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<p>I've asked myself this question more than once, and eventually settled with this answer: what's the alternative? Of course, now that we have the Dreamwalker Boots, it's consensus that its Magic Level bonus is better than the small extra mana provided by Soft Boots. But what about the other options:</p><ul><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Boots_of_Haste.gif" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tibia/images/1/1a/Boots_of_Haste.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/32?cb=20050604051759&amp;path-prefix=en" style="height:32px; width:32px">Boots of Haste. The good old speed boots lost its days of glory. As we know, +20 speed will frequently not provide you any speed boost at all, specially at higher levels. Thus, these are only useful in very specific situations, but rarely for hunts.&nbsp;</li><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Magma_Boots.gif">Elemental src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tibia/images/e/eb/Magma_Boots.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/32?cb=20071215072048&amp;path-prefix=en">Elemental Boots: For mages, there is one elemental pair of boots for each of the four main elements, all of them providing 5% protection but also 5% more damage on an opposite element. The 5% protection may be good, but not always. Protection in Tibia does not add up, but is rather multiplied. In short: the more equipment you have providing a certain protection, the lesser their real effect will be. With all the "new" items for protection (amulets with several charges, raiments, suncatcher, etc), more often than not the 5% will only give you another 3% in reality, which reduces the gains considerably. You can use <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Calculators">TibiaWiki's armor calculator</a> to test this numbers.&nbsp;</li><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Void_Boots.gif">Void src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tibia/images/f/f7/Void_Boots.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/32?cb=20160425192050&amp;path-prefix=en">Void Boots. These are a a mix of an Elemental Boots with the Soft Boots, since it provides both mana regeneration and considerable energy protection (10%). Obviously, then, it's a good choice when fighting a lot of energy damage (for example inside the Otherworld), but you also have to take into account its higher cost (since it's consumable and more expensive per hour than Soft Boots).&nbsp;</li><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Steel_Boots.gif">Physical src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tibia/images/d/d7/Steel_Boots.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/32?cb=20170905181059&amp;path-prefix=en">Physical protection boots: Steel Boots and Golden Boots ($$$) offer some extra armor even for mages. At higher levels, however, armor is a lot less useful, since it reduces a flat amount of damage and you're fighting stronger creatures. Also, stronger creatures tend to use more magical damage, so physical protection, specially for mages, is less important.&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Generally, I only consider&nbsp;protection in situations where I feel like I'm on the edge of survivability and every % counts. On other occasions, I would still recommend the Soft Boots. That is, of course, if you don't have the Dreamwalker Boots. And of course, Soft Boots are great for mana sitting inside resting areas with double mana regeneration.&nbsp;</p>

<p>I've asked myself this question more than once, and eventually settled with this answer: what's the alternative? Of course, now that we have the Dreamwalker Boots, it's consensus that its Magic Level bonus is better than the small extra mana provided by Soft Boots. But what about the other options:</p><ul><li>Boots options:</p><ul><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Boots_of_Haste.gif" style="height:32px; width:32px">Boots of Haste. The good old speed boots lost its days of glory. As we know, +20 speed will frequently not provide you any speed boost at all, specially at higher levels. Thus, these are only useful in very specific situations, but rarely for hunts.&nbsp;</li><li>Elemental hunts.&nbsp;</li><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Magma_Boots.gif">Elemental Boots: For mages, there is one elemental pair of boots for each of the four main elements, all of them providing 5% protection but also 5% more damage on an opposite element. The 5% protection may be good, but not always. Protection in Tibia does not add up, but is rather multiplied. In short: the more equipment you have providing a certain protection, the lesser their real effect will be. With all the "new" items for protection (amulets with several charges, raiments, suncatcher, etc), more often than not the 5% will only give you another 3% in reality, which reduces the gains considerably. You can use <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Calculators">TibiaWiki's armor calculator</a> to test this numbers.&nbsp;</li><li>Void numbers.&nbsp;</li><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Void_Boots.gif">Void Boots. These are a a mix of an Elemental Boots with the Soft Boots, since it provides both mana regeneration and considerable energy protection (10%). Obviously, then, it's a good choice when fighting a lot of energy damage (for example inside the Otherworld), but you also have to take into account its higher cost (since it's consumable and more expensive per hour than Soft Boots).&nbsp;</li><li>Physical Boots).&nbsp;</li><li><img alt="" src="https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Special:FilePath?file=Steel_Boots.gif">Physical protection boots: Steel Boots and Golden Boots ($$$) offer some extra armor even for mages. At higher levels, however, armor is a lot less useful, since it reduces a flat amount of damage and you're fighting stronger creatures. Also, stronger creatures tend to use more magical damage, so physical protection, specially for mages, is less important.&nbsp;</li></ul><div>Generally, important.&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Generally, I only consider&nbsp;protection in situations where I feel like I'm on the edge of survivability and every % counts. On other occasions, I would still recommend the Soft Boots. That is, of course, if you don't have the Dreamwalker Boots. And of course, Soft Boots are great for mana sitting inside resting areas with double mana regeneration.&nbsp;</div>regeneration.&nbsp;</p>