🧙┃mage

[solemn viper]

those really do not make sense lol

[safe grail]

Not the increased melee dmg. The damage reduction applies because staves are considered a 2h melee wep

[safe grail]

It could also be they were an easy 4 LP to get and have fire pen on them. Gloves cant get fire pen

[digital musk]

4lp with fire pen and attune not really too bad

[solemn viper]

it is probably that since they have high fire pen with fireball and meteor as well

armor resistance and attunement are also good i guess lol

[wind pond]

am i the only one that think gacial stream feels off ? i mean i had idea trying it as a shotgun support / ice damage proc on frost claw and even as a main spell but both the cost and the debuff feels bad to use (haven't tryed it with 500+ mana). And so trying diverent build as a mage made me think having buff while having 500+ max mana in the sorcerer specific passive tree.

[safe grail]

I mean there are no real good gloves for fireball so

It makes sense

[digital musk]

Liaths 🙃

[safe grail]

Is bad if you do not build into that build

Since it converts half the dmg to Lightning

[full bluff]

From my last weeks of testing skills, all the basic mage skills seems to scale pretty well with both runemaster and sorcerer. The big class defining skills seems to be pretty weak. Have more of a utility function like cfc and meteor.

I wish it was the other way around, basic skills for support and the big skills as the main thing.

[solemn viper]

Half the spells are completely useless, the mastery specific spells are very underwhelming as well, i chose runemaster in the beginning because i fell in love with all the different invocation only to find out they are useless lol

[gentle nest]

I gave up on mage atm i dont feel like playing a Runemaster and Meteor is underwhelming, and making it a lightning spell makes it more fun to use but the mana upkeep is crazy stupid

maybe ill try it again but I honestly can't be bothered to even login to LE

[latent tide]

would a T7 flame ward, int, or crit multi be better on a relic for this build?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ApOGVpjo

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (22) / Sorcerer (16) / Spellblade (75)

General:

▸ Health: 1,699, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 227, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 576%, Regen: 133/s
▸ Attributes: 5 Str / 28 Dex / 91 Int / 5 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 90% / 74% / 108% / 72% / 92% / 131% / 61%
▸ EHP: 2,723 / 2,696 / 2,723 / 2,940 / 2,723 / 2,723 / 2,388

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 340
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (112)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,324)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

• Shatter Strike (22)
• Mana Strike (20)
• Enchant Weapon (20)
• Surge (20)
• Flame Ward (20)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Titan Heart
• Alluvion
• Frostbite Shackles
• Strands of Souls
• Last Steps of the Living

[latent tide]

i could probably also grab a T6 flame ward + T6 cold res relic but idk if that's overkill for ward

[waxen falcon]

hi all i new in here request for help is anyone can help me boost up some lv from 0

[silver iron]

New player here. This guide https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frostbite-frost-claw-runemaster-guide says that Frostclaw somehow procs Elemental Nova. But how does it works? I can't find which passive provides such effect.

[unborn hamlet]

celestial conflux

top middle right

its the build i use

actually, its directly top middle

btw , strands of souls is not needed as an item for the build,i got up to over 3k corruption without having that belt

[silver iron]

Thanks

[twin adder]

I am working on a melee spark charge runemaster, and I keep seeing people's builds stacking items that increase chance to apply spark charge on melee hit, often times exceeding 100% chance. Can someone please explain this? Im using mana strike, which has 100% chance.

[unborn hamlet]

you apply multiple spark charges at once

[full bluff]

Mad Lade or Wrongwarp for Elemental Nova build?

[astral helm]

hey guys, is there a build for the mage that is a "palpatine" build? Id much prefer to follow a guide than try to do it myself, just wondering if such a build exists

i just want to blow up the whole screen with lightning

cheers

[unborn hamlet]

lightning claw spark charge is probably the closest thing to it

you could also use various runic combinations for lightning but eh, they cant compare with the dmg output of frostclaw spam

[astral helm]

Ok thank you, ill look into it

[safe grail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLmN1DjaZo

5.1k corruption w/ wrongwarp teleport Fire FC Nova

actually nuts.

[elfin peak]

sick

[full bluff]

I use wrongwarp for bosses and mad ladle for clearning monos. Hard to say whats best yet. Still at low corruption on this runemaster

[neon lynx]

wtf it’s dead in here

[iron citrus]

Seems like a fun alternative to play with when u wana change things up!

[unborn hamlet]

dead gaem what u expect

constant bugs, bad stability on release, terrible optimisation does that to a person

game was just not ready to be launched

[iron citrus]

Cmon now laplus enjoyer, be abit more optimistic

[unborn hamlet]

you know, i was, until from patch 0.5 onwards its so bad my PC overheats in an instant

[safe grail]

It’s okay. d4 S4 soon. We game there instead

[glad marten]

That really sounds like a you problem

[unborn hamlet]

nah, its the crap optimisation of this game, never happens to me with any other game

70c at best stable even on high requirements,

but Last Epoch?

nah

instant 100+ on boot alone

what a joke

and from other people have said, im not the only one with this issue

[glad marten]

You're not the only one, but here I am running it on a 5 year old laptop without issue

the game is "dead" because this is just how cycle-based games work

[barren pawn]

honestly brother, sounds like a you problem. Yes performance is poodoo. but i dont have temp issues and i play at 4k.

With a 3090

😂

[iron citrus]

save ur super chats for a PC upgrade man

[solemn viper]

Frostclaw is the problem, i can play other classess at max graphics but frostclaw i have to put everything on low and it still lags

It’s getting pretty annoying

The problem is not even the spell by itself, it’s the amount of loot and rerolls the game does plus frostclaw

[covert moon]

I play frostclaw on max settings and never has any issues or frame drops

I typically play with a fireball spam mage friend and a minion focus Necro and still with all that not even a noticeable drop 🤔

[solemn viper]

fps are fine, it's the game performing poorly for me and many other people have this same issue, it could also be servers stability since euw servers are bad, for example after every patch i can't play till the day after xD

[iron citrus]

turning off enemy flash when hit and damage numbers will improve performance

when i run arena, i do that & set everything to super low 😄

[solemn viper]

dmg numbers are off, enemy flash i will try, thanks

[plain glade]

“I haven’t had this problem, so it’s not a big deal!” All up in this thread

lmao yall gotta be joking

[river arrow]

if I get + ignite chance for fire skills from the passive tree, does that add ignite chance to skills that normally have none?

does + spell damage increase dot damage?

[feral moss]

as long as they have the <Fire> tag, it should, yes

[feral moss]

not DoT damage in general. but what it will to is add additional damage to any of your spells, and if your spells happen to be DoT spells, it'll increase that damage. you should be able to check on the spell itself to see what it's added damage effectiveness is

[neon crown]

So if I’m trying to get snowdrift to drop can it be from Normal enemies?

[river arrow]

thank you

[feral moss]

it can be, yes. drops anywhere that has a chance to drop uniques

[river arrow]

does + damage for flame rush also applies to the rune embers it creates?

[feral moss]

no, Rune Embers is a separate thing and won't benefit from anything that is specifically to Flame rush

however, if you have the equipment line +Levels to Flame Rush, that comes with Spell Damage, the Spell Damage on that equip is just generic Spell Damage and applies to everything, not just flame rush

[river arrow]

thanks

[river arrow]

would the basic "ignite" count as dot spell in that sense or would spell damage not increase ignites damage?

[feral moss]

ignite is an Ailment that applies damage over time and is not a spell

so ignite on its own does not benefit from spell damage

[river arrow]

can ailment damage be increased somehow?

[feral moss]

there are many ways to increase ailment damage depending on the ailment in question

for ignite, you could scale the damage type of ignite directly via %increased fire damage or %fire penetration. you could also get %increased damage over time

there are also specific skill effects that say "ignite applied by this skill does %x more damage"

[river arrow]

that makes sense

thanks

[digital musk]

Duration and cast speed

[robust junco]

If a node says "XXX skill deals More Dmg", that also affects ignite applied by said skill

[floral turret]

Hey guys! Anyone playing the Maxroll's Frost Claw Runemaster build ?

[unborn hamlet]

Which one lol, there is like 4 of em

Almost all of them use frostclaw as the base skill

[floral turret]

This one - https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frost-claw-runemaster-guide#gear--header

[unborn hamlet]

Ah from BinaQc

I use his other build

The freeze rate one

Personally I think that one is much better

Even tho I modified it a bit

His builds are generally good, he knows what he's doing

[floral turret]

Yeah, good builds and guide, I'm just stuck at one point and cannot understand something 😅

[robust junco]

Ask, I am sure someone will be able to answer

[floral turret]

Ok...so...
I'm playing the Frost Claw Runemaster - https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frost-claw-runemaster-guide#gear--header
The guide states - "Look for a Crystal Wand and combine it with an Arcane Visage and Arcane Regalia that have Increased Spell Crit (Doubled If You Have Over 300 Max Mana). These three combined will put you over 300 Mana and double the output from this affix as well...". Ok, but when I check the planner I see that the mana is 192. I have the mentioned pieces of gear (wand, helm, chest), I'm level 85 and have put points in passives wherever possible to get to 300+ mana which prevents me from leveling the passives in the guide somehow. How do you get 300 mana by only using those 3 pieces of gear with those minor nodes from the passive tree in the planner ?
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/

[surreal grotto]

Curious if anyone knows of a decent to good lightning build for Sorcerer.

[clear remnant]

The wand has 60 mana

Ending The Storm monolith has a blessing after killing the boss on lvl 100 and up a few times that gives 60-90 mana but u will lose increased cold damage blessing

[floral turret]

I see. But he is still using the 100% increased cold dmg in the guide

[clear remnant]

Yeah
I believe he didn't calculate properly
Not possible to reach 300 mana apparently with that gear
He has no mana idols as well

[floral turret]

😫 guess I'll need to improvise

[clear remnant]

Yeah
If u need a blessing from any boss let me know i can carry u if u need
I'm in EU West server

[unborn hamlet]

I believe that he has wrong idols in the guide

The 3s stun immunity for the build is quite irrelevant until super high corruption

You can get some grand idols with %mana on them, and small idols with flat mana

That will easily put you over 300

[floral turret]

Thank you both! I'll try if I can fix this with idols for now

[clear remnant]

You're welcome
Good luck

[unborn hamlet]

sorry ive been taking a glance at the build again, and its not from BinaQc, sorry my mistake dunno why it show Bina on phone view on top,

from what i can see tho , you dont need a bleeding heart necklace, its quite literally useless

you can in that case easily get Strong Mind , easy to get on 3LP , even 4LP is not that rare

it gives some light res, but it gives 30-60flat mana and free stun avoidance

thats a good fix as well for your issue

the spell leech from the blessing is already more than enough to keep you full health for twisted heart HP cost

[floral turret]

I do have Strong Mind...i will give it a try since i still dont have the heart (wasted ~10 runes in hopes of geting it) and still on my way to twisted heart

[thin helm]

For sorcerer if I want to do black hole meteor, but i’m wanting the pull in would it be best to go for elemental damage or just ignore black hole damage and stack fire instead

[hard schooner]

Hello! Took a break from LE and back. Looking for a frost claw build guide. Any suggestions for it please?

[surreal grotto]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ApWMd4xo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,215, Regen: 29/s
▸ Mana: 225, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 778%, Regen: 38/s
▸ Attributes: 37 Str / 24 Dex / 187 Int / 14 Att / 16 Vit
▸ Resistances: 78% / 70% / 78% / 70% / 82% / 68% / 68%
▸ EHP: 2,685 / 2,557 / 2,685 / 3,005 / 2,483 / 2,310 / 2,310

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 243
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (130)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 48% (2,953)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (22)
• Frost Claw (24)
• Snap Freeze (21)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Flame Rush (21)

Used unique items:

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

This build has a guide:

2200+ Corruption COF Frost Claw | Pushing Higher | LE 1.0 by FrozenSentinel

[hard schooner]

Sweet. I will give this a try. Looks fascinating 🙂
Thank you!!

[full bluff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wXtkPmzqc

[next lance]

For a spellblade, is better a shatter strike or a flame reave build? Actually I'm trying a shattered strike build, liking so far but find a little bit annoying the small AoE, so I'm curious If it's worth Respec to flame (I have the ring for the spell change)

[river arrow]

how does a runemaster gain armor shred? there are multiple skills that refer to becoming better with armor shred on the enemy

[robust junco]

Same as everyone else for the most part
Weapon suffix, amulet suffix

[feral moss]

glove suffix too

[opal mountain]

Elemental Nova tree

200% plus what is on the Ladle gives a few hundred stacks so you dont need the slams on any items.

2LP Twisted hearts must have taken the month off. Just hit 1600 cor and 1,000 echos completed in RoD. Only seen 2 and bricked them both 😦

[nimble shoal]

Sounds about on par, they are rare

[hasty vortex]

At least u guys got LP I'm stuck with my normal one lol

[opal mountain]

heard that Father. And def not complaining about the RNG in this game, I just want the 2LP. I like their system a lot vs other ARPGs Ive played. My plan is just to use the RoD timeline as my push for higher cor. It will fall again eventually. I got a 2LP Confluence of Fate so anything's possible

[nimble shoal]

Nice! Good luck, maybe a 3LP will be next 😄

[shadow relic]

my 97 warlock died so time to live in this chat instead

pondering if there's a way to do something with the Transciber's Graver weapon.

Which, just wanna make sure - the 'volcanic orb modifiers to speed/range apply to flame rush' thing is a unique mod, and doesn't stack when dual wielding I assume. Anyone know for sure?

[hasty vortex]

I sec the warlock 😂

It's out aside for now lol

I so want to try volcanic orb I'm not sure how to build it tho

[shadow relic]

Yeah I'm gonna just be whipping something together that'll probably suck once I get to empowered monos

[hasty vortex]

XD 🤣 it happens to alot of theroy crafting

[solemn viper]

i'd say 200 corruption is ok with off meta builds at least in sc

[shadow relic]

Hardcore or bustttt

(usually bust. I'm on like char #4 this cycle.)

[solemn viper]

volcanic orb seems painful but do let me know the build once you try xD

[shadow relic]

I'm trying to figure something out involving transciber's graver. Which might make it more flame rush than volcanic orb build, damage wise. But we'll see.

[solemn viper]

mh flame rush for damage sounds painful

orb is actually only useful to speed so i guess you just need to spec that for mobility and go full damage for flame rush and you can pump those with fire aura in glyph

sounds awful but very fun lol

[shadow relic]

Yeah that's why I'm thinking even 100corruption empowered monos will be a struggle by the time I get there.

[solemn viper]

maybe disintegrate could be useful as well with that build, but you also need flame ward or reowyn

[spice shell]

Why with my frostclaw build is my elemental nova ice but when I watched the video his is different

[feral moss]

honestly if you just wanna use the Graver and aren't picky about how you use it, you could just say screw it to the volcanic orb and just use it for the 24% elemental penetration

the alternative would be to pair a Transcriber's Graver with the Eye of Orexia relic and do a full volcanic orb build

could throw in Dark Shroud of Cinders for some cast speed and a bit more fire aura synergy

and since this build now has both void and fire spell damage, maybe add The Confluence of Fate while you're at it

and since you'll probably want glyph of dominion to be active on you at all times for the graver's effects, you could add Apex of Thought for ward

[royal laurel]

Best mage untwinked SSF / HC / CoF?

[shadow relic]

Yeah not sure if I'd keep the graver going and make it more flame dash, or ditch the graver and try volcanic.

[full bluff]

Testing if normal freeze chance has any value on shade, and tried to estimate his HP. At 950% inc health it seems be around 19-20M. So the base HP without modifiers could be 2M? In any case, with 3400% freeze modfier and 600% frostbite increase, the chance is less than 0,5% with frost claw.

[twin adder]

I have been playing the nova frost claw build that Allie posted about a month ago. Her video has ward getting to 20k and up very very quickly after starting an encounter and I am having ward issues, hovering at 2-3k. Only thing missing is I have +4 frost claw on a weaver will relic, not the twisted heart. Is there something under my nose I'm missing or is the twisted heart the main thing that can skyrocket ward that fast?

[full bluff]

Twisted is not the major source of ward. Do you Celestial Doom and a source of brand? Also some other passives that give ward.

[twin adder]

Yes I have celestial doom

I think my main issue is I'm not consistent with "applying my brand"

Her build does not have ward exp affix on gloves but I do, since I figured I need to make up a word source for not having twisted heart.

[twin adder]

Maybe I'm over complicating things then. I have the RM passive where simply hitting an enemy with frost claw should apply my brand, and then hitting that enemy should grant me a ton of ward.

[full bluff]

Only works on rares and bosses.

[spare glen]

Sounds like your passives are wrong

[twin adder]

My passive match Allie's 100%

[full bluff]

Can you link the build setup?

[twin adder]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QWXbg19B

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (16) / Runemaster (77)

General:

▸ Health: 1,582, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 155, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 516%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 26 Str / 13 Dex / 134 Int / 13 Att / 15 Vit
▸ Resistances: 71% / 75% / 70% / 67% / 73% / 69% / 72%
▸ EHP: 60,841 / 62,960 / 59,976 / 69,152 / 62,034 / 59,693 / 61,135

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 316
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (52)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,100)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ Arcane Momentum (1/5), Jagged Veil, Runeword Hurricane, Flame Ward

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (26)
• Runic Invocation (22)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Elemental Nova (28)

Used unique items:

• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Crest of Unity
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Foot of the Mountain
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

This build has a guide:

1.0 | Nova Runemaster Deletes The Screen - LE Elemental Nova Runemaster Build Guide by Allie

[full bluff]

That should work, but ward gen on normal monsters is not great without twisted

Add in Edict of Scien passive

And it should be a bit better

[twin adder]

Ok thank you for looking. I may swap out my exalted rings to 2x Julra stardials, as I'm mana starved on boss encounters too.

[full bluff]

Edict generates about the same ward as twisted

Order Imposition, don't think this does much for you

So you could use those points for Edict

[twin adder]

Thank you!

[full bluff]

If you reduce cost of elemental nova to 0 it should help a bit on the mana issue

Frost claw with a wand should have no mana issues 🙂

[twin adder]

I removed the node on the far left that increased damage to CCd enemies and put them in the mana cost node to the right of it, in elemental nova, which reduced cost to 0. Immediate mana improvement in sustained encounters.

[shadow relic]

This feels frankenstein-like. But I'mma try it anyway:

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qe7E8n5o

Essentially. Mana strike for flame aura stacks and capping mana -> cast a fireball -> Flame rush. Had to make fireball channeled to be able to get the never late bonus, and still actually have a decent multiplier to flame rush's damage. And maybe ingnite might get me some survivability on it too?

... I just wanted to figure out a way to use Transcriber's Graver.

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (47) / Runemaster (31)

General:

▸ Health: 960, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 124, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 118%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 17 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 62% / 12% / 36% / 6% / 0% / 1% / 7%
▸ EHP: 858 / 595 / 698 / 586 / 554 / 557 / 577

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 192
▸ Armor Mitigation: 6% (140)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Lightning / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

• Mana Strike (20)
• Flame Rush (23)
• Fireball (20)
• Enchant Weapon (20)
• Volcanic Orb (20)

Used unique items:

• Transcriber's Graver
• Transcriber's Graver
• Eye of Orexia

[solemn viper]

Looks fun, but idk how you’re gonna survive lol

[shadow relic]

Yeah. Not sure. The on hit ward from rune master and spell blade. Maybe low life stuff if necessary. Ignite stacks and flame rush ignite to ward thing might be alright too

[solemn viper]

Have you considered going disintegrate? It’s a channeled ability and there is a node that makes you rec mana with it instead of consuming it

It basically does what fireball and mana strike would do together but you would have to spec it lightning

You lose the defence of flame rush but you can spec flame ward wich is definitely better

Also glyph has a node that gives ward while standing in it

[barren pawn]

Disintegrater was mentioned

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

[barren pawn]

this is poodoo

Disintegrate is best as RM

And setup as full damage

[solemn viper]

Not really, it would be used as utility not damage, they want to use flame rush for damage

They need a channeled ability and to rec mana and since glyph is already there disintegrate would work great

[barren pawn]

And i am sitting here telling you that build is poodoo.

Ive tried it already.

Its sad.

[solemn viper]

Rip

No fun allowed

[barren pawn]

Disintegrate is quite sh1t when not being used for damage

even tried a disintegrate based lb build, that was sh1t too

[solemn viper]

I need to lvl another rm and try funny builds

[shadow relic]

Yeah but fireball is the only way to get an actual good damage multiplier on flame rush. 75% more damage.

There's only two damage multipliers at all on flame rush's tree, sadly.

[obtuse pine]

For meteor mage. I found a 3LP Harbinger of star (belt) &wondering if it’s more important to slam on a t6-7 mana reg. or cool down?

[solemn viper]

sadly there isn't a way to make that belt work as of right now, the mana cost of meteor is too high

[solemn viper]

oh true, well try it out and let me know if it works out xD

[full bluff]

Trying spellblade again, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Z-Tjz8jLE, so slow and squishy most of the time

[spice shell]

Does anyone have a good loot filter for frostbite frost claw rm?

[barren pawn]

what?

Yes there is

people have made harbinger work

its issue isnt really the mana cost

its the proc rate

[obtuse pine]

What really?

[solemn viper]

it does work but once you have no mana to cast flame ward or teleport then you realize it doesnt lol

you go to negative mana in an instant that's the issue and as soon as you have 1 mana you cast meteor and you are back to square one

[solemn viper]

you can try and make it work, id say stack mana and mana regen as much as possible

[barren pawn]

mana regen is a terrible stat rec

stack mana outright

we cant stack enough mana regen for it to actually make much of a difference

due to the low base regen

[shadow relic]

I've only ever made it work with mana strike. Nothing else gives enough mana.

And by work I mean... I feel like I'm on the brink of death every moment as soon as I get into empowered monos.

Ranged mana strike is more survivable. But I need more mana for it. So melee feels nicer. But also too squish to be melee-ing.

[full bluff]

Even if you get it to work, the damage from meteor is not great

A lot of skills are like that, a lot of work for no reward 🙂

Noob traps as the devs call it

[spare pendant]

I mean meteor coc is fine as long as you use mana strike

the build was good last patch, and now it will be much better now that trade gear exists and is a thing

I couldn't get a good 1 stat harbringer to save my life, but on trade 2 LP ones are cheap af

[shadow relic]

I made the mistake of playing a torment warlock this season. The ease at which I can hit 7 digit DPS. Compared to struggling to get low six digits with many other builds. Painful.

[spare pendant]

thats just the devs overtuning the fun shiny stuff. Its just something I am used to at this point

[shadow relic]

Yeah I just hate it. I know most games in general do that with new classes.

[spare pendant]

as long as you keep your corruption numbers realistic most builds can do most content. Its just people are spoiled by bugs and overtuned skills and think the rest of the game is supposed to be like that, which the opposite is true

[shadow relic]

Yeah. Nah I feel you. I mean I've read before that they intended something like the balance being like, ~400 corruption for end game? Not thousands

[spare pendant]

I have found 700 to be a nice average of what builds that are normal usually stay around, as going further after that is just for numbers chasing and not for actual trade/favor effiecency. Eventually if your build becomes strong enough its better to invest into movement speed then it is to invest into stats, as eventually your just killing stuff on the way then running/teleporting inbewteen packs

[shadow relic]

I play hardcore. I've never felt safe at corruption that high

[full bluff]

There does not seem to be any attempt of balance. Everything is just toys to play around with, that someone designed. Pieces you can put together. No bigger plan or balance behind it

[spare pendant]

over the past 4 years there has been, this is an anomaly for the most part. we were all surprised by the lack of balance this patch

[full bluff]

I really hope they take the time to go over and adjust things that are on the lower end atleast. I don't mind over-tuned stuff. More the stuff that does nothing or limits a build or skill.

[shadow relic]

I would love for procced meteors to trigger lost knowledge

[digital musk]

The current balance does not feel any different than it has for 4yrs tbh

There are just bigger outliers now but its always been bad

[spare glen]

that is not true, before runemaster there were 1-2 builds at most that were significantly stronger than anything else each patch

now its like 10+(and not even builds but whole masteries)

and the gap is way way bigger compared to any of previous patches

[digital musk]

Gap is definitely bigger for sure

I think the problem in my eyes is just the low end

Tons of builds have been bad for a long long time

I dont even care about the top end honestly

[spare glen]

oh ye the floor was always very low that part is the same and if anything its even worse issue than top celling being boosted out of proportion

[digital musk]

If bro wants to ride out jhelkors to 10k then more power to em

If sis is struggling at 300 then there's a problem

[spare glen]

funny enough we have people struggling on 200 with wraithlord out of everything

[digital musk]

Isn't that supposed to be really strong

[spare glen]

but ye, they need to do both but fixing top builds is way less work than fixing bottom

[spare glen]

yep its doing 10k cor

[digital musk]

After playing flame wraiths i will never make another minion build again

Most boring gameplay of all time even if its cracked

[shadow relic]

I just wanna put spark charges on everything

[hoary basalt]

Yeah I got a decent meteor build working but I had the same reaction

"boooring"

[solemn viper]

is the mana back from frost claw only on direct cast?

the skill says "on cast" so it doesnt specify if it is only on direct cast or if it works with the melee attack cast

[full bluff]

Shatter Strike Ice Spikes does not have a freeze rate?

Frost Claw was the last born skill, got it all. Trying to make spellblade with frostbite, can either use frost claw and win or try combine a lot of other stuff, and half-win 🙂

[solemn viper]

they should, i was freezing stuff with them, but im not using them anymore, the dmg increase is way nicer, the area is still good

[full bluff]

I am trying to use them as a range skill, spam the screen, to get at ranged mobs. What did you get instead?

Think I see the problem, they just look good, does very little damage, even with frostbite

Does the damage from ice spike depend on range? Seems they work better as monsters get closer

[solemn viper]

I am running shackles, snowdrift and ocearon so maybe the frostbite comes from those on the spikes

Anyway they do no damage so pretty useless

[full bluff]

Found the problem, was terrain, I was shooting above or in the ground at range. So fewer hits

[solemn viper]

Also they freeze distant enemies so you then have to move close to kill them lol

They look cool but not worth 4 points

Maybe an increase in area skill idol would be best but I struggle in the defence department without idols since i have ocearon instead of red rings

[full bluff]

I usually give up on spellblade after a bit, since it is not what I enjoy with mage, melee, slow, low defense

but giving it a try again now

One group of archers and I am dead

I see it coming, but nothing I can do

[solemn viper]

I am pretty tanky and almost 10k ward but the damages are a little low, i also do not have decent gear since most things are 1 lp

I just gave up and didn’t even slam anything on snowdrift for now

[full bluff]

Trying the unqiue freeze shield now

but the stats are just bad on it

[solemn viper]

No idea on what that is lol

My knowledge stops at catalysts for off hands

I have a 3lp vile that was already slammed so I just went with it, double sword felt awful

[sand trench]

Hello guys, Fatah, I have the magician skill, but I don't know what to choose

[slender wren]

Can someone help me decide which skill I should specialize in as the last one?
(currently trying to create build around Tri-Elemental Nova, and have Nova, Teleport, Flame Ward and Runic Invocation specialized and that 4 out of 5)

I've been thinking about Glyph of Dominion, but I'm not sure if it's really what I need.

[full bluff]

Snap Freeze maybe

[obsidian reef]

Teleport is mandatory to counter this type of stuff

but otherwise yea what you gonna do

[full bluff]

I gave up on my frostbite spellblade when I noticed armor shred->frostbite is only for spells. Bit too many hurdles here 🙂

[obsidian reef]

I dont even like forstbite for spellblade

lowlife shatterstrike build is way better

[slender wren]

Why?

[full bluff]

Makes boss fights a lot easier when you can freeze them almost all the time

[slender wren]

hmm, oke, will try then.

[solemn viper]

You don’t like it because it’s bad or just preference?

[obsidian reef]

preference i guess, but also frostbite shatterstrike wont be able to push to high corruption

too squishy

[solemn viper]

Oh ok so there is hope xD

Idm not pushing corruption, i do that on main and am not really a big fan anyway

I’d rather make funny builds and see if they work out

[obsidian reef]

yeah, I mean in terms of dps frostbite shatterstrike can definitely do a lot

just very squishy

you'd get one shot by a lot

[solemn viper]

Yeah i had to switch to red rings for lagoon because he was oneshotting me

Besides that frost claw + shatter strike seems like a solid combo so far

I do have some mana issues sometimes if i am very unlucky

[obsidian reef]

Yeah seems pretty popular among spellblades

personally dont use it though

I spec into teleport instead

[solemn viper]

Teleport is too ugly for me to use lmao

Only on sorc i use it to combo with meteor

[obsidian reef]

It aint pretty, but you gotta do what you gotta do

was very important to me when I pushed arena

[solemn viper]

Yeah i can imagine that

The nodes are op

I just wish they made it an elemental spell

It could have been a lighting zap

Or a fire circle under your feet

Even a little blizzard storm

Instead of the usual ugly blink

[obsidian reef]

i will say that surge looks very sick though

I think some builds even use it for dps iirc

[solemn viper]

It really does but the mana cost is a little high

Oh really? Ill check and see if i can find any

I had an idea with that sword that procs lightning blast

But I’ll try after shatter strike

[obsidian reef]

ofc, shatterstrike on top after all 🔛 🔝

[opal mountain]

Does dodge have diminishing returns like armor and shred armor?

havent seen a chart on it

[nimble shoal]

Yes, it has an upper limit not too unlike armor

[opal mountain]

Got my lightning FC to 2650 and trying to decide if I should try more or leave it there

[shadow relic]

How many chances to proc frostclaw does shatter strike have per swing?

I know it can proc up to six frostbite 'hits' per swing with echoes.

[solemn viper]

It’s not a node in shatter strike but in frost claw, it’s the last node on the bottom and it has 30% chance to proc on a melee attack

My idea was to use frostclaw to recover mana since the mana cost is 0 but i doubt that it works since i find myself out of mana sometimes

[shadow relic]

Yeah I meant, since shatter strike with echoes can 'hit' up to 6 times, I was hoping it'd count as six chances to proc. It does not. It's once per click.

[solemn viper]

Oh yeah it’s once every cast lol

Dmg and freeze rate is nice tho but i am considering ditching it

Since it’s not the insane damage that normal frostclaw has

But I really don’t wanna unse mana strike

Teleport, focus and mana strike are too ugly for my taste, i can barely stand arcane ascendence

[shadow relic]

Yeah frost claw is not enough to sustain shatter strike, even with shatter strike down to 10 mana, and also that chance to regain mana on hit on the spell blade tree

Though one or two mana strikes is enough to offset like 20 swings of shatter strike.

[solemn viper]

I have 10 mana cost for shatter strike and the chance ti regain mana and they do work as intended

But the frost claw mana back I’m not sure it works

It doesn’t specify if you need to directly cast it or not

It makes sense if it does work but it’s unreliable tho since it’s 30% chance to get the mana back but you only have 30% chance to cast frostclaw on melee attack

Frostclaw procs fairly often but I really have no idea if the mana back works or not, it could just be spellblade tree

[shadow relic]

Pretty sure frost claw mana back works on proc.

Was just playing around with it. I was getting chunks of mana back without points into the spell blade mana passive.

[solemn viper]

Just unlucky then

[solemn viper]

I’m dumb enough that i never thought of doing that kekw

[shadow relic]

But yeah it's a % of a % chance. Like, around 10% chance of 12 mana back per swing is it? Not exactly much.

[solemn viper]

9% + 30% from the passive so 40% to gain 10 mana back id say

[shadow relic]

Yeah the passive tree one is way more impactful

[solemn viper]

Shades are perma frozen most of the time so i use them as dummies and usually i can end up with low mana but not run out, finishing the fight with half mana or having to get mana back is rarer

Ideal would be mana strike since the passives and mana strike itself have great synergies together

But then again ugly 🤷

[shadow relic]

Different topic: is surge's discharge node bugged? It's supposed to cast static upon arrival. It used to before 1.0. looks like it doesn't now?

[royal laurel]

Recommendation for SSF HC Mage?

[robust junco]

Do you have Static on your bar?

[shadow relic]

Yeah it's on the bar. 200 stacks of static. It doesn't take the mana, it doesn't expend the charges, and it doesn't do damage (aside from surge itself)

[solemn viper]

I give up on runemaster, frostclaw is the only good build

Really wish someone would actually balance this game, but to no surprise it’s very unbalanced like most games

Fun builds only work in campaign and that’s just boring

[umbral stone]

Plasma orb, hydrahedron, fireball, lightning blast, glacier all viable options

Unless you are comparing to nova claw specifically?

[solemn viper]

They are not viable as of right not past 500 corruption

[full bluff]

If you play to optimize / maximise you character, there is not many options. Unless you add some extra limitations, like make the strongest XXX variant

It all leads down the frost claw path

but I guess it is the same in all games in the end, one build or variant or class stands out

[robust junco]

That's the issue with an infinite scaling difficulty

[full bluff]

Did you hear Mike describe how they added Frost Claw?

[robust junco]

500c is already a very good build

[spare pendant]

you are insane lmao

you can go way higher than that

if corruption is all you care about Runemaster has some of the highest build diversity right now

[solemn viper]

Ya, ice fire and lightning frost claw lmao

Sorc has fireball

[full bluff]

Runemaster can perma stun shade, so a lot of builds work for pushing corruption, if you can manage mono clear

[spare pendant]

https://youtu.be/GLyhfnOlEq4

[solemn viper]

Spellblade has pretty much nothing

[spare pendant]

literally this patch

and thats a meme build

if you can't do better than a meme build than its a you problem, not a runemaster problem

[solemn viper]

What corruption was that? Because the issue is past the 500 mark

[spare glen]

that actually insanse statement, we literally had guy posting 1500+ cor on a frigginn fireball lmfao and you saying all builds not viable past 500

and people doing 800+ on a forge guard

[solemn viper]

Cool 2 builds

Remember invocations?

[spare pendant]

that was 680

you are literally the problem, not runemaster

everyone else is pushing just fine with runemaster 😄

and that build I posted was a meme build

not a real build

[spare glen]

clueless person, idk what to even reply to him, FCRM is definetly the best build but there are tons of viable 1k+ builds

[full bluff]

I am not sure if the remaining elitist 10 of us, should talk about viable and what can be done, we are not the majority I guess

[solemn viper]

I guess you guys really love to offend people rather then listening to what they are saying

Kekw

[spare pendant]

I mean we are calling you out for sucking at the game and then saying you know whats good and what is not

[full bluff]

What can be done and what is fun to do, is not the same thing

[spare pendant]

this is a normal reaction to insanity

[solemn viper]

LMAO

[full bluff]

I think he is saying this is not fun to play 🙂

[solemn viper]

Mama kudos for saying that, for spilling

Since you are such a pro please teach me

I really wanna hear a pro last epoch player ideas

Do you know how to make a build that uses invocations work?

Not just one, more of them

[spare glen]

no, you came in posted absurd statement, then replied above to "Plasma orb, hydrahedron, fireball, lightning blast, glacier " that "They are not viable as of right not past 500 corruption" which is just wrong, and also u dont realize that rm is so strong now that you can push almost anything on it to 1k , its just a matter if you can get op gg gear

like what do u expect us to say when you just come in and say ridicolous things

[solemn viper]

You can say that you disagree and proceed to explain why

[spare glen]

and on topic of runic invocations we had a guy literally testing almost all of them past 1k cor in this channel, and he found at least 4-5 iirc that are viable

[solemn viper]

That’s not the correct way to approach someone

[spare pendant]

I've dealt with enough annoying people to just not care anymore.

[full bluff]

No one was dealing with anything anoying here, just having a chat about runemaster and options before you guys come in and start this

[solemn viper]

I know you deal with yourself daily unfortunately, still waiting on you to tell me if you know a build with invocation since ur a pro

[spare glen]

its impossible to reply and explain to such broad statement as "all builds besides FC are bad and not cor 500+ viable" we provided u at least 5 builds that are 1k viable and you disagreed with that for some reason

[solemn viper]

Thanks ill see if i can find them

Hopefully there is something fun in there

[full bluff]

Directly casting elemental nova is the most fun runemaster gameplay wise I have tried

Elemental nova is less screen clutter and headaches when cast directly

[solemn viper]

For sure that was an exaggeration on my part, what i should have said is that they feel bad since I’m used to fc

I don’t want something as broken as fc but also not something that feels bad

[iron citrus]

There was a dude that tried to make a build that uses flame rush as main dps, you can mess around with things like that i suppose

[full bluff]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/runic_invocation49_tri_beam

Can we make this work?

[spare glen]

naa that one is doomed

[full bluff]

yea, can only have one it seems

when I cast a new one, the old ones goes poof

and something odd about runebolt runes when I cast it too fast, messes up order

Looking for a 3 diff runes combo that could work, casting that also gives ward

https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/runic_invocation35_line_of_large_explosions

[strange flicker]

dont bother w rune bolt

if u want an invocation build just run claw without the mana increase skills and still go nova+ spark and manually cast whatever invocation u want w that

also have they released any new patches recently or is the game still completely the same

[full bluff]

still the same, we just messing around with alternatives to frost claw

[strange flicker]

i can give u something busted

prob best frost claw build

dont think ppl found it out yet

LOL

its w manual invocation doe

play with mirror bolt+ cold frost claw

no build is anywhere near this 1 for runemaster

u can drop volley of glass if ur not using mana reduction boots and play around w the mana costs+ run frost wall/flame rush for marks/to get the fire invocation

u can even run this with wrap instead of ladle and teleport and get insane ward+ immunity

[full bluff]

I struggle a bit with manual cast invocations, get out of order and have stop to correct it

if I cast to fast sometimes the runes gets the wrong type

[strange flicker]

na its not so bad

really easy tbh

u can overcast

basically the way u play it is

spam claw and cast 1 skill>invocation when u wana invoke

nothing to think about other than ur speed of casting the 2 skills after claw

rest is just manually doing cfc

which u can do in downtime etc

mirrior bolt has insane scaling with int that ppl havnt figured out yet

the dmg is nonfactor but the ward is nuts

also u can probably play around w what skills u wana run tbh in there

like i run enigma w this build when i was playing

for teleport

u can take normal tele and no cd invocation

or sub 2 sec cd invocation

[unborn hamlet]

Frostbite my beloved

[strange flicker]

even frostbite builds

mite be able to run it

idk since ur int is low

LOL

but its prob doable

[unborn hamlet]

Nawh, we don't stack int

[strange flicker]

tru

mite be not much int

but i can see cold crit running it

[unborn hamlet]

If I drop my exalt helmet for a BiS in slot my int will be like 44

[strange flicker]

esp if spark ever get gutted

[unborn hamlet]

Kek

[strange flicker]

u go cold crit claw

and prob do insane dmg+ tankyness

but yaaa

[unborn hamlet]

Good good

Now keep that mouth shut

[strange flicker]

LOOL

dw

[unborn hamlet]

So we have something to use next cycle

[full bluff]

Did a really quick test of invocation spam for damage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4j3HBRElHA

Sorry for sucky playing 😛

Don't think it will scale super high, but should fine up to 1k

[full bluff]

I thought the idol for locking in 3 runes could have a use for locking in runes from holding runebolt down, but the runes suddenly change if it is casting too fast

[iron citrus]

thats quite a statement bro,

[full bluff]

Antipode could be OK if it didn't take so long to arm

[twilit stag]

Not really the case, just happens when you spend them with an invoke

[full bluff]

It was me casting an extra rune bolt doing it, just going so fast I didn't see it

450% chance for 33% increased damage, how much is that?

[twilit stag]

33%

[full bluff]

Ward from Cosmic Mind is pretty good

[plain glade]

That would be 132% Increase with a 50% of a 165% increase if it works the way other things do

[full bluff]

Managing rune generation manually works after a bit, once I got used to the cast speed and timing

[slender wren]

Does "Event: Deaths of Void Horror" bugged or something?

It says to kill 6 of them. However, I killed around 10 and didn't get a reward from that prophecy.

[robust junco]

Doesn't count the ones spawned by a Beacon

[digital musk]

The first quest on the last monolith has 2 that count. Kill both and portal out x3

[robust junco]

Interesting

[digital musk]

Is it

[robust junco]

Yup, I "struggle" with thoses prophecies

[slender wren]

Ah, weird but oke, thx.

[haughty crown]

I started runemaster recently. Found frost claw build guide, but it is 1 month old. Was there anything changed what can make build outdated and not viable for today?

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B52GpYgo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (26) / Runemaster (67)

General:

▸ Health: 1,114, Regen: 34/s
▸ Mana: 255, Regen: 15/s
▸ Ward Retention: 399%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 24 Str / 11 Dex / 103 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 70% / 62% / 70% / 72% / 47% / 70% / 30%
▸ EHP: 1,880 / 1,755 / 1,880 / 2,321 / 1,428 / 1,739 / 1,261

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 223
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (44)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 50% (3,179)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (25)
• Frost Claw (23)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Runic Invocation (25)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Blood of the Exile
• Ferebor's Persistence
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

This build has a guide:

1K Corruption Zero Legendary Frost Claw - Best Budget Build! | LE 1.0 by FrozenSentinel

[plain glade]

@proven haven might be able to help you, since it seems to be their guide / build

[plain glade]

^

[haughty crown]

Author of build is active here? Gr8!!

[proven haven]

No, build is still fine. That's the budget version though fyi

[plain glade]

They’re a YouTuber

I haven’t seen any of their videos but they have good stuff from what I hear

[proven haven]

Some more alternatives is the isadoras belt, or vilatrias helm for +1 once Nova FC is lightning

Also suggest watching my video on the build where I explain mana cost management as most folks struggle with that getting started.

And here is my cheatsheet for the build with resources included;
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DLiKBOApPtBBm5prr185HU-iYM9k28ENFgz-voXpB-4/edit?usp=drivesdk

Hope that helps

[plain glade]

@barren pawn

Boutta make a character, and Disintegrate (Fire) is the only real damage spell I’ll have besides Runic Invocation

any tips?

If it helps, this will be my skill list

Snap Freeze
Flame Ward (Lightning)
Disintegrate (Fire)
Teleport
Runic Invocation

In that order

[feral moss]

get ignivar's head probably

[plain glade]

What dat

[barren pawn]

immediately go shock

immediately change dis over to lightning

[feral moss]

unique catalyst that juices disintegrate's damage

[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

[plain glade]

damn, I cannot do that 😦

The sake of the theme demands fire 😭

[barren pawn]

respecs are basically free

I mean you can run flame dis

[plain glade]

I haven’t specced into it yet

[barren pawn]

but it objectively worse than lightning dis

[plain glade]

😭

I could switch Flame Ward back to Fire then

[feral moss]

fire is better than lightning anyway. not in terms of anything in-game, but in terms of personal aesthetic preference >:3

[barren pawn]

Just... no

Lightning dis is literally unlimited power

[haughty crown]

@proven haven I know it is budget version, I will farm and slam needed items, if I will like build. Thank you for info and wish you all best.

[barren pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/u-unlimited-power-star-wars-lightning-gif-14542323

[feral moss]

you're not about to convince a pyromaniac to do a non-fire version of a build when a fire version exists

[plain glade]

I feel like channeled lightning blast is closer though

[barren pawn]

channel lb is ass.

been there, done that

[plain glade]

But it looks more like it

Any tips for fire disintegrate if I do go through with it?

I saw your username and figured I’d reach out since

[feral moss]

find ignivar and cut their head off and hold it in your left hand

[barren pawn]

copy my build but go with flame pen instead of lightnin pen

[plain glade]

This will be the first time I ever specialize into it

Across 65+ characters lmao

[barren pawn]

I HAD a flame version once upon a time

[plain glade]

I’ve always skipped it

[plain glade]

Is it really a cult?

[barren pawn]

It is my cult.

Very few even consider it viable

even though it can crush through 800

[hushed elk]

I'm assuming the spell to melee damage conversion on Flame Reaves "Arcane Severance" node doesn't benefit from any form of % spell damage scaling?

[robust junco]

No it's just a "Added Dmg" conversion. If you were welding a Sceptre for exemple the + X Spell Dmg implicit would be converted (at a 1:1 rate with 4 pts)

[royal palm]

Anyone know if 2/3 charge flame ward has different cooldown timer per charge? Or if the cd starts when each is procced

[robust gorge]

they recharge one at a time, not independently

you can craft +1 flame ward charge on a chest and take the passive to test

[unborn hamlet]

Oh... We are getting a dodge mechanic in 1.1 cycle

GG

We are playing dark souls now

And 1.4 cycle transmog + dye system

[left falcon]

I want to try Frost Claw(Fire) + Fire Nova + Meteor CoC from unique , is there a work around to recover mana more than just using Focus or reduce mana usage from Meteor?

[robust junco]

Sounds very mana intensive.
There are a few tricks available.
You could use Teleport free cast + Meteor Refund to get a bunch of mana. Invest into Mana regen with Urzil Pride (by stacking Lightning Res)

[hushed elk]

Yeah I'm aware, I'm just wondering if there are any modifiers/mechanics that would buff the spell damage before it's converted, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qd2jDpKo

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (8) / Spellblade (62) / Runemaster (17)

General:

▸ Health: 1,048, Regen: 24/s
▸ Mana: 376, Regen: 18/s
▸ Ward Retention: 580%, Regen: 185/s
▸ Attributes: 29 Str / 9 Dex / 123 Int / 9 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 147% / 37% / 320% / 91% / 34% / 43% / 43%
▸ EHP: 4,528 / 2,871 / 3,962 / 5,372 / 4,528 / 3,001 / 3,001

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 210
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (42)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 54% (3,623)
▸ Block Chance: 75%, Mitigation: 30% (696)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ Arcane Shield (4/4), Immolator's Oblation (15/40), Reen's Ire (15), Apocalypse, Frenzy, Enchant Weapon (Passive), Flame Ward

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Urzil's Pride
• Eye of Reen
• Bulwark of the Last Abyss
• Orian's Eye
• Immolator's Oblation
• Sunwreath
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Fiery Dragon Shoes

[hushed elk]

Can't tell if I'm cookin' or cooked...

I think that going RM is probably better since playing around Fire Aura seems to not make sense in terms of point/stat spread over focusing on pure crit

Super super rough draft

is there a way to consume runes as RM while spamming Flame Reave w/o manually casting Invocation?

Prob dropping Flame Ward altogether due to poor uptime, not sure what to replace it with and I'm assuming the play is just to go RM and replace with Invocation or Glyph maybe

Pretty sure armor is actually 7-10k+ with Throne of Ambition stacked (forgot to save it)

May also need T7 exp mana on belt and some other stuff to fully solve mana, still need to test

Going RM is def not the play... I just wish Flame Ward wasn't so trash, iirc it was possible to get 100% uptime back in the day... Functionality of the skill is in the gutter due to uptime and the amount u need to invest to hit even 60%.

[twin adder]

I wish there was an offline 'sandbox' where we could try builds with maxed items stat etc and see how they play

[hushed elk]

Not sure if sarcasm or not, but save editing is actually a thing

[digital musk]

You can do that

[hushed elk]

I'm just too lazy and spitballing a rough draft of my 2nd/3rd build

[digital musk]

100% flame ward was through the frost wall node and it was very broken so its good its fixed

[hushed elk]

Err this was like 2-3+ years ago, very early on, and didn't rely on frost wall

The issue is that the functionality of the skill is completely neutered imo

50-60% uptime on defensive stats is worthless

nerf stat budget and allow for 100% uptime

like holy

[digital musk]

If it has 100% uptime just make it into passives

That's a boring skill

[hushed elk]

Yeah, but the actual functionality of a skill that provides such low uptime on highly valuable defensive bonuses is pretty bad

Skill needs to be entirely reworked or something idk

[digital musk]

Idk I think its fine and it's up pretty often

[hushed elk]

The issue is that it won't be reliably and can't actually be played around

unless at least 70-80% uptime

that's just the reality lol... it's never going to be reliable or feel good otherwise at the high end of content

[digital musk]

The issue in reality is just spellblade

[hushed elk]

Ehh, not true really

Primary issue seems to be getting stat efficient defense

otherwise it seems fine

99% sure damage/scaling and practicality in terms of a build like the one I just posted is fine and probably on the higher end if anything

but idk what to do about defense

[digital musk]

Yea thats the problem

The dmg isn't high enough to sac defense like that

Esp playing melee

[hushed elk]

Pretty sure I could hit at least 1-2kc with Flame Reave

but my Warlock will prob push 7-10k... which is obviously way out of the norm... but...

Maybe Spellblade is actually just a balanced class xD

I still think Flame Ward in general is ??? and they should nerf stat budget + allow for higher uptime or the skill is just dedge

[digital musk]

Lowkey I think melee as a whole needs to be looked at

This is the only arpg I dont melee 1 trick

[hushed elk]

Might also be that other things (certainly) need to be nerfed, probably some combination of the two

[plain glade]

Throwing needs some love first lmao

[digital musk]

Hey man I took a throwing build to 1k

🙏

[hushed elk]

tbh I think the DPS of Flame Reave + Fireball can prob get pretty nuts, depending on how many Oblation stacks I can maintain

but defense/EHP is the primary barrier for pushing, esp for melee/mid range builds

7-10k armor and block cap is decent, but not enough generic DR/avoidance I think

not for giga corruption/waves anyway

[digital musk]

The big issues ime are initiating combat when you have little ward in a game where you are getting offscreened as you close in, and having less regen than ranged specs on half the bosses that jump out of melee range

[hushed elk]

Not an issue even for low static ward builds u just start slow until u have ur ward capped

[digital musk]

Melees should legit have a target unlimited ranged gap closer

[hushed elk]

My Warlock basically functions this way

I start echoes at 4kc with 4-5k static ward, but I can build up to 15-20k+ pretty quickly and then it's smooth sailing

if I play well deaths are near 0, I'm just lazy and afk brain farming most of the time at this point cuz burnout and stuff

[digital musk]

It just feels bad to play melee here idk

[hushed elk]

but yeah I need to see how it would feel w/ Flame Reave, I could see it feeling significantly worse

[digital musk]

I've tried a bunch

[hushed elk]

yeah I'll prob save edit and test when I'm done with Warlock

I believe it

[digital musk]

I haven't even tried spellblade

But I've done a bunch on every other class

[hushed elk]

idk in my head I'm thinking it will feel good until at least 1-2k... pretty sure I can make Flame Reave work

[digital musk]

Only one that felt good to me was bug back in .8(?) and even that was kinda just ok

[hushed elk]

but I need to test to see how it actually feels to paly, some things may be a bit impractical

[digital musk]

Yea on paper its always ok

And then you have like no hp by the time you get to melee range

And its like welp

[hushed elk]

This typically isn't an issue if u can build fast and have high amounts of avoidance/DR

for example my Warlock has 1m EHP vs 1 shots at 20k ward

at 10k ward I would have 400-500k

due to huge DR and good armor

[digital musk]

Your warlock can also build ward and do dmg while moving I assume as well

[hushed elk]

yeah that is the thing, but I typically just yolo into echoes at 3.9kc w/ 4k ward and very, very, very rarely get punished for it

but I'm also dodge capped with insane DR and 4-5k+ armor

[digital musk]

When you're getting aoe spammed and ranged attacks are flying

[hushed elk]

I'll just test before committing... have most of the gear already

[digital musk]

It feels so bad

[hushed elk]

I think it will only feel bad if u can't just zoom

like if u spam TP and speedclear it should be fine, would also be fine in arena for the most part if u dont afk AT ALL

but if it's a 2nd/3rd build, already capped out, don't care about loot or anything and can just GO with 0 downtime, the downside of not being able to generate ward on the move isn't as bad... I think

We'll see

I would agree there are definitely some huge downsides compared to generating ward via Ghostflame channeling

actually NEEDING to hit things to generate is a huge negative in a lot of scenarios

[digital musk]

That and there is 0 upside to melee

[hushed elk]

I mean, being fun is an upside xD

[digital musk]

Usually they'd at least do more dmg or something

Yea I'm all about fun first trust me

I play 0 meta

[hushed elk]

I also am not sure of how big Flame Reave radius can get w/ Sunwreath if u invest into AoE

half screen? full screen?

if u can push Flame Reave AoE to 50-75% of screen and have high mobility, might not feel that bad

also will be spamming Fireballs with 100% pierce

I know that nothing I do will come close to my Warlock, so I'm prob just gonna meme around with my next 2-3 builds anyway

[digital musk]

On self cooks I aim for 600-1k

If I can get there I'm happy

[hushed elk]

I only self cook xD

u mean dps?

[digital musk]

Self made

[hushed elk]

oh 600-1k corruption

[digital musk]

No bugged skills

Ya

[hushed elk]

Yeah I will push 7kc+ with no bug abuse so xD

dev expectation vs. reality seems to still be a bit... ?

[digital musk]

Just a bit ?

[obsidian reef]

nah spellblade on top 🔛 🔝

[hushed elk]

Who is this impostor? I'm the original #1 Shatterstrike Spellblade, circa 2020 or something xD

and yeah that just isn't true xD

[left falcon]

Thank you!

[obsidian reef]

what do you mean? spellblade is so definitely meta right now, definitely not neglected subclass at all

[robust junco]

laugh in Sentinel

[feral moss]

i think you mean marksman-using-bow is the meta right now. definitely bows are the top tier meta rn

there are so many viable S-tier bows (and quivers) to choose from. such build diversity

[obsidian reef]

I think you mean spellblade has build diversity? We have a total of 1 build capable of 1k+ corruption

[feral moss]

wow a whole 1, that's so many

[obsidian reef]

definitely does not need tweaking at all

[feral moss]

have you seen how many bow builds are at 1k+ corruption though. truly mindblowing

[obsidian reef]

Yeah the top spellblades on leaderboards right now definitely aren't mimics of frostclaw, definitely viable mastery

[hushed elk]

Doubt this is true

I will take Flame Reave to 1k+

unless ur tallking about Flame Reave

[obsidian reef]

have yet to see a flame reave build go far

would like to see it though

[hushed elk]

I also have pretty insane gear, but also CoF

[obsidian reef]

disprove spellblade single build allegations

[hushed elk]

I need to test some stuff, might just be trolling

but in my head/on paper seems good, usually my intuitions are fairly accurate

could be wrong

Primary issue is that Flame Ward used to be good, seems way too gutted

[obsidian reef]

Corruption pre-1.0 and post 1.0 is different though, if that was your experience
it's noticeably harder now to push corr

[hushed elk]

Need to nerf stat budget and allow for higher uptime or skill is dedge

[hushed elk]

im currently 3.9kc on Warlock

I will prob push 7-10k+

lol

SCSAF Cycle

CoF btw

[obsidian reef]

i mean yeah, warlock will warlock

[hushed elk]

yeah but I have a fairly accurate understanding of what it takes

primary issue w/ Flame Reave will be inflating EHP thru things other than ward (getting DR/avoidance that matters)

and the practicality of NEEDING to hit stuff to generate ward

rather than being able to perma channel Ghostflame

but there's a big diff between 1-2kc and 7-10kc+

but yeah idk we'll see

[obsidian reef]

flame reave to me seemed like it would suffer from dps issues

but if it's possible why not

[hushed elk]

did u run Oblation + Fireball with spell damage conversion

with maximum self ignite duration?

and crit?

that's my very rough idea, but still need to test some stuff

[obsidian reef]

I built 100% crit with sunwreath early game, didn't particularly like it so I dropped it

[hushed elk]

think u can get 4-5s self ignite duration w/ enchant weapon + Oblation

forget the exact values

with enough attack speed can prob maintain 20-30+ stacks maybe

mana might be the primary issue

can convert spell damage > melee fire 1:1 on Flame Reave whilke also autobombing Fireballs and easily scale crit on both via skill tree nodes + Peak

[obsidian reef]

there is exactly 1 flame reave spellblade on spellblade leaderboards right now

[hushed elk]

yeah I'm prob gonna save edit it when I'm done w/ Warlock before committing, so we'll see

but the play is certainly to play around Oblation/spell dmg

and crit

[digital musk]

Its significantly easier to push now wdym

[obsidian reef]

Huh, my experience was that 500-600 pre-1.0 was around 250 corr post 1.0

[digital musk]

Its quite literally the opposite

Even hearing about 4 digit corruption was rare

It was done obv but it was way harder

[obsidian reef]

well the enemy modifiers are quite literally more than pre-1.0 so idk what you want me to say

[digital musk]

The modifiers are ...more?

[obsidian reef]

yeah

[digital musk]

Did you play pre 1.0

[obsidian reef]

post 1.0 corruption affects enemy modifiers more

this was in their dev updates btw

[spare glen]

i think u have troubles reading

new corruption does NOT affect monolith modifiers at all

[obsidian reef]

whoa whoa i meant enemy health and dmg

not monolith modifiers

[spare glen]

but the guy above talking about modifiers

😕

[digital musk]

He literally said modifiers

Lmao

[obsidian reef]

welp I meant enemy health and dmg scaling by modifiers oops

[digital musk]

Enemy health and dmg is higher sure

But you don't have to avoid 300% ele dmg nodes

[spare glen]

i think new corruption is great but needs a lot of adjustment

[digital musk]

That last 6 maps

Its not even close

[feral moss]

i think you're great ❤️

[obsidian reef]

Always felt that post1.0 corruption was harder than pre-1.0 from the doubling in enemy scaling

could be wrong i guess

[digital musk]

You're the 1st person I've seen say this idk

I remember there was a big spellblade lifer in here around .8-9

Group assisted min max to go as far as possible

Went to like 500 or something

[obsidian reef]

and you are the first to say this ab pre 1.0 that i've heard of as well haha

ah well

[spare pendant]

random trash = easier, bosses = harder

or have more HP anyways

[digital musk]

Honestly it's hard to compare anyway

Cause we didn't have trade or cof

My item count within a month was 10x better than like 1k hours pre 1.0

[plain glade]

Spellbaddie💅 🔛🔝

[bold timber]

Guys, i have 3lp enigma. I dont have clue wich 2 prefixes gonna be best there. I follow typical frostclaw build from YT, frozensentinel.

with my 2lp enigma and t7 spell crit chance i have atm: total 79% :

Frostclaw skill points 23, (where 1 point in reding cascade). Crit multi i have 358% , crit chance 79%(with t7 on 2lp enigma), cast speed 185%.

What mods i should roll on 3lp enigma? please advice wich and why, really appriciate.

[opal mountain]

I’ll be honest man it depends on how high COR you want to hit. At around 1500-2000 you’re going to need max roll int and cast speed everywhere you can get it. If it doesn’t work out that way (COF probs) then you may want something else because the wrong warp variation will take less damage.

I like T7 cast speed and dodge rating currently since I’m at 3k dodge.

But if you get something like T7 cast speed and spell crit it will make your spark charges higher than something like lightning damage w/ cast speed. I don’t know why but crit chance scales the spark charge dmg really well.

You want to have like 240 cast speed standing in town so it sounds like you’re missing a roll

[sinful cape]

Anyone had any luck with building disintegrate to be free or massively reduced cost, following the maxroll disintegrate runemaster build but finding I run out of mana on those single target hp sinks 😆

[full bluff]

Which skill / build would be the fastest to get started on a fresh cycle with mage?

[pine prairie]

Hey guys, would dodge roll have consequences for some spellblade builds? I would imagine we don't necessarily need to use surge/teleport/flame rush anymore just for mobility.

[solemn viper]

i think the range of dodge will be smaller compared to those, they are still needed for mobility, also dodge has a cd as well so 2 dashes on a melee class will be very nice

[pine prairie]

I mean if we can fit it in there, sure.

Which for some builds might be easy.

Like spark will 100% use Surge anyway.

[solemn viper]

oh it is a separate key so you dont lose a skill slot

[pine prairie]

I know.

But because of that it becomes possible to not run any mobility.

Which gives you a slot for something else.

But also spark actually has mobility issues if it wants to use surge optimally (IE whenever it's available since it's a primary damage tool).

So the dodge roll only enhances that.

[astral moss]

Can I share my intended passives and skills here? I have a good idea of how I want my passives to look in the end, but could use another set of eyes. (I'm not planning on just looking at a guide though).

[digital musk]

I cannot even imagine a situation you wouldn't want a mobility tool unless the dodge has barely any cd and goes extremely far (doubt)

[astral moss]

I'm doing a ward build and have the boots that give me ward but drain health. Somehow, though, I'm getting health back when I kill enemies, and I honest-to-God can't figure out where it's coming from lol. Can someone please take a gander at my character and give me a hand? I checked skills, passives, gear, blessings, and idols.

[digital musk]

Sorc passive thats paired with pen

[solemn viper]

the sorcerer passive tree has life leeach in it, it's in the node that gives fire/ice/lightning damage and pen with leech afterwards

4th line they all give pen and leech for that element

[astral moss]

Oh, that's where I get it from. Thanks!

[solemn viper]

if you are running sorc or rm you generally do want that node tho, since twisted hearth has a lot more ward generation then a low life build

[astral moss]

I plan to do both. But yeah, I did notice my dps went down a lot as a consequence, and my ears generation went up but not by that much, so I think I may keep it after all. But hey, at least now I know!

[barren pawn]

devs just confirmed cycle is another 2 months

[plain glade]

It’s a sad day for LE fans 😔

[gritty trench]

Why?

[plain glade]

8 weeks instead of 2-6

I mean I expected it from the jump tbh

but still 😔

[barren pawn]

a 5+ month cycle is unacceptable

[gritty trench]

With such games time will be fly by unnoticed 🙃

[barren pawn]

especially when ythey already have the features for future cycles planned out it seems

[barren pawn]

Not even remotely true.

Seasonal games fall off massively after 3 months.

seasonal content updates are pretty much 3 months as per industry standards

taking longer kills interest

[plain glade]

Don’t go to general chat lmao

they’re not accepting that this may not be the most sound decision

[gritty trench]

You're probably right, I just don't spend much time playing games😔

[bold timber]

Hey guys, i wanna ask "again" for help. Couple minuts ago i believe i bought amazing Catalyst for frostclaw (want to finish it crafting, not sure about 2nd prefix what to roll there, what will be best.) About suffixes, i need all ele resistance + best will be void resistance. I want to also mirror this catalyst. Im going to slam it for 3lp enigma (got 2x 3lp enigmas just in case). Please advice what to roll, how to proced to the crafting from math point.. 41 forging potential.

https://i.imgur.com/r195MOW.jpeg

And there is my actuall profile, to check my: crit chance/crit multi and items (to advice whats gonna be best 2nd prefix.) Im playing frostclaw from frozensentinel yt guide. Thanks alot.

Profile: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BGxm1ldo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (26) / Runemaster (67)

General:

▸ Health: 1,128, Regen: 24/s
▸ Mana: 315, Regen: 13/s
▸ Ward Retention: 654%, Regen: 38/s
▸ Attributes: 29 Str / 16 Dex / 157 Int / 6 Att / 12 Vit
▸ Resistances: 58% / 78% / 58% / 65% / 78% / 70% / 84%
▸ EHP: 1,782 / 2,085 / 1,782 / 2,134 / 1,928 / 1,828 / 1,928

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 226
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (75)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 43% (2,465)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Elemental Nova (25)
• Flame Ward (22)
• Flame Rush (22)
• Runic Invocation (25)
• Frost Claw (23)

Used unique items:

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

[pine prairie]

If it's just to dodge things it should be fine.

scrolls up

Wait, there's people who don't want a solid finished product?

[digital musk]

tbf they want that and 3 month seasons

which i guess i understand

but just pray its more finished in 1.1

[pine prairie]

I prefer things to be released when they can reasonably be released.

If you want it sooner, it evidently will not be ready for release.

Otherwise they would have released it sooner.

[sinful cape]

The thing that'll blow your mind is those people who will rage about a delayed releases are the same people who will rage about incomplete/unfinished releases. 😆

[pine prairie]

I mean of course, it should have just been finished sooner, right?

[vast rune]

fk I just hope they dont go down the PoE path and add new league mechanics every single seasons

thats what killed PoE for me, so many league mechanics on top of already having to learn super indepth game mechanics

[nimble shoal]

Eventually, they will probably get to that point or something related. EHG typically comes up with really good design solutions to stuff like that, but worst case it's not even a concern for years.

[regal trout]

Hello

I have a question. I wanna ask you what should I change/improve in my build (I think it is ok but atm im stuggling sometimes). Is there a way to link my character here?

[bleak wind]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/YourUsername/character/YourCharactername this link can show people your character

[bleak wind]

Change the "yourusername" and "yourcharactername" part

[pine prairie]

Hm...

You know, it feels like

On the mage tree, the passives I choose while leveling up... Will not be the passives I will use later down the line.

Like I feel taking the health and the ward is pretty good, but becomes less of a big deal and I kinda want the int and resist instead. And the crit damage, which doesn't feel as useful early on.

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (25) / Spellblade (50) / Runemaster (13)

General:

▸ Health: 994, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 135, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 120%, Regen: 60/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 5 Dex / 30 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 42% / 18% / 42% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%
▸ EHP: 800 / 678 / 800 / 611 / 608 / 612 / 612

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 199
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (20)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 2% (31)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold / Melee

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Shatter Strike (20)

Used unique items:

None

[pine prairie]

Does mana strike give back mana per enemy hit or when it hits any enemy?

[pine prairie]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AV9DMORo This is what I'm thinking of rn.

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (25) / Spellblade (50) / Runemaster (13)

General:

▸ Health: 994, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 135, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 120%, Regen: 60/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 5 Dex / 30 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 42% / 18% / 42% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%
▸ EHP: 800 / 678 / 800 / 611 / 608 / 612 / 612

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 199
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (20)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 2% (31)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Shatter Strike (20)
• Frost Claw (20)
• Flame Ward (20)
• Mana Strike (20)
• Surge (20)

Used unique items:

None

[sweet basalt]

Hey guys i need some piece of advice about Teleport Vs Flame Rush. Between the two skill which of the two will be beneficial endgame?

[pine prairie]

Depends on the build.

[sweet basalt]

For Frostclaw runemaster for example.

[pine prairie]

Hm..

I'm not sure, sorry. Maybe someone else will come along later.

[warped kraken]

Flame rush

Can turn it cold for the cold-fire-cold runic invocation shield

It has also has 18% DR and doubled for DoTs

[pine prairie]

How do I use Diothaen's Bloody Nib?

[solemn viper]

You want enchant weapon absolutely, it is way too strong on melee attacks

Basically the “standard” way is mana strike shatter strike, you can also do frost claw + shatter strike if you pair it with the 10 mana back on melee attack

It’s a gamble but if you’re lucky you don’t run out of mana

[solemn viper]

It’s a very underwhelming item tbh, I think you kinda need a bleed build idk

Bleed on yourself

[regal trout]

Thank you 🙂 Now we can talk 😄

Im looking for an advice about what to change/improve in my character. I kind feel struggling around corruption (300). https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/oro1337/character/Waniushka

[solemn viper]

you want the armor blessing and you should change your amulet (omnis work until you get a good exhalted or just stay on omnis) and your rings (2x julra are good)

static shell also makes you much more tanky then unstable core

barbute as well intead of prismatic gaze

[pine prairie]

I was looking at it and you're probably right. I completely overlooked it. My previous Spellblade build did not use it. But that was because it was a spell build.

I also decided that even if I would use the bloody nib I'd already be well into empowered timelines.

Because it takes a lot of setup to not accidentally die.

[regal trout]

Wont I lose tons of dmg if I use Barbute?
Dont have omnis and didnt even find one (150h in) but gonna try to find one. Got 4x julra with LP on it.
Got one static shell with LP but then im not gonna be able to mana sustain frostclaw :/
Im gonna work on blessings thank you.

[pine prairie]

I noticed that shatter strike and cold surge also have spell procs, does anyone ever use spell builds with cold?

Also how good is flame ward's retaliate if you're not stacking spell damage?

It feels like getting rid of the retaliate for more ward could be decent.

[mortal sand]

Does it help loading more chance to chill if I'm already getting 3 stacks on 1st hit ? What would adding more help?

[solemn viper]

if your problem is staying alive then you dont care much about damage, if you have no problem staying alive then keep prismatic it is a lot more damage, julra is a necessity until you get red rings even unslammed are better then your current rings

you want static shell for damage as well and you can sustain frostclaw mana with the nodes and idols

you need 3 points at least in spark of celerity and 2 idols with the mana cost of frost claw

[regal trout]

Ok i understand. Gonna test it out and see how is it goign 🙂

Thank you so much man

[solemn viper]

yeah i think we all overlooked it xD but it is very strong, there are some very experienced spellblades here that can def help you more then i can

[pine prairie]

How needed is Flame Ward?

The straight up damage reduction node seems valuable tho.

[pine prairie]

10 mana back on melee?

Although.... Regarding flame ward, I wonder if I can bump up the freeze rate to absurd degrees.

[sinful cape]

Is Gamblers fallacy only able to be obtained from the soulfire bastion? Or can it be farmed elsewhere like a monolith?

[mortal sand]

only soulfire

[solemn viper]

very much needed or you basically die xD

with low life the ward retention and the high amount of ward it gives is a necessity

[regal trout]

Just slammed 14int on Julra ❤️

[solemn viper]

there is a node in the spellblade tree that gives you 10 mana back on melee attack but only has a 30% chance

that with frostclaw can maintain your mana

[pine prairie]

High amount of ward?

[solemn viper]

NICE that's so much int

[solemn viper]

yeah, it is a lot for spellblade

[regal trout]

Ye but i need somehow 24 in frostclaw ehhh

[solemn viper]

what you wanna do is live in dragon's timeline xD

it is not needed but its very nice to have 24 points in fc

[regal trout]

What is there?

[solemn viper]

emperor of corpses

he drops twisted heart

[regal trout]

Ahhh LP heart

[pine prairie]

How is this mana strike tree? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/389224360138899456/1238770618988630076/Screenshot_20240511-1029172.png?ex=66407e8a&is=663f2d0a&hm=b94a5f471d25435ecf3f32e9d3616364ee6457cbd829a712477a73732b0a8fc2&

[regal trout]

Ye but first I need relic with frostclaw 😄

Which i never found even +1

[solemn viper]

i know you are supposed to use the top part of the tree, check some builds with mana strike so you get an idea

[pine prairie]

Supposed to?

[solemn viper]

it could be your loot filter

[solemn viper]

ya people go with the top nodes, not the ranged ones but the right top part

[regal trout]

Got it from FrozenSentinel 😛

[solemn viper]

no idea on that loot filter i did my own based on a generic one i found xD

[regal trout]

Ah he have frost claw in it 😛

[solemn viper]

maybe it's only t7

t6 is also ok

[pine prairie]

Well, there is a global damage buff there. But I'm trying to maximize mana gain in as few uses as possible.

If I were playing Spark I'd use the top half.

But that's because mana strike would be my basic attack.

[solemn viper]

yes and no, you want to use spellblade rightmost passive as well

[regal trout]

More or Equal than 6 (its ok?)

[solemn viper]

ya t6 or t7 is fine

[pine prairie]

The one that gives it a cooldown?

[solemn viper]

no the one where using low mana cost melee attack gives more damage to high cost melee attacks

rightmost and bottom

[pine prairie]

Oh on the passive tree.

[solemn viper]

yep

[pine prairie]

But then I'd be alternating constantly. 😦

[solemn viper]

exactly why i dont use it since i do not like using mana strike xD

[pine prairie]

Like wouldn't it be better to shatter strike twice?

That would deal double damage rather than a mere 15%

[unborn hamlet]

Spellblade enjoyers suffering is all I see in this chat honestly

[pine prairie]

Rude.

[unborn hamlet]

Pray cycle 1 will give you a lifeline

But seeing the road map, even that is copium

[pine prairie]

Go away

Nobody loves you

[unborn hamlet]

[pine prairie]

Does mana strike give mana per enemy hit?

[solemn viper]

not true i enjoy it, idc if it cant push a billion corruption, it is fun and that's all that matter for me anyway

[pine prairie]

Don't bother, they're not worth your time.

[unborn hamlet]

I'm not saying otherwise, I just stated what I see everytime I look here

And this Manock guy is offended by nothing

[solemn viper]

the only part i dont like is that it is too much a "fighter" rather then a mage

but spell + melee feels worse

[pine prairie]

See what I mean?

Just going around trolling.

[unborn hamlet]

See what you mean? You literally instantly insulted me for no reason, maybe act like a normal human being

[pine prairie]

I never insulted you.

[unborn hamlet]

.

[pine prairie]

Does the sky get insulted when I call it blue?

[unborn hamlet]

Anyway, back to work, maybe this guy learns some common skills in communication till I get back, and learn how to read skill descriptions while he's at it

[pine prairie]

Comes in here being a troll.

Accuses other people of being bad at communicating.

[unborn hamlet]

I never did anything, maybe read again what I said

You're just huffing some massive copium cos you know you're in the wrong

[pine prairie]

You said, and I quote "Spellblade enjoyers suffering is all I see in this chat honestly" followed by omegalul.

[unborn hamlet]

There is this nice button on discord, you can mute people, if you think I'm a troll, just hit it

Yeah because it's true

I even said enjoyers

Where did I say you're bad at the game, or the class is bad

It's not, it's just outdated, I even pray they buff it

And you're just offended

Like man what is your problem

[pine prairie]

Oh my, saying something offensive and then people get offended, surprised Pikachu face.

[unborn hamlet]

Lmao ok,

I can see you have some personal issues, I'll leave it at that

[pine prairie]

You just can't stop.

[unborn hamlet]

Yes, cos I never started

Hope spellblade gets buffed so it's more fun to play, peace,

[regal trout]

Bro I started talking with you and omnis just dropped... 😄

[pine prairie]

I am 'suffering', I 'need a lifeline', I'm on 'copium', I'm 'offended by nothing', I 'don't act like a normal human being', I 'need common skills in commiunication' I 'need to learn how to read skill descriptions', I'm 'huffing massive copium', I 'have personal issues', but no no, you 'never started'.

[pine prairie]

Oh that's cool. Grats.

[mortal sand]

Is 999+ frostbite stacks and 600k DoT ok?

[pine prairie]

That sounds like a lot but honestly idk. What corruption?

[mortal sand]

200, but haven't pushed yet. starting the corruption grind now

[plain glade]

Spellblade 🔛🔝

[unborn hamlet]

On a dummy? That's about mediocre, definitely a good start tho, on actual bosses if you hit for about 15-20k you'll be good for a while

My frostbite on a dummy is near 7mil, aprox 7k stacks, but that's pretty much endgame near bis build

Real DMG on boss is 100-120k

Per tick

[mortal sand]

I'll check soon. farming outcasts and abomination is permafrozen, takes about 10 sec. Only level 90 now and having a hard time with LP's and exalts

I just switched from ice scepter to ladle, waiting for good LP Ire. What are you using?

[sharp monolith]

Hello, for a runemaster's invocation, does my cast speed allow the invocation (hydra for ex) to shoot at a faster rate ?