🧙┃mage

[rigid valley]

For me, it depends on the spell. For example, I can use fireball or static orb free, or for 2 or 3 mana but meteor is 90 osmething which is my main dps. Also depends if you want ward on mana spent or are using nodes that proc on x amount of mana spent.

Oh, and these spells damage are fine even with 0 cost. This bouns is just like having 50% fire damage or whatever on gear, the real power is +spell damage which alters the base damage (as I understand it).

[errant sundial]

I understand that - but what you are saying between the lines here is that "yes, spell cost reduction does affect damage". Correct? Its not a bad thing either way, I just want to know how the mechanic works.

[digital musk]

honestly not sure but i doubt it does less than its "base"

sorc spells feel kinda bad rn when under 40mana cost as it is, there is too much good stuff you lose by reducing mana that much

[nimble shoal]

Yes, it's based on the actual mana spent to directly cast the spell

[past obsidian]

i have bricked 16 enigma's so far, 15 2lp 1 3lp

[mystic tundra]

@zinc patrol I actually hit the 1/6 wow

[zinc patrol]

LETS GOOOOO

[tawny orbit]

How is Disintegrate now?

[past obsidian]

Very good spell now for midnight

[tawny orbit]

What do you mean for midnight?

[mystic tundra]

Midnight unique ring

[tawny orbit]

The Flames of Midnight ring? Huh didn't expect that to be useful for a mage, the more you know

[mystic tundra]

Yeah I think recently Frozen tested it out with the FC static orb build and incorporated the ring and disintegrate into echo farm

[marsh oasis]

Anyone find a Red Ring this cycle? 0.0

[worldly ferry]

if i have a 91% spell crit chance with 24% normal crit chance, do they go together to be over 100% or doesnt work like that?

[nimble shoal]

If you're looking at your character sheet, no those are your global crit rates assuming you use a skill that has no skill-specific crit bonuses on it

[long robin]

Is the Strand of Souls the go-to belt for the FC SO build because the ward or are there any others geared for a more glass cannon type

[past obsidian]

how do i go about crafting this ring for slams? currently only have 1lp's

[long robin]

well the way I understand it the slam will randomly take any of the 4 affixes of the exalted item. and there is no way to control that. The only sure fire way is to get a 4LP item, but good luck with that. So I guess to answer your question the ideal would be to have an exalted with 4 stats that you find desirable so no matter what gets picked you wont rage quit 🙂

[past obsidian]

i mean, i was wondering if it has potential for be a base for some 2lp slams

[faint phoenix]

You could try to seal the minion health and add t5 crit chance or mana regen

[past obsidian]

yall think this low-rolled base worths slamming into a 2lp enigma which is not that rare at all? i had to removal twice on this base and no fp left to refine

[faint phoenix]

I’d do it but I’m pretty impatient.

[zinc patrol]

just missed my 6th lp3 fragment slam, god help me

[past obsidian]

how rare are 3lp's? i missed alomst 2lp slams now

[zinc patrol]

they're about 200m-400m gold each lol

[past obsidian]

that's actually considered cheap, right? i am cof

[zinc patrol]

yeah its not too bad. but the slam itself will run you prob ~100m in tries on top to get the right exalted

omg i just missed #7

this is incredible as a 50/50

[mystic tundra]

anyone know if the top affix affects sparks generated from FC?

[past obsidian]

i just got a 3lp enigma

[past obsidian]

yes

[mystic tundra]

dope! thanks

[mystic tundra]

grats and gl, I've only found one so far

have you come across a strands of souls 2LP+ yet? @past obsidian

[past obsidian]

not there yet

[mystic tundra]

I'm only getting 1LP even at high corro

[past obsidian]

probably will work on rings next

[plush anchor]

anyone use Stonecarved for sparkcharge shatterstrike builds?

or have people had better luck with regular exalteds

[unreal umbra]

gz

[past obsidian]

only after 21 enigmas

[mystic tundra]

grats!

my resistances are so bad, I really could use some 3LP gear

[plush anchor]

I get having stuff be very rare

but some the chances for 3-4LP stuff is beyond unattainable.

barely anyone has time for farming like that

i get they dont want people being super OP too quick, but there has got to be a better odds than what it currently is

[mystic tundra]

yeah but that its like EHG said, the people who really grind deep and would want that gear are less than 1% of the player base

I can already do 1000c without a bunch of 3lp gear

[plush anchor]

this is true. Torment Lock is absurdly OP as i run 600cor speed runs in Lp1 trash gear

[mystic tundra]

but I do think that 1000c+ the chances for 2-4LP should be better than it is now

but should still be a grind either way

[past obsidian]

are 2lp flames of midnight rare?

[mystic tundra]

this game reminds me a lot of the grind in diablo 2 back in the day

[plush anchor]

i agree. it should be MUCh more rewarding being able to push that deep

[mystic tundra]

yeah I dont feel like its very rewarding at this level, although its pretty hard

[plush anchor]

the Item rarity is much too linear. needs to be exponential since the Lp3-4 rarity is insane

[mystic tundra]

Still getting a lot of the same stuff I was getting at 300 or 600c

[mystic tundra]

agreed

[plush anchor]

yeah, which shoudlnt be happening. even the people farming 2-3k cor say the same thing

[past obsidian]

still hard for me to 1 or 2 rotation down abby

Not sure if I want to use the midnight, because the build requires a 2lp midnight

[past obsidian]

what's a most popular slam for a 2lp wrongwarp for pure damage purpose?

[plush anchor]

i would asssume its 2/3 things: cast speed, crit mult, and/or your dmg type

[long robin]

man I tell you, if they do something about the insane telegraph attacks that you cannot do anything about, and fix the dang issue that you have to click several times to pick up small stuff, this game would be so close to dethrone my faorite game (which shall remain unnamed)

[unreal umbra]

pure dmg would be crit multi and spell crit (assuming that spell crit is helping you reach crit cap)

good balance between dmg and utility is crit multi, transfusing

[mystic tundra]

What's a reasonable amount of crit multi to aim for?

I think right now with skull swap on catalyst, my spell crit is over capped 119% and crit multi 350%

[past obsidian]

okay then i got crit multi and spell crit on wand. For my mapping setup, my crit is at 96, for my bossing setup, I swap in crystal skull, double julra, and crown, crit capped.

[unreal umbra]

sounds pretty good

[worldly ferry]

oh okay so that makes sense. i know the sheet doesnt account for skill related crit eg. 8% on glacier which would put me at 99% for that skill. I just was wondering if the normal crit rate affected spell crit chance at all - like if they stacked or if they are completely independent of eachother

[unreal umbra]

your spell crit on sheet is includes your non spell crit

the glacier 8% crit is base crit also, which is different.

[mystic tundra]

Damn that’s nice. My mapping is only 75 I think. Can’t wait to switch to a 4% gaze. Even if it’s just t7 mana and no orb I’d take it

[past obsidian]

I think the biggest upgrades for my bossing setup is the crown

[plush anchor]

crown?

Ashen crown..?

[unreal umbra]

fractured

[plush anchor]

ah

[mystic tundra]

How many ROA did it take

also what corro you bossing at? I’m doing 1000 and it’s already one cycle on everything

[turbid dome]

God damn

I've been playing my ass off and only at 350 corruption on a legacy character lmao

[plush anchor]

😭

[plush anchor]

what exactly does this mean. It says it doesnt scale with it, but can still get attack speed...?

im confused. can I attack faster or not?

[mystic tundra]

Might be a great question for #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs

[plush anchor]

sounds like a plan

[rocky anvil]

It stops scaling entirely with attack speed that you can find anywhere (e.g. gear, passives, other skill nodes) and now only scales with attack speed gained from Fulmination.

Thinking about this, this should mean the negative attack speed doesn't apply to flamereave... (using ardent branding node)

[spiral imp]

any flame reave enjoyers? looking for a build to utilize rainbow sword

[plush anchor]

If that is true.. hmm, sounds like ima experiment a little

[plush anchor]

for fractured crown... is it Increased mana, or added mana affix?

(needed for ascendence)

[unreal umbra]

added mana

you cant get mana % of a sorc helm

[manic niche]

anyone here running frostclaw lightning runemaster variation that i could dm and ask a few questions to ?

[midnight pine]

Does shattershock and frontloaded node from lightning blast apply to spark charge ?

[viscid chasm]

someone can share a good loot filter starting early endgame (monolith) for frostbite frost claw? (sorc if it's important)

the one on maxroll seems meuh

[plush anchor]

I tested this, and while it shows that you do lose attackspeed, it doesnt feel like you do.

[rocky anvil]

That's incredible 🤔 because 10 stacks would be a total of 2.5x total damage (100% + 150%)

[plush anchor]

as well as 15% more dmg towards slowed

and a ton of Pen

[rocky anvil]

But you have to avoid evading and movement is slow, but teleport at least gives you movement

[plush anchor]

unless.. lemme see if swift helps

[rocky anvil]

yeah so its <total damage * 2.5 * 1.15> because they're more sources instead of increased. That's stupid fun 😁

[plush anchor]

yeah, surely theres some sort of Flame reave build that can hit for 2+ mil or something

well, no way to dodge the slow.. i tried phantom mire gloves and the 'immune to slow' didnt work

[pseudo verge]

Well its not slow, its reduced movement speed and is only countered with more movement speed, haste, increased effect by haste. It sucks to be as slow as a snail

Maybe crab ring would help or work? You wont be able to use evade though xD

[plush anchor]

nothing makes you immune to the slow, so you would def need some way to get haste on hit if speed really is an issue

[next lance]

Which variation you looking for?

[plush anchor]

is there any channeled melee attack on any chars..?

[rapid hinge]

flurry

rogue

[plush anchor]

ah gotcha

ahhh.. shield rush on Sentinal is too..

hmmmmmmmmmm..........

you could 100% get away with Event Horizon as Shield rush

[pseudo verge]

Sentinel have warpath too

And maybe healing hands? Cant remember

[plush anchor]

yeah warpath would prob be even better

[past obsidian]

I haven’t got the crown yet. I’m trying to one cycle down abberoth

[zinc patrol]

i just failed the 8th enigma lp3, it just isnt meant to be this season lol

[leaden spade]

Why can't I play Last Epoch? I'm trying to play through NVIDIA GeForce Now on mobile and it shows me this... So where is the problem?.... It tells me that there was an error when starting, no license

[past obsidian]

wait... with orian's, does it mean i dont need void resist?!

I think that is the case, and I got void resist on my 3lp enigma. Oh well, at least it will get me through when i get my orian's

[zinc patrol]

gives you other options, like going strong mind or just base running a confluence

[ivory shadow]

Guys, can someone explain to me, why "Mana spent gained as Ward" doesn't work on triggered spells?
Like... Static Orb build dumping 3k mana in 2 seconds and gaining 9k ward is totally fine. But for some reason a prospect of Harbinger of Stars build dumping ~1k mana in 4 seconds and gaining 3k ward is a HUGE no-no?

[marsh oasis]

I can't beat Abberoth without Red rings so my cycle is over. 🙂 Never running mage class again.

[red rose]

whats the best mage build this season

[lethal salmon]

hey

i think echomancy might be broken, in the bad way of things

it's not working

[past obsidian]

yeah don't think I will need an orian's. Confluence gives good damage even for spark charges, right?

[zinc patrol]

yeah, personally I run confluence only for bosses given I don't like the damage taken increase, but a solid one is very much worth running

[past obsidian]

lol, that gives me motivation to keep farming for 3lp enigma's and join your venture haha

[zinc patrol]

Love it, go get them and hit those slams

[faint phoenix]

At this point I’m just running an Omnis for the resistance at 1400 and confluence for bossing and it’s working fine. I’m still chasing an Orian’s though.

[mystic tundra]

I was actually debating this... but would be losing 130 base mana. how much mana are you at while running omni?

[past obsidian]

kinda bored of claw - kinda want to try out shattering star now

@unreal umbra how's your meteor build doing?

[faint phoenix]

I’m running 2150 mana with Omnis. Honestly though I feel like at 1400 if I get hit by anything I’m dead anyway so i may replace it with a mana neck. I just burnt all my good ones trying to slam Confluences

[mystic tundra]

damnnn lol nvm. im only at 1660 right now with a mana neck included

[faint phoenix]

It definitely feels better to run with a mana neck. When I do it’s around 2350

[mystic tundra]

are you MG this cycle?

[faint phoenix]

Nah I’ve always done CoF

[mystic tundra]

thats impressive

[faint phoenix]

I’ve gotten pretty lucky with some mana slams. My crit and crit multi needs work though. Here’s my guy: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qn9PjqEA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 974, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 2,320.42, Regen: 21.24/s
▸ Ward Retention: 320%, Regen: 285/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 11 Dex / 75 Int / 7 Att / 3 Vit
▸ Resistances: 55% / 28% / 94% / 57% / 80% / 75% / 68%
▸ EHP: 1,232 / 1,061 / 1,560 / 1,465 / 1,340 / 1,340 / 1,349

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 195
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (44)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 40% (2,246)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (21)
• Arcane Ascendance (20)
• Static Orb (22)
• Teleport (20)
• Focus (20)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Wrongwarp
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Phantom Grip
• Julra's Stardial
• The Confluence of Fate
• Stormcarved Testament

[mystic tundra]

nice. biggest difference is probably your chest piece. I have a low base mana roll on my core and went T7 INT instead of mana

[drowsy aurora]

This is maybe a dumb question but im very much a sorc newbie. What is the benefit or in what situation does a sorc use minion damage?

[south monolith]

I forgot to switch to enigma when map clearing and it didn't seem much different, just cleanring with crystal skull now, i'm only at 700c maybe it will make a diffrence later?

[past obsidian]

has anyoen tried planner's generated filter? does it work well?

[mystic tundra]

kinda also depends on how much INT you have too right?

[visual saffron]

rolls are low end, but finally got a decent slam

[mystic tundra]

how much favor did it take?

[past obsidian]

is there any other spells than claw and meteor that can proc spark charges?

[mystic tundra]

There’s a unique gloves for fireball that has it but it’s like 20-28% chance

[past obsidian]

i tried fireball but could not raise its cost to above 40.

[mystic tundra]

damn lame

[ivory shadow]

All spells with manacost >40: Static Orb, Volcanic Orb, Glacier, Ice Barrage, Meteor, Frost Claw and also Static with one specific node. Frost Claw is by far the best one though.

[past obsidian]

word.

[sleek elbow]

which blessing is better for frost claw static orb, 87 mana or 50% lightning shred?

[mystic tundra]

Mana

[sleek elbow]

Dang really haha rip perfect roll

Figured you can't get lightning shred anywhere else so it'd be OP

[mystic tundra]

Lightning shred was great for FC spark but doesn’t seem super necessary here. Mana scales really well with the build. You can always try testing your echo clear speed with it on and off, but I don’t think you will notice much difference. We can already clear mob packs with one cast from fc and no shred

[sleek elbow]

Ah okay

Yeah I'm not worried about clearing mobs, just boss damage

[past obsidian]

I think i have reached the point where i need to play a new toon. substantial upgrade for me now is the red ring, which i am not too much of a fan for farming it

[mystic tundra]

damn

[marsh oasis]

Plus the level 12 COF twice the amount drop doesn't seem to be working? Maybe i'm counting wrong.

[mystic tundra]

its already factored in. when you look at prophecies after hitting 12, the number of items granted is already doubled. the double doesnt happen after the fact

[marsh oasis]

oooh ok. Shucks then.

[manic niche]

frozen sentinel's 1.1 one

[past obsidian]

better than 2lp confluence for mapping?

[zinc patrol]

yes for sure, i use a sm4 for mapping

[past obsidian]

what do you slam on there?

[zinc patrol]

shred/frailty interchangable with resists on gloves. either or

[past obsidian]

got you. thanks. i guess i need some better gloves since i got shred on gloves

oh i see, resist good too

[zinc patrol]

yeah either source interchangable

this is the counterpart

[past obsidian]

this has potential to be good?

[zinc patrol]

excellent

[unreal umbra]

a lot of maniplulation, will probably run out of fp. but potetially could be good

[zinc patrol]

i like fitting extra armour rolls if you can afford to

[unreal umbra]

yeah depends if that necrotic res is good or bad for you also

[past obsidian]

yeah i wont bother

[unreal umbra]

you can insight off the crit chance, but that's potentially a lot of fp

or just straight up removal gamba and see what happens

[past obsidian]

yeah mana ripped right away

[unreal umbra]

also, meteor is ok, but i wouldn't bother switching to it if you already have fc up and running

shame. happens, to be expected really.

bricked so many exalts lately

either straight up rip the t7 or run out fp

[past obsidian]

thanks.

i feel like i have reached the point where i either need to find joy in farming for t7int red rings or start a new toon

[unreal umbra]

yeah im pretty much done, im gonna give d4 a go

might do an arena run or something

[past obsidian]

how is it compared to LE? i heard LE has better systems

[mystic tundra]

I’ve played every season of d4. It’s enjoyable for me. I usually give it about 2 months of gameplay then quit until next season. Their end game has been lackluster but hoping s5 turns that around a bit.

[past obsidian]

that's what i heard about their end game. I mean 2 months is still decent chunk of time. i usually quit LE about 1 month in.

[mystic tundra]

Only 2 months because I play with a bunch of ppl in d4, otherwise would be less probably. You can get to 100 and get geared out wayyyyy quicker compared to LE. The grind just ain’t the same

And no loot filter still

[next lance]

Dagorath spark charge? Im running that one

[past obsidian]

I think that's actually what I like better. I really enjoyed D3

[past obsidian]

I feel like d4 and even d3 have always taken the route of being "simple and stupid" type of fun, compared to PoE and even LE

[mystic tundra]

Yep! I think d2 is the closest to LE in terms of grind for gear and min maxing but they strayed away from all that with d3 and 4.

[past obsidian]

perfect. i will most definitely give d4 a go

[unreal umbra]

yeah i played every season of d4 also. it's alright. i have way more hours in d4 than LE.

LE is better. but d4 is improving

there's some things about d4 which i really dont like, forced group boss runs, forced 'mg'

[past obsidian]

I just don't like how the RNG in LE works. I never enjoyed such RNG even in PoE.

[unreal umbra]

d4 has worse rng, but 'mg' makes it not matter coz you just go and buy something (mg) and go again. same in this game really

[mystic tundra]

Agreed. Definitely improving though

[long robin]

hmmm...

decisions decisions

[unreal umbra]

Turn tiers on

Probably comes down to resistances, if using storm carved then phys resist already solved

Void res pretty good, most people need that

[long robin]

I have 85 on void

trying to figure out whether the extra static orb and damage does me more good than the mana and increased crit strike chance since the build relies on both

[past obsidian]

does confluence damage get added to spark charges?

[glad marten]

So I'm like neck deep in a disintegrate build, and played a bunch of disintegrate in 1.0. What's everyone's take on disintegrate this time around?

[nimble shoal]

The amulet? Yeah

[unreal umbra]

t7/t5 mana/orb will do more dmg than t6/t5 orb/mana. also, the implicit is useful vs a useless one. overall would go for left unless the resistances play a part in the decision

if it was t7 orb/mana, that would probaby win. it also depends on the rest of your toon, how much crit dmg you have etc (extra static orb points most likely going into crit dmg)

[long robin]

so, I do not know how to calculate out crit damage. I know crit chance and crit strike multi.

[unreal umbra]

instead of calculating, you can just use the tooltip number and compare both helms with ideal point distribution, under the same conditions

[long robin]

well,I see no tooltip for crit damage..you mean crit chance?

[unreal umbra]

nah static orb tooltip dmg

or which dmg are you trying to calculate?

[ebon rain]

speaking of helmets, if anyone has a 120 helm with 2/3 % increased armor/armor & reduced crit/t5 orb, I'll gladly pay 1.5b gold and powerlevel an alt to 98 😄

[long robin]

yeah static orb since I am trying to improve that to be able to kill bosses and harbinger in order to advance. With the T7 mana my dmg with SO is 100,002 and with the other is 86K so yeah the T7 mana does me better. Didn't think about checking the spell DPS lol

[unreal umbra]

this comment alone approves of your t7/t5 helm. it's good! use it

[long robin]

that should've been an easy decision. Learned something new 🙂 Thanks!

[ebon rain]

T7 mana all the way between those 2. ❤️

[unreal umbra]

when comparing tooltip dps, just make sure the points are allocated properly because the game does some weird stuff when downskilling skill points. you might need to despec manually and kill some mobs

[ebon rain]

to spicorr's point, 4/5 vs 5/5 with high mana in manacharged is like 150k+ dmg on SO

[zinc patrol]

what a bait to drop this this season while playing mage 😭

[mystic tundra]

damnitttt hit the T7 but missed the T6 mana + ward

[unreal umbra]

aww

[mystic tundra]

I knew finding a -3 with 2LP was too good to be true

[unreal umbra]

i bricked so many

[mystic tundra]

yeah this is #6 for me

cant hit the 1/6

[ebon rain]

surely you rune of creationed the slam waand at least 😄

[mystic tundra]

yes I used my last ROC on it

might save it for a 3LP instead

it has lightning pen too

[unreal umbra]

damn. would def save for 3lp

[mystic tundra]

ive found about 30ish warps but no 3LP yet

[unreal umbra]

imagine that hitting all 3

[mystic tundra]

and imagine it being a -3 too

[past obsidian]

i am about to reroll or play d4 or lol, not gonna sit here all day and farm the ring

[ebon rain]

I had a double t7 multi/mana+ward. saved the second for a 3lp warp that never came after 10 days of farming. Think you just gotta take your chances on the 2lps

[unreal umbra]

did it hit on a 2lp?

[ebon rain]

no

I hit both suffixes twices lol

[unreal umbra]

i would have to save a t7/t7, even if it never got used

i had a 4lp ladle that never got used coz i never found an exalt worthy

are 3lp wrongwarps non existant on mg now?

[ebon rain]

I've never seen one on MG, period.

[unreal umbra]

oh damn. i reckon week 1 there would have been some?

[ebon rain]

and I look every time I go to the bazaar

[unreal umbra]

i've never used mg before i dont really know how it works. would be cool if they had sale history or something

[ebon rain]

You would think so, but I just haven't seen them up there

not much worse drop rate than a 4lp peak. But not as easy to farm

[mystic tundra]

holy. yeah kinda feel that way too

[unreal umbra]

i feel like i could get a 3lp wrong warp if i tried really hard. lpl isn't that high

the base drop rate is pretty low though

[ebon rain]

yeah, i almost never see it drop on my mg characters unless i'm juicing LA unique drops, still very rare.

[mystic tundra]

yeah I literally just got two 2LPs right now back to back damn

make that 3 wow, one of these couldn't have rolled 3LP?? lol

[unreal umbra]

2lp strand feels hard to get.

[mystic tundra]

Ive given up on strands

definitely feels terrible to even get 2LP. never seen one

[mystic tundra]

@unreal umbra @ebon rain wtf!

[ebon rain]

that's effed up!

[sour panther]

I' ve seen one, had the lowest possible roll on mana spent gained as ward tho x)

And the only 2 lp unstable core i've found so far had 13 on mana ._.

[unreal umbra]

told you 😄

my only 2lp unstable core also had 19 mana on it feels bad

surely the t7/t6 is hitting

[mystic tundra]

now im undecided if thats what I want to slam lol. gonna think on it. if I go with T7 spell crit with T5 crit multi and just forget about the mana and ward, that puts me at 93% spell crit and a little lower less crit multi.

[ebon rain]

is it even worth slamming a low roll 2lp core? :/

[unreal umbra]

nah, i let it rot. it still haunts me. i look at it every now and then and shake my head.

i would only do the t7/t5 if it really suits your build better, and also the secondaries would need to be useful too coz you dont wanna waste a 3lp

[ebon rain]

Yeah, I have a couple real bad implicit and mana roll 2lps that I haven't done anything with--what confuses me is the 2lp sub 30 mana and 10% or lower implicits selling for 1.5 billion on the AH. Who buys that?

[sleek elbow]

whats better for mana stacking frost claw static orb, 6 int or 48% crit multi?

[rapid hinge]

Multi by large margin

[lusty zinc]

Im tired of playing with glacier and im only lvl 45 but i got Cinder song and Harbinger of stars. Is there some other fun way to keep leveling? fireball / meteor something?

[quiet axle]

I tried fireball and meteor but it def hits a wall without gear

had to switch back to frostclaws

[lusty zinc]

Havent tried leveling with FC. Did you do that with nova procs?

[quiet axle]

nah i did it with spark charge procs

[lusty zinc]

yeah i wouldnt know how to do that 😛

ill keep trucking and do something later on

also need the off hand first

[shell mountain]

is direct cast applied every second for skills like disintegrate (in runemaster passives)

[lethal salmon]

i mean, at least it's perfect for leveling Xd

[ivory shadow]

Reowyn's is an awesome staff in general though. Not just for levelling. And it's super cheap on MG too. The entire setup for it is pretty expensive though, but it melts.

[south monolith]

is there a mono with no axe throwers, get me everytime.

[nimble shoal]

The Black Sun and The Last Ruin

[mystic tundra]

I hate those bastards, but also enjoy destroying them. They keep me on my toes 😂

[alpine seal]

How do I use prizmatic gaze helmet in the frost claw & static orb build? None of the main skills are under 40 mana other than teleport and it is on cool down?

[nimble shoal]

It's really just for the +4% crit chance

[flat salmon]

Hello, I'm new.

[deep idol]

Use Lightning Blast if you really need to get Shred stacks. It's good enough without the shards, just enjoy your crit.

[flat salmon]

i create a Spellblade wizard to start with.

Alright?

or is it a complicated class?

[mystic tundra]

@unreal umbra imagine if this was a crystal skull instead

[sour panther]

it's melee so it is not the easiest class in the game

had good fun with it last cycle tho

and it got buffed this cycle as well

[unreal umbra]

damn. did you slam the wrongwarp yet?

[mystic tundra]

yeah today, hit both affix and stun chance. missed lightning pen but all good, got the important ones

still hunting for a good exalt helm for my LP4 peak

[unreal umbra]

nice

[faint phoenix]

I got suffixes on my two 2lp wrongwarp slams today 😬

[past obsidian]

lol you got a 3lp?

[mystic tundra]

yeah nemesis egg lol went from 0 to 1 to 3, unreal

[faint phoenix]

Damn, nice!

[long robin]

lucky dog!

[mystic tundra]

Nemesis super legit addition to the game IMO.

its generated some crazy triple T6 exalts too

[long robin]

agree. Very unique mechanic. I like it

[unreal umbra]

yeah, egg is awesome.

except when you die using it

wonder how many hardcore deaths from offscreen stuff while using the egg have happened

[faint phoenix]

Yeah really wish it paused when you have the menu up…

Sitting there twiddling my thumbs waiting for the straggler from 3 screens away to get there haha

Does interacting with the nemesis trigger spire attacks? I haven’t tried it.

[long robin]

yeah everything still comes at you like a truck when in the egg. I was thrown to the death screen while looking in my inventory

[faint phoenix]

Yeah I just know the spires will stop if you don’t move or use an ability. Just wondering if clicking the nemesis will trigger them. I’d assume so.

[past obsidian]

Right I had literally to clear the entire map just to make sure when I put myself thing in I won’t accidentally die to some mobs screens away

[mystic tundra]

since I started doing 1000c, I made it a rule to clear echo objective (especially spires), then clear entire area, then use nemesis lol. its extra work but removes that stress because I've died way too many times from offscreen nonsense.

[nimble shoal]

No, it doesn't. Engaging the nemesis does of course, any combat or skill usage triggers it.

[faint phoenix]

Oh good to know, thanks!

[unreal umbra]

wonder if they are going to make any changes to it, some sort of immunity. can't pause coz of multi player

[nimble shoal]

Main thing they need to do is get rid of that one spire that spawns enemies lol, no way to get "out of combat" because it keeps putting you in combat

[past obsidian]

put it at the very start of a run, where nothing else is around. Players have talked about similar things that like in poe make you know the presence of the league mechanic right away in a map.

[unreal umbra]

how do they deal with degen behaviour of reloading until you get it though. or are poe maps different, you can only load in once?

[nimble shoal]

In PoE, maps are consumable, and opening it uses it up. Here, I'm pretty sure it knows whether an echo has been entered before or not, but I don't know if they use it for much.

[faint phoenix]

I think a visual indicator that something is aggroed on me would be enough for me.

[long robin]

How can you reset the purple head modifier in a timeline? I just can't do Mr Gaspar now LOL this is more a general question. I will post there

[stuck fable]

hmm wondering why glacier is the preferred lvling method.. when tele and white claw nova can work as well?

[waxen sigil]

cuz its not as fast ?

[stuck fable]

i mean you only need to get to 40 mana spark charge node on sorc

[waxen sigil]

so its not the preferred method then, by you and also by others

[stuck fable]

i mean almost all the content creators are espousing glacier

[waxen sigil]

because its faster and better

and that node is far away

[past obsidian]

besdies a red ring to replace the phantom grip since crit will be capped without it, what else can i work on? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QDgEPgGA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 962, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 2,016.01, Regen: 20.72/s
▸ Ward Retention: 483%, Regen: 261/s
▸ Attributes: 10 Str / 9 Dex / 110 Int / 7 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 110% / 18% / 82% / 55% / 74% / 18% / 75%
▸ EHP: 1,302 / 880 / 1,381 / 1,160 / 1,109 / 709 / 1,256

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 192
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (52)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 26% (1,144)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (21)
• Focus (20)
• Static Orb (26)
• Teleport (20)
• Arcane Ascendance (20)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Wrongwarp
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Julra's Stardial
• Phantom Grip
• The Confluence of Fate
• Stormcarved Testament

[past obsidian]

[mystic tundra]

siiiick

[past obsidian]

I think this over an orian's?

[mystic tundra]

not much lol. getting the same gear you have now but just better rolls if anything? higher LP etc.

[mystic tundra]

I think a 4LP mind with a strong slam beats a 1LP orian's

[past obsidian]

I think it is time to farm up some better gloves, to get armour crit reduction and resist, since i can get both frailty and shred on ammy now

[mystic tundra]

yeah getting good gloves is tough

[past obsidian]

hmmm...

[past obsidian]

i am thinking of slamming crit multi and lightning pen as prefixes since this will be a mapping neck, and lightning pen gives spark charges more damage, but mana is nice too

[mystic tundra]

some lightning pen would be nice

guh anything but lightning resist damnitttt

[past obsidian]

working on a weaver's will gloves - how much weaver's will make it worth using? do i just throw it away after seeing its affix added being a bad one?

[pseudo verge]

1 weaver is 1 tier upgrade, or a new affix/suffix. I guess you could throw it away if you get 2 bad affixes you never want

With just 7 weavers you could technically get T7 int

[mystic tundra]

Yeah I usually wait to see what the first two are then decide.

if 1 of 2 at least is good, I wait for 3, and so on

[unreal umbra]

i've never made a good weaver item. haven't tried many to be fair

seems like such an mg item, way too hard to make something good, but let someone else do it and buy the finished product

[past obsidian]

I still think i want to do the mana + multi + shred + frail on neck

[past obsidian]

is this worth slamming into a 4lp strong mind?

i was kinda of hasty while crafting it - i hit the crit multiple to max too quickly and should have got other low tiers up first

[unreal umbra]

nah i'd wait for 7/5/5/5 at least but that's just me. it's probably fine though and most likely won't be able to tell the difference, frailty will only go up to 35% max

[past obsidian]

I think I want to wait for a better one

[past obsidian]

is lightning pen good on a strong mind?

[mystic tundra]

what Spicorr said, definitely wait for 7/5/5/5 minimum and all 4 affixes you want

[gloomy topaz]

tbh t7 mana and t5 crit mult are generally good enough
Frailty can afford to be on lower tier because max stack is only 3 anyway.
would take ages to find another with perfect 4 stats

[unreal umbra]

true, but a 4lp strong mind is probably a one in a cycle item. worth holding out. he also has a good 2lp confluence in the mean time so its not like he doesn't have a good amulet to use while waiting

[turbid dome]

I can only find a single shatter strike guide on maxroll, is there another list for people's builds for it?

[past obsidian]

amulet suffixes are kinda interchangeable with gloves, except for armounr and reduced crit damage, so it is a little more flexible than i thought on finding the perfect ammy

[robust junco]

There is one on lastepochtools.com

By Cyborgwars

[flat salmon]

In what aspects is it a good class?

For now I'm having a good time

[vestal locust]

Does the Sorc Passive Bonus apply to Ailments too?
For example, if I apply frostbite via Frostclaw, if Frostclaw costs more Mana will the Frostbite stacks it applies also deal more damage?

[robust junco]

Looks like it by the way its worded

[vestal locust]

Aight, Thank you!

[sour dawn]

does anyone know if there is any way i can get my fire aura to apply ignite?

[sleek agate]

anyone farming wrongwarp COF?

[sour dawn]

wait actually Calamity helmet works

[south monolith]

Is there a uber Aborrath?

[frail hedge]

Whats a nice and easy build for my first ever Mage

[robust junco]

Frostclaw something

[frail hedge]

So Sorcerer?

[robust junco]

RM is still pretty good with it

But Sorcerer seems to be the flavor of the moment

[nimble shoal]

No, nothing gives it ignite per second chance. You can get it to shred resistances in the spellblade tree, but that's the only kind of ailment it can do currently.

[sour dawn]

ok thx, but i did find out the calamity headpiece gives "ignite chance on fire skill use" and it seems to work with the fire aura from my fire ward

so theres that at least

[nimble shoal]

Calamity only gives ignite chance on hit with fire skills, but fire aura doesn't hit (flame ward can hit, so that can apply ignites)

[normal plume]

hi. Any reason why necro grimoire/marina lost soul is used on mana stack sorc? 🤔

[frosty pewter]

The guide might have them while leveling but I cant see a reason youd use them over something like ladle or wrongwarp

[grim slate]

anyone know if we can farm Orian's Eye from CoF?

[nimble shoal]

Yes, it's a random drop amulet. Pretty rare of course.

[teal musk]

Does lightning aegis just make 1 hit do 25% less dmg or does it persist and you can permanently keep 25% dmg reduction?

[nimble shoal]

It makes at least one damage instance deal 25% less damage (in addition to the other effects it has while active). It has its own little health pool equal to 25% of your max health and breaks once the total damage you've taken with it active goes beyond that.

[teal musk]

perfect ty

[night cedar]

Is there any universe where I can make a volcanic orb meteor build on sorc clear aberroth without becoming a god gamer?

[frail hedge]

Aight about to chose a subclass if I wanna go frostclaw wich 1 should I go?

I assume Sorcerer?

[nimble shoal]

Sorc is what's popular atm

[robust junco]

They give a lot of Flat Dmg. And then you grab generic More Dmg, or Inc Dmg

[cobalt smelt]

How friendly is Sorcerer for a league starter?

[scenic sail]

Still congrats, that's a solid T7 amulet, which is just what sorcs need!

[scenic sail]

I've trained a lot of fireball + meteor mages, and now glacier + meteor mages. It's definitely a difficult class to master, but a very easy class to have fun with. I played Fireball + Meteor up to 500 corruption having never followed a guide or watched any videos on meta builds or anything. But a lot of people do struggle with sorcerer, especially because of items like Harbinger of Stars, which I love but it's very difficult to play with. So yes it's fun, but not particularly easy

[cobalt smelt]

Sorry, by starter I mean, playing from scratch without already farmed equipment through other classes

[scenic sail]

I think that's totally fine, if you know how to play the game sorc is very easy. For my build, Fireball + meteor, I think merchants is best because the fireball affixes are dirt cheap and since you're already chatting online I'm sure you're understanding whatever build you're looking to play so you'll be fine probably either way

[tidal wave]

ok mages! -

Ice based Sorcerer -
Do I run Frostbite DOT or crit build?

*** I am loving [ice barrage] and it has options for crit or dot in the skill nodes ***

opinions on this would be sweet
pros/cons about playing dot/crit?

thankyou

[waxen sigil]

I personally love FB meteor

The homing fbs are jus so nice and as you said it’s not meta so the mods are cheap af, agreed the belts kind of a trap unless you do the sparks, at which point actually fb can be mana positive(not sure that it’s good tho still in this combo, (the belt)) but might be fun!

[waxen sigil]

Generally crit scales better than dots on mid to higher budget due to crit multi being abundant and the abundance of “more hit damage” vs unrestricted “more damage” necessary to scale ailment

[night cedar]

Is fire mod frost claw any good?

[grim heron]

Does anyone play Runemaster after the nerf? i played the frost claw/Lightning spark version in 1.0, but can't seem to get it working in 1.1 like it was

[proven haven]

It should still be fine, I did some theory work on it for 1.1 and it was viable. Not S tier though like sorc variant

[grim heron]

yeah i watched your current video about the sorc variant

Great video btw. I started sorc because of that ;D

[proven haven]

There is some potential merit for fire FC with RM, few synergies around runic element and and the armor node in RM tree.

Ignite might be okay but probably worse than frostbite.

Otherwise it doesn't matter much what element

[proven haven]

Ayyy yea tbh I am considering revisiting the classic Nova setup as a speed clearer since we don't need to push high corr anymore. Damage is lower than sorc but it might not matter

[grim heron]

Currently i do the classic nova setup, i reach about 5k ward. Clearspeed on Monos is pretty nice. I was about 475 corr pre 1.1 Currently i can push about 350. Due to the nerf. I tried mitigating the DR nerf by Crest of Unity. But my Boss dmg is so sad 😦

[proven haven]

Boss damage has always been sad tbh

I think you just farm envies and use those if you want boss kills on your sorc lmao

[grim heron]

Well at least i could tank anything, so i did't really care. Now i have to move etc. with everything full of flashing novas 😕

I got until Abberoth but man ... so much HP and having to dodge everything perfectly is just not fun

[night cedar]

Oh I’ve seen you on YouTube- great stuff! Got me to roll a sorc which probably doesn’t have good synergy with fire claw it sounds like.

[proven haven]

Yea that's a rough build for Abberoth tbh. I made a video on spellblade FC Nova you might have an easier time with

[proven haven]

Not that I can think of tbh

[night cedar]

Oh well- I’ll keep playing around but the dream of a volcanic orb meteor sorc is out there somewhere. I have yet to find a way to make that skill not hilariously bad

[grim heron]

I might just level my Sorc to tackle it. Since i play it a little bit more casual I am not to far into LP slamming with perfect stats. So i never managed to get +4 Claw etc. When i look at your video it should be easier for me to gear, with the stuff i already have in my stash.

[proven haven]

+FC levels doesn't matter for sorc tbh, you'll find the gear very reasonable for pure FC setup, that was my league start

Static orb is a bit harder to gear

[grim heron]

Yeah i am at this video, mostly have everything ready to go. Since i don't see a reason to play Cycle, i can use many items from 1.0 😄

@proven haven Maybe another question about your Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RoQk84Qcds Can i also use Focus instead of Manastrike to keep up with the mana costs?

[proven haven]

I use focus now and it's great but IMO it doesn't feel good until you have a sizable mana pool

[idle coral]

Since Flame Reave doesn't have a the Spell tag does that mean it doesn't trigger Arcane Focus?

[proven haven]

Yes

[idle coral]

ty

[grim heron]

Because sometimes it happend for me that i am out of mana with no mobs and i saw in your other video that you're using focus. How much mana should i have before i switch to focus?

[proven haven]

Idk it's a feeling thing, it gives 40% of max mana when used while negative

[grim heron]

Thanks a lot 🙂 I will experiment a bit

[proven haven]

You might like it, try it and see, probably minimum 600 or 700

[frosty pewter]

Honestly I hated focus, not sure how to sustain a big mana build without it but it got me killed WAY too much

[harsh abyss]

Gotta take all those nodes that make you basically invincible while channeling it

Less elemental damage taken, less damage taken from chilled foes, less damage taken from shocked foes, more armor, armor per int...

With the shocked/chilled nodes, you're taking ~56% damage from anything, and with the ele nodes as well, you're taking ~36% damage, and that's without any other sources of damage reduction or armor or whatnot

[unreal umbra]

i dont think i've ever died while using it. if i was lowish, i would dump mana on purpose where it's not too hectic then can get a good channel out. if too hectic and i'm really out, i would just tap it or at most 1 second channel to get that bit extra

by then teleport is up, teleport, free static orb and get some mana back and keep going

[past obsidian]

will these gloves work if i slam double resists onto my 4lp strong mind?

[unreal umbra]

pretty sweet gloves, hard to get on that base

[past obsidian]

yeah, maybe i should just settle. wont chase for t7 ints

[unreal umbra]

trying to get the t7 int version of this on eternal base, quite the task

even on any base, i havent found

it even high rolled on everything. gloves are amazing

[past obsidian]

if i were to get 2 resists suffixes on ammy slam, which resists should i get?

[unreal umbra]

the lowest ones makes the most sense, i'm trying to think of a scenario where picking those isn't the best

if you ever use transient rest, it covers necrotic phys and poison res

[rigid valley]

For static orb, I have a new spare point, is it better on Static Ground or a 4th point on Open Circuit?

[unreal umbra]

neither of those choices are good

1st get max manacharged, then get max storm conductor. any extra ppints in critcal trajectory.

[split owl]

when can I change to frost claw? glacier is a terrible skill

[unreal umbra]

i think its around lvl 55

or 64 passive points

[slow cargo]

Is there any meteor build you would recommend?

[native oriole]

Can anyone tell me why no one is using Black Hole on Frost Sorc

[cold sand]

I'm tryin fit these in my build, but can't figure out a way to get them AND still have enough reduced crit dmg taken for my build to not get blown up in 500+ 😦

[unreal umbra]

one t7 crit reduced on boots or belt (60) + 36 from runemaster should have you covered

[nimble shoal]

It's just not popular, probably mostly because of the long cooldown. It is a totally fine skill to use in a frostbite build, it's just probably not optimal because of that cooldown. If you want to use it for damage, the fire version deals a lot more than cold.

[gloomy topaz]

blackhole is dead skill atm
I think it's on top priority revamp list

[unkempt perch]

where do you aim a fully upgraded Frostclaw, maybe slightly behind a pack so the backwards traveling shards hit it and the forward ones get homing?

[faint phoenix]

Interesting...

[cyan ice]

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

Any tips boiz?

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 95

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (67) / Runemaster (21)

General:

▸ Health: 1,009, Regen: 19.3/s
▸ Mana: 1,308.49, Regen: 36.73/s
▸ Ward Retention: 451%, Regen: 141/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 118 Int / 1 Att / 3 Vit
▸ Resistances: 82% / 96% / 92% / 96% / 80% / 92% / 76%
▸ EHP: 1,730 / 1,730 / 1,730 / 2,310 / 1,730 / 1,730 / 1,730

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 202
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (71)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 53% (3,351)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Arcane Ascendance (20)
• Focus (20)
• Flame Rush (20)
• Flame Ward (20)
• Frost Claw (20)

Used unique items:

• Ucenui's Sphere

[sand pawn]

Anyone have thoughts on the runic invocation Vilatria's Storm lance with its base 100% crit chance? good? I imagine it would be easy to scale as just crit multi yea?

[waxen sigil]

sucks ass

[nimble shoal]

My opinion is it's not good. It suffers from what most invocations suffer from, and that is it's really hard to scale and use them as your only skill. They often scale really weird or uniquely, like storm lance, which makes it hard to put a solid build together.

[waxen sigil]

Good cop bad cop

[past obsidian]

Is shattering strike the best melee build among all classes right now?

[latent carbon]

Hello all! I am a new player… I’ve made a mage / sorc… first I was doing glacier but I have found a unique that is needed for the frost claw build. I’m seeing people run all different types of the frost claw build with “spark”… can someone please link me a build that I could run to get some gear for an optimal endgame build. I want to run frost claw tho for this and be able to have smooth transition into endgame frost claw build.

Thanks in advance

Also, I got to level 84 so far….

[nimble shoal]

idk about that, but it's pretty good

[frank marsh]

anyone have an extra unstable core?

[past obsidian]

why do you ask?

[frank marsh]

looking to see if someone could trade me it, ive been on the hunt for it for awhile and havent been able to get one to drop

[nimble shoal]

Are there really none in the bazaar?

[frank marsh]

im not high enough rank in the bazaar to get one. I think im rank 4? I switched over from cof

[nimble shoal]

You only need to be rank 3, same as it would be for p2p trading (which I'm pretty sure is temporarily disabled anyway)
Make sure you filter for uniques only, not legendaries

[frank marsh]

okay perfect, thank you im not familiar with bazaar

[nimble shoal]

No problem, it's a common issue, tends to show a bunch of legendaries first even if you don't have the rank for those yet 😅

[sand pawn]

Is static viable? Thinking big mana cost and a sorc?

[proven haven]

Should be. There were ways even in 1.0 to build up a lot of charges and pop stuff, you need some other skills with it to help with that most likely, I got pretty big zaps even then, should be good now

I think static orb could build a lot iirc

[sand pawn]

I was thinking mana strike, frost claw, flame rush, static, and 1 other. I assume sorc for the high mana cost I can push static to to grab the high dmg. Would you build that crit I guess?

[proven haven]

probably need crit yea

just go into tunk labs or last epoch planner and find stuff that gives static charges

[ivory shadow]

Why no Uniques? Shouldn't you be using Enigma at the very least? Even 0 LP would be a massive DPS boost

[tight venture]

nice I got one of those with 4LP too last season and sold it

[cyan ice]

wut?

mb i ll use it, if i get 3 lp

[frail hedge]

brother what the FAK

[robust junco]

@nimble shoal It works ! Sacrificial Embrace with Disintegrate !!!

[nimble shoal]

Excellent! Then all my meme build crafting so far today has not been in vain 😁

My priority is to try and make ghostflame work since it's the only elemental channeled spell you can move during afaik... but disintegrate's DR should make it a strong contender if I can't get ghostflame to do anything meaningful, since standing still is scary

[robust junco]

Wait its not working with Channeled HH

[nimble shoal]

Hmm, some channeled skills don't snapshot, so HH might be one that doesn't work 😔

maybe because of the repeating of HH itself, those don't, but hopefully the skybeam at least snapshots?

[robust junco]

It does work , but not with the Sky Beam

With the 4 HH per Second ...

So weird

[sand pawn]

What would
Be better for static, spellblade, sorc, or runemmaster? I’m leaning towards sorc and hoping it’s mana cost but I am not too famialr with mage passives ect

[nimble shoal]

That just makes me more confused 😂
well, at least it partly works, and then we could ditch the extra channel cost from the useless skybeam (or not, since I guess it's still free-ish damage if you can sustain it)

[past obsidian]

does wrongwarp inscrease spell damage from movement speed on boots?

[robust junco]

Yes

[white herald]

Is here any runemaster players? playing anything else than Plasma orb?

[clear bramble]

I'm playing spark charge sorc, is there any reason I should pick up mana arc from mana storm? From my testing on the dummy it doesn't apply any extra spark charge stacks at all

And the 15 mana cost is too expensive for such little damage

[bold mason]

i tried several builds with my runemaster this season so far the only one that seemed any good is the plasma orb build but the consistent pressing of the spells in the correct order was tedious and at higher corruption it felt like if you messed the sequence of keys it can mean death . I tried nova claw which was underwhelming and I also tried a disintegrate build which was fun. eventually I left behind my runemaster and switched to a spell blade spark charge build which has been great came online easily, and has been easy to play.

[lunar scroll]

I play a disentegrate build and have since like level 30, I'm at 98 now. It's been fun for me. I'm not a high corruption player, I'm at around 187 and casual.

[rigid valley]

I've been trying find myself a better unstable core and look what just dropped from a Nemesis, I didn't even use the egg 🙂

[stuck fable]

thats usually your apprentice thing though

dang still looking for the dagaroth lol

[grim heron]

@proven haven Thanks for your new Video on the DMG Spikes, really helped me understand this inconsistent one-shots!

[cold sand]

https://i.imgur.com/TneKjLB.png

https://i.imgur.com/YJtN5Dc.png

https://i.imgur.com/cX7ZDT1.png

Terrible luck on the 2LP unstable core 😭

Urzil's pride was close, but missed the crit dmg reduction sadly

[proven haven]

Gotchu fam

[ember elk]

Hey I was wondering if anyone else is focusing on a mana strike one click to win build and have a perfect minmax way of doing it. ive been doing it this season, so far so good, about to kill th elast harbinger

[night cedar]

I still don’t even have a wrongwarp 😦
Getting insane pieces for a flask falconer though

Getting a little bored of one button sorc frost claw for monos and orb for bossing and looking to pivot to something a bit more active

[past obsidian]

still not quite the 7/5/5/5 for my 4lp slam

[obtuse pine]

can you still use Wrongwraps with no spell crit for static orb? i know i can but with out spell crit will the build still not preform?

[latent cove]

is shatter strike really better for spark charges than mana strike?

[stuck fable]

not sure about shatter strike but mana strike has spark charges and range (of sorts)

[latent cove]

Yea, I'm running mana strike right now. But on maxroll they use shatter strike. I guess shatter is faster, but I would get less spark charges and frost claws

[stuck fable]

you get frost claw from MS too

as i said its a ranged melee of sorts

[latent cove]

yea that's what I meant, sorry if I was unclear

[steel ridge]

i fkn love bone amulets . I ALMOST didn't want to replace it with this omnis that dropped for me

[steel ridge]

Question - I have a pair of jungle chaps with 10 dex on them, it SEEMS like my shatterstrike does more damage with it, over shattered chains, but I'm not sure if I'm missing out on more global damage with shattered chains., I am running a siphon of anguish as well. Link to build: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AK4W9JXQ

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 97

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (22) / Sorcerer (19) / Spellblade (69)

General:

▸ Health: 1,052, Regen: 24.83/s
▸ Mana: 205.93, Regen: 11.44/s
▸ Ward Retention: 499%, Regen: 250/s
▸ Attributes: 20 Str / 73 Dex / 124 Int / 12 Att / 17 Vit
▸ Resistances: 129% / 116% / 133% / 78% / 82% / 145% / 106%
▸ EHP: 1,676 / 1,676 / 1,676 / 1,892 / 1,676 / 1,676 / 1,676

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 210
▸ Dodge Chance: 15% (476)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 30% (1,423)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

• Mana Strike (22)
• Flame Ward (22)
• Surge (22)
• Shatter Strike (25)
• Enchant Weapon (22)

Used unique items:

• Boneclamor Barbute
• Eye of Reen
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Shattered Chains
• Blood of the Exile
• Siphon of Anguish
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Omnis
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[covert rune]

time for ignite fireball ig

[nimble shoal]

You might get better clearing with the dex because it's unconditional, but I imagine better bossing with shattered chains when you can maintain 4 dooms.

[steel ridge]

that makes sense. I also have a bloody nip, I'm only concerned with bossing, think it also might be better to swap in?

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, that thing is huge for dps if you like the playstyle on it

[steel ridge]

yea ill swap it on and off for echos

[frosty pewter]

Has anyone played hydra this patch? I dropped a 3lp hydra box and thinking of making it

[twilit aurora]

whats a good build guide to meteor sorc?
I normally use maxroll stuff but they don't have one fo it

[frosty pewter]

allies mana stack meteor is a good starting piont

[night cedar]

Is there a meteor build that doesn’t use glacier?

I wonder if you could make a frost claw harbinger of stars build work

[nimble shoal]

Frost claw isn't a great mana generator. I'm sure you could run it, but you'd be better off using glacier or mana strike instead to have more mana for more meteors.

[night cedar]

That makes sense

Too bad spellblade can’t get meteor

That would be fun

[austere gyro]

I'm at the point of the game where I tend to trail off because I don't know exactly what I should be doing or farming. I'd love to get to the point where I can switch to the static orb version, but I know basically all of this gear needs to get replaced. Is there anything I should focus on first? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A6NO9eaA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 95

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (59) / Spellblade (8) / Runemaster (21)

General:

▸ Health: 1,151, Regen: 23.18/s
▸ Mana: 678.74, Regen: 15.05/s
▸ Ward Retention: 380%, Regen: 105/s
▸ Attributes: 25 Str / 18 Dex / 100 Int / 14 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 73% / 72% / 130% / 77% / 61% / 51% / 83%
▸ EHP: 1,870 / 1,860 / 1,908 / 2,102 / 1,553 / 1,436 / 1,774

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 450
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (72)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,018)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 59%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Lightning / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Meteor (21)
• Mana Strike (22)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Teleport (20)
• Frost Claw (22)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Blood of the Exile
• Stormcarved Testament

[covert rune]

man, this ignite fireball build im levelling is cracked

easily the best build ive made so far

[quiet axle]

^ does it look the goods endgame?
I tried fireball and it was great but hit a cap with finding gear endgame =/

[covert rune]

i have no idea im still pretty new to the game

have yet to really get anywhere with empowered monos on any character

but i killed majasa second phase in like less than 10 seconds

super easy to get 150+ stacks of ignite with unoptimized gear

and then fireball gets a 100% more multiplier on ailments

and another 15% more multiplier from the passive tree if you have spreading flames which i do

and tons of fire/ele pen from passive tree

flame ward can give you 250% increased fire damage while active

[green prairie]

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[covert rune]

and of course, you have flame rush for the instant dot damage with the 1% more multiplier per 2 int

[nimble shoal]

Spellblade can still proc unspecced meteors with the belt. Also mana strike works totally fine as sorc, you can even have frost claw procs and ice barrage rolling all while spamming mana strike for even more crits.

[frank marsh]

when upgrading an lp is there any way to guarantee which affix youll get for the lp? I have an unstable core id like to upgrade but nervous i might mess it up

[nimble shoal]

No, pure rng

[frank marsh]

rip can I use an exalted with 3 affixes or does it have to be all 4?

[nimble shoal]

Has to have 4

[frank marsh]

okay thank you

[nimble shoal]

if there's a sealed affix, it doesn't count toward the 4 and can't transfer, so you can use sealing to remove a low tier trash affix and put a better one in its place - the more of the 4 affixes you'd be okay with getting, the more likely you'll be okay with the result

[frank marsh]

okay, thank you

[night cedar]

Is this worth it or at all reasonable/good in any way?

[nimble shoal]

Both way work, yeah. The meteor belt can even be used to reasonable effect on other classes entirely, like rogue and primalist.

[night cedar]

Nice- it’s obviously not going to push like 1k corruption but is it reasonable to take to like 3-400?

[covert rune]

my understanding is that 3-400c isnt too difficult to achieve on most builds, but take that with a grain of salt since i havent made it there yet myself

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, it should be. It was when I played it (granted, this was a while ago, not sure what all has changed)

[covert rune]

i just watched a vid today that was explaining about power creep in this game, that some builds are powerful enough to oneshot aberroth with like terrible gear

i dont find it fun to try to push meta builds tho, i like to experiment with stuff that not everyone has tried

[night cedar]

Oh you’ve tried meteor blade? Do you have an old planner I can tool around with/ point me in the right direction?

As long as I can one day clear aberroth with it I’ll be happy

[nimble shoal]

Sorry, no, I never saved one. I would say the general idea is to use mana strike specced out for a lot of mana gain and grab some huge flat crit while you're at it. Optionally make it ranged. Then you can have frost claw procced off of that for more crits, and maybe ice barrage if you can sustain more

[night cedar]

Gotcha- tough to have unspecced meteor but it’ll do!

Do you have gear suggestions?

[covert rune]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B5NZxZ7o

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 55

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (33) / Runemaster (15)

General:

▸ Health: 720, Regen: 16.96/s
▸ Mana: 198.78, Regen: 9.54/s
▸ Ward Retention: 88%, Regen: 40/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 5 Dex / 9 Int / 1 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 36% / 40% / 64% / 77% / 35% / 14% / 39%
▸ EHP: 1,082 / 1,121 / 1,423 / 1,158 / 752 / 641 / 783

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 144
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (100)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 7% (70)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (21)
• Meteor (21)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Frost Wall (21)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Prism Wraps
• Cinder Song
• Avarice
• Lessons of the Metropolis
• Tome of Elements

[covert rune]

here is the build i phased majasa with

[covert rune]

god i do so much damage this is almost boring

[covert rune]

killed rahyeh in like 30 seconds

gear still trash for the most part btw

[merry veldt]

Wait until you replaced Cinder Song 🙂

[covert rune]

i did get a 2lp firestarters that i might try out

[merry veldt]

For Fireball an Exalted with high flat dmg should kinda double your dps

[covert rune]

im going ignite

not hit

[cold sand]

need opinion, which armor best?

https://i.imgur.com/EtXuzeE.png

https://i.imgur.com/CIX4l16.png

https://i.imgur.com/QfopaTi.png

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

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (79) / Runemaster (14)

General:

▸ Health: 1,089, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 1,557.7, Regen: 26.98/s
▸ Ward Retention: 461%, Regen: 182/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 88 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 78% / 86% / 82% / 108% / 84% / 90% / 95%
▸ EHP: 9,963 / 9,963 / 9,963 / 13,562 / 9,963 / 9,963 / 9,963

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 218
▸ Armor Mitigation: 55% (3,667)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ Arcane Momentum (2/2), Arcane Ascendance

Used skills:

• Focus (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Meteor (24)
• Flame Ward (22)
• Arcane Ascendance (20)

Used unique items:

• Vilatria's Storm Crown
• Static Shell
• Vilatria's Downfall
• Strands of Souls
• Strong Mind
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[ivory shadow]

Does the Universe hint me that I should play a Fractured Crown build?

How much does it cost approximately? (I know it's more than 1.5B)

[split owl]

hey guys, how does frost claw proc static orb? Or do we have to cast those seperately?

[nimble shoal]

Gotta cast separately

[past obsidian]

Can I slam this into a 4lp strong mind? Rolls are terrible but I just want to be done

[covert rune]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QDdYJ1GQ can someone help me with my build? struggling to survive in empowered monos

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 76

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (53) / Spellblade (1) / Runemaster (15)

General:

▸ Health: 1,427, Regen: 19.64/s
▸ Mana: 210.79, Regen: 8.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 233%, Regen: 76/s
▸ Attributes: 6 Str / 1 Dex / 38 Int / 1 Att / 12 Vit
▸ Resistances: 158% / 96% / 68% / 93% / 33% / 56% / 18%
▸ EHP: 1,762 / 1,762 / 1,639 / 1,856 / 1,243 / 1,478 / 1,119

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 34%, Threshold: 285
▸ Armor Mitigation: 15% (320)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 38%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (21)
• Meteor (21)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Frost Wall (21)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Cinder Song
• Burning Avarice
• Fiery Dragon Shoes
• Ashes of Mortality
• Soulfire

[covert rune]

is it just a matter of getting better legendaries and replacing my exalts?

my damage is pretty good but if im not paying close enough attention ill die super quickly even at just 100c

[bold mason]

What the general build for a mana stack sorc? I want to try one out with either volcanic orb or meteor.

[merry veldt]

On a quick view: You should replace your off hand (Opulent Focus maybe), cap your resists and push your armor mitigation.

Whats your stable/in fight ward? Didn't pay attention, but as you seem hybrid ward/health - do you have any leech?

[covert rune]

yeah i was thinking i was due for an off-hand upgrade, or maybe use a shield or something. i do have leech from my gloves. resting ward is around 700-800 so not very good, in-fight it fluctuates a lot because as soon as i regen some i consume it all to proc the instant ignite damage node in flame rush

[merry veldt]

Never played that playstyle, so you kill your ward for more dmg?

[covert rune]

yeah, my ward is more of a buffer so i dont kill my health with it instead

but if i can build up enough hp im sure it wouldnt be too bad

this is the node

[merry veldt]

Sounds really inferior to direct hit dmg fireball then, but as said, never played your build.

Playing a pure HP mage sounds a bit challenging 🙂

[covert rune]

it probably is but oh well im sure i can make it work, the whole reason i made this character is cause of the cinder song that i got from a nemesis

and its definitely my strongest one so far

[merry veldt]

About how many ignite stacks you build in a bossfight that goes well for you?

[covert rune]

uhhh bosses havent really lived long enough for me to test that but i usually consume >300 every time i flame rush into them

if i were able to just sit still and lay into them im sure i could get more

[merry veldt]

If you wouldn't be forced to move everything was good ^^

[covert rune]

and those ignite stacks have 2 pretty large more multipliers on them, plus tons of fire pen

so yeah damage is pretty good at this point in the game

if i could just tank a few hits i think it would do really well

[merry veldt]

If you want to tank, you need defense layers ^^

[covert rune]

but it is kind of a dash-and-cast playstyle which is super fun for me, pretty fast paced for a dot build

im just too inexperienced to avoid taking damage during mobbing sections

bossing is actually easier for me on this character than the mobbing

probably cause i can just focus on stacking ignite on one enemy rather than dozens at a time

most mobs die in 1-2 cast though so its more my defenses and my inexperience thats the issue

[merry veldt]

Yeah, guess it is a lot about player experience

[covert rune]

i just find it really hard to stack enough health to survive in this game

maybe i should be prioritizing defense over damage more

but defense doesnt give me big numbers...

i blame my background as a borderlands player, in both bl2 and bl3 health and shield stacking dont do anything because enemy damage is so insane, but almost every character has easy access to inflated life steal and an anti oneshot mechanic called healthgate

so survivability in those games is super one dimensional

it basically boils down to 1. kill enemies before they even know you exist, and 2. get some life steal/aggro draw/fast health regen

so it was quite a shock when i started playing arpgs like this and grim dawn and i would die constantly because of a lack of understanding of how to gear and spec a tanky character

[merry veldt]

Played more (busted) ward last season and sticked to hybrid and pure HP builds this cycle. In fact I'm surprised how viable HP builds are, at least until 1000c, which is beyond the design goals anyway

[covert rune]

here i am struggling with 100c and youre over there with 10x the corruption

[merry veldt]

Don't underestimate movement patterns here

[covert rune]

yeah it took me a bit to get it in my head that you cant just stand still and tank damage

even on a "tanky" build

but i think its cool that the bosses are skill based as well as build checks

[merry veldt]

tbh you can facetank everything on 100c, probavly even at 500c, but ot takes some efforts.

[covert rune]

well yeah i bet, i just have no idea how you get to that point

my experience with this game so far has been very "kill them before they kill you" but it probably doesnt help that all my builds have been very glass cannon

glass cannon in very loose terms, im sure the damage is also comparatively bad to a lot of builds

[zinc canyon]

I am attempting to make a melee runemaster work, god help me

[mighty shadow]

melee runemaster sounds good 😄 anyway i send my spellblade flame reave, he melting echo bosses on 500-600c, but need find solution against abberoth 🤔

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/nemjii/character/palpajii for sure need make traitor dagger with crit dmg + flat fire, becouse %meelee dmg dont give that much dps 😄

[chrome stag]

I agree with Volin's comment that you need to add some defense layers. I was told to do so by a friend and it made the game much easier at the expense of some DPS (but you can't play the game if you die anyway 🤷‍♂️ ). Lots of amulets and rings come with innate resistances. The bone amulets come with two resists and it's super efficient. Enemies have resist penetration based on the area level (so empowered monos enemies should have 100%) and so deal extra damage to you if you don't have at least 100% resistance

[robust junco]

It caps at 75%

That's why your resistances cap at 75% too

[chrome stag]

Right, the 75% cap. I don't know this for certain, but I believed that it is that way so you can't completely nullify 100% of damage. I assumed that if you have >75% then you would subtract the enemy penetration from your uncapped resistance and then work with the final amount

If anyone has an article link about this mechanic that would be great since my confidence is not 100% on resists and penetration and capped resists

[robust junco]

If you reach 75% you are nullifying the mob penetration

Unless they apply Mark for Death

But its pretty rare and you gives that ability to them with an echo Mod

[chrome stag]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/guide/section/resistances

Vlad what you're saying makes sense

[chrome stag]

or other forms of resistance reduction, idk if they are common

[robust junco]

Poison (the ailment) shred some poison resistances

[chrome stag]

so it seems like having excessively high resistances isn't useful unless you know you're going to deal with lots of resist shred, which seems uncommon

[robust junco]

Yes

You can get specific pay off for stacking 1res

[nimble shoal]

That new body armor gives a good benefit if you overcap on everything up to a certain point

[chrome stag]

talking about @covert rune 's build again though, how else can he increase his survivability? I figure that Damage Dealt to Mana would be good since he is Sorceror but it looks like his mana pool is a bit lacking for that. And would the ignite consumption node turn that damage into mana damage instead?

[oblique blade]

Hello guys im playing Glacier Sorcerer im following LizardIRL guide since it's my 1st time playing. I was wondering why in the guide he have 81% crit chance while i only have 35% ( with same passives/unique)?

[chrome stag]

I'm watching through the guide rn and one thing he mentions is that you have to stack intelligence in order for Calculated Destruction to give you the crit chance

[plain trellis]

If you want meteor, this one will happily work >1k corruption https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/mana-stacking-elementalist-sorcerer-meteor-glacier-static-orb -- note that meteor isn't direct cast, but an effect of glacier. Currently testing if FC sorc is better.

[oblique blade]

awesome thanks a lot mate

[chrome stag]

You're welcome

[scenic sail]

Also, I'm assuming you have a good peak of the mountain? These guides all seem to use Peak to get their crit chance up. Glacier gives 8%-12% of base crit, so you really don't need any more than about 50% spell crit chance to max out your glacier crit, but static orb doesn't give base crit, so you still need a good amount of crit for that

[mighty shadow]

runemaster with channel nova is super fun and really strong 🫡 finally when i hit 83lvl will use wrongwarp lp3 😄

[oblique blade]

Oh i see ! my base crit is really low as well , might need an offhand with crit

[mental pulsar]

hey guys, should I turn my frost claw to lightning?

[empty echo]

hi, thinking of reroll an alt, is Sorc better than Runemaster right now?

[mighty shadow]

lel my runemaster with maybe 40-50% complete items on 77lvl tanked a lot from fat herald 😲 and killed him in maybe under 30s

anyway theres some gloves unique that buffs spell/cast lightning/elemental?🤔 need check it on LEtools

[bleak wind]

Liath's machinations is the only one probably

[waxen sigil]

Swaddling of the erased

[mighty shadow]

now probally need test best combination for elemental nova 😄

[frosty pewter]

I wanna make hydra runemaster cause I dropped a 3lp hydra box

[mighty shadow]

me have 2x lp3, for sure heart is not good option 😄 now im going test something wild runemaster 😄

[mighty shadow]

lel flame reave on runemaster works like godlike, maybe later i repllace mana strike with glyph dominion 😄

[chrome stag]

Really huh. I wouldn't have expected that, I never gave it a try. Why is flame reave so good?

[mighty shadow]

i can show you, but do you play on EU server?

82lvl and probally i can clearing ~300c, need to test it 😄

[chrome stag]

I play on US server. Most likely I will just check the skill when I have time later on and see what kind of synergies it has

[mighty shadow]

i cleared 380c in party, died 2 times by accident 😄

[chrome stag]

I'm still working my way up through harbingers, I haven't had to play on higher than 150c yet, woah

[mighty shadow]

i feel like im Flame Reaver fanboy 😂

[chrome stag]

I don't have a LETools version of my build but I'm currently running Runebolt, Teleport, Frostwall, and Glyph on my Runemaster

I'm a bit of a Frostwall fanboy perhaps

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 76

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (53) / Spellblade (1) / Runemaster (15)

General:

▸ Health: 1,427, Regen: 19.64/s
▸ Mana: 210.79, Regen: 8.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 233%, Regen: 76/s
▸ Attributes: 6 Str / 1 Dex / 38 Int / 1 Att / 12 Vit
▸ Resistances: 158% / 96% / 68% / 93% / 33% / 56% / 18%
▸ EHP: 1,762 / 1,762 / 1,639 / 1,856 / 1,243 / 1,478 / 1,119

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 34%, Threshold: 285
▸ Armor Mitigation: 15% (320)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 38%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (21)
• Meteor (21)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Frost Wall (21)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Cinder Song
• Burning Avarice
• Fiery Dragon Shoes
• Ashes of Mortality
• Soulfire

[chrome stag]

This is my build, it's a bit of a work in progress, i just recently changed the direction and two of my items are just so i could get the weaver's will adding stuff 😅
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q9YMZgGQ

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 91

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (29) / Sorcerer (6) / Runemaster (69)

General:

▸ Health: 1,187, Regen: 43.92/s
▸ Mana: 211.96, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 355%, Regen: 80/s
▸ Attributes: 13 Str / 6 Dex / 76 Int / 6 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 132% / 105% / 88% / 106% / 140% / 115% / 129%
▸ EHP: 1,567 / 1,567 / 1,567 / 1,745 / 1,567 / 1,567 / 1,567

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 237
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (36)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (1,168)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 131%

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Runebolt (21)
• Teleport (21)
• Runic Invocation (24)
• Frost Wall (22)
• Glyph of Dominion (21)

Used unique items:

• Swaddling of the Erased
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[mighty shadow]

i send you my actual build 😄 now tested if works well with Shell shock 😄

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A8NwjL8B maybe nemesis will bless me when i put that armor 😄

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 83

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Spellblade (44) / Runemaster (32)

General:

▸ Health: 1,545, Regen: 20.99/s
▸ Mana: 194.71, Regen: 8.24/s
▸ Ward Retention: 490%, Regen: 139/s
▸ Attributes: 16 Str / 40 Dex / 96 Int / 16 Att / 16 Vit
▸ Resistances: 135% / 80% / 100% / 62% / 4% / 136% / 76%
▸ EHP: 2,585 / 2,585 / 2,585 / 2,541 / 1,516 / 2,585 / 2,585

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 43%, Threshold: 528
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (160)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,087)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire, Cold / Melee, Spell

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

• Flame Reave (24)
• Enchant Weapon (23)
• Static (24)
• Mana Strike (24)
• Runic Invocation (24)

Used unique items:

• Boneclamor Barbute
• Static Shell
• Transcriber's Graver
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Shattered Chains
• Foot of the Mountain
• Sunwreath
• Siphon of Anguish
• Nihilis
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage

[chrome stag]

it's really funny that your only Runemaster skill is the Invocation

[mighty shadow]

and used as movement skill 😄 and static is passive/aggresive on skillbar 😄 and flame aura converted into lightning to shredding resissts

i wanna cap 120int on 100lvl, so will have passiive 30%cdr from runemaster passive skill tree in armor need t7 int or t6 in armor and t6 in gloves to cap 120int

and later more armor + hp/ward, ok me afk right now 🙂 when i back i rush mono to 200c+

@chrome stag try remake passive tree, delete %elementals, make ward retention to 50%, make mage flurry at +4, other points add into some Int points, you willl see willl be a lot better effect 🙂

[chrome stag]

thanks, I appreciate the advice

[mighty shadow]

also try replace runebolt with another skill, test elemental nova combined with teleport 🙂 good combo wiith frostwall haste/frenzy 😄

[chrome stag]

Is runebolt not that good? I think it was helpful for getting different Invocations

[mighty shadow]

i tryed runebolt, compared to combo nova+tp, nova with triple elements ffocused on electric, was much better than runebolt imo 😄

[chrome stag]

The DPS is low but it helps with the Runes I want and gives me extra damage and mana when I use it consistently in combo

[mighty shadow]

ok going to shop, untill they are open 😄

[runic furnace]

can someone help me how to improve my build so i dont get one shot against aberroth

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Badwnames/character/Frosorc

[covert rune]

it probably doesnt help your resists are super low

[runic furnace]

what kinds of damage does aberroth do

I also have orian's eye so i thought that covered void damage

[covert rune]

also i dont know a lot about this game but a lot of your gear seems to be just thrown together, not sure what the build wants to do

[runic furnace]

mana int and movement speed

a lot of the legendaries are not optimized

[bold mason]

@runic furnace you resists are too low and no crit negation would be my guesses.

[runic furnace]

yeah thought so thanks

[frank marsh]

is there a reason I keep getting cold overload on my glacier build? not sure what to do about it, but it lowers my damage like crazy

i believe it is from my scales of eterra but I dont understand too well

[sour panther]

I m,ean you clearly allready followed a guide with this build, just follow it better xd This build can os bosses, even aberoth if build correctly. Also you can get as tanky as you want, some abilities of aberoth just have to be dodged and cant be facetanked.

[sour panther]

Press "alt" for more Info when hovering the item, it explains how it works. Scales of ettera are not good for a build that focuses on a Single Element

[ivory shadow]

Why are people so eager to actually oneshot Abe.. Just build some defences, grab mana sustain and beat him in 40 seconds instead.

[ivory shadow]

I noticed only two actually. Timeshattering Slam (or namely, the dot field aoe that it leaves). And his kamehameha thingy that he charges at 20%. Both are fairly easily avoidable

[empty echo]

hey guys is marina lost souls really worth it on torment warlock?

a solid 2h staff gives me more dps estimated on skills tooltip

oops wrong channel

[mighty shadow]

a bit changed my new build 😄 runemaster melee hybrid reave with frostclaw proc on melee hit 😄

[autumn crypt]

anyone wanna help me with Aberroth haha

[bold mason]

Any volcanic orb any good for the end game? I am running a sorc with volcanic orb as primary and metors from crits your harbinger of stars. Does volcanic orb keep up with glacier at all or is it easily outclassed by glacier?

[unreal umbra]

scales is ONLY good for builds that focus on a single element, then you dodge that element on the unique text so you never get the debuff. well, that's how anyone that min/maxes plays with it.

[covert rune]

got the slam i wanted!

now up to 1.9k health

[unreal umbra]

gz

[sour panther]

I mean if you use it as a base when you get one with decent lp this might be good but you dont utilize the infusions at all. if you want to make use of the infusions you would have to go for 2 elements.

[unreal umbra]

Yeah the debuff is too harsh, item needs to be redesigned. Way too hard to micromanage that

[grave path]

hello fellow goblins of the knowledge tower i request your vast knowledge as i have found thyself unable to cast stronger magic , what should i prioritize doing next from this point, thank you this is your friendly neighborhood wizard. https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/NedraRubio/character/ZapZap

[proven haven]

Probably lagon relic, better rings, and base crit somewhere. Julra ring seems bad without a proper slam and probably not worth using, that unstable is pretty poorly rolled probably not better than a good exalted. I think you shouldn't be using static orb this early personally, focus on int and FC first then transition

Way too much emphasis on mana without anything to scale that damage yet

[grave path]

on my 2 lp enigma which 2 should i try to slam int, mana, crit chance or crit multiplier?

[rain vortex]

this is my points i have done so far where is the best place to stand and how far away should i aim from a mob/boss to get the most dmg or does it not matter for this setup so far

[ivory shadow]

Guys, if I said I have a very low budget (less than 300 Mil) Static Orb Sorc build, that can facetank any Harbinger mechanic (excluding only Abe' Timeshattering Slam dot) up to like 1000 corruption. And that the build can still kill Abe in under 1 min.
(And it has an unlimited mana pool, despite spamming SO, so you don't have to Focus every 5 casts -- or like ever, for that matter)

Would someone be interested in a short guide on such a build, or there's already been more than enough SO builds for this season? 😅

(It involves Celestial Doom, lol)

[rapid hinge]

that doesnt sound anything impressive if you compare it to any other SO variation out there 🤷🏽‍♂️

[proven haven]

you can't slam int on catalyst, crit chance is bad because you use spells and spell crit has high roll values, the best options are likely Crit Multi, Mana, and Spell Crit Chance

[ivory shadow]

Technically true, but any other SO variation costs billions to make. Neither Wrongwarp nor Unstable Core don't grow in trees after all.
But that's a valid point, yes. Which is why I asked whether it's worth the effort.

[proven haven]

Probably because the guys making the build guides are primarily CoF, whether items are meta or not doesn't factor into their accessibility for us like it does for you.

There are off meta alternatives that you may be able to get with much more LP than us that end up performing better than the lower LP variants of meta items. Play to your strengths.

Instead of wrongwarp you can use Marina's, for example. idk if that is expensive. If not that then a good Crystal Wand

You can craft fractured crown fairly easy too

[ivory shadow]

Yeah, Marina's slightly cheaper, but is still a very well known meta and is ridiculously expensive too.

[ivory shadow]

That was the whole point. Like you can buy as many 2LP Celestial Dooms as you like and get a perfect slam. Since they are like 300k each..
And IMO it's one of the most interesting items in the game for Sorc. Yet, for some reason no one plays it

[ivory shadow]

Fractured Crown is quite trivial, yes, but then again, no one plays it for some reason.

[proven haven]

You might be able to get something interesting with Vilatria for a burst setup, or maybe a gate staff. Could be interesting

I included fractured in my guide and pointed to it as the best burst option

[sand inlet]

Hello, fellow mages. Looking for a middle ground between damage and tankness Spellblade Shatter Strike, if any1 would have, please. Np if it's "expensive"(I'm CoF).

[proven haven]

Seems 1 month into the league wasn't too late for a top 5 HC Mage run lol

[manic niche]

could someone help me decide which one is better? running static orb frost claw build

[ivory shadow]

Depends on what you lack the most. Mana directly boosts only the Static Orb damage. And by a lot: it's almost quadratic scaling, i.e. 50% mana pool increase results in more than 100% orb DPS boost.
While on the other hand spell crit boosts everything

[small compass]

I return once again to my attempts to make Disintegrate RM seem passable in theorycraft. Does anyone know of a way to convert Ignite chance -> Shock chance for Disintegrate? The lightning node doesn't say that it converts that.

[small compass]

Nevermind, moved on to fire and +Fire Aura area so I can Glyph extremely large zones. We will see how this goes, I guess?

[robust junco]

@gusty frost I dont want to spam in the ask the devs channel

[gusty frost]

fair enough

[robust junco]

So your Runebolts match the element of the last skill but you get random runes

The lastest one (on the right) seems to always match the element of Runebolts

[gusty frost]

hmm

by the looks of it, it's still random, so the talent node takes priority?

well, thanks a lot for testing, that changes things 😄

[ivory shadow]

Why do you even need shock on Disintegrate itself? You can apply it by literally any other skill, and you don't even need a lot of it, since 10 stacks is the cap anyways.

[small compass]

Y'know, forgot about the cap. Dang.

Was looking at the +% dmg per stack node on the skill tree

[robust junco]

In regards to Spell Cascade
It doesnt seem to trigger very well
I dont know if I am missing a condition
Manage to get one
I got all three spells when I had all 3 runes

[gusty frost]

i see, well, time to level and get that wand myself, so i'll see how it is, ty for your help

[gusty frost]

oh ok, you just happen to run out of mana instantly lol

[valid inlet]

You're also the goat so no surprise there

[proven haven]

Almost certainly the 1st one overall. Without Crystal skull you will want that spell crit, mana is good but this has a whole extra T5 affix over the 2nd. And more AoE, spark charge chance, and ward per sec. Mana is a huge dps multi on static but without near cap crit your consistency of oneshots will be poor. Consistency is very important for oneshot feel. Also for FC / spark charges the mana is a lot less beneficial than the spell crit.

[proven haven]

❤️

[frail hedge]

Oh Glacier build on the left I was trynna do

[manic niche]

thanks brother, following the build you made a video about. i have heard about crystal skull, maybe i missed it on your video. it's something that's used in the build im guessing?

[proven haven]

for static orb, it's a swap

[manic niche]

ahh gotcha! thanks alot man, I love your video btw

[proven haven]

🙂

[sour trellis]

Hello all , new to mage , quick question .. what stats should I add to a 2lp wrong warp to make static orb super powerful for one shotting , thanks

[proven haven]

Crit multi probably, 2nd probably mana + mana spent

[sour trellis]

Ok and would it be ok to add crit multiplier and increased spell damage or crit multiplier and mana spent would be much better ?

[proven haven]

increased is much worse because you already have a significant amount for free, and mana scales static orb damage much harder

[sour trellis]

Ok thanks for I’ll try to slam with crit multiplier and mana spent , thanks appreciate it

T7 mana or T7 multiplier ? Like which should be higher if I find the exhalted

Currently have a t6 mana t5 multiplier . Will try find better before slamming

[proven haven]

Didn't do math but most likely the multi because the mana on wand is a hybrid roll so the values are lower

[sour trellis]

Ok thanks

Time to farm

[manic niche]

@proven haven what do you think about using 2 julra's rings with t7 int for 1 shotting bosses ?

would losing out on flames of midnight scuff it?

[proven haven]

yes you can do this

[manic niche]

awesome 🙂 what kind of spell crit rate do you shoot for? i'm sitting at 55 right now

[proven haven]

80+, spell crit on char sheet does not include lightning crit fyi

[vital lion]

I'm assuming that this 80% from cracking precision isn't shown in spell critical strike chance (for static orb / spark charges)?

[nimble shoal]

80% is shown, the extra 80% for lightning isn't

[vital lion]

so this is totally overkill.. ?

[nimble shoal]

Depends on your base/added crit for the skill you're using, if it's the same kind of build FS was talking about above, probably yeaah

[vital lion]

Yeah. Totally missed that 80% wasn't added in. Thanks

[manic niche]

is this a crazy stat for static orb frost claw ? seems nuts

[vital lion]

Problem is the helm is where you get +4 static orb.. and you really don't need the crit if you are using the standard setup...

+4 static orb is a HUGE amount of more damage 🙂

[tight venture]

even more so than 16 int?

[vital lion]

for static orb absolutely.. not so much for the spark charges... that is more of the "hybrid" setup so you don't have to swap gear.. 🙂 If I could ever get a 2 LP version with 4% crit I have a t7 static orb and t6 intellect helm I'd love to try and slam...

[tight venture]

ive been thinking of it but the prices of t7 s orb is pretty expensive gor me at 150m in mg, but i already have 2x 4% crit 1lp waiting to be slammed

[vital lion]

CoF here.. so as I get.. I slam .. hehe

[blazing root]

Can't find a list of all patch notes since I last played, any of the mage nodes still outright don't work, or has that been fixed? Working on my own builds was a bit annoying when I wasn't sure if they worked w/o doing the math

[vital lion]

1.1 was a good read... alot of stuff was re-worked / fixed

should be able to scroll up in the "news" tab

[blazing root]

I read through 'em but don't remember everything and do remember not seeing some specifics noted (though they might've been folded under more general "hey this was fixed" stuff), stuff like VK's void beams still didn't work post patch iirc

[manic niche]

thanks bro

[harsh thistle]

wait what, what do you mean the void beams don't work?

[scenic portal]

I saw that channeling skills no longer stop mana regen, is there a good disintegrate build out there ? Or am I stuck doing something else since I picked sorcerer

[blazing root]

For over a year void beam perks outright didn't work, and they weren't fixed in a main patch but a smaller one after being brought up (again) on reddit

Like erasing strike would have at most 1 beam, they didn't follow, had no damage bonuses etc

[amber halo]

I recently found an elemental bee idol, is there any build that utilizes these? There's not really any minion skills for the mage, so it kinda confused me when i saw it was on a mage idol

[nimble shoal]

Not yet. It's basically a super rare joke item. That said, they may add a unique item to support them in the future like they eventually did for rogue and primalist.

[frank marsh]

can anyone explaing ward retention to me? I dont fully understand it

[nimble shoal]

You lose ward constantly while above your ward decay threshold (0 by default). Ward retention makes you lose ward slower. Since the amount of ward you lose per second scales up the more ward you have, retention lets you maintain higher ward values.

[livid fulcrum]

Could you recommend a fire runemaster build to build around this sweet piece of a gear?

[harsh abyss]

You're going to be fairly limited on how you build because you need armor, dodge, and ward, but I feel like the hydrahedron or plasma orb would be the one that you'd want to go for.

[covert rune]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QWxK3b2B

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 87

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (53) / Spellblade (7) / Runemaster (15)

General:

▸ Health: 1,803, Regen: 18.18/s
▸ Mana: 195.04, Regen: 8.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 185%, Regen: 31/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 21 Int / 1 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 171% / 155% / 79% / 93% / 102% / 108% / 84%
▸ EHP: 2,558 / 2,558 / 2,558 / 2,718 / 2,558 / 2,558 / 2,558

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 34%, Threshold: 361
▸ Armor Mitigation: 17% (486)
▸ Block Chance: 39%, Mitigation: 29% (555)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (21)
• Meteor (21)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Frost Wall (21)

Used unique items:

• Calamity
• Cinder Song
• Burning Avarice
• Immolator's Oblation
• Fiery Dragon Shoes
• Ashes of Mortality
• Ashes of Mortality
• Soulfire

[covert rune]

what should i upgrade next?

[sacred tusk]

maybe the issue is that you're using a shield and not a catalyst tho

not saying you cant use one

[covert rune]

yeah i am looking for a good catalyst

spending all my favor on catalyst prophecies

for now its mainly just covering my poison resist and giving me a bit of block

[sacred tusk]

cant deny that

[covert rune]

i think i need a better amulet too, and im not sure if that relic is worth using

[sacred tusk]

soulfire is good especially for you

imo you went a little too much into battlemage territory

[covert rune]

wdym battlemage?

[sacred tusk]

i'm not sure if we can call you glass cannon since you probably cant one shot yet

at least what's for sure is that you have to move around a lot if not use teleport to dodge

[covert rune]

oh yeah i love moving around a lot

[sacred tusk]

a mage is already weak in nature/gear, but you took it a step further by not getting more ward

[covert rune]

flame rush might be my new favorite skill

its so much fun

i dont think i would enjoy a build that just facetanked everything

i just wanna be able to clear content

[sacred tusk]

i'm still too low level to switch to static or frostclaw so i'm stuck with glacier kek

[proper hawk]

I would consider dropping the ashes with t4 health, you are already pretty heavy on low LP uniques and you would like to cap endurance

[covert rune]

its times like these where i wish i was MG

almost all of my unique drops are 1 lp

[sacred tusk]

eh CoF ftw

[covert rune]

even with rank 10 cof

[sacred tusk]

i'm an SSF kind of guy since ARPGs were born

[proper hawk]

Exalted items are good you don't necessarily need high LP uniques

[covert rune]

me too but i feel like i cant get anything good

[sacred tusk]

is it your filter maybe ?

[proper hawk]

I also think your body armour is bad

[covert rune]

i just set up a basic filter, chose all the affixes i want for my build

[sacred tusk]

you should be getting a crapton of exalted even without T11 CoF

[proper hawk]

You really want % health everywhere you can get it if you are building health

This is an ignite build right?

[sacred tusk]

yeah

[covert rune]

yeah

[covert rune]

been looking for an upgrade for ages

[sacred tusk]

honestly the passives kinda look like a mess to me

[proper hawk]

Immolators is only 11% ignite duration here, I'd probably take a rare belt with t5 %health t5 hybrid health over it tbh

[sacred tusk]

just because it's a fire/ignite build doesnt mean you should just put in everything fire-related

[covert rune]

im using it for the self ignite for more ward with ashes mainly

[sacred tusk]

a good communion belt could also be helpful if you're not using a spidersilk

[proper hawk]

I had overlooked that but I'd be surprised if it was worth it

[sacred tusk]

nah he's locking himself out of too many options doing this

[covert rune]

idk if its good or not i just think its a neat synergy

[sacred tusk]

he's lacking survivability despite his gear, so there's clearly a lack of utility

[covert rune]

i might look into respeccing my passives when i get back home

[sacred tusk]

not saying there isnt a synergy btw, but that just because it's good in this aspect doesnt make it a better option

btw prismatic gaze might be an upgrade to your helmet, even if it has no ignite option

especially if you get a legendary one

[proper hawk]

Prismatic over calamity? For ignite?

[sacred tusk]

more as a general use, not for ignite itself

he's spamming these fireballs anyway so the prisms could defend him

not to mention the crits and the less elem dmg received

[proper hawk]

Crits do nothing for ignite though

[sacred tusk]

...right

forgot for a sec. but the prisms are still active, and the def is always useful

in the first place ignite means he's waiting for the enemy to die so all he needs is mobility right ?

[covert rune]

not necessarily

[sacred tusk]

well he's not one shotting at least

[covert rune]

im still casting fireball as much as i can, as a hit build would

[sacred tusk]

yeah but you're a hit'n'run in boss fight basically

[proper hawk]

No more than any hit build

[covert rune]

thats just how ailment builds work in this game, gotta keep up the stacks, not just waiting for enemies to die (which i really like design-wise)

[sacred tusk]

yup

[sacred tusk]

at least my traildin doesnt need to stack kek

[covert rune]

i also have this which i use on bosses and larger enemies usually

[sacred tusk]

no wonder you're suffering

[covert rune]

altho thats probably another reason im glass cannon

[sacred tusk]

you already dont have a lot of ward with your build

with this you lose both health and ward at once

[covert rune]

its so fun tho :/

stacking up on a boss and then dashing into them to do a huge chunk of damage

[proper hawk]

Not exactly, it's Ward instead of health

[covert rune]

well, i dont have enough ward so it usually consumes the 40% of current health as well

[proper hawk]

Lmao

[sacred tusk]

you lose health without ward

so if he empties his low ward he loses hp

[proper hawk]

Yeah but not both unless you run out of Ward, which is what I thought you were saying

[sacred tusk]

yeah nah that wasnt what i meant

i meant that he loses his ward quickly then loses health in turn

[proper hawk]

Yeah ok

I actually think it's a solid node as long as it's not getting you killed lol

[sacred tusk]

btw you should at least grab that final node in Mage if you're putting points in there already

because the one you put on the LET page is at 0 lol

[covert rune]

yeah thats where my next points are going

[proper hawk]

Yeah silver rune is nice for health based mage

[covert rune]

i should probably respec some

[proper hawk]

Well reactive Ward is I mean

[sacred tusk]

idk why you grabbed so many elementalist points instead of scholar tho

and sun and storms only needs 1 tbh

especially when you're a fire and not hybrid mage

7 seconds is too long a cd for that effect

[covert rune]

silver rune makes it 1 sec right?

[sacred tusk]

oh right.

but he hasnt maxed it yet anyway

[covert rune]

i was going to

[covert rune]

also good question idk why i did that

[sacred tusk]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oN7LL4NA
just tried my hand at something, take a look at it (the passives)

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (28) / Sorcerer (53) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (27)

General:

▸ Health: 1,132, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 221.82, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 102%, Regen: 46/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 10 Int / 1 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 0% / 0% / 0% / 0% / 0% / 8% / 8%
▸ EHP: 680 / 680 / 680 / 680 / 680 / 713 / 713

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 226

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

None

Used unique items:

None

[sacred tusk]

with this i kinda doubt you can die theoretically, yet still retain good enough ignite effect

btw this is the kind of exalted you should be looking for (minus the crit since you're ignite)

cast speed is also fine

[covert rune]

respecced some passives, think this is a little better

should be easier to gain ward now

[cold sand]

https://i.imgur.com/uYTDyVZ.png decent slam? Double T7

[sacred tusk]

first one defo nice, for stun it depends on build i guess

[livid fulcrum]

What about spells to chose?

[grave path]

on my 3 lp should i try to find mana ,crit multi,frailty and chance to shred armor

[raven vortex]

Hey, this is my stuff lvl100 for 500 corruption monolythe [FR]

[nimble shoal]

Sharing on LE Tools (https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/) is very effective, import your character and then hit save / share and post that link here. Also, if you are wanting feedback etc., definitely ask (especially if you are looking for something specific).

[raven vortex]

👍

[cold sand]

coc glacier/meteor + static orb for bossing, so it works well since both glacier and meteor have decent stun chance. It was first one, yea, hopefully I get a T7 mana + T5+ crit multi in the future

[sacred tusk]

add a communion belt on top of it and it's great too

(dunno how i got mixed up so often in one go lol)

[rain vortex]

im using frozen sentinels frostclaw static orb build is there any mono that is best for this build like weak to cold and or lightning

[sacred tusk]

what's the point when you're supposed to target farm

finish all monos first then hunt for your items/upgrades

[proven haven]

It doesn't matter, farm lagon for relic, abom for belt, and rahyeh for amulet

[meager parrot]

anyone available to help with leveling my alt? someone farming emp mono

[sacred tusk]

btw i'm also currently leveling my sorc alt according to your LET setup from the video descriptions, cheers.

still using glacier since i cant equip the whole 80+ setup kek

[sacred tusk]

urgh, why is nemesis not cooperating today

[grave path]

thoughts so far im now trying to get a wrong warp with 3 mana
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QelyPq2A

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 93

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (67) / Runemaster (19)

General:

▸ Health: 1,236, Regen: 35.12/s
▸ Mana: 576.59, Regen: 13.6/s
▸ Ward Retention: 312%, Regen: 89/s
▸ Attributes: 18 Str / 11 Dex / 80 Int / 11 Att / 22 Vit
▸ Resistances: 69% / 53% / 94% / 8% / 105% / 116% / 30%
▸ EHP: 1,845 / 1,603 / 1,956 / 1,252 / 1,782 / 1,782 / 1,229

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 247
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (50)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 37% (1,870)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Flame Ward (22)
• Meteor (21)
• Focus (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Frost Claw (21)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Marina's Lost Soul
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Swaddling of the Erased
• Carcinization of Momentum
• Ferebor's Persistence
• Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs

[rain vortex]

@proven haveni see thought there might be easyer mono to do due to the damage i do thanks

[sacred tusk]

TFW you're trying hard to get your build to dish insane damage but also get it over 1000 mana for the perks

[rain vortex]

perks?

ah found it

[surreal talon]

Runemaster or Sorc for cold?

[plain trellis]

Sorc, usually

Also, are Tundra Stalkers appropriately tuned? I kind of understand 4 ticks/second as "DoT" and there's a gap in my defenses, but it seems like this has been a known problem for a long while.

[blazing root]

Is a spellblade that focuses on aura damage and zipping around doable? Haven't really played one outside of a stint doing flame reave in 1.0 and I remembern othing

[nimble shoal]

They were recently nerfed, but still kinda dangerous. The main danger they have is they stack frostbites on you, if you can cleanse that you'll be okay generally.

[plain trellis]

Yeah they were just nerfed in 1.1.3 but I'm running into odd edge cases (high arena, not generally balanced around) where you don't even have a chance to cleanse. Just dead on the first tick.

[nimble shoal]

Fire aura is not exactly strong enough to stand on its own, and it's hard to stack without actively attacking a lot

[plain trellis]

Probably user error, will get an orian's and try again.

Could also be rare packs pouncing then DoT'ing so I'm not really seeing the true source of death, just the last tick of it.

[blazing root]

shame. how much build variety is there for spellblade atm? I see endless people talk about sorc, ofc, and I played a "wild magic" runemaster last cycle (random runebolt casting abilties of bar + invocation for tp) but want to mix it up

[nimble shoal]

Spellblade has a few viable builds, I think shatter strike and flame reave are both good, and I'm sure there's other kinds of builds that I don't know about