🧙┃mage

[weary hamlet]

should still be good yeah

[minor wasp]

Yeh it will do the job nicely

[fiery gyro]

i lovee the effects on the screen from the build

i need that

[vapid lion]

does this count towards channeled skills so that you endlessly channel a crit
Trinity of Flames

[harsh abyss]

No, things like that only affect the first hit.

So every 3rd time you start channeling, the first hit will auto-crit

[celest urchin]

Let's hope spellblade will have non shatter strikes builds that SLAPS

[harsh abyss]

I'm betting there's a cold mana strike frostbite build in there somewhere that is pretty great

[minor wasp]

It will work but SS is straight up better as a main skill with Mana Strike as a filler

[strong knoll]

mana strike can sustain the mana for full volley + all extra casts of frost claw

[humble goblet]

I just looked it up on maxroll, looks insane

I think i'll play that since disintegrate is apparently a coinflip

[strong knoll]

also mana strike has range

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, this is the way. Mana strike itself is worse than SS, but it can enable a lot of stuff because it's constantly regening your mana.

[strong knoll]

dragorath's as well. you get enough mana to sustain constant full frost claw and chaining lightning blast procs no matter how fast your attack speed is

[harsh abyss]

Yeah. Overloaded mana strike triggering FC and LB was nutty last cycle. With the new node that adds flat crit chance, that'll be nutty.

Also, you could do it with Focal Blast, which would be kinda cool

[strong knoll]

i got 100% spell crit with no crit anywhere but int

pretty good for the ward gen too

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I saw a distintegrate spellblade build that was still using Ignivar's Head for a massive more multi because of that.

[strong knoll]

oh and since you are going through so much mana, mana spent gained as ward also becomes a good amount of sustain

[harsh abyss]

Well, sounds like Mana Spent Gained as Ward only works with direct casts

[strong knoll]

ah right

[harsh abyss]

But also, Prodigy gives you a crapton of ward/sec, so that's good as well

If you're getting up to 150+ Int, that build is gonna feel real good for anything you do

I'm planning to go a bit of a different way, doing mana stacking mana strike. At 1000 mana, you're adding 150 flat melee damage and 100% base crit chance

[carmine lantern]

Hey guys!
I played a Void thingy at launch, I'm thinking about going glacier sorcerer, looks like it will be very nice after the buffs

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, all estimations are that it's gonna be very good

[weary hamlet]

SLAPS? Probably not, but surge is still going to be decent

[warm owl]

can u start as Frostbite Claw Sorc? or does it have to be glacier as lvlin build+

[charred notch]

Is there a Chain lightning build ?

[waxen seal]

any good frostclaw big aoe builds ?

[harsh abyss]

Both of those exist, you'll want to look on lastepochtools or maxroll for the specifics

[warm owl]

yeah but can frostclaw be played as lvling build? seems like glacier is so much better?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, you can definitely level with it

[warm owl]

ty

[celest urchin]

The non-relevant old skills didn't change enough to create a new spellblade meta ?

[harsh abyss]

Spellblade didn't see many significant overhauls, but they did get a lot more flat crit chance on their passive tree, which should make some builds feel quite a bit better.

[wanton nacelle]

frostbite frostclaw was hardnerfed?

[surreal arrow]

freeze and frostbite yes, frostclaw got kinda buffed but with everything going on I'd play with it first :D

[harsh abyss]

Yes, but like... down to reasonable levels probably. It was pretty massively OP last cycle

[strong knoll]

i never used snowdrift on my frostbite builds and damage was still nuts, so big buff to me :^)

[minor wasp]

Ok so it sounds like it works better if you’re going the crit route, with LB converted to cold.

For frostbite stacking, SS will still be better due to all the hits through all the projectiles that can be specced into

[wicked mist]

So spark charge on sorc the thing now? 100% damage taken as mana super tank?

[minor wasp]

Freeze was nerfed but frostbite was buffed

[flat viper]

Shatterstrike ll work on 500 corrup ?

[weary hamlet]

largely not, they updated a few of the worst passives in the tree and made some minor tweaks to SS, but for instance Flame Reave still got nothing going for it.

[weary hamlet]

sure, I guess you could pull it up to 1k with optimal gear

[flat viper]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/shatter-strike-spellblade-guide

Is that build guide good to follow ?

[celest urchin]

Basically spellblade is kinda same F tier but better ?
Not terrible but not close to be as good as the best classes ?

[strong knoll]

i dunno runemaster kinda swapped with spellblade imo

[harsh abyss]

The blind changes are a buff to everyone

[strong knoll]

snowdrift = frostbite pen boots

[stuck vessel]

Never played the mage class only falconeer how's the blade version of the class kinda looks sick

[harsh abyss]

It's possible to get up to like... 107% damage taken as mana before life, so I'm sure someone is going to try it and see how horrible it is.

[weary hamlet]

lol not even close, sb still has abysmal build diversity

sb has like one good build and let's be generous and say that two other decent builds, rm has like 30 good builds and god only knows how many "decent"

[strong knoll]

idc about build diversity i care about having a good build that doesnt fall over on empowered

[wicked mist]

Has anyone mathed out glacier damage passives on Cold Snap(Middle explosion damage scaling) vs keeping all 3?

[strong knoll]

without frostguard runemaster gonna be deadge

[wary spindle]

how does this work with channeling abilitys ?

[grizzled lily]

slightly better, 2 hit glacier and normal glacier is exactly same added damage effectiveness but the 2nd explosion has slightly more more damage

[weary hamlet]

then how is this relevant to ranking classes? If you only care about one build, rank builds. SS crit is at least A tier by tier list logic

[harsh abyss]

Each "Cast" of a channeling ability only counts the first tick/hit of damage. You have to restart the channel for it to count as another "spell"

[wary spindle]

thats nice thx

[winter spire]

what u think about spellblade?

[hexed cosmos]

Is Spellblade levelling likely to be any less suffering?

[weary hamlet]

is spellblade leveling paticularly bad? Never noticed that

[simple jewel]

I mean if you can get enough dmg it obviously = immortality with endurance on mana

[rich badger]

How is everyone leveling for Sorc?

[harsh abyss]

Unlock sorc -> Cast meteors

Pretty straightforward 😝

[wheat grove]

never used meteors myself, I remember I went full fireball

[grave lynx]

What build would yall recommend for starting this cycle?

[simple jewel]

idk if i want to play spark charge sorc or static orb coc meteor

[clear smelt]

is the general consensus that frost claw runemaster is still viable/strong?

[harsh abyss]

Even just after unlocking sorc, if you wait a while to get Twin Meteors you can cast plenty of meteors before running oom

[wheat grove]

I have no idea what to start with as well 🙂

[minor gorge]

sorc may be better

[clear smelt]

got a link to the build? ah nvm got it

[minor gorge]

https://youtu.be/SrDFooDWruI?si=s4ylSvdrw9SaCTs2

[tacit umbra]

I prefer this build for solo player like me

[clear smelt]

yeah I'll run that! thx

[minor gorge]

same, lmao, looks insane

prob has paper defense but really if ur only pushing 1k corruption max it doesnt truly matter tbh

[simple jewel]

With the xp/favor changes
idk if it's even worth pushing past 1k

[minor gorge]

it isnt, thats my point

[simple jewel]

I'm gonna play something very similar but with Ice Barrage was talking to FrozenSentinel about it
IB adds like 15 spark charges per second

[earnest leaf]

Think I'm doing glacier / meteor

[crystal hollow]

Same. First time but it looks pretty cool

[wheat grove]

what are the best fire builds though? I played a half self-made runemaster with the hydrahedrons, and felt that it was fun but extremely squichy (i'm sure my gear was not optimal either)

[earnest leaf]

Looks perfect for farming.

[worn shell]

meteor spam is pretty fun and fire and gives craterborn if you end up just wanting to use it for other things

[crystal hollow]

I wonder if you could do a similar build but with using frostclaw as the catalyst for the crit

[stable terrace]

dreads ignite volcanic orb seems decent as a cycle starter

[woven moss]

I heard if you play glacier sorc in 1.1 youre cheating

[harsh abyss]

Glacier has always been strong, so with general sorc buffs it should be very good, heh

[wicked mist]

do you want to check my napkin math on middle vs large build? Since both are the same mana cost... I think large hit is ahead? (but QOL might be better with Middle build since the explosion comes faster?) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ar4s8KUUNYCP7yiro1GN_7dYBbiTYjA2caQzQ8qm0MI/edit?usp=sharing

[earnest leaf]

Good.

[worn shell]

you can just reverse order to get large hit immediately tbf

[wicked mist]

My math might be completely wrong too lol

[wheat grove]

haha, I much prefer fire myself if possible (purely due to asthetics), but might check out the frost build too indeed

[woven moss]

Go fire and youre good. Thank you for not cheating.

[earnest leaf]

How is glacier cheating?

[wheat grove]

checked the gameplay for the build, and that looked mighty boring to me tbh. Super powerful yes, but also just boring

[peak stone]

Will I have fun as a fireball sorc in last epoch for the new season?

[harsh abyss]

That's why I can't play Warpath builds

[sour thicket]

Mana sorcerer looks so much fun

[stable terrace]

glacier harbinger static orb feels like will be fun

[wheat grove]

only you can answer that lol

[harsh abyss]

Fireball Sorc should be plenty powerful though

[peak stone]

haha im new to last epoch trying to find a build thats similar to the style of sorc from d2

[stable terrace]

idk ive never been able to make a harbinger build work and now is the time it feels

[grizzled lily]

I think the problem is you added all the more damage multiplier to one big multiplier? Like 200% more 140% more and 50% more is not 390% but multiplying with each other so 10.8/1080%

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, remember that all sources of Increased stack additively, all sources of More stack multiplicatively

[wicked mist]

makes sense, thanks

[mild igloo]

Fun and push are different.. fun, Yes!

[inner plover]

Frostbite Frostclaw Sorc or Torment Warlock .... help me 🙂

[strong knoll]

both

[inner plover]

fair 🙂

[earnest leaf]

Just do whichever you feel with farm the best first, then you can grind for alts easier. If you plan on playing alts that is

[molten cobalt]

why does my client say 1.0.8.5 when I have updated to 1.1?

[olive violet]

still cant decide between sorc, falconer, lich, lock >_<

[burnt vine]

We have a few minutes delay while waiting on a backend service to deploy. The game should be available for download in just a few more minutes. We apologize for the delay!

[molten cobalt]

ohh oki thanks for letting me know

[remote solar]

I never played spark charge last patch, did sorc get buffed enough to compare to runemaster this cycle?

[olive violet]

hopefully so i can save my wrists XD

[tribal veldt]

yes

[molten cobalt]

I have the exact same question

[rotund socket]

let try sorc 🙂

[remote solar]

ive never rolled a mage so i dont know how to interpret the patch notes myself

[brisk barn]

better version with alhemist ladle or dragorath claw?

[weary hamlet]

it's more that rm was nerfed down to more reasonable levels

[stable terrace]

also spark charge sorc passive potentially busted if works

[molten cobalt]

played sorc in 1.0 but quit quickly due to lack of content and I'd like to do sorc again, don't like the runemaster concept

[minor gorge]

ladle prob imo

[remote solar]

do all sorcs basically need to stack mana

[weary hamlet]

runemaster doesn't really have a "concept", back before this patch (that gave sorc a bit of a unique identity) rm was just a strictly better sorc

[tribal veldt]

probably not when people get to play with the changes a bit, but it'll be what most people are doing

[minor gorge]

no but you are heavily incentivized to do so now

[fiery finch]

I'm so happy glacier is so strong now, I loved leveling up with it when runemaster was op last season, and now that it is its own build- gonna be fun

[remote solar]

whats the goto leveling for sorc?

[olive violet]

glacier. its okay, no idea why anyone would want to play glacier end game though its so slow

[minor gorge]

volcanic orb or glacier

[weary hamlet]

any dps skill works fine for leveling and early monos, really

[remote solar]

and i assume the ward nerfs will hit the pure ward versions from last patch pretty hard

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, there won't be 'infinite' ward builds any more.

[minor gorge]

FC builds will likely still hit ward cap fairly easily, idk

[worn wagon]

WTB ice barrage end game smashin

[remote solar]

you mean the 4k soft "cap"?

[minor gorge]

they'll be able to hit the 4k giga easily yes, should be able to sit higher though w int investment

[burnt vine]

The patch is available, please restart your steam if you do not see it available for download 😄

[harsh abyss]

Work meetings? What are those. <cough cough> Sorry I'm sick today

[minor geode]

is spellblade fun/strong ?

[molten cobalt]

has anything changed with CoF and MG that puts one before the other, as a mage? I did CoF in 1.0

[remote solar]

some cof buffs for boss drops and experimentals + level thresh pusharounds

[molten cobalt]

buffs to farming stuff like twisted heart? that item was a pain in the ass

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, 150% increased boss drops from one of the higher tiers

[remote solar]

yes but twisted heart ward gen won't be as busted as before, though still tons of value with the other stats

[weary hamlet]

mg had and will always be better, it's real ezmode. But COF was improved a little for farming boss drops.

[worldly harness]

Servers are still down?

[molten cobalt]

took me 135h to get sick and tired of 1.0 and that was with COF, worried 1.1 wont even last that long if I go MG

[burnt vine]

The team are aware of the 'Online Play Unavailable' issue some players are having - and are currently investigating!

[harsh abyss]

Probably just overloaded with people trying to log in

[olive violet]

honestly more to do with no good endgame content than anything

[worldly harness]

cool

[worn shell]

MG makes you bored after 1 hour

[harsh abyss]

I just don't like to worry about the value of items I find for trading

[wicked mist]

thanks, I got it to 1095 middle total vs 668 all 3 total now

[tribal veldt]

xd

[rustic gull]

heyo, am new to mage and saw a build for spark charge Spellblade with the item "Fragment of the enigma" anyone know if its a trap build or can i get to like lvl 90 and do mono's comfy

[hollow idol]

wait is it only for some players or all players?

[minor gorge]

got the name Static, but can't play, rofl

[stable terrace]

enigma is defienitely not a trap build

[edgy heart]

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[worn shell]

no, nobody is an enjoyer right now

[stable terrace]

I just tested the spark mage passive on offline, it definietly applies to all ice barrage hits

[deep lagoon]

How do they mess this up again is beyond me

[rustic gull]

thx will try it out ^^

[delicate smelt]

whats your preferences? Runemaster Sorcerer Spellblade?

[tribal veldt]

character names aren't exclusive, sorry to disappoint. I can just be bob every time if I want

[worn shell]

it's all the fault of sentinels

[molten cobalt]

me, me but no clue what to do this season

[olive violet]

spark charge sorc does look fun, not sure how good itll be compared to torment lock though

[deep lagoon]

Probably only US beeing able to play online as always

[worn shell]

no, US here, we can't play either :/

[stable terrace]

didn't torment get a bunch of nerfs? survivability for high corruptioon will be an issue

[unreal inlet]

what should i go for this cycle havent got thea patch yet on steam

[edgy heart]

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[unreal inlet]

what am i reading servers down ?

[stable terrace]

servers yeah are down

[steel cedar]

BARF

[minor gorge]

oh i guess cant share a name w your legacy characters then, cuz it was saying taken lol

[tribal veldt]

maybe I'm wrong? if I am then I have bob I guess lmfao

[hard pike]

man, this channel is so relaxing compared to the chaos in main

[minor gorge]

cuz mages r chill homies

[harsh abyss]

All we want to do is ponder our orbs 🤷‍♀️

[hard pike]

so, does anyone else find the mage's appearance suspiciously similar to count dooku?

[burnt vine]

Not all players are experiencing this, unfortunately some players are having online issues that we are looking into.

[weary hamlet]

"some players" is the corporate speak for "all players"

[deep lagoon]

"Some" lol #💬┃general is burning it's thousands

[hard pike]

i did see a few people in general claiming to be in, but yeah, could very well just be trolling

[edgy heart]

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[harsh abyss]

I mean... when there are probably tens of thousands of people trying to play, even thousands are a drop in the bucket 🤷‍♀️

[barren belfry]

as in offline players are fine

[worn shell]

It's all players, except streamers probably

[deep lagoon]

I'm in wow

[hollow idol]

okay im actually in

[edgy heart]

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[worn shell]

neil is confirmed streamer btw guys 😐 also no chill ever, chill is hte enemy, I shock and charge and occasionally burn, but never chill

[wary spindle]

do i have 100% uptime if i use aa channeling skill?

[gritty dust]

Log in dude! Spell blade here we go

[hard pike]

nah dude, them 30 minutes were the most important of my life. world ending rn

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[hard pike]

between the hot pockets and mountain dew, of course

[plain walrus]

How good is mana regen for Sorc now

[tidal helm]

Really good, needed even

[modern birch]

Is glacier sorcerer decent?

[spice gull]

I was looking at that or frostclaw

[tidal helm]

Looks like it yeah

[upbeat imp]

most sorc builds will be decent

[tidal helm]

I Will go meteor or glacier i think, but beware if ur playing MG, sorc items will be pricy af

[spice gull]

Why? Is everyone playing sorc this cycle?

[plain walrus]

cause it got a massive ward and mana regen buff, it always had awesome dps but its ward and mana regen were ass

[upbeat imp]

couple that with Runic invo basically being a dead skill, sorc will likely pull ahead.

Edit: Slowmode. time to head outta the discord for a bit. GL gamers.

[plain walrus]

well runic needed to be nerfed bad not as bad as it was but it needed a nerf

[upbeat imp]

unfortunately, it wasj ust one invo that was nerfed but the whole skill is really dead outside of that

[full bluff]

Spark charge is getting a bit out of control now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz6fz3t28c

[earnest leaf]

lmao, my eyes.

[full bluff]

Ice barrage wipes everything off screen, spamming spark charges, this is just silly

[simple jewel]

wait what's going on
the crits spawn meteors which spawn spark charges which spawn meteors etc?

• arcane currents

[earnest leaf]

Uh oh, Sanctum gonna cook

[simple jewel]

wait nvm he was just manually casting meteor for mana
yeah that just looks like the build I'm gonna play FC + IB + meteor with teleport to get back 150ish mana

[full bluff]

yes just using meteor for mana there, but not sustaining the spam that way. This was a test of spark charge triggering

[simple jewel]

yeah FC + IB should be like what 40-60 procs per second?

[full bluff]

Everye FC hit triggers spark charge + each ice spike, so it gets pretty insane in maps

[simple jewel]

can not directly casted skills proc arcane current?

[barren belfry]

got my first unique with lp 🤔 is this a scripted drop?

[frosty pewter]

So with the patch notes what good builds have people figured out?

[median yew]

what best build mage ice ?

[tall oasis]

oh yeah, disintegrate is there. oh yeah....

[hollow arrow]

they really changed up disintegrate so prolly gonna see a few builds of that for sure

[timid spear]

we thinking that spark charges get a hotfix or is cycle of the spark charge back in business?

[hard orbit]

is runemaster giga nerfed or?

[wicked mist]

melee spark charge or just frost claw casts better?

[timid spear]

40 point sorc passive with 40 mana cost spells + enigma offhand

[full bluff]

I suspect mid cycle nerf 😛

[earnest leaf]

Unless it's a bug, they normally do not do that.

[timid spear]

like 500 flat dmg or 300,000k x 100 dps from just spark charges

[hollow arrow]

Might try same runemaster setup

[full bluff]

Now we just need to perma freeze the bosses and we are back in cycle 1 🙂

[elfin flame]

ya'll running glacier for leveling or anyone doing something actually fun?

[molten cobalt]

is sorc on par with runemaster now or still a wide gap in performance?

[silk summit]

did EHG fix 'Power Word: Hail' ignoring the Ice Barrage cooldown

[harsh abyss]

Should be much closer now, with all the buffs

[earnest leaf]

level how you want to level. I usually go the route of whatever is the quickest to get me to end game

[timid spear]

with the frostguards nerf and new sorc tree i think sorc is way ahead now

[molten cobalt]

i dont like runic invocations, feels clunky

[tall oasis]

I love em tbh, but it really depends on the build. once everything clicked, Hydrahedron was actually tons of fun

You can also limit the complexity and possible combos to guarantee specific Runic procs

[olive violet]

still stuck in loading hell, do hope itll be okay soon

[lavish crest]

is there a new disintegrate build when it got buffed

[full bluff]

I think sorc 40 mana frost claw is going to need mana regen over cast speed

[tall oasis]

Im still on the fence btw. well, im literally on the fence, i have to choose now

[molten cobalt]

why now?

[tall oasis]

Well, i can delay the mastery selection, but i really shouldnt be

[molten cobalt]

forgot how quickly mastery selection comes

[tall oasis]

Its going to have to be RM, im afraid. Simply a better kit, even if heavy hitters dont gain the passive

[minor wasp]

Sorc will probably get mid cycle nerf, you heard it here first. I’m avoiding spark charge stuff

[timid spear]

its a long season, make one of each

[tall oasis]

There are no mid cycle nerfs. Only bug fixes

[full bluff]

Just wait until static orb sorcs kill the final boss in 2sec 🙂. Everyone will forget about spark charges then

[minor wasp]

They can just say the spark charge interaction is a bug 🤪

[tall oasis]

If it works as described, its not. The terminology is very simple

[timid spear]

spark charges from static orb will kill the boss in 2 secs tho

[minor wasp]

But does it work as intended. Did they intend to make an interaction that will no doubt hit the heights of corruption they said they don’t want us to be getting to?

[simple jewel]

I mean it does work as intended

every hit on a 40 mana cost skill spawns one
25-30 hits per cast on FC
10-15 per second on IB
it's just how it works lol

[timid spear]

true but 30m dps probably isnt intended

[minor wasp]

If they intended to make such an overpowered build then they are going fully against what they said about us hitting insane corruption levels

[wicked mist]

just a little programming oopsie of not capping something

[minor wasp]

A.k.a not intended

[timid spear]

could be a cycle 3 change tho, either way the devs are clear with what they want

[wicked mist]

prob needs an internal cooldown of like 100ms or something

[simple jewel]

not intended is very different from they didn't anticipate the rammifications of the change

[timid spear]

enigma scaling less helps a lot, 2 flat per 1 int is cray

[feral dew]

Was the Kindling Blade skill passive for Enchant Weapon ever fixed? I remember it was broken for a very, very long time.

[somber stream]

What happened to RM that my frostclaw build is no longer able to sustain mana?!

[timid spear]

only applies once per cast instead of 4

[somber stream]

🙄

[elfin mason]

Does flame vent not work with ember/dancing fire? With fire spray its doing the 3 but not doing multiple with the other two nodes.

[full bluff]

Updated my old frost claw spark charge sorcerer to 1.1, if anyone need inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZjrt9y5DM The build is way better than before 🙂

[molten cobalt]

doing campaign all over feels pretty silly

[nova girder]

is teleport bugged?? im not getting haste

[timid spear]

what corruption is that red

[tribal sierra]

yeah wish there as a way to skip it like d4

[full bluff]

800, the harbinger 1 shot me after abo boss :P. Not used to being squishy

[molten cobalt]

is there even a reason to play season over eternal?

[nova girder]

cool kids play season only

[earnest leaf]

start fresh, new economy.

[molten cobalt]

dont think im going MG anyway

[full bluff]

Look for -4 mana cost wrong warps, -5 is too much, -3 too little 🙂

[charred schooner]

sorc mastery bugged? doesnt seem to increase dmg based on mana at all?

[earnest leaf]

Guess its preference then. I don't like the idea of picking up an old char again, but if you don't want to grind through the campaign and don't mind playing the same class go for it. I haven't played in a few months so its fun to start fresh.

With that being said there are videos on how to breeze through the campaign fairly quickly.

[mystic sparrow]

Why would you ever NOT play a new economy, new characters, new rush to get powerful again?

[molten cobalt]

because COF doesnt care about the economy?

[mystic sparrow]

Well, I always play COF HC... Even on a personal level, I don't see the point of keeping playing a char that is already powerful and can push corruption, specially when the game didn't really have any end-game besides higher number on C

Starting fresh feels a lot more interesting, to me... Also, isnt the pinnacle bosses only available on Cycle, til they're killed?

[molten cobalt]

didn't mean playing the same character, but it is easier skipping campaign on an alt no? with keys or whatever they're called

[minor wasp]

Every cycle it’s like a brand new game to me

[mystic sparrow]

Sure, alts can skip campaign... But starting totally fresh and see how much better and faster I can go is part of my fun (and it's fine if it's not for you, just stating where I come from)
Also, you can go up to Haeborean or whatever Era, up to the tree guy mini boss and from there jump to Monoliths, that should be a 3:30h run or so... Even being slow

[full bluff]

I play 1 new char each cycle, and experiment with builds and stuff on my old ones.

[thin shard]

whats the best mage build atm guys?

overall

[rich badger]

you guys leveling meteor or glacier

[spring sentinel]

GLACIER

[tribal sierra]

what is a decent mage build now

[harsh abyss]

Mana stacking Sorcerer gonna be pretty hot this league, lots of flavors of that floating around

[olive violet]

for leveling? glacier.
For endgame? probably some static surge shenanigans

[molten cobalt]

someone please remind me, what are these pale yellow items? not the regular rare items, these have a lighter yellow color

[earnest leaf]

pale yellow usually has a special affix marked in yellow on it. those items are uncraftable (no forge potential) but can be decent as leveling items because of the special affix on it.

[green pike]

Anyone know why I have both disintegrate + volcanic orb proc and its not casting on proc?

[molten cobalt]

alright, thanks

[naive hazel]

Proc on hit?

Is there a list of Disintegrate scales with? My tooltip doesnt change when I add cast speed (?)

[dusky locust]

have to channel the 3 seconds

[nova girder]

anyone knows how often nemesis mobs spawn? been like 10 zones without seeing one

[mortal acorn]

im at the end of time i picked my special class..

[dusky locust]

Is there a cap on the amount of Spreading Flame stacks, asking for this

[half pollen]

1

[mortal acorn]

where do you level once you have got to the end of time / everything 1 shots me

[tame loom]

just dropped this for my shatterblast build

[true geyser]

what are u supposed to spam on a spellblade lol

[dusky locust]

Flamebrand?

[true geyser]

mana strike or shatter strike cuz im tryna build it full electricity damage

[thick rover]

make a static charge build

[nova girder]

anyone else noticing mana regening in chunks instaed of smoothly? feels like vanilla wow

[thick rover]

its a great spellblade full eletric.

[true geyser]

im using static charge and mana charge but what other 2 abilities should i use cuz i use electric ward and tp now

[harsh abyss]

For a spellblade, Surge will be good once you unlock it

[true geyser]

this is what im using rn

[harsh abyss]

Yeah that seems reasonable

[tame loom]

lol pretty much same

[nova girder]

is teleport bugged? its not giving haste NVM IM RESTARTED

[true geyser]

l m a o

[harsh abyss]

Do you already have haste while using it? The node refreshes haste duration. It doesnt' grant it if you don't already have it

[tame loom]

those feel the best rn

[true geyser]

le chad

[dusky locust]

lvl 23 btw lol funny skill

[tame loom]

yeah but its channelled i thoguth of using it but standing in one place

[rich badger]

how is disintegrate comparing to glacier?

[true geyser]

wot lvl r u

[tame loom]

i just hit 25

[true geyser]

ffs

[tame loom]

why xD

[true geyser]

im 21 lmao

[thick rover]

im critting 1200 with glacier lvl 21

[tame loom]

oh its my 2nd play through and first mage so learning xD

[dusky locust]

My disintergrate is casting Fireball everytime I stop channeling so I'm just ramping ignite

[true geyser]

yeah same i just got to lvl 23 on a paladin and im like right at the same spot as i was with him

forgot that i just unlocked this fella from the twitch thing

[tame loom]

oh damn i only played the mage

gota buy a supporter pack soon to support this

[green hedge]

lucomancer/resurgence feels inconsistent, feels like the stacks do not refresh properly if i stutterstep

[dusky locust]

Anyone know if cast time affect Vent stacking time?

[green hedge]

the buff indicator for it is also inconsistent, it starts ticking down then just vanishes with half duration remanining

[true geyser]

eh not a fan of the cosmetic stuff just give us a transmog, grim dawn had taht

the owl is just something u get from watching twitch though its a thing that is happening today

are u using 2h or 1h

[tame loom]

1 hand

[glossy roost]

Anyone enjoying Meteor Sorc?

[tame loom]

cause of this

[harsh abyss]

I'm doing Meteor/Fireball atm, need a bit more of a mana pool before I can convert to full time meteor.

[glossy roost]

Nice

[mild igloo]

Going dicentagrate /glacier rn... sorc mastery... mana problems hahaha

[harsh abyss]

If you want the smoothest leveling ever, just go for the fireball nodes that add extra projectiles. When each cast is shooting 4 fireballs and they all apply multiple ignite stacks, bosses just melt.

Then you can have Meteor or Ele Nova to do AOE damage for big groups.

[true geyser]

my spam thingy already feks everything up lmao but fair did they also up droprates cuz im getting a shitton of oranges

[tame loom]

the mana thing right right

[solid jungle]

I just saw the frostbite buff. 40% more base damage is unethical

[true geyser]

ay fair ey btw does this game have higher difficulties

[regal trout]

No more sustainable FC ?

[earnest leaf]

ya, corruption.

[true geyser]

oh so no stuff like legendary or heroic diff

[earnest leaf]

You can do your own hard mode:https://www.pcgamesn.com/last-epoch/hard-mode

There's also a masochist mode that's supposed to come out. Not sure if it was ever released or if the boots was it.

[brittle lintel]

is anyone else playing frost claw with 'on through the snow' node?
It seems its casting ahead not behind itself

[true geyser]

naw that aint what i meant tho

[cerulean kite]

Starting season with disintegrate. Is fire or lightning more fun?

[nova girder]

anyone knows if wrongwarp is still bugged?

[sleek elbow]

it was bugged? lol

[nova girder]

it didnt give the cdr to trasplant or teleport

but last time i played was months ago

[finite trellis]

Man just when I was gonna play primalist they buff sorc 😭

Here we go again xD

[fathom junco]

For Runebolt does amplified cascade work with wrecking ball?

[olive violet]

how are you guys solving mana while leveling glacier. mana strike/focus both are so slow.

[nova girder]

mana strike feels good imo, are you taking the most optimal nodes?

[true geyser]

what does ag and be mean in the timelines

[molten cobalt]

+mana so you can toss glacier 4-5 times without running out is an easy fix

[solid jungle]

how is this dude so fast in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWS3NlwuSYg

[whole scaffold]

think I will be going fire myself

[true geyser]

damn bro range rover just dropped a hard ad lmao

[tacit pelican]

is the fps drops fixed for the game? planning to go frostclaw but i dont want my pc to struggle lol

[spare prairie]

Frostclaw still working ?

[spice gull]

Any other SB builds besides shattering?

[green pike]

Anyone feeling good about these procs on disintegrate? I went full fire but mobs dies in less than 3 seconds anyway so the fireball is kinda silly and the volanic orb is useful only on a few champs/bosses really....not a lot of uptime for them otherwise

[next lance]

Masochist was out in 1.0
First area - hidden passage in bear cave 😃
Boots for extreme gameplay🙂

[waxen seal]

any good frost claw big aoe builds

[thick rover]

My quests dont show on the map whats up with that?

[hushed yew]

hey guys what build do u think its stronger this patch(1.1)hydra or or plasma orb

[earnest leaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDFooDWruI&ab_channel=FrozenSentinel

[waxen seal]

got one with elemental nova ?

[earnest leaf]

read the description, you can swap it out.

[granite coral]

chat broken?

[earnest leaf]

some of the builds he has in there has elemental nova

[waxen seal]

dosent tell me step by step like max roll tho lol

[hearty cape]

Where can i find info for spellblade/ class builds in general? First timer, Thanks in advance.

[next lance]

lastepochtool

[dull dirge]

ignore ones made by mattjestic gaming and actionrpg, theyre just clickbait builds

[tacit sedge]

Hi please can someone tell me why the frost claw build on maxroll took the sorcerer mastery and not runemaster ? It seems to benefit much more from this ascendancy or am I missing something ? https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frostbite-frost-claw-sorcerer-guide

[thick rover]

because its maxroll?

[earnest leaf]

wut lol. ActionRPG actually theorycrafts. His builds are quite unique from most. I've watched him live a few times. Mattjestic, ya probably... but it seems like he just borrows whatever is meta.

[dull dirge]

im sure he does... but at the end of the day he just mass creates builds. example is i tried a shatterstrike build that actually did not work as well as it should have because of certain passives not working with the way firebrand was set up

[thick rover]

Because it uses ice barrage

[molten cobalt]

and RageGaming

[dull dirge]

i guess ill just reword it: theres better options out there that do better theorycrafting

[wild sluice]

Any thoughts on doing a dexterity spellblade build?

[mystic sparrow]

Mana stacking Sorc can work with most skills and FC is not exception... You prob can make it work with RM or Sorc

[wild sluice]

outside of fire aura not scaling the best because it will require spell power

[earnest leaf]

I like Dr3adful personally. Who do you like? Always open for more theorycrafters

[tacit sedge]

Thank for your answer, however the build described doesn’t stack any mana in required gear. I think I should probably look into lastepochtools builds to have more consistent ones

[nova girder]

they made arcane ascendance too powerful, to the point it feels like crap not casting inside it and it feels like crap being grounded into a spot too

[mystic sparrow]

They're speccing into caster speed, frost pen and alike, from Sorc.
It's a Frostbite based build, from the looks of it.... It's a dif build, but lots of stuff in Sorc for it

[molten cobalt]

FOOLS

[cerulean plinth]

I'm trying flame vent with disintegrate and it doesn't feel as good as I thought it would. Plus the fireballs it does shoot out eat your mana a bit. and they also target random objects instead of mobs which is fun...

[lethal charm]

does this trigger inherit the fireball's tree?

[cerulean plinth]

I thought it did when I started but I'm not sure if it actually does

[lethal charm]

i took these in the FB's tree, but im not seeing it proc in the trigger, still the same number of fireballs

[robust junco]

It will, but the number of Fireball is dictated by Flame Vent

[lethal charm]

i see, so what carries over then? just damage mods and ignite chance etc?

[robust junco]

Yup, everything but number of Fireball would be my guess

[lethal charm]

wad about this

[robust junco]

Ignite, More Dmg, Conversion

Should work

You are shooting your Fireballs

[lethal charm]

oke tq, will try.

[robust junco]

If it doesnt its a bug

[cerulean plinth]

I only just got my mastery so I'll stick with it and see how it progresses

[spice gull]

Is Surge/static a viable build for spellblade?

[robust junco]

Yes

[next horizon]

does ground stack on this game

[dull dirge]

was volka's razor spellblade passive switched from increased elemental damage to more?

[past torrent]

someone has gambler fallacy for sell?

[clear smelt]

what item should i use a rune of ascednance on? im going for frost claw sorc? im level 24 🙂

[near ivy]

Anyone recommend volcanic orb sorc?

[wicked mist]

anyone make a loot filter yet that covers leveling + all the mana sorc builds?

[simple jewel]

Imo using teleport + free refund meteor is better than mana strike for lvling glacier

[next lance]

i cry

[still matrix]

How goes fireball leveling? I’ve never played before and start after work in about 8 hours. RNG decreed im playing fire sorc. Any leveling tips?

[steel tangle]

Dread has a volcanic orb build for leveling any mage build, would be good for fire Sorc

[steel ridge]

I'm doing it right now, I got the new Torch item which is helping out a lot

[still matrix]

I’ll be a child of fortune, so no guarantee I’ll have early item access but that’s ok. I assume fireball is the pump leveling and meteor is only really viable once you have some realistic mana sustain. I’m just wondering if there’s anything I can do to optimize early game.

[steel ridge]

idk im RM

[still matrix]

I’ll check dreads page.

[thick rover]

Has meteor always been hard to aim?

Well if you're looking for a decent meteor I'm making it work at 25+ allies meteor sorc on last epoch tools

[flat nimbus]

also started meteor - yea, can miss a lot. but dmg seems insane

[bright needle]

Is glacial sorcerer viable so far?

[steel ridge]

its rated as one of the number 1 builds on some tier list sites

[bright needle]

So I'm safe and can enjoy the game without worrying or trying too hard?

[steel ridge]

everything is viable tho just depends how hardcore you are and what your goals are

[steel ridge]

whats to worry about? why wouldn't you just play the way you want to play?

[bright needle]

Last cycle I had lots of issues with internet so I had to solo and it wasn't as fun and got quite boring, I have new internet this cycle so I should actually be able to group up, mostly was concerned about not having fun during the leveling and clearing the campaign but if it's viable and highly rated I don't think I'll have trouble with campaign bosses

[stable stirrup]

Is there any way to reduce the proc time for the Tendrils and Unleashed Power nodes for Disintegrate?

[steel ridge]

you should play whats fun for you regardless otherwise you will quit the game, this is the golden rule of RPGs, if need be find a different build that you still like.

[lost jetty]

lmao

[bright needle]

Thanks for looking out 🙂

[flat nimbus]

cery cool 🙂

[buoyant bloom]

Anyone knows what is the second Sorceress mastery effect on Disintegrate? It's supposed to now give 1% more damage per 2 mana cost, but what mana cost does it use - base (5) or channel per second (18)?

[simple jewel]

I mean they're trolling but it's good

[steel ridge]

its fine for the average normie

[thick rover]

anybody got barzarr tp?

[buoyant bloom]

And is the Sorcerer mastery even working correctly? The tooltip still says what it did before, i.e., "increased"

[steel ridge]

what do

[stoic sun]

Where is this dumb bridge

[steel ridge]

hit the purple thing

[stoic sun]

The rift takes to to some random place

[steel ridge]

yes. trust me.

[stoic sun]

Thank you found it out

[turbid quail]

is shatterstrike good now?

[hard pike]

@proven haven you get around to testing with your frostclaw build?

i'm gonna give it a shot pretty soon either way, just curious if it's been consistent with expectations

[simple jewel]

Saw someone tested it after patch launched looked just as good as expected haha

But I do think Frozen will end up adding Ice Barrage like we did

[hard pike]

i have seen some passives that piqued an interest in ice barrage for me, haven't actually tried that skill at all yet

[simple jewel]

It's basically 10-15 spark charges per second

[hard pike]

i wound up leveling as a volcanic (frozen) orb sorc to relive my d2 days, and it's been pretty fun, but nowhere near as powerful

[dusky crypt]

Fire res shred change is you change Fire aura to cold aura for example??

[dark jay]

i think it will still shred fire

[dusky crypt]

i just test, is cold shred

[thick rover]

cool

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, the patch notes mentioned that the shred would convert

[lucid tendon]

so how's spellblade feel now?

[vapid arch]

lv71 playing shatter strike and 1 shot everything

[minor wasp]

Just got to End of Time to pick mastery and 2 x Hummingbees have already dropped. Alllllll the attack speed lets goooooo

[lucid tendon]

how is spellblade survivability?

[thick rover]

just play one

[young prawn]

was thinking about playing glacier. given how unique-heavy it is, will I be punished for going CoF, or will the harbinger stuff make it viable?

[lime jungle]

new to playing invoker. is spell damage the best stat?

this thing kinda makes my fireball spam go wild

[fading snow]

About to fight lagon, feeling pretty good. Just vibing with SS, mana strike, teleport. No crafting, no crazy drops, just killing everything easily and only dying when I can't keep the ward on hit up (rarely)

I'm coming from a bad class (sentinel) to a good class, so maybe this is just what normal mage leveling feels like 😅 but I dig it

[lucid tendon]

thank you! is sentinel considered bad, i decided to start vk but was almost spellblade

[rapid hinge]

anyone confirmed 40 manacost FC work with spark charge passive yet?

[solemn jolt]

No one has published a build for disintegrate yet

[fading snow]

Idk if there's a consensus or anything, but my experience has been that there are more problems to solve while playing sentinel than other classes I've tried. Like, for sentinel levelling I get res appropriate for the zone and regularly craft upgraded weapons. This spellblade is just wrecking everything without really thinking about gear

[lime jungle]

do you guys feel likethe game is actually easier?

seems like i cant die when i giga pull

[flat nimbus]

yes

[grizzled lily]

yea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz6fz3t28c

[rapid hinge]

welp

[grizzled lily]

it is already lagging like crazy with 3 dummies, imagine hitting 10 mobs

[rapid hinge]

anyone asked Mike if this is dev's intention or not yet

[frosty bone]

How can I find the damage of Greater Ice Vortex?

[grizzled lily]

not sure if it is in game but letool has it. regular is 40% per second and greater is 100% per second

[frosty bone]

Oh Thank you. Then I guess just higher damage for ice vortex will lead higher damage of greater, right?

[dark jay]

nerf this NOW!!!

[hearty gate]

anyone else using lightning blast and it starts out as cold damage? no spec in it and it is set to cold. Slightly problematic for RM

[edgy sage]

can someone explain this part that says " Use Flame Rush to move quickly through the chapters and it automatically uses Static Orb to get the damage reduction from Static Armor." Im confused about how flamerush automatically provs static orb if its not even on my bar.

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/runemaster-leveling-guide#skills-and-passives-header

[vapid arch]

read flamerush skill tree

[proven haven]

Alright folks sorc FC with the 40 mana cost spark charge is bonkers

[edgy sage]

Ah - thank you, you are a legend

[twilit matrix]

Iirc if you have enough +flat spell damage of a certain type it can convert without a node like that

[robust junco]

You have that passive in base mage

[robust junco]

This is wrong

[twilit matrix]

Sorry didn’t mean to give bad info, thought I remembered reading that somewhere but should’ve just not said if I wasn’t sure

[still matrix]

Why bonkers? Is it because of how easy it to to scale the mana for it?

[sleek elbow]

is there any way to see if I missed a sidequest? I finished act 7 but I"m missing 1 more idol quest

[rapid hinge]

yes

[idle glacier]

does anyone have a good lootfilter for Sorcerer?

[still matrix]

How do we get FC to proc static orb or meteor? Which tree is it in?

[naive condor]

can someone recmmend a busted build?

[tall oasis]

Anyone else leveling a fire disintegrate build?

[rugged pendant]

i doubled down on Meteor and it's kinda unplayable

[shell fern]

so how have ppl handled the ward nerf? my build went from being able to generate +20k ward to only 8k tops

[harsh thistle]

meteor is proc-ed by the unique belt

[eager sparrow]

So, voting for nerfing arcane current soon?

[astral trout]

Im playing it too. kinda squish

[eager sparrow]

Cant believe they actually not tested arcane current. It's like 5 minutes of work

I think with new speed of pushing corruption arcane current will push 5k+ before nerf

[shell fern]

what is broken with it?

[eager sparrow]

This is working

So you can apply hungreds of SCs in seconds. Main nerf of this now is 0 fps

[half pollen]

its kinda sad to see that they dont have a single person to look over the changes. Every single player that saw the 40 mana spark charge thing immediately found the way to break the new season

[eager sparrow]

Do I need to remind that in 1.0 spark charge runemaster was in 3-5k corruption with just only enigma?

[shell fern]

how do ppl on ct not complain about/report these?

[sacred ruin]

should have been immediatly obvious that it would be broken if they didn't cap

[half pollen]

I have no idea. I understand that they cant find every single overpowered interaction. But this was just "40 mana skills do stuff, which 40 mana skills do we have, oh this will be broken"

[sacred ruin]

they already know spark charge in general is problematic, can't believe they let that one through lol

[eager sparrow]

Vote for nerf to 5-10% chance this week? But it wiil be too late with new corruption system lmao

[rapid axle]

whats the most meta mage builds atm? saw arcane shenanigans and idk if i want to play build that will be likely hotfixed

[half pollen]

And the disintegrate rework made me sad too. Before it had two uses. You could do okayish damage with the 100% crit interaction or you could use it as a mana utility. They killed both and provided no usable alternative

[shell fern]

to be fair, even though it looked very broken on the dps dummy, it didn't delete abom at ~800 corruption as fast as i thought it would

[full bluff]

I doubt there will be a change/nerf, it is not as good as we make it out to in theory. So many other changes that change how we can push corruption. Unless snap freeze for perma freeze shade still works...

[half pollen]

Its a lot stronger than any other spark charge builds though. Which means that they killed spark charges for everyone except sorc. It has to be in line with melee spark charge and LB spark charge imo

[full bluff]

Sorcerer got this cycle, spellblade will get next 🙂

[sacred ruin]

spellblade still good anyways

just everyone and their mother is playing sorc because it's crazy busted, but lots of solid stuff this cycle; forge guard manifest armor is actually alot better then people think it is

[shell fern]

dunno about crazy busted, maybe few builds are crazy busted but my frostbite sorc defo got hit hard with the nerfhammer

[eager sparrow]

So if it "was not that busted" what about this crazy ward numbers in "new, nerfed ward season"?

[stuck fable]

Rip my little spark bug

[clear smelt]

when are you guys swapping to frost claw as sorc? like what are the requirements

[shell fern]

still less than my frostbite sorc could do last season sadly

[eager sparrow]

It's 1 day of cycle, doubt this is optimised numbers, may be optimised version will be 30k+ easly

[rapid hinge]

i'm pretty sure this is legacy character

[eager sparrow]

Oh, you have a point, may be

That is not okay numbers in damage and survivability in 1.1

[rapid hinge]

yeah agree with that

especiaclly after EHG's effort to nerf exactly that kind of stuff

[eager sparrow]

Lets nerf SC runemaster, ok now he's dead(or balanced?). Ok, weeell, let's up sorc's survivability to the moon and gave it like x10 chance on spark charge than runemaster was. Sure there will be mana issues if players will use arcane current right? There is now way with 20 new mana passives and mana tunnel + aftermath meteor combo there will be possible to sustain 40manacost. Right?

[stable terrace]

holy f spicy spark charge update, FC triggered ice barrage does actually apply spark charges as well

[weary hamlet]

they don't in the sense that gaining a new stack does not refresh the duration on existing stacks, that's probably intended

[weary hamlet]

Do you ever look at the crap going on in LE and thing, "yeah Hanz, bring out the flamethrower"?

[half pollen]

A flamethrower would actually do some damage though

[strong vector]

Which build is best in this cycle?

[weary hamlet]

idk just going off the description it sounded like a complete dud, and a "proc disintegrate" build would be more viable if it, you know, frontloaded procs instead of having you channel for at least 3 seconds to get there.

[neon lynx]

Surely people have tested everything and found the best builds in less than 24 hours right?

[stable terrace]

people near top of ladder playing meteor or glacier, some spark charges people too

[weary hamlet]

base mana cost unfortunately

[weary hamlet]

I've seen a fair bit theorycrafted on youtube, check that out. Although most people seem to be on the lightning max mana train

[stable terrace]

i leveled with someone playing lightning disintegrate and it was pretty mid, probably better later once you get mana gear

[weary hamlet]

just as we expected yesterday, idk what ehg are even thinking about this stuff

[stable terrace]

playing claw FC version with ice barrage, can confirm is bonkers

meteor damagea is also bonkers and has better burst but way less survivability

[weary hamlet]

idk I was raw dogging disintegrate yesterday from level 1 and where I ended up at about 75 it deals decent damage. I never played it in an unfinished build before so idk how it compares to a half assed build from 1.0 but it's not terrible, while my gear surely is. No ignivars, no disintegrate levels relic, random blues in half the slots etc. Getting around 10k ticks at level 3

that's fire disintegrate ofc

[eager sparrow]

Atleast all other builds will not be nerfed midcycle like arcane current

[weary hamlet]

no idea how you make lightning work anywhere near low levels without craterborn

[eager sparrow]

Question is when it will be nerfed before it's too late

[simple sage]

Alright, can someone explain to me how exactly did the FC RM build got nerfed? I dont really see any massive changes that causes it to bleed mana, am I missing something here?

[full bluff]

Runemaster got affected by changes to frost claw mana regen, ward generation nerf, frost shield nerf and ward decay change. Pretty big changes to how the classic frost claw runemaster worked.

[simple sage]

So the main reason the build now bleeds mana is because gift of winter no longer triggers on secondary casts, it now only triggers on your casts. Got it. The ward decay stuff etc is not that much of an issue. the main issue is you cant play the build anymore

Welp, time to relevel a sorc I guess

[strong vector]

very good, is there any build in tier S?

[pseudo verge]

What kind of copy-paste is this? In every channel

[weary hamlet]

the ai is leaking

[still matrix]

What's arcane current? A node or item?

[weary hamlet]

a passive in the sorc tree

[spice gull]

What’s the goto spellblade build?

Hopefully surge/static is decent. I’m respec’ing to it once I get that off hand

[weary hamlet]

it should still be decent, although it didn't see any significant changes in this patch save for generic class passives buffs

[glossy roost]

Is FC the best for triggering harbinger meteors?

[lethal charm]

does this apply to channeled skills? meaning each channeled cost has a chance to proc it.

[weary hamlet]

it shouldn't but I haven't tested personally

[half pollen]

probably works for the initial mana cost
which means its useless for channel stuff

[lethal charm]

ok tq

[severe lintel]

playing a runemaster, i've dropped a torch of the pontifex and prism wraps. been playing frost claw ignite up to now but needing to stop every few seconds and focus is bugging me, is there a skill tree i can spec to that has less mana management?

i have an endgame build in mind but leveling a runemaster feels so cancer rn

and there's like zero good runemaster leveling guides for 1.1 everything is just old frostguard etc

[muted dust]

you can go with the old established leveling builds to level to 80"ish" and then do a complete 180 and respec into the build you want. If you wanna level fast you almost never start with the skills you want to have in the end

[severe lintel]

the old established leveling builds for RM seems to be just frost claw which bleeds so much mana rn

[muted dust]

for what I know you wanna use mana strike to rebuild your mana after spaming frostclaw

so that should kinda fix your mana issues.

[severe lintel]

i mean it does, it just feels like ass lol

[lethal charm]

Does this Proc on triggered spells?

[muted dust]

It should

[half pollen]

Doesnt mean it does though, always test

[harsh thistle]

"on use" is super vague

[slim furnace]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/rc1cy0sd

[slim furnace]

Made this at work. You sexy spellblade bros think this is okay? Skills/passives. I've only played one build before (a throwing rogue build) so freeze rate and chill and ward are all for from my expertise. Ty in advance <333

[rapid hinge]

Likely no since it's on use

But iirc ppl asked devs about this and got am answer already. You might want to search

[noble reef]

Yeah reading patch notes made really sad, i wanted to try myself and check but maybe it just not worth it

[full bluff]

Careful with 40 mana cost, it can show 40, but not count to trigger spark charges, I messed up and didn't notice on new char 🙂 Was starting to think the build was no good

[warm owl]

anyone lvling with frost claw? I am 26lvl trying to lvl with it, mana cost is 0, but it will go UP when picking up passives?

[slim furnace]

Anyone ? ❤️

[lilac anchor]

hI,
i was checking online and found mana stacking seems to be the new "hype" this cycle.
I saw builds around meteor swarm and glacier... mostly.
any pro and cons/which is better between the 2?
or there is a better one?

[full bluff]

Glacier seems to be really good 🙂

[harsh thistle]

yeah it goes up to 40+

bottom left and bottom right nodes make it cost a lot more, but also make it rly rly good

[nova girder]

since when can fire aura crit? was it added this patch?

there are some nasty new fire aura idols that ive looted i might cook something rancid later on

[pseudo verge]

Fire aura doesnt scale with any skill so I think it wont be good later

[slim furnace]

From what I saw it's not a bad thing to add in for cold

[nova girder]

also the maxroll guide mentions that with 100% crit on glacier and 600 mana i should self sustain it on ST but its not the case, not even outside of arcane ascendance

[lilac anchor]

glacier paried with what? frost claw? or can share a build i can base it on?

[nova girder]

is there a key component ive might overlooked?

[hexed cosmos]

People that are committing to the early disintergrate meme/suffering; are you finding it better to spec early intelligence in passives, or mana?

[dark jay]

you need like 1k mana

i'm comfortably maintaining meteor/static orb at 800 mana atm

[nova girder]

also with glacier, anyone noticing that with high enough castpeed not all your glaciers are doing damage? it feels like 1/3rd of them are just visually displayed but not doing anything

[harsh thistle]

you need castspeed for glacier?

[hexed cosmos]

My gut feeling is intelligence early levels, then I can respec for bonus mana once I have disintergrate?

[sharp monolith]

Am I the only one for whom Flame Rush can't be selected in the shortcut options, making my Hydra Runemaster unplayable ?

[nova girder]

yeah lots, feels so good to play at high cast speed

[harsh thistle]

I only focused on crit multi, int, and mana

I haven't tried a high cast speed glacier build but I'd imagine it makes it harder to maintain? And static orb does not need any cast speed as well since you one shot right

[nova girder]

you will eventually stop one shotting bosses at some point, the higher cast speed should not affect your sustain cause the mana refund does not have an internal cd, so if you mantain at low cast speed you should mantain at high

and with so many multipliers on the bucket eventually castpeed should start vastly outscaling them. Dont take my word for it though, im not quite sure how damage buckets work in this game but if theyre done as in PoE it should be the case

[harsh thistle]

the problem I have with glacier is that I can't reliably maintain it against 1 target. while against groups it's insane, easy mana regen

[nova girder]

yeah im having that same issue at 700 mana

[muted dust]

What do you think is gonna be the best route for disintegrate? Definitely going runemaster but I dunno if I wanna go with fire auras or fire conversion in general?

[tall oasis]

Fire as an element is always a safe bet for the ecosystem of fire flavors that exist

With recent changes to channeling there some cool mechanics you can use as a RM too like enhanced mana regen

I can essentially channel Tier 3 disintegrate already at level 35 for quite a long time

[woeful mason]

I use mana strike for mana regen
I lose a little bit dps but it neccesary for bosses

[covert crag]

can someone please explain to me why a lot of sorcs use phantom grip? beside the manaand small crit% affixes i dont see the appeal. isn't there any other ring that would be better?

[ivory hare]

What's th general consensus on the Sorcerer changes?

[half pollen]

getting flat crit can be a pain for spark charges

[covert crag]

still feel weird to me that it is still preferred over other rings, wouldn't their overall stats be better?

[half pollen]

I didnt do the math but flat crit has insane high value and there arent many ways to get it. The easiest way is through the offhand but thats not possible for spark charges since you use enigma which has no crit on it. So you can use either prismatic gaze or the rings (or both) for flat crit

[slim furnace]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/rc1cy0sd
Made this at work. You sexy spellblade bros think this is okay? Skills/passives. I've only played one build before (a throwing rogue build) so freeze rate and chill and ward are all for from my expertise. Ty in advance <333

sry if im annoyingly stupid but i just dont know much about lots of things so i dont wanna play with wrong info in my head

[hexed portal]

hi guys, is runemaster frost claw not viable anymore ? is sorc now better and what builds do i follow if i wanna move on from the nerf as a sorc/runemaster/spellblade

[open vapor]

Recently started playing again so take this with a grain of salt but think frozensentinel posted an updated frost claw video, it's a sorc and not a runemaster though iirc.

If you wanna transition a runemaster to another build I can recommend trying out plasma orb runemaster. Not the most broken by any means but had pretty fun playing it last cycle and only thing that got nerfed was survivability from the ice-fire-ice invocation. By no means op though, had mostly 1 LPs (okay but not all BIS tempers) and started to struggle a little bit at 300 corruption. With that said Snap used it in group to reach 3k corruption so think it's just really gear dependant

[hexed portal]

found it thanks!

[open vapor]

Happy to help!

[slim furnace]

i wanna play the build i made but i got no idea if its good and it seems like this time of the day is not good for fidning help lol

[barren belfry]

i mean you can alwys try playing it and see if it works
I have no idea about spellblades so i wont be much of a help checking your build

[slim furnace]

i meant more the general gist of the skill/skilltrees

[slim furnace]

like ive never used cold before or chill or freeze (and freeze rate multi blabla) or ward or ward retention or ward on hit etc etc

[dusky spruce]

can someone tell me if I change Static Orb to frost damage, does this node also gets converted and it increases cold damage instead? node that converts the skill works with node Static Ground that converts its damage to cold but I can't tell if it works with this node as well

[celest urchin]

Is thje fragment of enigma desactivated ?

I'm at something like 20- 25 ascendance on off hand and no drop and like 10 offhand random drop

[stuck fable]

is a sorc lvling with ice nova.. then white claw doable?

[silk umbra]

I have seen two so I dont think it's deactivated

[spice gull]

I’m looking to play spark charge spellblade, hopefully the drop rate isn’t bugged.

[gusty girder]

how good is traitor tongue's +3 for shatterstrike builds? just a random leveling weapon or something i can keep on for a bit?

[true geyser]

is it normal that i am absolutely annihilating everything as an electric spellblade

[thick rover]

you aint even made it to endgame. what level are you?

[true geyser]

31

[forest horizon]

gguys is frostclaw runemaster good now I'm lvl 58 just started game

[true geyser]

does the game actually become hard at some point

[olive violet]

my glacier sorc also annihilates but if 3 mobs look at me wrong im dead

[thick rover]

it'll pick up it gets harder once you get to end game. you're still in the tutorial

[pseudo verge]

Yes.

The campaign is supposed to be easy, monoliths is harder

[true geyser]

what about the gear sets theyll start looking good right or are they still the same stuff were wearing now

[pseudo verge]

Pretty much the same except uniques, in term of looks

Stat wise its way different later.

[wooden sundial]

hey did they nerf the frostclaw runemaster

[frosty pewter]

I still want to make R - R - R runemaster work, that giant fireball is SO satisfying

[true geyser]

so theres like 4 to 5 different looking sets thats sad rip

[pseudo verge]

Visually yes, but youre not playing for looks. At least not yet, they prio content which is great

[frosty pewter]

If you really want drip the supporter packs usually look decent

[rustic chasm]

Guys which class is the strongest with lightning damage?

[gusty girder]

friends, i just got a rune of ascendance at level 45. im playing shatterstrike + frostclaw, i have mourningfrost boots. is there something i should use this on urgently?

[frosty pewter]

You typically use runes of ascendance to fish for whatever unique is realllly important for your build early on (afaik they cant add lp so bad later in game). Im not familiar with your build so Im not sure what item that would be, but figure out what unique you want and throw it on that item type

[gusty girder]

i see. i have no idea then!

[muted dust]

what invocation would I want for fire disintegrate? New to runemaster

[true geyser]

can u get cosmetics from drops or achievements in game

[thick rover]

no

[earnest bear]

how good is spellblade looking now?

I'm looking to play a spark charge build but not sure whether to go for the maxroll one that uses shatter strike or the one on LE tools that uses firebrand

[weary hamlet]

spec int, the mana cost is fairly low without double beams

[thick rover]

i just one shot the nemesis through the ward thingy

[weary hamlet]

you never want to omit whiteout in SS, it's a 170% more damage multiplier for 2 points. Your EW tree is meh, flat damage is whatever, go for attack speed. And chill chance is a complete dud. Auto cast is bad cause you don't want it to activate randomly, you want it when you need to burst something. Flame ward tree, you never leave home without 5/5 in Barrier. Freeze rate on retal is whatever. Increased damage while shield is active is meh. Drop FC for something that regens mana like mana strike, you'll need it with whiteout.

[weary hamlet]

you also want at least Sphere of protection in rm, most of your fire aura nodes are unnecessary, but you can keep the node that shreds res and one point into cold conversion. Obviously you also must max volka's razor as it's a free 20% more damage. Max arcane shielding and shattered aegis if you don't want to die to a sneeze. Also use ward on hit idols for survivability, and/or retool into vessel. Max out attack speed nodes in SB.

[weary hamlet]

no because there is nothing to convert it to, other elements' equivalents to the aegis simply do not exist

[weary hamlet]

it's a dagger, it's only usable if you want to go for frostbite SS, which is a fairly dubious prospect in itself given that the lances hitbox/shotgunning is still bugged

[weary hamlet]

it's normal to absolutely annihilate the campaign pretty much on any build of any class, the challenge doesn't start until empowered monos

[dusky spruce]

that's what I though but wanted to be sure, alright thanks

[weary hamlet]

you never use the rune "urgently" because the variance in any slot is fairly high, most of them have pools of like what, 15-20?

[weary hamlet]

none of them have any synergy with disintegrate, and you don't want to waste a spec slot on invo. If you are playing disintegrate on RM, go for glyph.

[slim furnace]

what do u suggest getting rid off for whiteout?
if i get the attack speed then what do i get for the rest of my nodes? you suggest getting rid of frostbrand fully or just getting rid of the bottom part of the tree and getting the dmg and attack speed?
for flame ward i'll reroute for barrier and link later see ur thoughts cuz i mean yeah fair enough its pretty strong i didnt see it

[hexed cosmos]

These are way better for shatterstrike right?

[thick rover]

depends how much dex you have

[hexed cosmos]

16

[slim furnace]

whats sphere of protection in rm?

[cerulean plinth]

Definitely feels underwhelming so far. I will be sticking with it for a while just seeing how much it improves. I initially thought it would shoot them while casting but it obviously doesn't

[hexed cosmos]

wait nvm I'm seeing higher dps on shatterstrike with mourningfrost

[slim furnace]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/nl1hf0xq @weary hamlet let me know also ty ^^

[weary hamlet]

if you build direct damage, you use mourningfrost. If you build frostbite, you use snowdrift. 100% dictated by your build

[weary hamlet]

Taking one for the team here, even more normal builds of disintegrate already look questionable and the procs sound pretty bad even on paper

[cerulean plinth]

Sadge

[olive violet]

the only way disintegrate would be half decent is if you could cast while moving

[minor wasp]

If you’re playing the crit setup you’re gonna want to be dual wielding Hummingbee swords. I’d use the Rune on 1h swords

[minor wasp]

Depends if you’re going crit route or frostbite stacking route

[cerulean plinth]

If I would swap off of disintegrate all together, is a fireball based build be decent? Those are the 2 skills I wanted to play with the most when I looked at mage

[slim furnace]

oh a spellblade enjoyer finnaly lol

[broken fern]

can you start the maxroll glacier build for sorc or do i need to play something else until i got the uniques?

[finite hornet]

What skill is the best skill to level sorc with right now?

[lone prairie]

No, you go for the leveling guide first

[weary hamlet]

I'd go something like this for passives, do note that I haven't played SB in ages and obviously haven't tried it in this patch yet (but it's on my list.. somewhere on the flip side)

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BM5eperB

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1b

Class:

Mage (32) / Spellblade (73) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,020, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 103, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 158%, Regen: 57/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 15 Dex / 27 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 27% / 3% / 27% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%
▸ EHP: 740 / 637 / 740 / 626 / 626 / 630 / 630

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 204
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (60)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold / Melee

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Shatter Strike (20)

Used unique items:

None

[broken fern]

which is also glacier

[lone prairie]

Like, bro...

[sacred heron]

lightning blast

[lone prairie]

Yeah but probably two different specs (skill points allocation), it's always better to go for the leveling guide first and then transition afterwards

[broken fern]

i know, thats was my plan, im just afraid the leveling guide drops of before i got my uniques

[lone prairie]

I think you'll be good, the game is pretty easy pre-empowered monoliths

[broken fern]

aight imma try, ty

[weary hamlet]

fireball with meteor for craterborn is decent, yes

[lone prairie]

I'm currently doing campaign but with Runemaster, following the generic leveling guide and it's going fine so far

[cerulean plinth]

Interesting ty. I'll look into it

[weary hamlet]

nah, it just needs to do enough damage to justify the turret playstyle, which it already didn't do before and seems like it's going to be even worse now. At least my "normal" fire disintegrate is fairly meh now that I'm hitting empowered. Still got a ton of space for improvement though. The new tree is very point hungry, need a +4 erased relic but Im on cof so FML I guess

[slim furnace]

i'll give it a try tbf im just starting the character lvl 1 rn anyway, and im guessing u didnt do the mana strike teleport etc skills cuz mine looked okay? also why do you say that flat dmg isnt very impactful? my last build was throwing and it was very impactful so im wondering. also i feel like elemental affinity is good to level for the res but probs eventually drop to 1 point yea

[weary hamlet]

Nah I was just too lazy, I can throw together a few skill trees. Also it's not that flat isn't impactful, it's that between innate +1 per dex on SS and +1 per dex from your boots you don't need to spend that many passive points into minor flat effects

[lusty sable]

Could anyone playing Shatter Strike Spellblade could help me understanding why this dagger is being used? The guide doesn't tell me how to proc Frost Claw. There's a passive for that but guide doesn't spec into it.

[weary hamlet]

especially given that you have no shortage of actually good passives now, like say prodigy is giga pumped, it's reasonable to reach about what - 50-60 int in this kind of build, without completely dumping dex? That's already a base 4% crit

[slim furnace]

hmm okay, and feel free to just look at the trees i did and correct them if u want im sure their not too bad

[weary hamlet]

frost claw has a node that lets itself be triggered by melee and there is another similar node in the SB tree

[slim furnace]

is that good?

[weary hamlet]

no idea, last time I played SS sb was in 0.8.2. But on paper it looks decentish? You don't need double crystals cause you already have a ton of AS from various sources, and this is 4% flat crit, 15%+ all res, ~50% crit multi. And some fluff and procs and sh it

And it's not terribly hard to get at 2+ LP I guess

[cerulean plinth]

Kinda random but does cast speed do anything for disintegrate?

[weary hamlet]

you start it up a bit faster, but it has no effect on damage ticks. Same as for all other channeled spells

[cerulean plinth]

Interesting ty. Good to know

[slim furnace]

i havent looked at items at all for the build you think theres any bis?

[weary hamlet]

check some guides, I'm sure maxroll dudes have listed a BIS list full of 4 lp legendaries. Or did they drop that part? idk

[gusty girder]

what lance?

[slim furnace]

i mean im not following a guide so i dont see why they'd have a build around my build

also is there a map or list or something to guide me thru campaign faster, like knowing which sidequests in which map to do etc

also any recommended skill to use until i get spellblade?

[minor wasp]

For crit SS? Get 2 x hummingbee swords for the attack speed and ward

[weary hamlet]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BOXrnPwo added the skill trees, same disclaimers apply

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1b

Class:

Mage (32) / Spellblade (73) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,020, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 103, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 158%, Regen: 57/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 15 Dex / 27 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 27% / 3% / 27% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%
▸ EHP: 740 / 637 / 740 / 626 / 626 / 630 / 630

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 204
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (60)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

None

[slim furnace]

hmm okay

[weary hamlet]

when you build for frostbite you usually take the nodes on the right that deal with ice spikes (I guess the aren't named lances after all), but the spikes had been wonky for a while now

[weary hamlet]

those used to be super busted but now I don't think those are good even at low level after all the nerfs

[slim furnace]

why disclaimers? in the end it was pretty similar to what i had so thats good

[vale nebula]

I freaking love this! Wanted to try spellblade this cycle. Do you guys have a leveling build? I love ARPGs but I suck at understanding what has good synergy.

[slim furnace]

didnt even know it was nerfed lol

[weary hamlet]

I still haven't been playing this build in ages so somebody might have more current working knowledge of it. But I haven't seen anybody here playing it on the regular, with the sad state of SB in general these past patches

[slim furnace]

hm okay, well it might not be the best but whatever ill see how it feels, its probs got a good chance to freeze too so if stuffs frozen stuffs not hitting me

[minor wasp]

What nerf are you referring to? Ward?

[bold hatch]

From the spellblade patch notes it says:
Prismatic Blade’s effects have been replaced. It now grants 1 dexterity per point and 1 added melee damage per point. The added melee damage is doubled if using a sword. It now also has a threshold bonus which grants 8% increased attack speed.

I don't see in the passive itself anything mention about doubling when using a sword. Anyone who can validate the source of truth ?

[weary hamlet]

it's not bad, the problem is more that SB used to have nothing except for it. Now I guess there is much more potential of hybrid builds of all kinds, I'll perhaps be rolling one myself later on.

[slim furnace]

hybrid as in hybrid dmg or stats or what? also what the hell is the bluie bars on t op of ennemies sometimes lol

[weary hamlet]

hybrid as in a proc build that also scales some melee damage. Although perhaps it's now more meta to drop melee altogether and just go for procs. IDK need to research that more

[weary hamlet]

bosses used to have a completely hidden stacking damage reduction, this new ward as extra healthbars mechanic replaced it

[slim furnace]

ah okay, also talking about scaling, what do you think i should focus on the build? like 1h swords with attack speed and melee dmg or cold dmg? like not sure if i should focus melee dmg or melee attack speed or cold dmg on gear

[olive violet]

i dont have a chance in hell of doing lagan with my current char/gear, jesus

[slim furnace]

cant u skip it

[cerulean plinth]

You can

[gloomy topaz]

so what's the point of using Meteor in the FC Spark Charge build, just for the buff?

[weary hamlet]

you don't need too much as from your weapons at endgame as you'll have a ton from passives and some from the crystal sword base. Get crit chance if needed until cap, crit multi, melee ele damage (higher roll values), flat cold melee etc.

[cerulean plinth]

Is there a good stat breakdown I can look at that tells me the cap for things like crit cap? I know the basics like 75% defense and all that. But other things I do not

[stuck fable]

hmm would going lightning disintegrate work with spark charges?

[slim furnace]

hm okay, and for like armour and helm etc ig shatter level and then just whatever i can find like cold dmg etc?

[hexed cosmos]

I finally replaced Avarice! \o/

[stuck fable]

avarice is pog for mages though

[minor wasp]

I don’t think so. I think disintegrate on counts as ‘A’ hit so there won’t be many charges

[minor wasp]

Melee cold.
Crit.
Crit Multi.
Attack Speed.

[stuck fable]

but the static orb and lightning procs counts as hits though right?

[minor wasp]

Yeh but they only proc off the disintegrate hits? Of which there is only 1? Not sure of your build so not 100% on that

[stuck fable]

hmm

[slim furnace]

hmkay

[gusty girder]

sorry boss, but you seem to be a pretty smart guy so i gotta ask question. how long can i get away with using mourningfrost boots for ss+frostclaw? are they actually good for all the flat from dex?

[inner plover]

Any recommendations on Frost Claw vs Glacier? new to LE and undecided which way to go

[olive violet]

like just lagan? or skip campaig until im strong enough?

[late jay]

trying around with frost claw atm ...

[weary hamlet]

Disintegrate doesn't hit so how would you apply them?

[stuck fable]

static orb and lightning blast procs

[cerulean plinth]

From what I know people either skip campaign after chapter 7 or chapter 5. I think the 7 route is easier as you get all your passive points along the way. The 5 route you have to go back and get them

[weary hamlet]

sure but why would you choose to go that route if you want to abuse that charge passive when you could go with FC, IB, IB and FC, VO, SO etc? Way more hits per second to apply the charges

[weary hamlet]

those are your bis boots, just stack a little more resist to compensate for the drawback

[cerulean plinth]

But you can just go straight to monoliths right now if you want

[stuck fable]

well new toy syndrome lol

since we cannot abuse the fc proc novas no more

[wheat acorn]

I prefer Glacier for leveling

[reef flume]

i read comments, shouldent go for disintegrate build ? i like it so much

[cerulean plinth]

It seems to be kinda meh with the main drawback being you're forced to plant your feet when casting. I think you might be able to make fire disintegrate work.

[slim furnace]

how many levels behind can i be in the campaign? like im low level rn lvl 11 and zone is 13, should i hit 12 before i leave ?

[pseudo verge]

No just go. Levels wont really matter

[weary hamlet]

I'm currently running it on my new cycle sorc and it's not completely unplayable, but it doesn't look good so far. Got into early empowered, struggling with survivability and the damage is meh. Looks to be strictly worse than the old fallacy build but my gear is ultra trash so far, might be decent enough in the end

also I'm still unable to run the double beams cause my mana pool can't support it with my current gear

[slim furnace]

really? isnt there a maximum level behind ammount

[wheat acorn]

Also, the combination with Laser Focus and Hyperfocal seem worthless.

[weary hamlet]

it's kinda good if you have above 3k max mana.. although is it that much better than the fire scaling even at that much mana, idk

[late eagle]

Anyone know if Yruns Penance 100% conversion of mana strike base damage to cold converts spark charges on the skill tree to cold too?

[weary hamlet]

also since you aren't casting nor hitting and your disintegrate is free, you are getting very limited benefits from max mana

[weary hamlet]

no because such a thing doesn't exist

[late eagle]

Spark charges on tree and the sword Yruns Penance?

[weary hamlet]

no, I mean cold damage spark charges. There are just the regular spark charges.

[late eagle]

Oh ok it doesn't convert then thanks

[desert lily]

Campaign skip can only be on alts right?

[weary hamlet]

depends on what you mean by that, but it's largely impossible and/or pointless to do on your first character, yes

[desert lily]

Yah because monos aren't accessible

Makes sense, ty

[rotund bloom]

Uh no? You can do campaign skips without Monos, you just need dungeon keys, but you likely won't have the gear needed to do the dungeons

[weary hamlet]

two viable methods are to do campaign till retrieving the lance (full skill points and idol slots unlocked), then farm monos till you get a sanctum key, then use that to get to ch9 to pick up your faction. The other is to do campaign till the tablet quest in imperial majasa, swap to monos till you get a sanctum key, pick up your faction and do some ch9 side quests to finish your unlocks

You can also go into monos the first time you get into the end of time, but without alt gear clearing them at level 20 is gonna be a pain, and you'll have to go back to campaign later for idol slots anyways

[lone prairie]

Why do Runemasters go for Flame Rush over Teleport? Is it just the 40% DR?

[pseudo verge]

Loads of reasons but it can give runes, trigger etc
Teleport usually just moves you and empower next spell or mana cost which doesnt do a whole lot

[rotund bloom]

Also Flame Rush has more drip and is more fun to use

[lone prairie]

No, it's the worst teleport skill I have ever used in any game I've played
@pseudo verge seems mandatory for the runes then, I can get that at least. Thank you!

[rotund bloom]

To each their own I guess

[pseudo verge]

You cant see it, only in like Training dummy place with a bridge BUT
You T pose underground when you use it, thats drip enough. 😎

[rotund bloom]

LOL, really? That's actually hilarious

[lone prairie]

Holding down the button to "channel" it sucks. Teleport is instant, a blink skill. The difference is huge in what feels good. But I guess Flame Rush it is for the runes and triggers

I just needed to know why people unironically used it but I didn't read the skilltree so that's on me. Thanks for saving me time on that haha

[weary hamlet]

wait did they really disable the emote responses? But basically this, flame rush giga sucks in UX

[rotund bloom]

Idk, Flame Rush is infinitely more satisfying to use for me personally and can actually do damage (and I love the sound effects), but that's just personal preference!

[lone prairie]

Glad I'm not the only one of that opinion

[pseudo verge]

To each their own, I LOVE flame rush, its the best channel skill.
Personally the only channel skill I like and every channel that makes you stand still is bad.

[weary hamlet]

it's also glitchy as hell in the number of runes that it gives, although I guess that's a non issue for 99,9999% of RM players cause they just use immutable order

[lone prairie]

Yeah, each to their own! Nothing wrong with liking or disliking it

[rotund bloom]

This 100%, I hate channel skills, but Flame Rush is GOATed for me

You can also make it not channeled too with the Glyph of Intention node if you use Glyph of Dominion, although that node was buggy AF for me when I last tried it

[weary hamlet]

it's buggy and slow, it feels even worse to use

[lone prairie]

Why didn't you guys tell me I can use it to get through some walls. That's pretty neat!

[uneven valve]

Anyone finding a particular variant of sorc really effective ? I think I was 54 when I logged out

[safe grotto]

Someone here usin cold snap too on glacier? I dont know why this is not on the maxroll build is insane damage 200%

[lime jungle]

what kind of stats do you guys prioritize? it is spell power way ahead of everything else?

[minor wasp]

Completely depends on your build

[lime jungle]

hmm what if i am a person who presses fireball 3 times and the 3 fire invocation

[late jay]

frost claw is rly dwn ... 😦

[hard pike]

int and mana are both pretty hard to argue with with the current state of mage

but it all depends on what you actually put your passives in

[vale tartan]

I like that 🙂

[minor wasp]

Spell damage. Fire damage. Int.

[gilded kestrel]

Why?

[vale tartan]

who needs fancy combos and piano playing when you can have : fireball -> Beeeg Fireball

[lime jungle]

i used to play invoker in dota 2 so im used to creating different spells im just not sure i like using some of the wimpy ones just to get runes for that type

i see how half the tree is about doing 3 different rune attacks though, so maybe I'll adjust eventually

[hard pike]

there is the one node in runic that allows you to make it automatically match the first three elements in your hotbar, as well, if you want to focus on just one combo

[lime jungle]

i did see that one and was a bit confused on how that would play out. sometimes i use the small aoe move that does all 3 rune types in order to mix different invocations

[neon lynx]

is anyone running sanctum this morning? need the clear for the skip and cant drop a key to save my life 😦

[lime jungle]

i have a pretty messed up talent selection right now its a bit wild

[hard pike]

i haven't actually used it myself, but to my understanding it just takes any spell cast you do and counts it as though it were one of those three skills' elements instead

[lime jungle]

yeah i just dont see a lightning move i like so i dont want to put it on the toolbar.

i havent messed with any damage type conversions yet so that might change my mind

[hard pike]

i had the opposite problem on my rm, i wound up just using 2 lightnings and 3 lightnings and nothing else (other than the occasional fire from flame ward)

incidentally, fwiw it is probably just a single point (depending on where you traveled in the tree ofc) for you to convert flame ward to any element you might want, which could be handy

[lime jungle]

flame ward is pretty nice, the cd is just messing with me. in 1.0 i played totem primalist so i would keep the heal on the whole time. not being able to spam flme ward is rough

i know there is the 2 charge talent, but then the cd is even longer O.o

[hard pike]

yeah, i personally like to run the cast flameward on stun node alongside two charges. anything doing enough damage to kill you is very likely to stun you anyway, so it's usually good, but it will sometimes burn a charge on irrelevant stuff that stunned but didn't matter damagewise

but that is just a skill issue on my part

[lime jungle]

that stun talent has been working out pretty well for me. im only lvl 40 so nothing comes close to 1 shotting yet

[hard pike]

i've only ever played mage, so i can't really compare to how other classes handle durability, but i've definitely watched flame ward save my life plenty of times

[lime jungle]

this is my first time playing mage so the ward buildup really confuses me. i just kinda dont die even when im standing its odd

cause im not using an ice block, and im a squishy caster, but i dont die

[hard pike]

yeah, after the sorc buffs our earlygame durability is actually stupid rn. i was beating nemesis bosses before monoliths by literally standing still and holding right click. it does level off though, and they did nerf massive ward stacking, so we're contending with an exponential decay rate now as opposed to a linear one

[lime jungle]

i assume the empowered monoliths are going to make me cry when i have to not eat every mechanic. all bosses seem to have more adds now, which is scary

[hard pike]

i haven't gotten there yet, but i can say monolith lagon could kill me instantly with his eye breath attack even with full ward + flame ward, on like 120 cold/light resist

[lime jungle]

i thought resist stopped at 75

[hard pike]

i'm playing ssf though, i'm sure life would be easier if i were buying things that could jack my durability scaling up

yeah, resists do stop at 75, but enemies get +1 pen per area level (as per a tooltip i'm trusting is accurate), so just having 75 at a 75 area is equivalent to none

granted, i'm also a noob and don't know for sure how this game works in that regard, but my assumption has been we're gonna need to stack them a lot higher than 75 to really be durable in endgame

[lime jungle]

maybe, idk too much about the game

[grizzled lily]

the penetration happens after your resistance is capped so going over 75 won't help that

[hard pike]

dangit, i was worried that was the case

[grizzled lily]

Overcapping helps with resistance shred though like shock and mark for death

[cerulean ibex]

So has anyone been playing with the new Disintegrate? How's it feeling so far?

[sacred ruin]

I'ts kinda garbageish but playable

[cerulean ibex]

What's bad about it? Damage? Survivability? Just the channelling playstyle?

[sacred ruin]

damage doesn't pay off for you having to stand still

[cerulean ibex]

That's a shame. How did you build it?

[sacred ruin]

fire int stack

[cerulean ibex]

Well I may try the lightning version and see how it feels, and then pivot into something else if it doesn't work out, I guess

[rough python]

Whats good on mage rn

[shell fern]

So is anyone playing frostbite anymore? Is it dead build now?

My frostbite sorc feels like 3 times weaker

[olive mango]

I'm only level 45, nowhere near end game, but my lightning disintegrate build nukes everything easily and I've had a good time going through the campaign with it. My plan is to transition to a mana-stacking variant in end game which is more gear dependent.

[frosty bone]

Is there any good guide for cold dot sorcerer? I saw some runemaster video and they said sorcerer will be better this season but doesn't tell what to change.

[olive mango]

I have no real problems with mana uptime...using focus in the build, but really only need it once during boss fights

[cerulean ibex]

That sounds promising! Are you doing any triggers with it, like Lightning Blast or Static Orb?

I'm not sure how the mana stacking thing will turn out - you need 1200 mana to break even on damage, I think, and you get less ailment frequency, too. But it does make it free to cast

[harsh abyss]

I feel like if you're going for the Hyperfocal node, you're probably also using it to trigger Lightning Blast or Static Orb which can help with the ailment application

[cerulean ibex]

Yeah, that's true

[harsh abyss]

Oooo, you know what we need though? We need some unique boots that transform your Evade into a short range blink that doesn't interrupt channeling abilities

[cerulean ibex]

I like that idea!

[gritty ferry]

anyone knows any build with Aergon's fireball? Don't think I've ever seen something with it and I really like how impactful it feels when it lands

[analog citrus]

Is it just me or does mage evade seems to . . . slow us down while primalist roll seems smoother

[mystic sparrow]

mage is kinda old and all, eh

[olive violet]

https://tenor.com/view/motlei-gif-17483018988231217151

[fringe kelp]

Is Crest of Unity still bugged af? (Uncapped Res not giving the %Pen, not proccing debuffs on Sorc, etc.)

[minor wasp]

I’m building Frostbite Spellblade to see if it still works. On paper it still looks hella strong.

[lime spruce]

how is the glacial sorc build from maxroll? The video they posted seems to be from the pre-ward nerf

[sacred ruin]

it crushes given enough gear

[uneven valve]

I don't really love glacier but can't find another build that looks great

Only 54 though

[thick rover]

go meteor

[mystic sparrow]

Glacier is really good for leveling...u can switch off it after a while, if you desire

[lime spruce]

alright you convinced me ill give it a try, if it cant push high corruption maybe ill try to swap it to spark charge or something

[thick rover]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/allies-mana-stacking-meteor-sorcerer

[silk pewter]

Allie's Mana Stacking Meteor Sorcerer Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1

Class

Mage / Sorcerer

Used skills

• Meteor
• Focus
• Flame Ward
• Teleport
• Arcane Ascendance

Used unique items

• Harbinger of Stars
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros
• Frostbite Shackles
• Transient Rest
• Throne of Ambition

Tags

Boss Killer / Monolith Farmer / Cycle Starter / Beginner / SSF / Ranged

Created by Allie · Jul 7, 2024, 3:11 PM

[thick rover]

is legit the smoothest build once you make the transition to meteor. im talking one shotting nemesis through the ward

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, Meteor is super good

[olive mango]

Yes, my current phase of the build uses both lightning strike and static orb. End game version of the build would run at like 2K mana, drop focus, restructure a good chunk of the skill trees as well. I don't know if it'll work or feel good, but I'm goign to give it a try

[harsh abyss]

Experimentation is part of the fun. That's probably the thing I like most about LE in general.

[olive violet]

how is it going for that relatively early like lvl50

[thick rover]

i transitioned at level 25ish, Got around 500 mana at level 50 and it then it really came online

[olive violet]

oh 😄 well im 50 and have 134 mana but i havent really found any good upgrades in 20 levels

[thick rover]

gotta craft the gear. i recommend shattering stuff and forging, you wont really find direct 1-1 upgrades

[olive violet]

ye i guess youre right

[thick rover]

they dont really tell that during the campaign but they should

[olive violet]

ye i have been but not a lot, too lazy. i do the same stupidity in POE. Ill die 30 times to a boss instead of going to hideout to craft res 😛

[mystic sparrow]

Recheck your passives, maybe? ...Im 32 with 2 mana mods in gear and I got 275mana

[olive violet]

ye im playing standard glacier leveling atm so i havent really specced into mana

[mystic sparrow]

Yeah...my first character died at 71, so this one is a little ahead of the curve with some gear and more mats to work with

[shell fern]

the nerf to snowdrift and frostbite shackles were kinda rough for the build though

[fading thorn]

Does anyone havea build guide for fire disintegrate?

[late jay]

sry but what is a mana mod?

[kind fox]

This build is awesome, started doing mono's around level 30 with this

[molten cobalt]

man cycle 2 is just like cycle 1, not even worth playing

[mystic sparrow]

well...see you in 4 months! Gluck!

[molten cobalt]

in 4 months i will likely be playing d4 expansion instead

[mystic sparrow]

...ouch. I guess, gratz?

[molten cobalt]

why ouch? d4 season 4 is actually better than last epoch, I just kinda got done with it

[barren belfry]

oh lord, I thought this was only an all chat topic
hence I muted it

[lunar pond]

has anyone made a build around runic energizer? the node that gives faster runic energy the more different runic invocations you have cast

[olive violet]

thats an exaggeration

[molten cobalt]

not at all

[olive violet]

not to mention the janky balance in last d4 season where sorc has no build that can really compete in pit with necro etc

[mild token]

if u like d4, why not go on d4 discord and tell them that instead of here? 😛

[molten cobalt]

balance wise there is a room for a lot of improvement, but LE has balance issues too, just look at sorc in cycle 1. but d4 season 4 improved so much compared to season 1-3. hell, they even implemented last epoch-esque crafting

[olive violet]

ye it took them a year to make the game worth playing (except sorc, which they havent touched since they "fixed" the bl build)

[molten cobalt]

i finished season 4 so i quit until s5, but it took a lot longer to "finish" it than previous seasons

[olive violet]

i still get as much if not more out of LE. But POE > TLI > the others atm for enjoyment time by far.

[molten cobalt]

season 4 was basically first time game was out of beta testing and yes they need to get a grip on sorc

i hope the expansion is a banger, just like expansion in diablo 2 and diablo 3 was

[olive violet]

i just hope its not a cashgrab

[mystic sparrow]

Ok, I wasnt going to engage...but lets assume you're not actually trolling.

Season 4 was literally them fixing their goddam awful sh@t that the game was, after being "fixed" twice. it STILL didnt fix many issues with gear, hence the many builds that can still go to 100% immunity, like Barbs and Rogues.
Not only that, Season 5 will once again introduce a mode that is plain and doesnt add any meaningful gameplay loop and is boring as f__k.

I really do want, or wanted, D4 to actually be good and fun, but more and more they show that their design direction is completely blind and misguided

[timid spear]

necro in d4 has 10-ish builds, 1 build does 40,000,000,000 hits on command, 7 of the 10 builds struggle with low millions dps, idk what kind of game design that is

[minor wasp]

I think the ward getting nerfed was expected across the board so shackles is still good, just not giving broken numbers of ward.

Snowdrift will only provide half the penetration it used to, but it will still be a lot. Only way to find out is to build it and see how far I can get it

Frostbite damage increases offsets the nerf too

[timid spear]

all the people who play the 40b build are like "see the games great"

[molten cobalt]

lets not pretend, all games have issues. none of what you said makes season 4 bad though, just means the game was horseshit before, which it was

[olive violet]

s4 didnt really have a league mechanic. Did add pit though

[molten cobalt]

neither does last epoch 1.1? it's the same as 1.0 but with 1 new boss

[olive violet]

it does

[mystic sparrow]

You are enforcing my point. Season 4 had nothing adde to the game in terms of gameplay. I literally had my Shako day5 of the patch because you could grind rep witht the stupid merc faction (that did not add or give anything in terms of gameplay...like, you know, a merc!) and all the bosses were the same chore.
The Pit was the best saving grace added recently and yet, after 130+ it starts to be a slog

[timid spear]

the variance between min and max builds within a class in d4 are at a ratio of 1:10,000. the devs acknowledge this and say its a GOOD thing

[wheat plover]

Anyone has a loot filter for glacier sorc? (end game)

[cerulean ibex]

I'd recommend watching Perry The Pig's video on how to build your own filter, it's very worth doing in this game

[molten cobalt]

ok now you stopped being a realistic grown up, time for me to bow out

[earnest leaf]

D4 bad

[wheat plover]

i have 500 hours i know how to build im just looking for something deent to build on - anyone has anything plz send DM dont tag gme with useless info ty

[cerulean ibex]

Well that's the thing: once you've got a decent filter template, all you need to do is select the affixes you want and it's easy to adjust for any build. That's why it's worth taking the time to do it yourself

[olive violet]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/glacier-sorcerer-guide#loot-filter-header

click on "generate loot filter"

[molten cobalt]

I truly cannot understand how people lasted for 500 hours of last epoch, quite amazing actually. I didn't even last for 140 hours of cycle 1

[cerulean ibex]

Some of us have been playing it for a large portion of early access

[molten cobalt]

yeah I know, which is what amazes me, what did ya'll do "for fun"?

[cerulean ibex]

Make builds 🤷‍♂️

[lime jungle]

this is the mage chat not the cry chat

[molten cobalt]

LE has potential for sure, as a little brother to PoE, but the game is nowhere near THAT good, not yet anyway

[molten cobalt]

we are mages, chatting

[timid spear]

the comparison itself is a compliment to the game