21 assassin dagger 1
Lv22-24 earth mastery skilled 3,4,5
Lv25 sky dragon 2
Lv26-27 earth mastery skilled 6,7
Lv28-29 magic upgrade 1,2
Lv30 sky dragon 3
Lv31-33 earth mastery skilled 8,9,10
Lv34-38 stone armor 1,2,3,4,5
Lv39 magic upgrade 3
Lv40 twin dragon 1
Lv41-44 magic upgrade 4,5,6,7
Lv45 twin dragon 2
Lv46-48 magic upgrade 8,9,10
Lv49 Earth masery expert 1
Lv50 twin dragon 3
Lv51-58 Earth mastery expert 2-9
Lv59-60 gold dragon 1(need 2 skill points)
Lv61 Earth mastery expert 10

Earth/Healer (minor healing build)
Same as wind, replace all wind skills with earth counterpart.

Lv1-3 earth mastery basic 1 and earth dragon 1
lv4 earth mastery basic 2
Lv5 earth dragon 2
Lv6 Undine heal low
Lv7 F undine heal low
Lv8-9 earth mastery basic 3,4
Lv10 earth dragon 3
Lv11,earth mastery basic 5
Lv12-14 magic upgrade 1,2,3
Lv15 Undine heal mid
Lv16 F Undine heal mid
Lv17-19 earth mastery skilled 1,2,3
Lv20 sky dragon 1
Lv21-22 magic upgrade 4,5
Lv23-24 earth mastery skilled 4,5
Lv25 sky dragon 2
Lv26-29 Magic upgrade 6,7,8,9
Lv30 sky dragon 3
Lv31 magic upgrade 10
Lv32-36 earth mastery skilled 6,7,8,9,10
Lv37 Undine heal high
Lv38 F. undine heal high
Lv39 stone armor 1
Lv40 Aero slicer 1
Lv41-44 stone armor 2,3,4,5
Lv45 Aero slicer 2
Lv46,47 Dione Heal low
Lv48,49 F Dione Heal low
Lv50 Aero slicer 3
Lv51-58 earth mastery expert 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Lv59,60 gold dragon 1
Lv61,62 earth mastery expert 9,10

Fire - no reset build
Fire is the most powerful element, this build is an offensive build.

Lv1-3 fire mastery basic 1 and fire dragon 1
lv4 dagger mastery basic 1
Lv5 sonice dagger 1
Lv6 fireburst 2
Lv9 fire mastery basic 2
Lv10 fireburst 3
Lv11-13 fire mastery basic 3,4,5
Lv15-17 sonic dagger 2,3
Lv18-19 fire mastery skilled 1,2
Lv20 flameburst 1
Lv21 assassin dagger 1
Lv22-24 fire mastery skilled 3,4,5
Lv25 flameburst 2
Lv26-27 fire mastery skilled 6,7
Lv28-29 magic upgrade 1,2
Lv30 sky dragon 3
Lv31-33 fire mastery skilled 8,9,10
Lv34-39 magic upgrade 3,4,5,6,7,8
Lv40 illusion fire 1
Lv41-42 magic upgrade 9,10
Lv43-44 fire mastery expert 1,2
Lv45 illusion fire 2
Lv46-49 fire masery expert 3,4,5,6
Lv50 illusion fire 3
Lv51-54 fire mastery expert 7,8,9,10
Lv55-59 fire enchant or dagger mastery basic
Lv59-60 gold dragon 1(need 2 skill points)

Earth/Healer (minor healing build)
Same as wind, replace all wind skills with earth counterpart.

Lv1-3 fire mastery basic 1 and fireburst 1
lv4 fire mastery basic 2
Lv5 fireburst 2
Lv6 Undine heal low
Lv7 F undine heal low
Lv8-9 fire mastery basic 3,4
Lv10 fireburst 3
Lv11,fire mastery basic 5
Lv12-14 magic upgrade 1,2,3
Lv15 Undine heal mid
Lv16 F Undine heal mid
Lv17-19 fire mastery skilled 1,2,3
Lv20 flameburst 1
Lv21-22 magic upgrade 4,5
Lv23-24 fire mastery skilled 4,5
Lv25 flameburst 2
Lv26-29 Magic upgrade 6,7,8,9
Lv30 flameburst 3
Lv31 magic upgrade 10
Lv32-36 fire mastery skilled 6,7,8,9,10
Lv37 Undine heal high
Lv38 F. undine heal high
Lv39 Mind Square
Lv40 illusion fire 1
Lv41-44 fire mastery expert 1,2,3,4
Lv45 illusion fire 2
Lv46,47 Dione Heal low
Lv48,49 F Dione Heal low
Lv50 illusion fire 3
Lv51-56 fire mastery expert 5,6,7,8,9,10
Lv57,58 Mind Square/healing practice
Lv59,60 fire blaster 1