🧙┃mage

[molten cobalt]

Prophecy to start but imprinting will give more

[elder knoll]

I started picking ring prophecies yesterday, so my sample size is rather small

[molten cobalt]

You realistically only need 1 from prophecy

Then imprinting will shit them out left and right

I got 2x 1lp ones

[elder knoll]

Well, I'll have to get the first one 😄

[molten cobalt]

On average 100-150k CoF points per red ring

So it’s not too bad

[elder knoll]

The hardest part in my opinion is picking the prophecies, it's so tedious work

[molten cobalt]

100k is a few hours farming

Not that bad

[elder knoll]

Yeah, I do shrine echos. Get a ton of favor

[peak oracle]

i wonder if i should go back and farm some lp1 red rings before doing uber

[elder knoll]

For prophecies I wish they'd implement a filter / highlighter. I understand they don't wanna make it easier to get your desired prophecies, but they could make it easier to identify them

[molten cobalt]

Red rings help a lot with res, so you can start using the good idols

[peak oracle]

i could get like another 24ish str

[molten cobalt]

The shock chance / ward per second idols

[elder knoll]

Got it, farm rings

[molten cobalt]

You’re using the lenses right

What do you mean identify them

[tired hound]

Can you link me your shield friend? Thanks

[elder knoll]

Identify what kind of item they give and such

[molten cobalt]

My shield?

[elder knoll]

Since i don't want rings with weaver will

[tired hound]

Ye what do you use for offhand

[molten cobalt]

You can’t pick and choose which rings

Use filter though

[peak oracle]

those idols are not exactly common

[molten cobalt]

Yeah but I got a few 🙂

[peak oracle]

i got like

2 shock idols yday

[molten cobalt]

More than I can use without going below res cap

[peak oracle]

after a few hours of doing mono+proph+imprint

im below cap on some but thats a risk im taking

[half pollen]

Anyone else feels like dodge is a lot worse now with the ward nerf? Lots of stuff still one taps me with 5k ward. The 60% dodge is barely noticable. Meanwhile health builds just leech to full health in a microsecond

[elder knoll]

Yeah, I know, but it does let you select between ring that can have LP and ring that have weavers will

[peak oracle]

only weaver uniques can have weavers will

so either you have it or not

[molten cobalt]

I’m not at home, but I use that rare one

[elder knoll]

yeah, and i don't want them, which means i have to look at every ring prophecy

[molten cobalt]

With block chance per str

[elder knoll]

to identify if i want that prophecy or not

[peak oracle]

you ahve to do it anyway?

lp prophecys are a scam

jewelerly are ring icons as well

[elder knoll]

which is my point, they could allow you to highlight / filter prophecies that you get. Like, highlight black sun prophecies that reward X. You'd still have to reroll, you'd still get the same amount of prophecies, but the amount of data you'd have to read through goes down

[molten cobalt]

No?

Oh you mean that

[elder knoll]

Select is bad wording, sorry, i mean you'll either get weaver's will ring reward, or a regular ring, but it will say on the prophecy which you get

[molten cobalt]

Yeah don’t buy LP prophecies

Good god no

There’s generic ring prophecies and then there’s minimum 1lp prophecy

The 1lp minimum is a fat scam

[elder knoll]

yeah, i mean the generic ring (that can have LP, not the one that guarantees 1lp)

[molten cobalt]

They are not sorted

It’s just “ring”

[fervent ledge]

Frozen deleted the snapshot build anyone still have it somewhere 🤣

[molten cobalt]

It’s not a build

It’s an exploit

[fervent ledge]

The actual build was slihjtly different tho

[molten cobalt]

Build is the same with or without snapshot

[fervent ledge]

To help

[molten cobalt]

No

[weary hamlet]

yea the difference between the sustain of ward and health builds is too high, and if they want to keep it that way they need to preserve higher ehp for ward builds

[molten cobalt]

Same build nothing different

[peak oracle]

technically

he out FR on lightning

[weary hamlet]

at least now abusing overleech via a low tier exp affix is harder/has more opportunity cost

[peak oracle]

and made it so you dont have to respec

for bosses

[molten cobalt]

Had nothing to do with snapshot

It’s just an iteration

[fervent ledge]

Well primalist main build at the moment used a lot more snapshotting

[peak oracle]

i think it was only mentioned in that vid

[fervent ledge]

Can gear be snap shottes too

For RM

[half pollen]

Yeah, im so close to doing a health mage build just because ward currently lets me down so much

[molten cobalt]

Doubt it, but let’s not talk about exploits here

[fervent ledge]

Uhhhh.....

Primalist and Acolyte channels talk about it every few minutes for a last few weeks and it's their top build

And maxroll has entire guided on it

[molten cobalt]

Doesn’t make it allowed, just because mods don’t warn you for it

[fervent ledge]

Oh

[weary hamlet]

just do the ignite glyph and cover all your health in endurance, its unironically good now

[molten cobalt]

But go ahead at your own risk

[weary hamlet]

gonna be rolling either that or VO/runebolt on my RM

[waxen locust]

How is snapshotting an exploit?

[molten cobalt]

How is it not?

[peak oracle]

because the rm one isnt erally

snapshotting

[molten cobalt]

You’re abusing a loophole in bad coding

[tired hound]

Yeh when u can pls ss idk what to look for or what stats to put on lp ones

[peak oracle]

i understand snapshotting but the rm one isnt really

[tired hound]

Prolly the str = block one ye?

[half pollen]

Thinking more about life disintegrate since disintegrate scales well with Max mana and you need Max mana for endurance threshold. Or just good old static orb sorc or smth

[weary hamlet]

eh idk on that one, if you are in lightning you have very easy access to ward effects from rm tree, ri tree, affixes etc

[half pollen]

Yeah thats usually where my thought process ends for a mage life build. Its always 'might as well get some of the ward stuff' and boom its a ward build

[weary hamlet]

it's more of, "which builds cant use twisted heart well" and then you blink and suddenly you are a vessel build

[fervent ledge]

More crazy is rogue and sentinel still out performing acolyte, Primalist, and mage who only even come close due to snapshotting lol

[weary hamlet]

I mean in 1.0 you could do >3k corruption on falconer naked

[fervent ledge]

oP

[weary hamlet]

if that doesn't tell you all you ever needed to know about balance in this game, idk even

[fervent ledge]

It's why I don't care about the gear swap stuff on my BM

Oh no the rogue player caught me trying to be half as good!

[weary hamlet]

you can swap all your gear on most bm builds and they will still suck cause of bad clear cause of small AOE

[fervent ledge]

Ya

[weary hamlet]

like I had summon bear on my alt and the damage was pretty good but the clear wasnt

cause its still only one bear with wonky AI

[charred cloak]

Hello, I've read a lot of people say that Fireball Sorc isn't good this season.
What makes a build good? Is there anything Fireball sorc can't do?

[fervent ledge]

Same for Abom , very bad clear

[weary hamlet]

it's likely that fireball sorc can do all content in the game with enough gear, but builds being "good" can do more, easier, and with less gear too

[charred cloak]

When you say "more" what do you mean by that?

[weary hamlet]

putting it simply, on some builds you can kill uber aby with 30 hours of playtime, on others with 300, and on some (most?) not at all

[half pollen]

I also want to do an int stacker aegons mirror bolt since thats pretty much 10-15 times your int as ward every cast. But no clue how to scale the damage. Strength stack again I guess, but its a 900% effectiveness invocation best case

[fervent ledge]

Seasons are pretty long in this game so I'm I'm not too worried about how long it takes or how expensive stuff is in MG

[weary hamlet]

also when it comes to corruption, realistically about 500-600 is where the scaling stops being favorable and you are better off focusing on farming faster, but some builds can go to thousands of corruption, and some of them don't even slow down all that much

[charred cloak]

So according to your earlier comment there is a good chance I can do everything but will have to invest more time yeah? That would be great because I really like my fireballs

[peak oracle]

except uber

[molten cobalt]

Block effectiveness

[peak oracle]

uber has this annoying issue where it punishes you for longer fights ergo lower dps

[weary hamlet]

I mean you can probably still beat uber even with fireball. But it's gonna be a helluva uphill battle

[molten cobalt]

It absolutely is abuse

[fervent ledge]

LP1 bastion costed me more than I thought. 30mill

[weary hamlet]

normal aby shouldnt be an issue with fireball

[peak oracle]

you are insanely incentivized to like have really good dps

[fervent ledge]

The lp red rings are rough though

[peak oracle]

buy lp0, imprint and pretend to be cof

kek

[molten cobalt]

Lp bastion is only really needed against Uber aberroth

And only if you’re using something that lets armor apply to DoT

Otherwise there’s nothing you need the extra effectiveness for

It’s much more worth to have a 10str bastion with no LP

Than a 4 str one with 1 lp

[fervent ledge]

Ya that's what I did, got a 1 LP so far after one day

Just need one more.

In COF are imprinted items higher chance to drop as LP

[peak oracle]

i mean

if they fix it

ill just switch to hydra build

[scenic dock]

is BoD elemental DoT?

[peak oracle]

ye

[molten cobalt]

No

Lp chance is rolled individually

Or rather separately

[fervent ledge]

How is DMG calculated. Like how do I know if 200% to ele dot will go r me more than 15 STR (criterion build)

[molten cobalt]

I don’t know

STR is multiplicative though

Increased of any sort is additive

You want as much multiplicative as possible

For high end gear I would assume 15 str beats 200%

BUT 200% would boost dps in maps as well as bosses whereas STR only boosts the single target invocations

[fervent ledge]

Can this STR build get by with just 1lp gear..or is 2lp vital for dmg

[peak oracle]

lp1 is fine

[molten cobalt]

Oh absolutely

It’s usually the first LP that’s the strongest by far

That’s where the t7 str goes

Except for weapon and shield

[fervent ledge]

I'll try weapon and necklace don't don't seem too pricey

[molten cobalt]

Mana guide is suuuuper common

Cleaver too

[fervent ledge]

For weapon I have shock Chance, what is best next

[molten cobalt]

Lightning pen

[fervent ledge]

That's better than ele dot?

[molten cobalt]

Not done the math

But should be

You have sooooo much additive damage

To the point where 200% isn’t that much

That single target invocation that I always forget name of gives 100% shock chance per activation, so 3-400%

[fervent ledge]

I also got a make helmet still. Gotta read up on how to do that just wearing stormcrow

[molten cobalt]

With 550% shock chance base already

That’s 900% shock chance

X6

[fervent ledge]

Wow

[half pollen]

Strength also gives increased damage, so thats not to be forgotten

[molten cobalt]

5400% increased damage

From that alone

[molten cobalt]

Yeah from the mirrored INT, that’s true

6% increased damage per STR

[peak oracle]

ay buddy

shock for brand

is more

not increased

[molten cobalt]

It is?

[fervent ledge]

So i salvage storm crown. Use shard on good helmet

[molten cobalt]

5400% more damage?

[molten cobalt]

You’re right

[peak oracle]

the intial dot is 400, you need insane mults to get it to 6 digits lol

[molten cobalt]

7 digits

That shit can hit for millions

With the single target one

[molten cobalt]

Yes and then use rune to shuffle the tiers

So tier7 lands on the set mod

So it is 0,8-1% affix

Needs to be top rolled t7 to be equal to set helmet

[peak oracle]

its kinda annoying to get something decent

[molten cobalt]

Yeah usually you just end up with t7 set affix, t5 str and whatever on suffixes

But you can imprint it on the top left one and pray

That way you could with luck drop one with sealed t7 set mod

If the imprinted item has t7 set mod on it

[peak oracle]

can you actually find it like that?

im doubtful because its a set mod

[molten cobalt]

Yes

[peak oracle]

huh

[molten cobalt]

Yeah I tested it myself

Dropped multiple sealed t4 and t5

No luck on t7 yet

[peak oracle]

mine is already 0 fp so its a bit tough

[molten cobalt]

Doesn’t matter

Mine is too

[peak oracle]

hm

[molten cobalt]

The ones that dropped still dropped with 40+

[peak oracle]

ill try

but i prob wont farm

uber is my last goal

[molten cobalt]

It’s just from those champions

You’ll kill those no matter what you do

[peak oracle]

and the setup is pretty much ready

[molten cobalt]

I see

[peak oracle]

i could squeeze out more dps but i think its enough

[molten cobalt]

Yeah the fight isn’t a dps check it’s a skill check

[peak oracle]

i need to work on my p2/p3

[fervent ledge]

Can you put picture of the item you put in imprinter

[open vapor]

Is mourningfrost worth it for spellblade? Currently playing it with mourningfrost and love how much damage I'm doing but don't love how I get randomly 1-tapped by rare enemies

[half pollen]

@molten cobalt what skills have you specced in your build? Thinking about switching to strength stacker

RI, flame rush, focus, and then?

Frostwall! And the last one probably flame ward?

[zinc pewter]

Teying using it with bane of winter

And titan heart

[grand karma]

Do yall think they'll do a mud season balance fix for Sentinel and kinda bring up mage as well?

[half pollen]

Nope, then dont do mid season class balance stuff

At least no nerfs

[grand karma]

So is there hope for buffs?

[half pollen]

I wouldnt put too much hope in it

[grand karma]

That's a shame. Cause other than playstyle there's not much reason to choose anything over Sentinel right now since they kinda have everything going for them.

[open vapor]

Definitely an interesting tech, but I meant for dual wield shattering strike. Thought that was the only reasonable spellblade build tbh

[fervent ledge]

A nerf if anything lol. Only reason I have seen a mage do even half of something like other classes is a snapshot which has been reported to EHG by a popular content creator.

Although mage kinda sucks in poe2 and looking to be worst in d4 S8. Someone hates wizards in 2025

[grand karma]

Yeah mage seems like it has to min max and jump through crazy hoops just to be on par with some of the other basic builds

[weary hamlet]

sentinel will maybe get back to balanced by about 1.5

or 1.6

[grand karma]

I mean even so mage is still trailing behind with the other classes as well. Rogue, primalist, and acolyte put in half the effort and get almost double the payout

[half pollen]

Mage has been S Tier for quite some time in the past though, so its not seen as bad probably

[covert wasp]

Hmmm, ok in a hypothetical scenario that someone just started the game (like level 40-ish) and picked sorcerer mage hoping for an ignite build how screwed would I, ahem would that person be

[half pollen]

I heard that ignite runemaster isnt too bad, no clue about sorc though. The only sorc ignite build I know is Black hole

[covert wasp]

I see :/

[weary hamlet]

yea and nobody is arguing that, but even when mage was more powerful it was never as braindead of easy to itemize as rogue or warlock builds for example

[weary hamlet]

ignite sorc is perfectly fine for most things in the game

you can build it on fireball and it does just fine

[peak oracle]

Theres the hydro rm

[covert wasp]

I mean I am pretty much just freestyling it as I go, technically I guess main skills rn are meteor and volcanic orb

[peak oracle]

They beat uber with it

[left hill]

you can change masteries now

[weary hamlet]

vo ignite is also pretty good for that matter

although I'm more of an enjoyer of VO frostbite but they are largely similar

[molten cobalt]

When I get home sure

[molten cobalt]

Frost wall

[covert wasp]

don't know if I will regret it but I plan on like at least testing the skills I find interesting to see if things stick before going to another mastery or character. The black hole spell also looks interesting, and kinda wanna see if I can snatch spells from different masteries as well.

[pallid gyro]

Building an Essence Weaver Spellblade and I've seen some comments that Frost Claw can be built to hit 25 times. I can see the extra casts on direct casts of Frost Claw but not indirect casts. Are there other sources of extra projectiles/extra casts of Frost Claw outside the tree?

[weary hamlet]

black hole is largely a trap, the damage is not too bad but the cooldown makes it very clunky

[weary hamlet]

it's via using the on through the snow part of the tree but it doesn't work on indirect casts

[pallid gyro]

yeah that's what I thought, I think those comments were just mistaken. Thanks!

[half pollen]

I thought about fitting in a static orb for the Lightning aegis with 25% damage reduction but not sure if its worth

[molten cobalt]

Can you get perma uptime?

Snap freeze isn’t bad either

It won’t freeze uberroth but it interrupts him

So it will cancel an attack, such as tri slam

[weary hamlet]

98% crit avoidance experience

[molten cobalt]

100% or go home

[molten cobalt]

Oh and of course flame ward

For 4 sec omega tank

[left hill]

does "freeze rate per stack of chill" work with Snowdrift?

it mentions excluding "Freeze Rate Multiplier granted by individual skills' trees or Freeze Rate Multiplier for specific ability types" but this isn't either of those exactly but it is conditional on ailments on the target

[cunning lynx]

Thoughts on using disintegrate as a main damage skill?

[weary hamlet]

its decent although fairly narrow when it comes to gearing up

[half pollen]

I got it to 250k damage per tick on the dummy yesterday, which is ok, but not too impressive. Still had quite some room to increase damage on gear though.

[placid flicker]

maybe using null portent?

[molten cobalt]

That’s not that good

Comparing to Brand of deception

Brand will easily do 1mil per tick, without any runic stacks, no frost wall pass through, no damage boost from other skills

[spiral viper]

does desperation node in "enchant weapon" skill count in negative mana for extra dmg?

[half pollen]

Well mage sucks in general when compared to brand

And brand sucks ass compared to judgement

[molten cobalt]

How much per tick can judgement eek out?

[half pollen]

Disintegrate Ticks 4 times per second though

Its not good, but its good enough to be played imo

[molten cobalt]

Ok so it gets up there too

But if we’re counting with a few runic energy stacks and other stuff..

Then we talking multi million ticks

[half pollen]

Yeah, brand is stronger, but only ever doing brand is also boring

[molten cobalt]

I tend to be a one build per season type of guy

But most aren’t

Then when I’ve done it all and beaten it all I don’t really feel like doing it again with a different build gives me anything

[half pollen]

I switch my builds like I switch my pants, once every few days

[molten cobalt]

That’s TikTok behaviour

[grand karma]

Lol kinda mood. Though I've been latching onto this elemental nova build hard

I kinda want to see just how strong i can make runebolt though

[molten cobalt]

That’s pretty moot

Real steep uphill battle that one

[grand karma]

Shame

Doesn't hydra hedron use runebolts though? Or is that a different invocation?

[weary hamlet]

many builds use runebolts, its a decent utility skill

[vestal locust]

If I have Aspirant's Arrival in Frost wall and have my flame rush spec'd so that it casts both Glyph of Dominion and Runic Invocation, do both get the more dmg and less mana cost from the Frostwall node, only one or neither?
Or does casting both GoD and Runic with Flame Rush not work in the First place?

[grand karma]

I meant isn't there an invocation that actually FIRES runebolts and uses the tree?

[half pollen]

Yeah, it fires 10 bolts even. So if runebolt had some good more multipliers it could have been kinda good

The Extra projectiles cant shotgun, right?

[grand karma]

I mean they can? There's a node i believe that makes it target enemies but I think 3 projectiles is all we get

[half pollen]

If those would shotgun the same target you could maybe make it work, but im pretty sure they dont shotgun

[weary hamlet]

yea they dont

despite having a node to make them shoot parallel

[grand karma]

Ugh why can't runebolt behave like 1.0 divine bolt paladin XD

Wait is there only ONE unique that modifies runebolt?

[peak oracle]

time to start my uber sessions

[weary hamlet]

you mean having constant 500k ward?

[grand karma]

Exactly! See you get it!

[raven torrent]

I want to kill uber aberroth and do endgame with mage. What are strongest mage builds right now?

[grand karma]

Uhmmm... good question.

[peak oracle]

str rm or hydro

[grand karma]

I love the concept of str runemaster... like he swole

[peak oracle]

hydro is attunement

pick your poison

[grand karma]

Wtf lol.

[grand karma]

Would you likely have buildguides for both?

[peak oracle]

frozensentinel has the str one

the hydro idr

yt mage uber aberroth

youll find him

[molten cobalt]

hydro i know one, sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z373fO4ZsqM hydrahedron doing uberroth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZVhMpi6H0 hydrahedron in corr 1000

[grand karma]

I wonder which is more... "fun"

[molten cobalt]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Ap3zgPdo

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,244, Regen: 27/s
▸ Mana: 334.51, Regen: 10.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 325%, Regen: 124/s
▸ Attributes: 17 Str / 30 Dex / 116 Int / 105 Att / 17 Vit
▸ Resistances: 95% / 107% / 113% / 96% / 83% / 125% / 77%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 249
▸ Dodge Chance: 57% (2319)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 48% (2,918)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 183%

Used skills:

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

[fervent ledge]

Wait is this better than the STR BOF build?

That looks really cool

[molten cobalt]

no

diff flavour

slightly weaker

a lot weaker in the defense departmentr

like extremely much less tanky

probably more fun to play though

STR stacking brand doesnt look as fun, but what it is is very satisfying

[hoary blade]

hello

[molten cobalt]

the feeling of just walking past and everything falls straight dead

is oddly satisfying

no need to stop and cast spells

[hoary blade]

question for the experienced runemaster players: how realistic/fun is it to play an invoker style character manually casting multiple different runic invocations

[uncut zealot]

I thought everyone said hydra’s dead lol

This is why we want people to experiment and not just word vomit something because you heard it somewhere

[molten cobalt]

doesnt work like that

it would be garbage

you'd want that to be the class fantasy, but there is no real power in invocations

[uncut zealot]

Yeah this doesn’t work because you can’t scale everything all at once

[molten cobalt]

so in practice it doesnt work like that

[fervent ledge]

Why flame ward DMG in helmet is that big

For brand

[molten cobalt]

flame ward dmg?

its not?

[fervent ledge]

Oh I mean fire aure

[molten cobalt]

its not

[fervent ledge]

What's that do

[molten cobalt]

nothing

[mint ivy]

is flame rave also good ?

whats should i use on my flame rave fire build to be more tanky ?

anyone knows ?

[tired hound]

Defensives

[peak oracle]

i mashed the F skill over my freeze button

fudge

i paniced

[hoary blade]

For context, I wasn't planning on scaling all 3 elements. The idea was to scale fire damage only, but also have a cold spell on my skill bar with no cooldown, and manually cast spells instead of using immutable order.

This would let me cast Frostguard and Winds of Eos as buffs, Mirror Bolt for clear, and Igneous Rain for single target.

Is that viable?

[mint ivy]

NICE

[molten cobalt]

thats pretty great

shame haste is reliant on something dying

or else i would use them against uberroth

wait

its haste

i can get that from focus

[raven torrent]

but i dont see on yt str stackers doing uber aberroth like hydrahedron

[molten cobalt]

gear issue?

[unreal blade]

if you want to speed run carpal tunnel, sure.

[tawny sentinel]

Hey, can someone who play shatter strike can share his loot filter please? (im new to game lv84 rn)

[unreal blade]

i played a volcanus flame reave build before s2 launch and it was ok. there may be better weapons for it, but volcanus was slightly buffed in the patch. not going to be a corruption pusher, particularly with the ward nerf on int. maybe gets you to 200-300c then survivability is going to be a problem.

[raven torrent]

or str stackers dmg issue? how much dps str stacker can do?

[molten cobalt]

there is no easy way to see that, doesnt show like a tooltip

but easily several million per tick

[left hill]

does Luminaire node (Elemental Nova is channeled) stop Elemental Nova from proc'ing with Frost Claw or Teleport or whatever else?

[mint ivy]

damm

[peak oracle]

ok

i think theres like

too many beams for me

[harsh abyss]

Thats a lucky pull, hot damn

[peak oracle]

i think i have to farm the dot armor gloves

[molten cobalt]

thats what im doing now

[peak oracle]

like i have too many beams in last phase

and it actually kills me

so i need more dps

yaaaaaaaay

[unreal blade]

try to bait the beams all into one area. it's every 18-20 sec. leaves the rest of the arena open.

[peak oracle]

i tried

[turbid carbon]

Thank you! 🙂

[weary hamlet]

"worse than frost claw" applies to most mage skills, frost claw is dumb and the design diff between it and more or less any other non-rm skill. Or most rm skills too for that matter

most mage skills are just "do damage" so of course the one that does the most damage is the meta choice

[frigid knoll]

opinions on flame reave?

[weary hamlet]

any build can handle 400 corruption, I'm there right now on my half-assed disintegrate build with very bad gear cause I wanted to just swap there from my old build asap, the balance starts to become more relevant beyond that

[weary hamlet]

very meh

but it kinda functions

its biggest issue is that it doesnt do anything. It does damage. Kinda. That falls off with range for whatever reason. It hits once per cast. It doesn't have unique buffs, or debuffs, and its CC node is a joke

you need to nerf yourself to pick any of its better nodes too

if it was on sentinel it would have circular AOE on your cursor with 200% more damage as a one point node, and -50 mana cost as another one point node

it would also bring you slippers and give free blowjobs

[harsh abyss]

"hits once per cast" is a death sentence these days

[olive tusk]

most of my struggle usually comes from survival stand points, even with decent gearing, res cap and ward/armor, maybe im playing poorly

[weary hamlet]

I mean when every skill has to contend with something like frost claw that hits 20 times per cast for either direct scaling or ailment application, that's what it comes down to

but flame reave doesn't even have great more damage nodes to make it worthwhile in that regard

like the currently hot strength stackign build exists because it gets like what, x40 more damage? on your invo so you can just do whatever with it, like trigger brand or something

flame reave has uh 48% more and another 50% more for 5 points?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, sounds about right

[weary hamlet]

maybe if they stopped making dumb and degenerate skills like that, older skills would also be viable without reworks that would bump them into the same dumb and degenerate category

[harsh abyss]

Heartseeker has entered the chat

[frigid knoll]

amazing hahaha
thanks. will definitely avoid it then

[weary hamlet]

its not like you should avoid it at all costs, but its like your generic build that starts to fall flat at like 500 corr

you can build any skill to that standard

and using flame reave is annoying on top of everything else

narrow aoe, high mana cost

why even bother

and you cant even leverage its range for real cause you still need to be in melee to mana strike profitably

[fervent ledge]

Can julra stardial snap shot the flame rush RI

[frigid knoll]

can't argue with that

what about firebrand?

[molten cobalt]

can what?

[normal plume]

Sorc mana stack dead?

[left hill]

for Ice Barrage, any opinions if Pierce or Brittle Fragments (shatter on hit) is better?

[weary hamlet]

pierce is better, shatter gives you a slightly wider aoe, but its short and the damage is bad

[clear lantern]

any idea if elemental damage overtime applies to brand of deception? i see it has the Dot tag, but my gut was telling me it wouldnt, just because the affix i have is such a high percent compared to others ive crafted

[left hill]

thanks

[weary hamlet]

why wouldn't it? brand is dot and deals lightning damage

[clear lantern]

ive seen people mention the brands are odd with scaling

[worn valley]

can set item affixes crafted on a base be slammed onto a unique?

[molten cobalt]

no

[worn valley]

im currently using the old mana stack static orb/meteor and at 400c, starting to fall off now sadly, wish i had the know how to make it more viable

[worn valley]

damn ty

[peak oracle]

I thought of an idea

[languid summit]

im confused, ingame it says chance to shock on it, but on lastepochtools it says chance to apply shock on hit, and on le tools it has lower rolls?

are they the same thing?

[raven torrent]

What build will be good to level hydrahedron runemaster? or i can start using it early

[unreal blade]

you can do mana stack mana guide doing damage with the lightning waves. it can really zoom, but it's not very tanky and single target damage is not great. it can speed farm 1k corruption monos with the best of them with great gear. bosses take a bit and you have to play carefully.

[unreal blade]

it's the same affix just worded differently on LEtools for some reason. the roll values are likely a difference of slot. like amulet and chest for example have roll modifiers. you can get 24 int on chest with t7 but only 16 int on helm.

[languid summit]

ahh that makes sense, thought i was going crazy haha

[languid aspen]

For a mono lightning build, do you all think Runemaster or Sorc is a better mastery? I've been trying Runemaster and it seems pretty fun so far.

[languid ridge]

I really wish Runic Invocation was a bit better in terms of clearing/levelling than just spamming lightning blast

[cobalt totem]

question about brand of deception : does +%chance to shock with lightning skills increase bod damage (with the 1+%shock chance = 6+% damage node) ?

[molten cobalt]

nope

has to be unconditional

[peak oracle]

17% uber aberroth

record

lets go

this is

so much easier

aight hold on

i need to fix this

you are laughing

but im about to kill it surely

[iron crag]

Hello I'm brand new to mage, whats the general consensus on the state of mana stacking at the moment? I saw Celestial Doom recently and thought Sorcerer would work pretty well for Doom pulse

[half pollen]

doom pulse is kinda lacking the numbers for a skill with such a big cooldown

you can get some stupid amount of mana reg on mage with focus, but I doubt thats enough to make it feel good

[molten cobalt]

what is

[half pollen]

with something like 3k mana you also get 3000% mana reg from focus when oom. So thats 3000% crit multi and 300 spell damage for doom pulse, with the staffs spell damage thats about 400 spell power. So you do a 60k crit every 4 Seconds since doom pulse has 500% effectiveness

[molten cobalt]

what does the julra ring do

[peak oracle]

damage

[molten cobalt]

isnt it ward?

[iron crag]

interesting thanks, I see the cooldown doesnt share between elements so theoretically you could do 1 a second if you cycled but that seems fairly clunky given the whole 4 different spell types and you want focus channel

[half pollen]

oh god, julra ring with T7 strength

[molten cobalt]

but why

just for the ward?

36% of mana spent added as ward?

[peak oracle]

no, damage

[molten cobalt]

the spell damage?

[peak oracle]

it triples the slam

so i get like

[molten cobalt]

oh

[half pollen]

yeah, you can do focus for lightning and flame ward for fire or cold, but thats it during focus channel. And without focus you have no mana reg

[peak oracle]

64 str for some time

on a cd

[molten cobalt]

it triples the 16 str

[peak oracle]

yes

x2

[molten cobalt]

33% uptime

not great

[half pollen]

its super nuke though

[molten cobalt]

i couldnt take the res loss i think

[half pollen]

do it for opener and then swap rings, easy

[molten cobalt]

opener? he is instantly down to 80%

in 2 seconds

dont need this for opener

since you do it with 45 runic energy

[peak oracle]

you think i can?

[molten cobalt]

90% more dmg

[peak oracle]

im running with like

zero resists

[molten cobalt]

😄

yeah im not fking around with julra ring

[half pollen]

well done

[languid ridge]

How does your build work :O?

[half pollen]

his chest scales his runic invocation with strength and his shock chance scales his brand of deception

[peak oracle]

the reason why its so good is that because of the insane dps increase

you have to deal with so much less mechanics

[peak oracle]

str rm stacking, frozensent has a guide

[languid ridge]

Jesus

[molten cobalt]

yeah, i refuse

[half pollen]

I think its stupid that mage needs a build with 10k armor to even remotely survive uber abbaroth

[peak oracle]

the fight took about

4min30

[molten cobalt]

i keep getting him down to 50% and half shield

consistently

[uncut zealot]

Why 😂

[molten cobalt]

i aint using no fking julra ring

the disgrace is too big

[uncut zealot]

Lol

[prime whale]

@molten cobalt does armor shred on hit work on the str stacking build ? for example I have this amulet and i'm wondering if armor shred on hit works and is better or not against bosses than increased damage over time

[peak oracle]

it doubles my damage for 2 procs

[molten cobalt]

you finished him?

[peak oracle]

so realistically

[peak oracle]

^

[molten cobalt]

nice!

grats

[peak oracle]

those rings were like effectively like +33% dps

[molten cobalt]

no.

i shall not stoop that low

[peak oracle]

my ticks went from like 500k to 1m

just gotta

dodge

[molten cobalt]

you only had 500k to begin with?

[peak oracle]

yeah

it was doable but its much easier with more damage

i didnt feel like

farming lp1 rings

and some other things

[molten cobalt]

oof

[half pollen]

why do all res when three res do trick

[peak oracle]

i had to fix void because it was 56 when i realised it lmao

phys is actually probably 2nd most important

[molten cobalt]

im doing 900k-1,1m ticks without julra rings

[half pollen]

but his abberoth is dead though

[peak oracle]

bro

why you no kill yet

[molten cobalt]

shush

i need to git gudder

[peak oracle]

just get dps in

i was considering dropping mana guide

but the alternatives were bad and there were some issues

[molten cobalt]

dropping mana guide breaks the build

how many attempts of uberroth did it take?

[peak oracle]

uh

i dont have the stats

[molten cobalt]

guess

[peak oracle]

like 80?

[molten cobalt]

not too bad

[peak oracle]

the thing is

[molten cobalt]

im nowhere near that yet

[peak oracle]

i attempted it with my other build

and then had to swap

tried it and realised i need more dps

[warped crow]

i dont think the skills themselves are op ... i just think that they kinda overwrote the neiches that other skills had ... worst case was fireball

[peak oracle]

thats last epoch done for me

c:

[molten cobalt]

made it to 48% now, so furthest i got

i was missing so many covenant arcs

due to getting stressed

[peak oracle]

my run was so scuffed

looking at the footage

[junior coral]

does flame ward dmg also snap shot onto flame rush

[molten cobalt]

fk

i got him to the heal

at least im improving

second harbinger, then heal

then died

[sinful coyote]

shield again at 20%

[junior coral]

snapshotting is so random sometimes it just cancels

like back to 30k ticks after a dungeon

[peak oracle]

oh

im rewatching umichans clear

and i realised something

moving with mouse is ass

[sinful coyote]

mana guide is mouse movement even in WASD mode

[peak oracle]

nope

theres a fix

in the settings

[sinful coyote]

how

[peak oracle]

set the movement abilities

to all to wasd

[molten cobalt]

i dont understand how people can like WASD

its atrocious

[peak oracle]

theres some bugs but it will overwrite mana guide mouse

[sinful coyote]

I enjoy WASD in poe2

But not LE

[peak oracle]

same

i like wasd in general

theres some things id like it to improve

[sinful coyote]

I have a macro to move my mouse to the dead center of the chara

so I’ll only move couple pixels every sec

[peak oracle]

lmao

[ancient hazel]

hey, i wanna try sorc but looking advices about the build. what is the most OP build for sorc right now?

[molten cobalt]

another META hoe

[sinful coyote]

mediocre meteor

or ignite mana guide black hole

[ancient hazel]

reported

[peak oracle]

hydro rm is probably the strongest

[sinful coyote]

(none of them are uberroth clearable rn)

[ancient hazel]

im theorycrafting around teleport/evade build, does it viable?

[molten cobalt]

good way to get help

lets report people randomly

[ancient hazel]

not randomly, you just trying to offend people here which is breaking the rules of community

[molten cobalt]

not at all

[peak oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok694XZxeNw

[sinful coyote]

Like there are 40% ppl playing VK and <5% sorc

[peak oracle]

this is how it looks like with wasd

the run was scuffed though

but leeway because dps

[sinful coyote]

kk I’ll try that but I’m rerolled into hydra rn

Back to 600c

[molten cobalt]

man thats looks so unnatural

gives me the ick

[peak oracle]

P R E C I S I O N

[molten cobalt]

man

the clickety clack

can hear it

dude in a frenzy

[peak oracle]

mic is just close to my kbm

[junior coral]

i was only able to get 70 shock chance from blessing, do higher corruption give higher chance

at blesings

[peak oracle]

empowered rolls up to 100 i think

[molten cobalt]

be a man

get 100

[peak oracle]

lmao

[ancient hazel]

I've seen that Sorcs are struggling with builds, so I thought I could try to build something here. To do that, I first need to understand what counts as OP

[molten cobalt]

mama aint raise no quitter

[molten cobalt]

you wont find OP in here

go #🔱┃sentinel for that

[peak oracle]

i had to switch off sorc

[ancient hazel]

OP in sorc builds, buddy, i don't care about other classes

[peak oracle]

because it was not uber viable

[sinful coyote]

we are clearing uberroth with most op builds on 4min

falconers are 60sec

[molten cobalt]

60 sec uberroth??

what the hell

[sinful coyote]

yea

[molten cobalt]

thats so dumb

[ancient hazel]

yeah, i know, i have falconer and stigan lich already, willing to try something new

[peak oracle]

i mean sents have builds which literally just afk tank uberroth

[molten cobalt]

yeah i saw

#skill

[sinful coyote]

We only have “playable builds” after crazy abusing glitch’s

[ancient hazel]

so after i tried few classes i want to build something on sorc, no matter can it kill aberoth or not. I can do that by my lich if i want to

[sinful coyote]

But sorc don’t have changes from 1.1

[ancient hazel]

i'v never played before

[sinful coyote]

You can still do those builds just they are straight nerfed

nope

[ancient hazel]

just started at 0.2 because WASD

and poe 2 became completely garbage

[unreal blade]

armor shred does nothing for brand of deception since it's a dot.

[sinful coyote]

you mean CoC meteor or self cast?

self cast lightning meteor is better

But the playstyle is shit against uberroth

[peak oracle]

its uber shit

i tried it

i was using it

[sinful coyote]

you need to stay still and channeling. Low on EHP, low on regeneration

[peak oracle]

you dont have consistent dps

it took me like

2min30 just to push into first ward

or some shit

[sinful coyote]

and thats only buffed sorc build

(besides they just nerf int by halve)

[sinful coyote]

If you really wanna try sorc build, go offline and follow 1.1 builds and see how they are in 1.2

Then you will appreciate that you didn’t invest time in sorc

[peak oracle]

everything is so squishy

[hexed path]

the mana stacker static orb coc meteor build still shreds pretty well

somewhere on LE tools

[sinful coyote]

static orb nerfed to ground, coc meteor nerfed to ground

[hexed path]

yeah and they both still feel like cheating, I'm in 300 corr rn

killing timeline bosses and harbies in like 10 seconds flat

[sinful coyote]

They were 1500-2000c builds b4

[junior coral]

mage was over nerfed

[hexed path]

yeah and I'll never get that far so idc

[sinful coyote]

yea if you are talking 300-500c, even 1000c there are plenty builds viable

but uberroth exist

[harsh abyss]

Not every build needs to be able to do uberroth though

[sinful coyote]

ppl were using T4 jurla as build standard on launch

“Fully clear the game” is considered a good or “OP” build he was looking for

[harsh abyss]

I'm working on a 'lazy clear' meteor build that should be pretty decent

Lightning meteor with over 1000% stun chance and 250% stun duration should stun pretty much everything all the time 😝

[sinful coyote]

lightning meteor is good, amazing dps and burst

[harsh abyss]

With new set shattering, you can level with lightning meteor super easy too

Just craft yourself a lightning meteor set at low level, and focus on stacking int to scale flat spell damage while leveling

[molten cobalt]

bruh

[peak oracle]

lmao

[prime whale]

ah yeah makes sense, thanks !

[molten cobalt]

repeatedly dying to this boss sure has a way to dampen the mood

[sinful coyote]

better than dying to endgame bosses in poe2 tho

[molten cobalt]

poe2 has no endgame bosses

it has no endgame at all in fact

[sinful coyote]

true

[harsh abyss]

better than dying to endgame bosses in poe2 tho

ftfy

[molten cobalt]

i might never beat this boss

time to stop before i get too beaten down

[harsh abyss]

Sounds like time to make an alt

That's what usually encourages me to try something else

[molten cobalt]

no

i dont do that

i play 1 character and 1 build per season

then im done

[hardy condor]

hi can someone explain me why all the spark charge build gone ? i know how they killed it on sorc but what about spelblade an runemaster those had at least 2 strong variant each in 1.1

[molten cobalt]

im just a simple gamer dad

[harsh abyss]

It should be fine, only the sorc version was hit, but it was the most popular version.

Most people are just playing builds related to new stuff, so not a lot of guides or content for older, untouched builds

[sinful coyote]

spark charge passive got reworked, you no longer porc it with frost claw iirc

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, he's asking about the spellblade version, which should be unaffected

[sinful coyote]

ah

not familiar with that version

[harsh abyss]

It's the classic

Mana Strike + Enigma + Surge, lots of charges

[hardy condor]

ok then lightning blast stuff still working ?

[harsh abyss]

Yep, haven't had any reports otherwise

You could maybe do a new thing with it with Battlemage's Endeavor that got buffed, if you have a well rolled one and slap T7 attack speed on it

But that wouldn't use Enigma, so maybe not the best play

Dragorath's + Enigma + Lightning FC + LB Triggers is probably your best spark charge application

[molten cobalt]

about to yeet something

time to pack it up and go to bed

the amount of words this discord filters out.

quite childish

we're all adults here no

[harsh abyss]

Probably not, actually.

Lots of young'uns on discord, in general.

[hardy condor]

ok ty for the advice 1 more question what is the most fun or new thing to do on runmaster something that sorcerer and spellblade cant do .not strong but unique and/or new

[molten cobalt]

best so far

[molten cobalt]

young enough to filter out what you do on the toilet?

the other word for peeing

come on

[peak oracle]

soon tm

[molten cobalt]

i need to practice collecting lasers

i aint going to a disco but it do be that way

[peak oracle]

i do the first few then everything is a disco lmao

if i spend more time i might have learned a tad more

[harsh abyss]

You only need to be 13 to make a discord account I think? And that's just clicking the "yes I am 13" button. So who knows. I'm a mod in another discord that has similar restrictions, you definitely get people pretty young in there.

It's less about the specific words and more about creating a safe environment. If you have those words restricted, it can really put a damper on impulsively aggressive conversations, and as annoying as it can occasionally be for those of us who swear like sailors... it's meaningful value in the long run.

[molten cobalt]

Ban the kids instead 😂

It’s just a decision EHG has made, a decision other similar companies such as blizzard and GGG have not made

[dark haven]

is there a way to target gear? say im looking for the calamity helm. do i run certain things over and over, or is there a gambling system in here or something? new player not really sure of any of this still 😦

[hexed path]

rune of ascendance is your best friend for target farming common uniques like that

[dark haven]

also when can i start all that? im almost 55 and ive heard thats when you start your building

[dark haven]

ohhhhh, you you forge a random helm and theres a change you get it?

[hexed path]

with rune of ascendance yeah

[hardy condor]

what is the most fun or new thing to do on runmaster something that sorcerer and spellblade cant do not strong but unique and/or new

?

[warped crow]

hydrahedron is about it

[hardy condor]

oh nothing new then ...

ok ty

[junior coral]

yeah mage in LE, Diablo4, and POE2 all kinda scuffed lol

[harsh abyss]

Gordian Prism nova build is pretty strong and new for RM

[unreal blade]

mana guide and gordian prism are about the only things added in s2. gordian prism is not too different from original function, while mana guide opens things up a bit more, being able to move while channeling focus.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, there are 2-3 ways to build using Mana Guide

Only really 1 Gordian Prism biuld

[uncut zealot]

Got a video of prism?

[harsh abyss]

Nah, been to lazy to capture

[unreal blade]

more than that for sure, probably still some ideas that haven't been thought of, and even others that have been thought of that are decent, but maybe not super endgame viable.

[hardy condor]

well mana guide look more fit to sorcerer at first sight but gordian prism look interesting

[harsh abyss]

Mana Guide has good RM synergy as well, there's a Brand of Deception build that uses it that's super strong

and the armor while channeling is super good

[hardy condor]

ok ty going to think about all that and maybe coming back for more advice good night

[junior coral]

What items snap shot for brand flame rush

[orchid loom]

do you have to get certain item to make getting to 1k mana realistic? I was eyeballing that tripled chances of mana refunded thing on Sorcerer, but it is seeming really extreme to get there (and using mana as a damage layer)

[dawn citrus]

1k mana should not be hard at all

this is for a prototype that I'm working on

it only has 1-2lp items on it

[dreamy fjord]

Whats a good build/ skills for mage?

[dawn citrus]

consensus seems to be hydrahedron but that's for popular stuff

surely there's a bunch of viable builds out there just not publicized/popular

[orchid loom]

been having fun with lightning sorcerer that I've been building this season

[dreamy fjord]

I was wanting to do soemthing lightning related

Is there any skills i should focus on levelling up?

[dawn citrus]

there's a mana guide autobomber build that seems fun

[orchid loom]

LB + Focus + Tele + Spark + Meteor (with set turning meteor into lightning)

[dawn citrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYJeOplLX4 this, check it out

[dreamy fjord]

I picked sorcerer, was that a bad choice?

[orchid loom]

when I was leveling I was doing LB + Static Orb + Flame Ward + Tele + Volcanic Orb (for single target, drop right on them)

[orchid loom]

no real bad choices in this game

[dawn citrus]

I don't know, but in any case you can swap your mastery for a bit of gold

[dreamy fjord]

Ah i see

[dawn citrus]

depends on what do you mean with a good build

you can make builds that do all content but uber abberroth with practically any class and or skill

as long as it's decently thought out and geared

[orchid loom]

yea, that would be the qualifier. Like there are absolutely ones that get stupider (looking at you VK this league 🙄 )

right now I am rejiggering my build some to try and plan out what next I need to hunt down, as I am in empowered monos now and needing to shift some stuff to defensive layers since I am getting 1 shot if I am not paying attention

[dawn citrus]

capped resistances, a bit of armor or dodge and crit avoidance+ less damage from crits will take you very far into corruption

and ofc a big hit pool

[orchid loom]

but i have shit luck on drops and made it to ~lvl55-62 in mono before I had to sit down and craft to fix some deficiencies in my sorc, so they're in a pretty good place imo

[dawn citrus]

Mage has access to a lot of ward generation, so it's wise to invest more on that rather than to build a large HP pool

[orchid loom]

yea it is that last one that I am lacking

[dawn citrus]

also damage taken to mana is very good

[orchid loom]

been trying to do some mana->ward and dmg->mana layers in place of hp, but oof

trying to judge how much care I should be giving to ward decay threshold

[dawn citrus]

its pretty important

that and ward retention

the higher they are the better

because generating ward as a mage is very accessible

problem is that if you dont build retention and threshold you will lose most of it

[orchid loom]

lol, how are you managing 23's in all the others? in my current character I am 1's across the board and then ~84int

[junior coral]

my brand is doing like no dmg vs julra t4 whats the trick

is there special phase or function

[orchid loom]

beyond me, I am not able to beat t3 arena atm

[dawn citrus]

reowyn's fortress gives 6, then red ring of atlaria gives 5 or 6, then swaddling gloves give another 6, then prolly an exalted affix somewhere

[junior coral]

this isn't fun. whats a good real build

like no weird buggy brand stuff

[orchid loom]

👀 oof! @ red ring

[junior coral]

my brand ticks 100k on julra first invication. After that it just does 8k.

what is the special raid mechanic going on that I am missing

[dawn citrus]

if you are CoF they are fairly easy to target farm

I have like 12 lol

[orchid loom]

CoF for life

[junior coral]

I just wasted 10 julra keys 😦

can someone carry me i dont want to deal with this bugged build just to get more strength

I really hope next patch we get some easy OP build

[dawn citrus]

wdym

[junior coral]

She takes 0 dmg

I'm bugged or i'm missing a vital mechanic

[dawn citrus]

I have played every character this season and when I was stuck the common denominator was my gear and build was trash

hmmmm

like actual 0

or zdps

[junior coral]

She first takes 100k.

but then it gets cut down to 8k the entire fight

and every single attack can 1 shot

[dawn citrus]

well that's normal for most early builds vs Julra

the 1shot part

[junior coral]

oh

how do I avoid that millions of things

[dawn citrus]

I'd advise you watch a video guide on how to kill her

I am not good at explaining lol

but there is a mechanic

[junior coral]

its not going to happen. im just going to have someone run me thru her so i can just slam my last 2 items

and never do her again

[dawn citrus]

LOL

[junior coral]

I don't like this fight

[dawn citrus]

you'll need to do her again, trust me

[junior coral]

when i get a 2lp red ring, whchi si like 50 years

[dawn citrus]

red ring is not the only 80+ worthy unique item in the game hello?

most of the busted items are 80+

[junior coral]

My build only uses two 80+

Also, i still need to figure out why my damage gets reduced by 90%

after the first few 3 seconds

Its a bug with brand build? or is this normal

[dawn citrus]

yeah that's unusual

maybe a bug, file a bug report

[junior coral]

...

so d4 in the meanwhile ?

[dawn citrus]

you can get a carry as you said lmao

[junior coral]

ok ill try

[dawn citrus]

aight I'll bite, do you want me to help you

dm me @ OXRanko, in a minute I'll swap characters

I'm ready

[junior coral]

wait i killed her

my dmg didn't bug out...

i literally dind't even take dmg i just teleported to other phase whil emy dot killed her 😄

So ti was the bug the whole time

[dawn citrus]

💀

that's how the fight actually works

[junior coral]

yeah. it wasn't doing that before

it was reducing my dmg by 90%

[dawn citrus]

LOL

no fking way

[junior coral]

poerhaps a server lag?

bug

[dawn citrus]

I thought you were doing the basics

[junior coral]

while portaling and dots

[dawn citrus]

thats not a fking bug, it's the actual fight mechanic

[junior coral]

I did the same exact thing I did all the other tries except my dmg wasn't 90% less

[dawn citrus]

well if you feel strongly about it being a bug, filing it with F8 won't hurt

[junior coral]

coulda bee lagg too

anyway. i got my slam

now i just need more red rings

[unreal blade]

can you link your character or tell us your account name so i can look it up? seems like something is setup wrong.

[orchid loom]

if any of you have time, can you check this out and let me know if you have any suggestions on making this better?
I've got the rough outline of this in game, but need to start farming for the staff and helmet now that I have the shards from the set items, then need to get the idols before farming the uniques with weaver/lp
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/olejnz6A

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (26) / Sorcerer (87)

General:

▸ Health: 1,702, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 761.88, Regen: 24.96/s
▸ Ward Retention: 78%, Regen: 183/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 25 Int / 1 Att / 11 Vit
▸ Resistances: 105% / 84% / 77% / 81% / 84% / 91% / 95%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 340
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (152)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 8% (196)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 68%

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Focus / Static / Teleport / Meteor

[boreal widget]

Any good builds using this I can try? Playing sorcerer so don't know anything about frost claw stuff

[unreal blade]

spark charge mana strike spellblade works well with that. it's not a super endgame build but it can do everything but uber aberroth and farm 700-800c comfortably.

[uncut junco]

Is this anything? It looks like something you could build with, but Idk about that T7 stun :/

[orchid loom]

ehhhh, that implicit is doing nothing for you unless you have something converting your elemental to necrotic
if you can somehow change the implicit then yea it could be good for Meteor if you want to lean into that

[hoary blade]

can i trigger multiple spells from the same flame rush? Eg. can I have a flame rush that triggers runic invocation, glyph of dominion, and static orb?

Also are these the levelled versions of the spells?
And if the triggered spells have a cooldown, do I have to work around their cooldown when using them through flame rush?

[warped crow]

yes you can trigger everything

and its leveled however much the skill is in your specialization system

if you havnt specced anything into static orb then it will just be plain static orb with no passives

[empty hawk]

Anyone a spellblade here that killed uber ?

[sacred prawn]

i beeen gone awhile can anyone tell me does the Harbinger of stars only drop one meteor now cause its not dropping them like i have it speced

[dreamy fjord]

Whats the mage skill that makes electric bubbles circle me?

Like they spin around and do damage

[empty hawk]

Plasma orb

With fire lightning fire invvocation

[dreamy fjord]

I dont see a plasma orb skill

[empty hawk]

Well u get it by combining a set of elemental skills and using runic innvocation

https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/runic_invocation/invocations

Here u see all possible combinations

[dreamy fjord]

Thank you

[lunar crest]

How much corruption are my Shatterbros taking? I'm struggling a bit past 300.

[hoary blade]

and does the spell still trigger if the spell being triggered is on cooldown? eg. if I run runic dominance and trigger glyph w/ flame rush

[unreal blade]

the multi meteor nodes in the meteor tree now specify direct cast

[lunar crest]

Is it a huge transition from Shatter? Cause 300c is proving really difficult already.

[empty hawk]

Yes

Runic innvocation spells dont have cd just the spell itself but you can bypass it with flamerush to activate innvocation

[boreal widget]

I want to try a different sorcerer build but don't know the game well enough to put another together since my current is already struggling (And I knew it'd be bad). Are there any really decent ice builds for sorc specifically? I want to try and build around Ice Barrage or Static Orb (Ice)

[empty hawk]

Dont think there is currently a reliable freeze mage

[unreal blade]

yeah it's a pretty different build. shatter is a true melee build, while spark dragorath is a melee to proc spells build. fortunately it's pretty easy to get spark online. just need dragorath and enigma, then stack attack speed, int and crit multi.

here's a planner: ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B4z6xadA

[boreal widget]

So I got 2, 2LP versions of this thing which I'm told is somewhat rare. Problem is I have no idea what to slam them with, thinking of trying a tri-element nova build with it.

[molten cobalt]

You should be able to at least double that corruption with good gear

Maybe your gear is poopoo

[whole jackal]

Man I didn't know surge is such a hard hitting ability. I was positively surprised when I lvl'd my spellblade

At Lvl 90 I can crit for up to 22m on the dummy

On a 2 second cooldown

[plush flicker]

If I convert lightning blast to a channeled spell, does it gain the damage over time tag?

[unreal blade]

no because that's not damage over time. it's just a channeled hit.

[hoary blade]

Are there any good build-around runic invocations? Been leveling up and trying new things but so far nothing really compares to just spamming fireball

[peak oracle]

Attunement Hydro RM or Str Brand RM

[hoary blade]

hydro? do you mean hydra?

[peak oracle]

ah yeah

[hoary blade]

I tried the hydra, it seems really weak?

I'm still leveling rn, but the base damage is kind of pathetic

[peak oracle]

it uses build around uniques and some stacking

probably not really a starter

[hoary blade]

Ah ok

[peak oracle]

but idk

[hoary blade]

If I wanted to just scale damage normally like fire/cold/lightning, are there any runic invocations that do well with that

[peak oracle]

Dont think so?

Well

most home brew will work until high c

probably

If we are talking after that, ehhhhh

[hoary blade]

im level 29 and I still can't find a single invocation that works better than fireball + volcanic orb

like super early in and it already feels really bad

[molten cobalt]

Invocations are not damage dealers

They are vehicles, mostly

Support skills

[hoary blade]

So just use it for stuff like frostguard and winds of eos?

[molten cobalt]

The only time you use invocation to deal damage is because you use it to trigger something like brand of deception, but then it’s the brand doing the damage not the invocation

So basically, treat sorc and runemaster the same, with the difference being the skills they can use and maybe RM having a little bit easier generating ward

[weary hamlet]

wait falconer is only 4 times better than sorc? That must have been an oversight, they need to urgently add another one or two zeroes to all falconer damage

[weary hamlet]

but it's not even a hard fight, there are two threatening abilities, the cold wave and the three varieties of lightning orb, julra is very easy even compared to most harbingers

[peak oracle]

Its just annoying because you are practically confirmed to a specific donut area

[weary hamlet]

mostly used on various spellblade proc builds, spark charge that was already mentioned, also static and other variations

[peak oracle]

Confined*

[weary hamlet]

I was running with ice barrage and Focal blast (lol) and it felt fine around 400 corr, although a little slow on the bosses. Can probably do 500 without too much trouble, I just respecced out of it to try another meme

[weary hamlet]

yea its been known for a while, it's pretty decent with the rapid reset build, you can get to 200 stacks in about 1,5 sec against a single target

[weary hamlet]

largely not in the sense of what you are asking, cause RI is exceptionally dependent on its build around uniques, mostly Fundamental Criterion, and you will not be doing good damage with it unless you leverage those

[peak oracle]

Yeah man, just have build around uniques scale like hundreds of more damage while other skills have maybe some increased or slightly higher numbers in tree

[weary hamlet]

it's never not been a problem when it comes to skills being generally viable or not based on their more multipliers, but with RI it's especially egregious because it's not even in its skill but rather on a unique, and it's a fairly convoluted unique to get rolling too

like there are many powerful uniques in the game but nearly no others that require you to jump through the same hoops as criterion/reowyn's

tbh I really fail to get it, making a balance pass to bring the total amount of more multipliers for all skills in line with each other is not hard

they just don't seem to ever acknowledge it as an issue

despite all of the community having been acutely aware of it since 2019

[hoary blade]

That sucks, but thank you for taking the time to explain it

[weary hamlet]

also back to your original question, VO is a fairly good skill in itself so if you like it, you can just keep playing it. Maybe not uber aby good but you can scale it to 1k or thereabouts without too much issue

i.e. the latest dread's tech of swapping mana strike for cold runebolt seemed to be pretty damn good for scaling it

cause now your mana generation scales with the same stats as your damage skill

also mana strike is insultingly bad, another dead horse we've been beating since 2019

they can't insist on having mage be the "mana stacking" class while giving us such shitty tools to manage said mana

[weary hamlet]

and lets you fully leverage twisted heart without sodomizing your brain by having to include a melee skill as your spammable attack

[peak oracle]

But you can generate like 90 mana on a melee attack on a caster

Surelyyyy

[weary hamlet]

yeah that's gonna refill my 3k mana pool any second now

[peak oracle]

Its funky as hell too

[weary hamlet]

or I can give it 4 sec cooldown and go up to 170 mana per use!

[peak oracle]

Like i tried using it and it just sometimes doesnt use it

[weary hamlet]

with a clunky animation, clunkier hitbox, and the clunkiest invisible mana orb mechanic

[peak oracle]

I miss my disintegrate

Why cant i have a mana guide unique for disintegrate

[weary hamlet]

I actually respecced my sorc into disintegrate a couple days ago, plays like dog shit cause the gear is too bad, should have waited at least for a better weapon

also you already have a mana guide for disintegrate - it's the mana guide

70 ward per second while channeling omegalul

or how much was it

[peak oracle]

50 max iirc

I want to moveeeee

[bitter lava]

So for this season that's kind of what I been seeing for RM.

I think there's also trusty frost-claw nova that may work but even if it does, I already did that and am trying something new

I'm still trying to figure out what I want to respec into

[drowsy bridge]

Hello guys, I mainly play primalist but wanted to try mage. Is there a true caster build that you recommend? I tried spellblade and rune master, wanted to try sorcerer unless you really discourage it

[peak oracle]

Whats your goal

[bitter lava]

Painful particle effects and climbing corruption?

[drowsy bridge]

Climbing corruption

[sour path]

anyone know why taking the node on teleport that casts elemental nova where you arrive doesnt work?

the next node which is cast elemental nova where you depart does work so im confused what the problem is

[drowsy bridge]

So any idea?

[fervent ledge]

If Immortal vice off Uber or regular