🧙┃mage

[stone rapids]

there's not a ton of reason to go past 1000 anyways other than personal challenge/bragging rights

[sour trellis]

Shade gets hard around 2k for mages

[scenic sail]

1900 was where my mage maxed out basically, but with the static orb nerfs I wouldn't be able to kill a shade so I dont think I'd be doing that again in v1.2

The item drops at 4k corruption are so substantially better than they are at 1k corruption, then it is absolutely not about bragging rights. I wanted better gear and the higher experience is still noticeable if you can clear monos relatively quickly

[sour trellis]

There’s also a reason to pass 1k … I’ve noticed one boss that drops 3 gloves at 1500 corruption compared to 1-2 gloves at 1k or lower

Not sure why but he does

[weary hamlet]

more like, other mana regen options on mage are ass

tbh the state of mana strike and focus is downright shameful

no fixes ofc

[viral iris]

ugh im so confused on what i want me make for season 2

[harsh abyss]

I've always thought Wisdom should be 1 flat mana regen per 100 mana

[scenic sail]

Well Focus is getting a new unique that could be good and Glacier is getting a helmet that could be good

[stone rapids]

all depends on what clear speed your build is capable of, there definitely is a benefit if you don't lose clear speed but soft caps and clear speed most builds it's better to stick at 1k, in my experience

[viral iris]

someone helps me on a strong mage build for season 2 lol

[weary hamlet]

making focus good for mana regen in my book looks very different from EHG's idea of it

[sour trellis]

I would play it by ear and after a few weeks you’ll see strong ones posted and change if you like . No need to ask for help now and most will try to figure out what to do as they go

[stone rapids]

it's all a balancing act depending on your build and obviously every build will be different

[viral iris]

thanks King

[weary hamlet]

having a channeled skill with a cooldown is enough of a drawback, no need to make us channel it for ages

[scenic sail]

Yes, obviously your speed + damage + survivability matter at higher corruption, but my point is that it's certainly not about bragging rights. Whenever I would take newbies into 3k-4k corruption monos they would always be like, "holy shit this loot is insane" and that was the whole point of the higher corruption. It was even more noticeable while I was in CoF, the extra CoF perks just make T7 exalted items drop like 10+ times a mono

[weary hamlet]

should just refill your mana to full over a fixed duration like 3 or 4 sec

and have a utility-focused tree

[sour trellis]

Also there are new items and upgrades .. some mages will be much stronger than others with the gear they upgrade compared to the same mage with lesser upgrades

[viral iris]

i have a lvl 60 but really havnt had much time to look at all the gear and whats new

[sour trellis]

What faction is everyone going with to start

[stone rapids]

totally, to clarify it's not only about bragging rights or personal challenge, just most builds won't be able to clear fast enough above 1k to make the return worth it is moreso what i meant. especially when you consider how much time most people invest into a build

[weary hamlet]

cof ofc as I hate the mg playstyle

cant be bothered with price checking items and building a filter based on gold value

[sour trellis]

Tbh I’ve never played mg but I envy those who buy lp3-4 items I need

[viral iris]

cof is the fraction to do?

[weary hamlet]

cof and mg are "loot factions" while knights and weaver are more like, mechanics/content factions

[sour trellis]

So the weavers faction is new ? So it’s now 3 factions or you can choose weavers faction alone with cof ?

[scenic sail]

I always recommend people start out in MG, if even for the initial learning experience of being in the faction while lots of players are playing. I think with the new features CoF will be much more powerful in v1.2, so eventually I'll go to CoF and level up there, but i strongly prefer playing MG. I prefer playing the game knowing that the items I find are actually going to be used by other human beings. MG is for the social people I guess.

[weary hamlet]

there is no reason why both should be called similarly when they have very different functions but alas the devs find nothing confusing about it

[scenic sail]

You can be in the weaver's faction, the only two factions that are exclusive to one another is the Merchants + Circle of Fortune.

[viral iris]

lol i still have so much to learn. i am use to d2/d3 and d4

[harsh abyss]

"Endgame factions" vs "Trade factions"

[weary hamlet]

I'd put it as, COF will not be much more powerful but its glaring weaknesses, like being extremely prone to shit RNG when getting even basic items, will be significantly mitigated

[sour trellis]

Ok maybe the name confused me , thought for a second there are 3 factions now and you choose one

[scenic sail]

Yea, it's definitely confusing

[viral iris]

so CoF then MG?

[scenic sail]

I think the biggest bonus in v1.2 for CoF and Merchants guild is no more failed slams. This will help me more in CoF actually as you can just re-buy in merchants guild.

[weary hamlet]

you pick one of the two and mostly stick with it

[sour trellis]

Is everyone starting HC hero and if dies go cycle

[viral iris]

aww okay

[weary hamlet]

yea no more failed slams is more impactful for COF than MG but it's mostly a speed up/feels good fix, not a raw power level one

[scenic sail]

I don't touch Hardcore, I think it's incredibly stupid and there are still lots of bugs and mysterious deaths in this game.

[sour trellis]

I have a lvl 91 hc hero I just deleted since new season about to start . Wasn’t bad to play just slower and more careful

[viral iris]

do you think Hydra would be a good thing?

[scenic sail]

It's definitely going to be increasing the power level for everyone, now 1 LP unique items are actually very useful, so you don't need to grind as much in either faction.

[sour trellis]

Well it’s good we can get t7 int slams on rings now .. I failed many slams last season

[scenic sail]

There are still reproducable bugs that can kill you though, I used to have multiple videos of Shade's poison spit not showing up at all and killing you (the 2nd time Shade does poison vomit attack I would get no visual effect for it), also Shade's blood orbs, same thing. The elemental novas from Osterix bird angel things had absolutely no visual indicator either, and characters like the burrowing snake lady could kill me from atleast half a screen away. I just don't see the appeal of playing Hardcore at all

Yep, I've had 4 1 LP red rings in 2,600 hours of playing this game and all 4 of them have failed.

[weary hamlet]

it doesnt need to get to reproductible bugs, get a random 1-2 seconds lag and that's it

[sour trellis]

Hoping this season to get a nice lp3 ring

[viral iris]

hey guys thanks for all your help i have to log off. looking forward to tomorrow for season 2

gl ever and have a good day

[weary hamlet]

tbh hardcore is a pretty dumb idea in LE at this point, and in the genre in general if you ask me

same problem as hardcore PVP mmos; the higher punishment for death just leads you to avoiding fun

[scenic sail]

Yep, it didn't make sense to me in D2 and it still makes no sense to me now. I would rather have a game mode where you lose an item when you die or something like that.

[sour trellis]

Yeah I won’t be starting with a HC … just normal is fine at the end of the day

I’m curious about static orb . Wonder if you have 2000 mana and can cast it 20+ times … I wonder with the right setup and skills you can just clear monos spamming static orb when you want

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it's gonna be a lot better at being a "generally useful" spell

[sour trellis]

If you can get like 300k static orb dmg it could be possible

[harsh abyss]

It's just less of an instant kill boss damage

[sour trellis]

I’m definitely going to try and do something with static orb

[weary hamlet]

always could, spam static orb builds used to be a thing back before power creep

like your average frostbite build used to run barrage for single target and orbiting orb for clear

then frost claw happened

[sour trellis]

Yeah I think this season will be months of trial and error

Hopefully they keep the season for at least 6 months

Don’t want a new cycle too quickly as I don’t play legacy

[weary hamlet]

I even ran a meme build of static orb to build static charges for static via that node and it was fairly good.. for a meme build

didnt go too far up the corruption as I couldnt be bothered to play the old patch

[sour trellis]

I’ll make 2 hero this season . A mage and sentinel and get both to 100 and decide final mastery later with what items I have

How long now until patch .. 30 hrs maybe

[weary hamlet]

18 as of now

[waxen scroll]

how is mage looking for late game farming?

[weary hamlet]

fairly decent although some of the most op builds were nerfed

[waxen scroll]

oh dang then haha 😄

[weary hamlet]

old charlie aint going anywhere

[waxen scroll]

Charlie?

[waxen scroll]

I assume shatter is still gonna be stronk

[weary hamlet]

mage looks suspiciously like Charles Dance

I'm sure it's just a coincidence

[waxen scroll]

hahahhaa legit

[uncut zealot]

you going autobomber RM to start?

[harsh abyss]

Charles Dance mixed with Oscar Isaac

[north carbon]

mages bro, is pure glacial mage still good?

I really like it last league

[chilly valley]

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

Any can give feedback on this lightning fireball/meteor build? I'm not sure I have the correct tree for meteor and wasn't sure if the mana gen would be enough to sustain the meteor belt (Any other issues you see would be welcome feedback)

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (27) / Sorcerer (64) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (17)

General:

▸ Health: 2,823, Regen: 30/s
▸ Mana: 305.62, Regen: 14.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 346%, Regen: 50/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 153 Int / 1 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 99% / 75% / 99% / 81% / 74% / 109% / 83%
▸ EHP: 3,713 / 3,713 / 3,713 / 4,159 / 3,676 / 3,713 / 3,713

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 565
▸ Armor Mitigation: 29% (1,356)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire / Spell

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Fireball (25)
• Meteor (22)
• Teleport (20)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Liath's Machinations
• Harbinger of Stars
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros
• Oceareon

[harsh abyss]

Quick glance looks fine to me

You're gonna be really relying on that twisted heart to keep your ward up

[junior coral]

so is there no hope for mage outside of that deception builds that need gear u wont even have for afew months

[harsh abyss]

There are plenty of fine builds

IDK why people keep thinking there are zero viable mage builds

[junior coral]

well i want OP gigachad stuff

i dont realy do medium

[harsh abyss]

There are a few new uniques that will enable new builds. Mana Guide might be totally crazy

[mystic wave]

guys i need a lightning blast build, i think the new passives and rework looks cute and i want to try it

[mystic wave]

is mana guide new?

[harsh abyss]

yeah

I don't want to recommend my LB build to anyone because I'm not sure it's going to be good, heh

[plain garnet]

Does Glamdring on FC care if it's typed melee damage? Like, does it add generic spell damage to FC if I have "+5 melee damage" somewhere, or does it need to be melee fire damage, melee void damage, etc

[uncut zealot]

Starter or nah

[harsh abyss]

I'm starting it, yeah

[mystic wave]

are there any good theory crafters who might have labbed this? I know my way around poe streamers not so much on this game

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, if it's +lightning melee damage, fc gets lightning melee damage. Untyped gets converted to whatever FC is

[harsh abyss]

Me. BUT the build has been bugged for like 3 years and the bug is finally fixed so I'm playing it again. But IDK how it will hold up against the higher tier harbingers and/or aberroth

[fading snow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B7Zv4LmQ I make no apologies, this is the perfect LB build, new meta, gonna get hotfix nerfed, etc. You have to make sure to include the non-synergistic LL legendaries that I threw in 'cause I'm gonna figure it out in game and the 220% potion health converted to ward 😉

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (16) / Spellblade (57) / Runemaster (18)

General:

▸ Health: 1,575, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 151.52, Regen: 11.6/s
▸ Ward Retention: 384%, Regen: 160/s
▸ Attributes: 16 Str / 3 Dex / 150 Int / 3 Att / 4 Vit
▸ Resistances: 42% / 58% / 42% / 0% / 0% / 4% / 44%
▸ EHP: 1,358 / 1,543 / 1,358 / 1,071 / 1,032 / 1,056 / 1,378

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 315
▸ Armor Mitigation: 11% (303)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire / Spell, Melee

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Lightning Blast (25)
• Static (21)
• Surge (20)
• Mana Strike (20)
• Flame Ward (21)

Used unique items:

• Exsanguinous
• Last Steps of the Living
• Fingers of the Phantom Mire
• Xithara's Conundrum
• Elecoe's Innovation
• Oceareon
• Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros

[fading snow]

oh oops, thats actually the wrong version, imagine there's a semi-competently built frost wall tree in there instead of mana strike

the mana strike is "break glass in case of OOM emergency"

[harsh abyss]

lol

If you want to look at my "Infinite LB Channel" build: ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oPpZkngo

[uncut zealot]

feel like that build will be fine until like 200-300 corruption

[harsh abyss]

We'll see how it goes. If it drops off, I have a couple backups that'll be easy enough to swap to

Last time it was playable, corruption scaling was totally different, so 🤷‍♀️

And like I said, don't want to recommend it to anyone until I play it again

[fair hearth]

Does it count as "passing through my frost wall" if i place it on top of myself?

[harsh abyss]

I think you have to move to trigger it

[digital shadow]

sorry if its overasked but is stygian coal lich still good for new patch? did it get hit at all with nerfs

[harsh abyss]

Should probably ask in the #💀┃acolyte chat

[digital shadow]

opp sorry

ty

[fair hearth]

Hmm, i see
I was thinking of using the 60% mana cost reduction for invocation passive to make frey's slightly less mana hungry
But that sounds like it wouldn't work? Especially if id try to spam

[plain garnet]

Does the Frozen Sparks node on the Enchant Weapon tree interact with Glamdring for FC in a meaningful way

Or is Frozen Sparks still bugged and worthless

[harsh abyss]

Worthless. It only triggers off physical damage, which weapons don't have any more unless you have a specific affix that adds flat physical damage

which you obviously don't want because you're a mage that doesn't have physical damage scaling

[plain garnet]

That's so tragic, why would they not fix that lol

[harsh abyss]

It's an artifact from when weapon implicits were all phys damage by default

Probably just low priority tbh

[plain garnet]

It seems like a really easy fix

It would be very impactful for my specific build, adding ~9 flat spell damage to FC for me

[harsh abyss]

That's not very much, unless you aren't getting very much flat damage from other sources.

[plain garnet]

Actually it's technically +18? +9 cold, +9 lightning.

[harsh abyss]

Do you have 90 flat phys somewhere?

Or just 90 flat melee in general

[plain garnet]

Essence Weaver, which has 94

[harsh abyss]

Ahh yeah

[plain garnet]

It's a free point for me, I'd just take one out of +5 cold melee damage

[harsh abyss]

yeah

I mostly wish Glamdring inherited melee flat damage from the skill that triggered it. That way i could stack flat melee damage with mana using Mana Strike to get like 300 flat damage 😝

[plain garnet]

That would be absurd

[harsh abyss]

Yeah but it would be so cool

No more jank than the brand of deception build

[plain garnet]

I'm so excited to try this proc build, I'm gonna fill the screen with so much shit

[harsh abyss]

Interestingly, I think you could do a build that works better with the buffed Battlemage's Endeavor. With a good roll and 4 aps, you're triggering 3 LB's per second, with no cap. And that's pretty easy to reach, so you might be able to get up to get up to 5-6 aps to trigger even more of them. And that's not counting the FCs that you'd be triggering as well

[plain garnet]

That's amusing.

[harsh abyss]

75% chance to trigger LB with no cap is pretty legit

[plain garnet]

Yeah I didn't even consider that.

[harsh abyss]

I was talking with someone about doing a Focal Blast version of LB with it, so you're shooting out cold beams super fast

And you just use mana strike to proc them

[plain garnet]

Essence Weaver is capped to 9 every 3 sec, but each spell is individually massively buffed by the stats on the spear

[harsh abyss]

Yeah

Tripled stats are pretty insane

Plus you're presumably speccing frost claw for multiple hits, so what, 270 flat damage from Glamdring, plus 150 more from the weapon itself?

Gonna be bonkers

[plain garnet]

Yep

[harsh abyss]

FC is SO much better than the other triggerable spells, it's nuts

But also, you're probably actually only getting 3 casts per 3 seconds, on average since it randoms amongst all of them

[plain garnet]

Sure, it's an average

[harsh abyss]

So the triple stats just brings you up to "effectively" 9 casts of the spell you want, on average

[plain garnet]

Still, a max rolled essence weaver with no mods adds 492 flat damage to a proc of FC

[harsh abyss]

lol

[plain garnet]

No weaver mods, I mean

[harsh abyss]

yeah

[plain garnet]

Imagine T7 flat lightning damage + T7 crit multi

[harsh abyss]

Yeah

Insane

Wouldn't surprise me if that ended up as one of the top builds

[plain garnet]

Needs very specific weaver rolls on the spear to maximize it, but it sounds fun.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, always kind of rough to build around weaver gear

[plain garnet]

There's a bunch of rolls on it that are all fine, and a bunch of dead rolls

tripled T7 armor shred? Each of the spells having a 1920% armor shred chance lol

Tag a boss once and remove all of his armor

[proven haven]

yes

[uncut zealot]

Level as spell blade then swap into it when you get man’s guide?

Mana

[harsh abyss]

I think you mean each of the spells having 1920% frostbite chance

[plain garnet]

Spear can't roll frostbite chance, but can roll ignite chance

[plain garnet]

Runemaster only, sadly

[harsh abyss]

Negative, it's before the chain

[plain garnet]

Needs a 7 point bonus, doesn't it?

Hmmm

[harsh abyss]

Yeah but you can put 10 points in it if you want

the node just needs to be before the chain

[plain garnet]

That's.. really amusing, actually. If I ever come across an essence weaver that rolls a fat armor shred chance I could try that

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it would be pretty insane actually

[plain garnet]

The spear itself has up to 194% just on the item lol

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, even without the tripling, the frostbite chance from it would be pretty significant

[plain garnet]

A single proc of FC with a T7 armor shred roll and that node would add 105 frostbite stacks to an enemy, ignoring all other gear and passives

That's.. kind of disgusting, actually

[harsh abyss]

lol

Yep, that's a lot

And armor shred has huge rolls on other gear, too

[plain garnet]

Tragically, though, that only works for FC. It only adds the frostbite chance to cold spells, of which smite and storm bolt are not

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, but that's all you really care about, with all the extra hits from FC and all the FC casts you'll be proccing just off the melee attacks

[plain garnet]

Would still be worth it, probably.

[harsh abyss]

Assuming you're at the 3aps "cap" for weaver, which is obviously low, you're gonna be proccing regular FC 1.5x per second in addition to the weaver procs

And that just gets better the faster you attack

[plain garnet]

Yeah 3 APS is a low bar. It's very possible with mana strike to get up to ~5, but 4ish is more realistic

[harsh abyss]

yeah

I was doing a bit of quick math with battlemage's earlier, if you get T7 attack speed on a 2H weapon, it's basically 3aps with no other attack speed.

[plain garnet]

I am actually considering Falcon Fists if I find a well-rolled 2LP one. Ignoring the other stats, 27% attack speed and 27 flat fire is a lot.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, falcon fists is BIS for any melee attacker that might want crits

[plain garnet]

Also pretty low level so it's possible to get a 3LP one

[harsh abyss]

Yeah

[uncut zealot]

Level as glacier into spell blade shattered strike and respec when we get mana guide? Or how do you plan on leveling

[proven haven]

I am working on a video update for leveling

[uncut zealot]

Of course you are. You the mvp

[proven haven]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2434722938 here is a VOD I just recorded

of a leveling setup

[uncut zealot]

I’ll check it tomorrow before launch. Will video be uploaded and watchable prior to launch?

[proven haven]

trying

[harsh abyss]

No enjoy launch, only upload video

It is the content creator way

[azure loom]

I don’t think it makes sense pre 65ish. I’m going to wait until at least 70 to have the ward gen from armor

Or really exactly 70 provided I have guide/cleaver solution. If the latter is taking a while I might just try int stack with it first before swapping

[proven haven]

I need to get all my shit done so I can get all sweaty at launch

brand feels pretty good on my level ~58 character

but yeah you can delay

[azure loom]

Yeah for RM brand that vid was looking real nice

[harsh abyss]

I have 2 meetings scheduled tomorrow at 9:30 and 10:00 😢

[idle shard]

I've never seen anyone beat 1000 corruption with as a core skill

[scenic sail]

The general idea here is very good and a super fun build, but Harbinger of Stars almost requires you to have 900 mana, which you can quite easily get as a sorcerer, just start with 5/5 points in the Mana Pool passive and prefably all 4 of your idols being "Stronghold" for the 8-12% mana on them. Also you'll find these items with more than 2 LP quite often, maschinations and Harbinger of Stars are easy to find at 3 LP, so you'll get more affixes on here. I always recommend a Confluence of Fate when you're able to equip it, because it'll add a large amount of flat spell damage to each of your fireball and meteor hits. Also if you're going for a Lightning focused build, I think Stormcarved Testament is probably going to be better for you than Twisted Heart simply for the +12% lightning penetration.

[scenic sail]

I've certainly completed a few monos with volcanic orb but I was using it in addition to Glacier and Meteor and it was more suited for like 1,500 corruption. But I believe someone just posted a video of like 850 corruption volcanic orb today in this channel or in the general chat. It's certainly been used close to 1k corruption but it's not a super amazing skill or anything. I would say it's okay amongst mage skills. I'll certainly give it another try in v1.2, along with all the other skills.

[night siren]

yo guys how bad will mage be? 😄 i dont see a lot of good builds for us 😦

in all videos i see no mage mentioned 😄

[austere heath]

Have you made a filter for early levels? And then one for late game? Sorry if someone has allready asked you bro 🤣 I’m struggling to make/find one

[austere heath]

Mage will be good!

[unreal blade]

it's on his latest video description

[austere heath]

Ahh sweet thank you!

[open vapor]

I'm a little curios cooking a sorc with damage dealt to mana before health and using something like mana strike to generate a lot of mana and using that as a defence. No clue how to scale it offensively though, anybody with tips or even a decent build planner for something similar?

[harsh abyss]

Mage isn't the new hotness and some of the big flashy mage builds got nerfed. There are still plenty of builds that will be good and functional, but there are lots of other new shinies that people are excited for.

[night siren]

yeah thats what i thought..

[harsh abyss]

Also a few builds didn't get nerfed that were some big flashy builds on other characters. Tornado werebear is super popular because a lot of people expected it to get the nerf bat but it arguably got buffed

I don't think anyone has pushed a mage build with that level of popularity lately, so not a lot of folks excited for mage stuff

[night siren]

yeah 😦

[harsh abyss]

There are dozens of us league starting mage 😝

[night siren]

which build will you guys play?

i just saw a heartseeker video holy it looks so good 😄 but i play mage usually.. so i want to play mage again i guess

[harsh abyss]

Some new/buffed uniques are looking super spicy for mage, too.
-Mana guide probably has 2-3 builds around it
-Battlemage's Endeavor got buffed and might be real strong
-Essence Weaver looks HELLA spicy
-Gordian Prism has a build that looks interesting

I'm personally planning to play a channeled, low-mana lightning blast build that got bugfixed and should be pretty strong. If it doesn't work like I want, I'll probably swap to a Gordian Prism + Ele Nova build

I also have a couple other silly concepts in the wings, mana stacking Mana Guide seems like it should be strong by default

[night siren]

you have a vid or somehting maybe to see the playstayle pls 🙂

[harsh abyss]

The build guide is HELLA out of date, since the build has been bugged since before release, but: https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/liaths-endless-lightning---infinite-lightning-blast-runemaster

[silk pewter]

Liath's Endless Lightning - Infinite Lightning Blast Runemaster Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Beta / 0.9.2f

Class

Mage / Runemaster

Used skills

• Lightning Blast
• Teleport
• Runic Invocation
• Glyph of Dominion
• Flame Ward

Used unique items

• Prismatic Gaze
• Static Shell
• Frostbite Shackles
• Strands of Souls
• Telf'un's Mirage
• Liath's Signet
• Liath's Signet

Tags

Leveling / Beginner / SSF

Created by zeraxdr · Oct 15, 2023, 11:31 PM

[harsh abyss]

There are a lot of new uniques and improvements to the build since then, my current (very rough) build planner is: ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A8dXwWgA

I don't want to recommend the build to anyone until I play it myself, but it's pretty starter friendly. No uniques required to get going, comes online earlyish in the campaign, scales pretty decently, etc. I'm also not a real "content creator" though, so 🤷‍♀️

[rapid hinge]

man why do they need to make gordian prism an offhand

if it was an amulet or something

reowyn + gordian would be interesting

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, that's probably why they made it one, heh

It's low level though, so hopefully easy to get 2-3LP on

And, that paired with the buffed ele nova will probably be fun.

Big AOE kabooms

[open vapor]

Speaking of runic invocation, is plasma orb runemaster still solid or has it gotten heavily nerfed since release?

[harsh abyss]

I don't think it's seen significant nerfs

[open vapor]

Thanks, haven't seen anyone speak about it and was unsure if it was due to it being worse nowadays or just that it hasn't changed and is a pain to gear since you NEED 2 red rings and dodge in most suffixes

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I think it's just fallen out of favor because Runemaster got nerfed in general

[open vapor]

makes sense

liked the playstyle though so will definitely at least try it out

prob not op though, just decent

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's why people aren't as hyped about mage

A lot of builds that aren't op, but decent. People are looking for the new opness

[open vapor]

100%

[harsh abyss]

And there are known builds that are op that avoided nerfs

[open vapor]

Snap has convinced me spellblade is looking good with a promised 100-150m dps but most mage players probably don't wanna play melee so I understand if that's not an option for most mages

Personally gonna try it out though, only spec I haven't tried yet

[harsh abyss]

I think there are probably a few stupid good spellblade builds using things like Essence Weaver and the new Battlemages Endeavor

I'm kinda loosely considering a Battlemage's build, since it has no cap on lightning blasts per second

Max attack speed into Convergence Lightning Blast might be legit

[open vapor]

hm, haven't seen that one, mind sending me a link to a planner 😅 Sounds interesting

[harsh abyss]

I haven't actually put it together yet, gimme a couple mins

[open vapor]

oh, thought it was a done build xD

[harsh abyss]

Nah, prior to this patch, Battlemage's Endeavor sucked

But 75% chance to proc LB on hit is pretty good

[inner oriole]

careful with following a team player Spellblade build exactly
snap would have a different priority on ward/defenses/flat damage since he gets so much from his teammates

[tame sun]

**something something surge spark charge spell blade. ** https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q92r7OXB

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (26) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (58) / Runemaster (24)

General:

▸ Health: 2,704, Regen: 22.8/s
▸ Mana: 175.84, Regen: 10.72/s
▸ Ward Retention: 346%, Regen: 248/s
▸ Attributes: 43 Str / 11 Dex / 161 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 84% / 92% / 78% / 70% / 73% / 71% / 68%
▸ EHP: 4,988 / 4,988 / 4,988 / 5,897 / 4,891 / 4,796 / 4,662

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 43%, Threshold: 541
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (225)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 45% (2,638)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 105%

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning / Spell, Melee, DoT

Buffs:

▸ None

Used skills:

• Surge (21)
• Static (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Mana Strike (21)
• Frost Wall (21)

Used unique items:

• Fragment of the Enigma
• Static Shell
• Grasp of the Blood Mage
• Blood of the Exile

[harsh abyss]

Surge + Static got hella nerfed, fyi

[open vapor]

For sure, found a maxroll variant with mourning frost and I'm gonna build a mix between them. Trying to understand the underlying choices of both of them so I can make a perfect mix for myself 🙂

[tame sun]

ohh yeah? shame. well good thing I had the back up plan with normal surge+flame reave then. wasn't as fun but still decent.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, Power Surge (200 flat damage on static) only works on direct casts now

[rough garnet]

is non melee/spellblade mage dead? seems to be like its going to be the least played class in 1.2

dead probably exaggerating but it doesnt look too good for someone who likes actual mage range gameplay xD

[eager wharf]

Hello, what are some good sources for flat health regen in vessel of strife builds?

[inner oriole]

Theres plenty of ranged mage builds still perfectly fine

Most only saw the ward nerfs and only a few were deleted due to spark charge change

[weary hamlet]

essence weaver is very fun, but having to roll 500 essence weavers until I get a decent one is not

although it's been on my list of meme builds to try since the reveal

somewhere down at the bottom

of the flip side

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, this is the problem for sure.

[harsh abyss]

New Ring/Amulet affixes, the new idols

[eager wharf]

i'll check those out, thanks!

[weary hamlet]

do you wanna bet whether or not I'll get a +5 disintegrate relic this cycle faster than I get butthurt and quit?

[inner oriole]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/search?query=Health regen&in_description=1&exact_match=0

searching for health regen on letools helps too, could give you ideas of other sources

[eager wharf]

I was thinking there's a health regen unique I might be missing, but stacking some regular affixes seems good

[harsh abyss]

Well, you're going to either be using Shattered Lance or Vessel for your relic, so you can probably choose a T7 affix to prioritize on either of those

[eager wharf]

are you gonna try out the gordian prism build Zerax?

[harsh abyss]

Here is a SUPER rough version of what I'm thinking: ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AV26M5PA

Yep, Gordian prism is on my short list

[eager wharf]

ah cool! I might do one too later on

[harsh abyss]

Crossing my fingers I can get one while leveling

[eager wharf]

heh, that'd be nice

I tested the aoe some time ago, just stacked some bonuses from idols and passives and it really is huge

[open vapor]

Now I'm intrigued, what is the reason for all that mana stacking? Isn't the whole point to regen mana on-hit with mana strike?

[harsh abyss]

15% current mana for flat damage as mana strike, 10% current mana as flat crit chance for mana strike. You keep yourself at 1000+ mana and you've got 100% crit chance. At that current level of mana in the planner, you're looking at +225 flat melee damage for mana strike, which should make it do decent damage by itself.

And you've got a BIT of damage to mana before health, so you need to keep up with your triggered spell costs and that defense, so mana strike is the obvious choice. I'm not a spellblade because the main things I lose from the last half of the spellblade tree are 8% attack speed and flat crit from prodigy, which I don't need for the most part.

[half pollen]

No more multipliers on mana strike kills it for damage use.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, but enough flat damage makes it functional as a part of your spell triggering focus

[weary hamlet]

mage players be like: EHG plox no more mana strike
EHG: no more for mana strike you say?

[half pollen]

And its 100% damage effectiveness

So a wet noodle with 220 attack

[harsh abyss]

Plus, guaranteed crit means your opportunity cost for using it and scaling crit multi is zero

[weary hamlet]

straight from the authors of, doing zero DPS with flame reave at 500 flat

[harsh abyss]

Since you want crit multi for everything else you do anyway

[half pollen]

No it doesnt. It could have 600 flat and wouldnt do damage

[harsh abyss]

I'm not 100% sure it will be good, but it was something I was thinking about and putting together a planner is pretty quick (and I've got nothing else to do right now)

[half pollen]

I wish you could play mana strike for damage by sacrifizing the Mana gain but the nodes are just not there

[harsh abyss]

The other concept I had did the same thing but used Shattered Lance for a crazy amount of Increased damage, but Shattered Lance is a bit too much to try and force in on Mage IMO

and mana stacking + lance stacking with the same gear would be a nightmare to drop/roll, so that's definitely not on the "early season" list

[harsh abyss]

Yeah this would be cool

[tame sun]

ok frostwall+surge lightning blast procs seems like a fine pivot from static. complete automation with chain lightning and detonations.

[harsh abyss]

The main concept of the battlemage build is a LB delivery system with as much attack speed as possible since there's no cap on the number of LB's it casts per second. It outpaces Dragorath's Claw at 4 aps as far as average LB's per second

It also has a SUPER low legendary potential effective level, so getting a 2-3LP one shouldn't be too bad.

[half pollen]

The hard part about battlemages is that it somehow needs to be better than directly casting lightning blasts

[harsh abyss]

Well, if you get down to it, you're simultaneously casting LB, FC, and Mana Strike (+ mana arc and maybe spark charges), so there's some bonus effeciveness because of all the triggers you're throwing out at once.

Sure you can get LB up to 3 casts per second, or higher. But can you ALSO get FC up to 2 casts per second at the same time?

Plus with all the crits you're throwing out with this build, you're probably proccing a BUNCH of spark novas using Distant Spark

[weary hamlet]

that's not the hard part if you slot into a proc build where you aren't competing with just this specific proc vs just hardcasting

but those builds were heavily hit with the nerfs to ward rings

I doubt they will be particularly good anymore

[harsh abyss]

That's another reason to go Sorcerer instead of spellblade. With a bit of "damage to mana before health" on top of a huge amount of ward threshold from Arcane Insight + Arcane Warden, and the normal Shattered Aegis, you should be tankier than a spellblade.

[weary hamlet]

you can still stack plenty of that on sb, although getting a very high mana pool is going to be more of an issue

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, Sorc has a lot of extra mana

[weary hamlet]

but you don't really need it if you are spamming mana strike most of the time

[harsh abyss]

you also get 20% damage to mana for "free" from sorc

[weary hamlet]

we were discussing this a couple of days before and you can get like 55% damage to mana on SB without resorting to chest and helm affixes

10 points isn't very free

[harsh abyss]

It also comes with 40 flat mana though, so it's points well spent

I'd like to find a way to scale LB or FC damage with mana somehow, but I don't think it exists

[weary hamlet]

sorc class passive and gate staff

the forbidden tech

[harsh abyss]

lol

Forbidden because it sucks 👍

[half pollen]

I play things that suck when they are fun

[harsh abyss]

Staffs can't roll attack speed, so it's also not very fun (for this build at least)

[normal hazel]

ok Mage Mains. I need some guidance. Is the MaxRoll leveling guide fine to lvl with. And how gear intensive is the Hydrahedron Runemaster?

everything feels slow to lvl after playing sent haha

[next lance]

Most mages level with Glacier to my knowledge

[harsh abyss]

I think as long as you have the Box of Hydrae, you can play hyrdahedron

[next lance]

Unless something changed in the patchnotes

[harsh abyss]

Other than that, I don't think you require any specific uniques for it to be decent

You can also level with Fireball or Ele Nova, both work well in my experience.

[weary hamlet]

yea its like dont do this at home kids

[harsh abyss]

I mean that's most of our builds in a nutshell though

[weary hamlet]

its like that time when somebody asked Mark Rosewater why there are so many shitty cards in MTG. And he said more or less "for new players to have a learning experience" (when they realize that they suck)

[weary hamlet]

same but man there is a difference between fun suck and suck suck

like that time when I spent a week farming gear for my reowyns CCC invo build was the suck suck

cause it still did like zero dmage

[harsh abyss]

I HATE this mentality. It's one of the things that bothers the crap out of me with POE. I much prefer LE's version of "everything should be good, just maybe not good for the build you're playing right now"

[half pollen]

I also had that experience

[weary hamlet]

LE isnt the worst but they have two problems, weird and nonsensical design decisions and lack of manpower to fix the balance for most of their skills that can largely be fixed just by mathematical tuning

[weary hamlet]

come on there cant be two masochists in the world who tried that build

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, but at least they dont want there to be bad things.

Having intentionally bad things as noob traps is terrible design

[weary hamlet]

yea at least there is that

but waiting four years for the spark nova fix was rough man

[half pollen]

I didnt do a week of farming but I spent a good amount of hours on that build

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, definitely. I'm hoping that will be a thing of the past though, the team is growing and they're getting more resources that can do fixes and improvements

Hopefully in future seasons we wont need 10 pages of bug fixes in the patch notes.

[half pollen]

I think its kinda important to have bad or out of place stuff. When everything is created with a build in mind there wont be room for creativity

[harsh abyss]

I don't think those two statements are necessarily related

Out of place and bad are two totally different things in my mind

I feel like any unique is developed from a "wouldn't it be cool if" scenario, and from there when there is a huge amount of variability in the game, things can often be used for unintended purposes.

But none of that means something has to be inherently bad. It's the difference between "This is bad for what I'm doing" and "This has zero functional use anywhere"

Players, especially new players, can mess up their builds by doing non-optimal things without there being things that serve zero purpose other than to specifically trick them.

[normal hazel]

you can only target farm it from 100 timline... ooft. Hopefully COF is cracked lol. and i can farm it that way

lvl 36 random drop. Maybe ill get lucky haha

[sharp quest]

Gonna be my first league experience and cant wait to play a mage (I have no clue how mages work in this game but I always play them in ARPGs)

[weary hamlet]

most normal arpg build considerations apply - don't spread too thin, focus on one skill/damage type, pack mobility and utility skills

[ruby flax]

Same lol been playing this game for years but never wanted to roll mage, gonna try it this time🍻

[versed zinc]

is the mages tree of "when you use a lightning spell cast X at nearby" a bait or is this stuff good
im on the line between playing some kind of mana stacker vs some kind ofprimalist

[weary hamlet]

giga bait, its a bad subskill with very long cooldown

[versed zinc]

same for the fire and cold ones?

[weary hamlet]

yea

the cold one in sorc at least freezes but its still a bad deal for your points

[sour trellis]

Anyone think they worked out a build for Uber aberoth for season 2

[weary hamlet]

go disintegrate or go home

[tawdry wren]

Are they any awesome Mage builds for this season? Seems Mage didnt get too much love or atleat not showing up on the top tier lists for today

[fervent ledge]

Can spell blade be tanky?

[weary hamlet]

used to be tanky af with the ward on hit rings, after the nerf its probably back to average tankiness

then again, all classes have builds that are "tanky", that's like the baseline assumption in this game

[half pollen]

Probably mana guide stuff

[fervent ledge]

Mana guide one lb per sec looks ehhhh

Maybe it will good but dunno man

[fervent ledge]

I personally have not seen anything crazy predicted for mage. But it's a new patch who knows what will happen. All the other classes still have some insane OP bullshit, tho for mage it's not gauanteed just very theoretical.

[normal hazel]

"not gauanteed just very theoretical. "
haha. i think you watched the same vid i did 😛

[open vapor]

What makes mana guide any good? To me it seems better to just manually cast lb and not have to deal with reduced speed & armor

[weary hamlet]

focus got a ton of defensive nodes in it and you can stack more on top of that, like from channeling related nodes in RM

think of it as of ole ghostflame - mediocre damage at best, very high defenses, zoom zoom

also you can spec focus to deal some damage itself

[inner oriole]

casting lightning blast makes you stand still for a brief moment
focus makes you tankier and you can still move

[night siren]

yeah.. so bad 😦

[haughty sleet]

Any cool runemaster build for s2?

[errant moon]

anyone has a build for dex stacking frost claw ?

[night siren]

yeah pls.. i dont want to play meele mage 😄

[fervent ledge]

How many times a second does brand of deception tick for

[errant moon]

well seems noone had one so i made one

[empty hawk]

There is one

Looks funky

[errant moon]

link pls want to compare

[empty hawk]

Ah i meant a different build

I think claw is jover

[errant moon]

ah okay

nothing much changed for claw its like 2-3 more mana cost then it was

[weary hamlet]

you want cool cool or good cool?

[waxen scroll]

Good cool 😎

[half pollen]

Glacier is pretty cool

[haughty sleet]

Cool Cool

[weary hamlet]

CCC invo baby! doesn't get cooler than that

[weary hamlet]

ignite glyph

[waxen scroll]

How is shatter blade for speed / Aoe clear?

[fervent ledge]

There is a regular int based simple looking brand build which looks way easier to start once after campaign maybe lvl 70

Maybe I'll try that but doesn't look that great compared to other classes

[little wasp]

spellblade get any buffs?

[weary hamlet]

got some last patch, not much this time around

got a minor buff to flame reave lol

[nocturne hamlet]

Depend of how many time you didn't play
i didn't make S1 and just some new sword are really good for him since i didn't play for exemple, but i don't know for this patch

[maiden willow]

I really like the playstyle of the "cascade" fireball sorcerer build on maxroll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCvU-j9Ows&t=1s but I'm a bit worried by the rankings/downsides. How much of a struggle is it going to be ? Is it perhaps worth as an alt with some gear carried over from a stronger main ? Can it still do Harbingers fine otherwise? Alternatively, are there any stronger builds that look similar (pew pew) ?

[weary hamlet]

not sure why you call that cascade, that's just the regular fireball

it's a fine build, not uber broken or anything, but Im sure you'll be able to do anything with it at adequate gear levels

[tender wolf]

Does spellblade get as tanky as a Void Knight if you get to Exsang + Last steps of the living and T7 experimental on gloves? Idk how much ward people get from that nowadays at around 3-4k hp

[harsh abyss]

Usually last steps + exang builds are extra tanky because their class has a "less damage taken while on low life", which mage doesn't have

[tender wolf]

True, we do get like 25% less damage taken from chilled + arcane shielding tho

but idk if that's comparable

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, though we don't need low life tech to get those, and we have access to a lot of ward

I have a feeling the tankiest builds are going to be a ward + leech + a portion of damage taken to mana before health combo

All those together layers a lot of defense and recovery

[tender wolf]

Can you leech onto ward somehow?

[scenic sail]

Fireball is a super fun skill, but yea this guide is totally out of date right now. Just try out new things and you'll be fine, the fireball skill is a very fun leveling skill but it does max out in terms of damage fairly quickly, so I went with a Fireball + Meteor setup for more damage and then ultimately switched to glacier + meteor for even more damage.

[fervent ledge]

Is that gon rune for more ward gen good. Gear affix

[harsh abyss]

No, but if you take health damage, you'll leech it back while generating ward and regenerating mana, so you have recovery on all 3 angles of damage taken

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it's always been super strong

[fervent ledge]

Nice

[harsh abyss]

IF you're using gon runes

[fervent ledge]

I see a brand build were he always has three

[harsh abyss]

I've always been all lightning all the time, so it's been a staple for me since RM came out

[fervent ledge]

And uses that affix

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, with T7 on chest and helm and 3 gon runes, it's like 500 ward/sec.

[tender wolf]

Was thinking a Shatter strike build so damage onto mana sounds bad in this case bcs you already have mana issues, did you play any missing health to ward build recently?

or do you know how much ward the builds sit at

[harsh abyss]

Not that one specifically, nope

We also don't know exactly because the ward nerf to int

And yeah I wouldn't pair it with shatter strike. The low life ward builds aren't bad for sure

[tender wolf]

Ah you cant use bloody nib with the exsang setup either i forgot 😭

[rapid hinge]

hmm has anybody looked at fireball yet

hit fireball got a pretty huge buff

i didnt realized until i read about mage today

[upbeat shell]

did shatter strike get any changes?

[harsh abyss]

Not really

[tender wolf]

Culls enemies below 10% hp if they are frozen

but youd need to invest in freeze ig

[harsh abyss]

What's the buff? I just see channeled fireball working a bit better

[rapid hinge]

flameburst now affected by nodes on FB tree

ala bunches of more damage node now

[harsh abyss]

ahh interesting

Fireball was already pretty good, especially for leveling.

[rapid hinge]

even before this change, flameburst has already contribute like 60% of DPS for hit fireball build

[upbeat shell]

i thought they would change it more since noone really played it

[tender wolf]

I think it's popular enough

but yeah nothing cool, champion affixes arent real

guess scissor of atropos also is a slight buff to shatter strike on the high end since a well rolled one is better than a crystal sword

[fervent ledge]

First build I will try https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/olGk9RnB

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (25) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (63)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning / Spell, DoT

Used skills:

• Lightning Blast (20)
• Static Orb (20)
• Frost Wall (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Flame Ward (20)

Used unique items:

• Wall of Nothing
• Atrophy
• Orian's Descent
• Blood of the Exile
• Carcinization of Momentum
• Oceareon
• Devotion
• Stormcarved Testament

This build has a guide:

Season 2 - Brand Of Deception/Wall Of Nothing Runemaster - 1K Corruption - LE Build Guide by Bigdaddy

[harsh abyss]

Brand of Deception seems like it's going to be very popular this season

[weary hamlet]

the djinn is out of the bottle

it was virtually unknown last season

but it got a bit of coverage

[fervent ledge]

Yeah cause they nerfed the other good stuff now lol

[hearty pewter]

Any decent loot filters kicking about

[weary hamlet]

more cause a few youtubers released vids of it

[obsidian quarry]

ive been trying to figure out the maths here, its 400 DPS that only scales with increased damage, is that right? Or what else does it gets mores from?

[tight bloom]

does black hole tick rate scales with cast speed?

[rapid hinge]

400 dam per 3 sec

not DPS

and it scales very hard off shock

and fundamental criterion

[fervent ledge]

Everyone gonna be sentinel and hearseeker so that's good that mages get at least something. I wonder how behind it will be tho compared to like rogue probably still doing 2k corruption

Like other classes doing 10mill dps I doubt brand does this

[weary hamlet]

no and also no for any other similar skill, and for channeling spells too

[obsidian quarry]

oo i see, so 6% more per 1% shock chance - that kinda seems the wrong way around to me lol XD, but that would be what i was missing to make it actually do damage

[weary hamlet]

its also bugged and adds that per shock on the mob according to guys from ct

[obsidian quarry]

but why does it scale with fundamental? is it an invocation?

[waxen scroll]

Shatter strike still seems strong no?

[weary hamlet]

its an ailment which thus inherits the more modifiers of the skill it's applied with

see where this is going?

[weary hamlet]

yes likely still the best sb build

[waxen scroll]

Sb?
Sorry

[weary hamlet]

spellblade

[waxen scroll]

Aaaah that Way - also assume SB is the best “pathway” or ascendency what ever its called in LE

[weary hamlet]

its "mastery" here

[waxen scroll]

Thanks mate!

[rapid hinge]

is that fixed yet or no?

[weary hamlet]

no

[waxen scroll]

But yeah I assume sb is looking to be the best mastery?

[rapid hinge]

i always thought brand does way more damage than it should

[sharp quest]

I see, thank you for the advice ^.^

[weary hamlet]

hard to say, probably not. But it's not particularly weak or anything

[rapid hinge]

30m damage per ticks def does not check out the math

[weary hamlet]

because it always had this bug

[obsidian quarry]

id missed that fact too, still think that shock chance has a big chance of getting switched round mid league XD

[rapid hinge]

yes i tried it at 1.0 already

[waxen scroll]

Oh shiiiit just going on macroll tier list lol.

What Can you then recomend as mage? Sorry for being snoying

[rapid hinge]

and the damage didnt make sense back then

[weary hamlet]

idk dude I'm a memelord, I dont play meta on mage

try like frost claw frostbite or something

must still be good right?

[waxen scroll]

Ooooh thanks haha and Got ya 😂😂👍

[fervent ledge]

That new store armor looks like it fits mage perfectly.

[buoyant dove]

are the servers on ?

[weary hamlet]

my plan for mage builds this season:

• disintegrate (x4)
• essence weaver proc sb
• channeled LB
• focal blast with spark nova
• lightning fireball
• ignite glyph

[weary hamlet]

no

[harsh abyss]

14 mins

[weary hamlet]

also clotho's needle looks neat with firebrand/reave although reave is gonna have fu ck all base with it

[fervent ledge]

I'm at work damn

[obsidian quarry]

do we have to do anything with steam to trigger the download?

[harsh abyss]

You might have to restart it

[weary hamlet]

will likely want to restart steam to force it

[scarlet sinew]

is the download live?

[weary hamlet]

no

[scarlet sinew]

ah okay

[half pollen]

Focal blast spark nova sounds really strong if spark nova scales properly

[weary hamlet]

well it should inherit the more modifiers

its a subskill

so uh about 180 x 36 x 36 x 100

[obsidian quarry]

wait i didnt think subskills inherited unless it was called out?

[weary hamlet]

no they should, but the game has so many bugs where they don't that doubt is understandable

[half pollen]

They normally do unless bugged

[harsh abyss]

It won't inherit Shattershock because of the "damage against X" doesn't inherit

conditional damage doesn't go to subskills

[weary hamlet]

this adds x10,35 which is not great on a spell with 100 eff but not terrible

[weary hamlet]

ah shit

DOA build then

[harsh abyss]

sorry to kill your meme dreams

That's why shattershock is the last on my list for my channeled LB nodes

[half pollen]

Focal blast sounds so strong on paper but it never delivered for me

[weary hamlet]

still gonna be playable I guess but I felt that right in da wiener

[weary hamlet]

cause it its bad for single target

convergence = 400% more vs single target

and with focal you dont have stellar options for a single target skill

[half pollen]

Yeah, but a scalable 30% more multiplier sounds super strong at first

[weary hamlet]

idk barrage?

volcanic orb?

[harsh abyss]

Don't forget that LB got 2 extra "Free" chains, so with all the chain node you have 10 instead of 8

[weary hamlet]

at that point you can just focus on either of those instead

[harsh abyss]

And there's the belt for a 35% chance for 4 extra chains

[half pollen]

The only interesting thing was that focal blast made it aoe and you could abuse the runemaster aoe passive, but thats dead now aswell

[harsh abyss]

I've always lamented that focal blast is behind the cold conversion. Lightning focal blast would be cool

[weary hamlet]

yea so convergence is now 500% more

pepega

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, the more chains you get, the more convergence pulls ahead

[weary hamlet]

I wasnt keeping track, what did they do with that?

[harsh abyss]

You only get the ward on direct casts now

[weary hamlet]

yea that shouldnt be an issue for focal blast right?

we are mostly self casting it

[lilac kayak]

How is Shatter Strike Spellblade?

[weary hamlet]

although..

[harsh abyss]

virtually untouched, should still be fine

[half pollen]

Oh, I thought it got the procs per second treatment, my bad

[half pollen]

Static can do some now

[full bluff]

Lightning blast for single target + elemental nova for aoe. Using spark charges on both. Should still be pretty good

[harsh abyss]

I mean it's still only 2 ward per rune per point instead of what was it 20?

[weary hamlet]

always could but it should be better now

[harsh abyss]

Yeah convergence lightning blast will stil be super strong

[full bluff]

I think I had it outperforming frost claw at some point

[half pollen]

The big question is why focal when there is convergence and the only answer is mana kinda

[weary hamlet]

frost claw used to also give you free ward outta the ass

[harsh abyss]

I think it'd be good in a proc build, shooting out cold lasers as you do other things

[weary hamlet]

focal is more for aoe, it can be arguably better at clear than chains

but then what are you gonna use for single target in your build?

[obsidian quarry]

download up

[weary hamlet]

noice the speed isnt even half bad with the vpn, though I might have to leave y'all

[obtuse tendon]

80mb/s leeeessgo

[blazing fulcrum]

PLAYING ELON MUSK BUILD

[half pollen]

so whos gonna play for ya?

[harsh abyss]

IS that the one where you never get to town because you die?

[weary hamlet]

his gear was too low level

[half pollen]

im gonna use a lvl 30 amulet on my kickflip runemaster

[harsh abyss]

My meetings start in half an hour 😢

[weary hamlet]

rip mate but fortunately its 7 pm over here

not feeling well lads might be calling in sick tomorrow

folks on reddit already having the le cinquante cinq erreur

looks promising!

[plain garnet]

I can't even finish the download, it's just stuck at like 50%

[full bluff]

I got in after 1 min clicking the button

[obsidian quarry]

how do so many people download it so fast? XD

[obtuse tendon]

eRROR le52

RIP

[plain garnet]

This was to be expected tbh, the hype for this release was incredible because the latest PoE2 season flopped

[blazing fulcrum]

no online play?

[weary hamlet]

I wonder how many concurrent it's gonna hit, 150k?

but hopefully the falloff will be a lot less with the weavers mechanics

[obtuse tendon]

Good connection i gues?

[plain garnet]

I have a fantastic connection and mine still won't finish downloading

[obtuse tendon]

you're not missing much anyway

[plain garnet]

Yeah, I'm in no rush.

[blazing fulcrum]

LE 52 all?

[weary hamlet]

same here but steam can only manage 60 mbps

oh its up to 70 at peask

[boreal crow]

56 mbps here... still downloading. -.-

[weary hamlet]

peaks

[half pollen]

you dont miss anything, we cant get in 😄

[harsh abyss]

Nature is healing

[obtuse tendon]

I feel like i'm still at work, trying to deal with a 3rd party who handle mantenance and i'm waiting for my ticket to be worked on

[half pollen]

I dont want to heal, I want to destroooy

[boreal crow]

thats not positiv at all xD

[harsh abyss]

Almost like there is no company that can handle when hundreds of thousands of people try and log in at once

[boreal crow]

hahaha understanding you 100% 😄

[stuck widget]

I think it's only like 50k right now

[obsidian quarry]

theres no queueing though

[half pollen]

not sure if thats good

[obsidian quarry]

clearly not good, means things break rather than sit and wait

[obtuse tendon]

well one thing is sure, that's not me kekw

[half pollen]

im not more people though

[harsh abyss]

I am!

[obtuse tendon]

Haxxed

[harsh abyss]

Time to go prep for my meeting though, RIP

[half pollen]

what region?

[rain badger]

LETS GO, ONLINE WORKING

[harsh abyss]

US West

[obtuse tendon]

US privilege

Make europe great again

[half pollen]

maaan, EU probably getting the short end of the stick

tarifs on last epoch servers

I KNEW IT

[obsidian quarry]

more EU people ready to play

[obtuse tendon]

Trying to join the enemy into us west server

[weary hamlet]

online play unavailable on eu let's go

[obtuse tendon]

🥷

[weary hamlet]

might switch to aus

300 ping ftw

[half pollen]

can I play my chars on us west?

[obsidian quarry]

pretty sure you can switch once you are past login

but my attempts at other servers arent working any better

[obtuse tendon]

Yup didnt work

probably got caught by border controls

They asked me what football was, thats how they caught me

If anyone wanna pass time, See tv show is great to watch

[half pollen]

I prefer pressing a button and looking at a web, thank you

[sullen storm]

I should probably pass time by finishing my work for the day early

[obtuse tendon]

Currently trying to break a deal with Tzeentch

[weary hamlet]

RIP MATES the LB cosmetic does not recolor cold converted spark nova

[half pollen]

anyone from EU already in?

[boreal crow]

Nope...

[half pollen]

time to reroll sentinel then

[obsidian quarry]

steelmage and ziz are on twitch

just by spam clicking

[obtuse tendon]

Been spam clicking for a while

[north carbon]

what mage build are you guys running? last time to change idea

[obtuse tendon]

dont seem to help

[weary hamlet]

divine bolts

[obsidian quarry]

up tp 82k so far

[obtuse tendon]

Connection build, 5 points into improve MS, 5 points into fast download

[north carbon]

I was thinking in fure glacial but everything looks cool

[weary hamlet]

250ms to us yikes looks like I'll have to turn off the cloudflare

[boreal crow]

It doesnt matter. You can change everything now. Time to test everything. 😋

[obtuse tendon]

Finding other way to enjoy my time

[dim vessel]

can log in now..

[harsh abyss]

Man, gamers are such whiners

[obtuse tendon]

People in general tbh

[sullen storm]

Guys just reset steam

I'm in

Just close the game and steam reopen and try again

[obtuse tendon]

What time is it for Us people?

[sullen storm]

11:30 am central time

[obtuse tendon]

Dang so some people might have took actual day off

[harsh abyss]

they can survive for half an hour

[obtuse tendon]

They all can, never take a day off

[boreal crow]

Mee...

[obtuse tendon]

Magier class, new op

[half pollen]

im drowning in excitement here though

[obsidian quarry]

steel got that and got in pretty quick

[boreal crow]

IM IN!

[half pollen]

im in but half my legacy chars are gone 😄

[obtuse tendon]

We're not alone

[half pollen]

cant login with my legacy chars, but new season one works 😕

im iiiin

[obtuse tendon]

Still waiting 🙂‍↔️

[half pollen]

time for some fat SLAMS

[molten cobalt]

I thought launch was tomorrow, guess I got the days mixed

But seems to be server issues as usual anyway?

[obtuse tendon]

Yap

[half pollen]

im in and now its fluid

[molten cobalt]

How don’t they learn?

[obtuse tendon]

I don't think you can just learn

Think it has to do with capacity, numbers, price

[obsidian quarry]

different issues, very hard to test at the scales they see

[obtuse tendon]

there are some numbers you can't work around for a specific time

[molten cobalt]

The LE global launch was the worst game launch I have ever experienced

They should have learned hehe

[obtuse tendon]

LMAO

[scenic sail]

I still haven't been able to get in, got an LE55 error and then just sat there waited for it to load for 20 minutes, trying again after verifying steam files in a bit

[dense juniper]

Are you going for MAGE this season Abo?

[scenic sail]

Nope, going with falconer, they nerfed the shit out of mage and falconer was already way more powerful and fast anyhow, so I'm fine playing the rogue... and I tend to play it like a spell caster class

[half pollen]

well that was fast

[obtuse tendon]

I wonder if the people doing the race got equal treatmetn

Some people are in act 3 while some trying to race won't even be in kekw

[dense juniper]

well server location and high internet speed might be a key factor for that.

[signal aurora]

new blackhole vfx looks BALLER

[harsh abyss]

oh?

[dense juniper]

isn't Blackhole like a 40 point unlock in SORC tree... are u like lvl 50+ already? lol

[harsh abyss]

logging into old characters I bet

[obtuse tendon]

got in

If someone still stuck, i disabled steam cloud and overlay like some people suggested

and it worked

[scenic sail]

Does that mean you can only play in offline mode? I can't connect to any servers, it's either LE52 or LE55

[harsh abyss]

I'm in onlinej sut fine

[fair hearth]

ele nova selfcast is really nice in the very earlygame

[dense juniper]

i tried your suggestion, i exit stream, verify file, load game, spam play online... and got in

[fair hearth]

this is just one hell of a node to start with

[obsidian quarry]

did they make early game easier, or are spark charges really good there too XD?

[harsh abyss]

spark charges are really good

spark charge nova has always been great for early game

[obsidian quarry]

towns are bad, cant get out of keepers camp 😢

with a group of people, all running back and forth XD

[uncut zealot]

crazy nemsis item

[unreal blade]

EHG doesn't really do mid season balance adjustments

[obsidian quarry]

pretty sure it was them that did the bugfix nerf to something, and if that node is just the wrong way round.....

[obsidian quarry]

125k players so far

[obtuse tendon]

Problem is that most certainly, in two weeks we're back at maybe, 15% of that?

So i'm sure they can't justify paying a lot for such a limited time

[obsidian quarry]

I suspect well see a tech blog on what went wrong - apparently there was a problem with getting into the queue that was the issue for logins

[obtuse tendon]

One thing i can say for sure, being there among the first didnt help 😂

[unreal blade]

6% dmg per 1% shock is intended

[obsidian quarry]

how do you know?getting to 1000s of % more damage from one source is pretty rare in ARPGs fora reason

[unreal blade]

the node was bugged before S2 to work as it is now, all they did was update the wording on the passive node to match how it functioned. seems pretty intended.

[obsidian quarry]

sounds far more like QA fixing something the balancing team werent aware of to me

[unreal blade]

even with all this scaling, brand is likely only going to have decent endgame damage. not sure why you think it will get a 6x nerf.

[obtuse tendon]

Got a champion that spawned tons of lizard woooo, and thats with a very restrictive lootfilter lmao

[obsidian quarry]

i got sealed t6 int on my first nemesis, this feels strong for levelling XD

[lost ridge]

is disintegrate any viable at leveling and/or endgame?

[obtuse tendon]

everything is

i mean it

for leveling

for endgame, as long as we're talking under like 400-500 corruption, you can make everything work as well

[turbid carbon]

Had a question about Lightning Blast. Does the Overcharge + Hypercharge nodes proc the Halo Effect node as well?

[harsh abyss]

They should, yeah

[turbid carbon]

Okay cool, wanted to know before I invested towards Halo Effect lol

Hopefully it isnt weak

[harsh abyss]

Just remember it only works on the first hit

It doesn't work on any chains

[turbid carbon]

thats not too bad. As long as it works on the multi casts im okay with that

[lost ridge]

level 2 unique drop

[fair hearth]

is it just me
or does invocation's lack of access to %more kinda suck?

[obsidian quarry]

tends to mean it has more base damage, also it has the unique body armour that gives a load more damage

[fair hearth]

yeah the body armor is what im wanting to build around

[fresh relic]

Any build for leveling up (I am RuneMaster)

[obsidian quarry]

does blade weaving boost fire aura damage if procced from surge?

[neat badge]

Too many spell to pick for runemaster damn! Whats a fun skill you guys would recommend

[plain garnet]

This glacier leveling build is nuts. Hold down glacier + mana strike, tank everything

[rain badger]

Nemesis OP. Im level 18 lol

[plain garnet]

That's gross

[sharp quest]

hello guys, i saw some rune prison and killed an exiled mage, it dropped this color item, what does it imply O.O

[rain badger]

Its an "experimental" affix. Special to drop only exiled mages

[sharp quest]

I see

Also is there a time limit to kill these harbingers? I defeated one but it seems like it escaped ?

[rain badger]

The nemesis?

[nimble shoal]

If you selected "empower" on a nemesis, its defeat animation is it escaping

[sharp quest]

I see i see i think i did that yes >.<

[tight kernel]

Dropped a Prism Wraps as a level 19 Spellblade, currently Glacier on my way to Shatter Strike (once dual wield), is it a decent leveling item?

[scenic dock]

what builds are you going for

[tight kernel]

Endgame goal is Shatter Strike Spellblade. But I'll be Glacier for another 15ish levels.

[feral jetty]

Ayo pretty good leveling item right?

[half valley]

not that great imo

i'd stick to this at low levels

[harsh abyss]

oh okay nemesis

[quiet elm]

I am following the maxroll mage leveling guide and the lootfilter. Rule 9 in the lootfilter is called "Recolor most valuable" and under attributes dexterity is selected. Isnt that wrong? Shouldnt it be intelligence for mages?

[harsh abyss]

If you're doing a spellblade build, they get really good crit scaling via dex

[lime tundra]

is runemaster a decent starter build?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it's fine for sure

[junior coral]

i think best starter buiold is supposed to be SB according to youtubers

[scenic dock]

why does maxroll not have the arcane orb sorc?

[plain garnet]

shatter strike is insane if you get it set up correctly.

[fresh relic]

Amm I think I done a mistake, I saw a leveling guide for a mage but I went for R uneMaster instead of spellblade ( Iwanted runemaster)

and the build had Shattering Strike

Is there a level guide for RuneMaster?

[viral fox]

wait black hole always did ONLY dot damage?

[harsh abyss]

yep

[fresh relic]

boys any tips

[quiet elm]

You can find a runemaster build on maxroll, but its aimed for endgame

[fresh relic]

Erm

So should I pay to get back to spellblade?

[quiet elm]

Unless you want to experiment and find out for yourself, use the mage leveling guide and respecc when you reach endgame

[obtuse tendon]

Well well well, hello there

[quiet elm]

btw, you can respecc your mastery now

[obtuse tendon]

What level are you?

[fresh relic]

22

[obtuse tendon]

At that level i was just using lightning bolt and glacier

i really like the leveling build of frozen sentinel (the str stacker guy) it requires 25 i think?

It's flame rush + runic invocation + lightning bolt

[fresh relic]

I want to be

[obtuse tendon]

your movement skills just summon a rotating orb around you, and you lightning blast while it does that

[fresh relic]

runemaster tho

[obtuse tendon]

This is a runemaster build

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BxbYRp2A

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Runemaster (45)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Lightning, Cold / Spell

Used skills:

• Runic Invocation (20)
• Flame Rush (20)
• Lightning Blast (20)

Used unique items:

None

[fresh relic]

level 100 tho

[fresh relic]

is it for leveling up too?

[obtuse tendon]

it's not for lvl 100, you'll see if you checke very spell

what's importnat to check is passives, skills and eventually item but in early you just use what you get

[viral fox]

i just discovered black hole and disintegrate are the only dot damage skill..

black hole will never be great ):

[tight bloom]

I'm level 20 and glacier whirlpool is good

using this build, glacier+mana strike before 100% ice vortex chance on small explosion and then smaller glacier + frost claw
https://youtu.be/dS98n5Up-_0?si=OuUj7_uXRGV06Rfc

[junior coral]

best skill to lvl as 1-50?

not many people playing mage hard to find guide

[fresh relic]

so it's also good for leveling up?

[harsh abyss]

Ele Nova + Convergence Lightning Blast are great for clear and single target

Or Frost Claw

[obtuse tendon]

Yes it is

[obtuse tendon]

https://streamable.com/yuotno this is what it looks like

[harsh abyss]

Basically any skill combo can be used to level up, the campaign is very forgiving.

[obtuse tendon]

I got a slight fire resist overkill

[harsh abyss]

you mean you're scaling black hole ignite?

[obtuse tendon]

does it scale of it?

[harsh abyss]

not inherently, but there's a node for it

[obtuse tendon]

Might be worth a shot if its not too far

might goa way once i drop that though

[harsh abyss]

You'd be looking at 2370% ignite chance per second 😝

[junior coral]

is wasd broken, im auto attacking random mobs

without evcen aiming

[obtuse tendon]

that's quite the burn kekw

[obtuse tendon]

working fine for me, might be an option in gameplay settings or a hotkey ?

[viral fox]

can more than one ignite be applied per second?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, ailment chance stacks above 100%.

250% would mean that you apply 2 stacks and have a 50% chance to apply a 3rd stack

[viral fox]

oh i see

maybe black hole will really work now

maybe a build with frost claw fire / black hole

[fresh relic]

@obtuse tendon I move to this build and I bvarely do any damage now : P

[obtuse tendon]

Did you understand how it works?

[fresh relic]

maybe not :p

[junior coral]

is lightnign blast beter than glacier for lvling

[obtuse tendon]

You need to put your 3 first spell with fire lightning fire spell

when you cast 3 spells you'll ahve rune

using either runic invocation or flame blast (once you get the node which you should have if you're 25) it will spawn the rotating orb

so you just alternate lightning blast and move on cooldown

[fresh relic]

@obtuse tendon so the positioning of the spell slot matters?

[obtuse tendon]

yes

because of this

[junior coral]

glacier or lightnign blast for lvling

[obtuse tendon]

both work

you can even use both at once

[fresh relic]

so I put fire then lightning then shield?

[obtuse tendon]

i did that because my flame ward is transfered to lightning

you can put lightning blast in the middle if you didnt reach the lightnign node for flame ward yet

[fresh relic]

so do I put flame lightning flame?

[junior coral]

how u get lvl 46 so fast is there a speed method

[harsh abyss]

When you've gone through the campaign a few times, it goes pretty quick

[obtuse tendon]

Just playing

[junior coral]

oh crap glacier 1 cast takes all my mana 😄

[obtuse tendon]

you have a point in the top right to reduce mana cost and remove last hit

i personally didnt take it and just run past mobs, trying to group them before unleashing a huge glacier to kill them all

rinse and repeat

[fresh relic]

I am currently casting this fire lightning fire orb that's rotating, that's the one you meant?

[obtuse tendon]

yup

now you do that and alternate with your lightning blast

[fresh relic]

you mean to use lightning blast when I am on cooldown

[obtuse tendon]

yup

[junior coral]

how do i salvage gear again

[junior coral]

oh i dont have that. so i sell all these whites and lues?

[fresh relic]

@obtuse tendon Lastly, what kind of items should I aim for

[junior coral]

blues*

[fair hearth]

which invocations do people actually build around, usually?

i do need a cold rune in the middle bc i wanna end up going strength stack

[gray tinsel]

Have one build mage good damage?

[obtuse tendon]

for lvling, whatever is good

spell damage, intelligence, fix some of your resistances, hp, ward, lightning damage

everything work

[junior coral]

i picked runemage seems like bad idea low mana for glacier

and glacier doing way mroe dmg than lblast

[obtuse tendon]

you can just keep going, use mana strike instead of lightning blast and just perma glacier

[junior coral]

my character no longer is picking items up. weird wasd bug i guess

[obtuse tendon]

do you see them onthe ground? cuz if you dont it might just be alt +z

[potent dune]

So the previous CoC-meteor build doesn't really work anymore, because the more meteors only work on self-cast meteors?

[versed zinc]

new league, just started then

first character 2 minutes into the game drop firestarter torch in the second area lul

[half pollen]

well thats nice

[junior coral]

not liking mage, this feels almost as slow as poe2

or the skills im using are no good

[hardy isle]

gday boys, I just crafted something a bit insane I think. It's a int/mana stacking coc meteor sorc

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AV2EZegA

It's the first time I made my own LE build I don't really know if I overinvested into defenses or if the dps will be viable.

feedback would be greatly appreciated 😄

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (72) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (16)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire / Spell

Used skills:

• Focus (21)
• Meteor (22)
• Lightning Blast (21)
• Flame Ward (21)
• Arcane Ascendance (21)

Used unique items:

• Mana Guide
• Harbinger of Stars
• Knowledge of an Erased Mage
• Liath's Signet

[junior coral]

So few mage players so few guides

doing all the wrong skills and upgrades

might switch classes soon this is tedious af with LB

[full bluff]

Start with glacier, lightning blast is really slow at first

[junior coral]

oh ok. do u know what talents to go for glacier

[full bluff]

I usually do the one that reduce mana cost and only has 2 explosions, the one that makes it ranged, rest into more damage

then I get ice barrage for long range clear

[junior coral]

ok thx

[full bluff]

can mostly just run with ice barrage up and clear left overs and harder targets with glacier

[junior coral]

what lvl does lblast get good

[full bluff]

You probably need the spark charge unique catalyst for it to feel good

[junior coral]

o

[full bluff]

craft some spell dmg and cold dmg if you can, really helps starting off

[junior coral]

darn

okay ill respec into glacier

[full bluff]

New dodge feels really good, like a mini teleport 🙂

[junior coral]

frostclaw better than glacier for lvling? if you had to pick one

as RM

[full bluff]

frost claw and ice barrage works well together, frost claw boosts ice barrage attack rate

[junior coral]

and what about volanic orb

[full bluff]

Thats what I play, but can be hard to start with. But if you play runemaster you can use rune bolts to regen mana in between cooldown of volcanic orb.

[harsh abyss]

Easiest leveling I think I've ever done is line fireball + greater fireball as a RM

[junior coral]

this patch?

[harsh abyss]

It's not what I did this patch, but it's pretty much unchanged from the past. Here's a super quick planner for your first skills: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QdjXWapo

You just cast fireball, flame rush, and Runic Invocation (Greater Fireball, 3 rah runes). Use Flame Rush to dash around and explode to kill stuff. Fireball to hit bosses/rares to stack up ignites and do tons of damage, and greater fireball to help you clear big groups.

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Runemaster (10)

Damage Types:

▸ Fire, Cold, Lightning / Spell

Used skills:

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

Used unique items:

None

[junior coral]

oh nice. what build you using atm?'

[harsh abyss]

As soon as you get Dancing Fire maxed out, you go towards Flame Burst, and you just annihilate single target

I'm doing the channeled LB build I've been talking about. It might be a little weaker than I remember because there's been some power creep, but I just finished the campaign and monos are going pretty smooth to start. I Need some significant gear upgrades though.

[full bluff]

Made a demo of frozen orb and planner if anyone wants some inspiration for a build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXdtpB6JlfQ

Doubt it can do uber aberoth, but fun to play at lower corruption 🙂

[bitter tusk]

anyone have a good item filter for shatter?

[round heron]

been doing a static firebrand build - veri nice

[junior coral]

what is a good build to lvl at 22

real slow feel for me compared to other classes

I went RM but that portion of my character feels useless. the RI doesn't do much

[harsh abyss]

Did you try the "fireballs in a line" spec?

[waxen scroll]

I hope you step on a Lego…..
But gz

[junior coral]

yeah the aoe was real low tho

[harsh abyss]

Yeah you use a different spell for aoe. The fireball line is for single target.

You can spec fire ele nova, use runic invocation, get spreading flames on fireball... lots of options.

[junior coral]

im gonna stick with glacier and just respec to Sorc

or go spellblade shattering strike

RM isn't for me

[full bluff]

I tested frost claw frostbite and it feels weak, way weaker than it used to be. Something is wrong...

Runemaster has no real strenght yet

[junior coral]

maybe i just don't like mage anymore. the other classes feel way better when i tried them earlier

[full bluff]

you could be right, mage is not at its old top anymore.

[night cedar]

Can I ask for advice on making shatter strike SB clear a little less bad?

[full bluff]

Sorry can't help with spellblade, never got it working for me

[junior coral]

what do you think about this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUZeolNUQY&t=138s

[harsh abyss]

Ele nova felt SUPER strong early game this time. Single target is obviously bad, but once I got a second specialization slot, leveling was a breeze

[ivory atlas]

Lvl 72 monolith emporewed soon

Spellblade SHATER STRIKE

[signal aurora]

Has anyone got a feel how of the new black hole is yet? Is cold black hole viable?

[night cedar]

How’s clear? I’m trying to find a way to make clear not feel terrible

[ivory atlas]

Clear what ?

[night cedar]

Just clearing mobs

Really good at bossing but the aoe feels low

Or it’s slow at monos

[ivory atlas]

for big area

and just run and spam

tp hit dash dash hit tp hit

boot + armor = big moove speed too

[night cedar]

Mmm sweet

[ivory atlas]

damn,

[harsh abyss]

Man, you've been blessed by rngesus today

[night cedar]

Damn my best drop today is a 2lp tundra helmet

[harsh abyss]

I got a +3 LB helm from nemesis pretty early, but other than that all my drops have been for some random primalist

[modest heath]

oh man arcane current was taken out back and shot

[harsh abyss]

yeah

just totally removed

[severe hatch]

does stuff like "shock chance on lightning hit" work with brand of deception?

[unreal blade]

no only what shows up on your character panel

[severe hatch]

ty

does the skill damage make a difference?

like lightning damage/elemental damage stuff

I can't find a way to read the tooltip of brand in game

[unreal blade]

the skill's damage that procs it doesn't matter, just the modifiers the skill has. generic lightning and elemental damage from gear works yes.

[fervent ledge]

Static orb good leveling?

[orchid leaf]

Does anyone have a good Season 2 Disintegrate build they are using?

[harsh abyss]

My build is kind of like legally distinct Disintegrate, heh

[orchid leaf]

I'd love to see a build if you've got one! I've toyed with one in previous seasons, but I haven't had time to sit down and start from scratch this season

[harsh abyss]

I just beat regular monolith lagon with basically zero danger, so it's decent at least.

Here's my crap gear where I'm at currently, you can kind of get the idea: ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ow6a0vaB

Channeled Zero-Mana Lightning Blast. Insidious Conduction for channeled LB, Innate Conduit for casting at zero mana, Halo Effect for Spark Nova on every channeled cast (8/sec)

Teleport and cast RI to restore mana, drop Glyph of Dominion for easy capped resists, channel until everything on the screen is dead. Aiming? Wave your cursor near enemies and LB will snap to it.

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 69

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Runemaster (57)

Damage Types:

▸ Lightning, Fire, Cold / Spell, DoT

Used skills:

• Glyph of Dominion (20)
• Lightning Blast (23)
• Runic Invocation (20)
• Teleport (20)
• Static (20)

Used unique items:

• Fingers of the Phantom Mire
• Telf'un's Mirage
• Inheritance of the Erased

[orchid leaf]

Nice! When did you switch to this, or did you go from the start?

[harsh abyss]

I started off with lightning Ele Nova and used LB for my 2nd specialization. Once you get Innate Conduit and Insidious Conduction (infinite channel) that becomes your single target damage, and once you get Halo Effect filled in, you can drop ele nova because that's when your clear is fixed.

Prioritize some Ward/sec on gear, especially the prefix on the chestpiece/helm that gives ward/sec per Gon rune. Use a Ritual Stone or whatever you need to get a bit of it early and it really makes survivability a breeze.

Here's an OLD build guide I wrote for the build from the ancient times. https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/liaths-endless-lightning---infinite-lightning-blast-runemaster It goes into more detail. The playstyle is the same, but the gear is way out of date, there's a lot of good stuff we can get now.

It's not the highest DPS build in the game (especially before you unlock Halo Effect) but, it's super chill and low APM

I'm level 70 in the 85 monos and I don't really have to dodge anything except big stuff like the Diamond Matron death beams

[orchid leaf]

I will definitely check this out, thank you!

[harsh abyss]

Feel free to DM me if you have any questions 👍

Also no promises on how deep into empowered monos it'll get you. Last time I did it, harbingers didn't even exist

[slim edge]

me: okay when i get home im NOT going to play shatterstrike like always and try somthing new. game: bet