🧙┃mage

[half pollen]

Personally I cant enjoy builds from guides, I need to do my own stuff to enjoy it

[spare vessel]

runemaster is kinda invoker from dota haha

too bad i suck at invoker

[half pollen]

sadly the good builds dont play like invoker at all

[spare vessel]

what about the bad builds? which one is the most fun?

thats what i care about the most

although for now im just building my own as i go

[weary hamlet]

idk fun is subjective but trying to play it like an invoker i.e. thoughtfully and methodically picking and choosing invocations to use isn't very fun as it goes contrary to the rest of the game

also not much to pick and choose from since most of them are just different flavors of damage and you'll find that whatever you build, most of them scale poorly with it

tbh this skill's general paradigm with how much it's tied to its build around unique(s) is quite shameful

also in a large part because both Criterion and Reowyn's are just annoying to gear for

[whole sapphire]

What would you say is the most powerful sorc build atm?

[warm fossil]

is:
Experimental Ward per Missing Health

still a viable prefix/defense to build around?

i want to survive being one shot from things like the corpse explosion from the undead dragon thing

i jus want to be able to stand in anything and everything even at higher Corruption

there was a mod that allowed me to spawn any item in offline with any prefix/affixes so i could test how viable a build i had in mind was so i didnt waste time in online trying to build something that only ended up being crap but the mod hasnt been updated in a while

[weary hamlet]

idk something like frostbite frost claw probably, or the str stacking brand of deception

oh nvm you asked for sorc specifically

can't get brand on sorc

SO, glacier/meteor should still be very good builds despite the nerfs

[half pollen]

If you want to be tanky you probably wanna go strength stacking runemaster with criterion and brand. But that has no ward per missing health

[west agate]

I've managed to get him down to 50% so I'm sure someone better than me at the mechanics can do it. I havent seen it yet either tho

as zhp ballista that is

[weary hamlet]

low life is viable in general but it will not allow you to face tank everything in higher corruption

[harsh abyss]

Also low life is generally more viable on classes that have specific bonuses for it, like Primalist and Bladedancer

[weary hamlet]

also true

[limpid viper]

I love spellcasting but cannot for the life of me get a build that feels good

[weary hamlet]

hard to say anything without knowing what feels good to you

[rare hedge]

Hmmm, I just specced into Epilogue (Flame Rush) + Runic Invocation, and I don't understand how it interacts with Plasma Orb. Sometimes when I queue up a plasma orb and Flame Rush, it casts, but other times it doesn't...

[nimble basin]

Guys, im going to make a mage for second char, its possible do skip campaign with dungeons like last season ? And what uniques is good to use ?

[rare hedge]

Yes, if you have keys

[weary hamlet]

it still costs mana, you probably dont have enough

[weary hamlet]

uniques are largely build dependent but ofc you have fairly universal stuff like null portent - oh wait it was fixed, wall of nothing, red rings, seed, twisted heart, wrongwarp etc

[nimble basin]

Im going to follow that maxroll spellblade leveling I think

[rare hedge]

Ah. Yup. Didn't realize the mana cost changed with the effect, lol

[fathom tundra]

i'm using these two exalted swords as a shatter strike spellblade, so are they good? what should i improve?
also are there any good uniques to slam on or the only better sword is the scissor?
if the scissor is the only option to go, then any advise on how i can get more of them and move runes of weaving as all modifiers are random and stuff? ( really stuck on this sword issue thing)

[weary hamlet]

your swords arent terrible but good scissor rolls should be ahead. Not this one though. To farm more, spam lostwood folly and check the tombs in your regular echoes, use runes of weaving to speed up discovering affixes

be ready to throw 99% of scissors into the trash

[fathom tundra]

if i put the sciccors here, will it drop more? or only normal and uniqe items?
and how do i get more runes of weaving? ( i only have 5 lol)
also your answer means that there are no good uniques to use? either good exalts or the sciccors only?

[weary hamlet]

champion imprint - no, the other imprints should work. I used them for essence weaver for a while and it definitely functions. For runes of weaving - they have a chance to drop together with weaver items so the more weaver items node is also a hidden more runes of weaving node

also I'm pretty sure that all the fateweavers' weapons can drop randomly with that node too

[weary hamlet]

for SS it's exalts or scissors, for flame reave if you for whatever reason want to dual wield there are options like eye of reen etc

although I guess a well-rolled scissor would still be better than eye there

it's a pretty dumb weapon

straight from the authors of wrongwarp

[fathom tundra]

alright got it, will start this scissor hunting lol
thanks alot for the help

[covert fiber]

Any1 know if this build is still good or if there is a updated version of it ?https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/allie---cast-on-crit-spark-charge-runemaster

[silk pewter]

Allie's Cast on Crit Spark Charge Runemaster Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Release / 1.0.3

Class

Mage / Runemaster

Used skills

• Frost Claw
• Lightning Blast
• Flame Rush
• Runic Invocation
• Flame Ward

Used unique items

• Dragorath's Claw
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Foot of the Mountain

Tags

Monolith Farmer / SSF / Ranged

Created by Allie · Mar 12, 2024, 4:54 AM

[half pollen]

that one is dead

you would need to modify it heavily. Frost claw cant proc spark charges anymore, only static orb can

[covert fiber]

Is there a similiar build ?

[half pollen]

well you can still play frost claw without fragment of the enigma, but I have no clue how much worse it will be

probably a lot worse

[weary hamlet]

frostbite frost claw or something

[full bluff]

I am making a classic frost claw build now, with spark charges. It kind of works for clear, but really slow on bosses

[molten cobalt]

would this apply to brand of deception?

or only elemental DOT

[half pollen]

yes

[molten cobalt]

ok nice

[full bluff]

You can try something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bOs65Ry2aI if you want that old frost claw "feeling" 🙂

[covert fiber]

Yeah i misread the build i posted i thought it was a differnt one

the one i used was making use of lightningblast

[molten cobalt]

whats the chance to seal a t3 mod?

[inner oriole]

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/seal-chance

[molten cobalt]

34% thats not too bad

actually no

i just tried that myself

the feeder item must be same or higher lp tier

[full bluff]

Teleport decoy works pretty well when you are squishy and the large amount of monsters in new areas

[molten cobalt]

i wanted to reroll the 2lp twisted heart i just found, but nope cant do it

[half pollen]

yeah you need legendaries for what I meant

you can use a legendary with 2 affixes to reroll a 2lp item

so his trash legendary red rings from nemesis with 1 affix can be sacrificed for 1lp rerolls

[molten cobalt]

ah yes that works

[rapid fossil]

how much uptime can you get on flame ward?

[molten cobalt]

it does also reroll the slammed on affix

which can be both positive and negative

[half pollen]

something like 60%ish?

[molten cobalt]

I'd say it's easier finding feeders than wasting forging potential trying to reroll affix within it's tier to max

[half pollen]

personally I would reroll my lp item first until it has good stats and then slam something on than the other way around

[molten cobalt]

i guess depends how picky you are with numbers

im struggling really hard crafting good enough feeder purples because i need such good items for it to be worth it

they always get 0 potential before i get there

like this, i wasted a lot of forg potential getting 16 int only to screw up ele dot roll and the res rolls are still shit

had to stop because rerolling int to str eats FP too

easier getting 2 affix feeders from nemesis i feel

[quasi wedge]

how good is this then?

[molten cobalt]

it enables certain builds, but it is super common

they are so common i gamble them trying to hit 3 lp

[quasi wedge]

aha, ty

[molten cobalt]

i used to imprint mana guide on my weaver tree, the bottom left imprint

and it very often gave me 2-3 mana guide per successful trigger

[hard orbit]

any suggestion for leveling mage except spellblade? already got a high level char and I'd like to avoid the melee playstyle

[molten cobalt]

runemaster of course

runemaster brand autobomber or sorc meteor

[frail hedge]

Welp this is a nice suprise

[hard orbit]

yeah but that's gonna be on level 40something (till I can get brand of deception)

[balmy sorrel]

Hello, everyone! Can you guys please tell me if the skill tree works for skills that trigger from other skills? For example, for the frost claw

[molten cobalt]

pretty nice to 1hit stuff like double empowered nemesis

with brand

[runic hedge]

Is cold runemaster good? I'm trying it out as my starter and I've only seen people use hyra and plasma orb

[wild nymph]

is there a way for Shatter Strike to have a "lightning" tag?
or other way for the "storm blade" passive to work with Shatter Strike

[wild nymph]

The passive says "when you use a melee attack and hit...", so this passive will give you a chance to use cast Frost Claw only when you press a melee attack button

generally "when you use" means "when you press the button for the skill on your skill bar"

assuming it works as intended, ofc

[oak panther]

Afaik no

[balmy sorrel]

Yes, but I wonder if it will be just a skill or a skill plus all the bonuses from the tree if I take them?

[oak panther]

Is it saying "directly"? Sound like that tooltip is inconsistent and I guess it only works with direct skill usage aka pressing the button instead of proccs.

[wild nymph]

explain with your situation specifically, hard to understand what you mean

if you use a melee attack and a chance to cast frost claw procs - that frost claw will be affected by all you passives and Frost Claw tree

[balmy sorrel]

Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to know) I'm using Shatter Strike as main skill, so I want it to trigger Frost Claw too

[balmy sorrel]

thx for answer!

By the way, what options does the game have besides regeneration to get mana? For example, leeching or per hit? Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything(

[molten cobalt]

using skills that cost no mana to begin with

mana regen

mana on kill

[wild nymph]

aside from character/skill specific - mana gained on potion use, which personally i dont recommend since theres no way to automatically use a potion, or get potion when you're full on potions (afaik)
also could reduce mana cost, but for shatter strike the only i source i know of is boots that require you to not move

there's also a "mana efficiency with Frost Claw", but shatter strike wont be affected

[wild nymph]

could you be so kind to give an example of mana on kill pls

[molten cobalt]

it is an affix isnt it?

[wild nymph]

whats the affix name/searchable wording

Theres a "ward on kill" if you're thinking of that one

[molten cobalt]

there's also this but maybe it doesnt help @wild nymph

[toxic dragon]

I am new and have question for some more advanced player. Wanted to play runemaster crit build for some lightning spells but notice that every build is around - brand of deception as it damage is insane. Is there any chance to do valid build for endgame or brand of deception overperforming anything else in damage?

[waxen sigil]

Mana on use/cast/hit occurs like rive has it, fireball/runebolt have it

[molten cobalt]

brand is likely the best mage atm

[half pollen]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A1dq8l4o
this is a lightning crit runemaster and its fun to play imo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (13) / Spellblade (31) / Runemaster (49)

General:

▸ Health: 1,524, Regen: 27.2/s
▸ Mana: 323.51, Regen: 23.36/s
▸ Ward Retention: 154%, Regen: 152/s
▸ Attributes: 36 Str / 112 Dex / 52 Int / 13 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 91% / 67% / 122% / 52% / 52% / 65% / 65%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 305
▸ Dodge Chance: 65% (3116)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 47% (2,865)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 93%

Used skills:

Static / Runic Invocation / Focus / Mana Strike / Teleport

[half pollen]

I call it the kickflip runemaster, since you skate around on mana guide and do kickflips with the runic invocation jump

it can do a few million dps on stationary targets but gets a little fuzzy on moving ones

[runic hedge]

What are some good invocations for cold runemaster?

[wild nymph]

so you replied to a "mana on kill" question for a shatter strike discussion with an example of "mana on use" for non-spellblade cases
good one, thanks

[runic hedge]

So far I like the ward, freezing cascade and doomfrost but I wanna know if there is any that I'm missing out on

[modest ivy]

how good/fun is shatter strike spellblade?

[molten cobalt]

honestly im not sure why people use red rings on brand of deception builds

just for the DR?

[half pollen]

DR is huge

but also all res

and you stat stack anyway

[molten cobalt]

dps wise its pretty much identical to a oceareon

[molten cobalt]

yeah but im capped without

just from idols basically

[half pollen]

but inefficiently capped

[molten cobalt]

and idols have nothing better to have as secondary stat anyway

[molten cobalt]

no

[half pollen]

red ring is 140% res, thats like 3.5 good t5 res rolls

[molten cobalt]

stuff like this

[tired hound]

Its clear is fast or na

?

[molten cobalt]

sure that 12% cold res could technically be 12% lightning damage, but that does f all at this point

[half pollen]

yeah that could be damage over time or ward retention

[molten cobalt]

not on medium

dot are small

and shock > dot

dps scaling wise

[half pollen]

weaver stout idols have 25% damage over time suffix with frailty

[molten cobalt]

there's these but thats small

[molten cobalt]

i already apply frailty and 25% DOT is worse than 25% shock chance

[half pollen]

man you dont sacrifice shock chance 😄

shock is prefix

[molten cobalt]

oh

which idol is this

[half pollen]

I guess I need bigger red markers in my screenshots 😄

[molten cobalt]

my bad 😂

reading is hard man

[half pollen]

its ok

[molten cobalt]

i have never seen that combo

and oh man have i filtered through thousands of stout idols

actually

I'll go and stand in a corner

[whole garnet]

Hi 🙂 Does Frost Claw have to be on my bar in order to proc 🙂 ?

[molten cobalt]

yeah this is FrozenSentinel with 2 red rings on his build @half pollen

[wild nymph]

nooope

[molten cobalt]

that doesnt seem very efficient

[half pollen]

yeah sometimes red rings overlap badly with passives and stuff

but you can always do one red ring if this bothers you too much

[molten cobalt]

already over with 1 red ring

[zinc pewter]

hi guys. Can i level up with the strenth stack runemaster?

or its better other build to level

[molten cobalt]

and i dont have a single elemental res on any gear whatsoever

thats just idols and now a red ring

[half pollen]

is that max rolls or average rolls?

[molten cobalt]

on the idols? average at best on the res

[hidden flume]

Anyone using disintegrate that could point me in the direction of a build. Just kinda winging it and running into issues

[molten cobalt]

they aint that good

didnt manage to hit any ele res at all when doing 2 lp slams

and i dont have the all res blessing either

i forgot mana guide does have 29% lightning res

ohhhhh i get it now

red ring isnt 20% elemental res

it's freakin all resistances

yeah now i get the value

[half pollen]

reading still hard, eh?

[molten cobalt]

yep

very much so

[languid ridge]

How do you capitalize on sorcerer's max mana thing?

What I mean is do you get +mana instead of the usual affixes and it's worth it damagewise? Feels like mana is a waste when you can get the usual good stuff like damage

[tired hound]

@molten cobalt is the clear pretty good on brand? Or its on the slower side

[molten cobalt]

clear speed is amazing

[waxen sigil]

yea, just search "mana gained" lol

[molten cobalt]

from the same freakin map

3 being 1lp

[lunar crest]

Is there a mage build capable of solo Uberroth?

[cerulean plinth]

Fyi they added the ability to filter by specific uniques yesterday

[molten cobalt]

thats very nice

[waxen sigil]

Some things can scale w mana cost like static orb or cost to much to use w/o a lot of mana. And there’s passive tree benefits for higher costed stuff / mana pool scaling

Can’t specifically how to capitalize without knowing your actual stats. But a lot of these are more multipliers or flat bonuses that you wouldn’t get from scaling inc%

[languid ridge]

Basically I'm wondering if at any point it is reasonable to stack mana on non-unique/set items

[half pollen]

sure it is if you ask this broadly

[tired hound]

Would you lean toward the fastest clears?

Is it what rune master?

[molten cobalt]

brand autobomber runemaster is definitely the fastest clearing mage

[tired hound]

Kay ima try it out

[molten cobalt]

and very respectable single target damage too when you make a simple swap

the str stacking version that is

with criterion chest armor

[waxen locust]

how do I make a legendary fundamental criterion with +strength? mage armours don't have +strength affix

[molten cobalt]

swap from int or dex to str

with a weaver map

costs 1 forging potential

[waxen locust]

how?

[molten cobalt]

you complete the map?

and use the tool

[waxen locust]

aaah!

thanks

[cerulean plinth]

Does anyone know if there's a command like /kills or something like that so I can see how many mobs I've killed on this character? Kinda curious

[elfin flume]

I just manually count one by one

joking 🤣 I dont think theres a kill count afaik

[vital pilot]

what is the meta build for mage this season? i got to 75, and getting stomped, thinking of switching to something else

[sleek night]

guys, how does Star Guide (auto attack) for Mana Strike works?

do i like put the skill on the skill bar then it will auto attack?

i tried hover mouse over enemy but doesn't seen anything like an auto attack (🤔

[tight bloom]

runemaster - brand of deception, either strength stack or wall of nothing. spellblade - frostbite frost claw. sorc - vilatria's meteor with mana guide

[cerulean plinth]

https://youtu.be/SxhQJWI5l-E?si=_mSTMOK-xDGjHESu

I've been running this which is a more cast speed focused LB build

[vital pilot]

interesting, str runemaster, is it melee?

[cerulean plinth]

Don't think it's "meta" but it seems solid so far

Only just getting to emp monos on it

[vital pilot]

i havent beatern aberoth and empowered monos before

i wil try this season

[cerulean plinth]

I assume it's using cleaver solution

[tight bloom]

it's autobomber, movement skill triggers rotating sphere around character and that sphere applies brand of deception to enemies in good radius, basically just run and everything around dies by itself

[cerulean plinth]

This fyi

[molten cobalt]

the final version is

[quiet folio]

now that we can put the set boni on awesome gear...did anyone try a lightning meteor build?

[cerulean plinth]

Not yet but that does sound fun

Cook something up

[quiet folio]

that does sound strong ngl

just on top of everything we have

[cerulean plinth]

I'm going a LB build so I might try and get that too....does seem decent

[tight bloom]

someone did
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[cerulean plinth]

That looks kinda sick

I wonder if you could incorporate LB into that...

Might do a little cooking

[molten cobalt]

seems to have zero tank though

[dark jewel]

funniest build ive seen in a hot minute tbh

[cerulean plinth]

This is true. Hmm

Only issue is you have to use a 2h staff if you want the set bonus

[dark jewel]

its a one button build year?

[cerulean plinth]

So no extra ward gen from a wand/orb

Seems like it

[dark jewel]

is the set bonus affix from a 2h staff?

rough

[cerulean plinth]

Yep

[simple marsh]

how rare or useful would this be? i dont have a mage right now but that seems cool

[cerulean plinth]

That's pretty sick

[dark jewel]

well last season this was a cracked base this season its useful?

id craft that up still

i still gotta reach 300 max mana for my doubling of bonuses 💀

[cerulean plinth]

I still don't get how set crafting works. You just get the set item, break it down, and then craft it on via the normal crafting window? Do you need an open slot for it or is it sealed automatically?

[simple marsh]

idk how to even really craft tbh

[dark jewel]

open affix slot same type of item

[cerulean plinth]

I see

So it takes 1 prefix or suffix slot

[dark jewel]

ye

[cerulean plinth]

Can you seal it?

[dark jewel]

i believe so

so yes its kinda cracked

[cerulean plinth]

Sick

[dark jewel]

the crafts this season

are quite the thing

[cerulean plinth]

I've been ignoring sets on this character....time to fix my loot filter

[dark jewel]

ive been farming invoker set for the rings bonus's

[coral mica]

Does this respect ice barrages cooldown?

[dark jewel]

so i can slam them onto some good rings

then hopefully slame that onto somegood uniques

[cerulean plinth]

Can you slam set bonuses onto uniques?

[dark jewel]

it shouldnt

[coral mica]

[dark jewel]

the chance should be independant

of cd iirc

thats how it reads anyway

[coral mica]

Yeah things that respect the CD usually say in the alt text, this doesn't

Fun

[dark jewel]

enjoy your cook

[dark jewel]

yes

that is a pretty big function

of the new season

[cerulean plinth]

Interesting....definitely have to get into some set crafting shenanigans at some point

[dark jewel]

breaking downs sets

putting them on exalts

and slamming them on the good shit

[cerulean plinth]

I knew about the exalts. I just didn't realize you could slam that into uniques

Makes sense tho

[dark jewel]

you can also post tier 2 guarantee a affix

good for those mid game crafts

with 1-2 lp items

[cerulean plinth]

Do they max out at t2? The set slams

[dark jewel]

i am not sure

[cerulean plinth]

Dude 1 lp slams have gone so damn hard this season

[dark jewel]

i havent crafted that extensively with them yet

looking for good bases

[dark jewel]

yeah they sure do help

[cerulean plinth]

Same same. I have a 98 vk offline but a friend wanted to play together online. So I leveled one 2 days ago and am at emp monos now. Starting completely over was rough

[dark jewel]

to be fair abusing cof for sets is broken too

[cerulean plinth]

Yeah for sure

[dark jewel]

i dropped 9x full invoker set

season start from cof

[cerulean plinth]

Wait can you put them in weaver tree and target farm a specific set that way

[dark jewel]

so i got alot of affix shards

[cerulean plinth]

Since if 1 drops the entire set drops

[dark jewel]

for the crafts just these bloody bases wont drop good

[grand karma]

Anyone have a good/fun elemental nova build?

[dark jewel]

theres the gordians build iirc

[grand karma]

Would you happen to have a link perchance.

[dark jewel]

depends on if you want to play runemaster or not

[dark jewel]

gimme a sec

[grand karma]

Lol don't the we know each other that well quite yet XD

[cerulean plinth]

Oh god I'm gonna have to respec to sorc if I want to try this meteor build

And I'm lvl 82 so it's gonna be expensive af

[grand karma]

How is the mastery respec calculated?

[cerulean plinth]

The cost goes up kinda exponentially as your level gets higher

[unreal blade]

his blessings and res situation isn't very optimal yet

[dark jewel]

i cannot find it on youtube theres a gordians spell prism build thats just essenitally runemaster auto bomber

maybe it was on website

[molten cobalt]

Wouldn’t matter if you can’t even get 1k ward

And almost no life

I’m running around with 1800 life and 6k+ ward

And my gear isn’t even that good yet

[dark jewel]

wait no the build was in here perhaps?

[molten cobalt]

I could upgrade to multiple 2lp items instead of 1lp but I lack the feeders

[unreal blade]

this is a close to min max version of the build (with the dex variant for clear dmg) ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/omdPvRkB

with 2 red rings and all res blessing it is just barely over capped on a few res and actually uses 1 node in focus to get res capped.

[grand karma]

I'm looking on build planner and don't see any guides that use it

[dark jewel]

i actually cannot find it rn sorry

maybe it was theory build in here

but ive defs seen it

[molten cobalt]

So no crit immunity then? That’s a huge loss

[grand karma]

Lol it's cool, I'll look for it or theory craft it lol

[molten cobalt]

I take the crit avoid instead of all res blessing

[dark jewel]

its just all based off gordians prism

[unreal blade]

??

[dark jewel]

cos of the "free" GPN spam

[molten cobalt]

I see, that’s the other version

Not straight up immunity

[grand karma]

What node to you take to be able to cast gpn without cooldown?

[unreal blade]

reduced bonus from crits is better than crit avoid anyway

[grand karma]

Other than I guess the flame dash one

[molten cobalt]

How is it better

[dark jewel]

doesnt have a cd if you use runic invoc? with the item?

pretty sure thats the premise of the build every 3 runes is GPN

[unreal blade]

it's incremental, you don't have to get exactly 100%, and enemies with enhanced crit chance can still crit you if you only have exactly 100% CSA

[molten cobalt]

That build planner also uses the Uber aberroth drop, good luck with that

[dark jewel]

just go auto bomb

[unreal blade]

i did say it was minmax

[molten cobalt]

No point comparing with something you will never achieve

[dark jewel]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/546763235051700314/796271988658143249/image0-111.gif

[unreal blade]

it's certainly achievable, especially with the crafting we have now

i've been helping people that are actually very close to this already

[dark jewel]

yeah this seasons crafting is bonkers

[molten cobalt]

Go do it then and compare then

Until then you’re less than paper thin

[dark jewel]

does static orb as an ability still do good dmg?

[molten cobalt]

Are you sure that’s how crit strike avoidance works? That it nullifies crit chance? I don’t know myself but that’s usually not how it works in games such as this

[unreal blade]

but to expand on CSA vs Crit Bonus Reduction, with Bonus Reduction, if you have 95% then a crit you take is just 5% larger than normal and you can handle that. if you have 95% crit avoid, 5% of the time you'll take a double damage hit. It'll be rare, but it'll still probably 1 shot you. Since Bonus Reduction is incremental like this, it's much easier to work with, and if you have a tanky build you can even get away with less than this. last season my low life spark spellblade used only the 36% crit bonus reduction from mental catalysis and rarely died (like once every few nights) while at 1k corruption. If I had 36% crit avoid I'd have died constantly.

[dark jewel]

idk what this convo is but im overcapped on both stats have a good day sirs

[molten cobalt]

Obviously you need 100% CSA

[dark jewel]

i die to poison and void dots attacks bcos i have not res capped

[molten cobalt]

that’s not even a question

[unreal blade]

from the game guide

[molten cobalt]

But from googling 100% CSA makes you immune fully

Irregardless of monster stats

[unreal blade]

yes but that can be hard to do, and you need 100% or it's useless. 99% will still let through crits rarely.

99% crit bonus you'll barely feel

[dark jewel]

huh whats the avoidance cap?

i swear that said capped 126%

[vital pilot]

i dont get how does flame rush proc plasma orb for runemaster?

[dark jewel]

easy with some work arounds

its fire lightening fire

btw

incase you didnt know

so firstly the spec point

[rotund atlas]

so im playing shatterstrike, im using the mourningfrost boots are there better unique boots yall suggest? or are these boots just really good? the loss to physical/cold resists seems bad to me

[dark jewel]

in flame rush

allows you to cast runic invo

so at the end of flame rush youll cast whatever invocation repective to your rune combo

flame rush being fire make this easy

bcos the last skill you want is fire so you just need to worry about the set up now

being the fire skill and lightenming skill before flame rush

theres like a gazzilion ways to set it up

some more right then others

[molten cobalt]

It’s just t5 mod on belt and the blessing, not hard

I totally see how crit bonus reduction is better at non 100% amounts, that’s totally fair

But if you can get 100% of either they are the same

No idea how easy or hard it is though

[vital pilot]

thanks i get it now

[molten cobalt]

CSA is easy to get 100%

[unreal blade]

it's possible to override crit avoidance by having an abundance of crit, which can happen on some classes, notably spellblade which often extremely overcaps crit, which isn't intentional but does allow you to ignore crit avoid echo modifiers if you have enough overcap.

[dark jewel]

oh nws

🤝

[cerulean plinth]

I just spent like 15 minutes setting up gears in le tools for a meme build, went to save it, had to log in, and lost the build.....glad I tried to save early

[unreal blade]

yes with the blessing it's easy to cap with 1 t5 affix, but you are using a very valuable blessing slot on something that can be done pretty easily otherwise. 140% resistance is significant. you can get crit bonus reduction to acceptable levels with 2 affixes, and capped with 3.

[dark jewel]

is there any third party tools for dmg calcs?

[unreal blade]

yeah there you go. I hadn't gotten to this line yet 😄

[dark jewel]

or does anyone know if they gunna add more calcs to the tools on the website?

💀

testing dmg for some innvocations is quite the hassle atm

[hexed path]

they've been slowly adding them over time but I imagine it's not a priority

[dark jewel]

yeah i gathered that, and no third party stuff atm?

[molten cobalt]

i get your points, but for the build im doing that 20% all res has no value because im already capped on every single resistances with just 1 red ring

some resistances are stupid like i got 160% void res

so i need to swap gloves to a different base

[lime tundra]

how are respec costs around the early monolith lvls? wanted to try the other masteries but afraid im going to brick the build and not be able to afford getting back

im like lvl 74

[molten cobalt]

how many suffixes do you need to get 100% crit dmg reduction?

[dark jewel]

risky business do you have the gear atleast?

to switch properly?

i would not do a mastery respec

[lime tundra]

ive been aiming for general decent gear like spell dmg hp and capping resists, im a runemaster right now but keep getting spellblade weapon drops

[dark jewel]

unless ive proeperly geared

for said mastery

and build

ofc

respectively

[unreal blade]

not sure if it's been corrected in following messages, but this is not correct. set affixes cannot be slammed into uniques. tagging @cerulean plinth also^

[lime tundra]

ill do some more research before i take the dive then, thanks man

[dark jewel]

big noted ty

[molten cobalt]

so you need 3x t5 mods to get 90%

thats a lot of work

i cant even get that

because i only have gloves and belt

[dark jewel]

well i had never tried but it logically made sense at the time

[slender sedge]

can confirm, tried

[dark jewel]

thanks guys

whoops

thats abit like balanced but dumb

anyhow

[slender sedge]

says

you cant combine

[dark jewel]

hmm

[slender sedge]

unique and set item

if you setup stash

[dark jewel]

ig im not using the set rings bonus

[slender sedge]

set affixed items autosort

to set items tab

[dark jewel]

just weird cos they retain there exalted color?

[slender sedge]

they dont?

they are greenish for me wdym

[unreal blade]

you can get to 60-80% with 2 affixes, capped with 3 affixes, assuming you aren't using T7s. 60-80% is typically enough to play with, since crits only deal 1.2-1.4x dmg instead of 2x.

[dark jewel]

i swear i had slammed a exalted ring with said set bonus and it stayed purple, but nevertheless yeah ik they turn into the urine yellow color

nevertheless mb

sometimes everything becomes a blur

[molten cobalt]

That requires t6

[unreal blade]

t5 chest and other slot is 69% with average rolls

[molten cobalt]

That’s not really feasible for me because that would mean t7 and t6 on the same time

And to also have them land exactly right

[molten cobalt]

Yeah can’t do that, criterion chest with t7 STR

and aiming for penetration for secondary for 2lp

[unreal blade]

3LP is quite possible

especially since you don't care about the rolls on the item

[molten cobalt]

Never seen a 3lp yet

But that’s very nice n

[unreal blade]

it'll take some work, but it's only a lp level of 54

i have a few in legacy

[molten cobalt]

Got plenty of 2lp but zero 3lp so far

Not found 3lp of any unique I actually use

But you still would need 3 mods to cap out

[unreal blade]

yeah for any 3LP you will probably have to put in dedicated effort, so full prophecy pages, etc.

[molten cobalt]

It’s a lot of work I feel

[unreal blade]

it takes work to get near perfect gear yeah

[molten cobalt]

I will be using red rings for the damage reduction either way so I will be way overcapped on res

So that blessing doesn’t matter

Just waiting for my second lp one

Found many but only one had lp

[graceful scarab]

How is double altaria ring on Spellblade?

[grand karma]

Is there a skill or passive node that reduces the chance for runes to be consumed?

[unreal blade]

using all-res sources just frees up so many suffixes, particularly the new idols. that planner i linked has no res on idol suffix except 1 void 1 phys on 2 of the 1x1s. this means you get frailty on idols without having to put it on a gear suffix, and you get 4-5 of these idols. 60-100 wps and 32%-80% ward retention is very nice.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah those idols are super strong

[molten cobalt]

Already got frailty on gloves

But yes diff ways to solve for the same result

[unreal blade]

which is not optimal, but sure it works for now

[gilded hare]

any experts/veterans on here that would be willing to help me with my build? I've started to hit a wall with it, playing lightning blast with lightning meteor

[molten cobalt]

Not optimal of you need crit dmg reduction no 😂

[unreal blade]

ideal gloves don't have LP room for frailty

[molten cobalt]

I use regular

No good unique gloves for me

Except maybe Uber aberroth

[unreal blade]

yes those

[molten cobalt]

If I ever get them I might redo it all

[unreal blade]

i wish they had replaced CSA with crit bonus reduction. CBR is just all around better.

if you could get CBR at 70% like you can CSA then that would actually be a powerful blessing and competitive with all res.

cause you could just run that at 70% and probably be fine for crits on all builds, save hardcore.

[turbid carbon]

I am not the greatest at the crafting system and was wondering if there is a way to reroll the spell damage on my chest to possibly be higher? says it can go up to 90%

[cerulean plinth]

That's what I thought, ty

I also did a little meme cooking with that lightning meteor build. Idk how good it'll actually be defense wise. I'm not that familiar with mage passives so there might be some changing I should do

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q0zEjZzo

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (65) / Runemaster (28)

General:

▸ Health: 1,782, Regen: 36/s
▸ Mana: 393.88, Regen: 24.88/s
▸ Ward Retention: 288%, Regen: 123/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 107 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 118% / 94% / 84% / 82% / 84% / 83% / 85%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 356
▸ Armor Mitigation: 22% (878)

Used skills:

Meteor / Lightning Blast / Static / Flame Rush / Focus

[cerulean plinth]

The gloves can be replaced with something else since I have leech in the tree + blessings

No clue how viable this would be but it does sound fun

Also replacing the exalted ring with red ring at some point would be good

[cerulean plinth]

You bringing that up sent me into an hour long build planner session now I want to try it myself

[tight bloom]

I never tried it myself, but looks fun

[cerulean plinth]

It's hard to get ward up to something like 6k+ without an orb

Being forced into a 2h kinda sucks

[mystic sierra]

Put Vilatria set bonus as a prefix on an exalted helm so you can get +4 Lightning Blast

[cerulean plinth]

That would be ideal, yeah. I just put the set helm in as it's more realistic. Same reason I didn't add red ring yet

[mystic sierra]

I wouldn't say it's unrealistic to get an exalted w/ set prefix but I also play MG so I can't speak for CoF players

[cerulean plinth]

It's a lot easier this season than it has been in the past

[tight bloom]

should be easy with havoc rune

[cerulean plinth]

If you hit the 1/4 :^) and have enough FP to do other things

[mystic sierra]

Genuine question for my own understanding, how does Twisted Heart work with this build? I take it the idea is you're auto-casting stuff while moving around with Focus/Mana Guide? And Twisted Heart requires you to directly cast an elemental spell.

[cerulean plinth]

That's what lb is for

That was my thought process anyways

[mystic sierra]

So build up ward with LB, then focus-walk, then LB to refill ward as needed?

And/or using LB on single target I assume

[cerulean plinth]

something like that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It's more of a meme build than anything. Not something I've actually tried putting into practice

It probably needs a bit more mana regen

[mystic sierra]

I've been wanting to do something like this as well, I like the idea. I am not a huge fan of Focus, even with Mana Guide (feels slow?), but it's a fun idea

[cerulean plinth]

You could turn lb into a 0 mana spell but then you lose convergence which is a lot of single target damage

[mystic sierra]

Last night I got high, came up with a build that looked amazing, only to realize it required me to use uniques in the wep/head slot and I completely forgot to use Vilatria set haha. It was at 1100 mana and a ton of mana regen too with damage from mana before health (but no ward..fractured crown) :sadge:

[unreal blade]

it is slow if you don't have things to support the movement. it's why mana guide feels ok in the runemaster build, you are constantly using flame rush for distance traveling while focus gives you haste to help offset the speed reduction.

[mystic sierra]

Ah that's fair

[cerulean plinth]

I'm also not a big focus fan but it's really good

Gonna probably respec to sorc tonight if I have the gold for it and start working on it. Seems more fun than the standard lighting blast turret build I'm playing rn

[mystic sierra]

I got my mage to 77 running Zerax's Ele Nova / Grand Prism Nova build concept and it's a fun playstyle, but it's so unique heavy that survival stats are very thin and I'd need to get multiple LP on the items to try and compensate so rather than break the bank I'm considering respeccing the mage to something that is still fun, but easier access to survivability..this auto-meteor idea has been at top of the list, but I was hoping someone had some practice with the build(s) to say how they are performing lol (unless @unreal blade you've been running something?)

[gaunt plank]

Thinking about putting together a weird build. Lightning Blast (or maybe Frost Claw w/ lightning conversion) Runemaster, using triple lightning, full crit grand prism nova as screen clear/boss nuke. Idea would be to just teleport, nuke screen, move on. Anyone playing something like this?

[cerulean plinth]

Cook something up. Sounds fun

[unreal blade]

the strength runemaster is quite unique heavy also, you can play the int stack version with very little uniques though the damage and survivability can't scale too far until you str swap. i'm doing 300c without swapping, could probably go to 400-500 fully int but probably not much more than that. meanwhile str version casually farms 1k+.

[covert fiber]

Does chaining on the same target have a chance to apply spark charges on each chain ? with this

[mystic sierra]

So FrozenSentinel isn't running auto-meteor, so I assume you're running a dif version? Do you have a link for the STR version w/ auto-meteor that I could look at for reference?

Edit: Nevermind, you said Runemaster which doesn't get access to meteor 😩

[weary hamlet]

sure, each chain is an independent hit

[full bluff]

Working on a spark charge, frost claw, LB build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WEvJrJVjU, damage is working, but really squishy

[covert fiber]

The things affecting lightning blast in the skill tree dont affect spark charges right ? like storm razor base crit chance

Nvm i guess this answers that

[full bluff]

There is 200% more dmg node for sparks, 🙂

[molten cobalt]

is there a way to import build into the build planner?

via API, like PoE

ah yes there is, found it

[covert fiber]

Yep that 1 i know off

[molten cobalt]

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

err

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BG6XVV3Q

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 98

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (28) / Sorcerer (13) / Spellblade (12) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 1,706, Regen: 29.66/s
▸ Mana: 274.5, Regen: 16.4/s
▸ Ward Retention: 318%, Regen: 112/s
▸ Attributes: 134 Str / 31 Dex / 134 Int / 12 Att / 18 Vit
▸ Resistances: 83% / 82% / 86% / 127% / 163% / 75% / 45%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 341
▸ Dodge Chance: 9% (269)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 45% (2,652)
▸ Block Chance: 148%, Mitigation: 24% (383)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 76%

Used skills:

Focus / Frost Wall / Flame Rush / Runic Invocation / Flame Ward

[molten cobalt]

work in progress

[flint olive]

any brand of deception enjoyers?

[half pollen]

Yes

[flint olive]

hows it going? is itp ushing corruption

[half pollen]

Very fast clear, but im playing a static orb Version which is worse than strength stacking

[flint olive]

ah

i was wondering about a version with plasma orb but no focus

for a combination of speed and dam

[half pollen]

Focus is kinda crucial for not diying though, not sure how survivability feels without it

[gilded hare]

can anyone help me out with my build? I'm definitely hitting a wall here:

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

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 87

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (33) / Sorcerer (55) / Runemaster (12)

General:

▸ Health: 1,119, Regen: 26.18/s
▸ Mana: 385.18, Regen: 12.32/s
▸ Ward Retention: 156%, Regen: 103/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 47 Int / 1 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 29% / 97% / 79% / 28% / 84% / 108% / 46%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 23%, Threshold: 224
▸ Dodge Chance: 10% (255)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 16% (428)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 123%

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Flame Ward / Meteor / Static / Teleport

[uncut zealot]

How far have you pushed

[molten cobalt]

corruption? not pushed at all

[uncut zealot]

oh lol

[molten cobalt]

im chilling at 342 for now

but everything dies in 1 tick

[uncut zealot]

ah nice

gona push?

[molten cobalt]

i guess

eventually

right now i see no benefit from pushing

i can already not do this one

its the map with 10 big boys

harbingers

[rugged bronze]

Is there anyway to deal with mana drain from fc+ele nov

[fiery kiln]

I have been playing frostbite build, and swapped to shatter strike as i hear its better. And now I regret... Holy, how do you guys manage to play it

Frostbite been way better

Now im goldless so I need to stuck with it but meh

[uncut zealot]

Have the scepter mod?

[uncut zealot]

Easier to relevel than spend the gold imo

[fiery kiln]

600k gold per respec isnt that much, but still i dont have that much 😄

[uncut zealot]

takes like 2 hours to get to 60 on a fresh char lol

[uncut zealot]

ima build out the char again and push/min max it

and then im prob done for the szn

[cerulean plinth]

Very hard to do on a somewhat squishy class. I've only successfully done it on my sentinel but sents are broken

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ozx4G2rQ

Still messing around with the potential lightning meteor build. The dps is there regardless, but I'm still trying to figure out how to get a bit more defensive

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (65) / Runemaster (28)

General:

▸ Health: 2,150, Regen: 74.88/s
▸ Mana: 435.28, Regen: 27.36/s
▸ Ward Retention: 300%, Regen: 98/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 1 Dex / 109 Int / 1 Att / 17 Vit
▸ Resistances: 105% / 81% / 81% / 84% / 84% / 81% / 101%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 430
▸ Armor Mitigation: 22% (856)

Used skills:

Meteor / Lightning Blast / Static / Teleport / Focus

[cerulean plinth]

Eventually I plan on swapping to wall of nothing and red ring

[tawny fjord]

Hey is there anyway besided the set to scale damage with Int or maybe Mana?

[molten cobalt]

did someone say accessories

[cerulean plinth]

Fyi you can filter by specific uniques now

They added it just recently

[molten cobalt]

yeah i should hide some uniques

for sure

because this is obnoxious

[wispy rune]

how?

[cerulean plinth]

Should be an option in the filter system. I was at work when I found out so I haven't tried yet

I saw a video from raxx on it tho

[molten cobalt]

gonna hide all shit uniques up to 2 lp

[cerulean plinth]

Ye. I'll probably have a universal rule at the start to hide all uniques, a separate super strict one for 0 lp, less strict 1 lp, and 2lp will be most drops

[molten cobalt]

the filter isnt even working properly

[cerulean plinth]

Gg

[molten cobalt]

isnt the number poiting towards the filter rule?

[cerulean plinth]

Yeah it is

[molten cobalt]

well it aint working then

[cerulean plinth]

What do you have for your rules

[molten cobalt]

this is rule 6

they're all 1 lp, but rule says min 2lp

and it says 21+ weaver will

but it shows below 21

on rule 5

[harsh abyss]

Try making those the same rule

[cerulean plinth]

Hmmm. The lp and ww was working fine for me yesterday

It's just the specific uniques part that is new

Like I'll have a 0 lp rule that only shows me red ring and other rare or build specific stuff

[molten cobalt]

what do you mean

[molten cobalt]

yeah i know

still isnt working

it even shows 0lp items

but rule says 2lp+

[cerulean plinth]

Your rule is recolor tho

Not show or hide

[wispy rune]

generslly need to restart if youve recently added a rule/changed

[molten cobalt]

nothing else uses that color

[cerulean plinth]

Ah

[molten cobalt]

so there is no lower tier rule allowing 0lp

with the same color

[cerulean plinth]

Wish I was home so I could test it myself

[molten cobalt]

well something sure isnt working properly

the filter rules look like they are setup correctly

[cerulean plinth]

Do you mind sharing a screenshot of your full filter page

[cerulean plinth]

Seems normal to me 🤔 I'll test it out myself when I get home

[molten cobalt]

yeah i cant spot a mistake

the weaver one isnt working either

[cerulean plinth]

Could also try a relog and see if that helps

Good old turn it off and back on again

[molten cobalt]

im just gonna add a new rule

and HIDE all uniques with 0-2 lp

or rather all crappy ones i come across

and put it on #1

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, that seems the easiest way

[cerulean plinth]

Currently doing a normal LB build. Should I wait until I get the set before swapping to this or swap now and just go for fire nodes and swap to lightning later?

[molten cobalt]

why are there 3 of this

all named the same thing

[cerulean plinth]

My main concern is the cost scaling of going from runemaster to sorc

[harsh abyss]

There are three versions of the unique, they afflict you with different curses

[molten cobalt]

oh i see

[cerulean plinth]

Also debating on not going convergence on lb and making it a 0 mana spell, so I can use it to spam meteors while also not making myself go oom

[harsh abyss]

you only really need convergence if you're looking to make LB do good single target damage

[cerulean plinth]

Yeah. Meteor will be the majority of my damage even with convergence

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, you should be fine to not worry about it

[cerulean plinth]

0 mana lb it is

[harsh abyss]

I'll say that my experience with triggered meteors has always been that it's easier to just cast the meteors yourself

More controllable and easier to manage

[uncut zealot]

im rubber banidng so god damn bad playing this build

so irritating

[gaunt plank]

Question, if I have 3 gon runes and cast another lighting spell, does that count as changing my combination of runes for the purposes of nodes like this? Or do I need to actually cast a spell of a different element?

[molten cobalt]

oh i see what the filter did wrong

cant mark it unique type here

need to have it say None

[cerulean plinth]

I may end up doing that. This is kinda just a silly experiment

[harsh abyss]

Experimenting is fun, for sure

[cerulean plinth]

Also had le tools on my comp screen and had to panic minimize it as my boss came into my office randomly

Monka

[cerulean plinth]

Do you have any experience with the closed circuit node in LB? I know it's nowhere near convergence on single target

But curious what it's like

My best option if I make it 0 mana

[modest roost]

Where can I find a good starting runemaster build, starting for empowered mono, cuz I've kinda bricked myself and can't really clear content

[harsh abyss]

I'm not sure if closed circuit will make it chain back and forth between you and the target. If it does, then it should be equal to convergence in damage actually

[cerulean plinth]

In the sim it barely gives 3k dps

Whereas convergence doubles it

[harsh abyss]

🤷‍♀️ It might be worth trying in game to see if the chain will hit the same target multiple times. If it chains back and forth between you and the target over and over it's good. If it doesn't, then it'll only do one hit on the target and is basically worthless.

[cerulean plinth]

I'm pretty sure it's only 1 hit unfortunately

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, if that's how it works then it's basically not worth using

But the sim may also not be right, i can test it in a little bit

[cerulean plinth]

That is true

[harsh abyss]

It's a pretty niche scenario

[cerulean plinth]

Meteor is gonna be blasting anyways

[molten cobalt]

possible to filter away the beams of light too?

[cerulean plinth]

Don't really care about lb damage in this scenario

Don't think so chill

[molten cobalt]

ok

[tough kettle]

Just got a 3 a LP calamity what would be the bets slam for fire frost claw sorc?

[harsh abyss]

Well, it wouldn't be about the damage as much as the number of hits. Each hit(crit) has a chance to trigger meteor, so you want more crits to be happening. If it only hits the target once, you'll only have one chance to trigger the meteor.

[cerulean plinth]

Good point

[harsh abyss]

Whereas if it bounces back and forth, it'll be a bunch of hits, so a bunch of chances

[cerulean plinth]

So maybe it's actually worth taking

🤔

[harsh abyss]

Depends on if it can hit the same target multiple times, heh

[cerulean plinth]

Gonna be staring at my clock for the next 2 hours until I can go home

Just want to blast man

[harsh abyss]

I think I'm gonna start my Ele Nova RM today

[cerulean plinth]

Yooo huge

I almost went nova when making my mage but I like zappy zap

[harsh abyss]

I'm planning to do ele nova + Gordian Prism (Grand Prism Nova), for all the novas

[cerulean plinth]

Nice. Sounds fun

Btw do you have any passive change suggestions? I'm not that familiar with mage passives in general

I tried to grab what made sense to me

[harsh abyss]

I'll take a look in a min

[tawny fjord]

whats a reasonable amount of Ward to reach?

[harsh abyss]

As much as you can get, obviously, but 3-5k will get you to 300 corruption without too many issues.

[cerulean plinth]

5-6k seems easily achievable on most builds that I've seen but idk

[harsh abyss]

You don't want to be using Twisted Heart. It only works on direct cast spells, so your triggered spells and channeled spells won't give you the ward from it. Basically a dead item for your build.

[cerulean plinth]

Even with me using lb to proc meteors?

[harsh abyss]

You aren't casting those, you're triggering them, assuming you're going to be channeling Mana Guide Focus

[tawny fjord]

aww those numbers sound small I was hoping like 30k was possible

[cerulean plinth]

30k reminds me of the broken lich build in s1

[harsh abyss]

Nope, they changed the ward formula a while back, so you can't reach crazy numbers any more.

[cerulean plinth]

So if I'm not using heart....what would I use instead?

[harsh abyss]

Stormcarved Testament, Knowledge of an Erased Mage, a 3-4LP Tome of Elements

[cerulean plinth]

My thought process was just turret spamming lb and using lb crits to proc meteors

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, unfortunately the Twisted Heart just doesn't work with channeled builds

[cerulean plinth]

Hence why I wanted to try the 0 mana idea

Lb wouldn't be channeled tho

[harsh abyss]

You're channeling focus

Otherwise why would you use Mana Guide?

Or are you planning to direct cast LB?

[cerulean plinth]

Direct cast lb

Focus is just for mana regen if needed

[harsh abyss]

ahh that makes more sense. You probably don't want mana guide as your amulet then

[cerulean plinth]

I have never used it so I'm not really familiar with how it works/plays

[harsh abyss]

The idea with Mana Guide is that you move around while channeling focus. It's kind of a build-enabling item

[cerulean plinth]

Interesting

[harsh abyss]

It doesn't offer much value if you aren't doing it

[cerulean plinth]

Do I just go with a nihil or omni instead then

[harsh abyss]

Yeah

[cerulean plinth]

Would be really nice for resists

That clears up a lot for me ty

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I figured you were planning to do that since there isn't much reason to use mana guide otherwise

[cerulean plinth]

Nah that was just me not understanding how it works

[harsh abyss]

Totally fair

[spice bane]

Quick question, does the Shrapnel from Meteor shotgun?

[cerulean plinth]

That is a question for someone smarter than me

@harsh abyss should I spec into focus differently if I'm not using that amulet?

Could be worthwhile going into null profusion instead

[gaunt plank]

What item slot has lightning blast levels? Helm?

[cerulean plinth]

Yep

[cold sand]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PLACE YOUR BETS! DO I WHIFF, OR HIT THE GREATEST CHEST IN LE MAGE HISTORY?

[late perch]

I’m a firm believer

But I know reality, and it’s grim

🙏🏼

Good luck brother

[cold sand]

no you know what

this game is bugged

[late perch]

LOL

[cold sand]

no, I'm actually being serious. It's 100% bugged.

[late perch]

The hell

[cold sand]

This is the 5th time in a row I've gotten the exact same result from slamming mirror times

[late perch]

:/

It’s very much possible

I hope that’s not the case

You got that same roll 5x?

[cold sand]

no like

sec lemme find a couple

[late perch]

Kk

[late perch]

Oh damn

[cold sand]

no matter what

the 2nd affix picked

is ALWAYS THE SAME

[late perch]

That would be a crazy coincidence if it’s not bugged

Hmm

[cold sand]

this isn't even all of them

this is #5

in a row

this happened

[spring iris]

why does mana strike give mana like after 1second

[late perch]

Because it’s not instant, it travels to you

[cold sand]

I think I tossed the others

[weary hamlet]

cause it's secretly a reskin of rip blood and on hit it rips an invisible mana orb out of enemies that only gives mana when it reaches you

[gaunt plank]

Is Gordian Prism broken?

[late perch]

I would report it and have them investigate it, honestly @cold sand

Too suspicious

Use the ingame report feature and write a detailed explanation

[cold sand]

how do I ping a dev

[late perch]

So strange

[cold sand]

even if I get banned

[late perch]

You won’t get banned for this

Don’t worry

[gaunt plank]

Seems like I'm casting the nova in addition to the other invocation

[late perch]

Do this

[spring iris]

what the fk

[cold sand]

how do I ingame bug report

Ima post it to discord as well

but I'll do both

[late perch]

Settings

Esc -> report bug

[cold sand]

because I'm actually legit ticked at this, if this a bug it straight up screwed my entire league

[late perch]

I think

[spring iris]

is it planned to rework this? XD

[hushed sigil]

i forgot you can hit enemies with frostclaw by default twice right?

the projectile and the explosion?

[gaunt plank]

Anyone actually using Gordian Prism and know whether it's busted or if it's a visual bug?

[hushed sigil]

cuz i only see one damage instance

[peak oracle]

I played meteor till aberroth without knowing you can turn off screenshake lmao

[weary hamlet]

yes, ever since we first started to complain about it in 2018

or was that 2016

don't remember now

[cold sand]

YEEEEEEUUUUP

[hushed sigil]

the mana strike regen delay is so painful with mana arc too

[cold sand]

I got hard scammed this league

like actually

some of the best drops i've ever gotten and I failed all my slams cus of this bug

[next lance]

how do you find enemy hp values for quintessence of triumph, though im guessing its useless since low corrupt mono bosses have millions of hp

[harsh abyss]

If you take the "mana on crit" nodes, that mana will be provided instantly

[unreal blade]

need to be at 3 runes with order changing for that node to work. if you use the same element all the time, like LLL, it won't do anything.

[cerulean plinth]

Spent a good 30 minutes making a filter for my build. I'm so ready to blast

Freedom soon tm

[gaunt plank]

Just in case anyone is curious, Gordian Prism is bugged, or more accurately, Copied Scrolls is bugged with it. It will cast nova + whatever the original incantation is, instead of nova twice.

At least based on like 10 minutes of testing

[weary hamlet]

yea I've seen that reported already

[gaunt plank]

Well it's pretty annoying because it's killing my whole build idea 😦

[molten cobalt]

can regular aberroth drop the good stuff?

like gloves and relic

[weary hamlet]

he still has the same loot as before

[molten cobalt]

last time i played was 1.0

he didnt exist

[harsh abyss]

he has a couple good uniques, yeah

[molten cobalt]

he is easy

uber one has same mechanic?

or something extra

https://www.lastepochtools.com/endgame/monolith/aberroth/boss-items according to this it does not drop the gloves and relic

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, those are uber only, but he can drop other good stuff

[molten cobalt]

like what?

i see nothing good

[gaunt plank]

Nihilis = trash, you heard it here first.

[molten cobalt]

nihilis could be decent for some builds i gues

rest is garbage

[harsh abyss]

A well rolled nihilis is bis for almost any build

[molten cobalt]

brand of deception says hello 😂

but what makes nihilis good?

its not like its difficult to get frenzy buff elsewhere

[gaunt plank]

Health, mana, movespeed, all skills, mana regen, armor, all res

What could possibly be bad about it

I feel like this is a disingenous question

[molten cobalt]

its nice and all, but BIS?

[harsh abyss]

It's the opportunity cost it saves you everywhere else in your build, not one specific stat that matters

It's like "all the suffixes you need for your whole build, right here"

[molten cobalt]

where is uber aberroth btw

i have killed regular aberroth 10 times now, but i cant see a hint of uber aberroth

[harsh abyss]

I believe he's accessed via a woven echo

[molten cobalt]

ah

i see

i guess hiding here

one of those 3 new

[cold sand]

2 skills, 20% more armour, 15% all res, up to 12% more hp/mana, 10% movespeed, and frenzy are all insane

and the downside of losing some hp/ward is minor for frenzy buff imo

reasonably, the only other unique amulet I would consider really damn good (for mage) is orion's eye, with up to 150 mana, and 10% reduced fire/void dmg and removing void res as something you have to worry/gear for

[gaunt plank]

Well now that I know my stupid build isn't going to work the way I want it to, I feel like I've wasted my time leveling this mage

[cold sand]

nah m8 there's plenty good mage builds

that are fun

you can make the random bullshit go build, runemaster that casts RNG spells 24/7

actually most fun build i've ever played in any ARPG if I'm being honest

[gaunt plank]

I know, I've played a bunch of them

[cerulean plinth]

my poor pockets

[gaunt plank]

I played a Grand Prism Nova build before - wanted to try it again w/ the new (to me) offhand

[harsh abyss]

It's new to everyone, not just you. It's a brand new unique this league

[gaunt plank]

Wasn't sure when it came out

Anyhow, now that I know I can't proc 2x novas when using it, it's kind of a dead item

[harsh abyss]

I mean, I'm sure it's a bug that'll get fixed

[gaunt plank]

I'm sure it will. Doesn't help me right now, though, which happens to be when I'm playing

[cold sand]

well at least I got this

shame I don't have matching chest piece set

WOULD HAVE BEEN AMAZING

[last knoll]

Can someone help me out? Doing some testing and it looks like infused weapon passive for spell blade DOESNT work with flame reave? I can notice a difference with fire blood but not infused weapon. Infused weapon also doesnt affect the tooltip. Is it bugged?

[quiet folio]

What happens tho? Only 1 nova thats it?

The new Glacier Helm sounds fun...mhm

[gaunt plank]

Yeah, you'll get a nova and whatever the base invocation was supposed to be. So like, if you have 3x fire runes, you'll get a nova and a giant fireball

Which probably has other uses but I don't want to make a build based on a bug

[peak oracle]

Am i forced to run mountain boots because I dont know how to meet the stat requirement of the red ring?

[unreal turtle]

Is there a fireball sorcerer that can do like 500 corruption

Maxroll rates it D tier

[weary hamlet]

I saw vids from some guy who was doing 1k corruption in 1.1 with fireball + FFF invo (the respect build omegalul), I fail to see a reason why it should be much less effective, if at all, in this one

or the same with meteor

[unreal turtle]

What's FFF

[weary hamlet]

fire fire fire invo

[weary hamlet]

you might have to if you have no other way of meeting the threshold, those boots arent bad really and now you can always guarantee a slam of movement speed

[harsh abyss]

You could always use Blood of the Exile especially if you can slap T7 int on it. That'll get you a good chunk of the way there.

[peak oracle]

Im already running transient rest, im not exactly sure how it will feel tbh

but stat wise i would need like a lot

[prime terrace]

Sorry for the dumb question but could someone tell me why my Mana Strike has a cold tag? Even though it does lightning damage?

[tired hound]

Your weapon

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, either the weapon that converts it to cold, or you have the node in it that converts it to cold

[prime terrace]

Thank you yes.

[peak oracle]

Hmmm... I guess I have to try to farm another red ring

some of these weaver affixes are so strong

5k damage by melee hits in <1s

[robust jacinth]

Any really solid runemaster builds going around?

[summer juniper]

so i’m doing this rune mage build that scales real hard for clears , and i’m getting no bis drops

[summer juniper]

there is

i tried it out and its crazy

[uncut zealot]

i might have cooked soemthing

its quite troll

and requries a lot of work

[robust jacinth]

What is it?

[summer juniper]

from maxroll https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/hydrahedron-runemaster-guide

there is a video about it on youtube

but the thing is i’m new and lvl 80 still havent got any uniques for that build

but still doing good clears

with whatever i have

[robust jacinth]

Ty I'll check it out

Been kinda just running random stuff atm lmao

[summer juniper]

lol try this out i switched from glacier to this

instead of worrying about mana

i have that build

[uncut zealot]

okay.. ive cooked

its a massive WIP but we ahve DMG

need to solve defense somehow lol

[harsh abyss]

Sounds about right for mage, heh

[stuck mirage]

isn't glacier just eraser strike for robe boys?

[uncut zealot]

MAN im annoyed

this is fun asf if i can stop dying

[harsh abyss]

What did you end up doing?

[uncut zealot]

harbinger of stars belt build

but melee 😂

[harsh abyss]

oh yeah, it's actually awesome

[uncut zealot]

onyl way to get enough hits to reliably use the belt

ranged mana strike is sitll considered a melee skill in the purpose of triggering frost claw

so sick of dying

so meh

idk if i wanna continue palying lol

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I feel that. Dying is the worst. My best advice for that build would be to stack some "damage taken from mana before health" and boost the mana regen from mana strike so that you can keep yourself topped up.

[peak oracle]

im dying to even like a white weaver influenced mob looking at me wrongly lol

[harsh abyss]

Gross

Okay, my Gordian Prism build is starting to get there

[harsh abyss]

That looks like one of the champ/boss attacks that shoots out little lightning/necrotic projectiles

[peak oracle]

weaver influenceeeeee

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, those things have no mercy

[spare sparrow]

currently running a static orb sorcerer build and hit empowered monos a little while ago and things kinda hurt now so I was looking for ways or ideas to make it more tanky. so what’re some good ways to make tons of ward cause I’m out of ideas on this area besides just trying exsanguinous lol

[uncut zealot]

video??

[lusty totem]

Anyone good with frost claw build? I'm trying to decide what is more important, cast speed or freeze rate multiplier for my offhand. Anyone know?

[uncut zealot]

cast speed

[lusty totem]

I was hoping you didn't say that but it is what I expected

BRICKED

[uncut zealot]

frm is good if you got that

[harsh abyss]

1. Don't underestimate Ward/sec and ward decay threshold for a "base" amount of ward generation.
2. Since you're probably stacking mana for static orb, a bit of "damage taken from mana before health" can help save you from one-shots if your ward gets depleted
3. Lost Knowledge is great when stacking mana
4. Mana shell is very good for ward/sec, if you don't have 5 points in it, get it.

[uncut zealot]

cast speed is just dmg and survivability

[lusty totem]

Pick one

[harsh abyss]

Still going through the campaign, but I'm not having any problems on slow boss kills any more, using ele nova + RI, which usually have garbo single target.

[spare sparrow]

thanks for the ideas, to be honest i didn’t really think about stacking mana cause its a static charge build with fragment of the enigma for most of the damage also didnt even think about damage to mana so that might work well

[harsh abyss]

Okay, you have to use the right words. A spark charge build is a lot different from a static orb sorcerer

[teal musk]

hey does the glacier CoC meteor sorc still work from like back in the day near like 1.0/1.1
not sure if theyve made any changes to make it so that build can't function

[lusty totem]

Anyone with thoughts on which Volatile Ice is better?

[harsh abyss]

Probably cast speed

[lusty totem]

uuggh, I messed up

ty

[peak oracle]

man I have such a long laundry list to do for farming things

[spare sparrow]

its using static orb to apply the spark charges so both but I get what you mean mb

[fading snow]

amen to this, going from like 100 ward/sec to 250 ward/sec will do amazing things to survivability. And it's doable with like 1-2 affixes and some idols

I wasn't a believer until I tried it -- I figured ward from twisted heart would be enough

[harsh abyss]

The new weaver idols that give ward retention + ward/sec are stupid strong

[coral mica]

Anyone played around with this on shatterstrike spellblade? It won't benefit from melee buffs but seems like it could generate enough mana to replace mana strike maybe, and more free hits/freezing

[uncut zealot]

hows it gonna generate mana?

[coral mica]

I was about to say gift of winter, but just read it again it's direct cast only, so scrap everything ahaha

[spare sparrow]

twisted heart was another idea I had but ended up deciding against it cause I actually dont cast a ton of spells directly with the build

for context I cast static orb through flame rush and evade with tribolectra

[stark cove]

are there any items besides the belt that works with Fire-Meteor ?

[thin flicker]

Hey so I wanted to try sorc for a change but I don't know what to make with it. I just want to throw huge DPS spells but they do zdps

Also is mana guide bugged? I tried using it and it just throws a little lightning blast that's not affected by multicast or chain. Even when I put spark nova it doesn't do anything

[spare sparrow]

weird built idea I have but haven't gotten around to making yet is a CoC lightning converted meteor that uses fully converted lightning fireball to trigger the CoC from the belt. Its a combination of Liath's Machinations, Vilatria's Downfall (or the set item affix shard), and harbinger of stars

[unreal blade]

it does use the lightning blast tree

[thin flicker]

Weird, maybe it doesn't show visual queues well

[unreal blade]

easy place to test it is at the arena grounds on the dummies there.

[thin flicker]

I did test it in the arena grounds but as I changed the lightning blast tree it did benefit from a lot of the nodes except the one that makes it chain on one enemy instead of multiple enemies. But it never chained to multiple enemies to begin with which is weird

[fading snow]

multicast only works on direct cast, and chain(s) are mostly built up by direct casting

[unreal blade]

which chain node are you referring to? one works for direct casts only.

[thin flicker]

That makes sense

[thin flicker]

Bottom right corner, it makes the bolts chain to the same target over and over

[unreal blade]

yeah that should work if you take convergence

if you take divergence instead it will spray beams

[old apex]

what is the best sorc single target skill?

[hexed path]

static orb melts stuff in my experience

[harsh abyss]

We've had reports that Black Hole can even be good single target now.

[old apex]

i'll give static orb a shot.. already going lightning as is

[harsh abyss]

Convergence Lightning Blast is also good, and got buffed this season

[old apex]

there wouldn't happen to be a good single target channeled skill would there?

[thin flicker]

What skills synergies are there with black hole?

[old apex]

maybe disintegrate?

[lapis harbor]

I really wanted to like disintegrate and started it till empowered echoes

Its just ass man

Game is against u

High mana cost, mediocre dps and forced to stand still

[molten frost]

health regen SB with shattered lance set? anyone tried it?

[harsh abyss]

I was thinking about it. The best way is probably using Last Bear gloves and dual wielding shattered lance sword + cleaver solution and strength stacking

Felt like a LOT of effort and required pieces to make it go together, but it could totally work.

Especially with the new weaver idols that can add a lot of flat health regen

[cerulean plinth]

finally got boots with crit avoid and I'm 2% away from 100% crit avoid.....and it's out of potential

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa