🧙┃mage

[abstract bramble]

better than my boots
https://i.imgur.com/4HsuCBu.jpeg

[hardy loom]

[safe grail]

at least my 2 LPs hit cdr and movespeedl mao

[abstract bramble]

I just random slammim something

[strange flicker]

movement enjoyers

https://imgur.com/hIS4koz

[vapid forge]

pair that with the move speed wand

[abstract bramble]

Idk even know what build uses this boots 🙈🙈

I just saw high Ms 😅😅

[vapid forge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCcGYEZiA

[abstract bramble]

I failed to hit t5 haste 🤣🤣

[vapid forge]

3% increased Spell Damage per 1% increased Movement Speed

so those boots are 207% spell dam

[abstract bramble]

https://i.imgur.com/zovhzlm.jpeg
daily life as a light mm

[hardy loom]

filthy rogue smh

[vernal finch]

uhh someone sold 4 LP laddle good stat 200m

but my hand not as fast

FFFFFF

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[elfin latch]

what is the strongest runemaster build atm?

[vernal finch]

the one with power of thor

[lyric mango]

Frost claw, frostbite or electric version both good

[elfin latch]

I currently have frost claw, but i find the bosses dont die as fast? does the elctric version do more with bosses?

[vernal finch]

electric is more expensive to build and harder

cold is easier and cheaper

[lyric mango]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frostbite-frost-claw-runemaster-guide

Frostbite version

[lyric mango]

You need alot of the uniques for it to work properly

[vernal finch]

u need like atleast 200-300m to be a decent lightning claw

if u merchant

[left tundra]

bosses will always be slower relative to the mono

[lyric mango]

Also power of frostbite is perma freeze on bosses that can be freezed

So they dont even attack you

But you need these items:

https://youtu.be/HVxyRUFYi_w?si=KygHLQw-ei1l9aE_

You can perma freeze most bosses

[safe grail]

RUNE OF CREATION POG

LETS GO

[lyric mango]

Is it so rare?

I dropped two in my 100 hours of gameplay

So I guess they are

But im only in 150 corruption so far

[safe grail]

i just hit like

10 arbor runs

to get 1

lmao

[vernal finch]

I'm 1700 cor and my total rune creation less than 10

[safe grail]

all i focused on was rune and glyph drops

[vernal finch]

Only used for like item worth 30m atleast

[safe grail]

i also got like

22 ascendance

and 20 despairs

alltold, a roughly 20m gold investment to proc a dupe for 200m+

cause i also got int slammed onto the relic

so it's a 4FC w/ low spell dmg and t5 int lol

[barren pawn]

that relics worth alot more than 200m

unless prices have come waaaaaaaaaay down

[safe grail]

nah. similar is 275

yeah

they have

its only about 250m

[barren pawn]

finally.

[safe grail]

https://imgur.com/DCWXFLu

lowest ones were 270m

so 250m should be solid for any 2 LP or 3 LP slammers

if any of yall want a solid set to slam w/ lmk. willing to bro price these down for the mage homies in here

gotta buy it as a bundle tho 😛

[strange flicker]

does it come w a 2lp heart to slam with

[safe grail]

i wish

lmao

[barren pawn]

do you come with an extra 600m?

im sure ex would probs cut the price down for all 3 if ya bought all 3 and he had all 3

[hardy loom]

@abstract bramble so uhhh i tried gearing for the ward build

10k ward disappears when vs one DoT mob (the necro tank thing)

holy this matt youtube is huge bait af

[abstract bramble]

🤣🤣

[hardy loom]

I am so disappointed

😢

It's alright just 150m spent so far

[barren pawn]

what build drop a link lmao

[hardy loom]

It needs giga ultra min max to fit all the cold res in

[hardy loom]

The ward build for lightning mm

[abstract bramble]

https://i.imgur.com/NMBtVtg.jpeg

Idk I'm playing the same way as I did @100corr 😅😅

If I can't jam travel skill I ain't playing it 🤣🤣

[hardy loom]

I just wanna experiment

LOL

now I know

How bad the minmax is

It's so bait

[abstract bramble]

+7k health sounds more tempting than 20-60k ward 🤣🤣

And it cost to much to roll ward now

[hardy loom]

The one one thing that interest me was the low life shift thing that gains like half my mana back

Which is cool

I gen up to 14k ward but yeah I got shredded by a single necro tank

Dogwater

[abstract bramble]

It's Oki, I die by most the smal grey birds also 🤣🤣

[hardy loom]

Back to life build

🤣

I can now say I tried both

[safe grail]

mattjestic?

yeah like p much all the LE youtubers, aside from Frozen are bait af

[abstract bramble]

Tbh the animation on your character when using rav gloves = is the best 🤣🤣

Free mtx when you have stacks on

[strange flicker]

u dont like all the INSANE builds on utube doe? @safe grail

[safe grail]

LMAO

yeah man the insane 200 corr builds

so poggie

[hardy loom]

Well technically that build works ... If I don't get hit

Skill issue

[safe grail]

@stiff crown will agree.

[hardy loom]

I purposely stood in the necro tank to see the dmg taken

[strange flicker]

wat u guys testing ur insane builds in empowered monliths?

[hardy loom]

Didn't expect to get deleted

Ah I forgot my runemaster have so many Dr everywhere

Even 7k ward feels tanky enough

For regular mobs in mono ofc

[abstract bramble]

Dunno, only think that kills me regularly is snow tigers/grey birds

If I die by others it's my own fault

[strange flicker]

have u met my friend mr bow?

[hardy loom]

🤣

[strange flicker]

[safe grail]

just use ice barrage

kekl

[strange flicker]

tru

[abstract bramble]

& the x2 mini fire boss is to tanky

[strange flicker]

skill issue ig

i just zoop around to disable their aimbot

well

now i got a little mirror friend to help

[strange flicker]

i had to get cold shred and drop armor blessing LOL

[hardy loom]

Barrage 🤮

[strange flicker]

game needa add 1 more skill slot so i can take barrage

[stiff crown]

🐸

[barren pawn]

an extra skill slot would break the game

itd be nice sure

but itd break sh1t so bad

[minor wasp]

Does +spell damage affect frostbite?

[sturdy summit]

no

frostbite is an ailment, not a spell

[hidden salmon]

Has anyone been playing around with the Shattered cycle unique sceptre? Was wondering if the Prologue and interlude RI nodes would proc the 1 and 2 rune buffs from the sceptre. I would assume no, as the nodes state they are auto casts rather than direct casts, but could be a cool mechanic if they did

[strange flicker]

u gotta directly cast it

via runic invo

[hidden salmon]

each of the invocations separately, or do the auto casts count as direct casts if the skill itself is directly cast?

[strange flicker]

na

u have to directly cast the invocations themselves

[sturdy summit]

direct cast means you cast it

[strange flicker]

that sceptre is competely useless tbh

the buff

needs to be

3x stronger to be even considered

[hidden salmon]

yeah, thought as much. I guess something could be made out of it, if it could be cycled through in a single cast. Or maybe change it to a global buff instead

[novel latch]

Hello mages. I wanted to ask your opinion if there is a mage build/class that is fun to play or has nice mechanics for an alt?
For reference, I like to play more active styles like blade dancer or detonating arrow marksman rather than skill cycle type builds like hail of arrows or runic invocation based stuff.
Farming wise, I would just wanna do ~200 corruption and T4 dungeons, nothing too crazy. Thanks in advance for your suggestion!

[hardy loom]

Let me introduce to you to the great meteor I mean uh frostclaw

[novel latch]

Ah good ol' frostclaw ward yes?

[bronze plank]

t4 dungeons will mostly depend on you the player being willing to execute correctly for pass/fail mechanics

I don't think even frostclaw ward will let you stand in fire blindly on most of those mechanics

literally any random potato build with remotely decent gear should be able to easily do 200 corruption, even meme builds

[novel latch]

This is true, but if the DPS is low, that would cause the fight to drag longer and have higher chances of failing

At least that's my noob opinion and maybe I just need to git gud

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, patience is key if you're doing a boss battle and don't have an op build

[bronze plank]

I could be mistaken but another thing I'd personally recommend keeping in mind is that you're likely going to hit 200 corruption on an alt way before your build is even complete, before you hit max level or even honestly close to it, before you have all your talent points and passives points

Which will interfere with your build being "complete" enough to "comfortably and easily" do "high damage" to end t4 boss fights quickly without having to worry about doing the mechanics repeatedly

Unless you're doing an OP/meta build or using stuff that's got low level requirements, or a highly invested MG build

[novel latch]

Those are fair comments. I added the 200 corruption/T4 boss farming as a goal point of sorts to point out what I'm aiming for. Based on what you're saying, it sounds like I should just build whatever and test it out haha

[bronze plank]

Some people disagree with me but I personally think most of the boss fights especially their t4 variants are really badly designed fights XD

"Those fights are easy and they're fun and well designed" - People doing 1k+ corruption and running them on their main with enough survivability to probably make mistakes without dying and also burning down any phase that can be burned in literally a second or two

So having t4 dungeons especially lightless and jurla as goals kinda mucks up things imo

[minor wasp]

Levelling my hardcore spellblade. Aiming for Frostbite build.
Level 30, first unique drops.
snowdrift boots let's go!

[bronze plank]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BjGj0l5o

[silk pewter]

Falconer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Rogue (23) / Bladedancer (13) / Falconer (77)

General:

▸ Health: 2,544, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 107, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 12%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 15 Str / 119 Dex / 3 Int / 3 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 74% / 74% / 74% / 71% / 68% / 64% / 71%
▸ EHP: 23,447 / 23,447 / 23,447 / 29,386 / 22,132 / 21,239 / 22,771

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 60%, Threshold: 579
▸ Dodge Chance: 36% (1251)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 50% (3,129)
▸ Block Chance: 67%, Mitigation 37% (1,100)
▸ Glancing Blow Chance: 100%
▸ Crit Avoidance: 95%

Damage Types:

▸ Physical, Cold / Throwing, Melee

Minion Damage Types:

▸ Physical / Melee

Buffs:

▸ Golden Aegis (4/4), Haste

Used skills:

• Falconry (21)
• Aerial Assault (24)
• Umbral Blades (20)
• Smoke Bomb (20)
• Dive Bomb (22)

Used unique items:

• Cradle of the Erased
• Jungle Queen's Chaps of Holding
• Anchor of Oblivion

[bronze plank]

That dies to Jurla and Lightless - Easily - if I accidentally stand in bad

feelsbadman.jpg

[novel latch]

Ah falconer. Yes I've heard of divebomb being super fun. But I already have 2 rogues so I don't want a 3rd one haha

[novel latch]

True. These 2 do have a DPS check requirement for T4. Insta gibs for making a small positions mistake kinda sucks

[bronze plank]

yeah exactly XD so I guess my recommendation would just be to focus on trying out some buids/ideas that seem genuinely fun to you and worry less about finding one that's genuinely strong on t4 dungeons

[stiff crown]

Games like this will never truly be balanced. It's pointless to set a common goal across all classes and builds

[novel latch]

Welp guess I'll roll a mage tomorrow and see what I end up doing lol

Only thing I know for sure is that toons gonna be using firestarter's for a while lol

Regardless of what im doing

[bronze plank]

Sure but like then what just let balance be a dumpsterfire and never ask the devs to improve? XD

[stiff crown]

That's not what I'm saying. You can work on balancing, but don't expect perfection. You should set your goals based on your build and your skill level. Seeing a low tier build beat 500c or Julra is a lot more impressive than a Frost Claw build beating 2k+, IMO

[novel latch]

Basically mechanics > build is what kurii is trying to say for impressiveness, which I get

[stiff crown]

Not everyone looks at it this way and not everyone plays this way either. I understand some people play top tier builds to be competitive or to get good gear faster for their other characters. Which is fine. Everyone's different and have fun in their own ways

[barren pawn]

why we postin falconer builds in mage?

git yo propaganda outta here

[bronze plank]

nah I wouldn't actually recommend people spin up a new one this late into the cycle tbf but it's my only personal example of how a highly invested character is still powerless to ignore t4 mechanics

[strange flicker]

[stiff crown]

I dunno know about that, rofl

[strange flicker]

i just hold rmb and stand in her explosion

and she dies in 5 seconds

if am feeling frisky i'll even not flame ward and still live

[stiff crown]

When I was only at around 200c and not max level, yeah I had to do the mechanics then. But not now. Granted, the challenge was fun back then, but now it's so easy that it's boring

[abstract bramble]

[stiff crown]

What I'm trying to say is

RM players are not good

[abstract bramble]

Bold statement

[hardy loom]

Filthy rogues

🙈

[barren pawn]

I play a build that requires me to git gud

bossing gets pretty tense sometimes

playin that ish like dark souls

[stiff crown]

Bro is here playing chess while we're playing checkers

[digital musk]

Rogues literally dodge that's way more dark souls like

Git gud

Damn disintegrate

As someone who solely likes to push off meta skills, even I unspec'd that one man

Hats off

[bronze plank]

Disintegrate speaks to me as someone who played an archon sorc in d3

[digital musk]

I skipped d3 but the channel kills it for me

[barren pawn]

missing out. Nukes the fekk out of 800

My build atleast

[digital musk]

How are the oro kills

💀

[grizzled olive]

@strange flicker whats better for freeze build? 100% more freezeBite or 50% cold penetration?

[barren pawn]

Oro jus tkinda... dies

[grizzled olive]

Nobody seems to know hmmm

[bronze plank]

the channel? XD

[barren pawn]

he melts away

[bronze plank]

cause like the 3 millimeters frostclaw moves between casts aint exactly wowing me

[safe grail]

if you aren't applying an astronomical amount of frostbite stacks, then cold pen is gonna do fk all for you

hope that helps

[barren pawn]

it gets even more insane with a supprt lb mage

OH RIGHT EX

[grizzled olive]

@safe grail I don't get it

[barren pawn]

@safe grail So i did a thing witha buddy using support LB

[safe grail]

frostbite is all about applying stacks of it to do damage over time

[split owl]

how to get mana regen quickly

i'm always oom

[barren pawn]

he had around 450 ish cast speed

[safe grail]

cold pen enhances that damage by getting thru resists

[barren pawn]

and uh

disintegrate got up to like 5000%

[grizzled olive]

@safe grail Well i have 240% frostbite chance

[safe grail]

so then look at it this way

100% more frostbite will give you 1 more stack per application

[sturdy summit]

I agree with ex. in general, you want more stacks

[grizzled olive]

Ah so faster stacks

[barren pawn]

^

[safe grail]

you just want more stacks before you start looking at cold pen being a thing to enhance damage

[grizzled olive]

999 max?

[safe grail]

it can go over that

[grizzled olive]

Oh

Ty

[safe grail]

when you apply more than 999 stacks, you will see a '+' on the stack indicator

cold shred/pen is a more min-max mechanic than it is something to provide innate focus on

[grizzled olive]

Yea so stacks ftw

Ty

[safe grail]

need u goobers to buy my 4 FC relics.

[hardy loom]

I take it for 3 50 gold

[digital musk]

Wait how u reach 450 cast speed

[hardy loom]

🙈

[sturdy summit]

one detail: although I think frostbite chance is the highest priority, you want to stack all the stats at the same time.

if you only stack one, you're scaling linearly

[safe grail]

very easily. max cast speed on p much everything, use ashes of mortality, cast speed w/ lightning aegis idols

isadora's belt.

or you turbo stack t7 int w/ ladle

[digital musk]

Oh like they just fully decked it

[safe grail]

and eventually get there

yeah

it's an RM Support build

[sturdy summit]

oh yeah, cast speed is higher priority than frostbite chance, because it's also frostbite chance :p

[safe grail]

since closed circuit can bounce to allies

[digital musk]

I'm at like 300 but I'm not using random stuff just for it

But I have t7 slams so I was curious how they were 150 higher

[safe grail]

cast speed also stacks multiplicatively.

[sturdy summit]

wait, it does?

[bronze plank]

I'm playing the lightning version of frostclaw and I can't for the life of me figure out why they take infernal nova cause it seems like it adds a cooldown to novas which would seem like it's a straight up dps loss (but you get a bunch of aoe size increase I guess so?)

[digital musk]

I havent looked at it actually but I did not notice if it did

[strange flicker]

cooldown doesnt affect claw novas

[digital musk]

Looked flat to me but idr

[strange flicker]

they pop with no cooldown still

u take it for the area increase

[sturdy summit]

I checked my cast speed in lastepochtools, and it appears to stack additively

[barren pawn]

yeh

its supposed top atleast

[bronze plank]

oh really? hm, ok maybe I just misunderstood the way the celestial conflux worked I guess

[sturdy summit]

14.96% + 15% + 15% = 45%, that's additive

[bronze plank]

I assumed "a whole crapload of projectiles = it should pretty much proc at least once each cast" so I assumed I wasn't seeing it because of the CD node XD

[safe grail]

someone said it was multiplicative

but it could be they also weren't taking into consideration that int affects cast speed w/ ladle

lol

[sturdy summit]

We say "Cast Speed" for short, but it's really "Increased Cast Speed"

[bronze plank]

make it more complicated

add a new stat

cast time reduction

[safe grail]

god bless

[bronze plank]

I'm still salty that things that affect speed/cooldown have zero impact on baked hardwired animation lock times

like when you reduce your traversal skill cooldown ridiculously but the animationlock and animation time remain identical even with haste/frenzy/whatever XD

[sturdy summit]

well, cooldown reduction has nothing to do with cast speed

It's kind of weird that they don't have animation cancelling though

[bronze plank]

yeah I tested it pretty rigorously with rogue / aerial assault travel time

the millisecond timings are fixed/static

you're in the air for the same time no matter what

[silent bane]

looking for a fun "fire" build. any suggestions?

[sturdy summit]

If you use a dash ability, if any stat were to affect how fast it takes to dash, it should be Move Speed.

[sturdy summit]

Healing Hands

[silent bane]

let me re-phrase my question 🙂 looking for a "fire" using mage build

[sturdy summit]

lots of people ask for that, but I can't think of anyone who's come up with a good build to recommend for it.

actually, Kyo, is your disintegrate all fire damage?

maybe you could try Disintegrate

[strange flicker]

all the real firebuilds are runic invocation based

or half

so if u want a usable one its probably pretty hard to pl;ay in practice

like u can play frost claw/ingenious rain build

[bronze plank]

mom can we have mob density? no we have mob density at home

mob density at home

.          
              .

      .

[strange flicker]

but u gotta manually invoke

[silent bane]

Disintegrate is the Ironman beam?

[barren pawn]

Lightning is the superior spec now.

[strange flicker]

wheres our disintegrate merchant

[sturdy summit]

ah, nvm then.

[strange flicker]

just tell him its blue fire

[bronze plank]

shocking

[strange flicker]

c'mon kyo

[barren pawn]

I mean... arc flashes are pretty much just super spicy blue fire

they burn you

[safe grail]

fire is pretty dog overall.

[barren pawn]

yeh

[safe grail]

there was a fireball build that was toyed w/ that pushes 600

but

[sturdy summit]

fire is just worse cold

[barren pawn]

ignite is good for supplemental dps

[safe grail]

it requires very specific gear

[barren pawn]

for dis

but lightning dis is overall better due to howshock works

5% lightning res red per stack up to 50%

which is absolutely huge

[silent bane]

but what?

[barren pawn]

" it requires very specific gear "

Dunno how you missed his followup

[safe grail]

@silent bane

[silent bane]

shame 😦 I love fire mages 😦

[sturdy summit]

unfortunately, it seems like the best way to play fire is to play sentinel.

at least this cycle

you could of course try to make it work, and everyone would be thrilled if you do and make a guide for others to follow, but no fire evangelists currently frequent these halls

[silent bane]

shame

but I will try 🙂

[strange flicker]

if u want to play a runic invocation based one

[barren pawn]

flame disintegrate works

[strange flicker]

look into ingenious hunter

[barren pawn]

you can take it to like 500 corr comfortably

[strange flicker]

or flame frost claw+ spark charge+ ingenious

but those are all abit more annoying to play

[barren pawn]

but blue flame disintegrate / palpatine is just outright better

[bronze plank]

rogue has an interesting meme build for bees and ignite stacks 😄

[sturdy summit]

bees AND fire? color me intrigued

[bronze plank]

beecoy

[silent bane]

can you link me both builds?

or tell me what to search for?

[barren pawn]

They are my builds

[bronze plank]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/12swjm0/beecoy_build_in_action/

[barren pawn]

I can give you the lightning build, im not lookin for the fire build

[silent bane]

fair 🙂

thank you

[barren pawn]

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

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.4

Class:

Mage (29) / Sorcerer (13) / Spellblade (2) / Runemaster (69)

General:

▸ Health: 2,024, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 302, Regen: 9/s
▸ Ward Retention: 520%, Regen: 106/s
▸ Attributes: 4 Str / 4 Dex / 102 Int / 4 Att / 4 Vit
▸ Resistances: 83% / 91% / 113% / 33% / 17% / 58% / 21%
▸ EHP: 2,412 / 2,412 / 2,412 / 1,797 / 1,522 / 2,061 / 1,561

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 405
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (16)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 16% (526)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Disintegrate (23)
• Glyph of Dominion (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Focus (20)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Exsanguinous
• Ignivar's Head
• Strands of Souls
• Last Steps of the Living
• Julra's Stardial
• Soul Gambler's Fallacy

[bronze plank]

I don't think anyone's doing a current patch iteration of it though since it's mostly meme, but it's semi-viable if you went all-in

[barren pawn]

@silent bane

[silent bane]

will try it later today 🙂

can I start it from lvl1 or do i need to lvlup to a specific lvl and then transition

[barren pawn]

its sucks ass without proper gear / spec soooo

[silent bane]

where do i get the amulet from?

[barren pawn]

soulfire bastion

[median hamlet]

what will happen next

cycle

like how long is a cycle

[hollow arrow]

seems like 4 months, since cycle 2 looks like it'll hit in june

[bronze plank]

is there a mono that's particularly efficient to push corruption on for mage/frostclaw? or just in general?

[sturdy summit]

I like BFD and Dragons

Both bosses have important drops

[bronze plank]

thanks

I need to push something initially for some exp and so the subsequent monos I run get a bit more boosted as I run them for blessings

[abstract bramble]

I only done reign so far

With explo ball > new char

[sturdy summit]

if you're stacking int, probably better to focus on dragons for twisted heart farming. I'm doing BFD because I want good shackles

[bronze plank]

I doubt I'm gonna see a 2lp randomly from it and I already have all my gear XD

I mostly just care about maps that don't suck and decent exp/mob density and a boss that isn't cancer

[sturdy summit]

also, both formosus and corpse emp are really easy fights :p

[bronze plank]

yeah neither of them have horrible mechs

man I feel so bad though

I pre-bought my unstable core but didn't read carefully that the increased AOE effect was only if you're directly casting nova

so I bought one specifically with good increased area XD and ended up paying more probably

[sturdy summit]

yeah, buying stuff before you know what you're doing with a build can be rough like that

I think it's better not to over-invest early on

[bronze plank]

I kinda did it on a whim I wasn't even gonna play anymore and then I saw some random lightningclaw clip on reddit and I was like, eh, I'm sitting on 150m why not

[rugged shell]

Question with follow up is flame reave any good for monos and how do you sustain the manacost?

also unrelated to the first, is there any rhyme or reason to stack ward retent without the lowlife experiemental affixes

[sturdy summit]

Could you rephrase? Not sure what you mean by rhyme or reason.

are you asking how to do it?

[rugged shell]

More like is there any reason to stack ward retention if you dont use the current missing hp as ward current hp lost affixes

Since spellblade has quite a bit of ward on hit/regen

[sturdy summit]

you always want ward retention, regardless of how you generate ward

[rugged shell]

I guess so

[sturdy summit]

ward retention is how you get the ward to actually stick around

otherwise, it will drain too fast

[rugged shell]

Yeah I know

I guess so then.

[sturdy summit]

ward retention and ward generation multiply together

in effect, ward retention is More Ward

[rugged shell]

Yeah just maximum gets increased

the more you have

thinking of doing a build but it also may end up not being good like ive learned from my shatter strike shattered lance adventures....

[sturdy summit]

well, whatever you want to do, the fundamental principle of scaling is to figure out how to get it better-than-linear. Find multiple stats that multiply together which you can grow at the same time.

so you can get quadratic or better scaling.

[rugged shell]

Yeah kind of do but its probably in the worst possible way I can do it in

Im gonna elaborate by telling that my thing has scales of eterra

so yeah.

[sturdy summit]

I've seen that item used in sentinel builds, but I don't understand how it's supposed to be good.

[rugged shell]

They dont use the bottom 2 lines

But ill use them

Since the infusions are good when they are active but the -80% damage hits a bit too hard.

[sturdy summit]

that's the part I don't understand.

[rugged shell]

Its like a withdrawal effect I guess.

[sturdy summit]

and that's supposed to be worth it?

[rugged shell]

no lol

[sturdy summit]

do people, like, use a scales that misses the element they plan to use?

[rugged shell]

Exactly.

[sturdy summit]

boggle

[rugged shell]

The sentinels use it for cast speed, attunement and flat crit

Im thinking of using scales, eye of reen, Throne of ambition and soulfire flask

[sturdy summit]

sometimes it seems like every skill and item is designed to never be used for its main effect. Whatever it looks like a skill or item is supposed to do, you can be assured it's not used for that.

[rugged shell]

so something like -80 to 100%+crit multi+40% + 10% more damage taken by enemy

[rugged shell]

Its cause this games community is a bit too good at doing stuff like this

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QDwRb07A

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.5

Class:

Mage (39) / Spellblade (69) / Runemaster (5)

General:

▸ Health: 1,370, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 220, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 579%, Regen: 98/s
▸ Attributes: 5 Str / 13 Dex / 66 Int / 13 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 81% / 265% / 74% / 82% / 94% / 79% / 53%
▸ EHP: 9,507 / 9,507 / 9,413 / 12,194 / 9,507 / 9,507 / 7,792

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 274
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (52)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 49% (3,007)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 90%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ Ambition (20/20), Arcane Shield (4/4), Haste, Enchant Weapon (Active), Flame Ward

Used skills:

• Enchant Weapon (20)
• Firebrand (20)
• Flame Ward (20)
• Flame Reave (24)
• Teleport (20)

Used unique items:

• Eye of Reen
• Frostbite Shackles
• Scales of Eterra
• Soulfire
• Logi's Hunger
• Peak of the Mountain
• Throne of Ambition

[rugged shell]

planning on something like this

Knowing how "Good" im at creating builds in my opinion its gonna be complete doodoo

[bronze plank]

item says "+5000% minion hp and when you crit you reduce cooldowns by 0.1s but your crit rate is reduced by 99%"

players: immediately trying to figure out how to ensure fast frequent crit rates and abuse the CDR to nonstop cast skills that normally have a long cooldown

[rugged shell]

Its only 99% reduced crit chance bro 100% increased crit chance nullifies it

its not like its a multiplier

[bronze plank]

I think you're missing the point/joke

[sturdy summit]

Scales of Eterra has Cast Speed and Spell Crit. Those don't affect melee skills.

[rugged shell]

Healing hands

[sturdy summit]

you mean you're not changing healing hands to melee?

[rugged shell]

but its how the community does it

[rugged shell]

Every sentinel uses divine bolt

like every single one

[sturdy summit]

and divine bolt requires HH to be a spell?

[rugged shell]

I dont know about that but you need to spend 3 more points

and it scales with melee damage after that

[sturdy summit]

the build I saw for healing hands used divine bolt, but still made HH melee.

[rugged shell]

Cause the builds use mad alch ladle

[sturdy summit]

also, aren't you using rive to proc healing hands? and rive is also melee.

[bronze plank]

Can you slam a non-mage chest into a mage chest? <_<

[rugged shell]

no....

they just spam healing hands....

and get like 80k ward.

[sturdy summit]

huh, weird

[rugged shell]

or like if they use the frost knuckles like 200k

[sturdy summit]

I thought they were all casting it by proccing it off a faster ability

[rugged shell]

The build im looking at has like 200% cast speed

[sturdy summit]

so they're not making it melee, and they're casting it directly.

[rugged shell]

Also they use it immolators oblation

to scale damage a bit

Yeah they just direct cast

Literally the build im looking at right now is using hands of judgement just for the attunement and fire penetration LOL

[sturdy summit]

anyway, in the build you linked, it looks like you are using melee. So you're not going to be getting benefit from that cast speed or flat crit

[rugged shell]

Thats the point.

I get crit capped anyway

[sturdy summit]

so you're only using scales for the infusion and int?

[rugged shell]

yep

And ele res I guess

[sturdy summit]

I'd think using a second sword or a shield would be better.

[rugged shell]

but the memes.

[sturdy summit]

sure, the memes. and what do I know about spellblade builds, anyway.

[rugged shell]

Dont worry using a sword probably will double the dps

at max stacks its 38 adaptive damage + 101 fire + 4245% inc fire

[sturdy summit]

okay, so, your goal is to cast 10 spells, and then dance around doing nothing for 10 seconds, and repeat?

[rugged shell]

With secondary sword I gain 40 more flat damage + 40% some attack speed

[sturdy summit]

100% burst phase character

[rugged shell]

Yeah

But thats also multiplying throne of ambition eye of reen crit multi stacks effectively and soulfire

so 100+40+10%

[sturdy summit]

how long does it take you to hit overload: what's your dps downtime ratio? and how much damage do you lose out on during the downtime?

[safe grail]

think you need to back pedal a bit and ask this question;

What content are you trying to do?

[rugged shell]

Overload is after 10 second nothing changes it, dps down for i think 20 seconds

[rugged shell]

Okay, my idea is to just have fun.

Thats all there really is to it.

im a simple guy with simple ideas.

[safe grail]

ah. mk

knock it outta the park my friend

lol

[rugged shell]

and a side goal is seeing big corruption number i guess

[safe grail]

well you wont beyond like maybe 200-300

[rugged shell]

Maybe

who knows

[safe grail]

just tempering expectations lol

[rugged shell]

from what I know spellblades dont get far past like 500 cause nobody plays them

[sturdy summit]

it'll probably be fine for mapping, since you can gather up mobs, burst everything down, and then gather again while you're overloading.

[safe grail]

there have been some who have played

highest i've seen is 1k

flame reave caps out at about 500-600 from what i recall

[rugged shell]

And the others play shatter strike?

[safe grail]

nah

others play mana strike proc on hit

[rugged shell]

Oh so its not even spellblade.

[safe grail]

shatter strike Low life may be able to push too but

lol yeah

[sturdy summit]

they say the best spellblade is a runemaster :D

[safe grail]

spellblade sucks so bad it can't even really push as spellbalde

[rugged shell]

Its like going forgeguard just to play healing hands

with 60 points into paladin

[obsidian reef]

🙋

[safe grail]

Here's the 1k SB enjoyer

[sturdy summit]

tbh, most runemaster builds depend on generally available mechanics, too. Like frost claw.

[safe grail]

what build ya playin my guy

[obsidian reef]

shatter strike low life

[safe grail]

yerp dere it is

[sturdy summit]

I appreciate your pfp

[rugged shell]

it depends on exploding the entire screen, no?

[obsidian reef]

ward too strong to not use it for spellblade

[safe grail]

oh ya

100%

problem is SB just cant generate it outside of combat

[rugged shell]

A better question is whats not ward too good to not use on.

[sturdy summit]

there are different options for how to explode the entire screen, but yeah, you want to explode the entire screen

[rugged shell]

exactly.

[obsidian reef]

it takes super investment for spellblade to push 1k corr though

min maxing

[safe grail]

yeah that's what Cyborg said

[rugged shell]

Honestly i gotta be real. I like theory crafting more than mainly playing the game in arpgs

lol

Cause both take time

[sturdy summit]

what makes runemaster good isn't that we're building around our core abilities: it's that we have really good support abilities, like our passive tree, or frostguard runic invocation. But sorcs can do FC nova or dragorath cast on crit, too.

[rugged shell]

and that it deals insane damage

[strange flicker]

not on bosses

[rugged shell]

I bet with 2 clicks i can find someone doing like a 2k corr shade of oro and oneshotting it or smth

[strange flicker]

na

doubt u wioll find a rm 1 shotting 1k

[safe grail]

ayyo can you throw up your planner?

I kinda wanna slam my SB lol

[strange flicker]

the way the rm mechanics work rn is

more mobs=more dmg

faster mobs die

[rugged shell]

mmmm more damage...

[strange flicker]

faster the rest die

[obsidian reef]

yeah sure give me a sec

[strange flicker]

if only boss=lowish dmg

regardless of rm build

all mage builds wont do anywhere near same dmg as light marksman/falconer

[sturdy summit]

yeah, shade is the only boss I have trouble with.

[strange flicker]

lowish for a good class ofc

[rugged shell]

cause they have explo trap and you dont.....

[strange flicker]

not lowish primalist

or explo ballista

point is, the dmg is fine for ST, but for monolith we can clear it faster

[obsidian reef]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QWOnmp4Q

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (27) / Sorcerer (8) / Spellblade (78)

General:

▸ Health: 2,709, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 153, Regen: 9/s
▸ Ward Retention: 519%, Regen: 154/s
▸ Attributes: 18 Str / 12 Dex / 107 Int / 5 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 72% / 66% / 72% / 81% / 68% / 88% / 66%
▸ EHP: 3,177 / 2,989 / 3,177 / 3,632 / 3,058 / 3,272 / 2,989

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 542
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (48)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (1,224)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 99%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

• Mana Strike (20)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Shatter Strike (24)
• Enchant Weapon (20)
• Teleport (20)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Exsanguinous
• Apogee of Frozen Light
• Apogee of Frozen Light
• Last Steps of the Living
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[safe grail]

omg that's based

apogees?

never thought to use that haha

[obsidian reef]

yeah the high melee cold damage is better than min maxed crystal swords lol

[safe grail]

heart just for +skills?

[obsidian reef]

twisted heart makes me tankier

Not sure what else to put there honestly

[sturdy summit]

I guess you can't get %health on an exalt

[safe grail]

yeah you can't.

idk i feel like there could be something else to yam there

maybe ucenui's?

[obsidian reef]

havent put much thought into it ngl

[safe grail]

all gucci

might try this out tho

i like the swords lol

[obsidian reef]

I cruise through echoes but orobyss is my nemesis

when he does the black hole mines

im finished

[sturdy summit]

yeah, black hole mines are a pain

[rugged shell]

You get like 10k ward I assume?

or more?

[obsidian reef]

12700 ward resting

[rugged shell]

Yeah

[obsidian reef]

but when attacking i can reach like 16k iirc

[rugged shell]

While hitting goes to like 16?

[obsidian reef]

yup

[rugged shell]

mmmm

beefy

[sturdy summit]

I saw that

[stiff crown]

You're using Mana Strike. Just cheese it. Beat 100k corruption Orobyss with this one simple trick. Tryhards hate it. https://youtu.be/bxWZX1jk3Cw?si=YJQESpWnN_hIFjh5

[rugged shell]

Probably could become 20x more tanky on my build by using the cleaver solution instead of scales of eterra

[sturdy summit]

what is going on there where you just stand around attacking and orobyss does nothing for like a minute

[rugged shell]

and maybe not even lose that much dmg

[sturdy summit]

are you stunlocking him?

[stiff crown]

Not sure if he's stuck trying to get closer to attack, if he's buggy because he's out of range, if he's buggy because he's constantly being KB'd or a combination of everything

[sturdy summit]

it even seems like sometimes nothing happens for a few seconds, no lightning bolts at all, and he's still not able to get to you

[stiff crown]

It's probably even easier with ultra wide resolution

[sturdy summit]

ultra wide and ultra tall o_o

I hate walking south. Sometimes my cursor gets snagged on a UI element and forgets that I wanted to move.

[stiff crown]

You can trigger the spawn, then move back into range and 🧀

Beat Orobyss without getting hit = beat level infinity Orobyss

[obsidian reef]

RM favouritism, ehg coding orobyss to stand still against RMs

[stiff crown]

True

[strange flicker]

hey that works for all mage specs

[stiff crown]

I'm constantly knocking him back with Mana Strike / Repulsing Strikes

The lightning bolts are a trigger on chance. I'm just unlucky during those seconds

[sturdy summit]

ahhh

I think I'm gonna try your build on my alt :p

having procs that trigger other procs

[opal mountain]

Ewww Orobyss hits hard in 700 cor. Hadnt died in that boss fight since 150 lol

[stiff crown]

But I'm able to hit him off screen because of auto lock node, Star Guide

[robust gorge]

🤫

this works on almost every boss in the game honestly

[strange flicker]

its okay we have backups unless they remove ccing bosses

cant take em all down

[robust gorge]

this works by abusing the minimum activation range of the ai

i farmed early t4 julra using this before my char was strong enough

you can do her as soon as you have 100% knockback regardless of how strong your char is

[stiff crown]

Dentists hate him

[hasty vortex]

is surge a thing anymore? i see bunch of builds for it im prety sure it got nerfed im not sure

[unborn hamlet]

nice clear speed Kurii

[split yacht]

do i rly need to cap all resistances if i have 3740 armor

i only have them capped when i run double red rings but then i lose a bunch of dmg

[abstract bramble]

You should,

[real compass]

That’s a lot of armors

Is runebolt strong enough to build a flame wall build that shoots runebolts off of it

Sounds kinda cool

[split yacht]

well armor is ez to get

but the resitances are cringe

[real compass]

Yeah there’s too many resists to get

There needs to be one that includes a few like elemental, but for phys/necro/poison

[split yacht]

also i have no clue why my cold resis is so low compared to fire and ligthning

i have only ele resistance

[real compass]

I think there’s a mage node that gives fire and lightning res?

[split yacht]

ah couldnt it also give cold lol

[real compass]

That would be too simple

Gotta make it a lil annoying for us

[stiff crown]

And for my next trick, a gearless kill

[safe grail]

No.

[split yacht]

i would say with julra runs and the slamming % they alrdy made it annyoing enough

[royal palm]

I have to unspec ele nova from fc to do t4 julra cuz it’s hard to see the floor

rip

[strange flicker]

whats there to see

[split yacht]

are u playing 0 ward runemaster?

[strange flicker]

she does puddle once every swap/explosion

thats about it as far as seeing

[safe grail]

just dont even get the puddle

[vernal finch]

just tank the explosion ez

[safe grail]

if you shift right before explosion goes off

and shift back like 1 sec later

never get a puddle

ezp

ya know what

skill issue.

@stiff crown is my mentor here

[vernal finch]

tank the pudle ez

[strange flicker]

c'mon what if he's a life rm build

not every1 has ward

smh

[royal palm]

Im a life rm build

Lol jkjk

[stiff crown]

🐸

[strange flicker]

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1wD421s79M/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

for the

frostbite nerds

[vernal finch]

well

there a guy on youtube

making guide

on dodge runemaster

there alot of comments following that build

[strange flicker]

he's teaching them

to dodge the wrong builds

[vernal finch]

no im serious

[strange flicker]

they didnt get the memo

i mean if its staff

dodge/armor

[vernal finch]

runemaster that use skill combination

[strange flicker]

its the standard invocation setup

[vernal finch]

yeah but he got like

60% dodge or 70

[strange flicker]

he's 1 dot away

from flopping over

or flame

or bat

[abstract bramble]

Why ppl hatin on life builds

[vernal finch]

he has like 1.3 hp

and i think 4-5k ward

but 60% more dodge

and all his item basicly 3 LP and 4 LP

but i watch him strugle on 2000 corupt

he said this build for party ing

cause he 4 stacking

wut

[strange flicker]

link

party aka

bring healing hand bots

[vernal finch]

https://youtu.be/A2vcF17FvhE

[strange flicker]

so u ignore ward since they just give u 60k ward

before 1.0

this was the more known build

before claw got buffed

LOL

and well claw was better before too

[vernal finch]

he got like 4 Lp weapon 4 LP armor

[strange flicker]

but claw wasnt as popular

but yeah this build obv sucks compared to claw

its still fine

but tankyness dmg and everything else is ass

and theres nothing party about it

its just

[vernal finch]

i was going to follow that early in 1.0

[strange flicker]

w/o partry

u get rolled

[vernal finch]

then i watch 4 LP i give up

[strange flicker]

with party ur still worst than claw

[vernal finch]

whats the point then

lol

[strange flicker]

u get to play invocations

this was before claw/nova got popular

ppl werent rly playing it

i assume atleast

[split yacht]

puru can u pls link ur build again forgot to save it

[vernal finch]

btw whose who got lightning claw popular

who the one first made it

is it macin guy on youtube?

[strange flicker]

uhh SMK i think?

he was using lightning bolt mostly

but i mean there mite be others

[safe grail]

yeah

it was SMK

[strange flicker]

then when i saw it

[safe grail]

macin brought it mostly into Cycle 1

[strange flicker]

i played around w claw and saw the nova nodes and tried stuff

and am sure from dere ppl figured out whats what

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AKDNLZ3Q

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.5

Class:

Mage (21) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (67)

General:

▸ Health: 1,190, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 265, Regen: 9/s
▸ Ward Retention: 823%, Regen: 76/s
▸ Attributes: 23 Str / 20 Dex / 183 Int / 10 Att / 10 Vit
▸ Resistances: 74% / 76% / 74% / 54% / 61% / 114% / 52%
▸ EHP: 1,978 / 2,188 / 2,156 / 2,390 / 1,754 / 2,008 / 1,779

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 238
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (80)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 52% (3,340)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Wall (21)
• Elemental Nova (24)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Frost Claw (22)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Boneclamor Barbute
• Static Shell
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Foot of the Mountain
• Julra's Stardial
• Julra's Stardial
• The Confluence of Fate
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[strange flicker]

here

the lightning claw one

[split yacht]

ty

[strange flicker]

@safe grail btw after testing it some more

lets just say its more ridic than i thought

[unborn hamlet]

any build that abuses 4 paladins in a ´´party´´ play is a bad build

even if it does 50k corruption i dont care

[vernal finch]

i think my sanctum bugged

i made 4 shoes

2 LP, and always give me same stat

WTF

i want cooldown but always give me HP and dex, for my rogue

zzz

[strange flicker]

unlucky

[vernal finch]

like 4 shoes in a row, 50% chance to get cooldown

[safe grail]

its not surprising lmfao

[strange flicker]

its insane like

legit

[vernal finch]

but i always get hybird and DEX everytime

[strange flicker]

its super awk to play doe till u get used to it

LOL

but i kinda got it down now

[cedar ocean]

What you testing exactly puru?

[strange flicker]

lets not get the devs involved now

found out a little invocation that turned out to be nuts

[cedar ocean]

🤫

Which one, cus i tested some too haha

[strange flicker]

🪞 🔩

[cedar ocean]

Yeah thought so haha

[strange flicker]

w some interesting mechanics u can do interesting things

[real compass]

What are benefits of frostbite vs non frost bite

[cedar ocean]

Freeze vs no freeze

[real compass]

Is it miserable to play without a -5 sceptre

I been playing a spark charge version waiting for a -5 sceptre to put on a frozen ire

[unborn hamlet]

🧐

[unborn hamlet]

for FC spam -4 is enough

[errant plank]

why cant i add "spellslinger" affix on an item in forge? Ive free prefix and shards for it 😒

[unborn hamlet]

given that u have 2 grand idols with Mana FC efficiency

[unborn hamlet]

only appliable to sceptres

[unborn hamlet]

also if ur already set up for spark charge why swap, over all its the ´´superior build´´ , frostbite is not good trust

us poor frostbite users hardstuck at 300cor

[strange flicker]

whats wrong with 300

thats end game

[unborn hamlet]

so whats the secret kraby-patty formula u found

[strange flicker]

perfectly balanced

you have to become a no movement enjoyer

to make this work

[split yacht]

gg failed the helmet didnt get the t5 ele nova :/

[strange flicker]

and its super aids controls wise

[unborn hamlet]

no immutable order?

[strange flicker]

no

manual

[unborn hamlet]

whats the deeps

[strange flicker]

its a spark charge build still

[unborn hamlet]

blegh

[strange flicker]

spark charge mirror bolt build

[cedar ocean]

Its more like tons or ward

[unborn hamlet]

i thought u found something for frostbite

[strange flicker]

wtf

frostbite

i aint a traitor

[unborn hamlet]

[strange flicker]

but hey

am closer to a frostbite

than i was before

am running lightning and cold shred blessings now

but tbh am p sure

it strongest rm build by a mile

LOL

[unborn hamlet]

gib planner

in DM if u want

i wanna take a look

[cedar ocean]

Same

[strange flicker]

now try to figure the gameplay out

LOL

[feral moss]

just making sure i understand correctly - Endurance's damage reduction doesn't affect the "damage" you take to your mana pool via the associated affix, if you were to somehow be on low life while still having lots of mana?

also, i assume "damage taken to your mana pool"s wording means that lifedrain effects like the Ward per Missing HP% affixes or Last Steps of the Living would still drain your HP and not your MP?

[safe grail]

1. Correct. it does not affect the damage you take to your mana pool
2. Correct again.

[whole moat]

Anyone have a Static orb/static/lightning blast sorc build I can develop something of my own off of?

[real compass]

Spark is better?

[sturdy summit]

lemme see :D

is this the super secret kitchen build?

[safe grail]

super secret cycle 2 sauce

[sturdy summit]

I want to see 🤤

was only half paying attention before

Cycle 2: "We've decided to remove ward"

[barren pawn]

they cant

ward is an integral part of the game

so many items would need removed or completely changed

[sturdy summit]

time to learn to differentiate

[strange flicker]

would have to rework int too

and all the classes

all they can do really is hit the ward items

or hit the value of retention/shackle

[sturdy summit]

"We've thought about how people are using ward, and decided it was a mistake. All of it was a mistake."

[errant plank]

what do you think about these chandes? From: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A8295R4B to https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BZO0PL8o

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 99

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (26) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (61)

General:

▸ Health: 1,043, Regen: 28/s
▸ Mana: 282, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 624%, Regen: 91/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 85 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 129% / 140% / 103% / 82% / 49% / 18% / 18%
▸ EHP: 1,217 / 1,217 / 1,217 / 1,270 / 966 / 773 / 773

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 209
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (33)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 13% (351)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Wall (21)
• Elemental Nova (21)
• Frost Claw (21)
• Runic Invocation (21)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Frostbite Shackles
• Strands of Souls
• Snowdrift
• Font of the Erased
• Frozen Eyes of Formosus
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

Runemaster, Level 99

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (26) / Sorcerer (25) / Runemaster (61)

General:

▸ Health: 1,023, Regen: 28/s
▸ Mana: 281, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 605%, Regen: 69/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 74 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 92% / 215% / 92% / 108% / 89% / 82% / 58%
▸ EHP: 1,258 / 1,258 / 1,258 / 1,331 / 1,258 / 1,258 / 1,071

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 205
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (104)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 16% (519)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 30%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Wall (21)
• Elemental Nova (21)
• Frost Claw (21)
• Runic Invocation (21)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Frostbite Shackles
• Snowdrift
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[errant plank]

and which items would you replace/forge first (besides relic im farming for)

[sturdy summit]

there's a parameter in the ward decay formula they could change to make the decay a lot higher

[strange flicker]

only thing i can see em nerfing as far as non core mechanics of ward/items

is maybe the RM celestial doom talent

LOL

[sturdy summit]

I don't even use that

but maybe 10-20k is considered acceptible ward numbers

[strange flicker]

i mean tahts the current value rite

for most rm builds

outside of bosses

[sturdy summit]

I guess so

[vernal finch]

1st time taking rune on arbor, got double rune creation, nice

[hollow arrow]

Ayyyy

we sold that jelkors for 1.5b

[sturdy summit]

grats!

[hollow arrow]

now we back up to almost 2b

thank the lord lmao

[sturdy summit]

what are you going to buy with it?

[hollow arrow]

not sure

im tempted to try another 2lp twisted slam but i'll wait till i drop one this time

atm im not sure what to try and upgrade

[sturdy summit]

I wonder what ward values would look like if they made decay scale with the square of your current ward

[errant plank]

even u? gosh 😄

[hollow arrow]

i get lucky with my slams, so i upgrade faster than some lmao

[vernal finch]

huh, there t7 int armor that have been sitting for like 30m no one buys......... 200k

lol

30 min no one buys, 200k gold t7 int

[sturdy summit]

does it have forging potential and still need to be worked, or has it been crafted to have 4 perfect affixes?

it seems like a lot of people don't want to bother with buying items that still need to be crafted

[vernal finch]

yeah 42 forging

[sturdy summit]

what are its other affixes

I bet they're junk

[vernal finch]

i put lightning crit

but its 200k

how bad can it be

need only 2 good

but unable to re roll the stats, only 21 int

[sturdy summit]

need to not get -20 fp 2 times in a row 🤣

[vernal finch]

yeah bad roll

F

45 forging gone just to upgrade lightning crit t5

so i cant roll 21 int to 24

LOL

[sturdy summit]

and that's why people don't want to buy items they still need to craft

[vernal finch]

fml

well 200k, even its 2m i still buy it

the other cheapest was 10m

and good roll around 40m

[hollow arrow]

oh not bad, 1lp 4% pris gaze

ez 20m or w/e it is

need to drop more 2lps lol

[errant plank]

Do you think my relic is better than twisted hearth for a FC FB build ?

[vernal finch]

i dont think its worth 20m anymore

alot of people selling 5-10

yesterday there like 2.5m seeling for 2 hours before finally sold

4%

i mean the one who sold out is 5-10, there alot of 10-40m but they never got bought up

soul belt also dropeed i just buy like 1 LP, 170% mana ward for like 3m

t7 int ring now 2m, on bazzar for 1 hour, wow every thing dropeed now

[sturdy summit]

How much ward do you get?

[errant plank]

when?

[sturdy summit]

give me some examples

[hollow arrow]

hmmmmm what should i do on lightless today phili

[errant plank]

800 at rest

[hollow arrow]

exalted or uniques?

[errant plank]

7-10k in fights

[sturdy summit]

get 4lp feet :p

[errant plank]

but i thnik with twisted i may face some mana issues from time to time

my mana pool dropped to 254

[sturdy summit]

that's more than enough

[hollow arrow]

lmao i wish

what should i gamba for

i did mostly uniques last night but i had good luck

so dunno

[sturdy summit]

I dunno, I never do dungeons. I still haven't even slammed my shackles yet.

[hollow arrow]

lmao

[sturdy summit]

I got a 2lp so I should go brick it when I get the chance

[hollow arrow]

lmao

[errant plank]

just hitted level 100 for the first time 😉 Should i avoid exp nodes from now on?

[hollow arrow]

exp nodes give alot of favor so still good to hit them

[errant plank]

ok, remains like best nodes overs affix/glyphs/runes ?

[hollow arrow]

i mean if you need more of those then get them

i just hit what i want when im grinding out to bosses

it's a free for all tbh

think i'll do 3 runs of exalted then 2 unique phili

maybe more runs if we get lucky money wise

just with t4 dungeon was better drops instead of just runes lol

[errant plank]

i guess i should now look for an IRE and T7 spellslinger scepter

[sturdy summit]

t6 is good enough

[hollow arrow]

two exalted runs nothing

i'll do unique for last 3

[errant plank]

ok so i shall spend all my favors to loot scepters and run stolen lance to loot IRE right ?

ive 88k favor s 😄

level 9 in no time, rank 10 will be blessing 😉

[sturdy summit]

yes on the sceptre prophecies: use double double lenses. But farm BFD and Dragons instead of stolen lance

[errant plank]

uh? Why that ?

[sturdy summit]

better boss drops

twisted heart and shackles

2lp dream

[errant plank]

ok, so i should not try to get IRE?

[sturdy summit]

you should, but not from stolen lance

use sceptre prophecies

[errant plank]

ok so just going for "uniques" nodes ?

ha i got your point

[sturdy summit]

while stolen lance has the unique nodes for caster weapons, I don't think it's worth pushing corruption on that timeline just for those.

[errant plank]

use prophecies to get unique sceptres. Was thinking using them to get exalted sceptres.

[hollow arrow]

yeah only good item from lance is wings

and that's only for channelling builds

[errant plank]

im 213 already in this one

ive 3 slots for lenses now... third double reward ? 😄

[sturdy summit]

only 2 work

I use the third slot to ban campaign events

[errant plank]

what is good thrid then? Avoid arena?

campaign event is easy no?

[sturdy summit]

corruption affects prophecy drops

[errant plank]

or you just dodge aren/campaign/dungeon anyway ?

[sturdy summit]

I dodge everything that's not monoliths

campaigns are the worst, because they're lowest level

[errant plank]

ok i may just add the thing to get sceptres

[sturdy summit]

that might be good too

[hollow arrow]

gonna hvae to either start selling this weaver gear or putting stats on them to see if i get anything lmao

[sturdy summit]

I should give sceptre lens another try. Maybe it's better with the double double lenses

I have 4 tabs for weaver gear I've gotten from prophecies but haven't used yet :p

I'm to a point where I'm vendoring anything with less than 16ww

[hollow arrow]

yeah i got tons of rings/gloves/boots that are tradeable

so wouldn't hurt to get stats on them and see if any are worth anything

[safe grail]

@median hamlet is based

MG enjoyer

[hollow arrow]

ohhhhh 2lp core of the mountain

more 21 will weaver items but nothing else

[vernal finch]

do slamming t6 is higher c hance of succes compared slamming t7?

where this myth come

[drowsy laurel]

If I'm looking at the icon correctly, is Rune Word Cataclysm's crit chance the base crit type? Usually the twin swords are base and 3 daggers are multiplying the base. Seemed kinda high though at 12% per point, lol.

[vernal finch]

cause there someone on other discord said he slaim his 2 LP julra using t6 int and t5 crit, cause t7 int is harder to slam....... wut?

[barren pawn]

Completely misunderstanding lmao. Please stop.

[vernal finch]

oh u here also lol

[unreal umbra]

are you sure about this? I thought it didn't. i think frozen sentinel did a youtube vid about it

[hollow arrow]

dev confirmed it on the channel above

said corruption affects prophecies

and there are no breakpoints for corruption either, it's a smooth curve in going up

[barren pawn]

No sh1t im here ?

Why wouldnt i be?

[vernal finch]

so why u do it

[hollow arrow]

ye sadly kyo still here

[sturdy summit]

Certain. Got dev confirmation. I can link the post later.

[vernal finch]

i dont get the logic

[hollow arrow]

[barren pawn]

again you have completely misunderstood the entire conversation.

[barren pawn]

bugger off

[hollow arrow]

lmao

[vernal finch]

so why t6 int on 2 LP julra, i confuse

[unreal umbra]

nonsense

[vernal finch]

maybe there secret cause i fail alot t7, so i was wondering there hidden method or something

[barren pawn]

What part of " it was cheaper / easier " is so hard for you to understand

cheaper = easier