🧙┃mage

[still stump]

damn

[winter crow]

if you are cof, its easier to get

if you are mg, you are fkd

[still stump]

I am blasting ring prophs

[winter crow]

I got one with runes of ascendance

and bought the other one

[winter crow]

ye thats the easiest way of getting them

gl

[brittle elbow]

Which item level do you use accendece on ? Or does it not matter

[winter crow]

it doesnt matter

1/1k chance

[brittle elbow]

Ok

[winter crow]

ima go to sleep, ima post my build again for ppl that want to see how to play spark nova fc without +fc levels

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QkY1591o

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,141, Regen: 24/s
▸ Mana: 202, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 698%, Regen: 38/s
▸ Attributes: 33 Str / 20 Dex / 168 Int / 10 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 99% / 75% / 99% / 82% / 63% / 71% / 71%
▸ EHP: 2,123 / 2,123 / 2,123 / 2,358 / 1,745 / 1,888 / 1,888

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 28%, Threshold: 228
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (94)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 40% (2,252)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (23)
• Runic Invocation (23)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Frost Claw (23)
• Static Orb (23)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Static Shell
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Julra's Stardial
• Omnis
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[winter crow]

cuz ppl always fall for the bait of buying +fc levels when int relic is stronger

anyways gn

[brittle elbow]

Why not both +fc and int kk

[bronze shore]

rich item

xd

[mossy turret]

Does +Cast Speed only apply to "spell" abilities?

And +Attack Speed is for "melee non-spell"?

[orchid basalt]

when will i start getting better mage gear ? like what level?

because i keep getting void dmg, minions and stuff not for me

[bronze shore]

maybe you are using a wrong filter

[orchid basalt]

maybe? idk what im doing on filters. i was getting a lot of shields and crap i dont need . i got one from the internet and all yellows that are "upgrades" are like void dmg and minions stuff

[bronze shore]

check your filter then lol

[proud tusk]

any suggest way to farm mad alche laddle with LP? trying to find mage prison in monolith is a bit slow

[keen bridge]

Hello my fellow Mages. Anyone else know the pain of fighting Lagon in early monoliths when you swap to lightning frost claw without the mana for it? I just felt so much pain...

[bronze shore]

probably you put too much +mana cost

remove the +mana cost and you will not have mana problem

[ionic siren]

fastest way afaik is loading an echo, killing mage, then going back to town to reset the echo

[safe yew]

Help pls. Does averyone have ignite build for spellblade?

ignite or fire surge. wanna buuuuurn 😄

[topaz owl]

guys, serious question! do grand idols with +mana and crit over 300 man actually exist haven't seen one like ever

[weary hamlet]

Sure they do exist, that doesn't mean that you won't spend years farming them. Mg is op af when it comes to getting idols

[topaz owl]

that specific combo is ridiculously low, other ones drop often -.-

i basically have perfect idols for other specs

[crimson raft]

Probably an affix with high reroll % with a specific idol slot\size. Tunklab can check it

[tidal wave]

Is there a way I can turn my hp leech into ward leech?

[crimson raft]

Indirectly only, if you have lose x% current health and gain % ward, it'll keep your health topped up and getting converted to ward at max rate.

Oh wait, that's actually 100% wrong. Lemme check affixes

[floral surge]

Basically only Twisted Heart does that (unique relic) . Low Life setups don't want any leech what so ever.

[crimson raft]

^Yes, you lose current health, but you GAIN missing health % as ward, so you want to be missing as much as possible

[boreal widget]

Is there a way to tweak graphics settings to make the game a bit less visually overloading? I can't seem to beat empowered black sun because I can't see any of his attacks through my 500 elemental novas

Half tempted to just go back and completely rebuild my entire character since I can't see things to dodge with these full screen novas

t.t

[crimson raft]

Don't run 500 ele novas? 😛

[boreal widget]

Its a really fun build

I just can't see anything on boss fights

[floral surge]

Get tanky enough to tank his abilities . I play something similar

Use ur flame wards efficiently

[full bluff]

Spec out of elemental nova proc before boss fights

[boreal widget]

Yea thats all I can think of. I only have 40% void resist so I bet i'd be find if I got it to 75%. Was hoping to get the void resist blessing

[boreal widget]

Its like 90% of my damage lol

[floral surge]

swap couple of idols for humble ones with void res for the fight till u get the blessing . ez way of getting more void res without investment,

[full bluff]

I have asked several time for a change to elemental nova animation 🙂 Can hope and pray for it.

[boreal widget]

Huh, never thought of doing that. I'll go that route

[boreal widget]

Yea I'm using the helmet that makes all novas multi element, and I have enough area they're screen-wide

[floral surge]

Hey leave my ele nova's alone !!! They look fancy 🙂

[full bluff]

Maybe a suffix that makes elemental nova invisible, that some us can add to gear 🙂

Experimental affix

[floral surge]

haha that's too far

maybe some nice MTX for them in the future

[boreal widget]

I just wish boss effects were overlaid on top of the nova

[full bluff]

yeah thats what I am hoping for, a very toned down one we can buy, but imagine the bad press they would get. Selling stuff to make the game playable with graphics.

[boreal widget]

instead of nova on top of boss effects

[floral surge]

Diseenith small tip about Black Sun boss

His wings and posture give away what he is about to cast

learn that and that fight will become very easy

[boreal widget]

Yea, I just get clipped one-shotted by the big circle. Everything else I dodge

I'm sure I just need to get enough ward to not get one hit

[unborn hamlet]

i have small tip too

just survive the hit

[floral surge]

Flame ward on the big circle should do the trick if u have some armor and cap void res

[boreal widget]

I've been largely playing the game without looking anything up, still haven't even done the temporal place since I"m afraid to mess up this 3LP item I got.

[crimson raft]

Well if you don't a great exalt to slam it with, that's fine, but otherwise it's just wasted potential 🙂

[boreal widget]

I just don't know what to put into it, its Exanguinious with 3LP and the only non-minion related LP Item i've gotten lmao

I have an entire stash full of minion items as a runemaster

[crimson raft]

Time to CoF farm for stuff?

[quasi merlin]

Swapped to Allie's Spark Claw build but having heaps of trouble with mana. What's the easiest way to target farm those Claw efficiency idols? https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/allie---cast-on-crit-spark-charge-runemaster

[silk pewter]

Allie - Cast on Crit Spark Charge Runemaster Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Release / 1.0.1

Class

Mage / Runemaster

Used skills

• Frost Claw
• Lightning Blast
• Flame Rush
• Runic Invocation
• Flame Ward

Used unique items

• Dragorath's Claw
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Foot of the Mountain
• Prismatic Gaze

Tags

Monolith Farmer / Cycle Starter / Beginner / SSF / Ranged

Created by Allie · Mar 12, 2024, 4:54 AM

[stiff crown]

Merchant Guild

[unborn hamlet]

ur using the dragorath´s claw version

u need at minimum 21 base mana regen per second

idols aint gonna fix ur issue alone

[boreal widget]

What'd be a good last ability that disn't specialized? I'm using Runebolt, teleport, ward, and invocation but never actually 'cast' elemental nova so could replace with something else. Snap freeze?

[quasi merlin]

Cool, so aim for some more mana regen prefixes too.

[devout torrent]

typical allie, no idea how to make in builds in poe or le. you are just lucky she didnt try to steal from you like she does in poe

[unborn hamlet]

calm down 😂

the build is good

but she definitely didnt make it

[devout torrent]

ohh i know bud

i know allie

🙂

[unborn hamlet]

i dont know who originally made it

but if u want

[devout torrent]

smk

more than likely

[unborn hamlet]

BootyNoodle explained it very well

or rather, he fixed the mana issue aspect of it

[next lance]

When do I to swap MAL for the Reowens Fortress for a Plasma orb build?

[devout torrent]

i have been playing frost claw for the last 2 weeks

no mana issues here

[unborn hamlet]

im not saying he made it, he said himself he didnt made it, he just tweaked it with help of one other person

[unborn hamlet]

it depends on what ur running

[devout torrent]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QeY4q8KQ

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (67)

General:

▸ Health: 1,638, Regen: 27/s
▸ Mana: 281, Regen: 15/s
▸ Ward Retention: 570%, Regen: 74/s
▸ Attributes: 22 Str / 9 Dex / 136 Int / 9 Att / 15 Vit
▸ Resistances: 120% / 68% / 76% / 82% / 77% / 79% / 67%
▸ EHP: 3,227 / 3,016 / 3,227 / 3,466 / 2,985 / 2,985 / 2,751

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 451
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (117)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 35% (1,837)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (27)
• Flame Ward (22)
• Runic Invocation (25)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Elemental Nova (25)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Telf'un's Mirage
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[quasi merlin]

She put the effort in to make a pretty thorough written guide. Doesn't seem to be that many other reputable creators doing that that I can see. Sure, they'll put together a LE tools profile, but no explanation (or at minimum HUGE expected knowledge).

[unborn hamlet]

i had no mana issues either until i swapped to the updated build version

[devout torrent]

shes a known theif

[unborn hamlet]

now i cast frostclaw 5 times and im dry

[devout torrent]

thats my build mate

[unborn hamlet]

cos i dont have the proper idols yet

really need to get that mana efficiency frostclaw idol to salvage it

[devout torrent]

its very nice

[unborn hamlet]

as well as T7 spell ice sceptre but i cope harder everyday

[crimson raft]

"that's my build mate" feels like "that's my meme mate"

[devout torrent]

?

[unborn hamlet]

T7 doesnt exist i swear

[devout torrent]

its the build ive worked on for the last 2 weeks, not sure about the meme apart from the lethal grind

managed to get 999,999 favour farming for that shiz

thats the max btw

[quasi merlin]

Do you have an actual guide? Or just "here's the BIS setup" like most other people do?

[devout torrent]

im not a content creator bro but im sure googel will help you

just my build lol

[sleek badge]

Hi whichone is more agile for fast moving and clearing wave in monolith? Runemaster mage or warlock? Thnx

[quick loom]

Most builds in either game are not original. Not defending. Just saying

[quasi merlin]

Google did help me... to find Allie's build. I get that you don't like her, but if people aren't actually creating build guides, then you can't blame someone else for putting the work in based on others' builds.

[devout torrent]

yea she stole actual items from people in poe, its quite an amusing story actually. even baldy covered it. google allie poe drama

[boreal widget]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AKgr4G2A So this is what I have so far, I haven't really looked up well... anything about the game or looked up any builds

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (7) / Runemaster (73)

General:

▸ Health: 970, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 148, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 256%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 33 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 24% / 0% / 24% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%
▸ EHP: 704 / 607 / 704 / 618 / 607 / 611 / 611

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 194
▸ Armor Mitigation: 6% (122)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (25)
• Runic Invocation (21)
• Flame Ward (25)
• Teleport (21)
• Runebolt (21)

Used unique items:

• Crest of Unity
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage
• Exsanguinous
• Last Steps of the Living

[boreal widget]

Are there any key things I'm missing (unfilled slots have just exalteds with decent stats in them)

[quick loom]

I know all about it. One time went too far, not saying she is totally sane lol

[boreal widget]

Trying to make sure I'm not missing some essential passive or skill perk that would help with damage/survivability

[devout torrent]

ohh so you know of one time... there are alot more than that bro 🙂 literal pos that deserves everything that comes to her 🙂

she took 10 divs from a friend of mine in the first week of tota league, paid them back 3 weeks later instead of the 3 days agreed upon

sometimes i like to go into her streams to troll her a bit - just cause its funny

[quick loom]

Im glad i only know one then. Idc. Let her help the new players. Can only help the game in the long run (except for trading/gambas i guess lol)

[devout torrent]

yea i dont know if i would recommend any of her guides to anyone

if youd like a good vreak down of runemaster i can suggest 2 really good ones

[quick loom]

Like someone said ^ up somewhere. Written guide is better than some vids. And its hard enough finding a reputable build anyway with subpar maxroll etc

[quasi merlin]

Yes please. So hard to find relevant info - especially when all the big sites have "baby's first build" for early corruption only.

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (67)

General:

▸ Health: 1,638, Regen: 27/s
▸ Mana: 281, Regen: 15/s
▸ Ward Retention: 570%, Regen: 74/s
▸ Attributes: 22 Str / 9 Dex / 136 Int / 9 Att / 15 Vit
▸ Resistances: 120% / 68% / 76% / 82% / 77% / 79% / 67%
▸ EHP: 3,227 / 3,016 / 3,227 / 3,466 / 2,985 / 2,985 / 2,751

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 451
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (117)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 35% (1,837)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (27)
• Flame Ward (22)
• Runic Invocation (25)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Elemental Nova (25)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Telf'un's Mirage
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[devout torrent]

https://youtu.be/vMfOxGjxl3g?si=MSMfjeJYBUMXDD9H

this guy has a decent take on it

he made a video about it but got some stuff wrong

and then put out this correction

can always support a content creator that can correct himself

[quick loom]

Agreed

[oblique kernel]

how hard is it to get the frost claw mana cost idol, dang 2 days now and still havent got even 1

[devout torrent]

rng 😦

[quick loom]

Rng is a pain. I have a few…..

[magic nexus]

very hard, and you need double 14% , dont bother buying lowers because the threshold to have 0 mana issue is 23 mana cost on frost claw
you can somehow manage with 24, but more is no go

[crimson raft]

Huh, tunklab claim that's a common drop, no reroll%
https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/affix/idol_mage_frost_claw_mana_efficiency_and_elemental_penetration

[devout torrent]

i have given away like 4 of these idols in the last 2 days to friedns making the build

found in party with them

so just bad rng kim

[magic nexus]

its a common drop indeed, but you are only looking for 14% or 13% roll. the rest is just dog

[oblique kernel]

ok, hehe the normal luck then 🙂

[crimson raft]

Hmm, 4x1 yeah, so can only slot 2, and if you need that high yeah...

[floral surge]

Horde of Idols for T4 Julra daily mod in 14 hours. Get ur keys ready and go nuts 🙂

[crimson raft]

Better swap to scepter and get -mana cost? 😛

[oblique kernel]

using dragon dagger

[magic nexus]

no, mad ladle gives u -3 and is the goat for that build

[oblique kernel]

dragorath*

[honest sinew]

Guys, I just hit +4 frost claw on twisted heart, finally!

[crimson raft]

grats!

[quick loom]

Grats 😎🔥

[honest sinew]

Thanks 😄

[oblique kernel]

Gz

[boreal widget]

Are there any idols I should try to get for a nova invocation build? I got ambition but the nova area ones that drop seem kinda pointless since they're already near screen-wide

[quick loom]

Probably just 2x frost claw reduced mana ones and rest to fill out res. Build is pretty unique heavy

[tidal wave]

So with my Sorc, I have the passive that increases fire penetration, but it also gives fire leech. I shouldn't run it?
How can I gain more ward than HP? Got any tips or passives I'm not seeing?

[floral surge]

What kind of setup you are trying to go for ? With Twisted Heart u need to run the leech passives. If you are going for missing health affixes and uniques like Exsanguinus and Last Steps you definetely don't run the leech . You going for more HP and some ward decay threshold helps .

[tidal wave]

I want to go full ward dependency. I run leech to try and balance the 2, but it isn't good enough

[boreal widget]

I don't use frost claw, is there a particular reason to use it with a nova build?

[floral surge]

Get an import of your character on the LE planner if u can and can take a looksie to help improve the ward gen .

[tidal wave]

I can try? How?

Also, twisted heart adds ward dependant on my current HP, not my max... So it wouldn't do anything, because I have 20 hp?

[boreal widget]

Oh I see why, x.x

[floral surge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ hit the import button , account and character name and then hit save/share and send link

[shrewd mantle]

I'm currently leveling a Runemaster. If I was after a piece of gear like the Mage's Opulent Robes of Life is it down to random luck that it'll drop somewhere or am I able to forge it?

[terse igloo]

It's about proccing. Frost Claw replicates itself and each replication is able to proc nova. Effectively you cast way more novas than you possibly could while self-casting.

On top of that proccing novas allows you to ignore nova cooldawn while using +250% area. That's also a major point, since now your novas cover entire screen thanks to a total of +350% area (you can technically squeeze 40% more from skill tree but it's never worth it).

[quick loom]

What they said ^. But sorry if its not needed. Can disregard that. Most ppl are using frost claw with novas

[boreal widget]

Ah, I'm running nova via 3x runebolt -> Grand prism nova + 3 elemental nova + plasma blast (single target) + crackling glyph

[onyx vortex]

does blessing for increased unique drop rate gives me more chance to get unique from bosses, or only from monoliths?

[boreal widget]

I can def see how ice claw would be better now t.t

[stiff crown]

I want to say just from random drops

Actually, maybe not

I think it depends if the unique is a flat 50% chance drop or not

[opal citrus]

Wanna new sorc build been running disintegrate it’s crazy but kinda boring imho lol any ideas?

[full bluff]

You can play frost claw on sorc too, even if it is very similar to frostclaw on runemaster

[terse igloo]

Glacier is quite good on Sorc.

[stiff crown]

Melee hit spark damage % if you're doing melee hits. Otherwise int and area

[opal citrus]

Il try glacier that’s new

[terse igloo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64l68HVdZcU

Since then author went to 1000 corruption.

So it definitely works.

[quick loom]

I would say its about finding a build that is fun. Then tweak if something is lacking

[terse igloo]

"Fun" doesn't cut it as a criteria right now. There are a couple builds so much in front of the pack that you don't even see a pack anymore.

Playing something that literally hinders your progress is never fun, so all you can do is select from a couple top builds. That's it.

It would be different if builds were better or worse by a factor of 10-50 corruption but not by a 1000-2000.

I started 1.0 with Lich, because it seemed fun. Since then I switched to Runemaster Claw-Nova, because Lich is simply slow, clunky and just plain bad in comparison. Even recent "pretend buff" to Wandering Spirits didn't help.

The fact that grinding is extreme here in LE and getting any item improvement is nearly impossible doesn't help either.

[boreal widget]

I mean, I think my build is doing alright. Main issue I have is just no gear. I got three good items (Exsan, erased mage with +4 ward, crest of unity) and I just beat black sun 100 corruption pretty comfortably. I definitely have no interest in meta chasing to farm super high corruption

[unborn hamlet]

youre missing the point of fun then

Not everyone has the need of pushing corruption or arena to measure their internet PP

[boreal widget]

The build is just bunny hopping clearing the map still, only thing is my single target feels lacking so bosses don't melt instantly

[unborn hamlet]

If you wanna play top meta build that's okay, but people can have just as much fun playing literally anything else

[quick loom]

Agreed. If you hit a wall, then think about what to do next. That is all

[terse igloo]

100 Corruption is baseline. You get pretty much no loot at this level and many good Prophecies start at 200 or 300 Corruption. You don't have to aim for thousands but between 300-500 is a sweetspot. Build that can't comfortably do that can only be described as unplayable.

[boreal widget]

I mean as I said I have almost no uniques and comfortably doing the baseline. The build seems pretty functional to me, but knowing ways to fine tune it and what to look for would be great. If I felt I had to just go whatever the meta I look up is might as well not bother playing since ARPGs don't exactly have riviting gameplay lmao

Half the fun is making a functional build

[stiff crown]

Everyone has fun their own way. It's okay

[quick loom]

But if you need ideas for next steps, check out “mitch | preheet” or “bootynoodles” on yt

[stiff crown]

Some people find it fun challenging themselves by pushing corruption as high as they can go with a copied build, and others like to theorycraft their own build to do it

2LP Prismatic Gaze just dropped

[quick loom]

Grats

[terse igloo]

I agree with you 100% here. And I tried exactly this mentality at the start of 1.0.

But thing is, the game is so TERRIBLY balanced (I mean it, there is no balance whatsoever) that very quickly you realize there is no room for experimenting or doing fun things. Your only option right now, sadly, is meta.

There are many reasons for that:

• Majority (99%) uniques are useless garbage. Instead of making strong, build-defining items, devs just made things that barely differ from exalts.
• Sets are 100% useless and underpowered. Not only they don't have LP but they simply don't offer any real power and scaling.
• Newest masteries were obviously made to be the best, Runemaster, Falconer and Warlock are so above the rest that they do everything that other masteries do, but better.

Don't get me wrong, I love experimenting and making my own builds. But, in current state, Last Epoch doesn't allow that.

Insane grind only makes it worse. Getting 1-2 LP items that you need is hard enough for regular drop but for boss drops it's dozens of hours of brainless farming to get any copy of the item at all.

This means you can't just switch between builds, because you've been farming items for one specific build and not the other. Current drop rates, especially for boss-exclusives are dumb-level bad. Whoever approved this should be repeating his elementary school math class.

[hollow totem]

HUGE W

[terse igloo]

I really hope they improve most uniques, improve all sets and change majority of drop rates, on top of some attempt to balance out masteries and skills, but as it is now, I'll probably end this season in a week or so, because it's just boring.

[oblique kernel]

is it possible to get lp when using rune of ascend?

[stiff crown]

Yes

[unborn hamlet]

If you seen the community poll and Dev stream, you would already know most of these things will happen, just not in this cycle as voted by community

I too personally voted for nerfing OP items and skills that are a result of bugs, but not nerfing items/skills that are over performing but are not bugged

Like RM is giga strong, but none of this is a result of a bug

[stiff crown]

Buffing underperforming skills > Nerfing overperforming skills

[unborn hamlet]

Unlike profane veil warlocks

Or infinite bomber dive bomb falconers

[terse igloo]

Seeing and believing are two different things.

When I watch those streams I feel like the guy answering questions (or pretending to answer questions) puts majority of his effort into avoiding any declarations and real answers. That's a joke to be honest.

[terse igloo]

I did so too.
But nobody asked me in this poll whether I want to buff and change everything else. I would answer YES!

My full answer would be "don't touch OP stuff, buff everything else to be in-line with this OP stuff".

[unborn hamlet]

They have more worrying stuff to deal with atm, I think proper game balance is far down on their list of priorities

There is still many game breaking bugs that were not fixed

[unborn hamlet]

This will literally kill the game but ok

Obviously never played D4

[stiff crown]

D4, they nerfed everything

[unborn hamlet]

Game balance is a delicate thing, just look at league of legends

[terse igloo]

And that's another problem: many builds don't work because of bugs that were still not fixed. For example Stygian Coal which should, in total, deal rouhgly 5 times more damage than it does.

On top of that, as far as I'm concerned, they have no rights to have ANY bugs after several years in early access. This is criminal.

[unborn hamlet]

Where the difference between base 54 armor and base 48 armour makes the difference between the most broken character in the game to downright unplayable

[terse igloo]

Never was never will. But I played D3, for dozens of seasons and made every possible build in existence there. Buffing millions into bajillions always works.

[unborn hamlet]

Okay, then go back to playing Diablo if you want

Nobody is holding you hostage here

youre playing this game cos you know it's better than diablo

[boreal widget]

LE is both new and has an incredibly large amount of levers to tune. They'll get there eventually. not like diablo was remotely balanced in its early years of gameplay

Honestly D3 didn't really pick up steam until Kunai's cube anyways

[terse igloo]

100% true.
But, to be honest, Last Epoch is already a couple years old.

[unborn hamlet]

Yeah but they also overhauled the whole game in a short time span

[restive bronze]

for me it's ward, I feel it forced me to play ward if I want to comforably 1k+cor

[unborn hamlet]

The old LE looked like trash

[restive bronze]

then I get bored trying to push health build

😭

now I can do 500cor

[unborn hamlet]

It's not ward itself, it's the item synergies, if there were items that did the same with with HP/armor, or other stats, you would use that instead

No reason to have 20k ward if you could have 20k health instead

[restive bronze]

but we can't have 20k health

[unborn hamlet]

The baseline for high corruption is you actually need to survive it

[restive bronze]

that's the point

[unborn hamlet]

Yeah, but then you would complain about health stacking

And that's my point

[terse igloo]

Not only that.
Ward is inherently better because it scales upwards semi-infinitely. HP leech only works to a maximum of your HP pool which is limited.
So no matter what you do with item and skill synergies, Ward will stop one-shots and HP will not.

[unborn hamlet]

Give them time to figure it out

Diablo or Poe didn't came out perfect either

And Poe was utterly garbage when it came out

It had long long years to become what it is

[terse igloo]

True. But we're comparing roughly 5 YO PoE to 5 YO LE here. And in this comparison PoE clearly wins.

[unborn hamlet]

There is this thing called endurance which prevents this problem, it's simply that it sucks

[restive bronze]

it still fun tho, as long as I don't compared

[terse igloo]

How much Endurance would you need to do the same thing for you that 30k Ward does?

[unborn hamlet]

Yeah but you are comparing a relatively big company with 20 years of experience in the field to a company that Started as a Reddit Kickstarter with 3 people, holy crap

How are you this ignoring of facts

[terse igloo]

It's not ignoring facts really.
It's more of a I don't care about people involved I care about product.

Do you care how many employees restaurant has when you order a steak? Or do your throw well-done (also known as shoe sole) at server and leave? I don't and I do.

[onyx glen]

Are we really counting a game that was in beta/alpha as released content?

[terse igloo]

If you take money from customers instead of paying professional testers, yes.

That's why I never play games in EA or betas. I'm not doing work for free.

Tester used to be a job. High-paying one at that.

[restive bronze]

I think they should balance the game better, but complaining here is also pointless

[terse igloo]

True. 100% agree.
But it helps with venting frustration 🙂

[onyx glen]

Sure but not all companies have the financial backing to do so. So this was how they approached it and I’m considering the game “new” for the sake of changes and adaptability. If their dev team can keep up communication and changes, we’ll be ok

[stiff crown]

I wouldn't say pointless. It's entertaining. But it's pointless in the sense anything will be done to resolve it.

[terse igloo]

That's the main thing that really worries me. I'm a psychologist, I know when a guy doing the stream is doing everything he can to avoid straight answers, avoid declarations and pretty much wasting time saying inconclusive things that doesn't add anything to the topic.

Watch the streams again, you'll start to notice.

[quick loom]

They probably dont want to rock the boat too much and lose a ton of players. Knowledge, experience, amd knowing how to balance a game is obviously in its infancy

[nimble salmon]

wts https://prnt.sc/dvdSwXHKs4kH via gift

[safe grail]

First 1 LP and i slammed cast speed lmao

[safe grail]

??? This seems too much like rmt tbch

[nimble salmon]

?

[onyx glen]

He’s saying it seems like you’re selling the item for money

Especially since this is your first time posting in this discord

[prime fable]

I just finished a prophecy for 8 belts and 2 4lp chains of uleros dropped jesus christ

[nimble salmon]

oh ok i just dont use a lot this discord except for lfg :p

and the item is cof if not i just sell ingame xd

[onyx glen]

Can’t trade a cof item

[nimble salmon]

u can

via gift

[stiff crown]

Gift

[nimble salmon]

just need to play a lot with the guy

but for a 4 lp i might do it personally if i need it 😄

[onyx glen]

Oh with the obsidian and gold thing?

[nimble salmon]

obsidian yep

[onyx glen]

Interesting

[nimble salmon]

gold is only exalted

or no lp leg maybe i'm not sure

[safe grail]

Yeah i mean even w/ gifting though you can’t gift gold

[nimble salmon]

you can trade before it

i mean like all trade risk come everywhere xd

he can just screenshot me if he want proof lol

[safe grail]

Weird hoops for a kind of meh 4 LP item when like 98% of mages are using twisted heart

[nimble salmon]

its still a 4 lp and its not like u have a trade section in the discord xd

[safe grail]

You’re missing my point a bit. And there’s likely no trade section in this discord because MG was intended to be how to trade

But all good

[nimble salmon]

yep but then u are fked if u want to trade a cof item xd

[barren pawn]

nobody uses that homie, not that i am ware of

just because its a 4lp, doesnae mean its worth anything

[nimble salmon]

ye ik but it can be used maybe for some build :p

[stray crown]

I think what people are trying to tell you in a nice way is that you got a piece of hot stinky garbage and that you are better off selling it for 500g because nobody is going to want to go through the hoops they would need to go through for you to trade it to them (i.e. spending hours playing with you until an obsidian shard drops). To be clear, it's not you, it's the item.

[sturdy summit]

obsidian is needed for both exalted or lp unique. gold only does no lp uniques

[nimble salmon]

ok

[rich badger]

What’s the most well rounded RM build these days?

[sturdy summit]

some variety of lightning that makes use of all three DR effects: flame ward, frostguard, and lightning aegis

[quick herald]

This is the sad truth, sincerely from someone with 2x 4lp beekeeper gloves

[crimson raft]

Just 'roid it up for leveling, and it's golden!

[safe grail]

aight weeners im up and on finally

how's everyone today 🙂

[sturdy summit]

I'm feeling mana-positive

[safe grail]

otru

[sturdy summit]

I took a hit to my dps for replacing cast speed with t6 spellslinger, but now I can spam forever

[safe grail]

im tryna cook up a 300+ mana FC

think it could be fun

41% crit w/ no crit on wep or OH atm

and no peak

or pris gaze

[sturdy summit]

that would free up a lot of slots

[safe grail]

yeah currently im rocking a spell crit mana affix on helm that is the crit chance base too

no julra rings, not a huge fan

so the rings are int + crit chance

i sniped a crit chance base neck w/ t6 shred and spell crit and spell dmg on it

gonna see how this all plays together w/ a bit of armor stacking too

[rotund steeple]

Whats faster playing campaign again or doing the campaign skip dungeons ?

[neat trail]

The dungeons will def blast your levels up, but you wull still need to go back and do some story for idols and passive points

[sturdy summit]

you can get all the idol and passive slots if you do every side quest that's still left

however, you will have uncompleted campaign quests stuck in your map log forever

so I recommend just doing the campaign

[rotund steeple]

I dont need levels, im on a new character, but i didnt want to complete tge campaign again

[safe grail]

you will have to go back

and do parts of the campaign

for idol slots and passives

just like he said

so your options are

[sturdy summit]

there are enough sidequests in the parts of the campaign you still have to do

[safe grail]

1. Do dungeons to level up (only reason to skip the campaign) and do the bits of the campaign anyway
2. Just play thru the campaign cause you need to do it anyway

like your question made no sense only for you to answer "I dont need levels, im on a new character, but i didnt want to complete tge campaign again"

If your question actually is "can i skip the campaign if i do dungeons only?" then the answer is no.

[sturdy summit]

I don't need levels, because I'm level 100

(finally)

[safe grail]

"I don't need levels, I'm on a new character" like wtf are you trying to do then lol

[barren pawn]

trynna get blessings so i can do more gear tweaks

problem is im at work so i cant really do emps

( dont wanna risk dyin )

[safe grail]

imagine working on weeeknds

gross.

[quick loom]

Thats me every other weekend

[barren pawn]

I mean they put me on a different team that quadrupled my income so

[safe grail]

o fair

i work in banking so

[barren pawn]

im not complaining

well i am

but im not

[safe grail]

working weekends dont exist lol

[barren pawn]

but yeh, 1k a week

once we are in full scale production

[sturdy summit]

exchange data management, here

[safe grail]

risk management

i might not work weekends, but i definitely work some split shifts lol

[barren pawn]

I used to be a cable jockey.

Ran networking for my entire region for several companies

Quit doin all that sh1t once my brain started to go funky

[sturdy summit]

arg, I hate it when I'm trying to reroll affixes and I get a crit that pushes something up to t5

I wish I could decline the crit

[orchid basalt]

With the amount of minion x and y I get I should have an elemental for it lol

[primal thistle]

whats currently better meta? frostbite or novaclaw ?

[orchid basalt]

Is like if the game thinks I'm playing a acolyte.. void DMG, minion stuff... Like is annoying. I don't pick it up but I barely get any mage related stuff

[sturdy summit]

what level are you?

[sturdy summit]

almost a third of subclasses can use minion stats, but mage is the one out of five that can't. But I assure you, if you play a minion build, you'll be complaining that only useless non-minion stats drop.

[primal thistle]

85 currently

[sturdy summit]

I'm doing frostbite frostclaw right now. It's fine at 200 corruption, and I bet I could push it to 300 corruption as I optimize my gear better. But I suspect that lightning has a better top-end.

[idle shard]

any good BLACK HOLE builds?

I really love the fantasy of summoning blackholes to erase enemiies

[brisk patrol]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Bjq8PwOQ
I am using this build currently at 1200 corruption

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,153, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 275, Regen: 9/s
▸ Ward Retention: 726%, Regen: 38/s
▸ Attributes: 18 Str / 5 Dex / 175 Int / 5 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 73% / 49% / 73% / 57% / 40% / 45% / 45%
▸ EHP: 1,567 / 1,269 / 1,567 / 1,392 / 1,096 / 1,138 / 1,138

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 231
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (28)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 25% (1,103)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Flame Rush (23)
• Frost Wall (23)
• Frost Claw (24)
• Lightning Blast (24)
• Runic Invocation (26)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Strands of Souls
• Telf'un's Mirage
• Julra's Stardial
• Julra's Stardial
• Omnis
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[primal thistle]

thank you !

[primal thistle]

this looks like a novaclaw version

[idle shard]

frost claw spark charge or lightning blast spark charge

[brisk patrol]

frost claw changed into lightning

[sturdy summit]

novaclaw is a spark charge variant. spark charge is the core of these builds. FlyBoy's version doesn't use nova.

[primal thistle]

ok, got it, now, thank you !

[brisk patrol]

i am at 185 int with it, crit is over 100% when skills are up and 201% cast speed

echos i get up to 20k+ ward and bosses over 55k ward

[safe grail]

@stiff crown is still doing frostbite at like 900 c i think

[sturdy summit]

awesome, I probably just need to seriously upgrade my items then.

[stiff crown]

I've never done frostbite

I do Mana Strike

[sturdy summit]

oh, nvm

the problem with frostbite is that int is not very good for me.

it only gives ward retention, and being able to stack int feels super strong with how many buffs to int the RM passive tree gives

[safe grail]

o

my b

someone was doing frostbite

and is 800-900c

[onyx glen]

Why terfun’s mirage over something like blood of the exile?

Not a criticism at all, super impressive, just curious to understand

[orchid basalt]

is singularity and swipe are those mage abilities or no

[sturdy summit]

no

[orchid basalt]

and im assuming physical spell either

[sturdy summit]

mages have no physical spells

[brisk patrol]

the intel mostly, i will have to look into the boots you mentioned

[sturdy summit]

you are looking at primalist items

[safe grail]

probably cause of the extra MS since we dont channel as FC

[rough python]

Hi guys, runemaster frostclaw anyone have a guide?

[sturdy summit]

there are dozens of frostclaw variants, you'll have to be more specific

[orchid basalt]

is all the red stuff i have gotten and i have 2 green items that are for acolytes

[safe grail]

you can literally type in runemaster frostclaw guide on google and get plenty of hits

like tf lol

[sturdy summit]

oh right, acolytes have physical spells too

[rough python]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khn6e9BS78I&t=1058s more specifically this one, im just a noob whos not sure how much of this is bare minimum vs needing almost all the pieces to make this work.

[orchid basalt]

and i also have some yellow/blue items i think

[rough python]

Apparently we need a +4 on frostclaw but not sure if any other major requirements, I have the ladle, fragment of erased, and static shell

[onyx glen]

All good, makes sense. Saw it recommended in another frostclaw build so figured I’d ask

[brisk patrol]

ill have to get a pair of those boots with T7 intel and see which i like more. thanks for the input!

[onyx glen]

Just tossing ideas, don’t trust me to know better!

[sturdy summit]

you don't need +4. the only required item I see is enigma. But you'll have to adjust everything yourself until you're at endgame.

[brisk patrol]

i do not know too much either honestly, i found a build kind of like this one and made changes to skills and passives and now love this one

[sturdy summit]

not even sure I'd call enigma required. You can go lightning without any items

[onyx glen]

I’d argue enigma is need for the charge build

But not for frostbite or ignite

[safe grail]

youll run like

fcnova w/ a crystal skull

til enigma

[sturdy summit]

I'm really skeptical of people who look at builds from people that are geared out to the wazoo. I think it's harmful for people to look at those builds without understanding even the basics.

[onyx glen]

The enigma really scales up the damage with the int scaling

Doesn’t need to be legendary, it works with a 0lp too

[rough python]

Thanks, and your right, for now im just doing CoC spark charge build. I forgot to mention I do have enigma as well.

[brisk patrol]

legendaries help with pushing corruption levels

[sturdy summit]

what corruption are you on currently?

[rough python]

I was 220 on falconer dive bomb

[sturdy summit]

I mean with the mage

[rough python]

Oh just started yesterday night, so currently lvl 25.

I have most of the legendary peices of that build but wasnt sure how feasible it was to get it the state that the guy had in his video.

[sturdy summit]

you said CoC, so I assume you also have dragorath? If you have dragorath and enigma, you're set for now.

[rough python]

Yep

I have both.

[sturdy summit]

That guy doesn't link to a build planner, so I wouldn't take him seriously. Maybe he's got a good build, but if he doesn't link to a planner, I'm not going to trawl through the video trying to figure it out. But I saw red rings in the thumbnail, and 1lp red rings go for over a hundred million gold if that gives you some idea of how rare they are.

[rough python]

Yeah saw that, ill just stick with the COC spark charge build for now, and play it out and maybe divert later if i get the right peices for his build or if i get bored. Ill push for corruption with CoC spark charge build for sure and it looks fun.

[sturdy summit]

sounds like a good plan

[stiff crown]

What guy

[sturdy summit]

some youtuber named Mitch Preheet

[stiff crown]

Ah. No idea

Thought you were talking about the "you guys don't know how good I am" guy from patch 0.0.1

[dapper quartz]

are there any viable lightning based build?

[sturdy summit]

the best builds are lightning

what level are you?

[dapper quartz]

lvl 1 on mage, but cos I like the idea of chain lightning with mini lightning nova procs I wanted to ask

[sturdy summit]

go frost claw, spec it to do lightning damage, and to cast elemental nova for you. Spec elemental nova, but don't put it on your bar. That's all you need for now.

do whatever you like with your other skills

[onyx glen]

I’d recommend bootynoodles for frost claw builds, he’s always cooking

[dapper quartz]

👍

[onyx glen]

And made a cheap and a minimum gear guides too

[dapper quartz]

thanks guys, I'll check bootynoodles'

[tulip night]

yo anyone can help lv 100 sanctum ? 😄

[sturdy summit]

gah, I hate spire objectives. You can't even take a moment to fix something in the UI

[hoary pike]

what skills are best for levelling? feel weak using lightning blast and ele nova.

[plush gulch]

for me frostclaw is the best

[hoary pike]

what are using you aswell as that ? something like fireball ?

or ele nova

[plush gulch]

just lightning blast and frost claw

what job you chose?

[hoary pike]

runemaster

[plush gulch]

i suggest play frostclaw, you can choose lightning type/cold.. its very easy to play

[warm breach]

does dot increase affect ignite?

[sturdy summit]

spec frost claw to cast ele nova

[sturdy summit]

yes, ignite is a dot. spell damage does not increase ignite. ignite is not a spell.

[warm breach]

thx

[sinful tree]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oP6J12WQ

How does this have no mana issues? You have frost claw with all mana draining perks that autocasts elem novas on each hit, but on the gear you just stack crit+Int. I see no mana regen passives like on paladin for example in the trees, so how does it work?

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,114, Regen: 24/s
▸ Mana: 280, Regen: 15/s
▸ Ward Retention: 622%, Regen: 38/s
▸ Attributes: 29 Str / 23 Dex / 149 Int / 6 Att / 10 Vit
▸ Resistances: 76% / 70% / 76% / 78% / 66% / 62% / 88%
▸ EHP: 2,061 / 1,963 / 2,061 / 2,304 / 1,749 / 1,687 / 1,907

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 223
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (127)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 41% (2,324)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Julra's Stardial
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[sturdy summit]

Gift of Winter, Spark of Celerity, A Crack in the Ice

[brittle elbow]

Can anyone help me with a decent spark charge frost claw loot filter

[wanton vault]

hey guys, can some1 explain me or send link to working frostbite frostclaw runemaster, ty!

[sturdy summit]

take all the affixes you want on your gear, and make a filter that only shows exalted items with a t6+ affix from that list.

[barren pawn]

https://youtu.be/OWekp2FiL9E

[sinful tree]

🙏

[barren pawn]

It does this in empowered monos as well.

[barren pawn]

oh right its still processing

[wanton vault]

hey guys, can some1 explain me or send link to working frostbite frostclaw runemaster, ty!

[sturdy summit]

This is my build: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oR6m6ERo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 99

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (27) / Runemaster (65)

General:

▸ Health: 988, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 294, Regen: 15/s
▸ Ward Retention: 510%, Regen: 43/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 46 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 73% / 211% / 70% / 75% / 60% / 140% / 75%
▸ EHP: 1,185 / 1,209 / 1,146 / 1,276 / 1,047 / 1,209 / 1,203

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 198
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (104)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 16% (484)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 31%

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

[sturdy summit]

I'd be happy to answer questions

[wanton vault]

what corruption you do rn

[sturdy summit]

220

[wanton vault]

where did you find this build because maxroll shows some things wrong

[brittle elbow]

What affixes do I look for int crit multi cast speed what more

[sturdy summit]

I made this myself based on looking at a bunch of different builds, and based on the items I got. Maxroll isn't a good source for endgame builds. Use lastepochtools instead. You can replace glyph of dominion with whatever support spell you like. I use it for the fire rune, and because I got +5 relic for it. I'll be dropping it for a different skill soon.

my build isn't optimized, but it'll show you everything you need to make frostbite work

[next lance]

hello i just got the game can anyone help me with a good build to start off please?

[sturdy summit]

there's no magic at the early levels. Once you get high enough level to learn frost claw, spec that to cast elemental nova. Also spec elemental nova, but don't cast it directly. You can change frost clawand ele nova to be whatever element you prefer. Pick either teleport or flame rush for your traversal skill. Pick 2 additional support skills to round out your build. Flame ward is a good pick, and whatever else you like.

[next lance]

alright a little confusing but i think i got it i will come back if i need more help, thank you!

[sturdy summit]

good luck. just remember: frost claw, spec it to cast elemental nova. That combo will get you through the campaign.

[coral lion]

hey guys, in your opinion what do you think is the better meteor build, Sharpnel tree or Meteor?

[sturdy summit]

sorry, the only sorc builds I've seen are runemaster builds that replace runic invocation with arcane ascendance, and don't use meteor or black hole.

[sturdy summit]

if I were to do meteor, I think I'd either use the vilatria set that changes it to lightning, or the staff that makes volcanic orb into void damage.

lightning meteor is probably the better one, but I dunno

[coral lion]

I mean, would you use the sharpnel tree or go for multiple meteor fall?

[sturdy summit]

are there any meteor builds on lastepochtools?

[coral lion]

there's a few

[sturdy summit]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AL0yvK1A this guy doesn't use either

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (28) / Sorcerer (38) / Runemaster (47)

General:

▸ Health: 3,422, Regen: 25/s
▸ Mana: 263, Regen: 12/s
▸ Ward Retention: 386%, Regen: 112/s
▸ Attributes: 13 Str / 0 Dex / 56 Int / 0 Att / 10 Vit
▸ Resistances: 82% / 75% / 76% / 73% / 73% / 106% / 85%
▸ EHP: 5,536 / 5,536 / 5,536 / 7,030 / 5,401 / 5,536 / 5,536

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 684
▸ Armor Mitigation: 50% (3,170)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Flame Ward (21)
• Meteor (21)
• Frost Claw (23)
• Frost Wall (21)
• Elemental Nova (30)

Used unique items:

• Crest of Unity
• Firestarter's Torch
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros
• Throne of Ambition

This build has a guide:

Celestial Conflux Ignite Sorcerer Almost Tripled In Damage? Build Guide Showcase by Dr3adful

[coral lion]

looks similar to my build

[sturdy summit]

I don't know sorc very well, but I see frost claw and the other staples of a good build in there

[coral lion]

I also use frost claw that procs Elemental Nova

[sturdy summit]

it's such a good combo, regardless of what subclass you are

[coral lion]

before I was a fire and ice hybrid but I just switched to only fire

I love meteor and I use that belt which procs it

the DPS is great but my issue is the constant mana drain

[sturdy summit]

what is your weapon? can you link your build?

take a look at how this guy specs frost claw. He takes the nodes that make it cast multiple times, and give it mana efficiency. This lets him proc Gift of Winter multiple times to refund a lot of mana.

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

Mage (29) / Sorcerer (58) / Runemaster (26)

General:

▸ Health: 1,657, Regen: 49/s
▸ Mana: 471, Regen: 19/s
▸ Ward Retention: 454%, Regen: 72/s
▸ Attributes: 21 Str / 8 Dex / 100 Int / 37 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 295% / 244% / 265% / 211% / 158% / 196% / 128%
▸ EHP: 2,510 / 2,510 / 2,510 / 2,731 / 2,510 / 2,510 / 2,510

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 331
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (38)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 42% (2,446)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (27)
• Teleport (21)
• Frost Claw (27)
• Meteor (28)
• Black Hole (27)

Used unique items:

• Cinder Song
• Ignivar's Head
• Dark Shroud of Cinders
• Omnis
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Julra's Stardial
• Stymied Fate
• Rule of the Simoon
• Harbinger of Stars
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros
• The Ashen Crown
• Trinity of Flames
• Singularity

[coral lion]

still not done editing

cause I went from Ice/Fire to just fire

[sturdy summit]

editing... did you import this, or put it in by hand?

[coral lion]

oh

you can import?

[sturdy summit]

you don't have all t7 affixes

yes, left side

[coral lion]

wait

great

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B5PmDMzQ

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 83

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (29) / Sorcerer (56) / Runemaster (10)

General:

▸ Health: 1,002, Regen: 32/s
▸ Mana: 363, Regen: 16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 294%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 7 Str / 7 Dex / 54 Int / 7 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 101% / 106% / 74% / 69% / 44% / 26% / 14%
▸ EHP: 1,338 / 1,338 / 1,318 / 1,370 / 1,021 / 898 / 831

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 200
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (141)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (791)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 30%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (22)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Frost Claw (22)
• Meteor (23)
• Black Hole (22)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Cinder Song
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Harbinger of Stars
• Advent of the Erased
• Julra's Stardial
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[sturdy summit]

ok, cool. yes, you have the mana efficiency nodes, but you don't have the bottom left nodes that make frost claw chain and give you multiple Gift of Winter procs.

the multiple gift of winter procs outweigh the mana cost increase

[coral lion]

I did it so that my mana cost goes to 0 and so I can use that passive which gives me mana burst

[sturdy summit]

oh, hmm. and you have mana issues?

[coral lion]

I combine it with Blackhole Meteor combo then spam frost claw to get as much mana as I can

can instantly erase most bosses

[sturdy summit]

so the black hole meteor is what's draining your mana?

[coral lion]

Meteor specially

[sturdy summit]

eh, that appears to be by design. I dunno what you're supposed to do about that.

[coral lion]

that is why I wanna hear what people think about meteor sharpnel

[sturdy summit]

maybe watch the video for that guy's meteor build and see if he has any useful advice, since it appears very similar to your build.

[coral lion]

kinda bit different cause he doesn't use frost claw as a mana resource

[crimson valve]

guys do you know if the runemaster passive tree node "never late" crit chance is Added or Increased?

[sturdy summit]

it says +2%, that's added base crit.

[brittle elbow]

So I just got twisted heart but didn’t got any lp on it should I take this one and later upgrade to one with higher lp and move to farm the rest of the pieces or should I keep farming for a heart with lp on it

[crimson valve]

noice

[sturdy summit]

I've heard that even with 0 lp it's worth it, but I haven't tried the switch yet, myself

what would you be replacing with it?

[tulip night]

any1 can help me with sanctum lvl 100?

[brittle elbow]

I haven’t even started there build character yet I’m using my necro to farm the gear before I make the char

[sturdy summit]

weird.

you'll farm the gear a lot better if you use your mage to do it

[signal iron]

trying to farm strand of souls, can you just keep on porting out after killing the boss to farm it? Or do you need to actually complete the level?

[sturdy summit]

you need to complete the level. The boss won't drop boss loot again. But you can use that trick on prophecies!

[signal iron]

Alright, not ideal for farming but great to hear it works on prophecies! thanks!

[brittle elbow]

Which part should I farm for next red ring strand of souls or blood of exile

[dawn dagger]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/allie---cast-on-crit-spark-charge-runemaster
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B5PRkjvQ
im making a rm but im not sure which of these to play they are pretty similar but not sure if one feels better

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,111, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 275, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 640%, Regen: 46/s
▸ Attributes: 28 Str / 23 Dex / 166 Int / 5 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 96% / 90% / 134% / 61% / 90% / 61% / 29%
▸ EHP: 1,795 / 1,795 / 1,795 / 1,728 / 1,660 / 1,456 / 1,137

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 222
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (92)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,161)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (25)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Runic Invocation (25)
• Frost Claw (27)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Jungle Queen's Chaps of Holding
• Blood of the Exile
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros
• Swaddling of the Erased

[coral lion]

btw, this item can be used by mages even though we dont have tornado skill?https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzDsEYE5KA

[hoary basalt]

I should think so.

This only modifies Tornadoes cast by this effect. Consumes mana equal to Tornado's mana cost on cast.

[stiff crown]

You can use it. Won't get tornado though I don't think

[hoary basalt]

You should it's cast from the item? It won't be the same kind of tornado as Druid though? If that's what's being asked.

[weary hamlet]

You can use it and you will get the tornado too

It isn't the primalist tornado though

[safe grail]

I might make a spellblade

I have a pretty interesting thought on a build to completely not utilize ward stacking for it

[neon lynx]

just take frost gaurd off ur RM

boom spell blade

[safe grail]

nah nah nah

the best defensive layer

is taking no dmg at all my guy

😉

[neon lynx]

u can dodge stack on a rm

[safe grail]

and you can very likely do it on spellblade

[coral lion]

can't wait to have this then, it has fire shredding effect

[upper bane]

"Any additional Flat Spell Damage you can get on Skills, Passives or gear is welcomed, no matter the Damage type."

Does that mean anything like this would be good?

• +% Increased Fire Damage
• +% Increased Necrotic Damage
• +% Increased Lightning Damage

[hoary basalt]

yeah appreciate the information

[harsh abyss]

So imagine most of your damage is fire because you're scaling fireball. You have some decent int, a lot of increased fire damage, and some increased elemental damage.

If you were to say get +flat cold damage to your your spells, it's STILL good even though your aren't scaling it specifically. It benefits from your increased elemental damage and your fireball's int scaling, as well as crit chance and multi and most more multipliers that you get.

Flat damage is super valuable because it's so rare.

In some cases, like a lot of Runemaster builds, your main scaling factor is your intelligence because it gives you so many varied bonuses. And no matter what flavor of flat damage you add to your spells, it's going to scale with the % increased damage you get from Intelligence

[delicate tangle]

@sharp mirage Will there be any updates of fixes as to why players in parties are becoming disconnected at random from the servers? Thanks

[harsh abyss]

You should try the #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs channel, but be sure to search it for answers before you ask. It's probably been asked before.

[delicate tangle]

@harsh abyss thanks

[proper hawk]

you really shouldn't ping EHG members

[barren pawn]

trying to make a wand with spell crit and normal crit, but also elemental damage. To seal the crit chance, wopuld i just use a wand that has like t6/7 spell crit, and liek t2 crit, then try to seal the crit?

[harsh abyss]

You can only seal a modifier when you upgrade it, so it needs to be lower than T5. The lower it is, the higher the chance of sealing is

[barren pawn]

so go with a tier 1 crit t6/7 spell crit wnad then got it

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, if you can find a T7 multi, and T1 chance, try and seal the chance, then craft ele damage

[barren pawn]

Not crit multi. spell crit.

[harsh abyss]

oh, crit chance and spell crit chance? That seems wasteful but sure, same thing

[barren pawn]

Peep the name.

[harsh abyss]

Ah, fair I suppose

[proper hawk]

Elemental damage is the worst increased damage affix, it rolls lower than any other affix. You almost certainly want something else instead

like fire or cold damage

[barren pawn]

Elemental damage over time scales into disintegrate better than pure fire damage.

[versed forum]

Hi, for a spell blade ignite group focusing on Reave, my plan is basically to stack as much change to ignite, fire damage, fire penetration as possible from my skills passive. I was then going to have a cycle of firebrands, teleport with the extra elemental damage temporarily buff into a reave. The reave also shoots fireball auto style with fireball having multiple projectiles that has extra critical damage to ignited enemies, chance to ignite spread etc.

I don’t know about items but does sound reasonable? I’m new to build making .

[proper hawk]

sorry, you didn't say elemental damage over time, you just said elemental damage.

[barren pawn]

whats the chance on sealing a t4?

[proper hawk]

hilariously ele over time is the best inc damage affix so uh... never mind then

[barren pawn]

with despairs

[harsh abyss]

I dunno, I'd check LE tools, but I bet it's super low

[barren pawn]

there are literally no sub t4s on the market

[barren pawn]

?

This tells me nothing XD

I have no clue where to even begin searching on le tools to find that

[proper hawk]

~15%

[barren pawn]

and t1 /2/3?

[proper hawk]

on an exalted with 4 affixes its approximately 100%/66%/33%/15% for t1-4. my numbers could be off slightly, im working from memory

make sure the item has 4 affixes or your chances are lower

[still stump]

that 15% feels like 5

or 0

[barren pawn]

what about an exalted with 3 affixes?

[proper hawk]

i dont remember, ill have to search it up

oh ok my numbers were slightly off
Rarity: Exalted Item w/ 3 Affixes
Tier: 1 chance: 0.945
Tier: 2 chance: 0.6210001
Tier: 3 chance: 0.3105
Tier: 4 chance: 0.135

Rarity: Exalted Item w/ 4 Affixes
Tier: 1 chance: 1.05
Tier: 2 chance: 0.69
Tier: 3 chance: 0.345
Tier: 4 chance: 0.15

an important note here sealing a t1 is only guaranteed with 4 affixes

[barren pawn]

someone sell me t1 crit t6 spell crit 3 affix wand 😂

[toxic ingot]

Just got Vilatria's Downfall. Too bad I'm not a Sorceror, lol.

[brittle elbow]

Which piece should I farm next red ring blood of the exile or strand of souls

[sturdy summit]

one does not merely farm red ring

[sturdy summit]

it's a really common drop. the helm in the same set is actually useful for RM. You can use it with Brand of Deception.

[toxic ingot]

Ah, sweet. I'm running Disintigration, will it be useful for that?

[sturdy summit]

brand of deception is lightning

if you're disintegrate, you might still be able to proc it with a different expensive spell, though, and I bet you're stacking elemental damage over time, which will help

although, the item is enabled by stacking shock, which will be awkward for you

[hoary basalt]

are tendrils on charged orb always electrical damage?

[toxic ingot]

Disintigrate is fire+lightning hybrid damage, seems to proc the Brand for me

[sturdy summit]

I guess you could change disintegrate to lightning damage, and find a different big lightning spell to use together with it, if you wanted to use stormcrown.

[toxic ingot]

I might give it a shot if I find it

Ideally I get Fallacy/Ingvar eventually

But til then, messing around.

[hoary basalt]

lol that fight with the rogue scalebane leader as a rogue was so intense and as a mage it was just ... scary obnce

[slow frost]

hello! got a question, im currently running a runemaster, are there any possible builds to focus all three elements? the runic invocation is so fun and i would want to use all three elemnts instead of just 2, like i am at the moment

[sturdy summit]

get the crest of unity unique and make something based on elemental nova

or you could try Wild Magic

[slow frost]

sounds very fun and chaotic

[upper bane]

This is extremely helpful, thank you!!!

[sturdy summit]

if you google you can probably find more details, but the basic idea is you use randomized runebolt to cast random invocations

[barren pawn]

WElp i have my BIS wand now

Could do with higher rolls

but i have it

[slow frost]

that s what i was looking for, thank you a lot

[versed forum]

Hi,

for a spell blade ignite group focusing on Reave, my plan is basically to stack as much change to ignite, fire damage, fire penetration as possible from my skills passive.

I was then going to have a cycle of firebrands, teleport with the extra elemental damage temporarily buff into a reave.

The reave also shoots fireball auto style with fireball having multiple projectiles that has extra critical damage to ignited enemies, chance to fire spread etc.

I don’t know about items but does sound reasonable? I’m new to build making

[sturdy summit]

How do you intend to generate ward?

and what do you take for DR?

[versed forum]

Ward I’m still thinking on but I’m going to be using fire ward as damage reduction

[sturdy summit]

flame ward is good, but it's not 100% uptime. you might consider if it's possible to get lightning aegis. that can get 100% uptime.

even if you're doing fire damage, 25% less damage is worth it without the 50% increased lightning damage

[errant plank]

does ignivar allows disint. to scale on "crit chance" or "spell crit chance" and is the impact of "crit chance" to "spell crit chance"? I looked with an item the buff on dps and looks like "crit chance" buff dps but i dont get why

[sturdy summit]

crit chance is global, spell crit only affects spells

[errant plank]

so crit is for any type and then you have a spec on spell.melee.range?

[sturdy summit]

yes. more specific affixes roll bigger numbers

[errant plank]

so my spell crit chance = spell crit ch + crit ch?

[sturdy summit]

yes

[errant plank]

but spell crit chance rolls higher number then crit ch ?

[sturdy summit]

yes

[errant plank]

ok crystal clear ty 😉

[still stump]

another 2LP heart 1k+ corruption op op

[sturdy summit]

first they build you up by giving you drops, then they tear you down by never letting your slams hit

[still stump]

lol

[neon lynx]

man. every time i watch a streamer play FC theyre talking about how required ranks on relic are

[still stump]

true I was flying high after getting back to back 3LP ladles and both missed

[neon lynx]

no wonder the things 80m

[sturdy summit]

conspiracy streamers are sitting on stacks of +4 relics and they're frontrunning the market to get rid of them.

[versed forum]

Is one option for ward to do some of the passives like 20% health is ward per second and then having a leech on elemental damage from my hopefully high stacks of ignite

[still stump]

nothing beats a little market manipulation in an arpg

[vestal relic]

Are there any known bugs with plasma orb runemaster that are causing it to perform better than intended? Trying to avoid builds that may get nerfed mid-cycle.

[sturdy summit]

if you have some good drops already, heart of ukheiros and life leech can enable high life ward generation, while exsang, last steps, and experimental life to ward gloves enable low life ward generation

[toxic ingot]

Is Flame Ward affected by CD reduction? Just got a chunk from passives, but the CD stilk says 17sec

[sturdy summit]

try fiddling with the tooltip to make sure it's updated

[toxic ingot]

Just used both charges and timed it, still takes 17sec

[sturdy summit]

mine is 15.1s, clearly being affected by cdr

[toxic ingot]

hmm

might need to relog after this echo map

[still stump]

whats the max weaver?

[toxic ingot]

Ah, yeah, character stat page shows 0% cooldown recovery speed, should have 25.5%

From just the passive

[sturdy summit]

maybe the passive is the thing that's bugged

which one is it

[mossy turret]

My 85 spellblade is rolling through early emp mono's right now as Surge build. Curious about the Frostclaw build. Is that not worth attemting on Spellblade? lol

[crimson raft]

You can probably do a mana strike version for that i think?

[errant plank]

should i do normal monolith once to get blessing in each spot or is it replaced by empowered one ?

[sturdy summit]

the grand blessings are better than normal blessings.

I do recommend doing each one once, though

[crimson raft]

You should do all the right side monos, to get to the top 3 ones, then you unlock empowered. After that, redo that side again for better blessings

[toxic ingot]

Oh, I just completely missed the 8-point-bonus requirement for the passive

oops

[crimson raft]

Then you basically gotta decide what to farm next, more blessings, better blessings, items, etc

[sturdy summit]

I got a perfect roll on my heorot blessing immediately, but also, I have two dozen prophecies to kill him >_<

can experimental affixes go on legendaries?

[errant plank]

But i shall do normal ones on the left side once to get the blessings no ?

[crimson raft]

I'd skip the normal ones for that, no need as those are mainly item powers, and not character powers

When you get to empowered, id pick them up before farming the build items

[errant plank]

ok so the normal ones are erased by empowered ones ?

[still stump]

how does changing factions work, can you just not sell anything with a COF tag?

[neon lynx]

cant sell anything youve dropped while being cof

[still stump]

ah

[crimson raft]

All blessings gets overwritten by their equivalent empowered ones

[neon lynx]

even with no cof tag, youll notice it says this item cant be traded

[still stump]

makes sense

[sturdy summit]

you can't sell anything with a Can Not Be Traded tag, and anything you get while in COF has that tag, even if it doesn't have a rank requirement.

[neon lynx]

you can wear that gear tho

that has no tag

and cant be traded

[still stump]

is the COF tag thing just like a way to gate off items?

ive never run into an issue so i dont really see the point

[sturdy summit]

it's so you can't get the benefits of being COF after you switch

you gotta replace any items you got because you were CoF. But you can't sell anything at all, whether it was gotten because of a CoF bonus or not.

[still stump]

ah makes sense

[viral nexus]

Hey guys is Runic Invocation scaling with Lightning when I cast Fire-Elec-Fire?

[crimson raft]

That depends on what invocation that would call\cast and idk what that would be in memory

[viral nexus]

Its the lighting orbs surrounding youz

[crimson raft]

Plasma Orb?

That scales with both fire and lightning, yes.

But, hmm. Okay, i haven't used that skill myself, but from the description it seems the balls are firedmg, and the arcs FROM the balls are lightning.

Hopefully someone who's used the skill can confirm?

[safe grail]

omg

2 LP last steps w/ 15/15/394

and near perfect implicits

holyyyyyyyyyyy

[viral nexus]

Alright thanks because I try to fix my Plasmaorb build since im getting stuck on 90 mono

[stiff crown]

Is Blind something to consider if you're not losing anything or is it as worthless and stun avoidance? 🤔

[errant plank]

ill do soulfire bastion for the first time soon (got one key yesterday), i look for fallacy amulet (+crit chance). Im lvl 70, and got a mid game build i guess, what tier should i play on? any tips before i go in (on stuff etc)?

[sturdy summit]

if a spell does multiple types of damage, only the damage of a particular type scales with modifiers to that type. If you deal equal parts fire, lightning, and cold damage with an invocation, your Increased Lightning Damage will only apply to a third of it.

[sturdy summit]

the fire damage will scale with increased fire damage but not increased lightning damage, and the lightning damage will scale with increased lightning damage but not increased fire damage. The tags don't matter when it comes to damage unless it says "With Fire Spells" for example.

"With Fire Spells" effects apply to the entire spell if it has the tag, but "Increased Fire Damage" only applies to the portion of damage that is fire.

[hearty cypress]

dpene dson whether its hard for you to get that stat or not

[sturdy summit]

blind is a defensive debuff, and it's an extra ailment for ladle if you need it.

[hearty cypress]

blind is realyl good if you dont cap out on crit avoidance

i personally use it

[sturdy summit]

I've been dropping all my crit avoidance and relying on Mental Catalysis

[hearty cypress]

i have 485% cast speed atm so i stack blind so fast

[stiff crown]

I don't use Ladle, but I'm just asking in case I get a LP4 dragon dagger. I already got Crit mult, Speed, and Armor Shred. Was wondering if the 4th is worth Blind if I already have frailty on my amulet

But I don't have any experience with blind as to know if it actually does anything

[tribal veldt]

sup mage homies. Anyone here in the know, does static orb shocked ground damage per crit multi take into account spell crit multi? or any non-generic crit multi for that matter

[hearty cypress]

yea idk

dragon dagger feels so weak to me

[stiff crown]

Don't get me wrong. I know it's not as strong

But I'm already committed to making it work

[sturdy summit]

"Blind halves crit chance and causes enemies to aim erratically, often missing ranged attacks" Sounds useful, and I've seen a lot of sentinel builds spec into blind chance

[stiff crown]

I don't feel like swapping

[stiff cradle]

Yeah blind is great. I have a chance to proc it on my frostclaw nova build atm

[stiff crown]

Hm. I wonder if "missing ranged attacks" mean like dodge or if they just shoot backwards or something

[tribal veldt]

I've had friends comment that blind is actually detrimental because it makes it harder to predict where enemies are putting down their big scary attacks

I'm inclined to agree somewhat, I don't go out of my way to apply it

[stiff crown]

Aight cool. I'll aim for it as my 4th

Here's where I'm at so far. My next power spike will be my weapon. https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QDxmOqOQ

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (8) / Spellblade (28) / Runemaster (57)

General:

▸ Health: 1,969, Regen: 24/s
▸ Mana: 203, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 566%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 10 Str / 10 Dex / 130 Int / 10 Att / 25 Vit
▸ Resistances: 88% / 132% / 118% / 71% / 90% / 113% / 97%
▸ EHP: 2,570 / 2,570 / 2,570 / 2,731 / 2,570 / 2,570 / 2,570

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 394
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (47)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 26% (1,156)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold, Fire / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Mana Strike (21)
• Flame Rush (20)
• Lightning Blast (21)
• Runic Invocation (21)
• Frost Claw (21)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Exsanguinous
• Dragorath's Claw
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Stormhide Paws
• Chains of Uleros
• Last Steps of the Living
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Julra's Stardial
• Ucenui's Sphere

[stiff crown]

Typically around 20-25k ward on bosses but peaking at 32k

[barren pawn]

meanwhile im at like

3-4k tops

[stiff crown]

Feels channeling, man

[winter crow]

How is the dps? The tankiness isnt better than regular spark charge nova

[barren pawn]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BM6mNZeo This be a massive WiP.

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 86

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (54)

General:

▸ Health: 1,372, Regen: 18/s
▸ Mana: 283, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 328%, Regen: 89/s
▸ Attributes: 13 Str / 13 Dex / 62 Int / 13 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 96% / 73% / 76% / 75% / 38% / 71% / 13%
▸ EHP: 2,004 / 1,975 / 2,004 / 2,247 / 1,458 / 1,918 / 1,237

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 274
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (52)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 29% (1,200)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Disintegrate (20)
• Glyph of Dominion (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Focus (20)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Ignivar's Head
• Strands of Souls
• Foot of the Mountain
• Soul Gambler's Fallacy

[winter crow]

How long does t4 julra takes? @stiff crown

[stiff crown]

Seems fine, but I don't play enough to compare against other builds

I dunno, I'll do a run or 2 and let you know. But I already know it's not as good as FC EN

[barren pawn]

endu and endu thresh will basically be gone eventually. replaced by HP and % HP

[winter crow]

Looks fun, im sure it will.be alot better with lv 100 and lp legendaries

[barren pawn]

( it also isnt reporting mana properly )

[stiff crown]

I'd have more ward if Mana Storm counted towards ward/mana spent

[winter crow]

Sounds good, yeah its great to see people try new stuff

[barren pawn]

here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWekp2FiL9E

it uploaded in 1080p

but its 4k hdr footage XD

[rare hare]

oooo, just got idol with 12 mana eff frostclaw and 33 ward per second

[stiff crown]

320% dmg, 310% hp, about 39 seconds. Can probably do 35s with Crit Mult on dagger instead of stun chance.

Considering using LP4 Falcon Fists gloves for the 27% melee attack speed

[rigid valley]

Those are nice, I have 2 now with 30% increase lightning damage (double over 300 mana). I have frostclaw now at level 26 and all of the extra damage nodes enabled and it's insane, I can spam frostclaw and pretty much not run out of mana 🙂 - edit - although, I think my gpu might melt lol

[rare hare]

it somehow ddidnt brought my mana down lol, I had 6% and switched it to 12 and mana cost is still same. I guess I need both 12 at least haha

I feel like mana is random, sometimes I can spam nonstop and somtimes I cant use spells for 20 seconds

[rigid valley]

If you are doing spark nova make sure elemental nova has 0 cost

[rare hare]

so far only spark, I respeced yesterday from nova, because I did zero dmg, switchedd to spark and I am melting content. Now just trying unlock lvl 7 merchants for buying items haha

but I had scuffed nova+barrage build from maxroll which didnt work at all

[unborn hamlet]

It's because of rounding numbers

It will subtract from the total mana cost

But 6% from 20 is rounded to 1

But so is 12%

Cos it gets rounded down to 1

You would need 15% to make it subtract 2

[hoary basalt]

Is it just me or are a fair amount of these spells kind of ... indirect?

[unborn hamlet]

I know the mana cost is more than 20 but I'm just explaining why

[unborn hamlet]

Cast direct spells in 2024 omegalul

Just make 1 spell cast the whole skill tree

[rigid valley]

I love how many build options we have in this game. Right now I clear the screen with a couple of frostclaw casts because of the extra casts from the 4 bottom left nodes and the crazy number of free autocast novas 🙂

[hoary basalt]

see I'm having to do a lot of 'ring around the rosey' get them to clump up

[unborn hamlet]

Thinking about nova, I'm not sure if I made mine cost 0, gotta check tmr I guess

Would probably solve my mana issue if it's not 0 already

[chilly crown]

Hi guys, someone can tell me which build of runemaster is more fun and op rn?

[unborn hamlet]

Frostclaw spark charge

Probably the most broken atm

[rigid valley]

That's the mistake I made, thinking it was fc sucking my mana but it was actually nova

[unborn hamlet]

But also if you're MG you will never afford those items cos they inflated to hell

[chilly crown]

oki ty, and the most enjoyable since leveling?

[hoary basalt]

yeah

[unborn hamlet]

Personally only thing I did was play glacier until monoliths and then swapped straight into end game building

The leveling guides are nice but if you really want to speedrun it just ask someone to carry you across Arbor and soulfire bastion and to kill the final boss for you

And you effectively skip 95% of the game

[chilly crown]

Oki ty

[hoary basalt]

ah

well

so the best way to play the game is to skip through it

good to know

[tight rapids]

What build would you guys recommend for runemaster i was able to sell ring for 5 m and i want to build with this 5 m

[sturdy summit]

that doesn't help you get idol slots and passive points though

[hollow arrow]

aight time to get some julras

[sturdy summit]

lightning frostclaw spark charge

[tight rapids]

can you check dm or send link for the build

[sturdy summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWB6Gtdy9vY

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q0VjJ1Go

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.1

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,083, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 256, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 536%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 24 Str / 19 Dex / 140 Int / 1 Att / 3 Vit
▸ Resistances: 41% / 109% / 116% / 61% / 90% / 75% / 63%
▸ EHP: 1,322 / 1,778 / 1,778 / 1,703 / 1,644 / 1,644 / 1,462

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 217
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (159)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,104)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Jungle Queen's Chaps of Holding
• Blood of the Exile
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[winter crow]

ty for testing

[hollow arrow]

ucenuis sphere any good?

[crimson raft]

If you can get all the waterorbs, the total increased damage looks very nice

[orchid leaf]

Does the Tendrils node on Disintegrate take all the skill points added to Lightning Blast?

[hollow arrow]

ohh that might sell decently then

i got a lp 2 and lp 3 few mins ago

[crimson raft]

IDK about MG

[hollow arrow]

i'll have to check, thanks for letting me know bout it though

huh and a lp3 muramasa's hilt

and lp 3 kestrel

[late kelp]

what relic could appears with +X frost claw?

[hollow arrow]

wtf was that node i did sheesh

all relics can have it, just gotta roll it lol

[crimson raft]

Yepp it uses the LB skill tree if you have that specced

[orchid leaf]

Perfect, thank you! Trying to build a good Disintegrate build

[unborn hamlet]

no, but u can backtrack to it after some power leveling

[crimson raft]

Just be aware that the node seems to be limited to max proc once per second at 100%

[hollow arrow]

guess i need to do more gold nodes

3 3lp uniques and a 1 2lp

i need moooore

[rough python]

Can you link or recommend a build

Curious

[spare phoenix]

I dont think it's a specific one is it? Just that it's a Mage Relic?
Looks like a scroll

[spare phoenix]

Look up Allies spark on crit. Easy to spec into for beginners and it works pretty good

[rough python]

Ok thanks.

• X frost claw is that only possible on weavers

So i would need to farm weavers items on COF?

[crimson raft]

I played this to 100 and had lot of fun 🙂 Probably not as op as frostclaw version, but still good!
Bonus: Very detailed guide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkwJg5IdDYA

[tribal veldt]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/prefixes/AOwBgnEA

+x levels of frost claw can drop on any relic for mages. the weaver's will relic just happens to meet that condition so it can also roll the affix

if you need it badly I recommend adding the affix to a lootfilter rule that'll pop it up nice and bright, so you can use a rune of shattering or rune of removal to collect the fragments

[rough python]

Ok cool thanks brother.

[tribal veldt]

happy hunting

[balmy abyss]

do the lightning blasts triggered from Dragorath's Claw count as Lightning Invocations for "lightning penetration with lightning invocations"

[lyric mango]

Guys, I just finished campaign, what should I do next? Farm normal Monoliths until I hit lvl 100?

[crimson raft]

You should have gotten a !\quest mark in End of time talk with forgotten knight and guy near entrance to mono, but yes, mono's next

[hollow arrow]

might have to start doing some soul bastion gamblin

too many keys 😭

[tribal veldt]

corractamundo. to date nothing increases the base damage ignites/frostbites/poisons deal, it's just spells and attacks.

[crimson raft]

Only things that are actual Runic Invocations count and that would be a normal spell, so i can't see how

[lyric mango]

yes, I talked with them already and I am inside first monolith I picked

[tribal veldt]

yup, but the node you mentioned adds flat damage to spells and attacks, it's not a more- or increased-modifier or anything.

so it (through flames) will make your fireball hit harder, but not the ignites it applies

[balmy abyss]

oh so invocation is not just fancy way of calling cast :) wasnt sure as thats my first mage, thanks

[crimson raft]

Ah yeah i get that! 🙂 No, it's only the special runemaster spells cast with runic combinations

[sullen copper]

May someone enlighten me on how does MAcin have cold fire cold using this setup for runic invocation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LGe4rPZgtE&t=195s

[balmy abyss]

lightning blast -> supercharged bolt = cold
flame rush -> snowballing = cold

[sullen copper]

ty was looking and looking couldn't find that lightning blast can be converted to cold

[hollow arrow]

he had a more updated one i think? that got rid of lightning blast and he put cold snap as a filler for that 3rd slot

[sullen copper]

I still don't know which variant ius better for Circle of Fortune. THe dagger version or the laddle version

[hollow arrow]

i started off with the dagger, around 80 i swapped to ladle and i felt better with it

but you might like the dagger version more

dagger is pretty much lightning blast, ladle being elemental nova

[sullen copper]

I have not find a single + forst claw item yet sadly

[hollow arrow]

some say wait till you have +3 frost claw for elemental nova, but you can do it at 23

with unstable and twisted

right now im at 23 and i've just been using it normally without nova or lightning

and i still clear extremely well at corr 300

[toxic ingot]

ooooh, dang, I didn't realize that enemy area-level resistance pen is applied post-cap

My glyph of dominion puts all my resitances to 100-148%, lol

I guess that negates Marked for Death and such, though

[fallow hawk]

u think julras stardial is better to farm on julra tier 1 dungeon? since it can only drop ring rather than the other boss unique trying to get a good lp

[tacit hornet]

this is what i do

[fallow hawk]

yeah i been doing t4 dungeon silyl me

[tacit hornet]

im guessing ur playing frost claw

what variant

[fallow hawk]

i have nova now

[next lance]

for mage its better to get things for intelligence right?

[fallow hawk]

yes u can gain damage, cooldown speed with intelligence if u have the passive points that scales with it

[balmy abyss]

is Bazaar for real with those ridiculous prices in milions?

[hollow arrow]

yup lmao

only way to get stuff is to drop something expensive and sell it

[balmy abyss]

thought since this is my 2nd char I would go the other faction, but this just feels plainly useless -.-

[hollow arrow]

i got a +4 frost claw and sold it so i can buy stuff

[toxic ingot]

Bot farms are trying to manipulate everything. RWT has gold so inflated 2mil is nothing

[balmy abyss]

2 mil was like max I had by the time I hit 100 with my Falconer :P

[toxic ingot]

yeah, that's what sucks

[balmy abyss]

guess I should switch with make also to cof

[toxic ingot]

the bots have all the gold, and are manipulating the market to try and incentivise people to buy it from them

Hope they can think of a solution to the Bazaar

[hollow arrow]

damn apathys maw went down alot lmao

[dire zealot]

Can someone explain how Quintessence of Triumph (Runemaster) works? I don't see its more spell damage activating on most bosses, unless I'm missing something. Even with 10K ward, most bosses probably have hundreds of thousands/millions of HP at least lategame? Are people just taking it for % spell damage?

[errant plank]

im about to do my first run, any tips/advice about gear/skills and what i should do inside besides gathering as much souls as possible (im looking for a +crit chance item because i missed Gambler's fallacy 😒

[next lance]

what skills are the most affective with mage ?

[hollow arrow]

i miss my one button hold warpath still

lmao

[hollow arrow]

honestly depends on what gear you want to get first

for me i'll usually go for high profile stuff aka relics

cuz if you get one with + frost claw then you got money

and for souls just kill everything

[errant plank]

need some defense ?

First time means ive access to tier 1 only ?

[hollow arrow]

Yeah so when you buy from the gambler

it's like the same dude thats in the keeper area?

random item/random rarity

[errant plank]

im lvl 70 atm, but saw some weird stuff about fire/necro immunity an

ok so i may need to do multiple runs in this dungeon to get my gambler's fallacy ?

cant i just redo artem's offer? 😒

[hollow arrow]

you could start a new class and do it yeah

lmao

[errant plank]

and then transfer the item ?

[late kelp]

It's for create a legendary heart of ukheiros

I need a relic with +X frost claw

[late mauve]

Working on my offhand catylist and was wondering, if Freeze rate multiplier or chance to chill would be a better affix?

Currently have T3 Spell Damage, T6 Fire Damage, and T3 Void Res

[sturdy summit]

if you're doing fire damage, freeze rate isn't going to do anything for you

[errant plank]

what do you suggest as alt ? Im running runemaster atm

falconer?

[late mauve]

Fire just came with it as exalted. But I use Frost claw

[sick falcon]

i have a question about "consolidator" on the runic invocation tree. if im spamming fireballs for nothing but fire runes, will consolidator proc even if its always just 3 fire runes? I'm curious if it only cares about the appearance of a new rune in the sequence

[sturdy summit]

t6 fire damage goes straight in the trash if you're a cold build.

[late mauve]

I thought about it lol but I figured it may help with Flame Ward

[sturdy summit]

it won't. Is your current item only 3 affixes?

[late mauve]

Yeah, guess I'll check stash for a different off hand

[barren pawn]

There are playesr that have the gold cap.

[neon lynx]

You want cast speed and crit multi on ur catalyst @late mauve

[barren pawn]

2.14bil.

is the gold cap.

you cant list anything for any higher

[hollow arrow]

what currently costs 2.14b

[neon lynx]

2 or 3 lp red rings

[hollow arrow]

makes sense

[winter crow]

2lp is 1b

[hollow arrow]

maybe 4lp twisted?

[neon lynx]

I guess you can’t even list 3lp for what it’d be worth then lol

[sturdy summit]

100 billion dollars

[unborn hamlet]

why list for gold?

just RMT it off

😂

[hollow arrow]

yeah going by gold seller prices

hmmm

[viral nexus]

Hey guys what is considered meele elemental dmg compared to Elemental dmg? Is plasmaorb therefore melee or not?

[stray crown]

do frostbite shackles drop on normal or only empowered?

[sturdy summit]

something with both the melee tag, and one of the three elemental tags

check the plasma orb tags to find out

get the runes out and then mouse over them

[sturdy summit]

they do, but you're better off farming them on empowered. they're very rare on normal.

[viral nexus]

@sturdy summit aight thank you

[stray crown]

your abilities have tags under them when you hover. Melee Elemental damage is any ability tagged with both the melee and elemental (fire, lightning, cold) tags. Elemental damage effects ALL abilities marked elemental (fire, cold, lightning). You can double dip and get melee elemental and elemental damage on a single item if the ability is tagged as melee and elemental.

[sturdy summit]

but doing that isn't a good idea, because there are better stats to get than just increased damage

[stray crown]

Some items have implicits that give both, or one or the other. Like the crystal sword. https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/IIwBhE4wDjEg Tagged with both melee damage and melee elemental damage

[elfin pasture]

anyone know any good sorcerer lightning builds

[sturdy summit]

take a runemaster lightning build, and replace runic invocation with arcane ascendence

[elfin pasture]

would i have to have the subclass for runemaster casue i already am sorcerer

[viral nexus]

so if there is no meelee tag it means its just ranged right?

[sturdy summit]

no

ranged is not a tag

[stray crown]

no, it just increases that type of damage - regardless if it is melee or ranged.

[sturdy summit]

all skills will have one of these tags: melee, spell, bow, or throwing

[pulsar gate]

Anyone that can explain how runes work?

I mean, I understand how they work, but something that I cant get my head around is what I see on the videos on youtube

like the player will cast 3 times and get 2 rune types, fire and ice or whatever combo

but its always, ice, fire, ice

[sturdy summit]

that's Immutable Order

a node in the runic invocation tree

[pulsar gate]

aha

[sturdy summit]

it makes the order of runes always come out the same as the first three skills on your bar

the cost is runic invocation gets a cooldown

[pulsar gate]

oh really?>?

[stray crown]

but melee elemental damage wont increase the damage/effectiveness for something like Enchant Weapon or Static which does not have the melee tag on it.

[pulsar gate]

awsome ill check that out

thanks @sturdy summit

[sturdy summit]

enchant weapon doesn't deal damage

[stray crown]

hence the "/" - meaning "or"

[sturdy summit]

damage means damage, not effectiveness

if it doesn't deal damage, getting damage doesn't do anything for it

[stray crown]

right, which is why the "or" was added

[sturdy summit]

and static is a spell

[stray crown]

that was the point

[sturdy summit]

spell and melee are mutually exclusive.

[stray crown]

and the entire point was, "increased elemental damage" increases both melee and spell, but "melee elemental damage" does not. I mean was that not absolutely clear the first 10 times I typed it?

[sturdy summit]

what are you asking, then?

[stray crown]

I wasnt asking, I was making a statement and answering a question.

[sturdy summit]

oh, my bad, I thought you were asking

[hoary basalt]

Is ignite a flat damage effect?

like always 20?

nm I found it

[stray crown]

scales with damage over time (or elemental damage over time). But if you are trying to increase its effectiveness, you need both damage over time and chance to ignite on your gear.

[hoary basalt]

pfft chance to ignite spells just cause ignite :p

[sturdy summit]

yeah, but that means you can stack more ignites

cast speed also helps stack more ignites

[hoary basalt]

eh it's only 100

wont' sweat it for now

[sturdy summit]

my frostbite damage started around 100, and now it's almost 4k

however, finding flat damage for dot is very very rare, and your spell flat damage won't affect it

there's no affix for flat damage over time, only some uniques. you mostly have to rely on increased dot and pen

[pseudo basin]

cast speed, increased duration, chance to apply, elemental dot, regular dot... you can scale pretty high

also if the ignite is applied by a skill, and the skill has "more dmg" passive nodes, those may apply as well if not worded to exclude the ailments