#🧙┃mage
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Wow
2xt7 baby
I see thank you ^.^
What level should I try the lightless arbor, I just got one key >.<
whats going on with my cape
just save it for later, LA is mainly used to either farm the boss uniques or sink gold
I see, gotcha
I hit this super early and don't know what to do with the last affix - I'm using spark charges right now with a pretty mediocre fragment of the enigma, but my original plan was vilatria's set shards. Should I stick with vilatria as the plan or should I throw level on of lightning blast / spell crit over 300 mana so I can slam later? I'm mostly afraid triboelectra/enigma will fall off hard
what point of time should I farm uniques, max level cap?
when you can cruise through t4
O.O i see
when you have a need for them for your builds, also you can now spec a node in weaver tree that will allow you to loot them in monos, thankfully liverating yourself from ever needing to step foot into LA
how come it doesnt cast ele nova ?
just a perma COME AT ME BRO
can anyone help me with m,y ele nova issue?
Someone can share a lootfilter for cold based mage?
I didnt know what to expect before i equipped it but i'm happy i did
rolled a mage once i got the item to drop and thought it was something cool to build around
Hey y'all, how's mage doing now that game has been live for a couple days? I just got to empowered monoliths on my sentinel yesterday, but I'm fiending that mage alt haha. What builds are y'all having success with in empowered monos? 😮
other than playing ele nova? sure we could try..
im sure there will be some super broken builds using the new set item crafting
its that bad? xD
getting set bonuses from purple items
no no its been buffed by like 50%!
except that 0*1,5 = 0
thats why you remove 3rd hit
so badly that it's struggling or..?
and mana cost -80%
tbh ele nova is one of the few mage skills that are - or at least were - offensively bad
is it still good w/o it?
ah gotcha
its like bashing your head into a brick wall
I mean in fairness I wouldn't compare anything to sentinel, warlock, or rogue right now they're all mega cracked afaik lol, but i'm sure swapping from OP to mage will feel bad
did hotfix just start?
SB lvl 90 corrupt 200 + 2k/5k ward perma and you boys?
some mage 300+ corrrupt here?
done
is mana regen a stat? i havent seen it on any items lol
only increased mana regen which is pretty bad
Is it just me or does the setup for ice wall and the fire travel move not feel that strong for the effort
its rather weak cause flame rush is a bad damage skill
Elemental nova is fun if you'd build it to trigger via Frost claw.
I'm having a blast playing a Spellblade with Ranged Mana Strike, Frost Claw (node to trigger on melee, and also triggers nova), Ice Nova w/ Cascade, Enchant Weapon (50% atk speed), Warden's Echo (Spellblade passive that triggers Frost claw as well)
Lightning probably does more damage than cold
If you're directly casting Frost Claw, use Runemaster / Sorcerer instead
If you're manually casting nova, it isn't that good
How do i find these weaver dungeons im lvl 65 so far
whats the best single target invocation that also works with brand? for bosses
my damage is on the low side and i want to do lagon
I need to specialize this skill also? spec points affect effect?
Or it does not matter?
yes it uses the skill tree
LLL
what does that do?
i did CCL and killed him
but CCL didnt do all that much more damage than FLF
How exatly does Firebrand buff skills like shatter strike?
passive bonuses from firebrand stacks and Incineration node
ohh
i finally understand what the eggs are for
i did not understand you can place your own uniques in there
how to increase big hit survivability on spell blade, like not crit but just large hits. ward per second and ward on hit dont help with getting one tapped? little lost on making myself tankier.
balans komrade 100 corr for reference
complete noob here - how is fireball sorc, i see it listed on maxroll tier list as D but it looks fun and Im having fun leveling with fireball/nova
let me grab the lightning spell dmg set bonus lmao
would I be better speccing spellblade and just keep doin what im doin? swap to melee spellblade later?
Yeah some of the champ abilities are dangerous
if it winds up for more than a sec and a half, run
oh that necrotic teal thingy flying into the champion, nothing special right?
do it
show the way
More ward stats are a bigger max hit. Use flame ward if you're not already 🙂
The necrotic beam is one of the more dangerous ones, for sure.
I sit around 1k or so, been trying to get higher. the amount of ward you get from the passive tree just seems pitiful tho
The only stat every ward build wants is ward retention, then you want some way of generating ward. I'm about to head out so I can't do a deep dive
So far so good
The base mage tree passive for 50% ward retention are points well spent
I'm at around 2k passive ward and my gear is very far from optimized. Ward retention% idols are huge.
im at 132% retention and have that 50% on the mage tree.
I'm getting mine primarily from int stacking, I'm at like 400% or something and it feels nice
Don't underestimate ward/sec as a defense on rings/amulet/catalyst/chest/helm. It adds a lot more than you think
Ok sorry gtg
tbh
the higher my stats get
the better lightning feels over other elements
and I dont even run brand yet, dont ask why
thats what I have going on now and its problem is same as always - low regeneration per second
like with leech you get half of your max hp per second while with these.. yeah
It's because you hate RM. I have like 500 ward/sec and it feels great.
Little bits of it add up. Ward Decay Threshold is also just a flat added amount on top of whatever your retention% would put you at
Standing on my glyph of dominion puts me at like 3k ward generation
not a fan of glyph tbh
Might see if I can respec a bit out of some of my ward per hit and and go harder into ward per second and see if that feels better
Ward/sec on the passive tree is pretty bad with some exceptions. Ward/sec on gear can be very good, though
Getting the 5 points in sorcerer for ward/sec is actually really good early.
For Spellblade what works well with shatter strike?
You generally want a combo of ward/sec, ward on hit, etc. Going just one route doesn't get there usually.
Scaling ward/sec is generally good. Flat ward/sec on the passive tree, except the 6 point bonus for Transcendence, is pretty bad
I feel like flame aura stacking might also be a strong way to get ward/sec
yeah that can be good, you can stack it WAY over 100% too
Nah, it's just a bugged display
I think my problem is that im all over the place with where i get my ward. and not investing into one spot enough to get it good.
Maybe, yeah. Generally multiple sources are good, but they'll synergize better with one build or another
damn I can no longer get away with 11% necrotic res
and I cant use a frozen ire cause I have mana issues with it
nope, you get clapped by the cemetary bosses
lol
I'm at 15% while not channeling, it's dangerous for me to not be on my glyph or be channeling
my deadliest enemy is soul of erased acolyte
Yep
Covenant arc and it ain’t close. Cold cold light I believe
thats the one i swapped to, cant say i noticed much damage increase over plasma orb
maybe i did some wrong
also necrotic siege golem giga sucks without the necrotic shield
It’s infinitely better than plasma
But when you use covenant, you can’t reapply ur brand
Or it overrides
Oh. Use plasma then
People also be underestimating dodge on mage
Covenant is single target for if you’re applying brands with something else
covenant doesnt apply brand itself, like plasma?
It does. But it’s probably the worst clear skill in the game
it was just for a boss
It’s only job is to melt a single mob
it didnt melt shit
questioning whether or not i wanna play mage warpath
Definitely got either unlucky or missing something
prolly missing something
Covenant insta phases timeline bosses
its supposed to be pretty mid
My covenant ticks like 60-90k
i do wonder what i did wrong though
focus is 1 of my best dps builds, so i imagine being able to move during it would be awsome
what corruption it doing?
3x lightning
you can fight with @uncut zealot on that one haha
why would I
Covenant is certainly the best for raw single target. Lol
which one is that
because he says you're wrong
Cold cold light
oh true that one also goes hard
ngl I prefer LLL cause its objectively braindead
and also clears trash
Yeah covenant is raw single target only
im not 5 I can accept different opinion
ngl ive been fighting those weaver bastards
and they sure like summoning more mfers
how long does abbreoth take with covenent
Light Cold for trash then I assume
anyone here running lightning meteor this season?
I really wanna play cold pull black hole with meteors is it viable? Last I tried was 1.0
some monster just teleported me away in a map
to some gambling dude
what is this
soul gambler
i find 0 videos on youtube about him, has anyone seen him before?
Anyone around to chat and possibly help me out with my build?
So with runemaster is there a decent frost based build out there?
Most of the time it seems that they convert to lightning
woven echo ?
if so its a special map, kill as much as you can, then you get ported to vendor, first thing you buy will be unique of that type
yeah the first mob i killed ported me out
so didnt get to kill anything
good to know first thing will be unique
this is the weakest ive felt in LE ie played a few times. Anyoen find any OP builds yet for mage?
Want someone else to play the game for you? Copy from maxroll/lastepochtools
Want to try something sleeper powerful? Wing it
Why not find one yourself by playing what you find fun?
i dont have much time to play
So?
ehh i just wanna blast
Ah, they fixed the bug with essence weaver spells not costing mana
dont bother that guy is immune to learning
I really don't have the time to make some secret OP mage build that maxroll couldn't even find after 4 months of beta testing this. I just want to follow a guide and blast.
but i'll wait a few days see if anyone cooks something up
Why are you guys so salty to people wanting to play the game differently than you? Not everyone has/wants to spend hours/days/weeks theory crafting, and just want to follow a guide
yeah most people follow guides
i see one for mage but its just weak compared to other patches
im mostly annoyed that he treats us like google
he can look shit up himself
Then what is the point of having a community if people cant ask questions?
I can't look it up this would be the first place that a new OP builds shows up, so I ask every few hours. Maxroll has nothing and youtubes mostly show the guy who said not to play mage (rank 1 mage).
an OP mage build doesn't exist on any guide site atm
The only thing that comes close is the Brand build on youtube but even that fell flat from the looks of it, dude is doing 1/4th the corruption of actual OP builds.
the problem is not that he wants an op build, the problem is that he looks for it in the wrong place and can't accept that such a build probably doesnt exist in this patch
like you can turn off your monitor and do random shit with sentinel and be better than the best mage build
if he insists on playing an OP build, more power to him, but then what is he doing here
yeah but im hoping someone figures it out while im playing my Druid (changed)
maybe someone will
Sentinel the most op class at the moment?
falconer is also still OP
yo
whats the meta build for runemaster?
is there something that can teleport
or dash
theres a literal teleport spell
If you want a zoomy teleport build my recommendation is lightning ele nova + convergence LB. You can use enigma for spark charges and make teleport cast novas that apply them. Then LB can be single target and apply more spark charges.
Then you can use RI for ball lightning to apply brand of deceotion for more damage on single target.
not sure if its conclusive yet but its more that sent gets a fu ckton of shit for free just from its revamped trees
what mage are u playing?
It seems like lightning runemaster is the main element that builds are made for
anyone here try Battlemages Endeavour since the buff?
I feel like it's still lacking.
I feel that way just by looking at it
maybe if it was on hit instead of on cast
the lightning blast proc?
it is on hit
If you can get a good roll with 75%, it will proc more LBs than dragoraths claw at 4 attacks per second
Is a disintegrate build powerful?
the thing is im at at loss on how to scale Lightning Blast anyways
well the holy lightning skin looks badass though
hoho, cocoon amulet =>
For single target convergence is a ton of extra damage.
Is the bomber build good? (runemaster or whatever it is)
Depending on who you ask you have very different response
I find it awesome
Most fun i had in a while, feels like a whirlwind dot build
thinking of that or prolly spellblade
One thing that is very nice for my very personal taste, is that it allows you to gather a str stacker build (with transfer to int) and it's actually used elsewhere, for example in a crow minion build
i have a couple ideas to use the gear on some other chars so that is a nice plus
I guess, gonna need to have to find general damage boosts though. I don't feel like it's worth the investment.
its when you use and hit, which means that it triggers once per hit regardless of how many targets you hit
up to once, that is
cause can still fail to proc lol
oh thats what you meant
cause at least if it did shotgun you could try something silly like speccing focal blast and trying to overlap that for clear
runemaster, but all mages have teleport
on unrelated note im at 26 unique staves
not a single reowyns
RIP
Question about a few skills. I want to run a Lightning build. Planning on using Blast for general use, Disintegrate for bosses with Ascendency as the DPS boost. It may not be meta but I think I will like it. I was wondering about the node that causes Dis to use a Blast every second. Will that Blast be based on my skills tree or just a plain Blast?
I’m just looking for something that’s fast like an anime character
Speed farm
Any opinions on disintegrate? Worth using during levelling or way too slow?
rooting yourself in place = bad idea
idk about now but when I tried it, it sucked
mainly because you are stood still yes.
if you really wanna cast beam of death, take mirror image in teleport tree
so you can summon distractions
as you run for your life 😄
From looking at the ladder for runemaster it seems everyone is using mana guide
I like it. Stand there, when they get to you, pop the shield to boost dmg and AoE them.
Then they just seem to stack shock chance, getting abover 500%
yeah cus Brand of Deception is the popular Runemaster thing rn
i didnt like it so I swapped to Spellblade
Brand of deception is just a passive point tho
oh the one I just dropped
How is that such a build defining thing
brand of deception gets stronger with shock chance, check followup talent
Yes, but it's the whole points of the build
thats what you scale your damage to
you also need Fundamental Criterion for more scaling
pretty sexy
the build sounds silly but it seems rather simple to use
alot of people are doing some str stacker thing but the person that made the build is using just pure shock chance
So either he is testing something new or found out that str stacking wasnt as strong
maybe he doesnt have all he needs to go STR stacking, because shock chance is a thing with the INT stacking version too
which is the step before you go STR
He is level 100
lvl is irrelevant
rank 12 on ladder
Well you would think at that point you would have everything you need
depends how much time you have
im 71 atm I got shit to do
XD
in terms of active hours spent its the same
well in any case i dont have that cleaver anyway for str stacking
but i do have the mana guide and im interested in trying it out
you'd need criterion too
the chest piece
you'd probably want blood of the exile too
been playing ignite glyph build so far. So something a bit different seems neat
does culnivars trigger mana spent?
im still leveling and trying to get to monos and all but i finnaly got black hole unlocked now, is it normal its not igniting? ig its because my crappy campaign gear doesnt have chance to ignite on it?
Runebolt sadly is bugged 😦 searing dart should convert all frostbite chance to ignite and blazing flare should convert all shock to ignite. i talented also orderly conduit that should give 135% ignite because of this but instead runebolt still does frostbite and shock. also converting shock doesn't work altogether i got half the shock chance compared to ignite and the ignite stack is half of the ignite in testing. runebolt still has all 3 scaling tag of frost lightning and ignite, but it sould only have fire in this case.
cuz otherwise it would do an ignite every lil dot hit?
It's a possibiity, like some super math wizkid bueatiful mind style god gamer can cook one up
it doesnt?
my entire build is depending on this so im testing it and it doesnt
it works just fine for the gliph of dominion
that node only converts innate
now its my turn
what is innate in this case. "shock from all sources is converted to ignite" i goes doesnt mean that
which shock chance is yours nd which is the runebolts?
failed to seal the ignite chance, shit
sealing t3 isnt gonna happen is it
failed again, t4 now
rip
im still leveling and trying to get to monos and all but i finnaly got black hole unlocked now, is it normal its not igniting? ig its because my crappy campaign gear doesnt have chance to ignite on it?
do you have the Heat wave talent and fire ress on your gear?
yeah theres early bonus
"if you drop a set piece you may drop the entire set"
very funny stick
this one
crazy lightning pieces lmao
is it rare? i have vendored several of those
its just theres pretty wide pool
and I got mega unlucky
I think I have a 3lp one somewhere
im getting it rn
like im lvl 52 so just recently got bh
Can you LP slam set affix on uniques
was just wondering if it was normal it didnt apply ignite withotu that
I dont think so
Could be interesting lol
since set items are uniques in their own right
but if yes, jesus christ on a pogo stick
imagine I add lightning set to reowyn
XDDD
dear god
Yeahhhh lol
niceeee glgl
double imprint lets goo lmfao
i bricked it
champions and chests
oof
mana guide and culivinars claim go kinda hard
at least usable?
when you get it according to the description you can scale ignite with fire ress gear. sounds fun 🙂
can i imprint stuff from other classes
i wanna put void knight stuff so i can sell that shit
yeah but no pene
yeah im aware but i thought the regular black hole hits would ignite too before that node
Black hole doesn't have any regular hits
it does a non hit do based fire damage, thats not ignite you can scale that damage with spellpower as wel las elemental and fire. for ignite only fire and elemental wil lwork and your flat spell damage won'T matter
I dont see why not
It can only hit with collapse and the phys impact
so dots arent considered like a thousand tiny hits?
if you put a random legendary amulet in the weaver tree, will that help me get more unique amulets and thus higher chance for mana guide?
runic energy only gives dmg for that runic invocation spell right?
or would it just give me that specific unique amulet
No
Does runemaster end up only using a single invocation the entire time, or are there builds that use multiple?
you could use multiple, if you manually do the order
And if you like doing less damage
sadge
How many of the invocations are at least decent? Or is it a "make 40 spells make 36 of them suck" situation?
he just dropped a video btw, he does in fact not have gear for the STR version
Does this work? I'm not seeing any indication of it bouncing back to me, even against only a single other enemy.
No buff, no animation, nothing.
it should work and give you a buff, but I've not tested it on this patch - might be broken
do you have convergence?
its more of a toolbox
of the 1 and 2 rune ones
only ones worth considering are 2X lightning or lightning->cold
but the lightning cold is prob the best early trash clear
No Convergence.
I'm almost 100% sure it's broken. Where can I report it?
If it is working, there is no indication on tooltips or buff icon.
can you use a item on julra with only 2 affixes? or need to have 4?
lightning cold is the bouncy ball?
yes
that thing slaps
yep
in-game I guess
check your character screen, if your stats don't change, clearly its bugged
if you want indiscriminate aoe Lightning Fire Ice is
oversize elemental nova
I'm running around using plasma blast and Rune Gale right about now
Rune Gale kills almost all trash and Plasma kills everything
yea
I usually spam shatterbolt
thats the bouncy thing
if theres too many, prism nova
Has anyone pushed fire claw sorc? I’m wondering what late game items it can use
it's more that he rushed 100 in a single session and took a bit of time off to recover and hasn't progressed to the strength stage of the build.
CS is changing both crit and damage tooltip on Lightning Blast. I think it's working but no buff notification.
I think so. Depending what we lose for slotting in on rings
Wut
whatever I put on those will become monstrous
How perma
Oh I thought you meant like can reset it
it also leaves mirror images to take heat off me
dont forget to spend your weaver ember
even if you dont need to upgrade an idol, do it anyway for the faction xp
respeccing the nodes doesnt count
are binary system and singularity not compatible for black hole
i picked both and i dont get 2 circling stars
but i saw someone uise it in a youtube video and htey did
i swear i saw 2 ppl using
the 2 nodes together
s m h
what should i do if im going for dots? the binary system one?
so Set sharding - I have to apply the set shard to the same type of item correct? So this lego staff shard cant go onto a wand
Correct
that sucks I wanted to take this set staff and slap it on a wand or something so i could still use a catalyst
That’s why you can’t. Lol
into the trash it goes
that would be way too crazy
Dats a lot of spell damage
i just want meteor to be lightning man
just use a staff then
you can make something INSANE if you take good exalted and slap the set item on it
but i also want my fragment of enigma
well let me just say - my entire build is lightning based. and i wanted meteor in the build as lightning
so i guess i have to play the game 11h wants me to
just a gripe
well
im spread across all elements
and lightning spell is my "primer"
I just wanted to show the increase after I teleport
shame it got cooldown
I basically have "rune printers" + teleport + invoke
what level are you
79
73 here
taking it slow
73 doing the 90 monoliths
going well
i dont wanna stop and redo the same monolith because my lvl is lagging behind
Evade is a skill
evade is your spacebar button
it's a spell
it has its on separate cooldown reduction
and I can prove it
really?
No wait, it's a skill and I can prove it rather
how 😮
@molten cobalt I think im goin all in on lightning
cause im spreading my stats too thin
@molten cobalt you got a build? I've been playing lightning blast as well 😄
just a stepping stone
lightning blast and brand
plasma orb
trying to find my gear for int stack focus direction
ah ok; i chose sorc mastery
how do I do single target on a gordian prism build? my idea isnt making it uof the planner atm
I'm mostly memeing here because it's not a big deal, I just never would've thought dodge triggers those sorts of things
i love mana guide
wish i found one
Does this scale with the glacier skill? (can't test since I'm on sentinel atm).
scale? it IS the glacier skill
finally got t4 julra
oh you cant egg this one anymore right?
low mods is my karma:
no!
but I can one without LP, to get any mod on it
then roll this one
or, if luck, get a better rolled one with LP already xD
quick question since you seem to know your shit
I dont suppose I can slam set bonus on uniques with LP
That feel when you respec and brick your build
Damn I dropped a Gordian Prism and then used Rune of Ascendancy on 3 helms and got a Crest of Unity. I think it's time to start working on a Prism Nova Runemaster finally 👀
You’d have to put it on an exalted item then slam the unique and either deterministic if possible or pray
But I feel that’s too broken
Pretty sure you cannot, the reforged items are set items instead of exalted items
This is correct
ok good just making sure
also made a funny thing
getting less homeless over time
yeah
also turns out its much easier to gear
when ur not stackin 3 elements lmfao
its this one btw
yeah what tier do you need to be
any
not looked into it much
since i couldnt shatter anything useful i never looked at the shards
No they work like any other affix shard tier 1-5 random rolls
And have to have an open prefix/suffix
if i got too much mana regen
what should i do
like with the build i made i cannot run out of mana
cuz i cant spam skills fast enough to run out of mana
okay so. messing around in planner
got meteor to 7.2m
actually 8.7m
10.2m when the mob is shocked
downside you may ask? well.. we went balls deep for dmg and only have like 4500 ehp lol
only 1 item with LP. rest are 0lp items and tbh not convinced they are the best i just through stuff in
Tombs of the Erased / 1.2
Mage (20) / Sorcerer (65) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (23)
▸ Health: 1,473, Regen: 28.8/s
▸ Mana: 357.01, Regen: 15.28/s
▸ Ward Retention: 274%, Regen: 72/s
▸ Attributes: 9 Str / 9 Dex / 75 Int / 9 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 64% / 92% / 129% / 127% / 74% / 80% / 80%
▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 295
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (49)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 25% (1,103)
Meteor / Teleport / Flame Ward / Mana Strike / Static
feel free take a look @slender sedge
Wait what kinda build is this?
Are all three primers gonna be kinda meh with the invocation gonna be the only thing that does damage
yeah that was the idea lol
got to lv 73 then it stopped being feasible
to keep them scaling equally
but its hilarious levelling experience for sure
play piano - win
speaking of glass cannons
lmfao
if we want tank i think we go exsang chest
and go low life
i went shock chest tho
cuz dmg
this looks like
highly convoluted way
to get oneshot
with a lot of farming
I love it
everything else is 0lp
so ez
and i dont have idols in there
and also, ive invested in crit, howevre, we can take the node to get 100% crit over x mana
so its FAR from perfect lol
but, i think its possible
I think I might reroll sorc
what are you rn?
runemaster
keep ur gear and its ez to swap back
I mean not like I have anything else to swap to
all im gonna do is throw on set items
dont need invocation level hat where im goin xD
lmfao
set up hiroshima style nukes
so what do you run with this
I mean, that was basically static orb last season
meteor + pure util?
skills are in it
im fkin blind lmfao
ouch
ohh passiive reset is in it too
i wonder
is there a world
we run channeled fireball igntie
with enchant weapon to consume
1827348124092 ignite stacks
and use this
the ignites alone should be fine for farming.. we just pop enchant weapon when we want to explode a rare
so do I just stack intel ward lightning for now
idk i didnt think too hard lol
hm
guess ill do the thinking xD
because "just deck yourself out in uniques" is not on the table
i really think that ignite burst sorc could work
we get innate like 24.5 dmg
2x4x1.5
if we want, we can go into firebrand to get 6*1.4 free igntie chance
this game mocks me man
yokes
hydra sucks
its like 40 levels late
meh idk maybe i stick with my frostbite frostclaw build for now lol
lmao the POB with 2 red rings and 3 LP chest with perfect +4 meteor and all lmao
ill stick to my realistic jank
the fun part is i have it all in stash lol
only reason its on there
i actually might have 2-3 of the 3lp static chests
Whats decent with runemaster
Im playing ignite based so you could swap to that
its rather combo based tho
I was kinda hoping there would be a decent frost build but that doesnt seem to be the case
im just spamming lightning
It really does seem that lightning is the main element to use
lucky u
lightning's the obvious pick since it has shred and shock. Unless you wanna go full ignite or something.
Cold's for CC/ Lightning's for DPS/ Fire's for DoT, essentially.
Unspecc'd snap freeze is excellent.
Apparently runemaster is the strongest choice for this patch, is it fun to play?
Yep
specially since RI counts as every element so the invoker set gives it a +3
Now I just gotta figure out how to make elemental nova not bad.
Is there a decent build that uses that set
I just use set affixes, not the set itself, much easier
the set uses snap freeze, static and flame shield as + 1
The chains are direct casts only. You have to spec into Chain Lightning node if you want it to chain on your indirect procs. I'm playing a setup just like you mentioned, no bugs
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Tombs of the Erased / 1.2
Mage (20) / Sorcerer (66) / Spellblade (2) / Runemaster (5)
▸ Health: 1,066, Regen: 17.2/s
▸ Mana: 739.92, Regen: 21.84/s
▸ Ward Retention: 92%, Regen: 153/s
▸ Attributes: 2 Str / 2 Dex / 46 Int / 2 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 53% / 30% / 98% / 49% / 91% / 125% / 63%
▸ Endurance: 21%, Threshold: 279
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (61)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 17% (441)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 21%
Lightning Blast / Static / Flame Rush / Static Orb / Focus
Ive been using these and ele leech
Is this a decent idea? since while in combat you get rather decent ward recovery and hp back via leech
Negative
You specifically DONT want to use leech with those
Those boots are doodoo
You want to have your life drain as low as possible because you get ward based on your MISSING health
Yeah I'd assume you WANT missing health for the ward
Ward isn’t difficult, why use bad boots to do it
You want to stack it with exsanguinous and the experimental glove affix. You can get insane ward levels with all 3
Also good way to perma proc LL stuff, if we have any.
Yep. Mage doesnt, but Rogue and Primalist both do.
There are also some uniques that do stuff to low life.
just use leech as a secondary buffer if your ward ever runs out tbh, we have a lot of ward sources the main thing to focus on is damage mitigation
so like. lightning aegis, that one spellblade node, res cap, etc.
yeah
And they are class locked so you can buff them
new idols go so hard
With the new mechanic
honestly id settle for adding a tier one zerrick set affix on a glove. just for the .1 leech on crit
you know, just in case.
main draw would be having CFC ready if you need it while spamming something else i guess?
Cold ward: Reowyn's Frostguard
lmfao
main issue is it's a huge idol, so that kind of ruins your idol setup since a lot of the good idols are 2x2
That’s not a good idol
Are you, as a mage, planning on being a punching bag?
im just replacing all
the fire and frost
and pretending we never get hit is no healthy
😄
What are some good ways to get ward? I'm playing a lb sorcerer and I'm feeling pretty squishy
Just scored this
Thats sick
Man theres no up to date builds for mage yet lol im just BSing my way through an old one
dumb question but can I know the name of a blue quest before accepting it? I only want SP and idol quests
what a base lmfao
best ive managed
nice
goes up to 400%
building around this could be fun @uncut zealot
this build's gonna go dummy
coulda been great rip
So what is the purpose of frost wall really?
great applicator of chill/frostbite
ayyyy
you can convert it to fire, at which point it gets a firerez shred which is nice, and you can make it brand enemies
even if you aren't a dot spec, runemaster has a node that gives 7% more damage against branded targets on a node that normally gives +1 flat spell damage
good value
the node that makes walking through wall give you 30% more damage on domglyph or invocation per second the wall was up is also pretty huge
very good for single target damage
Running frost claw converted to lightning and using that to proc lightning novas is way to much fun. The bounces can trigger the novas too
this is my favorite thing ever for runemaster
how are the mage builds going ?
Im having fun covering the screen in lightning lol
Yep, frost claw has got to be one of my favorite abilities in all games for sure
call me basic but I really like teleport
the mobility feels so good
cooldown is short
Yea I wish the survivability from flame rush wasnt too good to pass up for teleport
2H Shatter strike here I come
Guys i saw somewhere for spell blades when using shater strike and mana strike there's a trick to never run out of mana using 2 keys as 1 or something along those lines. Can some 1 help explain to me?
skills on the left side of the bar override skills on the right side. If mana strike is on the right and shatter strike is on the left, and you hold both buttons down, shatter strike will override mana strike, until you run out of mana and you can't use it. Then, since you are still holding down mana strike, you will use that skill instead. Once you have enough mana to use shatter strike, since you are still holding it down, it will override mana strike again until you are out of mana again.
Is good?
aoe monster
so you make shatter ur auto attack?
Just killed abberroth with vilatria lightning blast spellblade 😎 I suspect I'll run out of ways to scale in a bit, but it did well up to this point https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oYXPxPDB
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Tombs of the Erased / 1.2
Mage (20) / Sorcerer (8) / Spellblade (58) / Runemaster (22)
▸ Health: 2,271, Regen: 61.81/s
▸ Mana: 165.74, Regen: 13.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 378%, Regen: 194/s
▸ Attributes: 12 Str / 5 Dex / 146 Int / 8 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 81% / 90% / 102% / 71% / 68% / 107% / 69%
▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 454
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (20)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 36% (1,848)
Lightning Blast / Surge / Flame Ward / Static / Mana Strike
dose mages have a build thats similar to necromancer? i.e. a bunch of spells automatically cast on nemeies
Your best bets are Mana guide (channeled, kinda like Warpath), or Spellblade (use mana strike to trigger like 4 other spells at once.
There's nothing that's fully automatic
so necromancer is the best path to get wlaking simulator?
lol 5 gold lizard pop
You could try going fire aura I'm p sure you can walk and things die, but you'll need spellblade for that. Or maybe you don't since the autobomber part's in the first half.
Can someone share a frostclaw lootfilter?
Found one of these. is this good?
you have to build around it, and it's been nerfed... many many times. But you could still include it in the right build
there are some boots and a glove affix that have similar effects, so you probably want to use all 3 of them together
i prefer using heart if you're trying to turn health into ward, also prolly better for proccing low health too i think
this thing?
Heart is limited to necro/elemental casters and is best in a hybrid build. You have to have life to turn it into ward, while exsang wants you to have 1 life for max ward gain
You can use heart with exsang, but the heart is there to keep life near 1 and provide other good stats. Heart won't generate much ward in a lowlife build
@tepid barn are you playing ?
wooooo hey!!!! is this good patch??
mage nerfed? should we go again?
yeh VK is pretty good this patch only falconer is more OP otherwise vk is the answer for s2
good upgrade
swag
wat about u?
nothing really new with sorc or rm
Might update and mess around with some new items, couple interesting uniques
👍
hate to see all these sentinels smashing the boards
got this, no clue what uses it
Long time ago was best top end RM weap
I feel like im late to the party and nothing else is decent with runemaster
I'm not really up to date but I think just playing bread and butter frostclaw is a safe bet for a first char?
Thank you i understand now. Tested it and works. Pretty much don't put shatter strike on mouse lol
Just reached empowered mono on flame reave build
moments taken before disaster
Has anyone tried autobomber style static lightning blast?
thats kinda what I'm doing with the new mana guide unique
Mage has so many interactions and conversions its kinda overwhelming tbh
Can go move only static or maybe even stand still static
Just play spellblade then 
How Can we faceroll 1k corruption
not sure we can
Hello please help me out, why is lightning skill giving fire glyph. I have tried different lightning skills, they all give fire glyph instead
Im getting fire glyphs only no matter the skill
I have those moments too
Doesn't that set-up just mean long cool down
Sure it's more damage and it's automatic
most people only trigger it and not cast it directly
But 12 seconds is alot
since the cooldown is only for direct casts
so when triggering it through flame rush you have no cooldown
Yup
Ah ok. That makes sense
huhu quite the beast
There is nobody Playing sorc doing high corruption?
have you seen any?
one single map, still no mana guide or oceareon
so how are mage builds fairing this new season ?
Idk, im still on normal monoliths. Im not rushing rn
Still looking / trying to do a good loot filter
Still enjoying the frost claw build idea
Its clears the map quite nice, but i'm scared IT would not work on late
Right I need your brains. Disintegrate isn't great after the ignivars nerf/fix, but I reckon it can work anyway. There's a metric fck ton of 'more' modifiers available to it, but the hardest one to scale is the shock count. Disintegrate doesn't 'hit' so shock chance on hit is out.
It's heavily point-starved so I've only put 2/5 in the 'feedback' node for +80% chance per second, but it's not even close to enough. I've considered speccing lightning blast and going 3/3 in the 'tendrils' node but again, point-starved, and LB doesn't cost 15 mana so it can't proc brand of deception in the passive tree either, which feels bad.
How do I get more shock chance not on hit for disintegrate?
How do I scale best with Runebolt + Antipode of the Rune Slinger? I kinda want to play like Hydrahedron but more skill spam
Figure out which fundamental criterion attribute you need and stack it
That's how you play most runic invocations 😂
If I join the Circle of Fortune will I be able to give/get gifts from my friends when we play in a party?
Using resonances yes, but they're quite rare. You need to play with them a lot
Alright thanks.
What different runemaster builds are there besides the turret one (hydra or w/e its called) and auto bomber? I was drawn to playing runemaster due to the variety of different spells and invoker-like gameplay, but having no builds that utilize making your own spell combinations are drawing me from it, anyone in the same boat?
Mage is cooked this season from what i have seen. Rank one mage is stuck at corr 300 ATM. Brand single target is low
I don't even think pre rework shaman was that bad. I'm not a fan of going backwards for a new season so I just rerolled
Mage isn't strong this season, Donolo is right
It's also the lowest played class currently by quite a bit
What exactly is Runebolt used for?
For setting up a specifc combo, or is it decent damage by itself?
runemaster or sorc. what do you guys say
Yea I realize even a "meta" build isnt strong enough so whats the point of making a non-meta build, I guess I need to reroll
It's very hard to gear that build yes
On any other class that effort/luck would be a 2k banger
The static orb version is alot easier to gear and does more DMG early on but probably won't scale as high
This is the easier build https://youtu.be/jc3d7b-P8SA?si=6Co2fY3Jsm5h0hw8
which woven echoes did you guys place in the weaver tree?
personally i like the one where you climb a tower with one of those fight/empower things on every floor, but i forgot which echo that is
very nice way to hunt for t7 mods
rngesus blessed! oh wait right I just clicked on it 😦
Quite sad. I made a mage just because it looks so fun to Play, but not sure i want to be stuck at low corruption 😦
Who cares about meta, play what you find fun. I'm playing post-nerf disintegrate because fck meta
i want
game refuses
btw which build of it are you running? I'll be trying it this season but havent got to yet, and will probably be a while until I do
he isnt stuck, thats spreading misinformation
he has not even swapped to STR version
which packs a serious amount of more damage
Lightning conversion, no ignavars (since nerfed). Trying to touch as many more mods as possible + twin beam, shock stacking, zero mana cost because lazy
and for boss you just change from plasma orb
yea given the sweeping power creep its hard to believe that any normal build can be stuck at 300 corr, I'm raw dogging focal blast with turbo bad gear and already at 200 after minimal play
and it can probably go higher since now I'm using some half assed hybrid setup instead of twisted heart
Is there anyone that can send me on my way with the game ? I just started last epoch and trying the mage class. But i have no idea what i am doing and what skills/passives i should all take for leveling
for lvling almost anything is sufficient
i suggest glacier with this node
I dont mind about the meta, but still being stuck in low corruption does not look fine to me
you want to look up some guides on crafting (a very big thing in LE) and mechanics fundamentals like what different stats are doing
and what do you think you will obtain from higher corruption?
Copypasting a build to 300+c quickly gets boring
any guides you recommend ?
I dont know. I like to be higher and higher, feeling im able to hold that
then mage isnt for you, if you are aiming for the e-penis competition
not this league anyway
sorry haven't been keeping in check with those for years now, I'm sure most major youtubers should have adequate content in this regard
unlike poe and such, and without going into excessive nuance, in this game it's expected that every piece of gear you wear was crafted by you
crafting isnt for the upper 0,000001% of players and items
Questions:
- What should I be focusing on to improve my build.
- Is there anything specific I should change in my current build?
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Tombs of the Erased / 1.2
Mage (20) / Sorcerer (54) / Runemaster (8)
▸ Health: 961, Regen: 15.66/s
▸ Mana: 194.58, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 88%, Regen: 44/s
▸ Attributes: 0 Str / 0 Dex / 37 Int / 0 Att / 0 Vit
▸ Resistances: 91% / 51% / 75% / 44% / 0% / 21% / 38%
▸ Endurance: 28%, Threshold: 192
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (21)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 10% (135)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 8%
Fireball / Elemental Nova / Meteor / Flame Ward / Teleport
max out craterborn in meteor, it's a free more damage buff for your entire build
not sure what role ele nova plays in your build, meteor + fireball should cover all your bases. Just fireball really
You mean fire pen specifically right?
yes
Holy…hydra runemaster feels like im in some anime
Just zipping around as a fireball placing down hydra
also I'm not sure if you are building ailment fireball, if you do you should consider swapping points around and/or using Fireatarter's torch, also you really want to hit 100% pierce chance with a combination of your skill tree and helmet affix
what's the aoe of black hole homing?
also you probably don't want to be using exsanguinous either at all (twisted heart should be better at a much lower investment) or at least at this level
your idols also suck - consider filling with random small weaver idols with relevant stats, don't underestimate the power of the stat stick
I took Scattered node which creates second black hole in 10 meters from original and sometimes that additional black hole just stays, despite being somewhat close to an enemy, like half a screen, probably even less
Anyone make any crazy Sorc builds
I'm just fitting what I can. I'm running Sudo-self found so.
only thing viable right now is spellblade
Firestarter's Torch is a 18% DPS loss.
Hey guys
Is there any S-tier FrostClaw build this season after the nerf ?
firestarters is 40% more vs spreading flames and cinder song is +1 extra projectile, it's not even a contest and that's before we get to the part where torch is exponentially easier to get with LP
The linked build is my current build. Not what I'm aiming for.
none discovered so far
imagine only being able to play the game if you use an "S-tier" build
And top is Cinder Song, bottom is Firestarter. I'm not sure where you're getting the 40% more from.
"Non discovered so far" is enough
U can keep the rest to yourself
i play all classes each season anyway
since you are so into class tier lists, dont you think any mage builds would be up there if they existed?
youtubers love click bait tier lists
you can always count on youtubers to make mindless tier lists
angry reply incoming
We had an s tier mage build last season, sounds like you're not well informed
You can just ignore them. I've had them block since they were being a shit disturber since the POE2 server where they acted the same way.
Yeah i know this type of people
He must be fun to be around in parties lol
so they nerfed static orb from last season and buffed other classes
an absolute blast
thats like they have ex workers from blizzard
Lol
i dont think they targeted mage, it just ended up like this
with both nerfs here and buffs elsewhere
one class has to be worst right
(26 to 42)% More Fire Damage to enemies afflicted by Spreading Flames
I have no idea how the dps calc works on le tools but I would assume its incorrect by default, also of course if your other stats are too low cinder song might get ahead just by virtue of having inc fire on it, with better gear this should be much less of an issue
they just went a tad overboard when they reworked the class
whatever the class is called
sentinel
+2 Fireballs = More Ignite Stacks = More DPS.
Your'e missing the fact that every fireball is adding on an additional ignite stack. And the fact that 2x Fireballs is well, just that, 2x more DPS for fireball outright. Firestarter would be great if I wasn't spamming fireballs for ignite stacks.
+2 gets cut down to +1 with the linear shots mode but yes, that's obviously true
also you are missing that 40% more is a multiplicative modifier on top of everything else which is better than adding 25% more fireballs
also the realistic lp for song is maybe 2 while for torch it's 3 or 4, it has lpl 0
Just tried out Torch. Its 100% Weaker.
]anyone know what nodes on mana strike do/don't convert to cold if you take frigid grasp? My guess is that the % current mana to base damage is converted since the conversion says "base", but the mana arc proc isn't. Am I right?
What builds are you guys running? Im starting to get stuck and im only at level 80 monoliths :S
Currently playing a gacha style runemaster, kinda sucks
does plain lightning damage scale dot?
brand in this case
or does it have to be something like damage over time / elemental damage over time
Hydra rune!
Thats the one where the little fire thingy shoots smaller fire thingies?
also does +spell damage boost brand damage?
according to bigdaddy brand dmg scales with base dmg of the lightning skill, but idk for myself.
thats why he skills static orb for maximum dmg modifiers in his build
ya thats why static orb brand does way more dmg than from LB brand
when i tested its like almost 2x more dmg
Im behind you but I'm playing ignite fireball sorc and its been going pretty smooth.
brand of deception has base damage of 400 lightning damage
but doess + spell dmg buff that?
I think yes, but people go for damage over time modifiers since they can roll higher
no i mean the implicit
this one
trying to figure out if i should spend the last forg potential on rerolling implicit range or trying to reroll necro dmg into DOT dmg
or this works too
prolly prefer that over DOT dmg
well guess i reroll from mage later
i love playing with lightning blast but it feels like castration not being to do much with it, especially when playing MG
i do super well with lightning blast
stuck with it because i cant find the gear to progress out of direct casting it
but im absolutely not suffering
are you at empowered yet