🧙┃mage

[vernal finch]

there alot of people talking on general discord

and in game

people doing arbor also got no unique drops

since the last patch

[strange flicker]

[vernal finch]

i just test it 3 lich boss, 0 unique drop 3 times in a row

it wass suppose to be 100% chance to get either amulet or the boots

[strange flicker]

LOL

probably unintentionally messed something up

[vernal finch]

yea

there bug also about affix not showing up

if u compare to other gear stats

[full bluff]

some bug fixes and some new bugs and kept most of the old bugs 🙂

[digital musk]

Are you tping before accepting blessing

[vernal finch]

no

i dont ever do that, no point

[opal mountain]

I ran one late yesterday and got boots/chest/helm. The Core o/ Mountain chest has been a 1 in 5-8 drop for me so Im not necessarily convinced something is different in drops for arbor

[vernal finch]

idk about arbor never tested my self since last patch, but alot of people complain on world chat like since last patch

[full bluff]

I don't get it, how can lightning blast cast from frost claw / drag claw be so good, and lightning blast cast from static so bad.

[strange flicker]

is it using the tree?

some skills dont use the skill tree when it gets casted

[full bluff]

not using the tree it seems

[strange flicker]

also ur casting like 1 lightning blast

[full bluff]

or just casts 1

[strange flicker]

every second w static

LOL

ya

[full bluff]

1 single chain..

and the range is up close

while frost claw proc LB off screens with full tree

[unborn hamlet]

Glad I'm not playing no more

[full bluff]

3x second 😛

[unborn hamlet]

Every patch is just more and more bugs and the performance is worse and worse

😂

[full bluff]

I am down to use 3 skills on sorcerer now, fire ball, teleport and flame ward

rest just seems like a waste of cast time, rather just cast fire balls 🙂

lets see if I can fit AA back in

[strange flicker]

LOL

ya am just gonna test out my sorc build

then prob chill till cycle 2

[full bluff]

AA casts LB with full tree

[strange flicker]

i wouldnt bother w that path

try acuity and get it fully specced

should be able to maintain 100% uptime of aa

w/o the drain

i think

that+ more damage on slow and all the cast speed stuff/mana reduction/mana on kill

LOL

[full bluff]

I have some mana sustain issues with AA

[median hamlet]

i know this sounds stupid

but sorcerer should have what warlock has

in regards to overload...

[spare glen]

what sorcerer really needs is devs attention, class is same since 0.7

[median hamlet]

thats what i am sayin

How does warlock have more fire support

than the actual class that uses meteor lmao

the runemaster class passives are just straight up better...

[brave birch]

you have the staff that converts meteor to lightning lol

[full bluff]

One burst of fire ball at 4 mana cost, does more aoe damage than meteor at 197 mana

I really enjoy sorcerer and am trying to build one that has 2 damage skills, one spamming fire ball and one big bang nuke. So far I have not been sucessful. My low cost spam skill always outperforms my big nuke

[median hamlet]

meteor sounds inane but lack lsutre

[median hamlet]

true

but idk man I feel like warlock just does so much more dmg

[full bluff]

Use frost claw and everything is fine 🙂

[brave birch]

meteor dps tooltip does not assume all 6 metoers hit same target

[full bluff]

I think the solution to fix sorcerer is nerf frost claw, fire ball, elemental nova and lightning blast, so they do 1/10th of the damage. That way the other skills will be much more attractive

[brave birch]

thats too aggresive nerf, company needs to consider the sponsors who created uniques for elemental nova

like when poe nerfed exalts they created another card for brothers stash

[safe grail]

My view will never be to nerf. having lived thru too many of blizzard's balancing changes, nerfing things to make other things viable is sht design lol

[median hamlet]

nerfing things only makes sense in competitive games

[safe grail]

exactly.

[median hamlet]

This is an ARPG, you are supposed to be batshgit op

The reality is not that Runemaster is SUPER STRONG

but the other two classes are weak and not interestring

[obsidian reef]

weak? yes. uninteresting? 😔 🤚 enough

[safe grail]

eh they are uninteresting tho

spellblade specifically

😉

[median hamlet]

the game has a lot of skill modifiers

but the majority are kinda weak]

[obsidian reef]

🔛 🔝

[safe grail]

LMAO

[median hamlet]

spellblade should be cool

but it has like one actual ability

[full bluff]

Should have been a feature so give up a spec slot and just get a flat stat boost. Having to pick the least worst skill to spec is hard than I thought. Down to snap freeze for more armor now 🙂

Some general all class passive skills you could spec

Just need to have one node in the tree, +int

[safe grail]

anyone have an idea on how invo chooses the rune for a multi-ele ability?

i fkn cannot for the life of me remember how

[autumn crypt]

When will new cycle start?

[safe grail]

early juneish

[autumn crypt]

oof I thought somewhere next month, guess I'll need to play again while waiting lol

[safe grail]

yeah they've pretty consistently said 3-4 months, but there's a very large likelihood they are leaning towards 4

which would put us in june

[spare glen]

I have lil hopes even for 4 months, the amount of bugs they have that actually hinder or overpower skills is absurd

[rustic sapphire]

is only runemaster worth playing

[median hamlet]

well depends

all classes work

[digital musk]

ok but only this 1 bugged build i saw in a youtube vid is viable and everything else is bad

[spare glen]

depends on your definition of bad, if doing 600-1k corruption with bis gear is bad then yes

[flat copper]

i am having a problem. my rune invocation only is creating one rune not the 3 it is suposed to

can some one plzzzz help

[rustic sapphire]

which build is bugged

[safe grail]

you're using one of the shtty unique idols. take it off.

[spare glen]

also runic invocation isnt supposed to create 3 runes? why would it?

u create runes by casting spells not by casting invocation

[safe grail]

i knew what he meant

he just typed the wrong thing

[spare glen]

well i thought so initially but the idol u talking abt i think limits only to 2 runes not 1

[safe grail]

there's 3 idols

iirc

or 2.

and either of them restricts the max amount of runes

unvar's rise

[spare glen]

yes it restricts to 2 runes

[safe grail]

restricts it to 1

https://imgur.com/aC8AAH7

the other 2 unique idols restrict it to 2

[spare glen]

oh i never got this one

[feral moss]

@fluid topaz sorry, saw you were talking about a build involving Harbinger of Stars and was wondering what you're doing to recoup mana? I have a build going but it needs more fuel for the meteors

[fluid topaz]

mana strike

[feral moss]

are you doing a mix of lightning and fire damage in your build,then? or did you convert meteor to lightning

[median hamlet]

lightning

[naive hamlet]

hmmm. feels like they fixed the bugged never late 5/5 passive. I'm definitely not 100% critting anymore with spark charges - at least, its not as consistent as before. weird.

[digital musk]

(this was a joke btw i take off-meta builds to 1k for fun)

[barren pawn]

go push my disintegrate build to 1k.

its capable. you just need waaaaaay more min max than i already have

[digital musk]

i wish i could do channeled skills but they're just so zzzz to me

gotta go fast brain

do people actually use static w/ shell?

[hazy parrot]

why is mad alchemist's ladle so hard to see? Only going for rune prison to loot but never drops

any tips for Mad archemist's ladle?

[royal palm]

Is T7 int instead of +FC on heart ok?

[strange flicker]

its better depending on type of spark charge you are

you only use +fc to get enough mana reduction to maintain the fc spam

but if u can already do that then its generally useless in most cases

[plain flicker]

is it possible to make decent black hole based build?

anyone tried?

[unborn hamlet]

Theoretically at the sacrifice of less chance to trigger elemental nova (if you use it in the first place), you don't need +fc at all

[unborn hamlet]

I think at this point way too many people tried to do something that's just not possible

Wait for new cycle, and pray they look at old classes

The spell provides nearly no utility, no buffs, and the base DMG is so dog it's funny

[safe grail]

Be MG and buy one

[solemn viper]

so what 4 affixes should i put on an amulet im slamming into a 1 lp omnis?

[safe grail]

It literally doesnt matter because you clearly will only want one of them right?

[solemn viper]

i mean i dont wanna waste the 1 lp omnis so like whatever is best even if its t5

[safe grail]

I mean it’s either gonna hit your t6/t7 or it wont lmao. So just put whatever you think is best

No memes either

Not tryna be a dck but this is how i started approaching 1 LP items

Either i get my slam or i dont

[solemn viper]

i was going with crit multi, spell crit, frailty on hit and 1 resistence

[safe grail]

There’s your answer then

Gl may the odds be ever in your favor

Imo. Omnis feels like a turbo bait item

[solemn viper]

yeah no i understand but since i got this lucky might as well get a good affix on it even if t5

[safe grail]

Yeah this exact feeling is why i started hating uber rare 1-2 LPs

Id rather just use a 5 stat exalt lol

[solemn viper]

I am usually lucky on slams tbh so I can’t complain, but yeah 1-2 lp are scary

I generally ignore them

[median hamlet]

wb 2

[solemn viper]

But on an omnis with 33 crit and good res I’m not gonna complain tbh lol

[stiff crown]

Just get 4LP. Ez gaem

[safe grail]

Skill issue

[solemn viper]

^ that

i got a t5, was the second best option

skill issues

[grand karma]

Has anyone tried making an elemental nova centered build? Not like frost claw into elemental nova, but Primary Elemental nova?

[spare phoenix]

I think Nova is to hard on systems lol.
But I have tried a Nova centered build. I'm not a content creator or top build maker so it definitely wasn't viable for long 😅

[grand karma]

Yeah I've heard some people say it's rough on their systems when I run my frostclaw nova build, but I'm just bored of seeing the frostclaws... I'm gonna try the disintegrate build soon. I'd love if a unique came out that allowed runebolt to proc off elemental nova

[safe grail]

Tried it. Nova sucked by itself

[strange flicker]

its doable

its prob 3rd best build or 4th alongside frostbite/cold crit

but it'll just be worst than frostclaw nova

cause you're just casting less novas

[crisp yoke]

I got stuck in chapter 3 when you need to fetch the second stone to open the bridge to next location, no quest mark. This happened after I got the stone opened the bridge and entered next location but got crashed before activating the portal. Help please

[vocal cloud]

@topaz blade maybe here could help you

[topaz blade]

possibly

[vocal cloud]

what main skill you using?

[topaz blade]

Shatterstrike // firebrand

[vocal cloud]

and youre surviving with ward?

[topaz blade]

yeah

My skillset rn is

Flame ward , Enchant Weapon , Fire Brand , Focus , Shatter Strike

i feel like my damage fell off.

[vocal cloud]

oh man...my skills are different xD

[robust junco]

Firebrand ?

[topaz blade]

Yeah

[robust junco]

Why ?

[topaz blade]

Main damage to bosses

i stack it up

with enchant weapon

[vocal cloud]

well it stacks attack speed

[robust junco]

I am a bit confused by the Firebrand / ShatterStrike combination

[topaz blade]

Open the skills and check a upgrade called Incineration

each 1 stack is 20% damage buff

and it multiplies with enchant weapon

[rustic sapphire]

with mage builds do you go low life or is ward truly an extra def layer on top of health

[robust junco]

So you stack Firebrands and then consume with Shatter Strike ?

[robust junco]

?

[topaz blade]

yeah thats my main boss damage

[vocal cloud]

isnt that used with flame reave

[robust junco]

Usually yes

[topaz blade]

well im new to the game so i dont really know what im upgrading just a vague idea

trying to make it work

[topaz blade]

idk i just read the skill upgrade and applied it

it sais it "multiplitacive with other modifiers"

[robust junco]

I dont understand what get Multiplied

[vocal cloud]

i thought u were using firebrand to make shatter strike hit more often

[topaz blade]

Im guessing the enchant weapon 50% damage

thats what ive been thinking

[topaz blade]

i use shatter strike as a main attack

i use firebrand to get more damage usually used for bosses

[vocal cloud]

well it will make one attack have more damage after firebrand

[topaz blade]

yeah i keep using firebrand and shatterstrike

i stack firebrand 6 times then use shatter strike and repeat

[vocal cloud]

well im also relatively new...but you are using a cold skill with a fire skill

which means youre not stacking one element on your items

unless you are stacking just cold damage?

[topaz blade]

🤔

[vocal cloud]

yeah that is okay but normally shatterstrike is a skill meant to be spammed

[topaz blade]

i dont know 😂

yeah i do spam it

but not on bosses

i usually stack it up with firebrand

[vocal cloud]

meaning it has lower damage individually, thats why firebrand usually is with flame reave, cause its a skill that already has a big damage

[topaz blade]

so should i switch shatterstrike with flame reave?

[royal palm]

Ty 🙏

[vocal cloud]

depends on how you feel like xD if you go firebrand, then youll probably have to play flame reave, if you go shatter strike...idk that build but it can be pretty strong ( i think i saw one build that just freezes the enemies constantly)

[vocal cloud]

really depends on what u enjoy. if its okay for you to look at youtube builds for spell blade then thats fine too, it might give you ideas on where to take your build. important is youre enjoying your time learning the class and experimenting.

[vocal cloud]

just know that firebrand works well with flame reave.

also stack damage on your items.

[obsidian reef]

shatterstrike generally fares much better down the line

flamereave spellblade not lookin too good rn

[grand karma]

so are channeled attacks considered "Damage over time" for the purposes of affixes?

[lyric mango]

I dont think so?

I think every tick of damage from channeled attack is the same as damage from normal spell

[grand karma]

Oh I think that's just specifically disintegrate that gets considered dot

[unborn hamlet]

eh, no??

every dmg type has its own type of DOT

for example cold has frostbite

and physical has bleed

the spell must specifically state that it can apply said DOT dmg tho

[grand karma]

Well I know disintegrate has the DOT tag and also hasn't been applying any of the on hit effects with ladle

[unborn hamlet]

@barren pawn i summon thee to explain

[grand karma]

ironically its his build im running with atm

[barren pawn]

I was summoned

No, disintegrate cannot proc on hit effects

ladle is not BiS

theres a reason i run a crystal wand

despite having a 4lp ladle

[grand karma]

so my disentegrate shows that its estimating about 53k per second in damage, but im only seeing less than a thousand on the ticks...

[spare glen]

no, anything that hits isnt a dot, anything that has a dot tag is a dot

[spare glen]

do u know how tooltip works?

it doesnt count enemy damage reduction which is 87% as well as includes thingas like dps ailmentsand cast speed, which do not affect disintegrate in any way

[grand karma]

so do the dummies in the training arena have resistances at all?

[spare glen]

depends which dummy

also enemies have 0 resists by default

some enemies have some types of resists but main thing that enemies have iis damage reduction that depends on area lvl and caps at 100

[glad marten]

DR =/= resist

[spare glen]

overall forget about tooltip in this game if u dont know how dps calculation work itll only confuse u and if you know how dmg mechanics work u dont need dps tooltip at that point which makes it completely useless

we had new players coming in for YEARS asking abt these things and i have no clue why ehg even added this thing in the game in current state, people cried that there was no dps tooltip before now people are confused cause in some cases nobody even knows how it works or what those numbers mean...even devs or veteran players themselves

[grand karma]

so what is your skill rotation when running your disentegrate build? Teleport, Glyph, and Disentegrate until out of mana then focus?

[glad marten]

It's basically the only way to do it

Do it until you have to move, are out of mana, or everything is dead

[grand karma]

Is it worth having flame shield on autocast?

[barren pawn]

No.

[barren pawn]

no its not?

you dont even need glyph outside of bossing, or reeeeally beefy elites / mages

if you pla yit right you rearely ever run out of mana unless bossing

[glad marten]

Well, I assumed we were talking bossing. Otherwise, how do you run out mana?

[unborn hamlet]

its simple

you use big cost skills when u dont need them

[median hamlet]

should i switch from frostclaw to sparkchartge?

[digital musk]

...do you want to ?

[lyric mango]

Frost claw is currently the best build there is

Why would you want to change except for experience of something else?

[digital musk]

why would you want to change except for (the reason anyone changes anything)

[median hamlet]

i see

whats better for frostclaw? cold dmg over time or frostbite chanc

frostbite FC

[lyric mango]

There are two schools of FC build

One is frostbite and one is electric build

Just decide whats more enjoyable for you

binaQC has best so far build for frostbite version

And FrozenSentinel has best electric build

Just YouTube search for it

[median hamlet]

the slam failed

its Joever

time to grind two weeks again

[lyric mango]

What failed?

You can use 0LP items for frostbite fairly easily up until 800-1000 corruption I believe

[median hamlet]

snowblind 2lp

[median hamlet]

probably I just wanted to use something cool

i still have frey to slam

[lyric mango]

Dont worry, I failed 2LP vial of volatile ice today

And dropped 3LP vial 30 minutes later

RNG gives and takes

Flow of life and stuff

[median hamlet]

Bro I dropped two 2 lp items that are good for my build but now I cant find the exalted

[lyric mango]

Average ARPG experience

[pale kiln]

anyone knows if the Never Late 5/8 still persists forever? tried it out but it seems like the buff fades immediately

[mystic robin]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAwRjE5iA

Does anyone see this im as a valid flame reaver build, I've been using it for 85 t0 90 cuz in slow

[heavy panther]

are you solely using flame reave/firebrand? or are they triggering a spell somehow? cuz if not itd be really hard for me to justify using this over well-rolled crustal swords. Maybe if you wanted to lean into block as a defensive aspect? but mage doesnt really have much block support, alas.

basically I think its fine, especially pre-empowered monos, but I at least would want to transition to good exalted crystal swords eventually (or maybe a pair of bee swords if i wanted to lean hard into ward)

[rustic sapphire]

hey ya'll, i been messing aroudn with a fireball build. is there anyhting that can help it feel smoother or autocast otehr than frost wall?

[solemn viper]

unfortunately no, i think most of us tried and failed lol

it's decent and most importantly it isnt frost claw lol

[rustic sapphire]

i been going a full fire build with fireball, ffrost(fire)wall and fulll fire runebolt. is frost claw just better to replace one of those?

[solemn viper]

if you dont care about using frost claw then yes, you can find many alternative

lightning or ice frost claw are better then fire claw but there are builds out there using fire

[digital musk]

There's fireballs over 1k

Its fine

[solemn viper]

fireball and runebolt fire are a little redundant tho

its fine but it feels off

[rustic sapphire]

yeah i did kinda feel that. throwing down firewall and having the runebolts fire everywhere means manually casting fireball sint really necesary

still fun though

[solemn viper]

tbh the cycle is close to an end, 1-2 months max so you might as well do it for fun

[rustic sapphire]

true true

[solemn viper]

this looks actually fun, infinite fireballs xD

[rustic sapphire]

yeah theres fire stuff all over the screen. cinder song makes it extra nice

[unborn hamlet]

In terms of frostbite build, I wouldn't consider a snowblind unless it was at minimum 3lp max roll or 4LP with decent rolls

Unfortunately it gets outclassed too hard by 2 "normal" helmets

Personally, Runed Visage is the top pick if you want my honest opinion, but you can also use the one that gives %max mana

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BO8y6ZEo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (21) / Runemaster (72)

General:

▸ Health: 1,218, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 221, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 570%, Regen: 43/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 65 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 100% / 199% / 77% / 79% / 81% / 118% / 58%
▸ EHP: 1,695 / 1,695 / 1,695 / 1,945 / 1,695 / 1,695 / 1,443

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 26%, Threshold: 244
▸ Armor Mitigation: 33% (1,682)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 31%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Frozen Ire
• Frostbite Shackles
• Snowdrift
• Heirloom of the Last Nomad
• Oceareon
• Strong Mind
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[unborn hamlet]

Can check my planner to get an idea if you want

Doing 3k 300 corruption with this

[obsidian reef]

Spellblade leaderboards full of fraudulent builds

[rich plinth]

What makes those fraudulent ? (Asking for friend) 😄 I do have spellblade work in progress.

[obsidian reef]

the top 3 are runemaster builds in the guise of spellblade

they specced into non-spellblade spells

[rich plinth]

Classic trick :p

Whats THE meta spellblade build right now ? BiS gear

[obsidian reef]

By default I guess that makes me the rank 1 spellblade

BiS is a whole bunch of LP4 uniques

[rich plinth]

Im thinking of Bloody Nib variant but im worried about survival and ability to push corruption.

[obsidian reef]

I dont like bloody nib because it makes you way too squishy

past 300 corr you are getting one shot

[rich plinth]

Link your own build please

[obsidian reef]

low life shatterstrike should be BiS rn

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ApGV4mmo

[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: 531%, Regen: 184/s
▸ Attributes: 18 Str / 12 Dex / 110 Int / 5 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 70% / 63% / 70% / 81% / 61% / 88% / 66%
▸ EHP: 3,051 / 2,861 / 3,051 / 3,513 / 2,810 / 3,204 / 2,926

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 542
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (48)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 24% (1,045)
▸ 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 (22)
• 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

[rich plinth]

Thank you! CoF or MG ? 3LP exsang makes me squirt, lol

[obsidian reef]

I'm in MG, the 3LP exsang was a very lucky drop

the rest was bought off AH though

[rich plinth]

Sweet build. Apogee is better than well rolled crystal sword ?

[obsidian reef]

Apogee is only better than crystal sword when you have high roll 2LP + T7 exalted affix on it

otherwise no

there's around a 10% dmg difference between a min maxed crystal sword and a min maxed apogee

[rich plinth]

Makes sense. Can make use of Apogees freezing talent ? Keepers gloves would spawn bees all the time, lol

[obsidian reef]

I'm pretty sure bees do count as minions, but keepers glove really isn't that optimal 😅

[rich plinth]

Bees are not minions ? 4LP keepers, imagine the possibilities 😂

[vernal finch]

trying to upgrade armor blessing such pain

45/55, fight 20 boss, armor only appear 3 times, and all of them lower lol

[unborn hamlet]

Such be RNG

I killed the frost lich like 400 times at this point

Still only 89% sceptre drop rate

That 1% will haunt me forever

[flint vortex]

Aint there a good lightning sorcerer specc around without manaproblems? 😦

[austere harbor]

playing a runemaster and i think some of my invocations sometimes cast twice, what exactly is doing that? I feel like i missed something because i have no idea how it happens lol

[cedar ocean]

Copied Scrolls node, bottom left part of the Runic Invocation node tree. Just above the Arcane Battery one

[austere harbor]

OHHH

dude i completely misunderstood it

[full bluff]

Lightning fireball has no mana problems

[digital musk]

or just lightning blast

[warm merlin]

i'm working on the same build atm can let you know when I finish it

[frozen sleet]

Lightning blast uses 0 mana if you have a wand that has the - mana cost implicit

[digital musk]

Yea I took a lightning blast ssf to 1k with it at 0 mana cost its perfect viable

[full bluff]

I am testing out using lightning blast as single target damage with convergence and fireball/lighting as aoe and mana generator. Casting Meteor also to sustain mana

[digital musk]

Just using the free chain node and spark charges w/ enigma and its fine on both aoe and ST

Need to really pump cast speed tho. After a teleport I was at over 300 cast speed

[full bluff]

This is odd, I have faster clear with lb, using convergence/single target at 800 monos, than using chains...

what else did I change...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csy5uQfe2WA

My problem with LB was having to choose aoe or single target

but it kind of works with convergence

[digital musk]

The ST wasn't terrible for me tbh

I had a 2.2s teleport w/ frenzy boots and put spark charge on nova teleport

Quad cast with 320 cast speed

Was not breaking any records but it was good enough

[safe grail]

you're dumping chain reaction into a singular target

that gets ALL of the applications of charge/nova

[full bluff]

Tested it on a boss now, was way better single target damage than fireball

[safe grail]

yeah

[full bluff]

so going with LB for that and fireball for clear

[safe grail]

i saw this coming, just never thought to test it on Sorc

but w/ meteor it eliminates the mana issue entirely

but w/ you having figured out chain reaction, the AOE is covered

[full bluff]

It was frost claw level of single target damage 🙂

[safe grail]

oooowee

considering teh ward yo uwere generating

you can likely drop wrongwarp

for something else.

[jovial spruce]

Im playing Sorcerer and am leeching health or gaining health when I dont want to, I cant find the source of the health gain, any ideas?

[digital musk]

Sorc passive?

Leech + pen nodes for each element

[jovial spruce]

Thats it, thanks! Guess i gotta pass on the pen

[gritty copper]

hello all, thoughts on 4th affix for ladle after cast/multi/pen?

shock or stun?

[deep tendon]

When you enable multiple nova elements do the nodes in them apply when another nova type is cast? Ie would a fire nova get bonus area from a lightning node like elemental expanse for example?

[unborn hamlet]

stun if u want some crowd control for bosses, shock if u want some extra dmg,

[tacit thorn]

Hi. Cant see Never Late, Runemaster passive buff icon after adding 5th point, any idea why?

[flint vortex]

Oh lots of answers. Ty all.
To be more specific: I am using https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/static-orb-sorcerer-guide.
The orb is the main mana drain here. Guess that specc aint the best. 🤔

[spark hearth]

Insofar as messing with Sorc has gone, I kinda just stumbled into fireball spam

With meteor/flame ward/teleport/black hole (when I get it)

[drowsy stirrup]

i need some general help, im following a guide for fireball/meteor Sorc and downloaded the relevant loot filter, the build is tied to a Build planner, however it doesn't really mention which attributes are most imporant, and since i'm still around 60s im unsure what attributes to prioritise in random drops

[full bluff]

Can you link the planner?

[drowsy stirrup]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BGzr1PxQ

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (54) / Runemaster (39)

General:

▸ Health: 2,848, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 483, Regen: 14/s
▸ Ward Retention: 449%, Regen: 54/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 96 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 68% / 69% / 68% / 75% / 82% / 67% / 76%
▸ EHP: 3,783 / 3,818 / 3,783 / 4,802 / 4,066 / 3,765 / 4,066

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 570
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,049)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Meteor (26)
• Fireball (22)
• Snap Freeze (21)
• Flame Ward (22)
• Teleport (20)

Used unique items:

• Cinder Song
• Harbinger of Stars
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

This build has a guide:

Meteor / Fireball Coc Sorcerer Burns The Screen | 450+ Corruption | 1.0 LE Build Guide by ronarray

[full bluff]

Int, cast speed, crit, health maybe

[drowsy stirrup]

on all item parts or specific?

im still quite noobish so i have no clue what priority on indiv pieces should be

[spark hearth]

That’s the build I found while looking for possible builds of the wand there

And from looking it up, Black Hole seems to absolutely suck?

[full bluff]

Black Hole is pretty hard to get working. Meteor is hard to use as main damage skill, due to mana cost and low damage scaling.

I like the idea of using the wand to generate mana with fire balls and triggering meteors 🙂

[spark hearth]

I just wanna spam fireballs while summoning meteors and binary stars

[digital musk]

You can do just that and get to 600c comfortably, which is perfectly fine

[spark hearth]

Lv36 at the moment so I can replace my whiffed LP2 firestarter with the fireball wand soon enough

[digital musk]

You do not need to use cinder btw

Its fine but there are better

[spark hearth]

I’d assume a fire focused exalted wand/sceptre would do far better

[digital musk]

Or ladle yes

[spark hearth]

I do actually have a Mad Ladle

For my lich

Buuuut I got bored of them quite fast so I can just stash it over

It’s LP 0 though so it’s on the block for replacement later

[spark hearth]

And by whiffed I mean one of the affixes it took was +% melee stun chance

The other one is an exalted +% elemental damage so at least that didn’t get wasted

[full bluff]

I am going to try that crit on cast meteor build, it looks like it can be improved on quite a bit

from video it looks pretty good

heh ran out of mana in 5 sec

[digital musk]

Yea thats always been the issue

[solemn viper]

does someone have an updated hydrahedron build?

[knotty hamlet]

Sorry for the Noobie question: I'm trying to get my Fireball to cost 0 mana. I have a wand -3 spell cost, the 3 points in "Mana Sphere" to reduce the cost of fireball by 3, but Fire Spray witch adds +5 for a net cost of 2 points per cast. Is there a way to remove those last 2 points? An item or something?

[full bluff]

Cinder wand, foot mountain boots or a -5 spell cost scepter

[proper hawk]

in addition to the answer above, there is also firestarter's torch. Cinder Song will almost certainly be better, but theoretically you can slam -5 spell mana cost on the firestarter's torch for total -9 mana cost. Again, probably worse than Cinder Song, but it's the highest cost reduction you can get.

[full bluff]

I tried replacing my Wrongwarp with Cinder Song, but lost so much damage. Started to struggle

Remind me again, what makes runemaster better than sorcerer. Trying to build fireballs on rm

[rich plinth]

I tried to make it work after the nerf but i gave up. Survivability is bad now. Unless you give up on QoL and start using Frostguard invocation all the time and add +1 to flameward affix onto chest. I wouldnt bother with it, there are better builds to grind with, unless its your fav build.

[spare glen]

Much stronger passive tree

Better gear affixes

Way more ward

Cfc invocation

The list goes on and on

[full bluff]

So basically runemaster has cfc shield, thats the main thing?

I forgot the list 🙂 and I played quite a bit of runemaster

[spare glen]

Rm will be much better even if you dont use cfc

It has more ward and more dmg

[solemn viper]

idm since it would go on a for fun alt, i have a 3lp box that's why i wanted to try it

[rich plinth]

Nice box you have then 🙂 Good luck with the slam!

[pliant shadow]

Hi champs. Can someone share their experience with me? Does Shattered Aegis notable in a spellblade tree gives you ward per second as basic arcane shield, or for every active shield up to 4?

[spark hearth]

Black Hole is a binary now and going for the boss/rare damage end is helping it with that niche i guess

[rustic sapphire]

how do u guys sustain direct cast frost claw?

i havent even taken all those left nodes and i cant keep up casting it

[rustic sapphire]

^ nevermind, made some tweaks. getting elemntal nova down to 0 cost and properly speccing into unsealed mana helped a lot. also switched to mad alchemist ladle from frozen ire...seems good for now

[rustic sapphire]

which Runic Invocation do u guys use?

[robust junco]

Should be the latter

[pliant shadow]

Ty my friend

[solemn viper]

You take immutable order on runic invocation and only use CFC invocation

[opal mountain]

Which one you taking for lightning FC? I like the explosion area but the loss of int 😭 https://imgur.com/a/N9sIgPA

[rustic sapphire]

gotcha. is it just that teh CFC shield is just so much better than anyhting else it doesnt make sense to use anything else?

[solemn viper]

pretty much yes lol

[plain glade]

Does Frost Claw buffs based on Freeze Rate still apply if element converted?

[full bluff]

Tested my sorcerer fireball build on runemaster, same gear and similar skill setup. Guess which mastery was best?

[digital musk]

Spellblade?

[solemn viper]

For sure Sorcerer

[pastel hedge]

Anyone that can give me a bit of help with playing frostbite frostclaw rune master? I've been following the maxroll guide for it and im not ideally geared, but im level 60 and can't clear the first levels of mono's. I was able to clear them at level 55 on my falconer right after the campaign with the same gear i fought lagon with.

[unborn hamlet]

I recommend using ice barrage instead of flame rush spec until you get bare minimum gear and then spec back into flame rush/teleport once you have said gear, snap freeze won't be used until then

Order of importance, snowdrifts -> frostbite shackles -> twisted heart

If you use ice barrage as secondary dps spell you should have no trouble clearing baseline monoliths

I cleared them all before LVL 65

I follow that guide myself, tho I made some adjustments to it after I understood the inner workings

If you don't spec into frostclaw recasts until much much later, you should be fine on mana

With just a -3 spell cost from a wand base

[plain glade]

^

[median hamlet]

i think frostbite chance only

frostbite and freeze rate are two different things

the node should state clearly

https://www.lastepochtools.com/ailments/

Frostbite does 36 dmg over 3 seconds, forst 30 stacks each givw 20% chance to freeze

So 600% total freeze chance at 30 stacks

Freeze rate multiplier refers to.FREEZE ailmrnt

so you have a base level.of freeze, that is multiplied

@plain glade

So imo its not the same as IGNITW

or SHOCK

[plain glade]

Wat

[plain glade]

Frostbite?

I’m talking about the Ward per 40% freeze multiplier etc

nothing to do with frostbite

[median hamlet]

Frostbite chance converts

Freeze rate wont

[plain glade]

so it still has freeze rate

Despite being converted?

[median hamlet]

The base dmg doesn't affect the silment procced

[plain glade]

No no

I mean

There’s a node that has +Ward for every 40% Freeze Multiplier

But if I’ve already converted it to fire, the base spell no longer freezes (since it’s not an ice spell)

[median hamlet]

but you still have % freeze rate

so it would still give based on that

[plain glade]

ah, all I needed to know

Good lookingtons my g

[median hamlet]

no worries

if you press C it will show u on the others tab how much you have

but i think.only the % from items count not your base passives

but dont quote me on that

[royal gull]

SUP 😄

The prophecy was fulfilled, and I return

[unborn hamlet]

[safe grail]

Yep. A fix not implementation. Wild that it was bugged

At least it isnt like the diablo team, who would flaunt it around as like a bit of seasonal content lmao

[hollow arrow]

👀

[tardy comet]

They had input buffering?

[safe grail]

apparently, but it was bugged online and wasnt functional.

[full bluff]

Suggestions for non-frost-claw runemaster builds?

[robust junco]

Ignite Glyph of Dominion

[full bluff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pli_42T2SMk trying elemental nova on runemaster

[royal gull]

The problem I now have is that they have selective buffering for some reason

It won't let you buffer things that have the "same priority"

Like say a builder and a spender that happen to have the same priority

So you still have the same problem of janky inputs if you're holding right click to use your builder and tapping another key to use your spender, it won't buffer

You can hold right click and tap a defensive or movement skill and those will have higher "priority" and buffer

So the game is more responsive now in only certain cases

[solemn viper]

Have you tried runebolt instead of ele nova?

[full bluff]

yes, elemental nova is better

Trying untable core and crest of unity now

[clear mural]

Runemaster's Holwing Rift Node - the node that allows the frost wall to be moved. Is the wall's cooldown reset when it moves or does it count down from the previous wall?

[hasty vortex]

Ele nova burns pc lol 🤣 and server lag lol 🤣 at least mine does haha

[royal palm]

hi guys, question if anyone can answer: if my FC is lightning and I use a +spell cold damage idol how will this affect my FC?

[radiant vessel]

Your fc will get flat cold damage ontop of its base lightning damage

The cold damage won't get converted, it'll just do both cold and lightning

[royal palm]

thanks so much

[thorn fossil]

i have a nasty level 84 flame reave spellblade build just getting my corr stacked what will my corr cap be before the toon falls off?

[spare glen]

depends, some pushed 1k with flame reave

[glossy ice]

so hatd to int on this weaver will lol

[next lance]

is there an endgame viable build with meteor?

[solemn viper]

tp + meteor for mana generation but its not like optimal

[next lance]

it never is. meteor costs a lot 💀

is there a legendary/set for meteor?

[solemn viper]

it is, you cast teleport and due to a node in the skill the next skill you cast has its mana cost refunded

add that to the meteor mana back node and it generates mana

[next lance]

is runemaster just more fun to play? What build uses frost clawS? I heard they were OP.

[solemn viper]

fc is op but boring after a while

[next lance]

I know everyone has quit last epoch by this point until next seasons but I didn't even get to corruption levels lol. I jumped back inot PoE Necro league but got bored. It's just so tedious.

[full bluff]

Fireball+meteor is pretty good

You get a free meteor every 4 sec from teleport, mana regen from fireball to cast some inbetween

[plain glade]

I just got to corruption my g 😭

And nah having too much fun to quit. It’s also my only ARPG though (I’ve only played D3 Reaper of Souls before this)

[deep blaze]

any old player knows this this still works ? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/wBEX1j7Q

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Beta / 0.9.1c

General:

▸ Health: 1,008, Regen: 27/s
▸ Mana: 1,378, Regen: 19/s
▸ Ward Retention: 48%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 22 Str / 1 Dex / 12 Int / 7 Att / 6 Vit
▸ Resistances: 71% / 53% / 100% / 75% / 38% / 73% / 73%
▸ EHP: 3,730 / 2,769 / 3,380 / 4,001 / 3,730 / 3,297 / 3,322

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 56%, Threshold: 914
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,078)
▸ Block Chance: 29%, Mitigation: 43% (1,466)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Flame Ward (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Static Orb (20)
• Focus (20)
• Snap Freeze (20)

Used unique items:

• Fractured Crown
• Horns of Uhkeiros
• Orian's Eye
• Transient Rest
• Stormcarved Testament

[robust junco]

It might still be decent but it got kinda destroyed
@deep blaze

[deep blaze]

ty

did look kind cheep

[robust junco]

It used to be one of the best build, one of the first that pushed 2k corruption
But it got nerfed and bugfixed

[plain glade]

Does Infused Weapon (Spellblade Passive) affect Glamdring (Frostclaw Node) in any way?

[robust junco]

Should yes

[solemn viper]

is shatterstrike execute treshold viable on bossess?

or is enchant weapon's conflagrate just better?

[rose knot]

for runemaster which is more worth between vial and frey's retreat?

[junior kestrel]

Hey all. I've been grinding days and days for a twisted heart for my frost claw build. And I've yet to find one with lp I need one with two. I mean 3-4 would be nice but that is never going to happen lol has anyone found one with 2 lp so far and how long did it take

[safe grail]

2 LP is like dummy rare

0.65% chance to drop as a 2 LP before modifiers

[junior kestrel]

Ugh ... So it ain't ever happen unt lol I've done it at like 450 corruption atleast 60-70 times

[pale kiln]

Iirc vial drops far more often with higher LP, not uncommon to see it with 3-4LP so would be easier to build with it, havent tried using Frey's so can't really comment, stopped using ice wall in favor of snap freeze too

[opal mountain]

2 of my first 4 Twisted hearts were 2LP. Ive had over 50 boss fights since then and Im probably seeing 1 out of 3 with a 1LP but no sign of a 2LP. The cool part about frost claw is that there are plenty of ways to play it and most people arent in a corruption level high enough to where they actually need a Twisted heart. Most dont need a slam on the TH either. Lightning is easier to gear than any of the other variations. Its all relative

My question is who actually cares about leaderboards? Im enjoying building and farming gear so much I havent thought to look at it and honestly have no idea how to access it. Its going to be a shame when all these "balance" nerfs happen at the end of the season and most of the players arent even concerned with relative performance. Is anyone actually excited about leaderboards?

[steel ridge]

I like them but want more single target bosses to really guage how good my build is

[junior kestrel]

I would like to get a twisted heart with 2 lp. Want to push high just to limit test

[junior kestrel]

I'm assuming the frost claw will be nerfed. I hope it doesn't get hit to hard because I love my build and I'm having so much fun. I think all builds should be strong. I don't think valence should come in unless PvP. And they only things that should be changed are the stuff that is weak. PvE doesn't matter about balence if they putting in PvP then yeah for sure 🙂

[torpid bough]

It does matter, it's boring if everyone is playing the same class. parties will be composed of all the same builds. And trading will only be interesting for that one build.

Also someone who prefers to play melee or summoner shouldn't be forced to play a range build because that's the only viable one.

[opal mountain]

Yeah...Im not sure how many devs have actually played a FC build deep into corruption. Im only at 1.2k and it takes a lot of luck and rolls. Being CoF its been fun and honestly FC just has a high ceiling that will reward you if you get the gear. You absolutely hit a wall around 7-800 trying to balance cast speed and DPS/defenses. Most of the players who are running deep cor are just taking advantage of the Snap freeze duration that exceeds cooldown. I could see nerfing Snap Freeze but gutting FC would be silly since prob less than 1% of players will put in the 500 hrs to make a good one

[next lance]

is there any known way to make glyph of dominion into cold damage?

[junior kestrel]

I already have like 120hrs into my frost claw build lol

[halcyon dust]

Hello! I'm pretty new to mage and saw some really fun looking frost claw builds but it looks like all the best ones convert to lightning. Does anyone know if there is a frost claw build that stays using cold?

[opal mountain]

Frost Claw is the most fun Ive had in an ARPG ever. The more you play it the better it gets.

[plain glade]

That doesn’t answer their question in the slightest lmao

[pale kiln]

If you're interested in a DOT frostbite frostclaw, search up BinaQc's build on Youtube, it's p nice if dot is your thing

[halcyon dust]

I'm mostly interested in freezing things, but if the only way to do enough damage and get enough defense is a lightning build I would suck it up and do that. Can that frostbite build push corruption as well as the lightning builds? And thank you everyone for your answers and comments 😁

[halcyon dust]

I just want to say that even though you didn't answer the question your enthusiasm is fun to see so thank you for your contribution ☺️

[royal palm]

what does retaliate mean for frostclaw's shiver shell node?

[plain glade]

You get hit

Your mage auto casts frost claw at enemy

[surreal marsh]

How smooth does Frost claw Mage play? I played 1 character so far and its an explosion trap blade dancer and it feels clunky if that makes sense. Looking to make a second character

[royal palm]

i see, thanks

[opal mountain]

Oh I didnt realize I replied haha. Yeah Ive been lightning the whole time. im not sure on a build for the frost style, but I can say its more difficult to get the same speed vs fire or lightning. So you need lots of freeze and lots of DoT. You'll need more specific gear but if you get it right its very strong

[halcyon dust]

I've been trying to make a brain dead "push button and win" build and I was doing werebear and feeling pretty good about it but man so far even just leveling frost claw mage is soooooo much more tanky

[surreal marsh]

@halcyon dust does the build feel smooth thru ability rotation?

[halcyon dust]

Well I'm only like level 30 and all I do is cast frost claw. I don't have any of the multicast skills yet. I wish there was a way to level alts faster

[plain glade]

I usually reach chapter 4 then go straight into monoliths

Then around level 35 I set a loot filter for that character

Level 50 I just focus on upgrading gear and skills

Then around Level 60 breeze through the story to get CoF

[halcyon dust]

Does anyone know if the frostbite frost claw build mentioned above can keep up with lightning frost claw builds?

[royal palm]

has anyone compared core of the mountain vs static shell?

[pale kiln]

Depends on what 'high corruption' means for ya! I recco you check the video out for a better gauge. Maybe compare it with FrozenSentinel's lightning FC build to see how it compares! Both are great imo

And yes, with BinaQc's build almost everything is perma-frozen, including most bosses, if that's what you're going for.

I keep equipment for both lying around so i can switch it up whenever i want! Running around 7xx corr now with both easily, om sure i could push it even further (probs 1k?) and i'm far from BiS for both builds.

[weak cosmos]

@proven haven is testing it now, core looks like the best choice tbh. The increased armor from static shell didnt apply to damage over time if i remember correctly.

Check out his YT channel, he prob has more info on it.

[royal palm]

thanks, ive been watching his vids hahah, lots of good stuff there

[shell fern]

you mean 6k?

i believe plenty of bladedancers pushed to 2k before the addition of runemaster which is when that build was nerfed heavily

[scenic sail]

Hey everyone, has anyone here actually seen a helmet they can show me with an exalted T6 or T7 "gain 20 mana from fireball" helment?

[full bluff]

Will be interesting in next cycle, when they add a boss tier system, where I guess perma freeze/stun might not be possible. How different builds and masteries rank then.

[full bluff]

I have one, looking at it now, but can't post screenshot

[scenic sail]

In the bazaar apparently they do exist. I've got 300 hours in the game and never seen a single one, which I find odd, plenty of "Fireball pierce" helmets, but never the mana gained from fireball one, it seems to be at least 10x more rare than fireball pierce

[full bluff]

What are building to use fireball as mana generator?

[shell fern]

I hope they fix timelock(void knight anomaly subskill) by then, it should not affect bosses but it does

[pale kiln]

anyone zooming to the other side of the screen when Flame Rush is just tapped at times?

[full bluff]

heh crest of unity mess up runic invocations, you don't get random runes anymore, just 3 same combinations, all bad ones

Cast F/x/F changes order of elemental nova runes

From the good ones to the bad ones, and back

[full bluff]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/elemental-nova-and-rune-generation/60524/3 how to optimize on this 🙂

[solemn viper]

when i started playing i've noticed this for ele nova and runebolt, they both give the same 3 runes in sequence if they are tri elemental

i think it's not a bug

[full bluff]

yes, there is a pattern to it and you can switch the order by using 2 type invocations

now to figure out to not end up in the bad rotation

bit tricky since the core thing with elemental nova is spamming super fast, hard to control order

[junior hollow]

grab the node that puts runic invocation as the first 3 skills on ur bar

you can push the CDR down pretty hard and still get to use the ability every couple of seconds

If ur running e-nova and runebolt u already have tons of dmg sources

[full bluff]

I know, but trying to make a build around casting invocation and elemental novas and not locking in using that node.

[solemn viper]

i mean it's fun to cast random invocations xD

[full bluff]

since it puts a big limit on use, both cooldown and bar skills

it is working pretty well, with random invocation, if I get the good order on it

3 good skills to pick, or the bad order has 3 bad skills 🙂

[junior hollow]

hmm yea

exactly which invocation do you want to trigger everytime?

i feel like if you're running both enova and runebolt you want some survivability

im not sure what corr you're building for though

[full bluff]

antipode (FLC), realm (LCF) and tide (CFL) thats the good ones

[next lance]

can anyone advise me on the best way to level as a runemaster? im reading a maxroll guide that says glacier but..looks kinda clunky

[junior hollow]

fire cold fire tho

the ward shield

arguably the best one lmao

[full bluff]

Haven't been able to work that in yet in a way that flows nice

[junior hollow]

Fair play, that's why i use the fixed set w/ cooldown

Cause you dont need to pop it every sec

And your cooldown is like what 8 seconds or smth? so u have the ward and damage reduction up all the time

It's SUPER strong

[full bluff]

I know all that 🙂

[junior hollow]

but im like you but opposite, havent messed around with many of the others

just grand prism nova

[full bluff]

I am mostly trying out alternative builds to frost claw

see what works the best

[junior hollow]

yeah, fair

[full bluff]

I keep running into limit or bugs that kind of stops them from scaling

[junior hollow]

exploring runemaster is epic though, 40 invocations is nuts

[junior hollow]

hmm, thats unfortunate

[surreal dove]

Is frozen Ire inferior to Eye of Reen for shatterstrike.

[junior hollow]

so some of them just dont scale well and become weak?

despite being good early and mid game

[full bluff]

Compared to frost claw most skills seem weak, especially the invocations

My elemental nova spam is stronger than all the invocations

[junior hollow]

ye unfortunately the nature of invocations makes it hard for it to out-dps

[full bluff]

So it might just end up being CFC invocation and spamming novas

[junior hollow]

since u cant really spam it the same way

[junior hollow]

sad but thats usually what it becomes lmao

[full bluff]

I can invoke every 1-2 seconds and sustain mana

Get ward from 3 diff rune invocations

[junior hollow]

have you messed around with hydra at all?

[full bluff]

But the node that generates runic energy when runes chance is bugged...

[junior hollow]

:/

[full bluff]

yes, I couldnt make hydra work well beyond 200c

[junior hollow]

ive heard its decent but yea maybe not

did you have box of hydrae?

[full bluff]

yes, I use medium "tier" gear for everything

[junior hollow]

gotcha

[full bluff]

1-2lp stuff and t7 base stats

not too much gear, but not undergeared either

[junior hollow]

yeah so you can tell if the build is good or not lol

and not being gear carried

[full bluff]

if I have to run around in circle at 200corruption, I messed the build up

[junior hollow]

yeah you wanna clear fast and not linger

i get you

keep moving

[full bluff]

What is often anoying is that a skill that can be buildt for aoe and I get another one for single target. Then it turns out the single target outperforms the aoe skill...

The balance and gap between skills is huge

Or the aoe is better at single target

So most of my builds end up being only 1 damage skill

But for elemental nova invocation is promising since it also casts 3x elemental nova

and you get elemental novas on teleport

[twin adder]

Can someone please explain this line from the spark charge guide on maxroll? "Flame Ward is a powerful Defensive Skill. The Damage Reduction it provides is incredible. You are extremely tanky while it's active and we can achieve 100% uptime with Frost Wall." The "Frost Wall" at the end there is blue like its a skill, but has no tooltip and doesnt link to anything, and this build doesnt use frost wall whatsoever. Ive looked up "100% flame ward uptime" and cant find anything.

here is the guide its from: https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spark-charge-runemaster-guide#skills-header

[full bluff]

I gave up and went with locked in CFC runes and just spamming elemental nova, too many restrictions and complications with actively using runes and casting

[solemn viper]

could be worse, it could have been spellblade

[subtle bobcat]

can someone suggest a good build for frostclaw runemaster, can i trust maxroll on this? :>

[junior kestrel]

@subtle bobcat I have. A good one. The one in using is super good. I'm rolling through corruption 500 🙂

And my build is only like 60% done

And does anyone have a 2 lp twisted heart that they would be willing to trade

[full bluff]

Direct casting Elemental nova is pretty fun, don't get the massive headaches when it is limited to where you aim, not fullscreen

[digital musk]

That's an old guide

The ward node used to not have a cd at all

[twin adder]

Coming from a really good setup for healing hands divine bolt pally, the need to constantly maintain flame ward manually is annoying

[digital musk]

You dont need it constantly

Just when you're about to take a big hit you can't avoid or in danger etc

[twin adder]

well the ward im getting so far sits at like 2k, vs the 25k average for the pally setup

HH divine bolts you feel like an impenetrable tank

[digital musk]

My thrown together lb build just used twisted heart and I would reach 7-8k ward mapping and 10k in bosses

Went to 1k c

[twin adder]

maybe its because im doing the spark charge melee build vs the meta frost claw builds

but i just dont have +3 or 4 frost claw relic to use and everything saysd you need that

[digital musk]

Wait this is a melee runemaster build?

What the fk

[twin adder]

ya it works with the mana strike melee node

[digital musk]

You can just press lightning blast at 0 mana

And clear the screen

All the way to 1k

Maxroll moment #5,000,000

[junior kestrel]

And does anyone have a 2 lp twisted heart that they would be willing to trade

[opal mountain]

All I got is 1LPs man sry

[junior kestrel]

I would be down to trade for a 1 lp just need my plus to frost claw

[unborn hamlet]

you need ridiculous playtime together to even be able to trade it, you need obsidian resonance

unless u drop it while already playing together

[next lance]

wait yeah what i thought trading was impossible?

and the gifting feature im guessing is only if it drops and you give it to someone who was in the party at the time? im so sad i just startng cycle and i gave my friend Firestarter's Torch, wish i still had it to level my mage :x

[unborn hamlet]

you can give it to them if u played together when it dropped via ´´gift´´

[next lance]

yeah damn, i wonder, can she give it back if we left the game or is it bound now 😦

[unborn hamlet]

you can gift items that did not drop while playing together only if u have the corresponding resonance (gold or for any LP unique case Obsidian) but u need to play together a lot to get those to drop

so if u just wanna trade items, its adviced to find people to play together all the time for easier farming

[unborn hamlet]

can, but need resonance now

[next lance]

damn. a firestarters torch with low drop level is probably not even worth it then huh

[unborn hamlet]

youre probably better off just finding a new firestarter torch

its not that rare

[next lance]

but, i think you level RM with cold anyway

[unborn hamlet]

i dunno, i used mostly garbage with no idea what im doing 😂

cant even remember what spells i used, but it was glacier for the most part until monoliths

[next lance]

yeah i thought glacier looks clunky and awful but it one taps everything so, i'm ok with it

[unborn hamlet]

frostclaw as a leveling spell is just really terrible, its not useful until u lvl it up to like lvl 12-13 at least, u really need that gift of winter node maxed and a wand to bring the cost down enough to be able to spam it

you might even want to get like a hemophage sword or something on main, put some insane stats into it, and just transfer it for leveling

and just use mana strike

[next lance]

ok thats good to know

is glacier best in slot for leveling until late game, just having it specced and respec much later? the rm leveling guide said, you start w/ runeclaw when it's level 4 but yeah i also don't like the aim, it only hits that point whereas stuff like glacier or nova feel really 'easy'

[unborn hamlet]

That's the way I did it, I used glacier until I had skills LVL 15 or 16

It's just a 1 button delete

[junior kestrel]

Lol I find them a lot with my one buddy lol and we don't play a ton

[torpid bough]

Anyone playing disintegrate? I made the switch yesterday after following the levelling build and it seriously feels like a downgrade

DPS is not as good as I expected and the lack of mobility is a huge pain in the ass. Does it get better at some point?

[bold wave]

unfortunately, all the good channel skills are usually mobility or allow you to move while you channel, since Disintegrate keeps you at a standstill, it's always gonna feel bad to use.

any spellblade afficionados in here? have some questions regarding shatterstrike and frost claw

[plain glade]

Where fire starter torch be at tho

[half pollen]

Disintegrate will receive some kind of overhaul in the near future

Currently you need two specific uniques to make it work and thats kinda sad

[robust junco]

And of them is not available any more 😅

[robust junco]

Ask away

[bold wave]

is it viable to use frostclaw as mana or should I swap out for mana strike?

[solemn viper]

on that topic, is there a shatter strike build that's viable? xD

[robust junco]

Just Frostclaw is not enough

[bold wave]

currently working on that lmao

so far 75k dps

[robust junco]

Crit Shatter Strike reached 1k Corruption last patch

So I don't know how much you need for viable

[bold wave]

thank you for the input vlad!

I'm trying not to look at build guides rn, a little challenge for myself so I don't get in the habit of relying on them to make fun builds

[robust junco]

@solemn viper
This one
https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/bloody-nib-crit-shatter-strike-spellblade

[silk pewter]

Bloody Nib Crit Shatter Strike Spellblade Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Beta / 0.9.2f

Class

Mage / Spellblade

Used skills

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

Used unique items

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

Tags

Boss Killer / Monolith Farmer / Melee

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

[robust junco]

😬😬
Don't look at my previous message than
Sorry

[bold wave]

No you're all good, bud!

[obsidian reef]

spellblade mentioned ⁉️

[bold wave]

Yes, that's me

[obsidian reef]

I'm top 1 leaderboard shatterstrike spellblade rn

You can check my build on lastepochtools

[bold wave]

nice! I'm trying not to look at build guides rn, but when I feel I'm at a brick wall, I'll check it out!

[obsidian reef]

also keep in mind that 1k corruption last patch is significantly easier than 1k corruption now

so that build's viability for 1k is questionable now

I reached 1k corruption with low life shatterstrike though

[bold wave]

That's actually what I was planning on running!

[robust junco]

What are the benefits of LL here?

[obsidian reef]

you get some ward retention and ward generation in spellblade so it's better than life by quite a bit

[robust junco]

But could you not do Ward per Second and keep your life?

Or not enough support?

[obsidian reef]

the thing is, spellblade is already so squishy that you'd have to use ward to push higher

life in a bad spot rn

[bold wave]

Yeah, regen seems pretty iffy too because of how much damage you'd be losing out on

[solemn viper]

this one i tried but it feels bad, mobbing is terrible but with fc and the node on the passive tree i was almost able to sustain shatter strike mana

[trim depot]

Hey guys, i'm a lucky guy and I found 4LP Ladle. What are the best suffixes for FrostClaw Mage? Blind and shock on hit?

[unborn hamlet]

blind is trolling

light pen and stun

unless u are not playing spark charge, in that case dont use a laddle

[trim depot]

why it is trolling?

[unborn hamlet]

because its not helpful

at all, all it does is reduce the chance of enemies critting u

[trim depot]

would that not be helpful in higher cor

[unborn hamlet]

no, u want to have either 100% reduced bonus dmg taken from crits

or 100% crit avoidance

[trim depot]

okay that would be better ... you are right

[unborn hamlet]

in both cases blind is useless

[trim depot]

so crit avoidance on boots and chest?

What about chill on hit? I have a good slam with chill on hit

What is the difference between "Spell critical strike chance" and "critical strike chance"?

[nimble shoal]

Spell crit only applies to spells, crit applies to everything

[trim depot]

what about chill on hit? Sorry for all the questions 🙂

[solemn viper]

nope, thats not good since you wanna use lightning frost claw not ice

you just need a t5 anyway so you can craft it easly, you want t7 prefix

[trim depot]

Okay I have these Slams for a 4 LP Ladle:

1. T7 Cast Speed - T5 Spell crit / T5 blind - T4 Stun
2. T7 Crit multiplier - T5 Cast speed / T5 Stun - T5 Lightning pen
3. T7 Cast Speed - T5 spell crit / T4 stun - T3 Lightning pen
4. T7 Crit chance - T5 cast speed / T5 Stun - T5 Lightning pen
5. T7 crit chance - T5 cast speed / T5 ignite - T5 Stun
   I Think it doesnt matter that much that it Stun Chance isnt T5 on some slams?
   Do I take one slam, or should I wait for another?

[solemn viper]

number 2 is very good

are the stats good on the affixes?

[barren pawn]

I wouldnt slam anything but a dual t7 into a 4lp ladle

7575 or something similar

or a t7 / t6

[trim depot]

Yeah pretty much have 29 Forging left and Stun Chance is T6
Cast peed is 22%
Crit multi ist 83
Stun is 206
Pen ist 10%

[barren pawn]

something like that

[unborn hamlet]

Wouldn't you want t7 cast speed

Like, way more

[trim depot]

yeah I loos around 30% cast speed

[barren pawn]

ye

[unborn hamlet]

Think option 3 is best atm

But I would not settle for that on a 4LP laddle

[barren pawn]

^

[unborn hamlet]

Up to you, but option 3 definitely wins

[trim depot]

hmmm 🙂

[solemn viper]

t4 and t3 on a 4lp ladle seems like a waste

[unborn hamlet]

It is

But you want t7 cast speed

[solemn viper]

if you can forge it to 5 otherwise wait

[unborn hamlet]

That is non negotiable for that build

If you CoF just target prophecies for wands, if you're MG, just make that big investment into a perfect slam weapon

You already have the expensive part

[trim depot]

Yeah and option 1 is not great cause of the blind being not needed

[unborn hamlet]

It's pretty much a dead stat

[trim depot]

yeah im cof

[unborn hamlet]

If you're rank 10, and have both of the doubling lenses, you should drop it in no time

Might even get double exalted

I have a T6 cast speed t7 freezerate T6 cold DMG wand in my stash but it's useless cos I can't slam that into frozen ire

[trim depot]

yeah im rank 10 for some time. The last two weeks i played marksman ...

[unborn hamlet]

And I need -cost anyway 😔

[trim depot]

But thanks guys for the help and insight. I think I will play a little bit more for a better slam, but now I know what I have to look for

If option 3 hat T5 lightning pen - I think I would slam it, cause it would be doubled with T5 :/

[safe grail]

slam deez

[iron citrus]

Blind is not useless for arena pushing and super high corr, its rly good with Malice in FC tree, combined with stun tech in idols.

[trim depot]

Okay I don’t want to do arenas. For monolith its useless? So confusing. 🫤

[iron citrus]

ignite tech for fire eater in flame rush, blind for what i mentioned above

[trim depot]

So ignite and stun for monolith pushing/playing?

[iron citrus]

ignite is more useful against bosses where u can actually stack the ignite for the pass thru

u wont be doing that much in normal monos

blind without malice is not as useful either, so up to you nd ur build

malice is very costly mana and points wise

[trim depot]

Okay

So the best suffix combo will be stun and lightning pen as they already mentioned above.

[iron citrus]

up to you freind, u can also get stun in idols

i use blind and ignite for different occasions on two 4lp ladles, build however you see works better for ur build tho, depending on ur end goal

[trim depot]

Hehe. Yeah but now I think I understand those mechanics a little bit better. 🙏 Thanks

[iron citrus]

no worries man! hope you find the perfect slam ur looking for and enjoooy slammin it!

[next lance]

At what point do i get better mana control for frost claw spam on the runemancer nova freeze build ?
#i have 3 points in cost reduction already, but as im adding the bonus proj, and nova, the mana cost is up to 45. With a mana cost reduction staff. Do i need to grind til i get idols with frost claw mana efficiency? Even then if i have two idols at around 15% cost efficiency. thats 30% and it brings me from 45 to like 31.5 or whatever. How are people getting down to 22-25?

[royal palm]

what do you guys think about rift bolt? is 5/5 too much? im thinking about 3/5 or 4/5

[unborn hamlet]

Sceptre with T6 spellslinger is mandatory

Ideally t7

On T6 you about break even but sometimes you still run out

Also it depends what Staff you use as well

Some of them increase the mana cost

You also need to get all the mana reduction for Nova as well in the skill tree, it should ideally cost 1 or 0

The node for that is somewhere in the top left

[next lance]

shoot ok good to know
Until i find that sceptre,

do i just suck it up and use mana strike to recover?

or i wonder if i should just level ballista falcon, and once i farm all the best gear, then the rm becomes 'enabled' lol

that other build is probably mana hungry too though eh so meh

[unborn hamlet]

What I did was to just not pick all the recast nodes

That way, even with a -3 base on wands you'll be fine

Instead I spec into the DMG increases to cover some of the difference

I used nothing but the freeze build since I started playing RM and finished the story with absolute trash before LVL 60, and all base monoliths before LVL 65 with minimal gear with it

It works well enough,

i can link you my build planner if u wanna take a glance, given its basically end game gear (my top timeline is something over 3k corruption), you can check my skill specs and passives

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BOp9z0wo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (21) / Runemaster (72)

General:

▸ Health: 1,218, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 221, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 570%, Regen: 43/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 65 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 100% / 199% / 77% / 79% / 81% / 118% / 58%
▸ EHP: 1,695 / 1,695 / 1,695 / 1,945 / 1,695 / 1,695 / 1,443

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 26%, Threshold: 244
▸ Armor Mitigation: 33% (1,682)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 31%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Frozen Ire
• Frostbite Shackles
• Snowdrift
• Heirloom of the Last Nomad
• Oceareon
• Strong Mind
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[unborn hamlet]

its not the ideal ideal gear as i dont have the best exalts possible, but the upgrades i have left are very RNG

[next lance]

hmmm how does the clear feel if you dont have all the extra casts (which are a part of the mana refund right) ? is it like super single target focused? any chance you have a video of what it looks like specced that way? "feel" is big for me so if i respec out of things to reduce mana cost but the dmg/clear feels bad its gonna suck haha

nvm im seeing you spec into nova and multiple of the extra casts, there's only the one extra cast on the bottom left you skipped thats what im already doing and mana feels bad. ill just get the idols and see, since i need one more level in merchants to buy

[solemn viper]

any tips on where to farm a t7 staff?

[unborn hamlet]

You have volley of glass doing most of the DPS

It hits everything in its path

You can also use ice barrage as a substitute dps spell

Unspec flame rush , only keep it as a movement spell

And replace snap freeze (which is just boss stun utility) with specced ice barrage

The clear is not fast without the recasts, but it was enough to do 300-400 corruption easily

You don't need that much mana refund if you don't have all of that extra cost

[unborn hamlet]

Ah yes that's a thing too, don't take that one

It's kinda not good

[junior kestrel]

Does anyone have a 2lp twisted heart they would be willing to trade

[ionic vigil]

Hey guys I'm new and I'm trying out all the characters.

I like lightning which mage should I go for lightning? I've gone sorcerer but I'm only level 20 so I can start again if rune master is better

[unborn hamlet]

rune master is uncomparably way better

[plain glade]

I’m looking through the passives for Sorcerer, why are they just so much worse lol

Like read Dragon Breath (Sorcerer) and then read Circle of Elements (Runemaster)

Why does a node far in the Sorcery tree require so much set up to do what Circle of Elements does for free, with no setup?

This is just awful balancing.

Honestly, should probably like double the node’s power at the very least to +20%, and let it scale to +200%. Or do +25%, and have it as a maximum of 8 nodes for a +200% cap, for double the strength with less skill point investments.

Is there anywhere I can compile and post a huge list of proposed changes to the passive trees? Because it really bugs me how unbalanced this is.

[feral moss]

what you may be missing is that Sorcerors which care about ailment-on-hit can access both of those nodes, whereas Runemasters can only access their own

it is generically true that many of Runemaster's passive nodes are excellent, and also true that Runic Invocation is quite versatile and strong, but it's not like sorceror is useless. there are reasons to pick sorceror - like if you really want access to Meteor, or if you're planning to do a mana-stacking build for Fractured Crown

also the devs are aware that older classes (like sorceror) have been powercrept and they've mentioned they plan to go back over the passive nodes for older classes and touch them up to bring them in line with newer classes' power

especially for someone who wants to go for a lightning-specialized mage build, sorceror is quite good since it provides access to Crackling Precision, Distant Spark, and Archmage

...and i guess technically lightning meteor is a thing though i wouldn't recommend that

[plain glade]

Even with accessing both of these nodes, one is clearly superior to the other in every way possible, and available to ALL subclasses in mage, which is the wild part.

[feral moss]

if it's available to all mage subclasses then i don't consider it to be a "runemaster" strength. it's just available to all mages

i mean Void Knight has a passive that gives you more crit multi per point allocated to Void Knight, so for Void Knight it's important that it has as many good passive nodes as possible, so that you actually want to put all your points into the Void Knight tree

but sorc and runemaster don't have any such thing.

runemaster is very bottom-heavy, a lot of its best nodes are in the section that is available to all mages. and all that means is that mage gets a lot of cool passives.

i mean if i look at the top half of the runemaster tree, those nodes don't really seem that good to me. other than maybe Decree of the Burning Wind and Ancient Inscriptions i'm not seeing very useful nodes

[plain glade]

Difference is, putting those points into Runemaster will directly aid Runemaster a lot more than it will the other subclasses, since it furthers your ability to spec into the later Runemaster tree as well

And I’ve also got suggestions for buffing the left side of the tree for sorcerer as well

[feral moss]

and Recollection in Sorc tree is just a more point-efficient version of Ancient Inscriptions anyway

[plain glade]

Which is open to everyone

[feral moss]

point allocation hasn't been an issue for me, it's not hard to split 45/45 points across the sorc and runemaster trees and grab everything that's useful in both

[plain glade]

Well, current recollection matches Ancient Inscription once you’ve reached 80 Intelligence

My proposed buff would increase the match rate to 120 Intelligence, which would allow for more flexibility and low intelligence builds to still profit

[feral moss]

they give the same amount of CD-speed at 80 intelligence but Recollection gives it to you for 4 passive points

[plain glade]

Indeedily so, but to say its point inefficient wouldn’t necessarily be the case, since it still provides bonus intelligence

[feral moss]

fair enough, i'm just saying the options exist for both sorc and runemaster to get cd-speed and sorc's takes fewer points letting you allocate other things too

my sorc build has a 25mage-52sorc-36rune point allocation 🤷🏻‍♀️ and the build wouldn't be meaningfully better if i were a runemaster instead.

(though in my case i'm forced to go sorc since it's a meteor build)

[plain glade]

I mean, from everything that I and the community has seen, the build would be better as a Runemaster

Like… it’s not really up for debate that Runemaster does what sorcerer does but better, except for the things that literally only Runemaster can do, like meteor

[full bluff]

Sorcerer has one passive that is really really good

[unborn hamlet]

yeah, it's called Runemaster

[ionic vigil]

Damn, so if I wanna play as a lightning type character, rune master is better than sorcerer?

[elfin peak]

I haven't played sorcerer, but lightning runemaster is insanely good

[barren pawn]

craterborn right?

wait

no craterborns a skill passive

[plucky sandal]

got a link to see the build plz ?

[plain glade]

Where get Firestarter Torch?

[digital musk]

Best place to get it is from the random mob that drops it when you forget you want it

[plain glade]

Ah, the Warframe farming method

[digital musk]

nah thats buy plat and trade for it

[plain glade]

Yeah, or farm plat and trade for it

I should have said the… idk standard RNG procedure tbh

The desire sensor

[ionic vigil]

I'm new to the game so I'm probably doing something really wrong, but I've tried every character to level 30ish except for the paladin looking guy, and the mage has just been absolutely horrible to level. My spells are barely doing any damage, continually running out of mana it's crazy.

[next lance]

fireball - spreading flames at 100% and you are good to go

[ionic vigil]

Ah right I went lightning and my god it's terrible

You know early on those flying winged things that raise zombies? I can barely kill them the damage is so low.

Every other class has been face roll

[subtle bobcat]

Till the moment you want to actually see anything on your screen ...

[elfin peak]

Here is the guide I watched before starting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMfOxGjxl3g&ab_channel=Mitch|Preheet

After getting more into it I've done many adjustments, not sure how I link my character. At 2300 corruption now and think I can go a lot higher

[subtle bobcat]

I played the lightning Variant from frozen sentinel and literally was kicked out by my friends, you cannot play any coop with this :x

Numbers there insane :>

[elfin peak]

hehe yeah, I learned a lot from frozen sentinel as well

found out how to import my character, here it is
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q9gpYNDo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (24) / Spellblade (2) / Runemaster (67)

General:

▸ Health: 1,188, Regen: 24/s
▸ Mana: 277, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 722%, Regen: 79/s
▸ Attributes: 29 Str / 25 Dex / 174 Int / 6 Att / 10 Vit
▸ Resistances: 70% / 62% / 70% / 72% / 68% / 124% / 58%
▸ EHP: 2,021 / 1,886 / 2,021 / 2,597 / 1,992 / 2,132 / 1,822

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 238
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (118)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 46% (2,761)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 31%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Snap Freeze (21)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Frost Claw (26)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Elemental Nova (22)

Used unique items:

• Boneclamor Barbute
• Static Shell
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Julra's Stardial
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[elfin peak]

have lots of room for improvement as well

[plucky sandal]

thx !! i wanna change about spellblade so 'ill try this one (and re xp) a mage just for that xD

[elfin peak]

As Aywin said, you can't see anything hehe

the whole screen is blowing up with your magic might

I want better gloves&amulet. And I've bricked my 2LP boots and relic/ring

[shrewd birch]

I am trying to build a frostclaw build and am confused why people use flame rush over teleport for movement. Is there an actual advantage I can't see?

[subtle bobcat]

Maybe to get an element for runic innovacation, its also used to get some burning on the Boss for better ward Generation if I remember correct

[unborn hamlet]

That build is not for the feint of hearted weak PCs

Since the game is poorly optimised still, you might just nuke your FPS within a second instead of the enemies on screen

😂

[elfin peak]

Indeed! I have to have regular breaks because my harddrive is overheating

[elfin peak]

You can go teleport, but then you have to manage your runes manually. If you go flame you can setup your skills so that you get the correct runeword no matter which spells you cast

I also tried teleporting with runic invocation. It just felt wierd, maybe you can cope

[shrewd birch]

OK. I know nothing about managing runes. Do I need to use skills in a specific order?

[elfin peak]

you want to have frost fire frost https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/runic_invocation18_ice_shield

[feral moss]

the majority of players take the node Immutable Order in Runic Invocation which makes it so that you no longer need to cast spells in a specific order, but instead it's based on the order of spells on your skillbar. you can opt out of doing this but then you do need to make sure you're manually casting the skills to obtain the combination you want. and the combination you want is likely to be frost-fire-frost for Reowyn's whatever-it's-called

the thing is that Immutable Order ignores non-elemental skills and also ignores Runic Invocation itself when assessing the order of your skills, so if you choose to use Teleport, that means your remaining 3 skills have to be cold-fire-cold in that exact order on your bar (they can have gaps between them but it has to be that order)

but i personally do not find that to be a problem. if you're using the standard frost claw build that people like FrozenSentinel have popularized, you can easily just set up your skill bar as QTeleport - WRunic Invocation - ESnap Freeze - RFlame Ward - RMBFrost Claw and still have frost-fire-frost with Immutable Order

[shrewd birch]

Thank you for the descriptive explaination. This helps 🙂

[south talon]

started a spark charge spell blade for the first time, how is leveling into the build? how should i play it

[unborn hamlet]

who will tell him

[south talon]

what im sayin.. im using torch and ladle with fireball, just tried the bee sword using the spellblade passive skill. dog dodoo

[solemn viper]

tbh just play as a mage untill you reach monos lol spellblade skills are... something xD

if you have sunwreath ring you can use them tho

you go firebrand and flame reave, the mana cost is not that taxing after you max out the abilities on the right for flame reave

the dmgs are not amazing but its doable

[elfin peak]

ah thats nice, didn't know that

[ionic vigil]

Wow sorcerer is so bad. Time to try rune master lol

[full bluff]

Which skills did you try on sorcerer?

[ionic vigil]

Lightning mainly trying fire now only level 13 but much faster

[digital musk]

Sorc is bad cause you didn't like lightning at lvl13

[ionic vigil]

I didn't realise. With all other characters, Shaman, Marksman and Warlock I just levelled them and they worked fine.

Sorry I got my sorc up to level 35 but quite he's just terrible but I tried the Rune master and leveled with fire, way more powerful

[proper hawk]

mana strike specced into mana arc is decent levelling, much more spellblade adjacent if that's what they are looking for

[proper hawk]

thats going to be to do with levelling as fire and not really anything to do with your mastery. Runemaster IS better than Sorc but you aren't going to feel much of a difference if any at level 35

[feral moss]

if you're level 13... have you even managed to get your sorc mastery? 🤔

[digital musk]

You do not even have enough skill points at 35 to truly be a certain class anyway

How can you blame this on the class I really just don't understand

[full bluff]

It depends a lot on which skills you use. Some are great with 2-3 points in them, some are really good at 20 points. Some are never good.

With 35 points into elemental nova it is finally starting to feel good.

[full bluff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8tkSwHeMQ&t=936s was watching this video on making an elemental nova build, couldn't understand why he is doing almost 10x as much damage as me on dummy, with what seems like worse gear.

it is from beta, right before release

I have a feeling something is bugged with elemental nova, but can't find it 🙂

[spare pendant]

oh so

ele pen was applying at 7* its rate

thats probably why

and probably some other things

thats not his fault, at the time we had no idea what was happening

[full bluff]

ok, so pen from skill node and crest of unity was adding way more?

7x seems about right

[spare pendant]

its fixed now

[safe grail]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/s/t9NVG2fpRu

O_O

1.5k corrupt as fireball

[unborn hamlet]

boosted by paladins and an actual DPS

[safe grail]

Hehe

Nah it’s a solo mapper

Havent seen that staff before so

It’s kinda neat

[solemn viper]

i dont really understand why that chest piece and those gloves, am i missing soemthing?

[safe grail]

Chest because staves are considered melee weps

So 15% extra DR that is multi

And hp scaling etc

Gloves probably just cause of fire pen

Which is weirdge

[solemn viper]

so the increased to melee damage applies to staves?