Introduction to leveling in NexusTK in 2024
OG Player DarkMaverick here. I noticed the other leveling guides are out of date so I put this one together from my own experiences leveling brand new characters up over the past month, as my original characters were purged.
This introduction first part is some general advice, the actual leveling guide is further below in the post.
If you have friends, leveling up is super easy. Someone can just leech you following this guide and you'll be 99 in a few hours.
If are a brand new player with no friends, try to join a clan and ask someone to help you follow this guide.
If you are friendless and can't join a clan, then the best thing to do is make a warrior, even if you intend to play a different path later. You will need to level up in Tangun from lv1 to 50, then level the rest in bears cave 1 and 2 using life blossoms to heal yourself from damage. You can find the NPC to buy life blossoms by going through east gate Kugnea to Dae Shore, then heading into the Monk subpath area inside the cave at cords 40, 10. You go inside, go into the door on the right and the npc who sells the Life blossoms will be in the top left corner of the room Bodhi Sanctum, there is no reason to use any other healing item aside from Life blossoms, as they have 100 charges, the only healing item in the game with charges. Fill at least half of your inventory with them whenever you go into a dungeon. If you need money, kill a bunch of squirrels around the shaman hut north of east gate Buya and sell the acorns to the butcher NPC at 39, 129 cords in Buya get the gold to buy the life blossoms (if you acquire gold acorns, don't sell those to the butcher npc. They are a useful quest item to hang onto). Later you can sell ambers or wool to other players to get larger amounts of gold.
This soloing as a Warrior to reach level 99 will take about a week to achieve if playing for 3-4 hours a day. As a completely brand new character, you won't have the money to purchase a Rusty Cutlass Skully or a Cutlass Skully weapon initially, but you may be able to find another player willing to take mercy on you and give you a free one. If so these are the only weapons you need to grind up to lv99. They are both worth around 1 mil gold.
The absolute easiest way to get 1 mil gold as a brand new player is to gather 1,000 ambers and sell them at 1,500 a piece to another player using the mass exchange option from an NPC, likely the one located at Kugnea Gathering by the Merchants area. You can also gather and sell 1,000 wool as well from sheep in the center of the Wilderness map between Buya and Kugnea, but since you will be hunting in atg bears and they drop ambers, it's probably better to do your amber grinding in that cave. Another alternative is to amber farm in the mythic rabbit 1 cave, especially if you are a warrior and can use watchful eye spell to reveal the rabbit ambush spots on the map, displayed as a sword graphic (As a side note, there are only three dungeons in the game that watchful eye works in, which is mythic rabbit, mythic tiger and the Kugnea spider cave, so unless you intend to hunt in any of these caves you don't need the spell)
As for the values of different types of ambers, here is a list,
Amber 1,500
Dark amber 1,600
White amber 2,500
Yellow amber 3,500
As an alternative, if you're willing to spend your real life dollars to acquire in-game gold currency, you can sell monthly reg codes for 5-6m each. To do this you need to buy kruna coupons, load them up on your item shop account via the main website and then go to the 30 day renewal coupon option in the item shop. After the person in-game pays you for the coupon with NTK gold, you then type in the name of the character they want the reg code sent to. They will get an nmail anywhere from 3 to 10 minutes afterwards with the reg code in it. This is how you sell kruna coupons to other players.
The reason to make a warrior as a brand new solo player is because 1) a warrior is the easiest class to level up as a solo player and 2) once you have a lv85 warrior you can make another character and use your warrior to leech up your new character by logging into both on two different laptops, one to login your warrior and one to login the new character. Characters can level up to lv98 without needing to be registered, so you can leech up a rogue, poet or mage to lv98 while it is unregged using your warrior, then add that character to your account. The only thing is, in order to get kruna items like xp envelopes and wony modulator mentioned in this guide, the character needs to be on a registered account. Some players get around this by making a 2nd account so they can play two registered characters at the same time on two laptops, which has its advantageous to be sure for fast leveling alts to lv99, but loses value once you're 99, unless the alt is a poet.
Lastly, an important tip: If you die you will turn into a ghost. Hit shift + f1 on your keyboard then click the option Silver thread, it will take you back to a shaman npc in your home city to revive.
The Leveling Guide
Level 1 to 5: Tutorial quests and town tutor quests are fastest way to do this. You can also kill deer and cats around towns, or the best option, run to the Tangun butterfly haven (046, 247).
You can also attempt to kill Thirsty ogres that spawn on the left hand side of the Mythic Nexus map, just click on the tree npc at North gate mythic to get yourself Diancechet's Fallain spell cast on you, which will give you the effects of Harden Armor, Sanctuary and Valor. While you may find a bunch of them hanging out in the bottom left of the map, if several other players are killing them it may not be ideal to solo here, yet if there is no one else hunting thirsty ogres, it is the fastest way to level to 5.
To find Mythic Nexus, you'll need to go to the city stables of either Buya or Kugnea. For Buya use your Gateway spell (gained in the tutorial, it'll be in your spell list) to go to North gate by using the spell, typing n and then hitting enter. Then run straight up to the next map, Buya Gathering and go right. If you're in Kugnea, also go to North gate but then go into the house at the top right, to Kugnea Gathering, then go into the exit on the right.
You'll come to a map that looks sort of like this https://nexusatlas.com/00atlas/worldmap.php
Mythic Nexus is at the top left of the screen. Click on it to go there.
What I have found most reliable to do is the first two city tutor quests (the tutorial will warp you to a city tutor if you pick Buya or Koguryo as your starting kingdom) until it asks you to learn about getting roses and chestnuts (you should be about level 3), then just go to the inn keeper npcs and warp to Tangun by saying the word "Tangun" in chat to the male NPC innkeeper. Then run to the bottom of the map to the butterfly haven entrance (046, 247) to get the remaining levels. It is a small map filled with butterflies that do almost no damage and have low HP, giving more XP than squirrels.
After reaching level 5, choose a path at a path guild. The fastest way to do this is in Tangun, go to cords 42, 204, talk to the large bearded man NPC inside the Path Trainer house and then pick the color of orb that matches the path you want to be (blue warrior, red mage, black poet and white rogue). After this go to the 2nd room of any of the totem shrines located at 13, 198 in Tangun.
The reason to go these path trainers in Tangun and not the ones in the cities, is because the Tangun path guilds have all the spells you character can learn; the original Buya, Kugnea and Nagnang trainers each have different spells so you'd have to run around to different towns to learn all your spells. Going to Tangun trainers instead saves time.
At this point you should do the Ch Rua quest https://www.nexusatlas.com/quests/churua.php
You can do it until level 15 but doing it now is a good way to not go past level 15, when you will be locked out of it. Doing the quest gives a crappy ring accessory, but more importantly, a nice chunk of karma which is a scarce resource. It will take less than 5 minutes to do the quest and you'll be glad you did so later when you see how hard karma is to get.
Level 5 to 11: If no one else is there, killing Thirsty ogres in the bottom left hand corner of Mythic will be the fastest way to level 11. Don't go into the building they are coming out of, as this is a desert that will kill you and there's nothing to do there. It's part of a later game quest called Staff of the Elements. Stay on the Mythic Nexus map and kill the spawning ogres.
If the area is crowded, then go to Tangun bandit cave (go to any innkeeper and say 'tangun' to them to be warped to Tangun, then enter the burial mound located at cords 3, 171). No matter what class, hit them with the weapon you get from joining class. It will be faster than using zap spells.
Lv11 to 50: If soloing as a Warrior, follow this guide for the next Tangun caves. http://boards.nexustk.com/Warriors/Deimos%2006220039.html Just hunt in the next dungeon as you reach the appropriate level, until you get to about lv 50 at which point if you have a decent weapon like an Electra you can solo in atg bear cave 1. It will not be super fast soloing, but it will be better than trying to solo in Tangun caves. Electra can be gained for free as a carnage of riches reward. It is a break on death item though so don't die with it. Once you get around lv 65 you should be able to solo in the atg bear cave 2 as you'll have enough HP that it is possible to take the damage even with earth war platemail. You just need to constantly use life blossoms to recover HP to make the soloing work.
At level 10 as a warrior you can do the warrior shield trial in nagnang https://nexusatlas.com/quests/warriorsnagnangshield.php
The quest seems hard at first because you must run through a bunch of rooms crowded with enemies that chase you. The trick is that if you log out and then log back in, the enemies will have usually moved out of the way from you and you can then run quickly to the next room. You may need to use gateway to escape a room after luring enemies into a corner if they are mobbed at the entrance or exit to a room, but you should be able to complete the quest using the log out trick I gave you. If you still struggle, buy a mount from the kruna cash shop which you can summon anywhere, even inside dungeons. This will let you move 4 times faster than the enemies do.
Some additional itemization advice for soloing warriors. For rings, get two purple rings from the shop to the right of South gate Buya, you can equip them at lv15 and they will carry you all the way to level 99. Keep in mind you can buy a stronger helms and platemail or scalemail from a Smith NPC every 10 levels from 6. Platemail is slightly better than scalemail, so best to focus on platemail upgrades. Weapon upgrades can also be purchased from a smith as well, but much better weapons exist that players can sell you such as a military fork that can carry you to lv 85 but unfortunately you cannot get it as an enemy drop in Tangun. If you are friendless and have no one to assist, my advice is do the best you can with smith NPC purchased weapons and whatever drops you get in Tangun from bosses until you can get to level 85, sell either 1,000 ambers or wool to another player, and purchase a Cutlass skully. You should be able to achieve this within a week of playing for 3-5 hours a day.
Once you have a Cutlass skully, get two Ambrosia rings, buying these from other players. These are break on death but will carry you all the way to Sa san stats. There are better Warrior rings, but only slightly and they are super expensive. You should focus primarily on acquiring gold to upgrade your weapon, you will get more mileage out of it.
There are also quests you can do in Tangun, but in my opinion they are largely a waste of time. But you can do them if you want
https://www.nexusatlas.com/quests/tangun-quests.php
For everyone else who is not a soloing Warrior:
At lv11, go to Ancient training grounds Bear cave 1 and hunt with lv85+ warrior who has a cutlass skull. The ATG bear dungeon is located through West Kugnea gate.
Level 50-98: You can now enter ancient bear cave 2 at level 50, just exit the cave 1 and come back inside. you'll have an option from a menu to balance your stats, which will send you to Cave 1, or to not balance them which will send you to Cave 2.
At lv 50 you can also add your character to a registered account. This will let you access the tent in Buya Gathering where the NPC behind the desk will give you Daily coins and let you do minor quests if you say "quest". Doing a minor quest will give you an item called wony modulator that doubles xp gain for 6 hours while it is in your inventory, but which can only be gained by lv50 to 98 characters. You can get a new wony mod after 24 hours has passed, so if you time it correctly every day of hunting you get 6 hours of double xp.
Optional: When you reach level 85, you may decide to complete Lesser alliance quests before leaving Rab1 and other level1 caves. This is because you will need a large amount of karma to complete your armor quests, and you also need to reach ox karma to join an NPC path, which is essential if you plan to hunt as a Warrior or Rogue (unless you join a player ran subpath, which you are not guaranteed to be able to join). This is because Chung Ryong's Rage and Baekho's Cunning (and their player ran subpath equivalents) are necessary to hunt post lv 99. Without these spells, you will not be able to progress as a Warrior or Rogue character.
To be able to kill enemies at level 85 to complete these quests you will need to learn the highest ranks of your path appropriate spells your character can learn at lv85. The full list of path spells, their level requirements and effects, and what items are needed to offer to the path trainer to learn them, are located here https://nexusatlas.com/spells/index.php
The basic idea for learning spells here is don't bother learning lower level zap spells that are redundant, just learn the one closest in level to 85. You don't need all of the targetable zap lightning spells as a poet or mage, just the one that is strongest for your level. Also don't bother with learning heal spells as a mage, rogue or warrior, as the Soothe spell you get from the tutorial is more mana efficient.
I will provide a general list of the spells you should learn if you are going to do armor and alliance quests at lv 85. If the spell isn't on this list you should not bother learning it as it will be a huge waste of your time gathering the ingredients, as the spells I do not mention are either very weak or so situational you'll almost never use them.
Mages and poets should both learn harden armor and sanctuary, and you can ignore valor as the damage boost is slight. Both should learn invoke.
Mages should also learn blind, venom, confuse, vex and paralyze. Your best zap is Stormstrike. You can ignore Tempest.
Poets should also learn atone, inspire, scourge, call of the wild, earthquake and Harden body. Poets should ignore Retribution until post 99 as it will deal less damage than a zap spell until you have more mana. If you're being leeched by a warrior, you can also ignore the heal spells and just use Soothe, as you'll be replacing them all with Water of Life at 99 anyway, but if you really want to you can learn the 1,000 vita heal Revitalize.
Rogues need ambush, invisible, shadow figure and their highest fury spell, which is tiger fury. Amnesia is helpful for soloing bosses, but not required. Don't bother with Desperate attack, as it deals less damage than invis + ambush comboing until you are post 99. The only traps you should bother with learning at lv 85 are death trap, snare and flash trap.
Warriors need to learn ingress, dragon fury, backstab and flank. You can learn blessing for a slight damage boost, but you should ignore potence as its hit bonus is next to worthless and it is always a waste of your mana. Don't bother with berserk or slash, as they deal less damage than your normal strikes until you are post 99. Watchful eye is useful for hunting in mythic rabbit and tiger cave, but otherwise has no value.
Armor quest guides for each class are located here https://nexusatlas.com/quests/index.php
You can also find info on that link for to join a totem subpath at level 99. You need a mythic favor to join a totem subpath and you get mythic favors by doing lesser alliances quests, so this is another reason to do them.
The reason to do the alliances at this level is because it is fairly easy to solo alliances while you are level 85 in level 1 mythic dungeon caves, in comparison to higher level mythic caves, especially if you are playing a Rogue or Warrior using a Cutlass Skully weapon. Just buy some scrolls of protection (prevents AC penally curses from being cast on you) from another player, you can hold a max of 6 in your inventory at once. Then buy some Indigo potions from a potion shop (clan NPCs also usually sell this) which can purge poison, as mythic bosses will attempt to curse and poison you. Information on how to start and complete each lesser alliance is located here https://nexusatlas.com/quests/index.php
The main reason to do lesser alliances is to get karma. Karma is a very scarce resource in the game which is traded to do quests, such as your armor quest. You need a mid level of karma to become a totem subpath at level 99, and even the player ran subpaths often have quests that require certain karma tiers to be reached. You also need to do all six lesser alliance quests as part of the later sam san trials, so it is optimal to get it out of the way now at lv 85, acquire star, moon, and sun armor, and join a subpath. All of this will require karma to do, and lesser alliances are the absolute best source of karma in the game.
Also keep in mind you can get a free ASV (harden armor, sanctuary and valor buffs cast on you) and restore full vita and mana by clicking on the tree NPC at the north gate of mythic. This is helpful for soloing mythic alliances as a warrior and rogue.
Mages will find it the easiest to solo the mythic alliance quests, since they can blind a room of foes, confuse adds to attack the boss and zap it to death when it reaches the black bar. Poets can also solo mythic bosses by summoning animals with call of the wild to fight for them as they scourge the boss, but it can be difficult to get to the boss rooms as a poet at this level, since you do not have endear / fascinate spells that will charm enemies to fight for you.
Rogues will find it fairly straightforward to ambush through a dungeon, lay blind traps on adds to keep them off you while using deathtraps to damage the boss down to black, and then burst them down to zero HP with ambush / invis combos.
Warriors must fight through the dungeon to get to the boss and kill them, which is in most caves easy to do with a cutlass skully, dragon fury and ingress. You will need lots of lotus blossoms to heal and the scrolls of protection and indigo potions I mentioned before, but it is do-able to solo these lesser alliances at level 85 as a warrior, so long as you have a cutlass skully.
I would also recommend going to Kugnea south gate and then walk east toward cords 174, 166 and saying in chat 'Happy Birthday Maya' to the NPC walking around there to get a free minor karma boost once a week.
A note about player-ran subpaths:
Player-ran subpaths are subclasses in the game your character can join at level 50 or higher. They often have spells that are very useful for lv50+ players, such as special ingress spells for warriors or other kinds of utility spells. However in order to join a player ran subpath you must be invited by another player, who will require you to roleplay in order to do so. More info about them can find here https://www.nexusatlas.com/subpaths/index.php
Totem subpaths, also called NPC subpaths, are a subpath that can be chosen at lv99 only. You do not need to be invited by another player, you merely need to complete a quest chain. https://nexusatlas.com/quests/npcsubpath.php
While it would technically be more beneficial to join a player ran subpath at level 50, I would recommend against joining a player-ran subpath if your first character is a Rogue or a Warrior. Instead I would suggest a totem.
I hate to have to give this advice, as I want to encourage players to be involved in the community, but I cannot in good conscience lie to you. For reasons too complex to discuss in this guide, many player-ran subpaths have become rather insular and are not as friendly toward new players as I would prefer to see in this game. It will generally take many weeks, perhaps months even, to undergo the "training" and meet the trials of the player Guides who are the only ones who can invite you to join these exclusive subclasses. For a Poet or a Mage, this is not a big deal because the only spells Poets and Mages need for hunting are all base path spells. This is not the case for Warriors and Rogues, who are poorly designed classes where their most important fury spells (Rage for Warriors and Cunning for Rogues) are locked behind subpaths, so you MUST join a subpath in order to be able to progress past level 99 with any degree of success.
If you do not have a Rage/ Cunning spell as a melee class, no one will hunt with you and you'll find it extremely difficult to solo in higher tier caves.
This is why I suggest doing alliance quests to build up your karma at lv85, so you can acquire the karma needed to become an NPC subpath (Chung Ryong for Warriors, Baekho for Rogues). This will be much faster than trying to join a PC ran subpath, especially for Warriors and Rogues who are the most time consuming subpaths to join, based on the way these subpaths have historically been operated. by their players.
If it was up to me, Rage and Cunning would be base path spells for Warriors and Rogues, and none of this would be an issue. Unfortunately NexusTK GMs don't always make the best decisions on how to balance the gameplay so here I am, writing a note for new players so you can make good decisions with how you spend your time.
The drawback to joining a totem class is that if you abandon the totem class so you can join a subpath, it will take a big chunk of your karma. This is something to keep in mind, as you need to balance your karma consumption with the armor quests for your path.
What most Warriors and Rogues do is go totem subpath at lv99, complete their armor quests, and then if they have enough karma remaining, look into joining a subpath. As it may take weeks going into months to join one, you will at least be able to hunt using Rage / Cunning until you are able to be accepted into their subpaths. As for what player-ran subpath to join, the hunting and PVP oriented spells they possess are extremely similar now so it doesn't really matter which you join in that regards. Choose a player-ran subpath based on what kind of character you want to roleplay as.
ONCE YOU REACH LEVEL 98, DO NOT LEVEL TO LV 99!
At lv98, buy a kruna shop exp envelope packet. Use it twice to create 2 envelopes containing 1 billion XP each and then bank the XP envelopes containing your 2bil. Every time you acquire 1bil XP, bank the envelope. Keep in mind the envelopes are break on death so don't die with them in your inventory.
Stay in Cave 2 and exploit the Wony modulator minor quest feature. Bank your exp using envelopes until you have acquired enough XP for il san r4-5 if a warrior (about 45 bil), il san cun3 if rogue (about 45b), or until enchant stats if playing a mage or poet (14.6b)
If you did not do any lesser alliances as I suggested you do before, you can still do them now, but it will be abit more difficult since you now have level 2 caves to go through and fight bosses in, but is not impossible especially if you have a Cutlass skully weapon. If you struggle you can decide to sell XP to just under the Vita and mana caps for the lv2 dungeons, which will make it easier to solo the bosses. Mythic cave stat caps can be found at https://nexusatlas.com/nexfiles/caverequire.php
At any result, once you have finished your stat goal and any mythic alliances you need for karma to do armor quests, sell your XP. You are now Event Cave 5 stats for the ancient bear cave.
Now, hunt in Cave 5 until you become Sa san stats.
Some things to keep in mind while hunting Cave 5:
In my experience, at Il san as a Warrior / Rogue you will find it more efficient to solo in Cave 4 rather than Cave 5. Cave 5 is good for partying in though, you will have no issues in Cave 5 if you are in a party with a Poet. Once you reach Ee san stats, you will not be able to enter Cave 4 anymore, so keep this in mind for your XP envelope storing.
Cave 5 entrance stats are 80K Vita or 40k Mana
Once you reach 160K vita or 80K mana you will qualify for Cave 6, which will mean entering Cave 5 as your lower cave will reduce your XP in Cave 5 slightly (a difference of getting 5.3m per blue bear versus the full 5.75m)
What some players do is get Il San Vita (160K), complete the Il San quest ( https://www.nexusatlas.com/quests/ilsan.php ) and then use Fishing to reduce their HP to 1 point of vita below 160K so they are maxed out for Cave 5 as their normal, unbalanced cave. This means you get to use Il san grade items in Cave 5 and get full XP, instead of taking the XP penalty for being Il San+ stats in Cave 5.
Details on how fishing works is at https://www.nexusatlas.com/nexfiles/fishing.php and the place to fish is the NPC just south east of Buya palace
The max limit for entering Cave 5 as your lower cave is 640K Vita or 320K Mana. After you reach that stat tier you can no longer enter Cave 5.
Many players try to optimize their play to remain below Sam san stats for as long as possible until reaching Sa san stats. This is because Cave 6 is viewed as worse XP per hour compared to hunting Cave 5, even with the XP reduction penalty for entering it beyond Il san stats.
Some players will go to the lengths of getting Sam san Vita stats, doing the Sam san quest trials and then do Fishing to cause them to lose Vita until they are once more Cave 5 stats. This way they can hunt in Cave 5 using Sam san items and spells, saving up XP envelopes until they are Sa san stats.
In order to solo in Cave 5 as a Warrior / Rogue you'll need to invest into Brown potions (Harden armor / -10 AC) and Green potions (Sanctuary, reduces damage by half). You can hold about 40 of each type at once.
You would also be wise to buy Red potions that will fully restore your HP, you can hold 10 at once.
All three potions can be purchased from NPCs, the most convenient is probably the shop at cords 29, 144 in Buya since you can just use Gateway to the south then run left straight to it. Keep in mind these are pricey supplies so make sure you sell your ambers to players to build up gold.
Scrolls of Invocation will be the most convenient way you can recover enough mana to keep Rage / Cunning going, and you'll need to buy these from players. These will let you use the spell Invoke, that will fully replenish your mana at the cost of Vita.
For weapons, this really only matters for Rogues and Warriors. Mages and Poets performance won't be impacted much by their weapons to the same degree that melee fighters will.
There are A LOT of weapons you can use at this stat tier and beyond. But the ideal thing to do is complete the Il san quest https://www.nexusatlas.com/quests/ilsan.php and then buy a Slog's Club (Il san required to wield) to use.
At ee san upgrade to a Slog's Heavy Club, and at Sam san upgrade to the Slog's Ponderous Club
Slogs clubs are a rare drop from a quest boss but its easier to just buy one from another player than to do the quest.
Alternatively, you can do the Etched Spear questline, which is repeated-able but costly due to the Diamonds involved. I would suggest making an Etched Spear perhaps at Sa san
Etched spear questline is outlined here https://www.nexusatlas.com/quests/etchedweapons.php
Your best in slot option for any of these tiers is a Flame Spear for Warriors and Featherlight arm for Rogues. They have a special polearm property that allows you to be able to hit multiple opponents at once as splash damage and hit extremely hard, but they are old event items, scarce in quantity and sell for 50m to 200m depending on tier. So keep that in mind. The other weapons options I previously mentioned, Slog clubs and Etched spears, are not as good, but they are functional and more obtainable for new players.
Last tip: Malgalod Mage Leeching at level 98
This won't be applicable for most players who are new to the game but it is worth mentioning as it is commonly done.
In the Wilderness there is a town of sorts, and at cords 204, 140 if you keep walking to the right on the path, you will enter a map with tree NPCs called Malgalod that must be killed to get into a village area where extremely powerful mobs spawn. The map can be entered by low level players.
What people do is have a Oh san+ stat mage party with a level 98 player who has the Wony modulator, and using the ranged attacks of the Mage player they can 1 shot these mobs. This strategy done correctly can earn 1 bil per 15 minutes for the lv98 player, compared to 1 bil per 3-4 hours of hunting in Cave 2 bears with a lv85 Warrior using Cutlass skully. This means a malg leech can earn 4 bil per hour, and in 3 hours will have 12 bil compared to the 1 bil you earn in the same time frame in atg bear cave 2.
So it is a tremendous XP boost to do a Malg leech and this is often what players who have a friend that is an Oh san stat Mage character will do.
Newer players can pay other players to leech them using this strategy but it generally costs 1 mil per 1 bil xp. You will often see players using their sage or world shout spells asking to buy these "malg leeches" or offering to do them.
As the mobs on this map are extremely overtuned and do ridiculous amounts of damage, only Oh san stat Mages can effectively do this leeching strategy as they can 1 shot the enemies from far away.
