🧙┃mage

[swift stream]

do i stop at 100 or does the frostbite/frostclaw build want as much % chance to frostbite as possible

[raw tartan]

Every ailment, no matter which one, can be attached with OVER 100% chance

[swift stream]

do u happen to know if you want over 100%, like does it scale more or something

[raw tartan]

Well for example with 200% you attach 2 stacks instead of 1 and so on

[swift stream]

ah

do you know how long the lightning aegis buff lasts for?

[raw tartan]

But theres nothing inbetween. So 150% won't apply 1,5 stacks. It can be either 1 or 2 stacks, giving you have a 150%

[wraith mica]

Also unless the affliction specifies a stack limit, then they can stack over 999 times

[raw tartan]

In a LL Ward setup it's up 100% since you never lose health, or even got any health to beginn with

LL means lowlife tho

[swift stream]

playing frostbite/frostclaw atm. was looking to get idols with frostbite and lightning aegis

but not sure how long it lasts for, might settle for cold damage since its much cheaper

[hardy loom]

how u dealing lightning dmg with frostbite frostclaw build

[raw tartan]

Im also new here, so i can't really anwser any specific build questions. Just most of the general ones 😅

[swift stream]

its chance to gain when hit

[raw tartan]

U can convert it in the tree

[hardy loom]

his not converting to lightning claw

[hardy loom]

is it reliable tho

the dmg reduce is nice but tbh RM have so much defensive option

[raw tartan]

Kited you got a link for your build?

[hardy loom]

with frostguard+flameward thats 60%

[tawny flume]

Hi all, I need confirmation for the mage passive (Runemaster) Circle of Elements regarding ignite proc. Will this proc ignite on Fire Aura Skill which doesn't have on hit component or this is on hit only?

[raw tartan]

Ward goes brrrr

[swift stream]

sorry no link

[hardy loom]

frostguard + flaem ward should be multiplicative right xd

no way its simple 30+30=60%

[tawny orbit]

I've found one issue with runestone for runebolt if a mob is right next to the runestone sometimes it can't hit them

[hardy loom]

its the same case with ice barrage, if mob is right beside the turn radius seems too much for it too "home" in to them

[ashen ingot]

best

[tawny orbit]

Still I do like rune stone alot, took imbued runestone aswell really boosts damage

Does mean there is a slightly delay due to making the runestone first but it's pretty small

[turbid kettle]

yea I've looked at that one too, I'm just not sure how much increase in dmg it actually will give, but I'll probably buy a cheap one to check it out

if only it was + meteor skill instead of fireball

[raw tartan]

The +1 fire skill still counts for you

[turbid kettle]

that is true

[raw tartan]

And it's + projectile, not skill level for fireball

[turbid kettle]

hmm maybe I could even use some kind of fireball in the build then to shred more resistances 🤔

just hate I can't do the shift+lmb to use skills like in d4

[raw tartan]

You mean force cast while standing still?

[raw tartan]

There are also unique gloves, which convert 50/50 to lightning and fire of fireball dmg and can now apply spark charges. If you wanna go the hybrid dmg way

[tawny orbit]

There's also a node in fireball to convert to 50% lightning so it's possible to have 100% lightning fireball

[turbid kettle]

right now just pure fire but yea that is also an option

[tacit marlin]

guys anyone play hydraedron build ? i have a big wand with a free suffix but not sure what to put

[raw tartan]

I think there's somewhere nodes for +dmg against ignited/shocked enemies for even more dmg

But i see ur point standing one element

[raw tartan]

You gave me an idea now 😮 maybe gonna try out something later in the planner

Spark charge fireball???

[turbid kettle]

thanks for the suggestions ^^

[tawny orbit]

I still don't know if I should keep Runestone tri-element or change it to only lightning and cold

[raw tartan]

Didn't find any other good unique which suits you tho. Maybe you can also go with a good exalted one. You don't need to have huge amounts on uniques for your build to function

[tawny orbit]

I don't even know what uniques I need for runebolt apart from ladle which I already have one

[midnight beacon]

Hey would frostwall work with fireball ? Then I can make frostguard it seems a bit complicated though 😅

[subtle vale]

yes. imo it's perfect to combine with fireball

[tawny orbit]

You can convert frostwall to fire too

[mighty bronze]

@turbid kettle does your meteor build have Harbinger of Stars? 😛

[tawny orbit]

Any suggestions for uniques I'll need for runebolt apart from ladle?

[midnight beacon]

Okay ty

[raw tartan]

Isn't that the enabler after all? 😅

[turbid kettle]

no, I'm at 668 mana and sometimes 1 cast brings me down to like 200 mana

it's a crippling item for my build

I'm still a bit weirded out why they added the mana costs to procs in this game

not a fan :d

[raw tartan]

Y, that sucks hard

[turbid kettle]

so I'm gonna craft my first legendary ever

[young solstice]

is there an item or node on a skill tree that is making m mage only do two rah rune stacks total if anyone knows

[bronze shore]

there should be an idols

that limited your rune

[young solstice]

it is ty

i switched it in an hour ago and was wonderin wth was goin on

[mighty bronze]

this feels weird to me as well, like every proc of your passive cost mana, ouch. Anyway I think to play any meteor build you need at least 1000 mana, otherwise you'll always be starving 😦

[turbid kettle]

I'm good at about 600 actually, but if I wanted to use the belt then yea 1k mana atleast

and a shitload of mana reg

[bronze shore]

isnt meteor build is stack a bunch of mana and one shot the boss?

[spare oasis]

guys, why my lightning blast do not chain from myself when i 1v1 target? i have 'closed conduit' in my passives, but it do not work

[turbid kettle]

afaik there is nothing that scales your damage depending on how much mana you got

it's just that meteor is really mana consuming

[forest estuary]

mastery passive scales damage on mana spent, then there's a node that guarantees a crit if cast above 400 mana

[forest estuary]

do you have the node convergence specced into or do you even have enough + chains?

[turbid kettle]

yea, the only thing I could see maybe being useful is the staff that increases spell costs

[heavy fog]

Best build right now for runemaster?

[turbid kettle]

but that may just be flat +- with either you cast more spells or less spell and still do the same amount of dmg

[subtle vale]

spark charge rm?

[turbid kettle]

@raw tartan cinder song made my build worse actually xD

[glacial hinge]

For the unique catalyst Scales of eterra what are the infusions and what do they do?

[subtle vale]

what's the build @turbid kettle? I was rocking cinder song on my last RM 🙂

[tawny orbit]

I just had those 50% lightning conversion fireball gloves drop

[turbid kettle]

RM? Fire meteor build with 100% crit over 400 mana

[forest estuary]

have you tried the vilatria version of meteor build

[turbid kettle]

I bought 2 really good vilatria items, but I'm not keen on swapping until all my hope is lost for this build xD

[forest estuary]

the vilatria's is key for manual cast meteor though

because of that node that gives added damage besides fire types an 80% bonus

and because meteor applies added damage at 900%

[turbid kettle]

yea it seems that way, but I really wanted to make this work somehow

[subtle vale]

oh sounds nice. RuneMaster

[forest estuary]

so each point of int you get an additional 1.8 lightning spell damage

which is then applied at 9x

[turbid kettle]

so I guess there is no items to support a fire hardcast build then

you maybe have convinced me to swap then :I

[forest estuary]

sorc just doesnt seem super strong rn

i played it in 0.9.2 beta but now im just playing warlock/marksman in 1.0

i just did the harbinger autocast build before

way outperformed hardcast meteor

[quasi carbon]

ijust got a lP 4 unique, isnt that giga rare?

[forest estuary]

yeah it is, what item was it?

[turbid kettle]

sometimes the truth hurts

but I guess I'll have to try lightning instead..

[forest estuary]

i think it should be a pretty decent boost for you

even if it's not top tier or anything

[spice rivet]

That's funny, I actually respected away from that build because I didn't like it while levelling, lol.

[mighty bronze]

guys I find leveling in the 80s range really slow, am I doing something wrong 😦

[turbid kettle]

nah but as long as it is the best iteration of the build I want to play

[forest estuary]

what do you think of the autocast meteor build?

its kinda fun seeing 20 meteors rain down per second

and its stronger (or at least was in beta)

i dont think too much has changed about it

[mighty bronze]

how much mana regen do you need for that jesus christ

[forest estuary]

you proc it with mana strike

[mighty bronze]

then you'll need meteor to be as cheap as possible because every proc consumes your mana cost, no?

[forest estuary]

no my meteor was specced out too

extra meteors and all

[mighty bronze]

ah, you mana strike to regain mana and use it to proc meteor

sounds rad

btw server is fubar'd

[forest estuary]

yeah and as long as you have positive mana, meteor can proc and send you to the negatives

which, mana strike has a node that regains extra mana when negative

[mighty bronze]

sounds like goes perfectly with Harbinger of the Stars

🔥 🌧️

[turbid kettle]

that's the melee build right?

[forest estuary]

yeah thats the core

[forest estuary]

ya

i just hopped onto my legacy character real quick

https://streamable.com/dfnes6

it's a little rng in 1v1 but it's almost guaranteed each melee attack will cast several meteors in multi target

[vale tartan]

ohh , that looks very satisfying

[stray summit]

this seems like a fun build

how come its critting when youre not above 400?

[vale tartan]

Having a lot of basic crit chance

Spell crit chance is at 78% and melee crit chance is at 38%

[forest estuary]

a bit higher because the meteor's crit chance node isnt reflected in sheet

[vale tartan]

i just took the numbers from the character screen

[forest estuary]

could always just use closed conduit from the lightning blast tree for extra damage and crit chance too

yeah

[turbid kettle]

@forest estuary my dps increased by ALOT, now the problem is surviving lol

[vale tartan]

getting Ward by hitting or spending Mana could work with that cast speed

[unborn hamlet]

Yea, it's not good for leveling, I used glacier for that, then re-spec into it for late game, defo not the strongest build, but it's fun, easy, and doesn't have high level of entry , even with bad gear I could do 300-350 corruption, rn I'm trying to push as far as I can to see what it can handle, so far at 480, but I'm definitely starting to feel some lack of survivability, especially on bad modifiers, need to still fix my armor and offhand, and start dropping some decent LP uniques

And certain enemies are just bad, the ones with complete freeze immunity like the watchers/demon eyes, those are the worst

Tanky, and can't generate ward off of em, while they also shred the shield reasonably fast

[turbid kettle]

now I just need a significant amount of cast speed from somewhere

[forest estuary]

For the vilatria build?

[turbid kettle]

yes, the survivability problem now is that cast time is really slow and more mobs get in range to hit me

before they die

[forest estuary]

Cast speed might not be the solution though because you run out of mana

Probably mana regen so you can cast more often

[turbid kettle]

nah, I can cast about 4 times before dropping below 400

[forest estuary]

Otherwise you need something like meteor fall speed

Ah

[turbid kettle]

I also have the blink + free spell

and blink with like 5 sec cd

[forest estuary]

And the mana regained from meteor cost node too?

[turbid kettle]

yes

that is a must imo

[forest estuary]

Cast speed shouldn't be an issue though

Isn't the problem meteor fall speed

[turbid kettle]

nah the -25% cast speed from nodes was really noticeable

[forest estuary]

I see

[turbid kettle]

fall speed is fine but could be better

I could get up to 15 on neck I think, but not sure it's enought to counteract the -25

actually... maybe I put some points in the passives

[forest estuary]

Probably would help a lot actually

When ur in the negative cast speed, every point of cast speed is actually more effective

If my math is right

[turbid kettle]

yea I can get alot of it from talents but then I will lose 70% spellpower

then again it's only additive so shouldn't hurt the damage too much

[forest estuary]

Depending on your existing stats yeah that probably won't hurt too much

[turbid kettle]

yea and it also upped my mana a bit 🙂

the swap in general increased the damage of the meteors from 10k to 20-25k each

I just do 1 less meteor per cast since I can't reach the last point

[forest estuary]

The one all the way at the top on the right side?

[turbid kettle]

ya

[forest estuary]

Yeah kinda not worth the skill points to reach

[turbid kettle]

I can reach it if I get the uber rare necklace

but we'll see about that

[forest estuary]

Now you can look forward to stacking int for a triple bonus: flat lightning damage, % increased from int itself, and ward retention

Which, the omnis or something?

[turbid kettle]

ah yea omis

omnis*

[forest estuary]

It's honestly not absolutely amazing , the rolls on it are so rng

Like 2 or 3 of mine have single digit rolls in half the resists

[turbid kettle]

yea it has to have like 30% ish in everything to be good

not sure I can get more skill points from anything else but belt, but yea I'm not touching that

[forest estuary]

Not to mention rolling one with more than 1lp is damn near impossible lol

[turbid kettle]

and I already have +2 from chest

[forest estuary]

Could be +4 if you get lucky

[turbid kettle]

can chest be +4 with exalted?

[forest estuary]

Tier 5 affix is +2 tier 6 is +3, tier 7 is +4

[turbid kettle]

but a +4 to meteor and decent other stats seems like the most rare thing ever

[forest estuary]

You right about that, I haven't seen one yet

[turbid kettle]

and it has the be the right chest too xD

I would never count on it for any wipe

[forest estuary]

I think there are some uniques that give + levels to lightning skills

[turbid kettle]

ahh that could be true

and I just noticed I can steal 1 point from infernal decent for 1 more meteor, should be worth it tbh

[bronze shore]

i almost die in HC

and i did the most dishonored thing

alt f4

[turbid kettle]

sounds like the only reasonable response tbh

[vale tartan]

prevent violence against keybord , monitors and gaming mice , also you can help to prevent this 🙃

[kind leaf]

looking for some help with my runemaster hydrahedron if anyone is a pro. feels incredibly squishy despite trying to build as defensive as i can. anyone well versed in the build?

[slate glade]

Good morning. Currently running the ele nova frost claw. Is there a way to reduce the flashiness?

[simple pier]

There is an option to disable flash when enemies are hit in the Gameplay section of the Settings menu.

[slate glade]

Interesting. I’ll look into that.

Thank you

[quasi carbon]

any playing frostbite frostclaw?

[weary hamlet]

that's less than 0,1% of the screen clutter in that build so unfortunately it's not very helpful

[safe yew]

Techno +. But I only start farm 100+ corrupt

[quasi carbon]

ah okkk

i dont know what i should work on right now

[bronze shore]

does forst guard buff not pop up on the tool tip is intentional?

[safe yew]

Techno farm LP boots and sceptre 😄

may problem is mana in long fights and I dont know what to take as 5 skill. Teleport, claw, invoke, barrage and for now take wall for brand

but not sure about wall

[quasi carbon]

how do i farm lp boots? i got my boots through ascendece rune

[quasi carbon]

what sceptre?

my dmg feels absolutly insane

[safe yew]

freeze wrath or something like that, dont know how at eng

like it, but want LP for -manacost or +manaregen

[quasi carbon]

how much dps does ur frostclaw dps tooltip say?

[safe yew]

12890

700-800 frostbites on dummy for now

[quasi carbon]

mine says 40k

[safe yew]

and 6-7k ward at random mobs

looks like you are not frostbite or highly more gear then me 😄

[quasi carbon]

im frostbite

i jsut started pushing up the corruption my highest is 150 rn

and farming blessings

[safe yew]

Im farm 3d blessing too 🙂

not up any corrupt from 100 right now

[quasi carbon]

@safe yew check privat dm, i linked u my gear

[crimson valve]

guys i'm pretty sure there was a way to reduce flame rush distance?? but can't find it in the tree

[idle terrace]

hello

tp or surge?

[nova cove]

anyone playing shatter strike?

[heavy sun]

Most playing SS if they're on spellblade I think tbh.

[heavy sun]

Depends on build and your own playstyle.

[idle terrace]

surge with zigzag looks cool

[heavy sun]

Tele more defensive overall.

[idle terrace]

yes, im torn due to super short cooldown of tp

[digital oar]

What's the best way to get cof reputation?

[heavy sun]

High corruption and exp nodes iirc.

[vale tartan]

Spending your actual Favor

[heavy sun]

That too. It's like 1:2 isn't it?

[nova cove]

anyone good with loot filters want to alter the build loot filter to be super strict

[heavy sun]

Strict setting on LE tools is pretty decent for the most part if you don't find someone.

[nova cove]

ill give it a look thanks man

[digital oar]

how often is the shade of orobyss supposed to spawn?

[vale tartan]

he is in every Echo that will reset the Echo web

Basically all the Border Echos

[heavy sun]

So I see most sbs on ladder doing low-life ward shatter.
Anyone use Nib mixed in with that?

Like Nib, strand of souls, peak? Maybe last steps 🧐

[hollow solstice]

Does this spell damage apply only to this spell?
"+4 to Frost Claw
81% increased Spell damage"

[crimson raft]

The spell damage is global

[digital oar]

Ah, that explains why i haven't seen him yet, I've just been rushing through unlocking timelines

[unborn hamlet]

Remember that some builds on the ladder are specifically made for Arena push, and using them in monoliths might not be as effective or even viable in some cases

The mobs scale different

[ruby spear]

how does the Unstable core line "When you directly cast Elemental Nova 6 times without a 2 second gap <it gets upgraded>..." with the node that makes channeling of "5 novas per second" possible? Will the first nova in the second after be upgraded?

[heavy sun]

I'm aware. I've been using similar to said ladder. It's tanky asf. I just feel dirty abusing ward 😂

[unborn hamlet]

you have to cast the thing 6 times yourself, if the node makes a single cast into 5 novas, it still counts as 1 direct cast

Or that's how the interaction should work, if it does, that's up to testing

[snow goblet]

Is the Zap from Enchant Weapon affected by the Zap nodes from Static?

[graceful tide]

Hello friends

Where is best farm grand idols?3x1

Is any specific monolith better for farming idols?

[frozen sleet]

For reflect damage does that negate some of the damage dealt to you onto attackers or do you take full damage and reflect a certain amount?

[trim imp]

do not think so, no

[graceful tide]

Thx

[foggy quiver]

If youre cof i believe there are prophecies for specific sizes idols?

[safe grail]

this is straight from community guide thread
For example, if you have both “20 Damage Reflected to Attackers” and “50% Damage Reflected” and you receive 100 damage (after all your damage mitigation layers have been applied) you would reflect 70 damage (20 + 50) back to your attacker.

[frozen sleet]

Awesome thanks, I was considering playing around with the damage reflect idols that grant reflection with lightning aegis since my sorc build is almost 100% uptime on aegis. Or if I should just mix/stick with the current lightning damage adorned idols I have now.

I'm working on making a mana stacking tank build like the sorc build on YouTube but I'm testing other stuff to see if it's gonna work too lol

[safe grail]

reflect dmg also doesnt scale w/ anything besides the one unique that scales it w/ attunement

it's a flat "damage" tag too so it's unaffected by literally anything lol

and considering some mobs have like.... a crapload of HP, doing something like even say 1k dmg back to it is nothing

[frosty pewter]

Ive never seen a thorns build work in ARPGs unless theres something that specifically scales attack damage based on thorn damage

[safe grail]

yep

same

[trim imp]

overcharge on lightning blast, can the unique dagger trigger that node? or am i better of using those points elsewhere

[raw tartan]

Never played thorns crusader in d3?

[trim imp]

as i do not have lightning blast on my bars

[frosty pewter]

Doesnt that scale your attack damage based on your thorns?

I was remembering that build

[raw tartan]

Yeah, but your statement was that you've never seen a thorns build work 😅

There was also a thornsbuild for pvp in d4

[frosty pewter]

"Unless theres something that specifically scales your attack damage based on thorns"

[raw tartan]

The one from d3 onetapped quite everything

[safe grail]

yeah he literally said unless it scales lol

he didnt even edit it that was part of the original message

also

D4 pvp? LMAO

[frosty pewter]

Like, I added that line specifically cause I remembered d3 thorns

To be fair I havent played d4 but otherwise Ive played pretty much every arpg on the market

[raw tartan]

I dunno poorly worded this way

[raw tartan]

Why don't say besides d3 then

Would make more sense

[frosty pewter]

Because while ive played a lot im not going to assume I know everything

[safe grail]

doesn't matter. d3 was irrelevant. the instant they started adding dmg modifiers that were like "x skill gains 12,000% dmg" the game lost all footing for "good itemization" or "skill/build diversity"

[raw tartan]

Other question tho is if you could to anything at all in an ARPG without scaling it

[frosty pewter]

And like, the important part there was that thorns crusader was turning thorns into a damage stat, not actually using the retaliation part

[raw tartan]

Yeah 100k ward is better as a 12k multiplier. Good point 🤦🏻‍♂️

[safe grail]

yeah no. 100k ward or 12k multiplier, ward needs to be capped and mitigation in this game needs an overhaul

[frosty pewter]

Yeah I dont think anyone believes 100k ward is healthy for the game

[raw tartan]

EHG does apparently

[steep tangle]

i mean you can hit comparable hp numbers with endurance stacking

[frosty pewter]

I think its more theyre trying to decide their stance on mid league nerfing

[steep tangle]

but you have to do math to get to that number and thats scary

[frosty pewter]

Which I think is important for them to be consistent

[raw tartan]

This gonna end in a endless discussion anyway. My point is that they knew the bugs way before 1.0 release... You say it's a small team and that i don't got a clue of programming and so on...

Played this discussion several times already 😂

[safe grail]

controversial opinion:

Mid-cycle nerfs OR buffs in this game have no room to exist. You cannot respec masteries, so unless that function exists, having mid-cycle of either is bad for the game.

[frosty pewter]

I mean the falconer one was crashing servers so it kinda needed to go

[raw tartan]

So does falconer exploding balista and some elemental nova builds

[frosty pewter]

But typically im on the side of no nerfs mid league as well, just because of that way investing into a build works

[safe grail]

Bug fixes are not nerfs

other controversial opinion

[raw tartan]

Their statement says more or less that they don't care at all about balancing as long as it doesn't affect the server. Period

[frosty pewter]

Conversely, theyre fixing the 2h + catalyst or 2h + shield thing soon

[raw tartan]

And it's also not like those bugs weren't known way before the 1.0 release (for example the api disaster on launchweek was over 1 year old)

[raw tartan]

Soon™ i know that from somehwere 🤔

[trim imp]

due to how investing into builds work is generally why i'm for nerfs and buffs mid cycle, mid patch, whatever.

It feels incredibly bad to have your preferred builds or playstyle bottom tier an entire patch, due to "oh we dont wanna touch balancing"

[pseudo trail]

I mean, fixing 4% being 40% isnt a nerf, its a bugfix

[safe grail]

that.....doesn't make sense.

[frosty pewter]

Theres a reddit comment that says they have an internal fix to be deployed in a hotfix soooo

[safe grail]

did you say the inverse of what you meant to say?

or

[raw tartan]

But i agree on the point that not being able to change masteries sucks. Nontheless if you play a bugged out build while knowing that you abuse every bit out of it, then you also gotta live with the nerfs imo

[trim imp]

how so? people picking strong builds are on the opposite side of the spectrum of people picking weak builds, if they're both closer to the middle, its healthier

[prime tree]

bro's saying that it sucks to commit to a build, progress it, then hit a wall and be in the lurch for the rest of the season

[raw tartan]

They also said that server wouldn't crash and that testing was done. Big BS

[safe grail]

but the opposite is also true in his statement;

Investing into a strong build to have it gutted feels as bad as playing one and hittin the wall

[pseudo trail]

I thought they just said they had an internal fix, nothing about when it would be deployed?

If they leave in the stupid acolyte stuff, they can let us have our 2h + offhand

[frosty pewter]

They didnt give a time, just that it would be hotfixed

[raw tartan]

But tbf the worst thing is the dupe bug. Have fun buying items for several kk gold ind MG. Good that i play CoF

[long verge]

Agreed, I think mid-season nerfs would be fine if there was established pattern that things don't get left in an "over-nerfed" state and nerfs are delivered with buffs and changes in design if required.

[pseudo trail]

Huh, I just read it as they know how to fix it, but nothing about if it would be a hotfix or anything, but I may just have misread it

[crude orchid]

What is the price for a 2lp static shell in merchant guild guys ?

[trim imp]

keep in mind, if they do mid patch nerfs, they dont have to do just one, they can do incremental nerfs and buffs, so specs arent either godlike or gutted.

Incrementally buffing and nerfing is better for the majority of the playerbase. Only ones that would view that as a negative are FOTM players.

[safe grail]

now here's where I think I can agree w/ NorTroll;

They aren't going to remove leaderboard rankings for the bugged builds etc. Doing mid-cycle stuff would influence these to a fair degree and that might be interesting to see

but i 100% do not want any sort of mid-cycle crap w/o the ability to respec my mastery

i have no interest in rolling multiple alts during a cycle like that

[raw tartan]

For comparison you get literally account bans in PoE if you're abusing something clearly not intended

[pseudo trail]

I agree when talking about changing the way skills are supposed to work, like changing a 10% to a 5% when it says 10%.

[frosty pewter]

I can see both sides - if theres no mid league nerfs ill play the broken build of the week and if there are mid league changes and I feel like the balance team is competent Ill play what I want

[crude orchid]

What is the price for a 2lp static shell in merchant guild guys ? If someone doesn’t mind checking

[pseudo trail]

#💰┃merchants-guild

[safe grail]

you asked twice and this isn't the MG channel

go ask the MG channel pls.

oh so you asked there

then spammed here twice.

[long verge]

from diablo 4 I feel like an unfortunate side effect of "no-nerfs" mid season policy is that the changes are more reserved and bland, but maybe that is just diablo devs...

[safe grail]

D4 devs don't know what they are doing

they are just deciding now that 1 year in will be a good time to drop PTRs to test things when they did it all thru D3

[pseudo trail]

D4 was the biggest waste of money i have done in a while

[safe grail]

yeah

hard agree

[pseudo trail]

Wonder how many hours i even have in that, probably didnt reach my moneys worth goal (same hours as $)

in LE i've already done more than double that xD

[safe grail]

LE I have easily clocked as many hours in like 6 months of D4 in just under 2

lol

[pseudo trail]

I mean, I bought it day of release

lemme tell you, that was a bit of sweating thinking i wasted my money, luckely they fixed the server issues xD

[tired hound]

Agreed

[safe grail]

anyway. LE has the very unique opportunity to just do the opposite of D4 devs and hard make this game so good

Lol

[pseudo trail]

Yeah, I just hope the Cycles are gonna have a nice offset with PoE

[tired hound]

God damn spellblade feels awfully weak

[safe grail]

But doing things like nerfing key prices cause of MG abuse with no other gold fixes in place SCREAMS incompetence of what a D4 dev would do

[pseudo trail]

Huh, my spellblade is feeling fine, though im only level 30 or so rn

[safe grail]

oh just wait

it's pretty much got no shot above like 200ish corruption lol

[tired hound]

Yeah...

Thats where i got stuck and its not even that my gear is bad

[wet lintel]

they will, that's confirmed

[pseudo trail]

nice

[unkempt escarp]

the classes are super unbalanced, some cant do over 200 while other do 1-3k ...

[tired hound]

God damn melees..

I gueds that is 1.0

[safe grail]

spellblade just hasnt been touched in so long

[tired hound]

Yeah

Like myself

[pseudo trail]

Though that might eat into my flicker strike experimenting xD which i usually do whenever im bored of my current poe build

[frosty pewter]

I mean the best marksman build is melee and arguably the best sentinel is melee

[wet lintel]

yeah spellblade needs love

[pseudo trail]

and then spend all my currency on that, only for it to be weaker than a build with 10% the investment

[wet lintel]

this was pretty sick though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvQ5whcKIw

[frosty pewter]

Ahhh the good old days of oros flicker

[pseudo trail]

This league i spend like 30div on a Shako / Paradoxica flicker

pretty fun, but not as strong as my main, which im currently blanking on what it actually was...

[frosty pewter]

I havent played flicker since ignite stacking got murdered

But im also a bow enjoyer

[safe grail]

this is pretty much @radiant vessel build but missing some bobs and bits lol

[pseudo trail]

Ah fair, current flicker meta is i think shako paradox, or the one 2h sword thats waaay to expensive for what i can farm

[tired hound]

Gonna probably go back to my warlock or make a summon wraithlorf

[wet lintel]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/bloody-nib-crit-shatter-strike-spellblade

[silk pewter]

Bloody Nib Crit Shatter Strike Spellblade Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Beta / 0.9.2f

Class

Mage / Spellblade

Used skills

• Shatter Strike
• Enchant Weapon
• Flame Ward
• Frost Claw
• Mana Strike

Used unique items

• Peak of the Mountain
• Mourningfrost
• Omnis
• Siphon of Anguish
• Shattered Chains
• Diothaen's Bloody Nib

Tags

Boss Killer / Monolith Farmer / Melee

Created by cyborgwars · Feb 13, 2024, 9:59 PM

[wet lintel]

this right?

yeah i saw the relic

and thought the same

[safe grail]

yep

even down to the frost claw bit

which i thought was fixed lol

[frosty pewter]

The build I really miss is Cospri CoC

[heavy sun]

Odd, I'm doing fine above 200 corr with Sb lol

[pseudo trail]

Im just wondering which 2h unique i should combine with the spark offhand :P

[heavy sun]

Pretty sure the FC and bleed interaction is indeed fixed.

[wet lintel]

hehe

[safe grail]

i thought so

lol

[wet lintel]

makes me want to roll one

[tired hound]

Thats where the dtruggle starts close to 300

[wet lintel]

but i'll probs end up being disappointed in the survivability

+9% damage taken for dual wielding is wild

[heavy sun]

I'm using tons of ward so im chillin'

[tired hound]

Thats what i thpught aswell

[heavy sun]

ive got 4k ward standing in town :x

[tired hound]

Thats such a stupid take

[wet lintel]

they could literally make it -10% damage taken for dual wielding

[pseudo trail]

I do wonder whats gonna happen when they fix the 2h thing, is it gonna stay working untill you unequip, or is it gonna fix existing situations aswell

[wet lintel]

and spellblade would still not be meta

[tired hound]

Yeah

Hahahahha

[safe grail]

low life int stack?

[pseudo trail]

And if it does effect excisting situations, i wonder how many people are gonna lose an item because their inventory is full xD

[paper plover]

Hi everyone

How important u think it is to have a high roll on % health converted to ward ? the range is 5 to 8 and i have a 5.... got lots of cast speed tho

Thx a lot for your opinions

[heavy sun]

Correct, though only at 41 int atm

[tired hound]

XD

[safe grail]

Lol. called it.

[tired hound]

Low life is meta atm

Cuz ward is real strong

[heavy sun]

Currently making a nib build with low life tho

because ward stacking feels dirty.

[tired hound]

Kript made a real good vid

[paper plover]

i mean on twisted heart

[raw tartan]

Int has not too many to do with your ward as long as you got enough health to ward

[wet lintel]

it's pretty important but it's fine to start with

[safe grail]

if you use exsang it p much kills nib

[pseudo trail]

I somehow got a twisted heart on my second kill, but its only 1lp i think

[heavy sun]

I dropped exsang for argentus

[raw tartan]

Wdym only 1LP i got none 😭

[heavy sun]

using Strand, last steps, nib, mountain and boulderfists

[wet lintel]

2 lp twisted heart is omega rare

1 lp is great xd

[pseudo trail]

oh lol

[heavy sun]

Currently 1700 ward with that set in town

and on bosses can stack around 4-5k give or take.

[safe grail]

yeah you miss out on the mana spent as ward from vulkaur armor if not playing exsang

feelsbad

[pseudo trail]

Honestly, with the amount of time i have to play, i probably shouldve gone MG instead of CoF, but one look at that marketplace and now way of sorting stuff decently made me nope out

[safe grail]

it's wild to think that there are non-spellblade builds that are kind of doing spellblade better than spellblade can

like the sorc mana-stacking one

that's wild to me.

[heavy sun]

Forgotten spec. Sad.

[safe grail]

i wanted to try to do a rogue spellblade type of build where you go str8 dodge and armor/resists

but

[heavy sun]

But who knows. I did fireball builds in d4 pre-season 3 and now fireball is all the rage lol

[safe grail]

i just cba playing my spellblade lol

[frosty pewter]

Im gonna make fireball RM work

[heavy sun]

I believe in you. Bring my MS blaze wizard to last epoch pls 🙏

[frosty pewter]

Greater fireball is just too much fun

[raw tartan]

Isn't that what spark charge bladedancer does basically?

[safe grail]

yep. lol

except spellblade can at least use mourningfrosts which make you want to stack dext

[earnest marten]

Just finish changin spark lb to spark claw, the difference is night and day. Which thing made this skill so strong?

[sudden talon]

Does Fire Aura scale well? Feels pretty weak with early investment in the tree + fire/dot dmg, but I'm curious if anyone has been able to scale it well into high corruption monos

[raw tartan]

We can't magically know which exact build you're playing 😅

[safe grail]

wait they just dropped a mid-cycle balancing Survey wtf

[radiant vessel]

https://youtu.be/xUfbJl2q39U?feature=shared

[safe grail]

already plugged you lol

[radiant vessel]

Ah lol

[wet lintel]

oh damn yours is even faster

xdd

[radiant vessel]

I would've upped it by a lot but im taking a break until 1.1

[wet lintel]

that's valid

[radiant vessel]

Played around 1000 hours in a year before 1.0, I wanna go ham when pinnacle content comes out

[frosty pewter]

Which?

[safe grail]

#news message

[safe grail]

i will probably crank out as spellblade in 1.1 just to see how far it can go

[wet lintel]

the only thing stopping me from playing more is ladle drop rate being bugged/super low 💀

[safe grail]

oh tru

i got one 1 LP the other day

and slammed a t6 Cast speed onto it luckily.

[wet lintel]

i've gotten like 7 that are 1 LP

and i only get them to drop when i go back to 100 corruption

which is a feelsbad

[radiant vessel]

Nothing of what I've shown is even close to maxed out tbh, it can go really high with super minmaxed gear

[safe grail]

I believe it

[wet lintel]

it's just a high dps build though right?

not a corruption pusher?

[radiant vessel]

I got to 1300 corruption before 1.0, post 1.0 you can still for sure go to 500+ but yeah it's nothing crazy

[wet lintel]

gotcha, yeah, i hope the tankiness gets some love in 1.1

would love to grind a spellblade

[radiant vessel]

It demands you play very well as to not get hit

But the damage is so high you Perma stun anything you do hit

[wet lintel]

oooo sick

[radiant vessel]

So as long as you can stay alive long enough to reach the enemy you're good

[heavy sun]

Does increased health regen affect the ward gained from last steps/or just the "lost health as ward" at all?

[radiant vessel]

It does, it'll decrease it

[quasi carbon]

Can anyone tell me what i should try farm now?

[radiant vessel]

As in you want as little Regen as possible

[heavy sun]

o, I thought it'd do the opposite. gotcha.

[bronze shore]

Runemaster ward gen is illegal

[radiant vessel]

Nope since it gives ward based on missing hp, you want to be as low on hp as possible

[compact cloak]

Enhanced monoliths

[quasi carbon]

But what for and which

[bronze shore]

Especially when pair with the node from rune bolt + frost shackle

Who need exsang and last step

[compact cloak]

All of them to get your greater blessings.

After that, target farm uniques you need for 4lp

[quasi carbon]

Oka

[latent marsh]

hi, any guide online besides maxroll i can use for shattered strike ?

[raw tartan]

Crying WL and falconer incoming 😂

Ppppppls let there be a nerf

[bitter valley]

Thanks god ,both need a HUGE nerf for today

[raw tartan]

Well there's still the opportunity that the majority doesn't want them nerfed so they can stay braindead with their build

[bitter valley]

That's true , but I think it's not the case , everybody complaining all the time

[frosty pewter]

Tbh i really enjoyed falconer but it was clearly overtuned

[tired hound]

Same as warlock

[frosty pewter]

I havent played it lol

[bronze shore]

Isnt warlock op right now because of a bug?

Especialy torment warlock

[inner burrow]

do you feel like claw as a delivery method is stronger? So far I've not felt a lot of difference between the two

[bronze shore]

Runemaster DR gain is illegal

Btw

Frost guard + Flame Ward is extreamly illegal

[desert minnow]

Hello! I just found out about the immortal warlock build with stupidly high ward. Will this get fixed soon?

[bronze shore]

Is a bug

So i assume so

[shell fern]

+lightning aegis

[bronze shore]

But the real question is with that much DR can we survive Lagon spit?

That beam is quite dangerous kewk

[rapid helm]

Hey what are the good spellblade builds, anything easily farming 300 ish corruption?

[naive parcel]

MinMaxRPG if your in this channel, your runemaster lighting build is amazing. Simple and tons of dps and mitigation. Ty.

[shell fern]

with enough ward you probably could, depending on corruption ofc.

[raw tartan]

Omg they even failed the survey 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Agree and disagree was misplaced

[severe phoenix]

can someone dm me please? I have a question about something and took a screenshot of it but cant post it here. its about crafting!

[shell fern]

missplaced how?

[raw tartan]

Look it up again, places are switched now

Disagree on top now, was on bottom before

So everyone got quite the opposite of what he was clicking

[bronze shore]

Wht

[desert minnow]

Easily fixed when they export that data to excel

They’ll still see it correctly on their end

[inner burrow]

it did about 15k of my ward when i facetanked it on ~300

[raw tartan]

Not sure if they are even capable of this lmao

[inner burrow]

unspecced flame ward + lightnig aegis + frostguard up

[shell fern]

pretty sure it was correct before, they just changed the numbers and directions.

[bronze shore]

I dare do u it on HC

[desert minnow]

Codes an entire game but not capable of a simple array swap. Yeah sure

[bronze shore]

[raw tartan]

Y but why? Cuz they didn't like the look of it or what?

[shell fern]

1 was strongly agree first and on the left but someone pointed out it is not common practice and they changed it. data will be still correct if you did read it.

[raw tartan]

We will see

[bronze shore]

Lmao

[shell fern]

to be safe i did the survey again

[raw tartan]

Same

[raw tartan]

But hey thought data will still be correct if you read it 😂

[bronze shore]

There a survey?

[prisma patio]

Is % mana Regen just a trap? I'm having mana issues on boss fights, and after I specced into several % mana Regen passives I went from like 11 mps to 14 mps and it feels exactly the same.

[severe phoenix]

can someone dm me please? I have a question about something and took a screenshot of it but cant post it here. its about crafting!

[bronze shore]

11 to 14 is a low amount

[shell fern]

personally i think this survey was kinda pointless, 90% of the community already have said they prefer to get bugs fixed even mid-cycle.

[raw tartan]

Imgur is your friend

[desert minnow]

Am I allowed to submit multiple surveys? Like 1000-10000

[bronze shore]

Bro imagine they fix warlock torment

[desert minnow]

I’d quit

[bronze shore]

Is a bug

[desert minnow]

Don’t care

[bronze shore]

Deal with it

[prisma patio]

But how do I get more? I haven't found any flat +mps to scale up. Unless I just need to gear into it harder, but even the stats on gear make me think I'd just go up to like 15 mps instead

[bronze shore]

[desert minnow]

Fix it in next cycle

[bronze shore]

Just more mana regen then

[prisma patio]

F

[bronze shore]

I assume the larger the mana pool the more mana regen u get

[raw tartan]

As good as the game is, those devs are kinda strange

[bronze shore]

So increased your mana pool too

[raw tartan]

Better quit if you're too bad for normal builds anyways

[frosty pewter]

Sheesh why we so hostile, just let people play what they wanna play

[raw tartan]

Nah, loser build abusers are not welcomed

[bronze shore]

I mean look at our ward gen lmao

It pretty op

[raw tartan]

Not even close to 100k. Next argument pls

[bronze shore]

2 layer of DR + 10k ward

You only die if u intentionally throwing

[frosty pewter]

I dont understand the anger in a game thats 98% single player

[bronze shore]

What anger?

[frosty pewter]

Neos mostly

[raw tartan]

And as wl you don't die if you make vacation 2 weeks and then come back

[raw tartan]

Feel free to leave if you don't wanna read it

[bronze shore]

Lol?

It undispute that runemaster is so tanky for no reason

[neon lynx]

[raw tartan]

Ok i get that rm is tanky. But that has what exactly to do with wl and falconer literally making builds around bugs?

[bronze shore]

Oh

[raw tartan]

I don't get your point at all

[bronze shore]

Falconer have bug?

[neon lynx]

dont leave out paladins

[bronze shore]

Now that i didnt know

I just know the warlock bug that let them have insane ward

[raw tartan]

Lol dude, why are we even talking about it then

[frosty pewter]

Yeah infinite smoke bombs, ward, and damage/dodge

[neon lynx]

that wasnt even the bad bug

[bronze shore]

Isnt it just dive bomb being dive bomb?

[neon lynx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7rAz0QYVxg

this was the bad warlock bug lol

[frosty pewter]

Alsosmoke bombs dont time out im echo of a world so you can just sit in ho and stack a billion then go into an echo

[bronze shore]

Funny

[raw tartan]

Not really if you care about balancing

[bronze shore]

Talk about balanced

[frosty pewter]

Also the more "fair" way of just stacking a billion before going into a boss room or in arena and one shotting anything was causing crashes

[bronze shore]

I notice that druid have a pretty tuff early game

Compare to other class

[raw tartan]

What is druid? Does this have good builds? (Beware sarcasm)

[bronze shore]

It sad that the build that i pull out of my ass is even stronger than the leveling build for druid in maxroll

[raw tartan]

Lightning swarmblade is actually pretty good. Or stormcrows but you will need the gear for it

[bronze shore]

Malestorm is pretty good

[raw tartan]

Maxroll is dogoshitty anyway no matter how you look at it

[bronze shore]

Ye but is a good place for newbie

To get a hold of thing

Until they can cook

[patent fjord]

can you get enigma from any relic drop in stolen lance or only the rare catalyst nodes? i have like 2-3 but looking for one with more LP.

[shell fern]

whats wrong with torment?

[raw tartan]

Yeah it's ok to get the basics, but don't go 100% blind into a maxrollguide

[bronze shore]

The bug

[civic vessel]

It's op?

[bronze shore]

The ward bug

[shell fern]

that has nothing to do with torment..

[bronze shore]

But they are using it no?

[raw tartan]

Profein veil mostly

[shell fern]

profane veil and vampiric pool node

pretty much any warlock build can use it if they want

[vagrant canyon]

Does the Spellblade’s damage increase more in the late game? I’m only lvl 31 but I hit like a wet noodle.

[bronze shore]

Probablly use a stronger base maybe

Maybe low level weapon base issue

[raw tartan]

Why do ppl expect to have an full endgame build halfway into the story? 😂😂 Read it several times now

[vagrant canyon]

I’m using a humming bee

[bronze shore]

Unless ur are rune master

3 fire rune

[frosty pewter]

Im a simp for triple fire, its SO cool

[bronze shore]

Big pp fire ball

[crystal nova]

i am using spellblade but in the early level i agree dmg is low, it get better around level ~40

[bronze shore]

Ur fault then

[vagrant canyon]

Ok. I figured things would improve when duel wield and firebrand get unlocked.

[bronze shore]

There no flat dmg increaed on it

[crystal nova]

firebrand or ice shatter, dual blades rly gives a nice boost

[vagrant canyon]

Oh, is that unique not good for leveling?

[bronze shore]

Only 10 melee dmg

It only good if u have a LP that give you a flat dmg

[desert minnow]

lol go touch grass dude

[frosty pewter]

Im a dreamthorn leveling enjoyer

Maybe not for spellblade tho

[raw tartan]

Cry more wl loser

[desert minnow]

Keep seething behind your screen 🤣

[raw tartan]

Im sitting on my mobile laughin about you, but ok

[desert minnow]

Seethe some more

[winter delta]

12 years old fighting in chat

[bronze shore]

I mean the bug going to get fixed soon

There no point of fighting

[raw tartan]

@desert minnow your build gets nerfed no matter what you think or do. Live with it 🙂

[frosty pewter]

I remember why I dont leave my gay discords, regular internet is full of angry people

[desert minnow]

Dude is malding lmao

[bronze shore]

Gay discord? Yo sent me the link

[desert minnow]

zzzz

[winter delta]

can u guys DM each other this annoying BS no one wants to read it

[raw tartan]

This is quite the first interaction with a kiddy on this discord lol

[half slate]

Got a question i am new and my mage is lvl 8 should i be using a loot filter or should i just grab everything for quick gold

[desert minnow]

L

[raw tartan]

That sounded wrong lol

[frosty pewter]

Its pretty much exclusively lesbian lol

[bronze shore]

Even better

[bronze shore]

Grab everything

[desert minnow]

Probably older than you but yeah dude 💀

[raw tartan]

Sure motorbikesonic

[bronze shore]

You can use loot filter around lv 30 ish

[frosty pewter]

Owait yoooo fellow it/its pronoun enjoyer

[desert minnow]

Aw you can’t ride? I’m sorry

Maybe when you’re older

[bronze shore]

Okay but we can all agreed 3 fire rune is cool as hell right?

[frosty pewter]

Can we agree yall both have a big PP and move on

[frosty pewter]

Yes

[bronze shore]

[raw tartan]

I would prefer to ban such kids out of discords

This dudes doing it since days. Coming in here not talking anything meaningfull besides BS

[desert minnow]

I literally just joined today dummy

🤣

[blissful hearth]

on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being "hyper meme good luck doing anything past 0 corruption" to 10 being "this will get nerfed next cyle #prayge", how good of a build would cold black hole + cold dot/frostbite support be?

[bronze shore]

Black hole + cold dot?

What u cooking my guy

[blissful hearth]

basically stack as much cold/dot/frostbite as possible

pick up all the cold/elemental nodes/buffs

[bronze shore]

So just frostbite frost claw them?

[blissful hearth]

basically but with black hole

[bronze shore]

Probably a 6-7

[idle terrace]

is elemental melee atk speed more beneficial for SS and MS?

[bronze shore]

Since frost claw is already quite good

[blissful hearth]

so if i go black hole/flame ward/teleport/frost claw, what's my last skill

[frosty pewter]

Sorc?

[blissful hearth]

yes

[frosty pewter]

Enchant I guess? No idea

[blissful hearth]

i just want the cool looking black vacuum spell man 😦

[bronze shore]

Eh go cook

If were heard about a black hole nerf

You know it your fault

[blissful hearth]

🤣

unlikely, black hole seems kinda buttkiss if you don't go fire/ignite

[prisma patio]

Unless you're trying to like top leaderboards you really can do whatever and be just fine

[bronze shore]

Top leaderboard it just acolyte

[blissful hearth]

nah if i can reach 500 corruption i'd be happy, maybe even just 300

[bronze shore]

In fact it all acolyte

[prisma patio]

Yeah than go off, do black hole whatever. It'll probably be fine.

[blissful hearth]

but i'm gonna look at the frost claw frostbite RM and see what i can cook

[rain island]

With a lack of sorceror builds around I decided to experiment a bit on my own. I'm not very good at working without a build guide. So far I'm experimenting with lightning blast as my main spamming skill, static orb and ice claw(lightning) as a proc. I've also been using static for a big burst occasionally it has produced a 6k hit and one shot some early bosses. Generally I fire off static orb and then lightning blast to finish off the left overs. For bosses I finish off with static for a big burst. I'm wondering If I should change to ice claw as the spammable instead of lightning blast.

I might add I have no idea what I'm doing

[pure topaz]

This is what I'm doing right now. Almost. I want a full palpatine build. What made you use Ice Claw? (I'm brand new so i don't know anything)

[rain island]

Ice claw has a node that makes it proc if you get hit. It's about a 9% chance but it does go off

[pure topaz]

I have Lightning Blast, Teleport, Static, And Runic Invocation. I'm only level 30 though. But it's working pretty good. I uhhhhh don't get to switch up any of my invocations though which is quite the bummer.

[hoary swift]

someone take me with to arena or a mono?

[rain island]

The trouble is with lightning blast, ice claw, static and static orb there's only one spot left for either teleport or flame ward not both, so maybe I should drop one of the others.

The only runemaster stuff I'm using is the ward passives at the beginning of the tree for some ward generation.

[pure topaz]

Everyone uses Flame Ward. Is it to un-squishafy the mage?

Or is there something offensive i'm missing?

[rain island]

basically yes, currently I'm using it unspec'd for a bit of shield in those 'oh crap' moments.

[obsidian quarry]

ward when stunned jsut feels like it saves you a lot

[pure topaz]

I get a lot of ward (well 300 at level 30 with 351 health) of ward just from using my abilities

If it keeps up the ratio, doubling my health with ward is nice

[rain island]

I don't get a lot yet. I'm working on the defences at the moment.

[pure topaz]

I went with the idea of "I won't get hit if I kill the enemies first" idea. Will see how well Glass Cannon works. If not i'll curve my health/ward up... if that doesn't work imma try the flame ward.

But I love Teleport too much

[rain island]

I'm a bit at that point at the moment. Definitely need more defenses though

I'm using teleport as well.

I'm trying everything. Like I said I have no idea what I'm doing

[rocky anvil]

I tried to double dip into damage for the sorcerer with stacking max mana and using static orb with the 4% max mana cost node (Sorcerer spells deal more damage the more expensive a spell is) and it just hits like an absolute wet noodle with a high powered build. Putting everything I can into it (LP2/3), I get like half of a weak RM build with LP0/1...

Disheartening 😦

Plasma orb, lb, frost claw RM builds too stronk

[pure topaz]

I put 2 points into the "Attuned Approach" Left of the Runic Invocation. And Sun and Storms and Silver Rune on my Mage Mastery (Passive thing) those give me enough Wards so far @rain island I still die here and there, but not too much.

Idk what i'm doing either : P

[bronze shore]

More flat dmg

[inner burrow]

hits also do 30% less at baseline, which isn't insignificant

[bronze shore]

If u ever feel u hit like wet noodle then just get more flat dmg

[rain island]

At first I was stacking just lightning damage but have since discovered that spell damage adds more hit power along with a good smattering of elemental damage.

[vast quail]

Hey guys, trying to come up with a personal build for Spell blade, my first time playing the mastery. Noticed that I got 3 Cradle of the Erased, and I'm thinking, is it viable as means of generating ward? Or it's just a leveling item?

[rocky anvil]

Just let me know when you got a better source than mourningfrost boots for non-fire skills that can't use immolator's oblation.

[weary hamlet]

it's hilarious that the oblation had been bugged since they released the dungeon in 2021 and they haven't even acknowledged it, much less attempted to fix it

[winter crow]

Who had the amazing idea of not letting us slam gear from other classes? XD now cheapest t7 int chest is 2m lol https://gyazo.com/01647bc9acd5e3b007c0d6a2e18958b7

[rocky anvil]

Anyway the point that I was trying to make is that the mastery bonus from sorcery, that increases damage based on the mana cost of the spell, with the only spell that scales mana cost with your max mana, with LP2-3 gear, is about half or less than half the DPS of a decent RM build at 0-1 LP.

[weary hamlet]

you slam an acolyte chest into a mage unique and transfer an acolyte specific affix, now you have a legendary with class requirements mage+acolyte

[winter crow]

yeah but if its only 1lp gear for example, I only care if I get int and nothing else

[rocky anvil]

🤣

[rain island]

With runemaster don't you have the fire off your skills in a specific order. In a panic I'd get it wrong and do no damage. Runemaster seems complicated.

[winter crow]

so it wouldnt matter

[weary hamlet]

The problem is that this is increased damage instead of more damage, which would be actually somewhat helpful to support a high mana playstyle

Also they need to fix sorc's mana economy cause when you got a 1k mana pool mana strike is pathetic and focus sucks to use

[rocky anvil]

I 100% agree on both accounts

[weary hamlet]

like even something like volcanic orb would be quite not bad with an extra 130-140% more damage for free

[winter crow]

https://gyazo.com/7b6d9aff6eae009fc13985e781182571 ty to whoever bought a low roll cast speed for 4.5m XD

[inner burrow]

there's a node in the skill tree makes it so that your spellcasts give you the same rune order every time regardless of element

[severe kelp]

What does "elemental nova becomes tri elemental" actually means, mechanically? Does it scale as any of fire/ice/lightning damage now? Is it now a fire/ice/lightning/all of them/none of them skill now? Does it count as an ice/fire/lightning nova for the nodes on the skill tree?

This is so confusing

But i like my colorful novas

[prisma patio]

It deals equal portions of each damage type, which all scale with their respective modifiers individually

And has all three tags

[severe kelp]

i see, thanks

this is sad, I thought I could scale only lightning damage and have it fully benefit from the scaling (since my main damage is from spark charges). But still good

[novel bronze]

Am I just missing something or are there limited fire mage uniques and sets?

I see ignivars head, are there others I should be looking for?

[severe kelp]

Theres a sceptre (or wand i forgot), an eye shaped relic, a unique idol, a crown iirc

Thats like 10 times more usable uniques than other builds

[novel bronze]

Lol then I'll look for them and be happy

[crimson valve]

yeah there's cinder song, firestarter sceptre or some like that, the crown that gives ignite chance and a couple more. actually a decent amount. I built my ignite runemaster with the sceptre and the crown

[weary hamlet]

sets are basically nonexistent in this game, but there are a ton of fire uniques around. Calamity, Maehlin's Hubris, Rule of Simoon, Immolator's Oblation (bugged and extremely overpowered), Fire Dragon Shoes, Transcriber's Graver (basically an ignite glyph unique), Eye of Reen for the two spellblades running that build, Firestarter's torch is now competitive with Ladle in how powerful it is if you are running fire damage, Cinder Song, the head is not really a "fire unique" but a Disintegrate specific one, then there are ashes of immortality if you are in ignite (a bit overnerfed I guess?), and I'm sure there were multiple relics and such that I can't really remember off the top of my head

Oh yeah right and of course Throne of Ambition, an auto include in basically every fire build

[limpid drum]

guys can someone tell me please why this guy plays with these skills https://prnt.sc/RdTu2rntN-Ta but has these linked on his build planner ? (lb instead of snap freeze) https://prnt.sc/xBruZT1IlEYZ

is that by mistake or do i miss something?

[bronze shore]

Wont press that link

Sus

[limpid drum]

i cant share pictures otherwise

lmao

[prisma patio]

Use a trusted image host like imgur

[crimson valve]

why is oblation OP? I've put it in my fire warlock and it feels like it does what it should do? I'm getting like 6-7 self ignite stack and a good increase in spell damage but nothing too op

[prime fable]

i just got reowyns fortress 4LP is it any good

[weary hamlet]

it's a belt that gives you 240 flat spell damage, in a game where weapos normally give 50-100

[limpid drum]

https://imgur.com/a/YAkoyju here

he uses snap freeze in the video but has LB on the planner

[weary hamlet]

if you are only getting 6-7 self ignite stacks, you need more cast speed

[limpid drum]

build called nova frostclaw

[obsidian quarry]

wait why does it give 240? It says max is 40?

[crimson valve]

I think the (max 40) refers to the spell damage u can accumulate and not the stacks?

[obsidian quarry]

oo 40 stacks.... if it works like that

[weary hamlet]

that's because it's broken and it actually counts the max of 40 stacks, not the max of 40 spell damage, which it should. This is exactly the bug we were discussing just above

[crimson valve]

i'm at 110% cast speed and pretty low roll chance to self ignite.

[obsidian quarry]

sorry didnt see earlier, and that might be what i need to make fire aura scale more XD

[bronze shore]

Probably a flex slot

Did he show the specialized skill?

Or any kind of link between LB and snap freeze?

[limpid drum]

nah

[crimson valve]

how do you reach 40 stacks anyway? do you have to indirect cast other skills other than accumulating cast speed?

[limpid drum]

https://imgur.com/a/tWnUtOh

this is the video to it

idk im new maybe im missing something lol

but i guess its a flex slot then

[last knoll]

This is gonna sound really stupid -- but what is freeze rate multiplier etc.? Obviously it seems like it is % to cause freeze but I can't find information about what a frozen ailment actually does (outside of the obvious freezing a monster). Does it shred any armour, can enough chill cause freeze etc. etc.

[steel oasis]

I think it just freezes but there are thing like take freeze into effect for dmg

passive nods

frost wall

[last knoll]

Right, but outside of the nodes does over 100% do anything? Is there like an internal CD for a monster to be frozen (so they can't be frozen forever?)

Its not listed as an ailment on LE tools unfortunately

[still stump]

can prophecies be used to influence drop rates of specific bosses? like dragon corpse dude and twisted heart?

[last knoll]

ahhh... I found it under combat mechs not ailments https://www.lastepochtools.com/guide/section/freeze

[brazen plank]

Hey guys can anybody help me out with my build?

I'm running a rune master and trying to build around fireball and fire spells in general and I wanted some ideas for uniques I should target

Running a 0 LP calamity atm

[digital oar]

does the hydrahedron or the antipode count as a minion?

[versed field]

Nope.

[inner burrow]

He's using it to generate a cold rune for frostguard invocation. Lightning blast is coverted to cold with 1 node in the class passive tree

Iirc he ran lb over snap when he was first worried about running out of mana.

[vernal socket]

I don't know names off the top of my head, but I would check lastepochtools.com, go to the resources on tab on top, and check out the items. You can search words like Fire and it'll show uniques with fire in the descriptions

[limpid drum]

ok so lb is used to have better mana regen?

[inner burrow]

Cold rune. I think running it for the mana is pointless.

[warped arch]

hey friends thinking about making my first alt - shatterstrike spellblade looks fun. is it decent?

[inner burrow]

Having to spam a 0-mana unspecced spell for 12% spark charge uptime because you misbalanced your mana economy is not it

[limpid drum]

aight i will settle for snap freeze then

[digital oar]

There are plenty of skills you can skill up to cast without being on your bar. I like running an unspecced lightning blast so I have access to three elements on my bar. I take flame ward off the bar, and let it trigger whenever I get stunned.

[vernal saffron]

any spellblades with high corruptions here?

[limpid drum]

lol wtf i didnt know u can do that

[radiant vessel]

Shatter strike is very solid, you can either go decently tanky with decent damage or full glass Cannon with crazy damage. You won't be as op as some of the busted builds out there but it can do all content for sure

[warped arch]

thanks for the reply - it was between shatter and a warpath void knight. seems most of the sentinel players are all gloom and doom lol

[radiant vessel]

I got to 1300 corruption before 1.0, I'm currently taking a break until 1.1 so I haven't pushed corruption in 1.0 so idk how well my build would hold up now.

I estimate maybe 700 corruption now

But who knows, maybe more maybe less

[vernal saffron]

bloody nib crit, right?

[radiant vessel]

Yup

[warped arch]

im still sitting around 200-300 corruption leveling falconer and its just kinda boring. im 96 and just wanting to swap to something else

[radiant vessel]

Nothing really changed about the build, I did level it but stopped playing after a few days to avoid burnout

Since I had been playing a ton before 1.0

[vernal saffron]

May i ask u to look at my build? Have enough damage but feel very squishy. Was use ur guild for start but then im start experimenting and do some changes. Mb u have some ideas have to improve sustain
Atm have few ideas, its replace idols for hp/dodge and swap all gear for endurance/dodge

if u interested so, im not push it 🙂

Atm 300+ corrupts and easy do all bosses

[radiant vessel]

Sure, if you can link your planner I could maybe take a look, I'm on my phone though so might be hard right now, I'll tag you and let you know

By planner I mean import your character with lastepochtools and send the link

[vernal saffron]

Can link in pm if didnt mind

[radiant vessel]

Np

[olive arch]

Is it worth using multiple elements asa spellblade?

[radiant vessel]

Depends, but usually no

[olive arch]

How would i make a build viable using two rainbow swords?

[compact cloak]

Some sort of enchanted weapon shatterstrike crit build?

Definitely going to be suboptimal tho

[versed field]

If you have LP on those, it might be fun.

[olive arch]

LP?

[prime fable]

what do u think about meteor proccing from crits esp. from mana strike is it a good build?

[compact cloak]

Legendary power. Used later on to enhance uniques.

[radiant vessel]

It's not good but it's fun, it's my second most played build

[prime fable]

hmm... im running it rn with the set that turns it to lightning with 100+ int to increase damage... its fun but im stuck at 200 corruption. im thinking of trying a new character. maybe

[radiant vessel]

Yup, there's no real way to make it tanky

[brazen plank]

Got it tkx

[prime fable]

i mean maybe with really good equipment. i have 5.7k ward rn if i can find a way to gain more ward during attacks it could help

[radiant vessel]

Yeah I mean you can make anything work if you try hard enough, but other things will outperform it by a lot at the same investment level (not talking about any busted builds, just normal stuff)

[prime fable]

true.. they just released a survey about balancing im curious how they will handle it

[digital oar]

it really seems like a missed opportunity that there aren't more benefits for casting different invocations in sequence, rather than spamming the same one.

[scenic drift]

Does overcharge work with lightning blast procced by Dragorath's?

[safe grail]

anything you put into LB's tree will proc on drags

same w/ frost claw.

[placid tundra]

What’s the build to play solo and push corruption right now? I see a million different builds, is there just like a standard meta?

[compact cloak]

any build that can abuse ward in some way it seems.

[placid tundra]

Yeah seems that way. Idek what dps to go with though, there’s plasma orb, lightning strike, ice lightning strike, flurry, fire. Too many options lol

[lapis wedge]

Did anyone tried to make a spellblade : Firebrand -> Frost Claw -> Elemental nova build ?

[prisma patio]

Really you can get away with most anything, so pick an ability that sounds cool and go from there. I like ignite and a couple of the fire invocations, so I've been playing a brew around those.

[safe grail]

this won't work

[lapis wedge]

sad

[safe grail]

Frost claw isn't a melee skill and you cannot tag it as such

so firebrand wont buff it

nor would it buff ele nova

[lapis wedge]

You can transform firebrand melee dmg to spell

[safe grail]

yeah ik but none of the other passive nodes in spellblade can really help it along

and it's not like you can spec an entire other tree for more dmg

[lapis wedge]

its not so bad though

150% crit multi 500armor

huge attack speed buff without much investment

[safe grail]

wait it still wont matter

you cannot consume the stacks w/ claw

claw isn't melee

[bleak wind]

Actually I have this build rn, not sure if it will scale too far along, right now I'm only at 200 corruption, no problem so far

[safe grail]

how the hell are you doing dmg? lol

[lapis wedge]

i don't plan to consume it

[safe grail]

just letting the brand stacks stay?

[lapis wedge]

😮

[bleak wind]

The catch is that ypu are just a sparkcharge build

[safe grail]

oh

[lapis wedge]

oh yeah so u dont use elemental nova do u

[safe grail]

lmao

[bleak wind]

I do

[safe grail]

so you're just doing firebrand instead of mana strike

[bleak wind]

But elemental Nova still procs sparkcharge

[safe grail]

so you are using:

Firebrand
Claw
Nova
LB
+5th skill?

i assume you have like TP specc'd

and then you use an unspecced flame ward

[bleak wind]

Yea haha, i found mana strike just looks too plain, the big pillar of fire from firebrand is cool

[bleak wind]

No tp, 5th is surge

[safe grail]

lol you do realize you're just str8 lowering your spark charge chance by using brand right?

(i really hate this server's automod, it's so bad)

[severe phoenix]

why is it not letting me Enter Game? its telling me "Client Version is out of date for online play. Upgrade and try again" but i dont have an update on steam

[safe grail]

Why ask in general chat then here?

[bleak wind]

Yea i know, its just an alternative build, likely not as good but definitely not that bad. Firebrand can also stack static, so I actually don't use Nova rn. So just firebrand sparkcharge for trash, and use surge to proc lightning blast and static for burst

[severe phoenix]

because i felt like it. why you have to be a smart ass?

[safe grail]

ah makes sense.

[lapis wedge]

i still wonder why elemental nova couldnt do flat dmg upon trigger

[safe grail]

because your question has nothing to do w/ mages and constitutes spamming 🙂

[severe phoenix]

blocked 🙂

[lapis wedge]

i dislike ailment stacking in general :/

[bleak wind]

Firebrand crit chance + 2 other crit chance prefix is enough to max spell crit, then you just go ham with attack speed, since firebrand stack also provides plenty spell damage.

[bleak wind]

Yea true, In that case firebrand flame reave is probably better.

[compact cloak]

Tried verifying your files?

[severe phoenix]

nope. was just told to try though so imma try now. thanks for a actual response

[bleak wind]

But firebrand is just so cool haha

[lapis wedge]

I'm playing flame reave right now but elemental hit look like its a lot more spammy

[safe grail]

wait..... how are you getting spell crit from firebrand lol

[bleak wind]

Firebrand gives spell crit per stack, 15% per stack for 6 stacks total

[safe grail]

My response was an actual response. you just didn't like the fact I was right and that you had to ask in general chat, get no answer and then wait 5 mins to ask again

[lapis wedge]

its crit multi though

[safe grail]

that's crit multi

not crit chance

[lapis wedge]

u can have +9%base chance in ele nova tree though

[bleak wind]

Oh wait yes, but still with only 2 crit chance prefixes I am only seeing yellow with all sparks and claws

[digital oar]

is there any decent guide to the spoon build?

[neon lynx]

yellow numbers are bigger and cover up ur non crits xd

[prisma tulip]

Is there a way to make the runic invocation runes more visible/not get hidden behind things?

[digital oar]

You can look at the buff bar at the bottom of your screen to solve the latter issue. Otherwise, i'm not aware of a way to make both more visible.

[bleak wind]

I do realize this, but I believe it is capped, tested quite abit to make sure, gotta have to check where I got the extra percentages.

Alternatively, has anyone had any success with builds using enchant weapons to detonate fire DOTs? The node did not seem to do anything when I tried it for some reason.

[edgy charm]

I got like 55m to blow on a RM build, what's pushing high corruption these days?

[lapis wedge]

crow beastmaster

[safe grail]

Nova frostclaw hit 2.2k i believe

[neon lynx]

why tf are exalt frost claw relics so rare >.>

[safe grail]

i've found 1 t6 one myself so far lol

currently trying to get a twisted w/ at least 2 LP

[neon lynx]

yeah im about to ding 100 and have found one

and it immediately got bricked into a twisted 🤣

[edgy charm]

wowo

[lapis wedge]

what ascendancy is this

[edgy charm]

got any links to build options?

[atomic heart]

can u share ur build?

[safe grail]

Here's the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInVp-phqAU

Not my build.

[atomic heart]

im trying to do a build with dragoraths claw

[safe grail]

this isn't the build for it.

[atomic heart]

i know, im trying to fit it in and change some stuff

[safe grail]

wait as RM or

spellblade?

or sorc

[atomic heart]

rm

[neon lynx]

you can roughly copy that build

and swap out weapon and boots

[atomic heart]

why ppl uses telf'uns? if its effect is on "channmeling"?

im using blood of the exile with the dagger, but my biggest problem is what skills use and survivability

[safe grail]

you're going to lose out on a lot i think trying that as RM.

[atomic heart]

why?

[safe grail]

you can do the build, but i dont think there is going to be room for runic invocation

which gives a large amount of ward and DR

or you will miss out on slotting flame ward

[neon lynx]

i have both slotted

[atomic heart]

me too

[safe grail]

oh bet

[sinful wren]

is there frostguard indicator like light aegis ?

[neon lynx]

snap freeze flame dash shield runic claw

[sinful wren]

how can i see if i have frostguard buff

[safe grail]

not running LB at all?

[atomic heart]

the biggest problem is that u need to put the lb on skills

[neon lynx]

claw procs it

[atomic heart]

for buff

[safe grail]

ik that but

you arent speccing into it

to make it any better lol

[neon lynx]

yeah i am

[atomic heart]

yes iam

[safe grail]

okay then secondary question

enchant wep?

[atomic heart]

nope

[neon lynx]

nah

[atomic heart]

its bad

[pure topaz]

_>

[safe grail]

so you guys are doing claw or LB as the castable

i c

[neon lynx]

claw

then dagger procs lb

[safe grail]

that makes more sense

[atomic heart]

claw weith elemental nova

[safe grail]

yeah

[neon lynx]

on claw hits

[safe grail]

okay this makes more sense

[neon lynx]

my specd skills are claw nova LB shield and runic

[safe grail]

drag's i've only seen in mana strike style builds