🧙┃mage

[lunar needle]

I wouldn't say I was a mage build expert by any stretch, but in my experience I've personally found it easier to focus on a single element as a Sorcerer (fire and more fire!) and multiple elements as Runemaster because of the nature of the masteries.

The less than ideal answer is: it depends. Depends on the uniques you find and the legendaries you build, and depends on your playstyle and the skills you enjoy the most. There's no definitive answer, but to start with I think pouring everything into a single element is simpler, but that doesn't mean if you use other elements those skills will be useless - they just serve a specific purpose in the build.

[warped crow]

LOL

[heady rapids]

And what would you say are the optimal skill choices?
Glacier, Meteor, Static Orb, Focus and Mana Ward speced and Teleport instead of Meteor on the skillbar?

[proven haven]

I'm the Frost Claw guy, you'll want to look up Chunkypapas build for that setup. Pretty sure you don't put meteor on the bar though for that one

[warped crow]

xD

[rough minnow]

Mana stack disintegrate wtih shock ground. yay or nay?

[harsh abyss]

It worked for a while, but I think the way it was working was it didn't function at all until you had the 100% chance. I know I never really felt the benefits when it had a lower chance to proc.

[harsh abyss]

Like using static orb to create shocked ground, then channeling disintegrate while things stand on it? Should work.

Only thing is that with disintegrate you don't get any benefit for crit multi, and you generally want to stack that to boost static orb shocked ground damage.

But if you ignore the multi nodes and go just for max mana stacking, it will still probably be fine.

[sour trellis]

How are you guys finding survivability at 1500-2000 corruption with a mage .

I have all res capped - 102% dmg reduction - 2k armor - 3m static orb dmg - 72k spark charge dmg .

I clear most monos very quickly but one little mistake is instant death .

I feel like mage can’t even take 1 hit at 1500-2000 from anything .

Is this how it is for other players doing higher corruption ..

I don’t use flame ward at all but I’m guessing it won’t make much of a difference anyway at 2k corruption

[heady rapids]

I'm nowhere near that place (Lvl 50 on my first run)
But I'd like to know that too... I'm between continuing my Paladin or my Sorcerer but I want to make it to endgame with the build that's gonna push further

From what I've seen I think people are able to maintain infinite amounts of wards, or am I wrong?

[sour trellis]

Not sure about infinite ward . I only get between average of 3-6k ward but I’ve never focused on ward build for mage .

It would be nice to know if anyone is pushing over 2k corruption and how much ward they get using a mage . I know they nerfed ward a while back but interested to know what the average high ward build for mage is these days

[warped crow]

arent most of the people pushing more than 1k just super glass cannon

kill everything and if anything sneezes on you you die and reroll a new echo?

[sour trellis]

Yeah not sure , just trying to tweak my build to push 2k+ easier . Like trying to find lp3 blood of the exile - lp3 rings - lp4 enigma - lp4 chains of uleros or ward trail - lp3 unstable core … guess I’m asking for the almost impossible but that’s where my builds at right now ..

[warped crow]

ic

[harsh abyss]

Well, the devs have said that their intent is to cap out around 300, so anything beyond that is icing on the cake really.

[rapid hinge]

nah that's for something like 2k+

1k you can still tank pretty easily as a mage

[warped crow]

ic ic

[rapid hinge]

at least if uou're not standing still asking for arrows to come at you

[proper hawk]

Iirc what they actually said was that they want almost all builds to be able to do 300c, not that builds should cap out at 300c. If I'm not misremembering, they basically want builds to be between 300c and 1000c

[proven haven]

I didn't bother pushing to 2K because it felt pointless with the 95% xp scaling penalty beyond 1K, but my pure FC Sorc is speed farming 700C with the 180% ms setup in HC, setup should easily do 2K corr in softcore - 10k ish stable ward, 4k ish stable armor, max res, DR from Red Ring, DR from passives, DR from prismatic, DR from Orian Eye, etc.

The high int of pure FC gives insane amounts of ward retention which helps stable ward for taking sudden big hits

[sour trellis]

Yeah it is pointless to push past 2k , but I’m trying to see if I can work out a Sorc build to see how far I can go , I did arena one time with a older build and was first for a while . Sitting in second now but haven’t tried to beat leader yet until I try and see how far I can push corruption . But I’m guessing I can prob do 400-500 waves with my current build but I’ll wait until I get bored of trying to farm lp3-4 items I need for upgrades which I’ll probably never get .

[merry veldt]

From my experience that sounds kinda normal. Even 250k ward weren't (in 1.0) a comfortable defense on +2k once you start lingering around for too long.

A really good defense can even in 1.1 tank some things at around 1k, but somewhere on the way to 2k it just gets "kill them or get killed".
You will rediscover more and more trashmobs as potentially dangerous now 🙂

[rough minnow]

I mean Disintegrate has the nodes to auto cast static orb each 3 sec so i was thinking that

i was thinking itd be mostly the 40 mana+ skill and shock ground effect thing

[rough minnow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Br8KWYyA something along those lines?

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (72) / Spellblade (6) / Runemaster (15)

General:

▸ Health: 1,643, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 2,081.26, Regen: 25.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 362%, Regen: 267/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 56 Int / 1 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 93% / 109% / 93% / 78% / 98% / 103% / 105%
▸ EHP: 2,487 / 2,487 / 2,487 / 3,030 / 2,487 / 2,487 / 2,487

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 428
▸ Armor Mitigation: 42% (2,424)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning / Spell, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Disintegrate (21)
• Static Orb (21)
• Flame Rush (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Arcane Ascendance (20)

Used unique items:

• Seed of Ekkidrasil
• Unstable Core
• Oceareon
• Oceareon

[sour trellis]

Yeah many trash mobs , I’ve noticed also no difference in item rarity drops after 600C to 1600C .. like no difference at all imo

[merry veldt]

We had always the same impression, it does not make much difference

[sour trellis]

Only slight difference is quicker favor for cof I guess

If I switch to MG now I would have to remove all my cof gear ? I’ve never done MG so not sure about the process of switching

[merry veldt]

If you switch to MG you can't wear gear that has any CoF rank anymore

So probably yes, switch most/all gear

[dense rock]

Has anyone defeated Aberroth using a Fire Aura build yet?

[proven haven]

600 or 700 waves should be easy with sorc, maybe further. I went to 420 in HC which was 1st place at the time using less than fully minmaxed gear didn't rip just left

Having some stun chance helps

Also used the snap freeze CD tech for +250 flat armor

[rough minnow]

is static orb shock ground worth building around without crit multi(just mana?)

[deft fiber]

how strong is frostbite frost claw sorcerer rn?

[warped crow]

pretty good ... frostbite being one of the better dot debuffs ... and frostclaw being really good at applying it

[upbeat hollow]

isn't 2 tick glaciers better for that? can build much more freeze rating in the tree and cost around the same mana

[deft fiber]

i dont like glacier tho

[upbeat hollow]

what's not likeable?

[deft fiber]

i just don't enjoy the skill, the feel of it, idk

while I do like frost claw a lot

puls I have a lot of gear for it already because I had a frostbite frost claw runemaster

[upbeat hollow]

you can take the talent it cast on your mouse and not infront of you, and it's actually an area skill while you pretty much always go for the talents on frost claw that removes that tag.

[sour trellis]

Plenty time left in the season , if you get to 600-700 with a Sorc I would be very impressed .

I haven’t attempted arena since week 1 and still nobody has passed me . I want to see someone get to 500+ with a sorc so I can try again

Also this season seems harder for mages - shows mages under 50 waves last time in checked in HC

[harsh abyss]

I'm not talking about reddit complainers, I'm talking about my own personal usage. I made a build guide where halo effect was a central component and it definitely worked in the past.

I know it worked because I used it, a lot.

[nimble shoal]

Can confirm, I've also used it, definitely worked last time I tried it (which may have been a while lol)

[warped crow]

is it another offline only bug?

[harsh abyss]

If anything it would be an online only bug, I haven't played offline since they introduced multiplayer

[warped crow]

ic said offline cuz i also only been playing online

[proven haven]

probably just not many people bothering to compete, there were no balance changes so the same stuff will work as 1.1

[sour trellis]

Monsters seems harder than last season , seems like more mobs

[nimble shoal]

The loyalist undead packs from the event are pretty significant, but I don't think they spawn in arena

[proven haven]

That was what I thought too, though haven't done much in 1.1.7

[willow blaze]

I have kinda many uncapped Cold Resistance but i don't see any more dmg multiplier...

weird...

[sour trellis]

Just had a decent lp3 drop

[indigo monolith]

Q about the archmage passive.
I just surpassed 1000 mana.
Does this mean +15 spelldamage and 20% chance to refund 105% of the manacost or am I reading this skill wrong?

[warped crow]

reading it wrong

yes to the 15 spell dmg

but its 35% chance x 3 (100%) to refund 20% of the cost

[indigo monolith]

ty

Oh I see what I misread now lol. Reading, me? Naww : ))

[warped crow]

lol

[agile robin]

You don't see on your character panel? Or you don't see it on your dps on the dummy?

For the character panel, it doesn't show that, it's just your global multiplier.

[willow blaze]

not talking about the panel

[late garnet]

My RuneMaster skill "Disintegrate" right now says 63,xxx DPS. If I hit a guy for one second, there's no way I'm doing anywhere near that. The initial hit pops numbers like 800 or 900 fire damage. Does anybody know how many damage ticks there are per second for DoT? If I hit a boss with Disintegrate, I don't EVER see "63,xxx" numbers pop off of them. Am I being lied to? Or do I just not understand? I know how DoT works in other games. Thanks.

[warped crow]

your not gonna see it

because each beam has a hitbox ... and the skill hits more than 1 time per second per beam

in total it would be that

but honestly not even sure if its accurate

[gloomy epoch]

Fireball cast speed is broken? However many points i take on fireball skill tree end speed is same

[nimble shoal]

Pretty sure disintegrate calculates its tooltip very wrongly. My guess is it uses the spell's cast speed (scaled by your cast speed modifiers) times the damage tick, even though the damage tick is every 0.25s and cannot be modified in any way. From that alone it's showing over 4x what it should in the tooltip, but more depending on your cast speed. iirc it also accounts for applying ailments at that insane rate (like if you have % ignite on hit chance), which it can't do in reality since it doesn't hit and isn't anywhere close to the speed it thinks.

[warped crow]

thought it was the other way around kek

the individual damage numbers being smaller than the predicted dps xD

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, that's right. If my assumptions above are right, the damage numbers will be very roughly 1% of the tooltip dps.

(and much less than that if there's any investment in cast speed or ailments)

[warped crow]

lol

[marble citrus]

играет кто в пати?

[opaque crest]

You’re never gonna see the accurate dps numbers because monsters have damage reduction based on level. Monsters can have up to 90% damage reduction in the endgame.
Instead of just increasing monster hp by the millions in endgame they do damage reduction instead.
If you wanna compare dps, do it in the same area level.

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/mobdr

[warped crow]

more accurate than poe tho lel for now

[sour trellis]

Well my first lp3 Julra dropped

[acoustic drift]

Damn

[willow blaze]

time to find a really really good exalted to forge

[reef flume]

What RM build balance of speed clear and kill boss, sirs?

[proper hawk]

windows key + shift + s for snipping tool is better

[dawn lodge]

its hard procast for ppl making photo on smartphone

[sour trellis]

I play on a legion Go , using my phone is quicker . Also use iPhone for discord . I’ll make sure the next pic is more blurry for you 🙂

[sour trellis]

Fixed for you , your welcome

[covert rune]

how does runic energy interact with the interlude and prologue nodes in the runic invocation tree?

not sure if all 3 invocations will get the bonus from runic energy or just the first invocation

[earnest marten]

[warped crow]

owo never thought id see the day kek

[covert rune]

is there a bug where you cant generate static charges? im specced into the skill and moving around or getting hit isnt generating any

[harsh abyss]

Do you have it slotted on your bar?

It's gotta be one of your slotted skills to generate charges

[nimble shoal]

^ That, it doesn't need to be specced, but it does need to be slotted

[modest heath]

What's the catch with disintegrate and frost claw? Is this one of those +B vs MX things where one seems way better unleveled but the other levels quadratically?

[wise yew]

why can't i have this node ?

[warped crow]

you dont have enough passives connecting to it?

[wise yew]

The one from the big node bot enough ?

[warped crow]

looks like you need 2 or 3 i cant see'

[wise yew]

It's weird the connexion not working

[warped crow]

its not working because you only put 1 point into that passive before it ... you need 3

[nimble shoal]

Looks like a bug to me, the passive its right side has enough points (i.e., 1) to make the connection. Report it in game, isn't the first time a rarely used connection doesn't work in reverse.

Passive tree connections are one-way (only going right), but skill tree connections are supposed to work both ways.

[warped crow]

cant tell well which one it is

[nimble shoal]

Yeh, I had to open a planner to tell what was going on

[warped crow]

ye oof didnt think of doing it lel

[proven haven]

lol just found this screenshot, a build I forgot to put together, was super cool. pure mana stacker with the focus damage nodes, use fractured crown and permanent arcane ascendance going around with flames of midnight / tp / evade, etc.

[dapper flare]

A scuffed way to make that build ranged is cast on allies and use your mirror clones to cast on, or group play @proven haven

[proven haven]

I just combined it with WW to tp -> focus spam combo so you are invuln during the first cast, kill pack take 0 damage

but yeah that sounds cool too

[dapper flare]

Idk what WW is 🤔

[proven haven]

wrongwarp @dapper flare

[agile robin]

You cooking too much 🤯

[modest heath]

There's a few things like that. For example arcane momentum won't proc off subcasts like mana strike->ice claw

I've got a Knowledge of an Erased Mage and Tome of Elements and can't decide between the two D:

Tome is more dps, leech, and condition procs by far. Knowledge is +1 to all skills and mana shield. Tough choice.

[topaz stirrup]

Just leveling atm.. But shattering proc strike spellblade feels so fun. Playing 2h instead of dw because personal preference.

Does anyone have tips for good uniques/set items to use ascendancy runes for?

Will try to get titans heart ASAP.. And got the battlemage sword

[modest heath]

afaik a lot of the best build-mandatory ones only drop from bosses, which are excluded from the ascendancy pool

[topaz stirrup]

Yeah, was thinking leveling wise but forgot to mention that

[modest heath]

also might be primarily for leveling but Palarus is just silly with mana strike. The smites constantly heal you

I actually like it more on my sorcerer than on my forge guard

[topaz stirrup]

Sweet, but isn't it weird with the scaling stats? Or just using it for the proc?

[modest heath]

Attributes and proc primarily. Although I got lucky and got one with +41 cold damage. Pairs very nicely with vial of volatile ice and speccing mana strike to cold.

[modest heath]

And I just chanced a rune of ascendance on an off-hand catalyst and got fragment of the enigma. So woohoo.

[sacred mortar]

Is Dark Shroud of Cinders + Lament of the Lost Refuge void volcanic orb build bad? Seems like a really cool synergy, but if I try to find anyone doing the same, the last build I can find is like 6 months ago, so clearly unpopular

[warped crow]

because volcanic orb in general is meh

[sacred mortar]

thats disappointing :(

[dapper flare]

oh yeah that didn't exist when I played with Focus. As a necro main I am not used to such items lmao

[half forum]

asdasd

[dire moth]

The Runemaster passive Never Late gives the next spell used after a traversal skill a higher crit chance. Does anyone know if this crit chance applies only to the first hit of duration skills like Frost Wall or Glyph of Dominion, or would it apply to all the DOT of that skill?

[rapid hinge]

DOT doesnt crit anyway

so no

[nimble shoal]

It should apply to the whole duration and any subskills of the skill, but as mentioned above, doesn't help DOTs. Probably doesn't count for Ignivar's Head bonus either.

[tropic swan]

how is frost claw this cycle? decent? never try this build before

[harsh abyss]

Still very good

[potent dune]

Depending on the build. I heard lightning frost claw trigger spark charges is very strong, one of the strongest mage builds this cycle.

[covert rune]

been having a lot of fun going through the campaign and early monos with flame reave spellblade

idk if its gonna be the one to get me through empowered monos tho

i really enjoy the playstyle but im having a bit of trouble gearing it

got lucky with a +3 flamereave chestpiece and a searing pride which i didnt know existed until i found one but all of my other gear is pretty trash

[tropic swan]

not sure tho, i kinda watch some of the frozensentinel vid

[harsh abyss]

I've been trying to call attention to that bug since 1.0. I've been commenting on the thread so it doesn't get auto-closed 😢

I think it's probably a low priority because no one uses it, but no one uses it because it doesn't work

[velvet fox]

I started on the cycle reset day but got like less than 10 levels in, and I've been running the spark charge frost claw since I hit the 64 passive point checkmark. You need it to get the spark charges so until then just level as glacier or glacier/static orb (I used the video on yotube titled something like "almost pi's mana stacker" up to that point). Got up to 70 with the frost claw build and it has been zooming through both the end of campaign and now straight up the right side of normal monos. Super tanky, maybe 2 deaths total that were from me seeing what I could tank. Dps feels amazing and I only have 3 uniques, one being a filler and the other 2 being 0 lp I got with ascencion runes. Definitely go for the catalyst first with runes then helm is probably your best second bet. The frozensentinel video has a google doc spreadsheet with all the tools to help you transition and the only pain point I've had where it felt bad was the transition between builds since my frost claw was level 8 and didn't cost 40 mana. Had to use meteor for like 4 skill points in frost claw. Only glazing it because it feels so smooth. Don't know if it's the best or strongest but it just feels good.

[warped crow]

fun fact it IS the strongest xD

[velvet fox]

good to hear, I just wanted to try mage out so I looked for something that seemed a good all-rounder

[warped crow]

ye its really good xD

you could just level as frostclaw if you wanted

start with something like ignite then transition to the spark charges at like 51 i wanna say?

[velvet fox]

I'm not sure, I think I got spark charge around lvl 53 or somethin but not sure I definitely didn't use the optimal leveling path so XD

All I know is I spec'd into it, but had 8 points in frost claw so it cost like high 20s mana per cast, so it didn't do the charges so I just did the desert area with meteor

Now I'm just casually runnin through though and loving the playstyle and feel

[warped crow]

ye you need to take basically every positive mana cost passive

[velvet fox]

Yeah I messed that up 😅 but once I got a few more passives it worked out

[warped crow]

ye its not really messing up, just takes time xD

[velvet fox]

ah I meant messed up on checking the minimum respec skill level or w/e where it says "you'll reset to x points in a new skill" cuz I had a working glacier leveling build but was eager to try out the claw

mb typing between monos, almost to empowered, ready to grind out the actual gear I'm gonna use 😄

[warped crow]

gl

[velvet fox]

ty!

[harsh abyss]

Meteor is probably my favorite. Get the AOE nodes and just kinda walk through everything blowing it up with a cast here and there.

[tropic swan]

yeah im kinda at 45++ almost ready to transition to spark charges when reach 64 passives

[modest heath]

I got lucky and started with a Yrun's Penance and Vial of Volatile Ice. Spark Charges and Mana Storm on Mana Strike, especially with the 100% crit rate for Arcane Current, carried me all the way through the campaign as I leveled up frost claw and nova.

Eventually I got 4 points in Arcane Current for a 100% spark charge chance on Ice Barrage and now that also really tears through things.

With Peak of the Mountain I have an absurd 49% spell critical chance, although at the cost of survivability since I don't leech from crits anymore.

[turbid dome]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qqz8jk3B

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (61) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (27)

General:

▸ Health: 1,018, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 1,936.28, Regen: 23.92/s
▸ Ward Retention: 558%, Regen: 204/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 12 Dex / 140 Int / 7 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 60% / 36% / 82% / 63% / 28% / 50% / 29%
▸ EHP: 1,400 / 1,279 / 1,778 / 1,894 / 998 / 1,174 / 1,133

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 204
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (48)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 49% (3,011)
▸ Block Chance: 2%, Mitigation: 13% (106)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Unstable Core
• Wrongwarp
• Blood of the Exile
• Julra's Stardial
• Flames of Midnight
• The Confluence of Fate
• Stormcarved Testament

[turbid dome]

I saw this build on Reddit and can't really tell what it does differently than other static orbs besides the armor

[modest heath]

So what's everyone's opinions on the ice spirals of frost claw?

[rapid hinge]

pretty useless

[analog flint]

I'm working on a build for spellblade, that I think is quite fun and simple to play. The premise is to utilise surge as the main ability, with the invulnerability node. The idea to to spend as much time in surge as possible. To do damage I'm speccing into frost claw, lightning blast and static, with frost claw proccing from melee hits, and in turn, frost claw hits proccing lightning blast. LB applies spark charges and has spark nova. This is awesome in deense mono's. Surge also casts LB, applies spark charges,, and uses static stacks for extra damage. Passives I'm focusing on mana and regen, lightning damage and ward generation/threeshold. last skill is mana strike, which can also proc frost claw, but generates mana on hit and ward, so when not in surge, hit boss hard with this to maintain ward.Gear uses enigma with a dragorrath claw, a set lightning ring, plus i got lucky on some weavers, but I'll find some useful stats for the belt, relic and gloves. Belt and gloves ideally should have t7 cooldown recovery to try to get surge as close to 2 secs CD as possible. Same for idols, need to find highest CD recovery for surge as possible. The result is a lightning laser show, with enough ward gen to tank many tough hits when surge on CD, but it is quite mana hungry. LB isnt on my bars, with flame ward ion its place for a little boost to ward. Cant say about corruption yet, but im about level 70, and reign of dragons mono is a piece of cake. Any thoughts on improvements? I'll upload a WIP build to LE Tools at the weekend

https://tenor.com/view/one-punch-man-atomic-samurai-atomic-slash-haragiri-anime-gif-19725331

that pretty much

[sour trellis]

Here’s my build for 2k+ monos , generate 8-32k ward . 2k+ monos feel same as 600 monos , some gear easy to get some difficult .

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/KikuBear/character/n00b

[sour trellis]

For bosses I just switch helm and a ring

[tropic swan]

for this do you have mana problems? when frost claw-ing

[sour trellis]

Currently 2050 mana , I don’t have a problem cause once you go into negative mana you tap focus and it gives you around 600-800 mana . By the time you use your mana you can tap again cause focus usually is off cooldown ..

You can hold focus button down to get more mana but when doing monos I just tap as it’s enough to do again when it’s off cooldown ..

Also you only really want to tap quickly when doing 2k monos cause you don’t want to be standing still like a sitting target

You always want to be moving

Currently the build might show wrong gear as I switch to prismatic gaze and Julra for bosses . Monos I use snow blind helm and invoker static ring

[pale wharf]

can anyone else confirm a bug for me? The Flaming Scroll node in the Glyph of Dominion tree converts Glyph to fire and says "Shock chance from all sources is converted to ignite..."

Fan the Inferno in the same tree says your ignite frequency is increased by your chance to ignite.

I tried Glyph without my normal ignite gear and get 27 stacks of ignite on the dummy. I then tried adding a couple chance to shock idols (19% each) and an Ocearon (38%).

Still just 27 stacks of ignite on the dummy.

[nimble shoal]

It is typical for converted ailments to not count for scaling like that, especially since it says "your chance to ignite" and not the glyph's. The devs do say they want to you report anything that even appears like a bug though and I think that interaction sounds kinda janky.

[pale wharf]

I see the reasoning, but if it wasn't supposed to scale like that then wouldn't the phrase "shock chance from all sources is converted to ignite..." be meaningless?

[nimble shoal]

It's only converted for glyph of dominion, not globally

[pale wharf]

yes, but these are nodes in the glyph of dominion tree, what does converting shock to ignite do if it doesn't apply the ignite/

couldn't they just delete the entire statement if it isn't going to apply the ignite anyways?

[nimble shoal]

No, it converts that shock buff node right before it, and it applies to glyph's hits

but I agree with you that it's silly the ignite rate doesn't scale

[sacred mortar]

This was a 17 weavers will... I had such high hopes

[glad marten]

What's your favorite frostbite build? Just got this:
#👑┃item-showcase message

[proper hawk]

You could try to make ignite conversion spellblade work. I tried, but I had trouble with the defenses. The damage was definitely there though.

[glad marten]

Can you elaborate briefly on the key mechanics? Which main skills and items are needed for that conversion?

[proper hawk]

shatter strike has a node in its tree that converts all ignites on the target to frostbite stacks. The important thing here is that they are considered fresh frostbite stacks with full duration that inherit the damage modifiers of the shatter strike, not the damage mods of the ignite they were converted from. This means that you can build firebrand and bladeweaving stacks while simultaneously stacking up ignite, and then consume them to get firebrand + bladeweaving + shatter strike tree multipliers on hundreds of frostbite stacks

I was also running fire converted frost claw and stacking ignite on fire hit to get more ignites

[river flicker]

question about cold and calculating: anyone knows if this takes frost claw's uncapped crit chance, or caps at 100%?

[topaz stirrup]

when things says uncapped, is it for example "150% lightning resistance total" so 75% over the cap = uncapped?

(the 75% over the cap counts as the uncapped amount is what I mean here)

[nimble shoal]

Crit chance doesn't technically have a cap, so over 100% works

[nimble shoal]

Uncapped is your total, as if the cap did not exist. Stats that have a cap show their actual (capped) value followed by the uncapped stat value in parentheses next to it usually also grayed out. So like for lightning resist, if you have a total of +150% lightning resistance from items/passives/etc., your character sheet will show 75% (150%) - 75% being your actual lightning resist, and 150% is your uncapped.

Amount over the cap is called "overcapped", the only place this term is used currently is on Face of the Mountain which scales block chance by overcapped endurance

[topaz stirrup]

oooh, that makes uncapped stuff better. I always read it as "what you need to hit the 75% cap" <-- for resists
But I also knew that it was wrong considering that would make those items real bad haha

thanks for the explanation!

[river flicker]

how does "% chance to apply spark charge on (melee) hit" actually work on the enemy side? is it just rolling for either you proc one or not? or can one hit proc more than one spark charge if your chance to apply one is above 100?

[nimble shoal]

% chance to apply spark charge is a regular ailment stat that works like any other, when it procs it applies the spark charge ailment, if you have 200% chance to apply you apply 2 stacks, etc.
When each spark charge ailment ends, it triggers the spark charge skill, which gets cast by you with whatever stats you have active at the instant when it procs.

[river flicker]

ah cool - so that means its 100% deterministic behavior i guess? like 1st hit with 150% procs one, 2nd hit with 150% procs 2 - allways? like that?

[nimble shoal]

On average that's how it works, but % less than a full 100% are rolled per hit, so 150% is 1 stack with a 50% chance to apply a second

[river flicker]

aight thanks 🙂

[balmy elk]

Does anyone have an idea of the two different icons for boot?

[warped crow]

ones being lit up by you being able to run it and the other one isnt yet

[nimble shoal]

^ that, gold border/icon means you've completed a connected echo, silver border/icon means you've revealed it, but haven't completed any connected echoes

[brisk relic]

hello! Does anyone have a good Frostclaw build I can follow, quite fresh and almost finished main story. But not sure if the build I'm following is good for late game. https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/frostbite-frost-claw-sorcerer-guide#idols-header This is the build I am currently following.

[modest heath]

Wasted a bunch of prophecies on idols thinking I could get something good.. it's nothing but the unvar's idols. Over and over.

[balmy elk]

Thanks for the reply. I see that is how it normally is and though I can't snippet again, I believed I had a couple of those over the web. Oh well. 🙂 Might have been just a visual bug.

[sacred mortar]

Why snap freeze 😭

[warped crow]

LOL ... least it gib mana

[sacred mortar]

we go again

[sacred mortar]

another dud

[warped crow]

sad

[sacred mortar]

some day ill get a good one

[warped crow]

maybe

maybe not lel

[undone pasture]

Don't know anyone who plays LE personally and I wanna share my excitement, sick relic!

I really havent played that much, im still in the 100s of corruption

[warped crow]

op

[glad marten]

I did it, y'all. Finally killed Aberroth on my disintegrate character, completely self-found

[quartz storm]

anyone tried a physical hit based blackhole sorc? how does it play?

[warped crow]

horribly because black hole is a dysfunctional skill cuz of its 12 hour cooldown

[harsh abyss]

Quad collapse is kind of fun and silly, but yeah not really viable as a main skill because of the CD. You cant really get 100% uptime.

[harsh abyss]

I've always kinda wondered about 4-star fire res stacking. 10% ignite per second per fire res seems good, so with 75 res, you're at 7.5 stacks/second, or 30 stacks/second if all 4 stars are "hitting".

Assuming you could stack to 150 or 225% fire res, you'd be crazy high stack count.

Pair it with Crest of Unity to give Nova benefits from res-stacking as well, maybe convert shred to frostbite with hits to make novas do tons of frostbite and ignite as well.

[warped crow]

lol

[harsh abyss]

It seems super weird, but might actually be strong

Depending on how high you can stack your fire res, it could be good.

You only need +5 black hole to make it fully "online", which is an unstable core + t6 black hole on relic.

[warped crow]

lowkey we need more ways to raise the mana cost of some skills

like rn the only skill that can fully use the mastery bonus from sorc is meteor at 130 cost

not saying other skills need it but it would be nice for consistency and flesh out the feel of the archetype

wait did sorc always have a frostbite chance passive?

i thought it was only on runemaster with the armour shred conversion

[harsh abyss]

I think that was added with the last major patch when they updated all the passives

I believe it used to be chll chance or freeze rate multi or something garbo

You can always use the Gate Staff, but that's obviously not the best solution

[warped crow]

ye that passive lel

i mean its pretty small but like at least its useful

unlike what it used to have

frostbite duration on chronomancy when

[harsh abyss]

With the runemaster frostbite conversion and Crest of Unity, you can make Ele Nova a fire and cold skill so you can get armor shred (frostbite) + ignite chance on every cast

And the ele nova has 200% ignite and 200% armor shred on the tree, so if you're scaling ele damage over time then it'll scale both up pretty decently

[warped crow]

lol

[harsh abyss]

And I believe the ele penetration from crest of unity should apply to DoTs applied by ele nova too

[warped crow]

ic ic

[harsh abyss]

So you'll be applying a ton of frostbite/ignite with ele nova, casting black hole for 4 homing black holes that are all applying lots of ignites, both scale off of uncapped resistances...

Seems like it could be decent. Only annoying part is the two uniques you want are level 60+ so it'll be only late game that you get it

But leveling with ele nova with ignite should be a breeze

[warped crow]

ye but that cooldown oof

[harsh abyss]

Well, you can probably get 100% uptime with Black Hole, or close at least. And if you're scaling ele dot, it'll probably be pretty strong

I might try it out and see

[warped crow]

actually i take it back

there are only 2 skills that can fully use the mastery perk

meteor and static orb

[nimble shoal]

It can potentially be super strong, especially with one node that's literally just double damage for 1 point (binary system). The downside is that the scaling for black hole ignites has almost no overlap with any other skill...

Speaking of mastery bonus, does sorc's new passive grant "more spell damage" or is it truly "more damage" given to spells?

[warped crow]

well it just says more dmg kek

1% per 2 mana cost up to 50%

so caps at 100 mp cost ... which only 2 skills hit

rogue has a better passive kekw

and actually gives you the tools to use it

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, but some of these things have weird wording. Like infused weapon's "X damage for X melee attacks" is strictly melee damage and "+X damage for DOT spells" doesn't apply to spell hits of skills with the DOT tag.

[warped crow]

ic

[nimble shoal]

should be easy-ish to test, I think

not that it's a huge multiplier to black hole anyway

[harsh abyss]

That's why I was thinking scaling ignite + frostbite with Black Hole and Ele Nova. Both are Fire and Cold skills so you can make full use of Fire and Cold scaling

And you're going to scale mostly with Ele Damage over Time, which does the Cold DoT portion of Black Hole's regular damage

If you get lots of extra points in Black Hole, you can get Binary System, Scattered, and Drifting Singularity so all 4 of your black holes move towards the bosses that you'll drop it on. You clear with Ele Nova mostly, then drop that on big rares and bosses

[nimble shoal]

Once you convert black hole to fire, it doesn't have a cold portion

binary system is literally just 100% more damage and does nothing else mechanically (it's still one black hole, and still just does fire damage)

then there's a lot of more multis in black hole which I think you can dump pretty much endless points into, I'd have to math out if getting any of the cool mechanical changes are worthwhile

[harsh abyss]

Binary system says that it has a cold hole and a fire hole, does that just... not work right?

[nimble shoal]

Correct, the only stat actually attached to that node is 100% more damage

and it changes the visuals, which looks cool

(from Mike: #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message)

[harsh abyss]

Whelp, I guess that makes scaling it easier? heh

Could maybe pair it with fireball line ignite? Or... fire convert frost claw?

[harsh abyss]

Well, if going for just ignite that does make things a lot easier, but I think there's still some good synergy for Crest of Unity.

1% penetration for per 10% uncapped elemental resists for Ele Nova
10% ignite chance per second per black hole 1% uncapped fire resist For Black Hole

Stack up like 300% or more fire resist for a crapton of ignites from black hole while spamming Nova

[warped crow]

lol

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, that is very true, then at least your resist scaling doesn't go to waste on your clear skill

might actually allow ele nova ignites to be passable for clear 👀

[harsh abyss]

I feel like using a well rolled firestarter's torch + the Inferno sorc passive is gonna make your ignites pretty good no matter what

[harsh abyss]

Well, I gave it a shot and ele nova just feels bad compared to multi-proj fireball ignite.

[nimble shoal]

Oof, well that's unfortunate. Does the fireball thing still work with black hole? The awkward bit is the scaling is largely different

[harsh abyss]

Well, scaling ignite damage will scale them for both obviously

The only "extra" scaling you'd want to do would be the fire resist stacking

And maybe late game, since you're a sorcerer, you could focus on Mana stacking so that you could do channeled Ele Nova and just have a huge enough mana pool that you can kill anything before running empty

Since you'd be running Crest of Unity and Unstable Core, you're gonna have like... 10+ bonus levels of Ele Nova, so you could feasibly do that.

If you can get a firestarter's torch with T7 scepter spell damage for -9 mana cost, plus Cryomantic Fragility in ele nova for another -12, plus Star Prism for another -12... your channel cost is like... 9?

[warped crow]

does the refund on archmage still work if your using mana tunnel?

[harsh abyss]

I believe so yes, but you'd have to test it to be sure

[warped crow]

ooooh i think it does

cant tell very well tho

[harsh abyss]

It works in combo with the Runemaster refund on Invocation, which makes me thinkit should work with archmage

You technically spend the mana and then it refunds it, so other refund functions should work

[warped crow]

was wondering cuz meteor still does its 48% thing even with mana tunnel

[harsh abyss]

yeah

[warped crow]

yeee

but ye its hard to tell cuz if using meteor the mana goes up so fast from its own passive it just blends in

and if using a cheaper skill it just blends in anyway

[nimble shoal]

The part that hurts me most is ignite chance, regular ignite chance does nothing for black hole, but is needed for almost any other ignite skill

[harsh abyss]

Yeah

Though, ignite chance is a suffix, so it's not like you're competing too heavily for other damage mods

[nimble shoal]

true, outside of uniques which may or may not be worthwhile anyway

[noble sierra]

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

Is this build no longe efficient?
Came back again since i dont even know when i left but mana isnt regeneration like used to be

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Release / 1.0.6

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (23) / Runemaster (70)

General:

▸ Health: 1,376, Regen: 27/s
▸ Mana: 178, Regen: 11/s
▸ Ward Retention: 786%, Regen: 38/s
▸ Attributes: 40 Str / 27 Dex / 190 Int / 17 Att / 25 Vit
▸ Resistances: 78% / 76% / 83% / 74% / 82% / 82% / 77%
▸ EHP: 3,446 / 3,446 / 3,446 / 4,056 / 3,643 / 3,188 / 3,188

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 33%, Threshold: 423
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (146)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 51% (3,242)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Core of the Mountain
• Mad Alchemist's Ladle
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Ravenous Void
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[covert rune]

i want to make a sort of static nuke build but im having trouble putting one together

i tried sorc, spellblade, and runemaster but i was having trouble getting it to deal decent damage

[rapid hinge]

well the skill is quite bad and outdated

[radiant vessel]

You'll need to make use of power surge and a bunch of mana to make it nuke stuff, but that'll also need a really good way to gain mana which do exist but honestly the payoff just isn't really worth it currently

[covert rune]

yeah i do use power surge

i was using either mana strike or focus to regen mana

but it was kinda bad for clear time

[warped crow]

so i guess fire converted frost claw killed ignite based fireball? not counting them gutting those old rings

[harsh abyss]

Nah, ignite fireball is still good

[warped crow]

ye but you get like 5x the projectiles and an extra 25% ailment duration

so idk

[harsh abyss]

Well, fireball has built in shred and 40% more ailment damage available, as well as 4x projectiles on the tree

So they both have strengths. Using Fireball + Craterborn Meteor is a pretty solid combo, too

@nimble shoal Another synergy you could use for the Black Hole is channeled Fireball, there's a usually garbage node that gives armor and fire resist while channeling. So if you used that node + a couple Liath's Signets, you'd be able to reach pretty nutty levels of fire resist while channeling.

[nimble shoal]

Interesting, does your fire resist not snapshot at the time you cast black hole?

I just kinda always assumed it does, so I've never thought about something like that. Could be good if it works!

[harsh abyss]

No idea, tbh

If it does, boo hiss

It's either a snapshot, or checks your resist each second that it applies the ignites

[warped crow]

ye but its -50% resist vs 5x the projectiles (5 vs 25) and 25% longer duration
meaning more dmg vs signifigantly more stacks

[warped crow]

• you can use this combo with frost claw too

so 50% more damage vs like 600% more dmg

they should give fireball the puncture treatment xD

[warped crow]

the only thing fireball has over frost claw is spreading flames application and being really cheap to cast

and well you can get spreading flames through cinder song or firestarter torch

and also - mana from them xD

i wonder how low you can get frost claw

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I mean Frost Claw is definitely hugely overtuned compared to other hitting skills

[nimble shoal]

I think they meant this part specifically:

[warped crow]

i mean its not thaaat good ... its free mana but the ward generated from it is per cast and not per fireball right?

its not like youll get 10x5 per pressing the button?

[warped crow]

the problem is i dont really want frostclaw nerfed because it actually feels good

[nimble shoal]

Right, the mana generation is the primary benefit

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it'd be much better if other skills were brought up to par

[warped crow]

5 points into the frost claw tree feels like 20 points into fireball tree xD

wait was it 5 or 8

let me go count

[harsh abyss]

only 5 to get to Volley of Glass, which is really the main strong bit

[warped crow]

7 points

4 for lava talon and 3 for volley of glass

and its more or less the same as like 18 points of investment into fireball

actually its better

cuz of the chance to refund mana

that you had to path through

chance to gain 12 mana

[warped crow]

its stronger if you fire convert it because you can use firestarter for the spreading flames and more dmg to enemies effected by it which effects ignites

and the -4 mana cost is pog

[harsh abyss]

With that bare bones, it's more like 9 points in fireball if you're only concerned about single target

[nimble shoal]

Frost claw is just slightly strong, I wouldn't feel bad if it got a slight nerf if everything else gets a buff

[warped crow]

the only nerf im willing to accept is maybe the warpath treatment of lowering ailment chance

[harsh abyss]

The free cleanse on every cast is a bit op too 😝

[nimble shoal]

I was thinking about that, too, if the multi-hit node gave 40% less ailment chance

[warped crow]

nah alot of chars get that owo

[harsh abyss]

Like you never build for it, but you get it anyway

[warped crow]

nah give it like 10% ... and then an extra 10% for every node that adds more projectiles

[nimble shoal]

yeah, they could move that cleanse to a different part of the tree so it's not a free path point

[warped crow]

basically all the things leading up to 25 hitcount

lel

put a -10% ailment rate on all 5

[nimble shoal]

you have to get all of the projectiles to get that node anyway

[warped crow]

nah cuz like 5 projectiles is ballanced as it is rn

[harsh abyss]

You could definitely do a lot of stuff to even it out.

[nimble shoal]

also if we want to go with how it treats freeze... it gives 50% less freeze chance, so maybe it should be 50% less ailment chance, too

[warped crow]

its when you start adding the other ones that it blows up

[harsh abyss]

But all I want for Christmas is Halo Effect to be fixed 😢

[warped crow]

really think it should scale and not be a flat penalty

cuz like just taking volley of glass and nothing else isnt all that busted

[nimble shoal]

it kinda is

it invalidates pretty much every other skill for ailment stacking

[warped crow]

nah

[harsh abyss]

Volley of glass is what makes it busted. All the other nodes add 1 hit. Volley of Glass is x5

[nimble shoal]

all that chaining and whatnot you can add has its own things and maybe should have a different penalty

[harsh abyss]

Like, it's specifically volley of glass

[warped crow]

i think if we were incentivized not to take the rest it would be on par with most other skills

[warped crow]

no its volley of glasses interaction with other mechanics

[nimble shoal]

yeah, and volley of glass as it is now halves your freeze rate, logically maybe it should halve ailment chance, too

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, but without volley of glass, the other mechanics are fine. Without the other mechanics, volley of glass is still super strong. So Volley of Glass is what should be nerfed

[warped crow]

honestly imma complain but just do it and rip the bandaid off xD

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, people are gonna complain no matter what nerfs hit

This is the way

[nimble shoal]

alternatively they could add a generic less damage modifier on it and maybe reduce the mana cost penalty a bit to compensate, idk

[nimble shoal]

yeah, true

[warped crow]

nuuuuu the mana cost penalty is what makes it actually work with spark charges xD

besides at least imo

we need more ways to upscale costs

[harsh abyss]

I was surprised that Sorcerer didn't have any passives that increased mana cost

[warped crow]

the only 2 skills that can max out sorcerers 50% more dmg bonus is meteor

and i forget the other one

i said it earlier

[harsh abyss]

Static Orb

[warped crow]

YE that

[harsh abyss]

Technically Static can do it too

With Power Surge

[warped crow]

i would like more ways to push other skills to high costs xD

like glacier

owo

[warped crow]

i hate that sorcerer just uses mana to scale ward

[harsh abyss]

Glacier could cap it out if you used a Gale Staff

[warped crow]

i kinda wanted mana to just be the defining layer

u know

[warped crow]

sad

[warped crow]

like that one passive in fire ward that blocks dmg based on mana

[nimble shoal]

that's okay though, it wouldn't be ideal to have all of sorc's skill cap out the damage bonus, then they are all the same

[warped crow]

also imo just for thematics sake

before they nerf spark charge passive

they should make it only work with lightning skills

xD

[nimble shoal]

like lightning frost claw

[warped crow]

yes

at least it makes sense lel

better than when its proccing off of a fiery meteor owo

[harsh abyss]

Lightning meteor stonks

[warped crow]

like still nerf it where its needed but thematically would be a good change

maybe move the instant removal of spark charges from lightning strike to a fire skill xD

like meteor owo

like overload from genshin

[nimble shoal]

Wish we could have fragment and lightning meteor at the same time lol

[warped crow]

true

[harsh abyss]

I tried using lightning meteor plus the spark charge node, but gave up because every time I hit a big pack I'd get a mega lag spike

[warped crow]

ye the problem is you cant actually scale the spark charges all that well withbout fragment

also also

[nimble shoal]

yeah, the lag spike thing... but a little ward on hit makes it easy to survive the lag spikes lol

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it's not that it wasn't survivable, it just sucked to play 😝

[warped crow]

ele nova spark charge passive owo ... the passive right after it that does overcharge should effect the spark charges from the passive before it too

and not just lightning nova

[harsh abyss]

I just unspecc'd it, it's not like meteor needs the extra damage on big packs of mobs, and the spark charges are minimal on bosses

[harsh abyss]

I wish there was more clarity on what affected subskills, it's really obnoxious to find things that feel like they should affect them but don't

[nimble shoal]

would be nice if things were clearly stated as subskills or not

[warped crow]

ye

[nimble shoal]

spark charge and fire aura are never subskills

[warped crow]

thats dumb

expecially when its litterally a sub skill of dissentigrate and flame ward

sub skill as in it gets casted from them xD

[harsh abyss]

Or Lightning Blast, or Ele Nova...

[warped crow]

also the only way to scale fire aura is 1 passive in flame ward

owo

[nimble shoal]

and the spellblade tree lol

[harsh abyss]

And a bunch of passive skills

[warped crow]

lol

[harsh abyss]

But yeah, they both fit the definition of subskills, but just... aren't for some reason

[nimble shoal]

but yeah, fire aura is almost like a weird part of flame ward, that's why they are connected a little

so it's treated like a specializable skill

spark charge is just different, it's a skill procced by an ailment

ailments can't have subskills, so spark charge isn't a subskill

(shadow daggers is the same way)

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it seems silly

Or just like a bug

[warped crow]

an ailment that crits kek

[harsh abyss]

No, the ailment doesn't crit, the spark charge crits

[nimble shoal]

fire aura I feel like is especially a victim of being really old, like it's clear they've gotten better at making skills that can be affected by multiple sources, see: torment and storm bolt

[warped crow]

exactly

not even old

its just the devs dont want it to be big

[nimble shoal]

nah fire aura is mega old

[warped crow]

they wanna keep it locked to being a support mechanic lel

[harsh abyss]

There are spellblade builds that focus on fire aura, aren't there? They stack up like a billion stacks and it does crazy damage?

[warped crow]

not the main goal tho cuz all those stacks add dmg to skills like flame reave lel

[nimble shoal]

Not great ones, unless some have cropped up since the 1.0/1.1 buffs that I just haven't seen

[warped crow]

nothing really changed for them tho

if anything i think they might have gotten a nerf from the changes to that one catalyst

[turbid dome]

can someone give me a brief explanation as to how the frost claw static orb sorc build 1 shots things?

[warped crow]

mana stacking and mana scales its damage

guessing mana charged + overcharged detonation

• some other stuff i cant know cuz me dum

[turbid dome]

im trying to kill 100 cor harbingers with it at level 75 and not having much success lol.

[warped crow]

ic lol

[sweet quarry]

Rate my Glass Cannon

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oz1V71eB

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (64) / Runemaster (29)

General:

▸ Health: 1,002, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 1,981.84, Regen: 20.23/s
▸ Ward Retention: 493%, Regen: 249/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 15 Dex / 115 Int / 13 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 66% / 26% / 99% / 58% / 20% / 29% / 45%
▸ EHP: 1,389 / 1,100 / 1,642 / 1,542 / 856 / 909 / 1,150

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 200
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (60)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 40% (2,258)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

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

This build has a guide:

(Fixed) Insane New Best Favor Farm Tech - 300K+ Per Hour Potential | LE 1.1 by FrozenSentinel

[strange needle]

Build is definitely super strong,your scaling is really good ,even over 1k corruption and one shots all bosses even aberroth,just stick with it .

[strange needle]

Pretty good

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Apzxv5KB

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,117, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 2,375.36, Regen: 25.52/s
▸ Ward Retention: 428%, Regen: 277/s
▸ Attributes: 5 Str / 5 Dex / 113 Int / 11 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 70% / 83% / 108% / 97% / 95% / 114% / 68%
▸ EHP: 1,443 / 1,621 / 1,621 / 1,929 / 1,540 / 1,540 / 1,515

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 223
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (20)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,138)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (21)
• Teleport (20)
• Focus (20)
• Static Orb (26)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Unstable Core
• Wrongwarp
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Last Steps of the Living
• Phantom Grip
• Julra's Stardial
• The Confluence of Fate
• Stormcarved Testament

[strange needle]

This is my take and feel stronger than with arcane ascendency

[sweet quarry]

nice mana pool damn. 2500?! Whats your Static Orb Tool tip dps at rest?

mine was at 670k i think

[turbid dome]

I just need to level up to the point where I can use all of the unique in the builds and keep finding tier 7 mana?

[strange needle]

Mine is at 1.1 million damage no buffs ,but as we know I get more than 10 mill in the mannequins practice

With fractured crown,t7 mana prefix I have 3 k mana but I don't need it ,to one shot .

[strange needle]

Pretty much it's really easy to set up and you get plenty of power spikes even ,also use flameward 10 flat,plus 250 increase and plenty of dr ,plus you can move is worth more I don't die in monos and bosses anymore, specially aberroth does no damage to me.

[turbid dome]

Yeah I'm working on getting a crown atm

I'm having a rough time with harbingers and bosses with the build that I'm at now, but I only just hit 76 so a lot of my gear is level locked. Should I switch to frost claw for mono clearings until I'm early 80s?

[turbid dome]

can anyone give me a frost claw focused build that clears monos for leveling effectively?

i saw one on maxroll but it looks super unfocused and goofy and i dont undersatnd it at all

[strange needle]

@turbid dome you should be using frostclaw already for monos with an enigma if you have it even plus 0 lo should do the job and grab the node for 100 spark charge frost claw 40 mana cost needed

Static orb is for mini boss and all other bosses,or thing you need to delete fast ,cause it's very expensive mana wise

@turbid dome frozen sentinel I think has pure frostclaw build in YouTube,he very good at showing other gear you could use if don't have bis gear , definitely recommend.

[strange needle]

Post your last epoch build people can help you out

[turbid dome]

i found his video but didnt see a link to his actual frostclaw BUILD

[turbid dome]

im reworking a few things to see if i cant figure it out if im still struggling ill post my build here shortly

[strange needle]

Usually on the comments it's there like description

[turbid dome]

my ultimate goal is the static orb abby 1 shot build, i want to abuse it before it gets nerfed, but im currently too low level to use the required gear

[turbid dome]

yeah i checked

[strange needle]

How much mana you have

[strange needle]

Don't need bis farm lightless dungeon for helmet 2-3 lo if possible plus 4 static affix more important than mana but t7 mana useful too for your clearing ,I would say Frost claw 40 mana cost with 1k mana is doable ,if you get enigma, intelligence sticking is great for speed farming monos until you get your items,also harbinger are not important for use you can do them when you are stronger,no need to rush ,10 more passives would be big help for you

[turbid dome]

90 int and 902 mana

i lost a lot of int, almost 30 points, equipping uniques over exalteds

[strange needle]

Exalted are more important than uniques until bis uniques

4 affixes are very strong

@turbid dome you should be able to clear monoswith your stats by using a frostclaw, that is in the guide for static orb frostclaw ,get the 40 mana cost and the passive for static charge ,I am pretty sure you can apply 25 stacks with one cast of frostclaw and all mobs die instantly,focus for mana,and flame ward for tsnkiness,

[turbid dome]

current mana cost is 41.8

[strange needle]

That's perfect

[turbid dome]

you mean the passive from prismatic helmet?

[strange needle]

This one

[strange needle]

This one on the mage passive tree mandatory

Please get a unique named enigma and get as much intelligence exalted for now,you will destroy monos

[turbid dome]

alrady have 4 points in it

i have 2 enigmas, one has 2 resist affixes the other has +crit multi and void resist

[warped crow]

so sus that your fire and cold skills can plant electric spark charges owo

[strange needle]

Arcane current says if skill cost 40 mana it applies spark charge, doesn't need lightning conversion 🥳,mage tree is quite good ngl ,first mage build and it's 😍.

[strange needle]

Crit multi is the best one,anyway grind levels and use exalted if your uniques are 0 lp , with nemesis sistem you can get your bis uniques more comfortably.

[turbid dome]

I'm having trouble getting the right unique lol this is a grind for sure

[warped crow]

before they nerf it they should tie it to lighting skills owo

[turbid dome]

i just got a 4lp volatile ice, which i saw the frostclaw pure build uses

why does it use it? its an acid flask item...

[strange needle]

The chest and boots are a pain to farm 😂 ,too big range in the chest mana and spell damage

[strange needle]

Even maybe cause it has frostbite chance idk enigma is way better though

[strange needle]

It's not a bug ,but hey even if the do frostclaw can be lightning too so no biggie

[warped crow]

i didnt call it a bug

i just said it was weird xD

im ok with it applying to lightning frostclaw owo or partial lightning fireball (it doesnt work with fireball sadge you can only get 39 mana cost)

[turbid dome]

damn

followed it up with 3lp doublet of onos tull

lfg

[strange needle]

Yeah I feel like it's right amount of weird like it doesn't work on every skill for the class and it's very good in some. I wish old sentinel would have something like that for someone like me who started on 1.0 all the mastery feel lackluster even though void knight is cool 😎.

[warped crow]

we need more ways to manipulate mp costs across all skills lowkey

how does marksman get that but not sorc owo

[turbid dome]

now a 3 lp melvern's writ im on fire rn wtf

[strange needle]

I really want to try static orb with this base exalted,with t7 mana and t5 mana,and max implicit for mana cost I have one but it's not min maxed,

[warped crow]

lol

[turbid dome]

@strange needle https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oyzDYbYA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 80

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (67) / Runemaster (6)

General:

▸ Health: 1,144, Regen: 26.69/s
▸ Mana: 937.77, Regen: 16.89/s
▸ Ward Retention: 368%, Regen: 149/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 17 Dex / 92 Int / 13 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 178% / 78% / 146% / 162% / 196% / 77% / 77%
▸ EHP: 1,610 / 1,610 / 1,610 / 1,799 / 1,610 / 1,610 / 1,610

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 30%, Threshold: 229
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (79)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,086)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Fragment of the Enigma
• Blood of the Exile
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Omnis
• Stormcarved Testament

[turbid dome]

any advice?

[strange needle]

Are you cof or mg by any chance?

[turbid dome]

cof

[strange needle]

The red ring and the Omni I would drop for an exalted mana t7 or the unique amulted rayeh drops it's beast for static orb try get t7 affix on it and you are bis amulted ,1lp or even 2 is doable,the red ring needs to go you are over capped resist by a lot and you don't meet the stat requirements for DR on the ring,so swap for exalted for the moment t7 intelligence until you get unique ring phantom embrace or the ring julra drop and try to slam t7 intelligence on any of those and spell damage t5 if possible you know rng 😅.

This is good as it's really easy to get 2-3 lps and slam t7 mana,

[turbid dome]

confluence of fate? i literally just got level 81 and equipped it

my slam was for flat hp tho =/

[strange needle]

The orian eye amulted with a good man roll could be awesome but that is a pipe dream ,so I would grind rayeh for confluence of fate as long you get mana and maybe shred armor cause frostclaw is beast at applying stacks

[turbid dome]

wait why am i using confluence of fate, wtf does it do for my build? plus fire and void?

oh ORIENS eye

why am i using confluence wtf does this do for the build?

[strange needle]

Cause any flat damage still add damage to your skill

[turbid dome]

its only adding elements im not using...?

[strange needle]

So confluence adds like idk possibly 54 flat damage which is almost as much as a weapon

[turbid dome]

it adds void necrotic and fire damage, flat damage

how does that help any of my spells?

[strange needle]

Doesn't matter for example let's say your static does 350k damage with amulet t7 mana ,confluence with t7 mana will make static so idk 650 k damage

[turbid dome]

okay so

[strange needle]

Cause your skill gains those flat and it uses them as well it just won't scale with you know lightning increase damage, basically static has idk 20 base lightning,with confluence it is now 20 ligh,18void,18fire,18necro

[turbid dome]

it ADDS the damage to my attacks?

so if it adds +10 void, my frost claw does x cold and 10 void?

it doesnt stricly improve what was already there?

[strange needle]

Like your wand is necro wand so you have 66 flat necro

Wrongwarp t7 mana prefix is what you want or even crit multi t7 I prefer mana though,this is the weapon you want to get lp1-2doable.

[turbid dome]

i have TERRIBLE luck with slams

even when i get t7 mana i have a 1 in 200 chance of suceeding on a 2lp slam

and i only have 1 lp wrongwarps

[strange needle]

@turbid dome before obtaining wrongwarp I was using this exalted cause implicit mana

Crystal very good implicit for you

[warped crow]

whew someone mentioned that wand xD

[turbid dome]

just swapped to a crystal wand that i found thats got identical stats to the necrotic wand

[warped crow]

peak

[strange needle]

@turbid dome just don't commit to soon to uniques I prefer exalted that are min maxed ,that a unique that's 0 lp or has a bad slam,you just need to play the game do prophecies and you will get mostly what you want,asap replace amulet and red ring fo exalted or discussed other uniques,you wand is fine ,Crystal wand is awesome,your boots are 👍,relic needs exact same but with mana t7 ty god lagon it's a one shot latter on so can skip mechanics,helmet try grind prismatic gaze or even the helmet from lightless arbor dungeon

[turbid dome]

bro lagon kicks my ass

[warped crow]

but uniques are more fun depending on the unique

[strange needle]

Until you have unstable core with t5-7 mana affix,this exalted is very strong with int t7 or mana t7.

[strange needle]

@turbid dome I would get this exalted belts with t7 crit damage reduction

[warped crow]

fair owo that belt also peak

[strange needle]

Before the belt stranded of souls I even still use praetorian cause big armor

[warped crow]

i almost never not use that belt unless i wanna just toss the meteor belt on my meteor build owo

[turbid dome]

which of the two?

[strange needle]

Praetorian

[turbid dome]

what do you think the next unique i grind for should be?

this is my updated character

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qd5NMryB

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 81

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (67) / Runemaster (6)

General:

▸ Health: 1,261, Regen: 25.86/s
▸ Mana: 1,033.63, Regen: 14.89/s
▸ Ward Retention: 336%, Regen: 138/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 17 Dex / 84 Int / 13 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 104% / 63% / 146% / 152% / 238% / 69% / 61%
▸ EHP: 1,734 / 1,709 / 1,921 / 2,250 / 1,704 / 1,601 / 1,679

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 30%, Threshold: 252
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (91)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 36% (1,683)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 26%

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Fragment of the Enigma
• Blood of the Exile
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• The Confluence of Fate
• Stormcarved Testament

[strange needle]

Helmet peak is really easy to get, gaze is another best in slot or the best ,peak allows me to get t7 static orb and mana prefix really easy with a 3 lp slam and your DPS should sky rocket,also try grind rings for phantom embrace I think 2 crit base chance and potentially 8 % increase mana is quite good,more importantly the red ring you use unequip use exalted with t7 inte as soon as you can,only red ring with t7 intelligence could be worth, we want to power spikes you in every slot in a fast way ,before min maxed

[turbid dome]

the odds of me getting t7 mana on red ring are so low i dont even want to think about it

phantom embrace?

so i should grind for prismatic gaze next?

[strange needle]

Depends if you get prismatic you can get closer to 100 crit chance I dont have that, cause I would need spell crit t7 on my wand or my enigma,I use peak and I have 66 crit chance with peak and phantom.

[strange needle]

Either is fine you have choices at least grind for a peak helmet for the time being very good until prismatic cause that one is harder to slam

[strange needle]

Drop arcane ascendency skill and use flame ward convert to lightning and you get 250 increase spell and 10 flat damage for static orb and you also spec into taking less damage from hits and elemental damage ,very good quality of like I discovered that at 1000 corruption I was dying and this solves it pretty much.

Btw I ain't an expert I just followed frozen sentinel build,then tweak some stuff to what I needed and that's it if you look his static frostclaw s tier video,he can explain way better than me.

[strange needle]

Also idol grinding it's very good,you want to look for lunar stronghold combination the dream is 2 idols with 27 mana and 8%mana increase,mana increase is more important than the flat mana. the other 2 big idol prefix we don't care we need 12 increase mana max roll on suffix.then rest you are going to use small lagonian idol of the storm which rolls 7 mana max and 8% lightning damage increase,the flat mana in this case is more important so a 7 mana 3% lightning is better than a 4 mana 8% lightning.

[turbid dome]

i just found an idol thats 10% armor/mana XD

i have 2 of those on

[turbid dome]

arcane ascendance does SO MUCH damage tho...

just slammed a t6 mana onto an enigma

[strange needle]

That's perfect also when you get stronger you need to grind lagon for mana blessing closer to 90 better,and rayeh for crit multi blessing closer to 40.@turbid dome ,reign of dragons is blessing of all resist 20,then heorot is armor percent to 55%,and reign of fire is armor. The most important right now for you is to get all resist and mana ,then take your time with others.

[turbid dome]

reign of dragons next, got it

[strange needle]

@turbid dome actually it does less damage than flamward I compared it's 175 spell,the 24 more modifier is hard to always pull and 50 cast speed but static doesn't care about cast speed that much , flame ward is 250 spell and 10 flat and you can move

Plus you don't die when you use flame ward insane dr

@turbid dome this what you want 2 of them the most important part is the percent increase max roll ,they are called lunar grand idol strong hold,in your loot filter I would highlight lunar stronghold affixes.

[turbid dome]

do i need to rework any of my passive points to make this change?

[turbid dome]

i have 2 of these both at the max, but the +mana is something else

[strange needle]

@turbid dome no just level skill normally

@turbid dome yeah the mana and max roll increase it's so hard to get but so worth it ,you can also use lightning skill crit chance up to 40 prefix and increase mana 8%.

Anyway if I can help just tag me ,I personally really love this build sometimes you like a skill or class but the scaling is not great ,this one scales very hard.

[turbid dome]

appreciate it dude ill definitely have questions going forward

my goal is to 1 shot abby

[turbid dome]

actually what nodes do i take for flame ward

@strange needlewith the build im using now do i need to "prime" static orb by using frost claw first? or do i just spam static orb against bosses

[strange needle]

@turbid dome this ones

[turbid dome]

bet

[strange needle]

@turbid dome what I do is I use frostclaw cause I have shred armor I get over 100 stacks and then full ham static orb so it does more damage,I have 90 shred armor only and in like 5 seconds aberroth has 200 stacks of minus armor xd ,

[turbid dome]

i only have 36% chance to shred lol

is 1lp wrongwarp worth using?

[strange needle]

@turbid dome frostclaw is busted just get t5 on amulet minimum and it applies so many ,love that skill

[strange needle]

If you can slam mana prefix

[strange needle]

Actually it is you get massive buff so swal

[turbid dome]

alright bet

should i just hope that i get lucky on the slam

[strange needle]

Unbuffed

[radiant vessel]

How high can you get it if you beef up all the way?

[strange needle]

Like damage wise ?

[radiant vessel]

Yeah just sheet wise

Not actual dps

[strange needle]

3.5 mill with 70 ish spell crit in dps tool

[radiant vessel]

Noice

[strange needle]

@radiant vessel with crown and 87 crit,it's 7.7 mill for now

[radiant vessel]

You could for sure reach 10 mil+ if you had capped crit, neato

[vocal crow]

I have snowballing perk on my flame rush but still not tagged as frost.. is this a known bug?

[turbid dome]

@strange needlehttps://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QevVyypB

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 85

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (67) / Runemaster (11)

General:

▸ Health: 1,246, Regen: 26.7/s
▸ Mana: 1,283.29, Regen: 15.85/s
▸ Ward Retention: 358%, Regen: 162/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 17 Dex / 89 Int / 13 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 124% / 91% / 182% / 172% / 205% / 85% / 134%
▸ EHP: 1,801 / 1,801 / 1,801 / 2,050 / 1,801 / 1,801 / 1,801

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 30%, Threshold: 249
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (79)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 32% (1,386)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (20)
• Static Orb (21)
• Teleport (20)
• Focus (20)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Wrongwarp
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Blood of the Exile
• Red Ring of Atlaria
• Stormcarved Testament

[turbid dome]

current build upgraded from yesterday

im trying to slam a few of my uniques, at what point should i 1 shot t4 julra?

like what's the expected breakpoint for this build to do that

[strange needle]

Realistic mana break point with bis gear one rotation is 1.8 k mana,level 100,build looks good again try to replace red ring when you can .

With my 2.3k mana she dies before I dip below 1 k

[strange needle]

Your main helmet , when you get plus skill to static use that with more priority than mana or intelligence.

[turbid dome]

oh i have a t7 + static orb helmet

[turbid dome]

im not seeing a huge number of useful looking things to put points 23-25 into

also what do i replace red ring with?

[strange needle]

There are you want the 100 multiplier crit on the skill or the more damage to shocked ,I personally like multi better

[strange needle]

Exalted !!!,until you get the phantom embrace ring with 2 crit chance roll and min 6-8 increase mana roll and then slam t7 intelligence with spell damage or a resistance you may need

[turbid dome]

whats phantom embrace? i looked it up and cant find it

also i have a fractured crown with t6 phys resist slam and decent rolls, should i be using it?

[strange needle]

My bad phantom grip

[turbid dome]

OH

yeah i have those

what does that do for my build?

[strange needle]

Red ring is making you weaker right now even exalted is better for you now

It gives increase mana and 2 crit chance which is very good

This is what you want as second ring and drops from julra easy to farm while slamming,again most important stat to slam even a 1 lp is intelligence,that alone gives you 45 intelligence on a ring ,when you evade or teleport

[strange needle]

Take one point in shock chance on the static orb skill and put into the mana charged passive,you are missing big damage from that,

[turbid dome]

mana charged passive under the passives tree? which classes branch?

[strange needle]

Static orb tree

It's at 4 and should be 5 ,so more mana cost and more damage

[strange needle]

Take 2 points from that and put into over charge I can get basically 1k extra mana from channelling focus before boss one shot.

This is focus skill

[turbid dome]

got it, its maxed now

[strange needle]

Also I run this it's very good to have 8 points cause we get massive ward decay threshold scaling from our intelligence,so I have over 4k ward at all times . You can find in sorcerer tree

[turbid dome]

got it

[strange needle]

This is very good for close to 95 crit damage reduction,it is in runemaster passive tree.

[turbid dome]

oh yeah thats very solid wow

[strange needle]

If you need passive points and I think you will to max the other skill I showed you ,you can take 3 points from that and put into arcane insight in the sorcerer tree .

[turbid dome]

wait REMOVE from calculated destruction?

that seems very strong

[strange needle]

When you get praetorian belt with t7 crit damage reduction which goes up to 60 reduction,you basically take no damage from crits,as you will have 96 crit reduction,I have 94 and it's solid to survive .

[strange needle]

You only need 5 points rest is a waste ,and you loose nothing you give up 3 int and you gain 3 int so it's same result.

[turbid dome]

ah, gotcha

[strange needle]

The special effect applies to every inte you have so basically 100 int is like 300% crit chance which is op

[turbid dome]

yeah thats insane

[strange needle]

This is insane chest but farming is a bit of pain,if you ever get close max roll on mana nd increase with T7 slam mana your build damage goes up like 300k on tooltip ,plus extra skill levels always good

[turbid dome]

i can barely get these to drop period

i guess i grind for one with 2 lp?

[strange needle]

I gotten 2 only with 2 lp ,you only need 1 lp mana slam but it's very important that you roll high on it's mana affixes the elemental damage ain't that important

[strange needle]

My last tip would be try to max that when you have extra levels it's big damage at 4 levels in the static orb tree,your build is looking better and better keep it rolling 👌

[strange needle]

This is quite good ,with easy 2-3 lp if you slam t7 mana, until your other amulet confluence of fate t7 mana is ready it's a good placeholder.

[turbid dome]

I have 3 with 3 lp lol

[turbid dome]

Also I feel like me ever getting Confluence of Fate with t7 Mana is extraordinarily unrealistic

[strange needle]

Not at all you will get plenty 1 lps,and 2 lps are doable ,you only need t7 mana and rayeh drops quite often,so you will get it no worries. The amount of damage it gives to all your skills is huge so it's worth the grind later on.just use strong mind in the meantime.

[scenic sail]

I had a problem getting confluence in Cof last season, killed ryah over 30 times and it either didn't drop or it had no LP and didn't get it from the nemesis, it was annoying, but I slammed a great 3 LP strong mind and just used that the whole time, it was a good enough replacement, though confluence is what I wear if I can get a good 2 LP one

[turbid dome]

Should I just slam the amulet that I'm using now into a lp3 strong mind

[strange needle]

If you can yeah ,a t7 mana amulet is better though,you
Want t7 mana and t5 shred armor if you get crit multi great but those 2 scale better your damage.

[strange needle]

Honestly with how many 3 lp strong mind you find by playing I would slam your amulet!!.

[turbid dome]

I have more 3lp strong minds than I do amulets to slam into them lolol

[strange needle]

😂 haha,oh yes exalted pain

[turbid dome]

just got a 4th 3lp strong mind

what is this

[strange needle]

Game pointing you to do something with it lol

[turbid dome]

my first slam dropped my t7 crit multi

gave me the 3 tier 5s

im mad

[strange needle]

One of the things I think LE does bad is the slamming process rng 3 lps should feel better than 1s or 2s!!!

[turbid dome]

when i fight t4 juulra, havent managed to kill her yet, should i swap to shattered crown or just keep my + static orb

[strange needle]

What helmet you using exalted? If so go get peak mountain it's almost 300 crit chance needed for static and frost claw .shattered crown it's best for bossing I just don't needed it,also people swap enigma for the skull that gives 6 crit chance but swapping can f your static tree skill so you need to always leave one skill point unused from every lightning skill you use .

[turbid dome]

the skull helmet that necros use?

[turbid dome]

decaying?

[strange needle]

How much crit chance you have? You want peak ,or gaze , Crown is bad for monos cause no ward

[turbid dome]

currently im using an exalted with t6 static orb

[strange needle]

This only want plus 4 static and then mana if possible,2 lp is fairly common,

[turbid dome]

i HAVE a crown but im not using it

i have a prismatic gaze with a single t5 static orb

[strange needle]

Use the gaze

[turbid dome]

i have a single peak of the mountain with 2 lp

i had like 4 but i grinded out a falconer that used them

[strange needle]

What roll of crit it is 2-3 or 4

[turbid dome]

+2

minimum roll

only prismatic helmet i have

should i go grind more?

[strange needle]

Bah prismatic is very bis for capping crit,but peak is 2 best so up to you.

[turbid dome]

id have to slam the peak

[strange needle]

You can do t3 julra diff not that high until you are stronger to kill t4 .

[strange needle]

Peak slamming is easier cause 2 - 3 lp are pretty common.

[strange needle]

Anyway for the time being use gaze,you really want gaze with max roll 4 crit very important

[turbid dome]

ill spend the afternoon grinding helmet prophecies i guess

[strange needle]

Yeah keep all plus 0 gaze that are 3-4 crit with a filter and use them on nemesis

[turbid dome]

yeah i do that already lol

its how i put affixes on my red rings and my omnis

ive still only ever had 1 omnis

[strange needle]

2 crit I don't pick only mid or max

[turbid dome]

i was at 850 corruption on a falconer and only ever dropped once

[strange needle]

With prophecies you will get quite a few but 2 lp uff I only get minimum rolls 🥹

[turbid dome]

dude

i just got 3 identical prophecies, 10x unique helemets for a 110 cor kill of the undead dragon boss

i got 4 prismatic gazes in one shot with 3 of them max crit roll

[strange needle]

Hoho someone eating good today 👌

[turbid dome]

6 prismatic helmets that have +4% crit lol

all 0 lp

[strange needle]

Food for the nemesis (blood god)

[turbid dome]

t4 juulra kicking my ass

takes no damage and 1 shots me with every ability

[strange needle]

You don't need to do t4 julra for slams ,t3 is mostly fine until need the chest or relic,you need better gear to smoke her that's normal.

[turbid dome]

trying to do wrongwarp slam

[turbid dome]

@strange needle if I'm grinding helmets with t7 static orb do I want the blessing for helmet shards or class specific shards

[strange needle]

You don't need to do prophecies on the left side for shards,but generally shard from breaking bricked helmets or t5 or below helmet static orb affix(when your exalted has t7 health and t2 static orb you can break it for shards)and the blessing that gives more class specific affix is also good .class specific shard prophecy is better probably if you need badly shard.

[turbid dome]

Should I just slam t7 mana t5 static orb?

[strange needle]

That's also good,either one inverted is great

[turbid dome]

I have a single helmet with t6 static orb and at this point I've had it for so long I'm kind of attached to it

[verbal cloak]

Que set es mejor para Wizard de energía?

[turbid dome]

sigh

this entire time i was using prismatic

without reading it

it procs when i use a skill that costs less than 40 mana

frostclaw costs 41

44*

ive never proc'd it.

i did just slam t7 mana onto a peak tho

[strange needle]

We don't care about that effect, frostclaw needs to be 40 mana cost or higher for build to work,we only care about flat crit ,and then some less elemental damage taken.

[turbid dome]

oh.

[warped crow]

hey at least the base crit chance to spells is good

[radiant vessel]

Seems like you've got the wrong game? Also English only please ^^

[ruby bridge]

making a lightning firebrand/surge build. would chronostasis be a good offhand to my sceptre?

i know thats not a lot to work with lol but just broadly speaking

[nimble shoal]

imo you'll probably be better off having your ward there to keep you alive

[ruby bridge]

good point

[modest heath]

Am I misunderstanding the math here or is it because of the no-leech clause on Peak? As far as I can see Prismatic gives you at most 4% flat and "40% increased" while peak gives a whopping 290% increased. On my lvl 80 sorc that's the diff between 62% crit chance (76% spell) and 50% (67% spell).

[strange needle]

Honestly people have done the math ,flat crit is just much better , increase crit you can get on catalyst,weapon,relic,rings, amulet,gloves,flat is either from gaze,the new ring 2 flat aint much,and the crystal skull if you want to crit cap you go for gaze ,now maybe you are ok at 70 ish crit,I know I am gaze also has some dr, mage have it easier they have a free peak cause of intelligence stacking.much smarter people than me can explain it better like frozen sentinel.

[modest heath]

That's just it though. Flat crit isn't better in this particular case because your 290% increased is just that much higher than 4% flat

you can see your crit rate right on the character screen and it's substantially higher for me at least with peak

[strange needle]

Do you also use any other sort of flat in your build

[modest heath]

I've got phantom grip

And dragorath's claw

[strange needle]

Ah so you have flat crit dagger take it off say same thing

[strange needle]

I run the wand that gives you hard scaling

[modest heath]

Something else I just realised is with the passives I've got doubling their crit chance improvements for lightning spells I don't think I actually need 100% crit chance to be effectively 100%.

[strange needle]

Me neither but at 1500 corr let's say crit cap is kinda nice 👍.but hey around 70 ish does the work.

[undone cape]

hi everyone
i have a problem with weapon that i could use.
i play a spellblade with firebrand. I am considering to equip for first hand 3 weapons and i don't know what will be the best:
Hakar's Phoenix, Renegade's Will or Traitor's Tongue...
for second hand is obvius: Eye of Reen
What i noticed is a stats +fire dmg and % attack speed for legends craft is best for now. Should i go with that stats all the time?

[late garnet]

Heyoo. In Borderlands 3, I can take a save file, copy it, give it a unique name, drop it back in the save folder, and there's an exact copy of a character for me to mess with. I can re-spec, re-arm, and play completely differently, WITHOUT having to grind the story again. Is something like this possible in Last Epoch? Will a copied save show up like a playable character? I'm not at my PC right now to test this, otherwise I would answer it for myself. Thanks for any insight, peeps!

[late garnet]

Or, could an online character be copied and used offline in the same way? I just do NOT want to start completely over to try a different playstyle.

[nimble shoal]

There is a way to do it in offline mode, yeah. I'm not sure if it's quite as simple as copy/paste, though, might be. No way to copy from online mode.

[ruby bridge]

Surge doesn't have it innately in its tree, is there any other way to raise its mana cost/

?

[soft flame]

does the celarcast proc from teleport ruin the sorcerer mastery because it makes the spell cost no mana or is it just the base cost of the spell

[warped crow]

i think its how much it costs ... not how much it spends

actually wait no

[warped crow]

it does work ... mana tunnel specifically says it refunds the cost of the skill

not set it to 0

[soft flame]

okay! thank you!

[warped crow]

why does never late not activate when you cast invocation from flame rush (or anything from flame rush for that matter) ... cuz its definately not that its a trigger cuz hydrahedrons spawned with box of hydrae still triggers it?

[harsh abyss]

My guess would be because it's cast while you're still channeling flame rush or something.

[limber peak]

can someone help me with two T4 Sanctum Runs ? btw i only have one key too would really apreciate it

[turbid dome]

ayoooo

nemesis gave me a shattered crown with t6 mana!

[warped crow]

op

[turbid dome]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QDWL57GA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 92

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (72) / Runemaster (13)

General:

▸ Health: 985, Regen: 25.11/s
▸ Mana: 1,573.65, Regen: 21.44/s
▸ Ward Retention: 402%, Regen: 207/s
▸ Attributes: 13 Str / 11 Dex / 89 Int / 7 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 103% / 89% / 157% / 120% / 40% / 108% / 106%
▸ EHP: 1,388 / 1,388 / 1,388 / 1,541 / 1,028 / 1,388 / 1,388

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 38%, Threshold: 197
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (44)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (1,136)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

• Fractured Crown
• Unstable Core
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Strands of Souls
• Blood of the Exile
• Strong Mind
• Stormcarved Testament

[turbid dome]

@strange needle

this is what i have so far

im currently trying to grind a 2-3 lp enigma

its not going well

what do you think i should work on most immediately

[strange needle]

I had 5 ,3 lps and the double affix I need took me 4 to slam🤮, currently same amulet but t7 mana,and shred armor t5 ,crit multi t5 is wanted as well . !!!Also your biggest powerspike is gonna come from weapon cronowarp you need t7 mana or t7 crit multi,a 2-3 lp with mana t7 and t5 crit or vice versa is amazing,your clear speed and mobility is gonna go through the roof with it.

[strange needle]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BO5VYwYA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,117, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 2,392.77, Regen: 25.6/s
▸ Ward Retention: 420%, Regen: 275/s
▸ Attributes: 5 Str / 5 Dex / 111 Int / 11 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 71% / 84% / 109% / 98% / 96% / 112% / 69%
▸ EHP: 1,463 / 1,627 / 1,627 / 1,941 / 1,545 / 1,545 / 1,535

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 223
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (20)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,169)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Cold / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Frost Claw (21)
• Teleport (20)
• Focus (20)
• Static Orb (26)
• Flame Ward (22)

Used unique items:

• Peak of the Mountain
• Unstable Core
• Wrongwarp
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Last Steps of the Living
• Phantom Grip
• Julra's Stardial
• The Confluence of Fate
• Stormcarved Testament

[strange needle]

This to give you some idea of gear to aspire and work towards. Most time best affixes are mana and crit multi . Intelligence can substitute t5 mana in some cases.

[turbid dome]

which gear that i have now is the most important to replace?

also why phantom grip?

wouldnt an exalted ring be way better?

[strange needle]

Wand asap but amulet should be easy to slam as well with t7 mana

[strange needle]

Gives 2 flat crit and potentially 8 %increase mana which is quite a bit,some people like midnight flame ring I prefer this

[turbid dome]

i have a wrongwarp with no slams, use that over my wand?

[strange needle]

Julra I got lucky but even t7 intelligence gives me a whooping 48 intelligence and like 300 increase spell damage for 4 seconds when I use teleport or roll I think ,with a downtime of 8 seconds

[strange needle]

Nope need mana or crit before change , Crystal wand is very 👍.

[turbid dome]

juulra isnt dropping any 2lp rings fo rme

[strange needle]

It's rare but you only need a 1 lp intelligence t7 slam ,the spell damage extra t5 is bonus.just grab high rolls 1 lp julra and try to slam int

[turbid dome]

im never going to slam it

my slams are allergic to 7lp, i brick every time

im 0/12

im like 1/5 on the 50/50 2lp

[strange needle]

Also fractured is op vs bosses but for monos use other helm.

[strange needle]

We have all been there no worries just keep slamming something will stick in someday.

[turbid dome]

bout to try fractured for 350 cor lagon

yeah this helmet does LESS damge than my +2 static orb pris

a LOT less

[strange needle]

Should go well btw you need crit chance items yours is very low ,above 60 is recommended to one shot cause if not you ain't cutting,so 2 helmets help with that,and ring as well phantom.

[strange needle]

Because that one gives you like 4 flat crit and 40 increase chance that's why ,you are criting more.

[turbid dome]

2 helmets?

[strange needle]

Gaze prismatic or peak,I use peak

[turbid dome]

oh hell dude

@strange needlei had a t7 slam 3lp phantom ring on my falconer that i havent played in months

t7 int, t5 affinity, t5 necro resist

[strange needle]

Sounds all set to me 😁

[turbid dome]

only 1% crit chance tho =/

[strange needle]

Will do for now ,how much mana!

[turbid dome]

equpping the ring gives me 1300

7% mana on the ring

[strange needle]

Good roll on mana . The more flat you stack the better those increase will be.

[turbid dome]

should i swap unstable core for an exalted until i get 2lp?

[strange needle]

No ,you really need 1 lp unstable with almost perfect mana roll ,if also almost perfect increase then you are set forever,and then slam a t7 mana on it , intelligence is good to have for monos.

[turbid dome]

sigh. just keep slamming i guess.

[strange needle]

You don't know how many,0,1 lps I have and how many went into nemesis 😂 until I got that slam .

[turbid dome]

nemesis just blessed me with a 2lp wrongwarp

that means i have a full 10% chance to slam my T7 into it!

[strange needle]

If you get it post it 👍GL

[turbid dome]

@strange needle i pulled the sickest boots I've seen off nemesis hold on

[turbid dome]

I DID IT!!!

I SLAMMED t7 MANA t5 CRIT CHANCE ONTO MY WRONGWARP

[strange needle]

Good job ,going to zoom all monos now.

[turbid dome]

Is there a better weapon for bossing?

[strange needle]

No,the marina necro wand maybe at max roll has plenty more flat damage but I wouldn't change weapons no need for it. Cronowarp is bis for build the haste,and always 35 Ms and cast speed is bonkers all time up.remember per movement speed you get 3 % increase spell damage so like at around 150 you get 450% increase spell damage.

[turbid dome]

just got a 2lp marina and my second ever omnis

LETS GO

[strange needle]

Let's go indeed your gonna be one shorting by the weekend 😂

[turbid dome]

just got 4 lp fragment of enigma!!!!!!!

bro

i got a red ring

random

no joke

[harsh abyss]

Goddamn, you're getting ALL the luck

[strange needle]

Goddam ok so now that you have a guarantee badass slam don't slam any exalted wait for your prefered affixes and maxed tiers on the 4 .homie hook a guy with that 🤞🍀.

[turbid dome]

i slammed t7 mana and 3 t5 including crit multi

[warped crow]

sad

gotta save the 4 lp for the god roll

[turbid dome]

this was close!

it had all 4 affixes i wanted

[warped crow]

all t5 except for the purple mod?

o wait

nah you good lel

[turbid dome]

Yes lol

127, 45's. All four fixes I wanted.

T7 mana and 3 t5

[warped crow]

op

[strange needle]

Good job big power spikes.

[sacred mortar]

If I were to try a void build with dark shroud of cinders + lament of the lost refuge, how far could I push it?

Thinking maybe runemaster for flame rush with magma starter, but idk yet

[queen mason]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/olzG0O6Q
This is data with exalted helmet
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BxzbZPZA
This is data with prismatic gaze

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 67

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (25) / Runemaster (55)

General:

▸ Health: 796, Regen: 15.38/s
▸ Mana: 322.61, Regen: 8.96/s
▸ Ward Retention: 400%, Regen: 44/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 94 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 73% / 100% / 91% / 108% / 70% / 123% / 93%
▸ EHP: 1,077 / 1,100 / 1,100 / 1,183 / 1,044 / 1,100 / 1,100

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 159
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (63)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 20% (464)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 28%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (20)
• Flame Ward (20)
• Runic Invocation (20)
• Focus (20)
• Flame Rush (20)

Used unique items:

• Trinity of Flames

Runemaster, Level 67

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (25) / Runemaster (55)

General:

▸ Health: 796, Regen: 15.38/s
▸ Mana: 466.61, Regen: 8.96/s
▸ Ward Retention: 372%, Regen: 60/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 87 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 73% / 100% / 91% / 108% / 17% / 123% / 93%
▸ EHP: 1,136 / 1,161 / 1,161 / 1,153 / 664 / 1,082 / 1,082

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 159
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (63)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 18% (373)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 28%

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (20)
• Flame Ward (20)
• Runic Invocation (20)
• Focus (20)
• Flame Rush (20)

Used unique items:

• Prismatic Gaze
• Trinity of Flames

[nimble shoal]

These show the exact values from your character, so you can see what you might have missed by mousing over your spell crit chance. It does look like there's a minor bug where it's calculating your prismatic gaze as +2.33% crit instead of +2%, so that's a little higher than your in game value, but otherwise it matches up.

[queen mason]

then it's still 35% only but in-game is 37%

[merry veldt]

I can still follow the 37 as said in the other channel before.

The 244% in your calc is a wrong number

I see 36,89% total spell crit, rounded to 37

[queen mason]

...Do the crit chance for spells on le tool is combine crit chance I get from my gears, passive trees and spell crit chance?

[merry veldt]

Sorry I don't understand the question, can you phrase it different?

[queen mason]

oh wait maybe I forget crit chance from my ring

Let me calculate them again

[merry veldt]

You have 289% increased generic crit chance, 138% spell crit, what sums up to 427%.

Base crit is 7%.

7% × 527% = 36,89% which is rounded to 37

aaand there we are back to calculators on the mobile 😄

[queen mason]

ohhh I get where my mistake is. Forget crit chance from passive trees and my ring entirely hhhhh

Now I know why Mike is confused why I'm confused

I make my questions more complex again...Sigh (hard to change the logic)

[wind pond]

have somone give a try to the updated fire aura things ?

[merry veldt]

That is funny, I solved the riddle and Mike get's a "thanks" 😄

[wind pond]

have anyone tryed if the amulet effect proc in this ? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BEDlPLpQ

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Spellblade (82) / Runemaster (11)

General:

▸ Health: 1,022, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 109.51, Regen: 12.96/s
▸ Ward Retention: 250%, Regen: 92/s
▸ Attributes: 13 Str / 35 Dex / 50 Int / 3 Att / 15 Vit
▸ Resistances: 96% / 75% / 109% / 12% / 12% / 27% / 27%
▸ EHP: 1,309 / 1,309 / 1,309 / 863 / 803 / 884 / 884

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 30%, Threshold: 204
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (140)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 20% (744)

Damage Types:

▸ Cold, Fire, Lightning / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Mana Strike (20)
• Frost Claw (20)
• Shatter Strike (21)
• Elemental Nova (24)
• Lightning Blast (20)

Used unique items:

• Dragorath's Claw
• Palarus's Sacred Light
• Crest of Unity
• Dark Shroud of Cinders
• Diothaen's Bloody Nib
• Sunwreath
• Siphon of Anguish
• Eye of Storms
• Shattered Chains
• Maehlin's Hubris
• Blood of the Exile

[nimble shoal]

The maelstrom proc? Yes you can proc any skill if an item says so, even if it's from another class. It'll be pretty near useless in this case, though.

[harsh abyss]

With the amulet as your only way to get maelstroms, you'll cap out at 2 or MAYBE 3 stacks, which isn't incredible

And scaling the damage of the maelstroms is all cold, so not worth it

[knotty skiff]

FYI: The issue with calculations for rolled value for unique mods is fixed now in LE Tools, so it shows 2% crit chance for prismatic gaze and 37% crit chance total as it's supposed to be.

[strange needle]

So umm kinda have a dilemma what's better for static ,they really need to do a damage tool in this game ,dummies don't cut it.

[nimble shoal]

Idk what build you are running, but the dummies are definitely workable.
The alternative is doing the math unless it's obvious which is better, since it may depend on your other gear.

[strange needle]

Static orb they do similar damage ,crit multi probably better for monos only loose 100 mana still at 2.293. yeah dummies are useful,but when doing similar damage they don't do much.

[rapid hinge]

this should be easy enough to math out

[nimble shoal]

If the damage difference is not noticeable, imo pick whichever has more utility. If you want to be sure you have bigger numbers, you can still do that on the dummy, it just takes slightly more effort when the numbers are close-ish.

Damage variance is +/-20%, just do some hits and record the highest number you see, swap gear and do it again

[floral shoal]

Is elemental nova a good ability for runemaster? I was looking to try a build with all 3 elements and nova seems to synergyse with that idea

[harsh abyss]

Ele Nova struggles in general because it doesn't have a lot of "More" multipliers. So it doesn't scale damage to super crazy numbers and it makes it a little lackluster late game. You can scale it pretty high with Unstable Core + Crest of Unity but there aren't a lot of solid variety builds for it.

The best one I've come up with is a channeled Nova using Crest of Unity, using as much mana cost reduction as you can get, then scaling your mana regen to be able to maintain mana while channeling.

[modest heath]

Wizard feels shoehorned into lightning or fire in general sadly.

[rapid hinge]

im not sure about this

elem nova actually has quite many "more" in it's tree alone

[harsh abyss]

🤷‍♀️ You'll have to let us know what you find. I know I've found it to be lackluster as a main skill

That said, I really like it as a supporting skill. The Teleport nodes that make you cast it 3 times per teleport are excellent. Scale up the Nova AOE and you clear all the small minions in a screen and a half.

[rapid hinge]

Shatter Nova alone is around 120% more

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, and one of them is actually really good - but it falls flat because in the end it's a 100% damage effectiveness skill at base

[harsh abyss]

It's actually 285% more, because all those pieces of shatter nova stack together multiplicatively

[rapid hinge]

yes i counted that in already

for 3 reliable debuff(ignite,shock,chill)

its 30% 3 times

[harsh abyss]

To make ele nova shine, you've gotta have like 10+ bonus points with it. I've never gotten that deep because the skill just doesn't feel good to use as a main skil

Sure, but then you've got things like Frost Claw which hits 5-25 times, Meteor which has an inherent 900% more modifier, etc

As a primary skill, it just doesn't feel as good as other things.

[rapid hinge]

agree, but it's not becuase it lacks "more"

but becuase as a spamming skill, it doesnt hit often enough

[harsh abyss]

It lacks enough "more" to make the base damage worth it

The way I like to do ele nova is pair it with teleport, go lightning and get the spark charge node. Then you teleport, cast nova 3 times, which applies 3 spark charges to everything it hits, which clears the screen

Probably my favorite leveling strategy, really.

[rapid hinge]

I use elem nova as supplement damage/ward gen on my FC nova build

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it's pretty lackluster as a main skill, but a great supporting skill

[rapid hinge]

can reliably get 20-25k ward on my arena run

the low DPS is actually a plus when u use it as ward gen

[harsh abyss]

Interesting, I'd never really thought about that aspect

[modest heath]

More. If you have multiple monitors you can teleport as far as your mouse cursor can go on the other monitors.

[spice wharf]

can anyone help me thats experienced in last epoch help with my lightning sorc survivability?

im lvl 97

[harsh abyss]

Totally depends on your build

Lightning Sorc could mean like... 15+ builds 😝

[spice wharf]

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

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 97

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (59) / Spellblade (31)

General:

▸ Health: 936, Regen: 19.58/s
▸ Mana: 523.19, Regen: 8.72/s
▸ Ward Retention: 440%, Regen: 68/s
▸ Attributes: 4 Str / 4 Dex / 104 Int / 10 Att / 4 Vit
▸ Resistances: 60% / 17% / 98% / 86% / 55% / 68% / 45%
▸ EHP: 1,053 / 766 / 1,211 / 1,318 / 1,009 / 1,131 / 931

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 187
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (85)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (915)
▸ Block Chance: 1%, Mitigation: 8% (46)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ Enchant Weapon (Passive)

Used skills:

• Mana Strike (22)
• Flame Ward (23)
• Meteor (28)
• Frost Claw (23)
• Enchant Weapon (22)

Used unique items:

• Vilatria's Storm Crown
• Vilatria's Downfall
• Harbinger of Stars
• Nihilis
• Stormcarved Testament

[harsh abyss]

Aha, a Vilatria build, my favorite

[spice wharf]

@robust junco

[robust junco]

Oh I see Zerax here

I will leave you with them, you are in much more capable hands then me

[harsh abyss]

lolwut

[spice wharf]

i desperately need help i have recently converted to this build from glacier. but the surv absolutely sucks

[harsh abyss]

Are you using mana strike to trigger frost claw and meteor?

[spice wharf]

yes

as you can see the gears aint bad

[harsh abyss]

My first advice is that you'd probably have better luck just... casting meteor. My experience is that triggering the meteors is just less good than casting them yourself

[spice wharf]

but after getting 1 shot 5000 times im about to put down for the season

[harsh abyss]

As a sorc, you're actually missing one of your best defenses: % Damage taken as mana before life.

[spice wharf]

hmm

[harsh abyss]

An easy damage swap you can make in your Meteor tree is: Take the point out of Distant Craters and put it in Stardust

It's more "More" damage, and there's no downside

[spice wharf]

4/4 stardust now

[harsh abyss]

Unless you LIKE the melee playstyle, I definitely recommend try casting meteor instead of meleeing to trigger it. It has a few benefits:
-You don't have to be in melee
-Guaranteed to have meteors happen
-Your belt WILL trigger more meteors, but only from direct casts
-You can move the points into stronger defenses like Mana Bulwark and Wisdom from Sorc, then get some from Runemaster as well (Sphere of Protection is just 8% less damage taken all the time, every mage should take it no matter what)
-You can move your specializations to other skills like Teleport (get Mana Tunnel, it's a free meteor every time you teleport) and Snap Freeze or Focus (depending on if you want guaranteed freeze or easy mana regen)

[spice wharf]

can i invite you into call @harsh abyss ?

[harsh abyss]

No, I'm actually at work

[spice wharf]

damn

[harsh abyss]

You can also look at upgrading to legendaries. You're using a two-handed weapon, so if you can get a 1lp-2lp Titan heart and get the levels of meteor and high int on it, that's 15% less damage taken and a huge amount more health.

[spice wharf]

interesting

im willing to try anything at this point

because this build melts bosses instantly

[harsh abyss]

You'll want to invest in more mana stacking as well, remember every 10 mana is 1 ward/sec, so the more mana you stack, the better your "resting" ward will be. That syncs up super well with "Damage taken as mana before health"

[spice wharf]

however surv sucks

[harsh abyss]

That's the thing with Meteor, you never really want for damage, but you have to focus on your survivability

Stacking more mana also lets you use the World Ender node in Meteor, because you're almost always above 400 mana. That means you never have to scale crit chance at all elsewhere, which means you can use any crit chance affixes elsewhere.

[spice wharf]

what can i drop for mana bulwark and how many points?

[harsh abyss]

Depends. If you're gonna get rid of Spellblade, drop literally all points from that tree

If you're gonna keep trying the melee trigger style, it gets a bit more complex

[spice wharf]

i kinda like the melee over the cast

more engaging i guess

[harsh abyss]

I'd probably drop Essence Duel, Incinerating Aura, and 2 points from Shattered Aegis

[spice wharf]

ok done

[harsh abyss]

Also, one stat you're missing a lot of is crit reduction. I see you have it on your boots, but it only gives you 46%. If you can get another affix for it and push it up to the 80-90% range, you'll find a lot less one-shots

[spice wharf]

10 points into bulwark?

[harsh abyss]

Yeap, the more the better