🧙┃mage

[obsidian reef]

alright then

[tranquil oak]

yeah didn't understand that at all considering there's a 100 ways to trigger fire aura in the game and dont need the passives?

[weary hamlet]

the better question is, if they insist on making a sort of a skill tree for the aura, why not make it a separate skill and move all this sh it there?

[tawny orbit]

Do you guys think I should do LB, Frostclaw, icy barrage, blackhole and teleport sorcerer, or LB, RB, frost wall, teleport and Flame Ward RM?

[weary hamlet]

black hole is a meme man, just play it and youll find out

[next lance]

does this apply for sorc?

[tawny orbit]

Thing is black hole is part of the sorceror class so if I don't like it I'd have to make a new character to switch to RM to get rune bolt

[trim imp]

what's better, ward retention or flat hp?

[hard orbit]

Hello guys, apologies for the noob question:

I see in a frostclaw runemaster build that you want shock and ignite proc on weapon, but why is that? Don't you care about frostbite only ?

[winged ridge]

I have a lightning build that does crazy damage 😂

[tawny orbit]

What makes Black Hole so bad then?

[late kelp]

Can anyone explain me why in this build https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oy4JZYaB the author upgrade the elemental nova skill but in the shortcut skill he doesnt put it? thanks a lot.
the author put Snap freeze instead of use elemental nova

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (68)

General:

▸ Health: 1,100, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 247, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 496%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 17 Str / 4 Dex / 130 Int / 4 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 80% / 93% / 80% / 82% / 82% / 75% / 75%
▸ EHP: 1,665 / 1,665 / 1,665 / 1,791 / 1,541 / 1,533 / 1,533

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 220
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (16)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 35% (1,851)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (26)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Elemental Nova (25)
• Runic Invocation (25)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Unstable Core
• Communion of the Erased
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

This build has a guide:

450% NOVA SPARK CHARGE RUNEMASTER - Build Guide by WolfsGoRawr

[rocky anvil]

Frost Claw procs it.

[tawny orbit]

Because some skills don't need to be in the skill bar for their skill tree to effect when that skill is triggered

[weary hamlet]

you can get that rm passive on sorc so largely yes

[late kelp]

how?

[safe grail]

celestial conflux

[rocky anvil]

"Celestial Conflux" skill node on Frost Claw

[safe grail]

in the top of the frost claw tree

[chrome falcon]

how do you deal with stun from mobs in this game? you need armour? currently runnin orb runemaster and all i hear is the annoying sound of stun "ding ,ding,ding" messing up with my rotation . they stun in close combat and they stun in range as well.

[late kelp]

Understood, thx a lot

[safe grail]

stun avoidance, astonish in flame ward, or pray.

[next lance]

Thank you! I enjoy the idea of freezing everything, so I was hoping it was more worth

[chrome falcon]

thanks a lot for the info 🙂

[safe grail]

i guess realistically, if you can reduce damage, it'll also reduce chance to stun

so that's another route lol

[tawny orbit]

So why is Black Hole bad?

[stiff tide]

ok i just learned

focal blast + frost wall

is bugged

frost wall shooting focal blast LB isnt doing dmg

[tawny orbit]

Oh and I might of done FB LB with Frost wall, good to know

[tribal beacon]

Does anyone know why frost wall doesn't proc brand of decption?

[stiff tide]

specifically the node charged paylon isnt working

[tawny orbit]

Have you tried walking through the wall?

[stiff tide]

oh that one works

its just the outer part isnt working

[tawny orbit]

What about removing the FB node does it work then?

[stiff tide]

it should

lemme try

[rocky anvil]

It's practically never meta for RM, but Teleport has a total stun immunity option if you also take some cooldown reduction on gear.
Sorry for pressing enter early, that was silly

[stiff tide]

it works

so FB + charged pylon isnt working

[tawny orbit]

That's good to know and great that you confirmed that

[tawny orbit]

Now you should put in a bug report about it

[viral prairie]

how does immutable order work for runemaster? are the first 3 skills taken when pressing s or from bottom of the screen?

[chrome falcon]

thanks a lot for the info !!!!

[rocky anvil]

Don't forget that both teleport and flame rush are considered traversal skills so they both put each other on cooldown, and opting for teleport instead of flame rush will cost you some DPS. That said, teleport has some great options by itself, such as that stun immunity 🙂

[tawny orbit]

And teleport can trigger elemental nova for you and do mirror images which are handy aswell

[hard orbit]

Is the runemaster Sphere of protection node 8% for each separate ailment?

[chrome falcon]

noticed the stun skill , empyrian was saying it in his video about putting points into it .saw his endgame build and thats why it doesnt work as intented

[grave lynx]

What is the highest dmg mage build atm?

[dreamy vortex]

so my traversal skill (teleport) is at 2.4s cooldown in game and im wearing a belt with the experimental mod t7 2.4s of traversal spell cooldown recovered on potion use, but when i use a potion it only removes half of the 2.4s traversal spell cd

thoughts?

[tawny orbit]

Glacier is so strong in the early campaign

[primal thistle]

i'm currently running https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/runemaster-leveling-guide . which of the two :
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frost-claw-runemaster-guide
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frostbite-frost-claw-runemaster-guide
is better and which should i transition to ? i'm almost hitting 70

[rocky anvil]

The frostbite variant has higher end-game potential due to it utilizing more uniques than the normal frost claw variant; this means that with enough farming, the LP drops will overtake the potential of the normal variant.

Aside from that, pre-high LP, I am unsure which one is better.

[tawny orbit]

What makes Black Hole bad?

[safe grail]

i'd argue that Frostbite has less potential end-game

[rocky anvil]

We're talking FIVE more uniques though, so that's a great amount of LP potential

oh..

[safe grail]

Dots dont stack w/ anything besides more dmg

[primal thistle]

many thanks for the clear explanation !
now strictly talking about runemaster builds in general, would the Spark Charge build have a better endgame scalability ? is that the meta ? what about easiness of playstyle ? i already see that frost claw+ frostbite is really easy to manage

[safe grail]

can't crit, can't hit faster, they don't stack w/ anything that gives hit dmg

so if you have a passive that says "you do 30% more dmg when you hit w/ cold spells" dots dont benefit from that

[rocky anvil]

But you scale damage with freeze rate multiplier which the other one doesn't

[rocky anvil]

I think both frost claw variants are very easy to play, the LB one is extremely easy as well, much easier than orb/hydra.

[primal thistle]

pardon the noobish question, LB= ?

[rocky anvil]

The downside of LB (= Lightning Blast, the spark charge build) is its very low single target dps

[primal thistle]

many thanks !

i think i will stick with the Frostbite Frost Claw variant for now which for me checks checkboxes of easy / high scalability / good aoe+single target dmg

[rocky anvil]

https://youtu.be/QGlezU-qQz8?t=12
And it just looks like a lot of fun if you ask me

[primal thistle]

i do not intend to topple any ladders, im just your average player wanting to have some fun, again highly appreciate the tips !

[safe grail]

yeah i just feel like frostbite is such a secondary dmg type that relying on it and/or stacking it seems like a waste lol

[tawny orbit]

Better off going for crit instead then?

[full bluff]

You can make frostbite damage scale really high with freeze rate

[safe grail]

oh yeah no doubt. i just feel like crit is lower effort in terms of gearing/stats

[tawny orbit]

I'm sad that Focal stops LB casts working on FW properly

[tawdry raven]

Has anyone ever made a build around the binary system node on black hole? It looks really cool but I've never heard anything about it so I'm not even sure if it can built around.

[weary hamlet]

max health+ward it the primary way in which you counter stuns, after not getting hit

[abstract sandal]

Has anyone got a runemaster build fireclaw ? I think it could be not bad to farm

[weary hamlet]

just don't hold your breath for actual freezes against endgame bosses, after the frostbite totally not freeze rate nerf you can't perma freeze julra anymore

at least with regular freeze procs

[thorny cradle]

Does anyone know how the recasts of shatter strike + the consumption of firebrand stacks with incineration works?
do all 2/3 casts gain the bonus more damage? or only the first one
idk how to interpret 'recast' + this

[weary hamlet]

the reason why is that you were likely the first person to test it, file a report

[rocky anvil]

Hang on, your current ward helps prevent stuns? I had no idea.

[weary hamlet]

from the order of skills on your hotbar regardless of what you actually press

[weary hamlet]

in short the stun formula is (damage taken)/(health+ward), with a few extra coefficients here and there

[rocky anvil]

huh, very cool. I had no clue 😁 I guess that's why vitality indirectly reduces chance to be stunned

[tawny orbit]

I really want to test out frost wall triggering both lightning blasts and rune bolts since it sounds like alot of fun

One of the reasons why I like WP on a Sent, can't be stunned while using it

[weary hamlet]

it used to be largely a non-issue but now that they more than doubled the health scaling of mobs from corruption, the bosses start to get really damage spongey higher up

[rocky anvil]

It helps a bit that LB/spark charge benefits from intelligence scaling the way it does with enigma, because without that it'd probably be slim pickins 😜

[visual iron]

does brand of deception include shock chance on spell hit?

[tawny orbit]

Is there anything that can trigger Frost Claw?

[terse igloo]

I think there was something that allowed a proc sequence of Mana Strike > Lightning Blast > Frost Claw > Elemental Nova. But I don't remember specifics.

Not that such build would ever work, since procs consume mana too.

[tawny orbit]

Yeah you'd need insane mana regen, although you could make LB still cost 0 mana and just have it as part of the chain but you'd be losing out on damage doing that

[gloomy mist]

someone noticed how broken prophecy blades are? I got one with 70% attack speed?

[trim imp]

storm blade node in spellblade passive tree has a 25% chance to cast frost claw with lightning melee attacks

[crimson token]

Hello guys! Sorcerer Fireball/Meteor is fine ?

[tawny orbit]

Ah well I won't be doing melee or spellblade, still good to know thankyou

[tranquil oak]

oof LE61 hitting hard

[gilded steppe]

I'm running this. Gameplay is really fun for me though I have to adjust a lot of things since I just stepped to empowered monos. I have flame ward, fireball, meteor, black hole and teleport as my skils

[terse igloo]

Ranged Mana Strike still count as melee.

[trim imp]

can make mana blade ranged, and it still counts as melee

[crimson token]

@gilded steppeDo you use the meteor belt ? this item rekt my mana when it procs crazy !

[tranquil oak]

all i've heard is sorc is super squishy later on, RM seems to be the most viable mage/caster right now

[terse igloo]

Can someone tell me the duration of Closed Circuit buff in Lightning Blast tree? It's not in the tooltip -.-

[gilded steppe]

I have four nodes in the reduced mana cost plus refund skill. I am not liking the damage output but it makes me shelve out a lot of meteors as much as I can. I am not a fan of the harbinger belt at the moment though.

[crimson token]

i want to do Meteor proc belt + blackhole that cast meteors , but i dont have enough mana !

[terse igloo]

Not really, since with sorc you can go the "damage goes to mana" route with total mana in the low thousands.

Can it compete with Runemaster spam Ward generation though? No idea.

[gilded steppe]

Try speccing Focus?

[hazy cloak]

Waht's the best runemaster leveling spell? Want to go hydrahedron eventually

[crimson token]

Whats focus ? 🙂

[tawny orbit]

Frost Claw is just insane

[terse igloo]

Spell that charges you up with mana.

[gilded steppe]

https://lastepoch.fandom.com/wiki/Focus

[frosty pewter]

most people do frost claw from what ive seen, honestly im just leveling with fire frost claw + mana strike and using hydra from the point I got it

[hazy cloak]

cool, i'll give it a try

[gilded steppe]

I am thinking of running Focus with Armageddon (Black Hole) on but I don't like the gameplay of it 😦

Maybe it'll work for you! Share it here if you want to try

[frosty pewter]

technically using the hydra before you get some of the automation up and running (flame rush skill tree) is probably a bit suboptimal, but I like playing my actual build while leveling

[tranquil oak]

I'm doing fireball + aergons greater fireball and its working very well

[frosty pewter]

I'm gonna try really hard to make greater fireball work once I get my RM to endgame, its so satisfying to cast

[crimson token]

@gilded steppeDo you use Aftermath in Meteor tree ? ( mana recovered )

[tranquil oak]

it feels great right now, my reg fireball is just nuking single target and i use greater fireball for packs

[gilded steppe]

I have a point in it just to help with my mana problems right now.

[frosty pewter]

especially with flame rush and frost (with fire spec) wall seems like it'll be pretty spammable

[alpine wyvern]

is anyone using blade twisting?

[frosty pewter]

unsure if ladle or firestarters torch would be better but theyre both huge more multipliers

[tranquil oak]

I'm currently using ladle, level 17, and my fireball is hitting for 2k

[frosty pewter]

torch has less useful implicits but probably easier to farm an lp 4 cause you can prophecy it and it has decent odds already

[tawny orbit]

I have two ladles, one has 1 LP

[frosty pewter]

lp3 is 4%, thats actually pretty easy tbh

[tawny orbit]

I wanna try out frost wall casting both LBs and RBs but I'm worried it'll end up just being a meme and not that good

[crimson token]

i might reroll spellblade to get tankiness !

[rain pine]

Already got several characters and classes/masteries to 80-100 in EA and during cycle and I gotta say that auto nova frost claw Runemaster build has to be my most favorite pure magic caster build since OG D2 icy orb Sorc. Lol

[abstract sandal]

Lol, do you have a build to suggest for that, bro ?

[safe grail]

Prepare to be disappointed lmao

[jade granite]

RM is a lot tankier than SB

[tawny orbit]

Yeah I'm not sure if I wanna try out frost wall casting LB and RBs or do frost claw casting LB and ice barrage for me? I don't wanna do novas as well as I know that would destroy my mana too much

[crimson token]

Feels like i picked the worst class possible ( sorcerer ) !

[safe grail]

you did

but that's okay

[rain pine]

I actually figured it out by myself after I found the nova helmet. lol

[safe grail]

you can play the mana stacking sorc build or reroll to RM

[stray summit]

is playing lighitning frost claw a good idea with sorcerer?

[jade granite]

I dunno id say shaman is worse than sorc

[vernal socket]

You're not marksman so don't worry

[abstract sandal]

Lol, i'll check that on LE Planner then

[safe grail]

nothing is really good idea w/ sorc unfortunately. it's just a subpar spec rn

[rain pine]

nova costs 0 mana in my build and frost claw has a positive mana return even at 27 mana cost.

[crimson token]

Mana Stacking ? whats's this ? 🙂

[tawny orbit]

That's kinda nutty dude

[long pike]

Any guides for spark charge guys?

[golden bough]

No one flexing with their hydra anymore on youtube, only FC and lightning 😦

[next lance]

tankiness more important than damage in high corruption, I take it?

[safe grail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiU586vYJGY

[jade granite]

I've seen MM doing over 1000cr and killing t4 julra in two seconds this cycle. Just because they aren't Falcon dont mean they ain't crazy

[crimson token]

@safe grail Thanks

[abstract sandal]

For passives and skills, what did you do ?

[rain pine]

Is there a way to automatically port my character into a char builder tool? Otherwise I don't think I am gonna bother with it for now. 😛

[tawny orbit]

For MM I wanna do some kind of bleed or poison build haven't decided what skills I'll use for it though since got so many options

[safe grail]

Yes.

click import on build planner

then plug your acct name and character name

[rain pine]

I will say, frost claw auto nova does not work until level 75+ WITH +3 frost claw because it's the only way to have the mana return being in the positive.

[abstract sandal]

You are my hero

[stray summit]

is the frostclaw/lightning blast build better on runemaster? or sorcerer

[tawny orbit]

Servers having issues again it seems

[safe grail]

you need to elaborate further; It really does need the full +6 from everything for a total of 26 skill points in FC

it's hard to play it even w/ just 25.

[safe grail]

please re-read what I said.

[abstract sandal]

If you import your build on LEP, it'll be nice to send it please :p

[crimson token]

Best build with Sorcerer ? Mana Strike ... that's really sad

🙂

[rain pine]

As soon as I hit 23 and got the 2 furthest end upgrades to fit into it, it made my mana return 95% positive, only few cases it will drop below 70% mana, but usually it gets circumvented with the next row having more procs on return, haven't been oom in 2 hours. EDIT: however I forgot to add, it does take 15 mana regen, less than that it will sometimes struggle.

[safe grail]

hmm. maybe it's cause i got greedy and wanted the 2nd and 3rd cast nodes lol

Edit to your edit: I did not have mana regen. good call out

[rain pine]

They're both active and both individually can proc the mana return node

[jade granite]

Just be RM until 1.1. it is what it is.

[safe grail]

I mean there may be others, but this is the only one I have seen be super successful; Then again LOTS of Mages that are playing caster are playing RM. hell most mages are just RM rn

[rain pine]

you do need volley of glass though, otherwise the return won't work in single target fights.

[safe grail]

i wanna say probably like only 2-3% of mage players rn are anything other than RM lol

[crimson token]

I'm the 1% !

[safe grail]

and you will end up struggling to find a functioning build lol

I feel like sorc was meant to be the mana-stacking spec they just....didn't do it right

it shouldn't scale your dmg based on the abilities mana cost, but your mana in general

[crimson token]

i dont care beating 900+ corrup , i'm just here to have fun while clearing rooms

[safe grail]

(unless that is a node. idk jack about sorc)

[abstract sandal]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BakZMyrA
This is my actual build, i'm not sure it's really op

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 85

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (11) / Runemaster (66)

General:

▸ Health: 1,087, Regen: 18/s
▸ Mana: 189, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 236%, Regen: 73/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 46 Int / 1 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 148% / 82% / 57% / 115% / 15% / 110% / 65%
▸ EHP: 1,496 / 1,496 / 1,263 / 1,569 / 935 / 1,496 / 1,360

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 42%, Threshold: 274
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (109)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 14% (328)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (22)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Frost Wall (22)
• Teleport (21)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Exsanguinous
• Cinder Song
• Maehlin's Hubris
• Transient Rest
• Ashes of Mortality
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[jade granite]

This trickles down to low corr a casual will do early empowered insanely easier as an RM too though.

[next lance]

I might just try to find a high LP firestarter’s torch and continue rolling ignite, just need to find what’ll make me tanky

[rain pine]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A14rNlKo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 81

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (13) / Runemaster (61)

General:

▸ Health: 748, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 143, Regen: 16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 255%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 0 Str / 0 Dex / 66 Int / 0 Att / 0 Vit
▸ Resistances: 91% / 79% / 91% / 93% / 89% / 78% / 69%
▸ EHP: 1,008 / 1,008 / 1,008 / 1,078 / 1,008 / 1,008 / 951

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 266
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (153)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 19% (522)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 22%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Lightning, Cold / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Flame Ward (20)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Frost Claw (23)
• Elemental Nova (24)
• Teleport (20)

Used unique items:

• Crest of Unity
• Fundamental Criterion

[safe grail]

Yeah that's what I'm getting at tho. Sorc struggles to stay alive in general in early corrupt

[rain pine]

Keep in mind my gear and idols are far from optimal, my primary focus was getting that positive mana return from frost claw, now I am trying to specify my build more.

[abstract sandal]

Thanks mate

[midnight beacon]

Hey what's mutilple in sequence for fireball and does runemaster work for fireball

[jade granite]

I've seen people do builder spender with rune bolt and not worry about mana, for frostclaw

Like the guy doing 1800

[rain pine]

Mine is doing 20k several times a second all over the screen

for just the nova part, not sure how much the claw itself is doing because it's stacking a million 600-2000 hits for that lol

[jade granite]

But I've also seen a lightning frostclaw not use a builder also doing super high corr. That looks more fun tbh

[crimson token]

Whats wrong with my weak sorcerer build ? 🙂 https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Bxv65lOA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 83

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (31) / Sorcerer (64)

General:

▸ Health: 880, Regen: 18/s
▸ Mana: 272, Regen: 16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 117%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 18 Int / 1 Att / 3 Vit
▸ Resistances: 67% / 35% / 34% / 28% / 10% / 40% / 57%
▸ EHP: 1,333 / 1,024 / 1,021 / 702 / 609 / 743 / 850

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 24%, Threshold: 199
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (12)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 9% (151)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Teleport (20)
• Meteor (22)
• Black Hole (20)

Used unique items:

• Prism Wraps
• Cinder Song
• Atrophy
• Harbinger of Stars
• Halvar’s Stand
• The Invoker's Static Touch
• Soulfire

[golden bough]

What is your ward with hydra?

[safe grail]

Low resists, low dmg, gear all over the place/no synergy, low armor. Skills have no synergy

pretty much everything is wrong with it lol

[rain pine]

It's kinda sad that Runemaster is so good because I've been reading and hearing online and from content creators that RM does everything Sorc does, but better. lol

[safe grail]

that's literally it

RM just does Sorc better than Sorc

[rain pine]

meteor sorc? just do meteor rain rune invocation

[safe grail]

no he aint a meteor sorc

he's an everything but the kitchen sink sorc

[midnight beacon]

Would fireball work with runemaster

[crimson token]

@safe grail i do with what i find on the floor lol 😄 what do you mean "low dmg" , i got spell/fire dmg everywhere 😄

[rain pine]

oh yes

anything works with RM lol

[midnight beacon]

OK hehe

[rain pine]

mana builders are mostly rune generators lol

for RM

[safe grail]

if you aren't doing empowered monos/bossing/clearing arena waves, then p much anything will work

but most of what we talk about here @crimson token are end-game driven builds.

[rain pine]

but fireball has some very epic stuff you can do with it, but then it would cost a lot more mana

[crimson token]

How can i get more damage ? Intel ? crit ?

[safe grail]

find an actual build for sorc and play it probably.

your build is too all over the place

[rain pine]

@crimson token the way the game work, with very few exceptions on some bottom-meta masteries, going full defensive build to cap resists and getting decently high other defensive stats, you'll still clear most content relatively fast until higher corruption, mostly because monsters don't have that much HP in this game, unless in a party or high corruption

[crimson token]

Cause i'm playing with more than one spell ? 😄

[tawny orbit]

Btw why is Black Hole considered to be bad?

[rain pine]

therefore, general rule of thumb: cap them defenses, worry about damage later, you get most of that from passive/skill synergy

[safe grail]

Nah it's not because you're using more than one spell. your passives are just not synergizing w/ what you are wanting to do it seems like

[rain pine]

my statement assumes your build makes sense @safe grail

[safe grail]

right

[crimson token]

well my passives are tankiness/mana/fire stuff

got 250% spell and 450% fire

[safe grail]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/fireball-sorcerer-guide

Try this @crimson token. since you've already built towards fire and such, this kind of gets you further than you probably are now. Not all uniques you find are good btw. Some rares & exalted items are just strictly better for a build.

[rain pine]

But yeah my falconer has VERY few offensive affixes on his gear but a very optimal skill/passive build and he's doing 200k/sec all over the screen. Of course not every mastery will be able to do that, falconer is a little overtuned, but still, focusing everything on damage is pointless if you're gonna get perma CCed and killed every 30 seconds. If your build makes sense and has the right synergy, in 90+% of classes/masteries/builds, capping defenses over focusing on offensive affixes is gonna get you a lot further and you'll still 1shot most massive packs of monsters and take down bosses decently fast, standard monster hp pools are relatively low in LE.

[nova pumice]

Is there any way to get Glyph of Dominion to 40 mana cost or higher that folks know of?

[safe grail]

Ik you have asked this multiple times, but i'd stop asking. if no one answered yet it's probably because either no one knows the answer or it's just personal preference to use black hole.

[crimson token]

@safe grailSo.. spell and fire dmg sucks, then i should focus on intelligence ?

[safe grail]

think you should look through the guide i linked you first

and read through it

[crimson token]

this" chance to cast spark nova " passive is good ? i've seen a lot of ppl using it

[safe grail]

to get a good understanding of the basics of building a toon

[rain pine]

@crimson token roll new char and go Runemaster, I know that sucks, but honestly, Runemaster does everything sorc does and better. Sorc needs to be overhauled after RM took the throne since his release. lol

[crimson token]

i got a lvl50 spellblade 😄

@safe graillooks like focusing on spell/fire dmg was a bad idea

[rain pine]

Not saying Sorc can't work, I am sure Sorc is broken AF if using the right meta build, but I feel like Runemaster will always be able to do something similar and do it better. Unless you are desperate to have a Black Hole on your screen. xD

[safe grail]

that's not what i was saying at ALL lol

[neon lynx]

[safe grail]

getting spell damage is essential to spells doing more damage, since it is flat damage

and the % fire damage you're getting helps considerably too

it's just your spreading your points WAY too thin in the passive tree

[neon lynx]

I like to have 1 point in everything. Makes my tree look pretty

[safe grail]

it's like you grabbed stuff that relied on critting but grabbed no crit on your gear lol

[tawny orbit]

You want multiple different sources that scale your damage due to how this game works mechnically at same time you don't want each source to be too weak

[rain pine]

@abstract sandal DMed you about my build btw.

[safe grail]

and also jumping back to it, Sorc just sucks rn lol

[crimson token]

Thanks for the tips guys

it is possible to reach 100% crit with fireball ?

[tawny orbit]

Well I've decided I'm gonna do frost wall casting LB and RB rune master with everything being cold will be interesting to see how well it works

[rain pine]

@safe grail I feel like people go sorc instead of RM because they're put off by the Rune Invocation, but there are ways to automate the Rune Invocation combinations or make the runes permanent until dumped. So new people shouldn't be too turned off by the Rune Invocation complexity if they know that.

[ocean sentinel]

Could someone please link me a better loot filter for the PlasmaOrb build, I dont know what i should be picking up etc

[safe grail]

The funniest part is you can go RM and not even take invo and play RM like a sorc and still do better than Sorc lmao

[tawny orbit]

To be fair the fun of Meteor is a good reason to go Sorcerer

[rain pine]

Yeah but RM has a Rune Invocation that's a meteor shower.

it's Fire Fire and something else before or after, forgot which one.

[crimson token]

My meteor shower is better tho ! 😄

[tawny orbit]

How would you make the rune permanent?

[rain pine]

There is 1 skill node in Rune Invocation that does it, but it does force you to put a cooldown on Rune Invocation ... the other way is through unique RM idols. There are also a few other skill nodes, passives, unique affixes, etc. that interact with it in similar manners.

1 other skill node says it will automatically copy your last used Rune Invocation regardless of current rune combination, that's another way.

But my point is just that there are ways to make Rune Invocation more consistent and easier to do your desired combo without having to pay too much attention to it or when randomly needing to throw a CC or buff in the mix to survive something.

[tranquil oak]

check mbx vids, he's got a rm setup that automates the invocation shield

[safe grail]

CFF i believe.

[uneven lily]

Big orange idol forget what’s it’s called

[tacit marlin]

im leveling runemaster, any good unique for leveling ? like a good unique wand/catalyst ? or anything

[frozen sleet]

Sorc+ vilatria's set is fun I'm using focus, arcane ascendance, flame ward, meteor and single target lightning blast. Prob not the most optimal build out there but fun. So I'm wanting to push it as far as I can

[rain pine]

@safe grail and damn to playing RM without Rune Invocation 😮 I feel like Rune Invocation in itself is such a huge skill for either burst damage or even just for buffing effects, that it will fit into any build. Unless you were talking about auto Rune Invocation off-skillbar procs. But yeah I would feel weird playing a RM that doesn't utilize RI in any way. 😛 But I am sure it works. Heck, even the runes themselves can give you crazy boosts with the right synergy, so I guess that's what would outweigh the sorc mastery passives.

[safe grail]

fax my guy, big fax

[frozen sleet]

I was gonna ask since I'm still learning about the game which passives/gear should I consider for a lot of ward? I have twisted heart which helps but should I consider using two invoker static touch rings as well for ward/flat lightning damage?

[rain pine]

Fire runes ... get X% fire damage, crit, cast speed, ignite, etc. per rune per int ... yeah screw sorc, might as well play fireball + teleport + flame ward RM for the runes instead of doing that on basic bXXXX sorc lol

[elder pewter]

Hey guys some of you have tried oceareon, i feel like its not working atm any thought ?

[rain pine]

@elder pewter what skills does that use? haven't heard of that one before

[elder pewter]

The ring said "More more dommage per 1% per shock stack"

[next lance]

Focus, Ward, Ascendance, teleport and Volcanic orb makes for a fun set, though it’s flimsy even in basic monos. the damage is absurd even at level 50, just needs to dump more into defenses, maybe find a way to push leech into ward.

upwards of 50 ignite procs on a single target per cast

[weary hamlet]

it was certainly working before and I've not seen anybody report that it stopped working now so I guess it still should?

[weary hamlet]

find a way to push leech into ward.
yeah that doesn't exist outside of twisted heart

[next lance]

then I guess hp stacking rather than ward

[elder pewter]

Someone was testing with frostbite and dont see any change

so maybe some dmg is not affected by

Hard for me to test with sparking build

to much proc

[weary hamlet]

I have a few of those in the stash, might run a test or two later

[elder pewter]

Keep me aware my friend, because i thinks the ring is pretty good with LP 1 for Sparkbuild but cant really test ah ah, more dmg always valuable

[glossy quarry]

man there is nothing that I hate in the game

but when I want to use my rune of ascendancy on off-hand catalyst

and I get 99% acolyte

things

[frozen sleet]

I haven't been Able to get my ward past 2k on sorcerer, I'm using twisted heart and prism wraps/bleeding heart amulet to leech to offset Heart. Can anyone suggest a more optimal way to get more ward than that ? LB/meteor Vilatria sorc btw.

[tall canopy]

Do Liath's Machinations give Fireball a lightning tag?

[rain pine]

Kinda like how I love almost every part of the game so far (besides the server issues), except for how my 2 LP3 BIS Uniques both got 2 suffixes instead of 2 prefixes (from 2 Exalted items that also had double purple BIS lines). Like ... yeah, I guess I didn't pray to RNGesus enough to deserve some good luck. Lol

[hybrid olive]

Any Frostclaw runemaster that could help me pls?
I m building a Frostclaw tanky Runemaster build rn and I dont really understand which Powerspike changes my ward gain from around 4-5k to 10k+???
I d appreciate any help XD Feel free to DM as well ❤️

[sturdy summit]

Hi n1bor, I play frostbite frostclaw, and the really big thing for jumping your ward is getting Frostbite Shackles off of Formosus. They let your uncapped cold resist become ward retention, 1:1

[hybrid olive]

I have them alrdy.
They are 0 Legi Potential tho

[terse igloo]

Why does lightning Spirit Claw still add a cold rune to Runic Invocation? WTF? Bug?

[stiff tide]

you mean the frost claw/

idk mine is fine when i used lightning frost claw

[safe grail]

jk i read what i wnated to read

there have been some bugs w/ runic invo lately

[ionic grail]

any plans to buff spellblade the class passive of 4 ward on hit for melee is a little bad

[rain pine]

Make sure you don't have any mods in your build that automatically give you certain runes.

[elder pewter]

@hybrid olive if not boss/rare im at8/12k vs boss 20k

Talent and cast speed make use have a bonk of hit who generat ward

[ionic grail]

okay. mhm

[hybrid olive]

Check your dms pls 🙂

[stiff tide]

unless your invocation has that node that depends on your skill bar

[sturdy summit]

once you have them, now you can start pushing your cold resist into the 100-200% range

[hybrid olive]

Ty I ll give that a try!

[sleek dagger]

Does frost claw cast by shiver shell (retaliate when hit) add a rune to the combo?

[sturdy summit]

only direct casts count

[sleek dagger]

Thanks. Do you know if that costs mana?

[ruby bluff]

tfw when my elemental nova was already doing screenwide aoe and now it has been "fixed" to do more.

[mellow pasture]

doing the runemaster leveling guide > https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/runemaster-leveling-guide#skills-and-passives-header to level my first guy,
and i see its different passives and skills and shizz, is it best to still go as the guide says and just relocate when max level?
or is it ok to just go for the full plasma orb runemaster guide

[acoustic gust]

i went frostclaw until around 70 and also waited until acquiring some half decent drops before i went Plasma Orb

[sharp monolith]

Can I apply Spark Charge with the channeled version of Lightning Blast ?

[mellow pasture]

hmm

[sturdy summit]

other nodes that cost mana to cast the spell say so. Shiver Shell does not, so I would assume it doesn't cost mana.

but I haven't tested it to determine if that's true

[silk arch]

@strange parrot look it up on the slow chat , BOZO

imagine defending sorcerer

kekw

[stiff tide]

yeah you should be able too

[tranquil oak]

so whats everyones fav invocations for RM?

[prisma patio]

Aergons greater fireball

It was the first thing I cast, and going from the piddly normal fireball to that was 🤌

[rain pine]

As an auto elemental tri-nova RM I would say the triple element rune that does basically the same thing as elemental tri-nova itself, so it basically stacks a double auto nova procced from invocation itself with the invocation that does the same thing but stronger than the nova.

[winter crow]

best inv for high corr is frostguard shield (ice fire ice) 30% dr and ward

[rain pine]

So anytime I use it, it basically stacks 200k with 6 x 30-50k in a pbaoe as large as my view.

[sturdy summit]

Frostguard, hands down. Can't get better than having a second layer of Flame Ward up permanently.

[worthy horizon]

How do you turn static orb into a secondary CC tool? I specced into frost and will be maxing out the freeze muli on hit and on explosion, and the stun for explosion, but what is the best way to delivery the explosion? Fuliminating orbs? Artillery?

My primary damage source is something else, and I'm mostly using this for Aegis, but other than Aegis it's been pretty useless

[tranquil oak]

almost wish i would of went sorc over rm not sure hwo i feel about the whole rotation for attack + invocations

[worthy horizon]

Invocation has ways to make it proc automatically or to make the same runes appear regardless of what skill you use

[sturdy summit]

One of the other advantages of Frostguard is you don't have to do rotations. Take Immutable Order and always get the same runes. It also gives invoke a cooldown, and makes it refund its cost. Which is fine, because Frostguard lasts longer than the cooldown.

like Flame Ward, Reowyn's Frostguard also gives you 30% less damage taken. And it stacks multiplicatively with flame ward.

[tranquil oak]

i'm interested in the automatic proccing, right now i'm doing fireball and aergons greater fireball as my main damage, its nuking about everything

[winter crow]

thats good for leveling

[sturdy summit]

what level are you?

[tranquil oak]

22 on this toon. I was wanting a caster with big visuals and I ended up going RM cause of all the different combos on the invocations

and everyone said sorc struggles to do high corruption

[sturdy summit]

sorc is very glass cannon, which is bad at high corruption. RM has great damage as well as being very tanky.

[scarlet nexus]

can someone help boost my alt? can return the favor

[frail pebble]

Any recs for runemaster build? Just starting ch9 right now, and have been yolo'ing it. Not sure what to swap over to after campaign completion

[next lance]

im doing a niche 100% lightning fireball build and im cof 10. was thinking maybe the stuff i want (because niche) are much cheaper on the market so maybe it would be worth changing. do you think it is worth ? also if some could tell me what the price is for prism wraps is for 2+ LP and liath's machinatons 4LP it would help me decide 😄

[winter crow]

to what corr did you get with that build?

[next lance]

its my alt currently level 84 still doing 100 empowereds

[coral thorn]

anyone wanna help me round out my build? i'm running hydra runemaster but getting destroyed in empowered

[dense plank]

What seems to be the issue? Damage or defence?
I've been doing empowered just fine with absolute garbage gear

[sturdy summit]

do you like rotations, or more of a one button build?

[frail pebble]

I'm fine with whichever - trying to explore options to see what the playstyles are like

[coral thorn]

defense

[winter crow]

prism wraps 2lp 3.5m+ liaths 4lp 700k+

[sturdy summit]

there are lots of variations on frost claw builds that are really good for levelling. I'd recommend trying one of those

[dense plank]

Are your resistances capped?
Do you have any crit avoidance?
Whats your hp?

[frail pebble]

by levelling build - what level does that go up to normally?

[dense plank]

70

[sturdy summit]

it can go well into empowered monoliths, but may not be optimal for pushing the highest corruption

[next lance]

jesus thats cheap thanks. btw if you wanna try out this build, its fun but you have to use tools to figure out your lightning crit chance with fireball cuz game wont tell you that kinda headache 😄

[safe grail]

that's....still a lot of gold for a game where you can't generate gold effectively lol

[frail pebble]

what's the recommended site for looking up these builds?

[next lance]

i can farm 5m gold a day without selling keys so idk

[sturdy summit]

lastepochtools and maxroll are good references, in that order

[sturdy summit]

This guide is good, although I recommend looking at multiple builds. https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frostbite-frost-claw-runemaster-guide

[coral thorn]

no crit avoid, cold at 66, poison at 53, all others maxed. health at 970 but 263% ward retention. i've tried to get people to look at my build and give advice for like the last 3 days but always nada

[winter crow]

Just get lucky and get rich kekw

[sturdy summit]

personally, I prefer to use teleport rather than flame rush, so I do something else for my fire rune.

[safe grail]

lmao aint no way.

[winter crow]

if you farm high corro, youll get some drops to sell eventually

[safe grail]

unless you're MG and selling items, then i get it

[frail pebble]

yeah, i prefer tp over flame rush after trying both of them lol

[sturdy summit]

This is my current build. It's got some issues, and isn't a guide, but you might find it useful: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A6PY77GB

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 95

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (21) / Sorcerer (27) / Runemaster (59)

General:

▸ Health: 972, Regen: 19/s
▸ Mana: 286, Regen: 21/s
▸ Ward Retention: 421%, Regen: 43/s
▸ Attributes: 3 Str / 3 Dex / 49 Int / 3 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 63% / 85% / 109% / 38% / 72% / 100% / 26%
▸ EHP: 1,040 / 1,165 / 1,165 / 898 / 1,131 / 1,165 / 782

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 194
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (17)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 17% (521)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 108%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (21)
• Frost Claw (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Runic Invocation (21)
• Glyph of Dominion (25)

Used unique items:

• Frozen Ire
• Frostbite Shackles
• Snowdrift
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[frail pebble]

when's a good time to swap over builds though? won't i get a lot less damage since everything I'm currently using is levelled skillwise?

[dense plank]

Well, get your resistances capped obviously.
Hp is fine, i got similar.
Get some crit avoidance, there is a unique chest which gives 100%, Woven Flesh or something(?).

Other than that keep moving, dont stand still.
Keep doing flame dash to get damage mitigation, also take way less dmg when your dashing.

[sturdy summit]

note: don't have elemental nova on my bar. My skill order is (cold) Flame Ward, (fire) Glyph of Dominion, Invocation, Teleport, (cold) Frost Claw.

[coral thorn]

i use teleport

[coral thorn]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Bjq3gObQ

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (10) / Runemaster (83)

General:

▸ Health: 1,140, Regen: 79/s
▸ Mana: 234, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 274%, Regen: 48/s
▸ Attributes: 6 Str / 6 Dex / 49 Int / 6 Att / 15 Vit
▸ Resistances: 105% / 75% / 43% / 71% / 108% / 79% / 93%
▸ EHP: 1,396 / 1,389 / 1,058 / 1,391 / 1,396 / 1,396 / 1,396

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 32%, Threshold: 298
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (24)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 11% (276)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Lightning, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Runic Invocation (23)
• Glyph of Dominion (20)
• Runebolt (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Flame Ward (20)

Used unique items:

• Reowyn's Fortress
• Box of Hydrae
• Calamity
• Throne of Ambition

[dense plank]

I'm unfamiliar with the skill tree of teleport, does it have any damage mitigation?

[sturdy summit]

you'll get your skillpoints back quickly. And the campaign is easy enough that a small power dip won't be a big issue. You just started Chapter 9? That's a fine time to do it.

[frail pebble]

oh ok

[sturdy summit]

just don't respec right before a big boss :p Either the start of chapter 9, or after finishing it.

[frail pebble]

time to start redoing everything xd

nah, just swept lagom not too long ago, so don't forsee any big bosses immediately

[sturdy summit]

yeah, then you'll have no problem with majasa

[frail pebble]

what would have your recommendation been for rotation based gameplay out of curiosity?

[pale gyro]

does critical strike chance/damage affect shattering strike or do i need spellcrit/dmg?

[sturdy summit]

I don't spec teleport. I use unspecced teleport, because I don't need Elemental Nova on my bar.

[sturdy summit]

regular crit is generic crit. Lower numbers, applies to anything that can crit (not dots)

spell crit is better because it can roll higher, but not required

[pale gyro]

okay nice, but spellcrit also applies to shattering strike?

[sturdy summit]

Shatter Strike is not a spell. Look at its tags.

[coral thorn]

yeah it can. and i have flame ward set to autocast on stun

[sturdy summit]

it's Melee, so you want Melee crit for it

or just regular crit, if you have mixed spells and melee

[rain pine]

"Fixed a bug where Elemental Nova’s damaging area was not affected by increases to its area of effect"
DUDE my auto-novas are so much bigger now lol, didn't even realize it was meant to be bigger than it was, so I have basically been playing in nerfed down mode for the past couple days. LOL

[tired hound]

What build are ya playjn

[rain pine]

Something I put together myself, if by build you mean "big content creator meta build". 😛

[crimson token]

@rain pine With which spells do you procs novas

[rain pine]

frost claw, which is a pretty common thing from what I have noticed in this channel, but also through Runic Invocation

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qqw97J3o

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 83

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (14) / Runemaster (62)

General:

▸ Health: 764, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 144, Regen: 16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 255%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 0 Str / 0 Dex / 66 Int / 0 Att / 0 Vit
▸ Resistances: 91% / 79% / 91% / 93% / 89% / 78% / 69%
▸ EHP: 1,024 / 1,024 / 1,024 / 1,094 / 1,024 / 1,024 / 966

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 269
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (153)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 19% (522)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 22%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Lightning, Cold / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Flame Ward (20)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Frost Claw (23)
• Elemental Nova (24)
• Teleport (20)

Used unique items:

• Crest of Unity
• Fundamental Criterion

[rain pine]

it's far from optimized btw, got some pretty bad filler exalted items with 0 FP left because I haven't found better yet

but it's blowing up everything in empowered monos so far and even killing bosses relatively fast.

[potent ice]

Levelling a fire runemaster. Should I use firestarter's torch or reowyn's fortress?

[tranquil oak]

So how do i use runes with other skills? iv'e got the passive but i don't anything that triggers it?

[rain pine]

for leveling it doesn't matter so much, I tried both while leveling as a fireball + triple fire rune invocation runemaster, I personally preferred the staff

[potent ice]

Alright, will give it a go

MIght miss resistances from OH and playing in hc
But if everything blows up before I do it'll be fine 😄

[potent ice]

runic invocation

[tranquil oak]

well i took mastery of invoker which says have a chance to trigger invocation when you use up runes with another skill

but what/how uses up the runes?

[next lance]

Holy moly mage is a nightmare to lvl from the get go

[wet lintel]

play glacier

[potent ice]

it's fine with elemental nova

[next lance]

im following the max roll lvling sorc guide and i will end up going glacier chrissy but sheeeesh i died twice already cus i deal zero dmg

[wet lintel]

oh, yeah, it's rough until glacier

or ele nova as imanity said

but it lasts like 10 min

[next lance]

this lvling build doenst even use glacier

it uses Lightning blast mana strike static orb flame shield and Flame rush

[rain pine]

Easiest way to level as mage, especially the early levels, is just using fireball or lightning blast + snap freeze, I would definitely use snap freeze even if unspecced as an "oh crap" button.

[next lance]

oh ya i am atm

im just used to warlock/falco that stuff was a breeze

[potent ice]

snap freeze is so good. Boss using nasty ability? Not any more

[wet lintel]

I would not use lightning blast without spark charges which is what that guide recommends

Never played static orb so can't comment on that

[next lance]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/sorcerer-leveling-guide#gearing-and-side-quests-step-by-step-header this guide?

[wet lintel]

Mhmm

[next lance]

unless u got a better lvling guide im all ears 😮

[rain pine]

I use unspecced snap freeze because I don't need nova on my bar because of it being 100% auto procced and because of the Runic Invocation node Immutable Order needing a frost skill on my bar to work for the right Invocation.

So it's perfect for my build

[next lance]

Does nova still work with the tree if its not on your bar?

[tawny orbit]

Yep Snap Freeze is great while doing the story

[next lance]

i though only Skill trees applied if you had them on your bar

[wet lintel]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/runemaster-leveling-guide

[rain pine]

yes specced skills will always work as specced even if not on bar and auto procced through something else, unless it specifically states that it only procs an unspecced version

[wet lintel]

You can use this and just ignore everything that's runemaster specific

[next lance]

and then swap to glacier build at?

[tawny orbit]

Yeah there are a few exceptions though, like glyphs of hope on Sent needs to be on the bar for the 6% on kill to trigger I discovered

[next lance]

cus the glacier build on Maxroll is stated requirements of a lvl 70 mage

[wet lintel]

you use glacier as soon as you unlock it

and just mana strike

to get mana back

[next lance]

oke

[wet lintel]

those should be the first two skills you spec into

[next lance]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/glacier-sorcerer-guide and swap to this at wat lvl ud say?

70 i assume then?

or just folow that from the get go idk if thats smart xD

[tawny orbit]

Well I discovered why Blackhole isn't good, turns out it's really damn small and there are no nodes on the skill tree to increase it's size

[next lance]

im sorry for askin dumb questions D:

[wet lintel]

oh

i thought you had a sorc build in mind

i wouldn't play sorc/spellblade at all personally

[next lance]

yes glacier is a sorc build?XD

#confused

[wet lintel]

it's a mage skill

[next lance]

fair

[wet lintel]

it's shared between all three mage classes

if you wanted to play a glacier build i'd do it as a runemaster

only reason to go sorc

is for sorc skills

[next lance]

i mean i wanted to play a blizzard type of mage but

there is no blizzard skill from what ive seen

unless u can adjust like meteor or something

[wet lintel]

there's ice barrage, frost claw, frost invocations on runemaster

most skills can be converted to ice

[stiff tide]

theres also ice ice ice invoke

that feels like a blizzard skill

[next lance]

runemaster is to big brain for me man D:

[stiff tide]

dont have too

[wet lintel]

there's ways to automate the invocations

[stiff tide]

you can either automate it with a node or just

[next lance]

im really not smart enough to play a runemaster

[stiff tide]

do one elem

lmao

[next lance]

you laugh it aint funny if its you bro being the dumb dumb HAWHAHA

[stiff tide]

dont have to memorize every invocation either

[sturdy summit]

people use unspecced snap freeze even for pushing high corruption, it's so good as a free button

[rain pine]

I am one of those, as I stated below that. 😛

[tawny orbit]

Yep Snap Freeze is great as a panic button to give you a few seconds to recover that's for sure

[next lance]

welp back to the drawing board i guess .. lmao

[sturdy summit]

frost claw with elemental nova is quite blizzard. So is the CCC runic invocation, although noone uses that.

[next lance]

maybe ill try that ziz rune master build with the laser

maybe i can comphrehend that

[sturdy summit]

there are plenty of runemaster builds that only need to hit one button, plus keep their buffs up

[tawny orbit]

I wanna try out my frost wall casting LB and RB for me if that doesn't work out then yeah I'll go frost claw

[next lance]

frost claw feels like CoC ice nova

Im intrigued hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[rain pine]

or as an interrupt of big 1shot things

[crimson token]

@rain pine Do you use Unstable Core armor ?

[sturdy summit]

frost claw is a frost nova delivery system, and frost nova chains across the entire screen

[rain pine]

I am farming it right now as we speak @crimson token

[next lance]

Phil have u played CoC ice nova in PoE by chance?

or do u know what it is atleast

[sturdy summit]

no, I don't play PoE

[next lance]

Oh well fudge

[tawny orbit]

I've used it a few times for that. Also snap freeze followed by glacier feels real good

[crimson token]

@rain pine Just dropped it in a 85monolith chest:D

[next lance]

i was hoping ud knew maybe u could like recommend something that similair

[sturdy summit]

well, you could try describing what you're looking for

and I can recommend something like that

[rain pine]

woop gratz

[mild pulsar]

having to fight some bosses with disintegrate is straight up torture

[next lance]

Well CoC ice nova is a Cast on crit ice nova so u spin around using a whirlwind skill that has CoC linked to it with a weapon that also procs an ice skill on hit so your spinning around Creating big ice novas that shoot frost bolts at the same time literally freezing the entire screen and blowing it up

altho i was never a fan of the spinning XD cus i hated cyclone

But i am a big fan of freeze/shatter if thats a thing in LE and Cold themed stuff in general

[wet lintel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LGe4rPZgtE

[next lance]

AYOOO

Chrissxy be like i have a build for you WHAHAHAH

[rain pine]

DUDE this plays exactly like my build, it's just double as fast probably because of having fully optimized gear. LOL

[next lance]

18k ward btw casually KEKW

Nvm 20k XD

[wet lintel]

yeah it's highly minmaxed

but if you have the uniques you can play it sooner

[rain pine]

even I easily get 10k stacked up with half his cast speed, etc. though

[austere sentinel]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Bxv6rV1A i am on trac and following this idea for a runemaster build. Basic idea is drop mega rune stones and just channel disintegrate. I expect it to have plenty of good clear but i am worried about late game bossing. What do you guys think?

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Runemaster (93)

General:

▸ Health: 1,042, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 121, Regen: 9/s
▸ Ward Retention: 88%, Regen: 12/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 22 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 0% / 0% / 0% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%
▸ EHP: 626 / 626 / 626 / 626 / 626 / 630 / 630

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 208

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Lightning Blast (20)
• Disintegrate (20)
• Static (20)
• Runebolt (20)
• Runic Invocation (20)

Used unique items:

None

[rain pine]

but yeah if this is what my build is gonna feel like in 16 levels from now with better gear

meow, sign me up

I can't get over the clunkiness of flame rush though so I am playing a teleport variant.

[coral thorn]

Are there any pure plasma ball builds that make it so it's the only thing ri can cast

[sturdy summit]

the guy in that video, is he using Swaddling of the Erased because it rolled well, or is it actually BiS?

[next lance]

i dont XD i dont even a lvl 70 char i got a lvl 66 Dive bomber but i have no idea how to progress it and just mindnumbing clearing maps feels not nice without a purpose

[rain pine]

probably because this build heavily relies on stacking int and attack speed

I'm just so glad to see that the build I put together myself will eventually be super high corruption viable xD LOL

And might use their build as inspiration to maybe switch a few things up perhaps.

[next lance]

that must be a really nice thing to find out

How would one go about lvling this type of build so i can get into that shet but hes says its unpayable without 140 int ... sooooooooo XD? what do u use pre this?XD

[rain pine]

it's not, I am not even at 60% of his attack speed and int and it works fine

just need to optimize gear more to be able to climb corruption is all

[wet lintel]

If you wanna play a falconer follow allie's guide: https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/allie---1-button-shadow-dagger-falconer

[silk pewter]

Allie - 1 Button Shadow Dagger Falconer Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Release / 1.0

Class

Rogue / Falconer

Used skills

• Aerial Assault
• Umbral Blades
• Falconry
• Dive Bomb
• Smoke Bomb

Used unique items

• Cradle of the Erased
• Gambit of an Erased Rogue

Tags

Boss Killer / Monolith Farmer / Cycle Starter / Beginner / SSF / Melee

Created by Allie · Feb 20, 2024, 1:06 AM

[next lance]

Please do not play this build if you don't have at the minimum 140 Int, or it will feel bad. his words

[wet lintel]

It's very handholdy

[rain pine]

they're gonna nerf the infinite looping soon though @wet lintel which is what the build relies on unfortunately

[next lance]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/falconer-leveling-guide i lvled with this

[wet lintel]

It does not

That's only for cheesing bosses

[rain pine]

I know, I read it and I disagree, he might be specifically referring to high corruption

[next lance]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/dive-bomb-falconer going in to this i think at 70 but idk

[safe grail]

Think he is referring to high corr. the diff between 100 and 140 int is massive tho. 160% ward retention lol

plus all the other benefits of passives that scale w/ int

[rain pine]

the int is mostly about cooldown scaling on that build

[safe grail]

yeah that too

[rain pine]

because it uses a cooldown version of Runic Invocation

[tawny orbit]

Looks like the Devastator node doesn't add area tag to Rune Bolt? I wonder if that's intentional or a bug?

[rain pine]

with 0% cooldown reduction it's 12 seconds cooldown, mine is currently 6.3 sec and it will probably be 3-4 seconds by the time I hit 120+ int and yeah it does help the build a lot, but fortunately for me my frost claw is a great filler

[winter crow]

they nerfed selling keys noo

I had 2 full stash tabs 😦

[next lance]

^ and thats probaly why

[safe grail]

no it's because MG is down bad and was making CoF alts to do that

so it screwed over everyone in the process but gold was ALREADY hard to come by for CoF.

[next lance]

Guess ill be setting my new char on hold for a bit till i figure more about the game hmmm anyhow thx yall for helping a newb out i appreciate u all

If anyone finds it fun or has an interested in lvling a char together at some point feel free to DM me 😛

[steep tangle]

i wish they gutted the prophecies that dropped the keys and not the keys themselves. those nodes are so worthless

as are the key drops

if you don't do arena

[tawny orbit]

Having keys are rewards for monos feels pretty weak to be honest

[safe grail]

i mean now they, alongside exp tomes, are just completely useless lmao

[tawny orbit]

Exp tomes are handy if you despec a skill and need to lvl up the new one faster at least which is about all they good for

[winter crow]

exp tomes also good to lv up mg/cof

[safe grail]

try again my guy. lol

there was a "bug" that was giving more than intended.

Quote from the Notes:

"-Added Prevention for CoF bonuses from doubling XP tome rewards in Monoliths
-This is also technically a bug fix as the XP Tome Reward isn’t a direct item reward. Item Factions are not intended to have an effect on experience gains, only how items are obtained."

[tawny orbit]

I only just hit rank 5 CoF today too so I didn't even get a chance to take advantage of that before the "fix"

[safe grail]

imma be real, i almost dont even wanna level it up.

so i dont get a lot of items and no where to put them since i have no gold to buy tabs

lol

[tawny orbit]

Yeah gold on CoF is a big issue

[teal musk]

i can't see my runes from runic invocation when i walk over certain environment effects like smoke or effects on the ground, is this normal?

[earnest marten]

anyone building around dragaroth claw? is lb proc from fc with glass volley is enough to clear the packs?

[steep tangle]

i believe he was saying the tomes are still worthwhile to grab to get favor for the factions themselves, as the favor you get can e worht more than the glyph or rune options that are around the start of the web

[steep tangle]

yep

[teal musk]

nice one cheers mate, it's not breaking anything tbh just noticed it 😄

[tawny orbit]

I do hope my frost wall build will work since I don't wanna do frost claw like alot of people are doing

[next lance]

frost claw is apparantly meta just from how much ward it’ll generate

[molten cobalt]

its not frost claw generating ward?

[rain pine]

Not just from the ward generation, it also has crazy single target and aoe DPS in the right synergies.

[late vessel]

I've been proccing it only from "chance to trigger frost claw on melee hit" specialization node coupled with remote mana strike. Speccing into Mana strike, frost claw AND lightning blast seems to clear pretty well to me but I'm not doing corruption stuff yet.

[next lance]

it gets ward from passives as direct spell cast and area spell cast, as well as some stuff from its own tree

[molten cobalt]

i just dont like how immobile frost claw makes you

[next lance]

haven’t seen the damage on it yet, my testing is very early with it and it seems pretty bad comparatively to things like disintegrate

[molten cobalt]

it's like a channeling skill but its not channeling

[thorny willow]

@winter crow if one were to get an Osiris eye, would you commend mage as a good toon to roll?

[rain pine]

It obliterates the entire map for me with auto nova frost claw build, but it needs at least level 23'ish skill to be able to get all the necessary nodes for that.

[quiet salmon]

Hey guys, looking for advice...I. ok in monoliths appropriate to my lvls but have trouble with the bosses...single target damage seems low and I can be one shot at time (sorc static, lightning blast, static orb)

[tawny orbit]

I'm curious what is the best channeling skill in the game?

[winter crow]

it can be used in some builds, but I wouldn't roll a char just cuz of an item honestly

[digital oar]

Is there a good three element runemaster build? It seems less fun to me, to focus purely on one or two elements.

[inner burrow]

Not really, but even the less competitive ones won't have the cracks show till you're fairly deep into corruption

[rain pine]

In high corruption for runemaster, which should be prioritized if picking 1: stun avoid, crit avoid or dodge rate? Assuming none are capped yet.

[safe grail]

Probably crit avoid

but GL Finding spots for that

[sturdy summit]

if you get the blessing for crit avoid, you can cap it with a single affix

[rain pine]

Nah just trying to figure out my priorities on suffix craft rolls.

[finite trellis]

Profane veil lol

[finite trellis]

Cat's elemental nova build is sorta 3- elements

Can find it on YT

[digital oar]

thanks!

[tawny orbit]

Really? Didn't expect that

[formal flicker]

I was debating a potential all elements build where you use reowyn's to keep the damage scaled up but haven't gone much further than that, definitely potential to make something as you could just have elemental damage versus specific damage

[tawny orbit]

I know there's Amplified Cascade node in Rune Bolt for all elements that does more damage if Rune Bolt is what your spamming

[formal flicker]

Oh no it'd be for the invocations themselves I'd believe, I think I saw a unique or something that cast blizzard on frost wall cast, not sure how else, most likely won't theorycraft it for a few weeks until I get bored of farming for red ring

[tawny orbit]

Fair, good luck with the farming. The unique for blizzard on frost wall cast would be nice for my frost wall build I wanna do

[modern hamlet]

Max level of elemental nova? +6 +4 from hat, +3 from chest, +3 from jewel set, +1 from erased relic, +2-3 from weapon so 40?

[formal flicker]

thanks, and yeah that unique looks really strong, it doesnt cast it on moving the wall though which is a bit of a pain but makes sense

[faint wind]

Does ignites inherits base damage of spell, or it is on its own? Spell only apllies fixed ignite damage

[still stump]

is penetration super useful on an amulet?

[formal flicker]

penetration is ~= 1% more damage per 1% of pen

[tawny orbit]

Yeah only issue with the unique as I just looked it up is that casting of frost wall changes to directly infront of me and becomes a traversal skill, kinda ruins my planned ranged setup I wanna do. Since I'd like Frost wall to cast LB and RBs for me while I spam more RB myself with it all being cold damage and freeze, in theory could be alot of fun just worried it could just turned out to be a meme build that does no damage lol

[formal flicker]

it could still work, i mean i started with shaman and nothing could be worse than relying on storm bolt damage so you have zero enjoyment of actually "playing" the game

part of the fun is to see if it works, just a shame it takes so much effort to find out if it even works, especially with gold/favor costs to just attempt to make it like you wanted

[pastel heart]

if my character its not in cycle is in legacy standar right?

[edgy charm]

yes

[tawny orbit]

I actually have a storm bolt beast master I started, wanting to have myself and my storm crows bolting everything, definitely a meme idea of fill screen with lightning lol

[digital oar]

what's that unique's name?

[tawny orbit]

Frey's Retreat

[digital oar]

thanks again

does ice barrage still have a cooldown if it's cast through power word: hail?

[pastel heart]

and other question, if a had 62 000 of gold that is 62 000 k right?

[finite trellis]

No, 62,000 gold = 62k

[last eagle]

Once every minute for a few seconds I get some "lag" where my skills are invisable, enemies are invisable, and if it is not refreshes i get disconnected.
I have a stable internet, Anyone else?

[potent ice]

Never had before. Don't do hc until it stops xd

[tawny orbit]

What's the base duration of Frost Wall?

[safe grail]

You spamming this in like 4 channels is not cool btw. Would reach out to support for help

[last eagle]

I was afraid to "get lost" in many messages. Thank you!

[potent ice]

Is this build good enough for normal monos?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BGzwlvxQ
Resistances suck but giga dmg

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 36

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Runemaster (25)

General:

▸ Health: 450, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 119, Regen: 9/s
▸ Ward Retention: 96%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 5 Str / 9 Dex / 24 Int / 5 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 45% / 21% / 66% / 13% / 18% / 11% / 30%
▸ EHP: 942 / 745 / 1,233 / 509 / 509 / 478 / 566

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 90
▸ Dodge Chance: 8% (77)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 14% (114)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (20)
• Fireball (20)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Flame Rush (20)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Prism Wraps
• Reowyn's Fortress
• Avarice
• Lessons of the Metropolis
• Tome of Elements

[edgy charm]

why not just try it out? can have great stat page but if you cant pilot it or the build feels clunky

[potent ice]

In HC so only get 1 shot

[frozen lodge]

no maxing res in HC

um

[potent ice]

yeah prob bad idea

Maybe I go story

[frozen lodge]

brother you arent going to make it to monos

[potent ice]

I could drop legendaries, but they give so much dmg

Doing 2-3x what I would be doing with normal items

[frozen lodge]

avarice isnt that good

you can get leech elsewhere

[potent ice]

True, kind of forget about those at lvl 10

[tawny orbit]

Avarice is handy while lvling but later on yeah better items

[frozen lodge]

and the boots are kind of mid

[potent ice]

Yeah

Would lose 16% movespeed, but would rather live

[frozen lodge]

i mean you can find movement speed boots with res on em

[potent ice]

I know there are some, but not sure what level you need for them to drop

[frozen lodge]

lvl 1

[potent ice]

Oh

Maybe been unlucky with this char then

or just not been looking

[frozen lodge]

filter issue probably

[molten cobalt]

they "fixed" the chance to double xp tomes as part of a CoF rank reward... big rip

no more double xp tomes

[potent ice]

😦

[molten cobalt]

that was the go-to way to level up quick and get lots of CoF rank

that is a major major nerf to CoF

[thorn temple]

I'm playing spellblade on-hit lighting thingy (lvl80ish), is there a way to have a decent monotarget dps with this build? (my aoe/clear is fine)

[tawny orbit]

Lvling CoF is damn slow that's for sure

[safe grail]

That's where that build suffers a bit, so no.

[thorn temple]

so I didn't miss something that important, noted, thanks!

[molten cobalt]

and now it is much much slower

those xp books were the main way to lvl up CoF

unless you're running super high corr, like 1000+, where the xp bonus from the corruption kinda surpas the books

[mild pulsar]

i just finished my first empowered monolith, chose a blessing and i didnt get it, what happened

[molten cobalt]

guess you didnt confirm your choice?

[mild pulsar]

how is not clicking confirm enough this has happened to me before im pretty sure jesus christ

[nova stirrup]

Whats the end game like ? Is there pvp or what it is about when you hit 100

[nova cove]

hey guys anyone have a superstrict loot filter for shatterstrike?

[molten cobalt]

Don't know if that is it, never happened to me though

[royal dock]

Lol they fix elemental nova aoe issue from patch note along with flame rush awkward dash

Interesting

[molten cobalt]

still didnt fix flame rush getting stuck on invisible shet though

[royal dock]

No pvp, just grinding corruption level as high as you can go

[molten cobalt]

you grind until you have perfected your gear, that's it

and trying different classes

[nova stirrup]

oh

[tawny orbit]

Well just tested out frost wall the LB casts are only every 2 seconds and to get faster casts I need mobs to walk through the wall which since I'm going cold and freeze won't happen, so looks like I won't be using LB proccing in my idea anymore. The runebolt casts are better although really need homing and area on runebolt to shine

[edgy charm]

pvp would be wild here. I come in with my homebrew cold flask build as a warlock with 40k EHP sneezes in my direction to 1 shot

[royal dock]

Im expecting a ward to be capped at 10k instead of 50-100k+ when nerf come in

[molten cobalt]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/gold-dupe-bug/67156

interesting

[royal dock]

How

[molten cobalt]

I don't know

I'm sure someone here does though

[tawny orbit]

Frost wall base duration is 8 seconds do not terrible

[terse igloo]

I didn't. I found out it happens only if I use autocast from Flame Rush.

[digital oar]

man, the skill respec losing levels is making it hard to experiment.

[molten cobalt]

run a monolith

You'll go from lvl10 to lvl20 in one single monolith if it's high enough (which isnt even that high)

[terse igloo]

Question:

• Does "+2 Lightning Damage for Spark Charge per Intelligence" in Fragment of the Enigma affect only damage from Spark Charges or all skills? Wording is very unclear here.

[ruby bluff]

Version 2 of my mage, trying to use the dagger.
Any obvious incorrect things (still gearing and compensation for a lack of mana reduction idols)

I'm most uncertain about the lightning blast and the last few passive points I still have to get
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QdzZraeo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 90

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 850, Regen: 19/s
▸ Mana: 243, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 388%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 3 Str / 3 Dex / 103 Int / 3 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 110% / 109% / 110% / 74% / 149% / 151% / 127%
▸ EHP: 1,222 / 1,222 / 1,222 / 1,253 / 1,130 / 1,130 / 1,130

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 170
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (12)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 29% (1,295)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (25)
• Lightning Blast (22)
• Elemental Nova (24)
• Runic Invocation (24)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Dragorath's Claw
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Communion of the Erased

[tawny orbit]

So since I'm dropping LB now not sure what skill I should replace it with

[frosty pewter]

Whats the build otherwise

[mild pulsar]

anyone know why i cant invite a friend to my part? failed to fetch party data or something

[molten cobalt]

only spark charge

[tawny orbit]

Well I'm gonna be doing frost wall casting runebolt is the current plan and I'll be casting runebolt myself as well

[wicked peak]

is meteor good?

[royal dock]

Debating to try lighting build later

[icy umbra]

Meteor is funny but mana intensive

[frosty pewter]

That happens sometimes, logging in and out usually works for me

[wicked peak]

was thinking high cast speed fireball + meteor

[frosty pewter]

So youve got runebolt, frost wall, runic invoc, flame rush right? Could always spec into flame ward

[tawny orbit]

I actually prefer teleport to flame rush since I don't need to charge it plus the mirror images can be a handy distraction when needed

[royal dock]

Flame rush give you pretty nice ward

[molten cobalt]

taking mirror images makes you unable to take the real goodies from teleport

[royal dock]

If spec in skills

[molten cobalt]

flame rush is better and boosts damage better too, but has shorter damage reduction

and gets stuck on everthing

[royal dock]

You suppose to hold it and release lol not a quick one, you can cancel out quick one if press it again

[molten cobalt]

yes of course

but the DR you get is still a portion of total uptime of flame rush

is it 40% of total uptime?

[frosty pewter]

Id grab flame ward then, frost wall? Can also auto trigger flame ward without a cooldown so good defensive layer

[molten cobalt]

that isnt long

[molten cobalt]

they killed that node

you get a 12 second cooldown if you trigger flame rush with frost wall now

[frosty pewter]

Oh rip

[molten cobalt]

they absolutely slaughtered it

[frosty pewter]

Well, numlock still works

[royal dock]

Numlock?

[frosty pewter]

You assign a numpad key to your ability bar, press it, then turn off numlock - itll make you cast the skill as soon as its off cooldown

Cause it keeps pressing the key over and over essentially

[molten cobalt]

hah!

nice

totally intended

[frosty pewter]

Theyre on record saying theyre not against it actually

[royal dock]

Hmm 🤔

[frosty pewter]

But yes, unintended

[royal dock]

Interesting

[tardy comet]

Oh cool trick sick

What if I press other keys

[molten cobalt]

man I wish last epoch had more content

played a total of 135 hours and bored already

got 175 hours out of Palworld

[tawny orbit]

Well if I do flame rush, thinking maybe Glpyh of intention node cast after the rush, could be handy?

[frosty pewter]

It keeps working as long as you dont tab out or turn num lock on again

[molten cobalt]

3869 hours out of Lost Ark

[tardy comet]

Even if I press other keys?

[wicked peak]

you make new characters?

[steep tangle]

yes

[frosty pewter]

Yeah, you can even have 2 numlocks if you want

[tardy comet]

That’s crazy I can have a self macro buff

[molten cobalt]

nothing seems fun enough

[tardy comet]

Sicccc

[wicked peak]

lich and paladin are fun

[molten cobalt]

i hate, HATE, melee

[steep tangle]

the game does need more endgame for sure

but that will come with time

[molten cobalt]

i only enjoy ranged spellcasters

[tardy comet]

I’m gonna walk around with circle of shield forge man

[wicked peak]

play hammer knight paladin

[tardy comet]

Let’s goo

[wicked peak]

not melee

[molten cobalt]

that aint a ranged spell caster, think diablo 2 sorc

[frosty pewter]

Mandatory for autobomber imo

[molten cobalt]

maybe I should have said elemental based ranged spell caster

[wicked peak]

hmm lich is a spell caster, i think primalist has a shaman

which is also spell caster

[tardy comet]

Interesting I didn’t play that kit yet so idk what it means

[wicked peak]

i think...

[tawny orbit]

Plenty of MM elemental setups you can do

[molten cobalt]

I want diablo 2 sorc, thats it

[tardy comet]

Auto drop turret?

[molten cobalt]

MM?

[wicked peak]

i mean

[tawny orbit]

Marksman

[steep tangle]

big issue with alt characters imo is you can have most of the gear already before making them, which is like the extent of the game as it is now. So it may be fun to level but once you get to monos you are in a similar spot with nothing to sink your teeth into

[molten cobalt]

is it like a sorcerer?

[frosty pewter]

I really wanna make frozen volcanic orb work

For the classic playstyle

[molten cobalt]

true

very good point

[steep tangle]

blast rain marksman with reign of winter feels like a starfall meteor style build, it plays very similarly to a mage once you get the bow

[molten cobalt]

i dont enjoy grinding monolith for the sake of monolith as a content

so if i already have the gear...

then what's it all for

[wicked peak]

yea, they are adding pinnacle bosses i think

[royal dock]

I haven’t seen many mage using fire stuff for skill like how people using lighting / cold for frost claws or other stuff, I’m expecting some fire user later on

[wicked peak]

im building a fire sorc now

[molten cobalt]

balancing issues

[steep tangle]

one of the most meta builds for mage is a fire build

hydrahegon

[molten cobalt]

I think if Lost Ark wasn't like a second job I'd still be playing that

already sank 3800 hours into it

[wicked peak]

fire (sorc)

[tawny orbit]

Fireball sorcerer is pretty simple to get up and running

[frosty pewter]

Im still gonna make greater fireball work >:3

[steep tangle]

go for it

[molten cobalt]

sure but sorc is ass

sorc has issues with survivability

[frosty pewter]

Fireball runemaster is the real sauce

[tawny orbit]

Well it would also work fine with RM

[tardy comet]

I want meteor to work so bad

[royal dock]

Imagine some buff in it

People gonna switch

[molten cobalt]

dont like the entire RM system

with invokations

not my cup of tea

[wicked peak]

RM is fun as hell

i love it

[molten cobalt]

I just want a good old diablo 2 sorc, nothing else

[frosty pewter]

You can take a node to set your invocs based on your ability bar

[molten cobalt]

not this bullsh with cast 1 spell but it wont be the impactful one, that spell will trigger 325364 other spells/effects

dont enjoy that

[frosty pewter]

So no keeping track, runic incocation is just another spell

[wicked peak]

i mean they might change a lot of the sorc stuff later down the line since it was one of the earlier classes

[molten cobalt]

yeah I saw that, still no

a little bit less no, but still a no

[tawny orbit]

Here's something I discovered if you make Frostwall cast rune bolt before you've unlocked it due to not having enough points in RM yet it will still cast it which is pretty handy

[frosty pewter]

If you want the stats and utility I think you can theoretically play RM without invocation and do fireball or frost claw

[molten cobalt]

I want a sorc with 15k ward

dont even need the insane 25k+

[steep tangle]

i mean you can just have runic invocation auto cast the frost guard thing

[molten cobalt]

15k is plenty

[steep tangle]

i mean its doable with either a low life setup or twisted heart

and enough retention

[molten cobalt]

it's not

sorc cant get enough retention

it is literally not possible

i have twisted heart, that is a must to even do anything as a sorc

[frosty pewter]

Straight up sorc idk, rm probably could but if you want the actual sorc then no idea, i havent looked at sorc much

[molten cobalt]

sorc is just in a really bad place

[lyric topaz]

are there any 'set' item builds? never seen anything good really

[molten cobalt]

RM for sure can get 15k ward easily

like super easily

[frosty pewter]

Not that ive seen. Just give sets weavers will

[lyric topaz]

feels like set item gear is obsolete for mages

[wicked peak]

wanna see how cycle of fire (meteor node) is with ward

[molten cobalt]

not just mages

[steep tangle]

the only thing in the runemaster second half that gives any ward at all is jagged veil which gives 5 ward on crit. runemaster and sorc get access to the exact same amount of retention

are you using frostbite shackles, do you have retention in your tree and the flame ward spec, whats your int at, do you have retention adorned idols, etc

all of these things i use on RM to get to 15k+ ward on bosses

[molten cobalt]

Uh no rune masters can get close to 500% ward retention?

Don’t know from where because it’s been in builds I’ve seen posted

But sorc sure as hell can’t get that

We get 50% from mage passives

[steep tangle]

i have 545 on myrune master

[molten cobalt]

50% from teleport if we even take that, but we have to

[steep tangle]

literally 100% of that can be obtained by sorcs

[molten cobalt]

Where

Without obliterating our damage too

[steep tangle]

going to dm you a picture

i'm int stacking

which isn't a runemaster exclusive build

[tranquil oak]

is there any way to make nova proc more consistantly from frost claw?

[tall canopy]

If I have 2 targets and apply a spreading DOT (like Spreading Flames) to one, will it get passed back and forth in perpetuity?

[frosty pewter]

Does the multi cast node proc twice for frost claw?

[lyric topaz]

rune of creation duplicates an item exactly as is? even LP?

[wicked peak]

do it for science

[lyric topaz]

wanna do fractured crown if LP can be different on the new one XD

[molten cobalt]

you cant craft with uniques, so no not with LP

[steep tangle]

it deletes the FP on both items*

[molten cobalt]

so you cannot apply the rune on uniques

[lyric topaz]

ah thats sad af XD

[steep tangle]

yea, you can only use the rune on an item with FP, unqiues cannot have FP

[lyric topaz]

i guess good for combining exalted with uniques that u wanna try multiple times if it fails with transfering the correct affixes

[molten cobalt]

yep, that

[steep tangle]

thats the best use i've found for em

[tawny orbit]

I get the feeling I'm gonna need alot of mana regen

[lyric topaz]

what's the fastest way to up your corruption on monolith

[scenic dock]

whats better for dps? int or spell damage or elemental damage or the specific elemental dmg?

[tired hound]

play the game

do boss

[potent ice]

When an item is emphasised, does it appear as a different colored marker on the minimap?

using loot filter

[lyric topaz]

thanks xD i mean do you wanna make the web bigger as much as possible or when hte first web map comes clear it?

[tired hound]

just like chase the end of it

i've seen +16

so far

idk if there is higher

but you can get +16 and then gaze stacks

[ruby bluff]

does anybody want to suggest the last couple of levels on this build, I can't decide since this version doesn't run a wand.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AVaOMMXo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 90

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (61)

General:

▸ Health: 850, Regen: 19/s
▸ Mana: 243, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 400%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 3 Str / 3 Dex / 106 Int / 3 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 110% / 109% / 110% / 74% / 149% / 151% / 127%
▸ EHP: 1,222 / 1,222 / 1,222 / 1,253 / 1,130 / 1,130 / 1,130

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 170
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (12)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 29% (1,295)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (25)
• Lightning Blast (22)
• Elemental Nova (24)
• Runic Invocation (24)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Dragorath's Claw
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Communion of the Erased

[lyric topaz]

yeah im on +9 corruption +17 bonus corruption and 20 corruption form Gaze

right now

[scenic dock]

whats better for dps? int or spell damage or elemental damage or the specific elemental dmg?

[tawny orbit]

Does increased area for Frost Wall make it wider or thicker?

[stiff tide]

longer

[tawny orbit]

Ok that's what I was afraid of, makes getting homing for RB even more important then

[wise fjord]

question my buddy is playing a shatter strike spellblade and and hes only got 300 mana but the guide says he should have 800+. He's level 81 is there something hes missing to get more mana?

[stiff tide]

idk 800 mana seems a lot for shatter strike

[wise fjord]

that what it says on his guide lol

just wanted to see what he could to boost it

[safe grail]

the maxroll guide isn't accurate

[molten cobalt]

impossible to answer that

[safe grail]

he only updated so much of it to where it makes sense

[wise fjord]

LM AO

is 300 mana okay for lv 82 shatter strike spell blade?>

[safe grail]

yeah

that's plenty

probably a bit too much tbch

[little cloud]

where can I put images in this damn discord?

I want to ask something i dont get about two items

[safe grail]

you cannot without uploading them else where and sending the link

they turned off images prior to launch

[molten cobalt]

and i hate them for that

silly silly

[safe grail]

ehhh. theyve gotten a bunch of toxicity from general chat

so i get it

[molten cobalt]

block it in general chat, fine

who wants to go to that cesspool anyway

[safe grail]

fax

[little cloud]

https://i.imgur.com/icRSy96.png why do I get more DPS calculacted with the blue staff while the yellow is better? because of lightning damage increase?

I am using lightning and static orbs floating

[safe grail]

link is dead.

[lyric topaz]

think the 'load of people' went down so they might add it later to the class channels like they removed slowmode here aswell

link work

s

[little cloud]

already?

[safe grail]

there we go

[molten cobalt]

that should be impossible

spell damage and lightning damage is calculated the same way

it's the same thing damage wise

[little cloud]

https://i.imgur.com/YI683Gj.png
https://i.imgur.com/LiUc9MP.png

[shell fern]

sorc can get to 500% retention, so can spellblade

i have +500 retention without int stacking on sorc(frostbite shackles) and +500 on spellblade with int stacking

[molten cobalt]

yes I had a discussion in DM's with Rah. I was confused due to the amount of ward I got and assumed retention was the issue, it is not

[shell fern]

biggest issue is ward generation currently since they nerfed twisted heart again

[molten cobalt]

issue isn't ward retention, it is ward generation

[shell fern]

yeah

[molten cobalt]

sorcs basically need that belt

that unique belt

• top of the line on everything else

[shell fern]

i struggle to get 9k ward in monos and against bosses i barely reach 6k, pre 1.0 i was able to get to 12k against bosses

[molten cobalt]

yeah i dont even get 5k

[potent ice]

Is there a better way to spellcast whilst moving? Getting carpal tunnel spamming fireball whilst kiting

[molten cobalt]

and thats with 6% twisted heart and 2k hp with enough leech

[shell fern]

strand of souls is very overvalued

depends alot on the build tbh if its even useful, ward per second is low, it has nice ward on kill and ward retention though

[molten cobalt]

it has ward on mana usage, that would be big for me

[shell fern]

mana spent gained as ward requires you to spend alot of mana to actually be good and a good roll on it

[molten cobalt]

i spend a lot of mana

[shell fern]

then it could be good i guess

[molten cobalt]

i have 300 mana and if i just spam i eventually run dry

and thats with the single target cheaper skill

[shell fern]

you can also get mana spent gained as ward from idols, vul'kaur regalia armor and other places

[molten cobalt]

with static orb i would run dry real fast, but thats my 1hit map clearer

[molten cobalt]

with idols i went with that adorned one with dual lightning damage stat, just to keep static orb one hitting as long as possible as i climb corruption

increased dmg over 300 mana + increased dmg if lightning aegis

[little cloud]

can I ever change these stats on an item? https://i.imgur.com/RzA1cuh.png

[steep tangle]

you can change their values

since they are in a range

but you can't change them into something else no

[glossy quarry]

What is another build that doesn’t cause eye soreness apart from frostbite frostclaw

[molten cobalt]

Says can’t find image

Oh there we go

[tawny orbit]

I just got a nice idol drop +23% area for elemental area spells and +2 cold spell damage

[molten cobalt]

Yeah no changing implicit stats

You have to get another type of helmet then

[little cloud]

even wioth shatter I cant access those stats?

[molten cobalt]

Don’t think that’s even needed?

It would be larger area for the sake of having larger area

[molten cobalt]

Shatter won’t give you implicit no

[tawny orbit]

I could see it being useful for Black hole, frost claw, glacier

[molten cobalt]

Frost claw gets enough no?

Like way enough

It fills entire screen as it is

Glacier no one uses in endgame

Same with black hole

So let’s call it very niche?

[tawny orbit]

I'm using glacier while doing campaign it's helping alot there but I know in monos it falls off fast

[molten cobalt]

Yeah it’s a good lvling up skill

But that’s over in a few hours

[glossy quarry]

Glacier is still top tier for endgame

Can still reach 1k corrupt with that

[molten cove]

Seriously? Im aiming at a meteor with black hole build. But appearantly this game only allows some skills in endgame? Meh

[tawny orbit]

I'm just hoping LE tools is wrong and that making rune bolt have an explosion gives it an area tag, if not that's real sad

[glossy quarry]

Frostbite glacier too

[tired hound]

same as every game lol

[molten cobalt]

If you want to be efficient some skills get excluded yes

If you do not care about efficiency then go ahead

[molten cove]

As long as it does its job, its fine I guess.

[tawny orbit]

Problem with blackhole is it's too small to be useful enough, it's handy for keeping bosses from moving too much though

[molten cobalt]

Any skill can reach 1k corrupt, it’s your survivability that decides that

[molten cove]

Yeah, was thinking to use black hole as single target skill, meteor for clearing mobs

[molten cobalt]

Doesn’t make it a good skill compared to others

[viral prairie]

Hey guys, can you help me with a fun, well writen rune master guide?

[ocean mauve]

q: what does "crit multiplier" mean in stat sheets like this: https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/runic_invocation34_fire_orbiter/invocations

character crit multiplier is a flat 200 right? so if skill crit multiplier says 300% what does that mean

[abstract abyss]

Does Battlemage's Endevour proc overcharge since it is neither a skill nor channeled?

[next lance]

u make it as much of a second job your self bud i got about same hours as u and i still play it but i just moderate the game and dont let it bother me 😛

[midnight beacon]

Hey with runic invocation is there a way to automatically cast it or no

[molten cobalt]

Yeah I never managed to play Lost Ark casually. The daily and weekly system kinda puts an end to that

As well as the absolute need to have alts otherwise you can’t feed your main materials and you lag behind your friends/guild

[barren pumice]

It would be nice if the unique idols for Runic Invocation made them automatically cast lol.

[next lance]

i disagree but you obviously do you im literally 1620 on my main and i have 4 alts at 1580 or 1600

[molten cobalt]

What’s the cap these days?

[next lance]

if your fully maxed out its 1655 with a esther weapon

but u only need 1620 for voldis and thaemine is 1630 for HM iirc