🧙┃mage

[molten cobalt]

Only uber can drop the new goodies

[fervent ledge]

Damn

Well I'm MG so that means I can eventually get it

[versed heron]

I’m interested in checking out rune master having never played it, any suggestions for cool builds to look at?

[hard orbit]

falconer was nerfed by the way LMAO

[full bluff]

I am playing a lightning blast / spark charge runemaster, not the best aoe, but great single target. Doing quite well (by my standards) at 1k corruption

[hard orbit]

with dragoraths?

[full bluff]

Mad ladle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAlOHzW6FtE&t=175s

[hard orbit]

madlad indeed

[full bluff]

Bit anoying with the delay on sparks

Have to guess how many it takes to kill something

So it feels bad at low corruption since I usally over stack sparks

[hard orbit]

I miss good ol frostclaw sparkcharge

[full bluff]

It still works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DneDxhY1keg

[proud swift]

Do the lightning blasts casted through static from stuff like overload etc benefit from the points I have allocated in the lightning blast skill tree and from my items?

[full bluff]

Many nodes are only for direct cast

[proud swift]

What about my lightning blast nodes like damage and critical strike etc?

[full bluff]

They work, just chains that have some limitation to direct casts

[proud swift]

Thanks! May you get laid soon for your good deed today good sir ❤️

[full bluff]

Hope not, if girlfriend comes home I don't get to play and farm to complete my build 😛

[sour path]

can anyone help me? these 2 nodes literally don't work and i have no idea why

[proud swift]

Is elemental nova equipped on your hotbar? Do you have enough mana? Is elemental nova on cooldown?

[sour path]

yes, yes and no ive tried everything

[hard orbit]

what are you casting with runic invocation?

[sour path]

when I teleport it only casts elemental nova from where i teleport, which is the node inbetween those 2

from what i understand it should be casting it where i teleport from, mid way and at my arrival point

[lunar crest]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B7YOy26A

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (70) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,551, Regen: 25.08/s
▸ Mana: 162.51, Regen: 11.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 304%, Regen: 294/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 54 Dex / 53 Int / 1 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 104% / 86% / 72% / 81% / 52% / 79% / 56%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 33%, Threshold: 310
▸ Dodge Chance: 15% (486)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,332)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 106%

Used skills:

None

[lunar crest]

What am I doing wrong?

[proud swift]

Ask in #❔┃ask-the-community if you don't get an answer here. I unfortunately don't know since I have never used those nodes.

[sour path]

ill try, im assuming its just bugged and not fixed cause no one uses it lmao

[fervent ledge]

What corruption are spellblade going up to.

Is the aoe good?

[full bluff]

CFC shield for ward

[proud swift]

Maybe worth asking in #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs as a last resort. But it is completely possible that it is just a bug.

Does Static's discharge nodes like Empower also affect the lightning blasts Static casts on its own?

[hard orbit]

so this is frostclaw nova for aoe mapping and LB for bossing or what am I missing

[full bluff]

Yes, convergence LB for bosses

[hard orbit]

actually tempted to play that, I guess its' not the good ol monstrosity but eh, what can you do

[full bluff]

It has way easier time with mana and feels in many ways better

If I remember correctly single target was a bit weak on the old spark frost claw

Had to get all the claws to hit the target

[hard orbit]

Yeah the selling point was the insane ward generation back then

[full bluff]

Now I just try ignore normal monsters and only run to rares and champions

So the single target damage is more important for me

I think drops from normal monsters got "removed"

[weary hamlet]

nah they reduced those a bit but the main point of killing trash had always been favor, not loot

[hard orbit]

Have you tried ubberoth?

[full bluff]

Did one attempt where I got crushed so fast I realized I had to work on defenses to have any chance with the way I play

[hard orbit]

I feel ya xD

[full bluff]

but doubt I will ever be able to do it, not enough player skill I guess

[hard orbit]

No way that's true it just takes a lot of getting used to the patterns

[drifting mulch]

Can any build beat uber abber? I'm playing frost claw ATM because I just love the visual flare when clearing and I was told by a friend that it's a grill build and I won't make it past 500 corruption or any bosses

[full bluff]

Maxing out the gear on the runemaster and optimizing the build, then I will have a serious go at it, see how far I can get

Fun to see how far that is, even if I fail 🙂

[hard orbit]

runebolt purpose?

[full bluff]

I use runebolt for mana sustain. In intense fights I run out when casting at max speed. 1 sec of runebolt spam and back to full. Runebolt also gives a nice damage buff and close to perma haste

[peak oracle]

Hydra, str brand, shatter strike

I dont know of any other that did

[full bluff]

and runebolt keeps runeword inferno up which is 30% more armor

[hard orbit]

shatter strike as in the maxroll one or has someone tweaked it?

[proud swift]

If I have static at 200 cap charges how long does it take to cap the charges? Does it take very long? I am specifically looking to cast lighting blasts through spark charge.

[peak oracle]

Bazukatank did it in a vid, i dont know specifics

Also i assume its ahtterstrike

Idk visuals

[weary hamlet]

if you build for it, you can stack 200 in about 1-2 sec depending on the number of targets, but those builds focus on actually using static for damage

[proud swift]

Is lightning blasts through static not good?

[charred cloak]

Hello, I'm currently looking at the maxroll fireball sorc guide. They seem to go all in on ward and ward generation but their gear has almost no resistances at all. Aren't you supposed to max those? Or can ward generation be straight up better?

[weary hamlet]

it's not that it's bad but it's very limited at 1 proc per second and you can't scale that up in any way. Compare it to just using a full 200 stack static every second - that doesn't sound very good, does it?

[weary hamlet]

too lazy to look at their planner but you can mostly cover resists with passives, all res blessings, and/or red rings

or other all res items

undercapping for a reasonable amount is not too bad since each percentage point you miss to cap is 1% more damage taken

[proud swift]

Ohh I didn't know it was 1 lightning blast per second. I thought it would just keep spamming if I had more than 80 charges.

[weary hamlet]

just read that node - it explains how it works

[quasi wedge]

would this work with

this

[weary hamlet]

it should work as it's the same invo but I havent tried personally

[sharp furnace]

who got a good mage build for me just getting back in to the game

[molten cobalt]

people ingame are talking about some sentinel nerf?

and then i saw we get a patch in 52min

uberroth is really starting to get on ny nerves

like really pssing me off

[half pollen]

Strength stacking Brand runemaster is good

[grand karma]

I'm still trying to figure out how that build functions lol. Like is the chest piece and axe the only thing that makes it scale with str?

[west rain]

Bastion gives block, red rings give dmg reduction.

Vilatria helmet set scales shock chance PER INT

Runemaster node scales the lightning brand(from skill tree) with damage PER SHOCK CHANCE

[sinful coyote]

also your CCL/LCL have str scaling thanks to the chest, while we have the axe "doubling" our stats by set int equal as str

by adding 1 str you gain tons of stuffs

[grand karma]

Yeah but correct me if I'm wrong but without the cleaver solution and the chest piece that boosts dmg on str then there's no point in pumping it no? (Save for red ring of course). Like those two make the Str part of the build possible?

[west rain]

Theres also the armor part from str

[molten cobalt]

without those two you have no build

[sinful coyote]

yea w/o the chest+cleaver this build isn't viable, this is a endgame build instead of leveling build

i leveled with shatter strike to 500c

[half pollen]

Strength effektively gives:
More damage
Increased damage
Increased shock chance
Increased armor (and therefore ward per second)
Ward retention

Its kinda stupid really

[lunar crest]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B7YOy26A

How do I fix this? Struggling with bosses at 300c.

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (70) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,551, Regen: 25.08/s
▸ Mana: 162.51, Regen: 11.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 304%, Regen: 294/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 54 Dex / 53 Int / 1 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 104% / 86% / 72% / 81% / 52% / 79% / 56%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 33%, Threshold: 310
▸ Dodge Chance: 15% (486)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,332)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 106%

Used skills:

None

[sinful coyote]

sorc lightning meteor shines in leveling as well

[half pollen]

Those are very common uniques

[sinful coyote]

you need tons of T7 str affix on them to make this build shine

[grand karma]

I've been doing a goofy ass elemental nova/gordian prism build and it's just not there lol

[sinful coyote]

we have 0 access to str w/o woven echo, which is accessable after 100c/300c i forgot

[west rain]

Ive never actually played a mage before but isnt the build possible with no cleaver and only int?

Just less strong ofc

[sinful coyote]

nope, play hydra in that case

any RI build w/o abusing crition chest is not viable ngl

[west rain]

Cant you rely on vilatria crown ?

[sinful coyote]

or static charge? i remember someone did that version of int stacking

chest gives you 3% per attribute

and its a lot

[half pollen]

The thing is, when playing int you have 150 int. When playing strength you have 150 strength and 150 int. And no strength means you have like 5 times less damage

[sinful coyote]

static charge version should be fine on lower corruption, i didn't test that version tho

if you really wanna play with BoD

[half pollen]

Mana stacking Brand is okayish until 300 corruption

I played it until normal abberoth, but damage just cant keep up after that

[sinful coyote]

hmm are we getting the patchnote? its 9min after "restart time"

[half pollen]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/c/patch-notes/39

Not up yet

[mossy prism]

What would you guys say, is the best mage build this season for running echos? anything that will handle 1000-2000 corruption?

[compact phoenix]

Hey guys, not sure if this is intended behavior for "Lightning Blast". With the "Focal Blast" node, which turns "Lightning Blast" into a straight line AOE spell. When "Static" has the node "Overload" allocated, it specifies it will "Target" an enemy within 8m. Here's the problem : "Lightning Blast" cast by "Overload" while having "Focal Blast" allocated will NOT target an enemy and simply cast "Lightning Blast" in front of your character. Same problem happens for casts triggered by "Lightning Blast" Shrines.

[unreal blade]

seems like orian belt would be a significant upgrade. also planner shows 2/3 cloud answer, no final spark, no quad cast and 3/5 mortal capacitor in LB tree?

[full bluff]

Debating orian belt with myself, currently I prefer the armor from praetorian belt. The planner is just import from the char in the video, it had some skill points unspent due to gear swapping around. I need aegis uptime, so no points left for quad cast

I guess orian is better in the end

[weary hamlet]

brand is an ailment and thus it inherits more damage modifiers from the skill that applied it -> criterion gives a lot more damage to RI with str

[weary hamlet]

yes, I reported that when I was playing Focal Blast recently

its not just you

[unreal blade]

could be that the novas are keyed to elements and you have only one of them enabled in ele nova's tree. i thought it would do all the same element though. worth checking i guess.

[weary hamlet]

reason number 15436436534564313 why cleaver solution is a completely asinine item

even its name is dumb

[unreal blade]

i was at 500 corruption with a non minmax'd int version of the build before i swapped to strength. it still cleared fine, just slow on bosses. survivability was still great despite the lack of block chance and overkill armor value. i still had like 6k armor while channeling which is pretty good.

[full bluff]

First kill

[unreal blade]

needs to be like 22+ with 2+LP really

[full bluff]

Will be random hell to farm up this one

Glad I have 50 echos ready with it

[half pollen]

I somewhat like the idea, but scaling lots of defense and offense with a single stat is just what kills build diversity. "Converts half your strength into twice as much int" or something would have been more reasonable

[weary hamlet]

do you know what would be even more reasonable? If they went and unreleased this item

delete it and every trace that it had ever existed

[half pollen]

yeah maybe 😄

[fervent ledge]

Still not as gross as sentinel and falconer

[half pollen]

thats not the issue though

those few builds keep mage from getting buffed since it has a few "good" builds. But we would prefer if the baseline would be higher and those stupid items be gone

[harsh abyss]

Agreed. We already have the problem of mages scaling TOO many stats off of Int. Spellblade has dex as a secondary stat, but Sorc and Runemaster have no other secondary stats to scale. Mages need some of their int-scaling stuff to be more diversified. Like give Sorc some sort of mana or defense scaling based off of Attunement, or give RM's CDR scaling off of attunement or dexterity, but make it a bit stronger.

Nerfing the Ward Retention of Int didn't really change the fact that mages priority 1 stat for almost every build is int.

It just makes them weaker across the board.

[half pollen]

and here I am, still working on my dex stack disintegrate runemaster
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/omeNDero

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (28) / Runemaster (60)

General:

▸ Health: 1,973, Regen: 27.2/s
▸ Mana: 175.51, Regen: 10.88/s
▸ Ward Retention: 124%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 24 Str / 115 Dex / 68 Int / 24 Att / 25 Vit
▸ Resistances: 88% / 120% / 88% / 90% / 62% / 77% / 77%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 1,623
▸ Dodge Chance: 35% (1228)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 61% (4,595)

Used skills:

Disintegrate / Runic Invocation / Mana Strike / Flame Rush / Static Orb

[harsh abyss]

See, now imagine if RM had something that scaled off of dex

It might not be such a niche meme build

[half pollen]

I like crit

[unreal blade]

attunement needs something else, like 2-4% elemental damage in addition to the added mana. it's just too weak for broader use. basically only used for specific builds.

[half pollen]

Or just tune up the mana from 2 to 4 or something

or 6 even for all I care

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say

Make it a meaningful way to scale mana

[lean ether]

Anyone else having issues with activating shrines while focused after the patch? also flame rush gets me stuck sometimes now

[wet sparrow]

did they break flame rush

[lean ether]

oh yeah its unplayable

[wet sparrow]

ok holding down channel makes flame rush insta break which is really annoyign

[full bluff]

226 int with orian, really upped the damage

[left hill]

is Spell Cascade (runic invocation) part of any good builds? It reads like it would be pretty fun but idk if it's actually just a trap

[peak oracle]

they changed how str RM controls

lmaop

[weary hamlet]

coincidence? I think not

[hardy yarrow]

It is bugged, right?

[peak oracle]

bug still exists, its purely how its controlled and now its bricked

you cant hold down focus anymore

you have to let go when flame rushing

its annoying as shit

[molten cobalt]

are you serious?

[peak oracle]

yes

you cant hold focus down

[molten cobalt]

that is the dumbest crap ever

[peak oracle]

because depending on how its bugged/done, FR has either 0 range or full range

i havent found out which happens when

but its consistent

[molten cobalt]

so they broke it with this patch?

[peak oracle]

nvm its not consistent, but it broke

yea

[wet sparrow]

also when you're channeling its harder to pick up shrines now but maybe thats just me

[hybrid schooner]

ya did they just absolutey roast our Tpose fous build.... cant play now

[peak oracle]

you literally cant pick up shrines during channel

[hybrid schooner]

cant flame rush, cant loot chests, cant shrine

[peak oracle]

because you cant interact

with anything

i figured out, flame rush is very funny

[hybrid schooner]

gg

[peak oracle]

if you tap FR

it goes full distance

and stays full duration

and only cancels if you reclick focus

if you hold FR, it does 0 distance FR

[molten cobalt]

has someone reported this?

[peak oracle]

10/10

im putting in an ingame report rn

but do it too

[molten cobalt]

they kinda broke the entire build there

[hybrid schooner]

ya im already getting hot about it

[odd gazelle]

yes focus you can pick up stuff while channeling but cant interact with chests, shrines cast flame rush

feels clunky as hell now

[lean ether]

I reported it ingame. there is also now a post on reddit and they commented in the patchthread about it

[molten cobalt]

guess im not playing until they fix it

im not accepting bullshit like that

[dim perch]

It feels like it is , I managed to set it up on season character but sometimes runes go all over the place

I think its because of some nodes on skill tree changed and it's counting one element as other

Having to much fun with smite Pali for now I l get back to it soon

[odd gazelle]

ive also noticed that twisted heart is consuming much more hp now in the interaction between focus and flame rush

[peak oracle]

Anyway, im done with LE now

I did all I wanted

[buoyant creek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ug1r9IXc4&ab_channel=FrozenSentinel ya guys seen this yet? T-Posed uber Abberoth to death lol

[peak oracle]

theres like

3 videos posted here

thast the third

[buoyant creek]

now you can enjoy it for the 3rd time

[peak oracle]

i already saw it

[buoyant creek]

🙁

[molten cobalt]

i did not, i have yet to kill uberroth

but i will not play if flame rush while channeling isnt fixed

[peak oracle]

i was helping a friend out with the 10 harbingers

it was hyper annoying

lmao

[molten cobalt]

that one is easy

but everything becomes annoying with this

it completely breaks te fluidity of the build

which is why i liked it to begin with

[peak oracle]

i was relearning on the fly

took me like 3 tries

[molten cobalt]

that bad huh

[peak oracle]

and the fact that i had to reequip my resist rings

since i was running with like

julra rings

[unreal skiff]

guys can you suggest fast mage build for clearing mono?

[molten cobalt]

used to be brand autobomber

but they destroyed that one now

[peak oracle]

i mean hydra is still a thing

[unreal skiff]

Like i'm tired of umbral falconer, need something to switch, a year ago my first expirience after poe in last epoch was hydrahedon runemaster if i remember correct, and it was good expirience, i wanna do mage again, but not sure what to build

[molten cobalt]

that same build still works

[hybrid schooner]

they just bugged a bunch of our builds with this last patch. play something else

[peak oracle]

they are probably gonna fix

[unreal skiff]

like all mage builds are bricked with patch?

[warped crow]

my first was fireball kek

[peak oracle]

cus apparently it also broke sent stuff

[warped crow]

i think

[peak oracle]

controls while channeling is hyperbroken

atm

[molten cobalt]

then there's a chance they fix it fast

if half of the people playing this game complains hehe

[unreal skiff]

ok it seems i need to continue to play falconeer, i see xd

[hybrid schooner]

ya if sent is bugged now then itll get fixed... if it was just us. then gg

[peak oracle]

i mean

as long as you dont play channeling stuff

you should be fine

[unreal skiff]

like i was checking maxroll and lastepochtools, and neither of it didn't have some decent spell cast build for mage, unlucky(

[peak oracle]

its either

str brand RM or attunement hydra RM

or shattering strike

[unreal skiff]

will check, thx

probably will stick to hydra, at least i remember the playstille itself

and have all neccessery uniques

[blissful cargo]

anyone tried the black hole ignite thing dread and palsteron cooked?

[molten cobalt]

why try a build that has zero chance of killing uber

[blissful cargo]

because i don't like breaking the game with meta builds and then having no reason to play

pushing off-meta as far as it can go is much more interesting

[molten cobalt]

there are no real meta builds here

mage is far behind the others

[peak oracle]

your best "meta" build is like 30% of what falconer can do

[blissful cargo]

yeah that's why i wanna try some things out 🙂

[molten cobalt]

so you might as well try one of the better mage builds

so that, with amazing gear, you could potentially kill uber

[blissful cargo]

yeah the brand thing doesn't look super fun to me personally, im just wondering if anyone tried the black hole setup?

[unreal blade]

or if you don't care about uber, there's plenty of things to play

[molten cobalt]

aberroth for mage isnt a dps issue it is a skill issue, we cannot get enough dps for it to ever become a dps issue

[peak oracle]

no, it defeinitely is a dps issue

[molten cobalt]

so if you want to push yourself like you say, you want to try uber aberroth

[peak oracle]

fight becomes infinitely easier with more dps

[molten cobalt]

to test your skill

[molten cobalt]

yes but in no way can we kill it in under a minute like falconer

[peak oracle]

yers but theres a huge difference if we have like

4 lasers less

[molten cobalt]

mage has to do the mechanics and play well no matter

[unreal blade]

it's definitely damage. our damage is only 'fair', while others are broken good. frozen went with julra rings and killed uber pretty quickly. traded defense for offense.

[molten cobalt]

still took him 4 minutes

[peak oracle]

i did it first

[molten cobalt]

just over actually

[peak oracle]

!11

[unreal blade]

i mean attempts

[molten cobalt]

sure but at that time he had plenty of practice already

[unreal blade]

damage means less mechanics to deal with so you can make fewer mistakes that cause a death. it's just that mage doesn't really have access to good damage like everyone else does.

[molten cobalt]

he just hadn't run it that many times with julra rings

[molten cobalt]

which is my point

if one wants to push a build to its limits, might as well pick one that stands a chance against uber aberroth

if pushing the envelope is the plan

[unreal blade]

didn't seem like he put in much time with uber. maybe 30-40 attempts at most. most are taking way more than that, particularly with mage.

[peak oracle]

can defeinitely say that its way easier with julra

you gonna die a bit more learning but you have to doge stuff anyway

but your survival also goes up

because your armor gain goes crazy

[unreal blade]

swapping to the julra rings just made the progression curve much faster since more mechanics were skipped

[hybrid schooner]

im at about 50% on him with under 10 attempts. maybe get hiim everntually. when they fix this bug

[blissful cargo]

this whole thing started because i asked about black hole, right? so I'm curious, have you tried it?

or are we just assuming brand is the only uber viable option atm?

[molten cobalt]

black hole build? no, but the creator outright said in the video that it stands no chance against uber aberroth

the damage is way too low

[blissful cargo]

ah, that's a shame

[molten cobalt]

it is a mid ish corruption mono runner

[unreal blade]

clear isn't too good on it either

[molten cobalt]

no, it does not clear very fast either

but at least it clears

[blissful cargo]

seems like DoTs are just generally nowhere near good enough for uber, except for judgement

[unreal blade]

mana stack lightning waves mana guide is pretty solid for clear, lacks single target at high corruption

[molten cobalt]

brand of deception is a DoT

and definitely enough for uber

[peak oracle]

yeah

right.

just because we have a bug

[molten cobalt]

but now they broke the interaction between Focus and Flame rush

[peak oracle]

its defeinitely not viable without it

[molten cobalt]

so they broke the build

[peak oracle]

cant hecking typo definitely

[unreal blade]

it's doable i think just need close to perfect gear and good experience with the fight.

[hybrid schooner]

flame rush feels even half bugged without casting focus

[peak oracle]

no

i fully disagree

[unreal blade]

i mean frozen's build is probably lacking another 50% or more dmg, and that's close to what the snapshot bug is giving.

[peak oracle]

he is using the bug

[unreal blade]

yes i know

[peak oracle]

alright

[weary hamlet]

wait I wasn't following, what is the bug? channeling both spells at the same time?

[unreal blade]

i'm saying he could do similar damage without the bug but with near perfect gear

[peak oracle]

let me give you rough numbers on how much damage i get doing it

[hybrid schooner]

hes def missing a lot of damage

[peak oracle]

let me login

[fervent ledge]

Is there a good non bugged mage build. No mage blade I hate that melee shit.

[molten cobalt]

cant use flame rush while channeling

[unreal blade]

channeling movement skills are messed up

like related to the WASD changes in todays patch

[weary hamlet]

yea because it's a channeling spell, how do you imagine channeling two skills at the same time?

if your build hinged on this bug then omegarip but also it's very obviously a bug

[molten cobalt]

you dont

[peak oracle]

My dummy dot ticks are around 900k without bug

[molten cobalt]

if you press flame rush while channeling focus then flame rush takes over, seamlessly

but right now the seamlessly part is destroyed

[weary hamlet]

ah alright then

yeah sounds like an issue

[peak oracle]

im doign 3.6m-4.3m

with bug

im literally 4x my damage

[molten cobalt]

snap shot*?

[peak oracle]

i do not believe you can beat uber with like 20% of the dps i had

[fervent ledge]

Does 40% lightning penetration chest five 40% more DMG?

[peak oracle]

yes

[hybrid schooner]

im doing about 9mill a tick bit snapshot

[fervent ledge]

I don't know how I can get that and str T7 on mg

[molten cobalt]

shouldnt be that dig biff

[peak oracle]

im using frostwall duration gear

[molten cobalt]

same

[hybrid schooner]

highest tick ive done was 17mill, idk how but norally its about 9-10mill

[fervent ledge]

Is penetration direct results DMG like same %

[peak oracle]

im using unoptimal gear, but you get the idea

you need like really good shit

and even then you dont get close

[unreal blade]

are you comparing normal frostwall use with gear swapped? or is this no frostwall vs gear swapped frostwall?

[peak oracle]

no frostwall vs bugged

[unreal blade]

cause it shouldn't be 4x

[molten cobalt]

yeah thats what i said

[unreal blade]

ok well that's not a fair comparison then

[peak oracle]

wdym not fair

are you gonna click frostwall every time you FR

[unreal blade]

with gear swap you get what 12 sec frostwalls?

normal is 6 sec

[unreal blade]

yes that is how the build plays

[peak oracle]

and you gonna do what

time it with hitting abberoth?

put wall down

wait 6 seconds

then hit it?

[unreal blade]

not every time 6 sec, but sometimes sure

[peak oracle]

if you enter wall instantly

your damage isnt going up that high

[unreal blade]

correct

[peak oracle]

because you get more damage depending on how long it existed

and that only works once

so if the boss moves away

your wall is useless

also

[unreal blade]

i'm aware of how it works. i helped design the build 😄

[peak oracle]

its 12sec base

kay

im just saying

its not feasible to get a ton of damage out of it

[unreal blade]

it's just a high skill play

[peak oracle]

at best you get like

[peak oracle]

20% on average

thats nowhere near my 4x

[unreal blade]

that's comparing no wall to snapshot though

[peak oracle]

thats if they fix snapshot

even if its like

120% vs 400%

[unreal blade]

if you use wall the difference is less significant

[molten cobalt]

also gotta make sure you are comparing with the same amount of stacks

forgot the name of the stack

[peak oracle]

I am

[molten cobalt]

it goes to 45

[peak oracle]

im uncharging and using the 3rd+ cast

[unreal blade]

even if you are aiming for 100% uptime on brand, you can get 60-90% from frostwall + 14% from it existing.

if you maximize time you can get 180% from wall

if you snapshot the bug you get 360% from wall

but then you also give up the 45% multiplier from direct casting sometimes

[hybrid schooner]

anways without thep snap. youd have an impossible time on uberoth . unless double t7 slams all around

[peak oracle]

you cant get full uptime on 180%

[unreal blade]

yep, but if you need to dodge something you might get more dmg

[peak oracle]

let me do math

brand lasts for 3 seconds, if you were to reapply every 3 seconds with full wall uptime, which is 3s * 30%, its a 90% increase from wall

• whatever you get from passing

snapshot is 24s * 30%

[unreal blade]

yep, the extra time is just a catch up if you had to dodge something

[peak oracle]

permamently

[unreal blade]

and when the CD is up you can direct cast RI for 45% more dmg

[peak oracle]

minor increase

[lime tundra]

what would be the most efficient mastery for starting empowered monos that doesnt rely on specific items? my self made lightningfireball runemaster is starting to fall off hard

[peak oracle]

its like 25% of a fr

[unreal blade]

what is?

[peak oracle]

RI

[unreal blade]

i'm not sure what you mean

[peak oracle]

the cooldown on my RI currently

is like 4x of FR

[unreal blade]

the 45% more dmg passes on to the brand

[peak oracle]

even if i were to mash both on cd

[prime whale]

is it useful to have more than 100% lightning penetration or does it not go in the negatives ?

[unreal blade]

so like every 4th brand is 45% more dmg

[eager wharf]

Hey I'm kinda struggling with flame rush right now, seems to cancel a lot on my autobomber. Is there something broken?

[unreal blade]

but you can't direct cast with snapshot

[peak oracle]

snapshot is 720% more damage...

[unreal blade]

yes channeled movement skills are messed up atm

[odd gazelle]

yes solitown

[unreal skiff]

guess it's good to go trough campagain with my mage twink

[eager wharf]

ah okay thanks, is there a workaround or way to still use flame rush?

[molten cobalt]

you can lower it significantly with a passive node

a node we dont take

[unreal blade]

that's not possible. think you can get to 12s on wall, maybe another second or so. it's just 30% per sec. you'd need 24 second wall to reach 720

[peak oracle]

wall lastas 12s by default

you can get +100% duration on gear

[unreal blade]

no it's 5 sec, a little over 6 with duration node in the tree

[peak oracle]

oh mb

360% then

lets do some napkin math

[unreal blade]

not really but i'd expect a pretty fast fix, maybe today. tomorrow at the latest i would guess.

[peak oracle]

lets say you use wall optimally

gain +60% on regular FR use

and RI gives you roughly an 40% dps increase

[eager wharf]

I see, thanks!

[peak oracle]

you still only do ~2.24x on average vs 4.6x on snapshot

i suppose if people hit their dot numbers to like 9m

[unreal blade]

then factor in frozen could probably get another 40-50% dmg from getting close to perfect gear, and it's not that different, as i orginally stated.

[peak oracle]

you could have my dps with snapshot with like top end gear

yeah i guess i can see it possible

[unreal blade]

yeah that's what i was saying all along, with great gear it's possible

[peak oracle]

i guess i underestimated on how hard it can scale

[molten cobalt]

and what is top end? double t7 slams?

[peak oracle]

because funny str

[molten cobalt]

only the STR slam really scales hard

secondary prefix isnt as big

[hybrid schooner]

light pen is monsterous

what u talking abihyt

[peak oracle]

whatever this dude is running and maybe better

[peak oracle]

we already have a dozen lightning pen actually

[hybrid schooner]

if you get t7 light pen on chest and helm.....

[unreal blade]

couple examples: frozen's axe had low roll t7 shock, mid roll t6 dot, no 3rd affix (pen). helm had t6 vilatria so he was missing quite a bit of shock chance.

[molten cobalt]

how would you get it on helm

[odd gazelle]

of course it missed my t6 shock on hit

[peak oracle]

just get a sealed t7 vila

run str + lightning pen with rune prefix

[hybrid schooner]

thats what im trying for.. but it keeps rolling like t3 only...

[molten cobalt]

thats not so "just", i have been trying

[unreal blade]

yeah gl with that, but it is technically possible with the warlord riches imprint

[molten cobalt]

t5 sealed is best i got

[peak oracle]

you could just try and imprint the str or the light pen

the str might be way more common

[hybrid schooner]

the sealed affix imprint is bullsht.. i been playing with a vilatris t7 on for like 60 hours. not one single t7. not even close

[molten cobalt]

yeah the RNG is against you on that

[hybrid schooner]

going to have to seal something else and swap vilatria on there

[molten cobalt]

i have gotten 1 sealed t5 and many sealed t3 and t4

[hybrid schooner]

need T7 T7 helm with like 70 fp on it... to have a shot at a fat helm

[molten cobalt]

so realistically you aint getting pen on helmet

you are getting str and vilatria

[peak oracle]

just get something like this

surely

[unreal blade]

also iirc frozen was using a 1LP twisted heart so missing t5 ele dot

[molten cobalt]

i have that but no armor

but 41% pen

that base though

28% of mana

what a shame

[hybrid schooner]

bricked my lp3 chest today.. and 4x lp2s when trying to slam double t7 on it today... terrible

[peak oracle]

it matters not

you abrely use any mana

[molten cobalt]

of course it matters

[molten cobalt]

yes you do

[unreal blade]

it's not significant but it is nice to have a higher roll

[peak oracle]

im running focus with the haste node and the overcharge to get any reasonable amount of haste

you dont use mana if you dont spam frostwall

[molten cobalt]

you use some mana

but it regens fast due to focus

[hybrid schooner]

just had a 19mill tick.. why do some do double damage

[peak oracle]

if anything

the armor matters more for ward generation

[molten cobalt]

they dont

its 2 ticks counted as one

[hybrid schooner]

oo

[molten cobalt]

compare number of ticks and you see

the 19mil one will have 1 less tick in the series

[peak oracle]

this node

[hybrid schooner]

alright i thouht i wax cooking

[peak oracle]

waaay more important

and the annoying thing is

its not every 2 sec

its 2 sec after you start channeling

so if you want to get more, you gotta recast focus

[hybrid schooner]

% armor isnt doing much for us in build... like 50 flast armor is way more valubale than another 50% armor

[peak oracle]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[molten cobalt]

i do that anyway to get the haste

[hybrid schooner]

we already have like 1000% armor

but ya, past like 11k armor you hardly get any more damage redux. its just for the ward

[peak oracle]

ward is ncie tbh

[molten cobalt]

with everything running i think i hit 16k armor

not online now to check, i aint playing this crap until they fix it

[hybrid schooner]

ya im just over 16 myself. could totally get over 20k easy but iw would just be for the ward

[peak oracle]

im at 11k with red rigns

lmao

julra go up to 20k

[molten cobalt]

standing still in town?

[hybrid schooner]

if that guy had t7 armor on chest instead of % armor. easily 3k more

[peak oracle]

moving with focus

[molten cobalt]

quite low then

i wonder why

[peak oracle]

arena is best hub

yeah

i didnt farm

i have a few unoptimal slots

like mid

[molten cobalt]

i need better gloves myself as well as 2lp boots

and a better helmet, but they always brick for me

[peak oracle]

like, this is the gear i used https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qbeme6wA

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,754, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 283.51, Regen: 18.24/s
▸ Ward Retention: 387%, Regen: 94/s
▸ Attributes: 154 Str / 11 Dex / 154 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 74% / 46% / 99% / 40% / 90% / 1% / 8%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 351
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (160)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 63% (4,925)
▸ Block Chance: 168%, Mitigation: 46% (1,750)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 89%

Used skills:

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

[molten cobalt]

too much messing about with changing and swapping t7 mods

[left hill]

How does Focus Energy Battery calculate mana gained? Like, does it just take Mana At End - Mana At Start? Or if you consume mana while channeling it and then gain it back, does that count too?

[molten cobalt]

i never get to finish the craft

[peak oracle]

whatever you gain specifically from focus afaik

[molten cobalt]

yeah there's clear improvements for sure

a few of them

[peak oracle]

glove and belt are the worst

[molten cobalt]

you got no failty for example

[peak oracle]

eh who cares

[molten cobalt]

amulet is easy as 2lp

like suuuper easy

[peak oracle]

gotta hit the slam but yeah

[left hill]

I just mean, say I have 500 mana, and I start Focus at 0. I gain 500 from channeling Focus, but then Harbinger of Stars procs and consumes Meteor's mana cost while I'm still channeling. If I regen that back too with Focus, does that get counted too? (so like 556 or whatever)

[molten cobalt]

cleaver is a reroll hehe

that slam

[peak oracle]

yeah sorta iirc

but regular mana regen does not count

[left hill]

yeah, that makes sense. ok, thx

[molten cobalt]

no ailment purge either on belt

[peak oracle]

could be wrong, its hard to test either way

[molten cobalt]

but hey, you did what i could not

[peak oracle]

clicking potions is a defensive loss

like

actually

[molten cobalt]

defensive loss?

[peak oracle]

yeah you stop procing reactive ward

if you are above 70% hp

[molten cobalt]

im always above 70%

[peak oracle]

and you cant get rooted anyway during focus

[molten cobalt]

im always full hp

[peak oracle]

i tried both and i found that its more tanky not staying full

i gain 87% of my max hp as ward every 6 seconds

roughly

[molten cobalt]

i removed those reactive ward nodes

pretty sure Frozen did too

87% of max hp?

[peak oracle]

yeah

[molten cobalt]

explain that math

[peak oracle]

sure

reactive ward is 6 ward per 10, 60%, the last 3 pts in that tree gives +45%

6 + 45% = 8,7

[molten cobalt]

sure

[peak oracle]

its like 250 ward/s

you do lose a bit on twsited heart not gaining you back as much

[molten cobalt]

thats fair i suppose

personally it stresses me out

[harsh abyss]

Does Reactive Ward constantly proc with the 'health drain' gear like Last Steps? I realized I've never tested it

[molten cobalt]

i got rid of that and specced into leech

on the sorc tree

[peak oracle]

yeah

[hybrid schooner]

i been using this node. gave up a little move speed. its actually a massive dps

[peak oracle]

if you lsoe via like twisted heart

it procs it

[peak oracle]

this is only 48% lightning damage

it isnt that much

the shock doesnt count

[molten cobalt]

how is that massive

[harsh abyss]

It's good if you don't have any other sources of shock, I suppose

[hybrid schooner]

how does the shock not count

[molten cobalt]

it must be generic

[peak oracle]

because your brand node

literally says generic and not specific "i.e. shock with spells"

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it doesn't work with brand

[hybrid schooner]

so shocl chance on half our gear doesnt work either by that logic

[molten cobalt]

it does

shock chance on hit works

[peak oracle]

shock on hit counts as generic

[hybrid schooner]

what about helm

[peak oracle]

also

[molten cobalt]

vilatria? works

[hybrid schooner]

helm says the same wordig that the passive node does

[molten cobalt]

no it doesnt

[harsh abyss]

No, it's generic shock chance per Int

[hybrid schooner]

not that

a halms basic shock chance

you telln me that dpnt work?

[molten cobalt]

this`?

does not

[hybrid schooner]

ok

[half pollen]

@weary hamlet I just fooled around with my dex stack disintegrate runemaster and you actually only get spell power from never late for disintegrate. The crit doesnt apply 😕

[peak oracle]

well yeah disintegrate cant crit

might as well scale it with that offhand

[left hill]

does Lightning Blast from Mana Guide count as "cast by another skill" for the Overcharge (double-cast) node?

[weary hamlet]

so its even more bugged than you assumed, classic ehg

[weary hamlet]

ignivar's

[half pollen]

yeah, even when bugged its bugged

but I just found out that julras stardial snapshots for disintegrate, which sounds nice with a T7 elemental damage over time on each ring

[peak oracle]

preparation also does

which is... something

[half pollen]

yeah, thats probably pretty nice early on

but two julras is already 1200ish% elemental damage over time, the 200% from 10 points in prep probably isnt worth it at that point

[peak oracle]

yeah

during campaign it was funny

i click static with 200 charged via disintegrate

bosses got nuked

so did my mp bar

i didnt know you could go above -100% mp

[half pollen]

could also go for communion of the erased which doubles its stats on potion use for 1 second

[odd thistle]

yes, I believe the wording in Overcharge is attempting to say it must be direct cast

[unreal blade]

who cares about taking 18% less dmg! 😄

[sinful coyote]

disintegrate is DoT iirc?

and DoTs never crit in LE

[left hill]

dang, ok

[half pollen]

yeah

[peak oracle]

i had 1% necro resist

[half pollen]

but disintegrate has an offhand that makes it scale with crit

[peak oracle]

i wasnt living super hard stuff anyway

[odd thistle]

but, yknow, test it and report back, i might be wrong. cause technically yeah it isn't another SKILL

[sinful coyote]

okay didn’t look up its nodes

[sinful coyote]

correct me if I’m wrong but I remember never late was “patched” by ehg in 1.1 so it no longer works on RI casted by FR?

[unreal blade]

no but the health cost from twisted heart or teleport can proc it when you are below the threshold

[sinful coyote]

why it’s back in 1.2

[harsh abyss]

easy enough then

[half pollen]

bugs can make comebacks in LE

[left hill]

will do, once I get my build plan sorted out. haven't started the character yet, but playing with some ideas right now

[sinful coyote]

can we have no cooldown flame wards on frostwall pass back ehg

:copium:

[unreal blade]

yes that is an indirect cast, so can't double/quad cast

[sinful coyote]

50% uptime flamewards makes me die 50% of times got hit

[left hill]

are there any super fast ways to spend 100% of your mana? like anything that just straight-up eats all your remaining mana?

[sinful coyote]

there "was" one

and they nerfed it in 1.,2

[unreal blade]

the only necrotic dmg on aberroth's fight is the green scythes which are super easy to avoid

[peak oracle]

look

i know

[sinful coyote]

there was no cap on this b4 1.2

[harsh abyss]

Does the "silence" from Ice Barrage still count as not having mana?

[peak oracle]

i dont need to go technical why some of my resists are like

bad

[sinful coyote]

and mages mana stacking static orb just one punch all contents in 1.1

[left hill]

hmm... I'll have to figure out some other way to spend mana absurdly fast on this build then. alright

[peak oracle]

just mash ice walls

or depends on how much mana you have

[harsh abyss]

Spam high cost meteors will kill it in a second or two

[sinful coyote]

so why you wanna spend all these

there isn't a way to gain mana back quickly at current state

you only gain 20% instant from null infusion focus?

[unreal blade]

culnivar scepter

[left hill]

not doing Null Infusion/Profusion stuff with this idea, although that 40% can go a long way in some other builds

[odd thistle]

volcanic orb can cost hella mana, dump you into th enegatives real quick

[left hill]

dang, weapon slot, ok

[harsh abyss]

Depending on what you're trying to do you could use culvinars to drop it all, hot swap to your other setup, and then use Static Orb to keep yourself low/negative?

[left hill]

thx, I'll take a look there

[harsh abyss]

Are you trying to do a negative mana mana strike build?

[left hill]

my micro/APM isn't that good haha

[left hill]

nah, is that a thing?

[harsh abyss]

I wish there was more "missing mana" support

It's not GOOD, but it's a thing, heh

[proven hornet]

I am playing shatterstrike mage and getting bodied by the lagon harbinger, any tips

this is at 250 correuption

the narrow arena is really screwing me up

[sinful coyote]

teleport through the water stream

don't just dodge through

pop flamewards when hes about to hit you

w/ okayish setup he will die faster than you

ah wait

harbinger

[unreal blade]

shatterstrike is a glass cannon, so my tip is more cannon

[proven hornet]

was afraid of that

[sinful coyote]

lagon harbinger has a huge dps window when she drops to 75? or 50% of hp

kill her on her transition

thats my plan when i was playing shatterstrike

[proven hornet]

oh so when they call the waves and stuf?

[sinful coyote]

yea

shes standing there for 5/6 sec

iirc

and first move after transition is calling the waves, which wont hit you till about 3sec

believe in your damage

thats all you have

[junior coral]

how do i go about making the lightning penetration on chest with also strength both t7

[sinful coyote]

my strat on this bad boi is have a chest with double T7 suffix, and at least 1 T1 prefix

use removal to leave only 1 T1 prefix

[unreal blade]

hard to do, but most likely way is get a double t7 of any affix from nemesis, manage to drop the non t7s, craft your lightning pen and dex or int, swap the dex or int to strength, then use havocs until both prefixes are T7

[sinful coyote]

and slot your ideal prefix to T1, despair the other T1 you don't want

slot the other ideal prefix, havoc till both are T7

but this not works if you want something for 3lp

cuz you will leave 2 T1 you don't want

[odd thistle]

1. run nemesis (use the nemesis tower woven echo) until you have a triple exalt chest. Any mage chest base, any affixes, just get triple exalt ideally T7/T7/T6
2. do not touch that chest - leave the FP as high as possible. Imprint it in the cache node on the weaver tree
3. run unclaimed trove woven echos (ideally 1 lostwood folly surrounded by 5 unclaimed troves to get back memory amber so you can keep going) and collect T6/T7 and T7/T7 chests
4. craft those bad boys into the affixes you want. Most will brick, that's ok - the unclaimed trove farm will keep spitting them out.

you'll need lots of runes of havoc, you can do the generic Rune x22 prophecies to get more. Use the double reward, double use, and monolith-only lenses.

[molten cobalt]

huh?

why would you use removal and remove both t7 mods

[sinful coyote]

that haps everyday on T5 T1 | T7 T7 base when I want both T7 prefixs

[molten cobalt]

i dont understand what you are talking about

[sinful coyote]

if I wanna slam STR + lightning pen on my chest, and I get T5 cold pen + T1 level of meteor + 2 T7 suffix for example

i can't do anything to cold pen besides removal

[molten cobalt]

correct

[sinful coyote]

thats what i was talking about

[molten cobalt]

i see

[sinful coyote]

so leave only 1 T1 cuz you can easily seal it

[molten cobalt]

well those are always a huge risk

likely you will delete the t7 mods instead of the t5

[sinful coyote]

it's useless w/ t5 on it anyway

at least it has a chance to shine

[molten cobalt]

well

there is one other way

but also a long shot

rune of redemption

you seal the t1

swap places on the t7 to get t7 prefix

[sinful coyote]

i personally refuse havoc then redemption process lmao

[molten cobalt]

then reroll the exalted

[sinful coyote]

havoc is harder to get compare to T7s

[molten cobalt]

its pretty low chance too i know

no method is good

[sinful coyote]

i wasted all my redemptions to double t7 prefix or T7/T6/T6 stuffs

[molten cobalt]

i got plenty of redemption but always out of havoc

[junior coral]

im MG

i heard trhere is a way to get a lot of havoc as MG i gotta watch the video

something to do with adding extra chests to some dungeon

[odd thistle]

yeah lightless arbor I think

[molten cobalt]

step 3 is a real fast way to run out of amber, that is impossible to sustain

you must mix in false temple

[odd thistle]

if you're MG you might be able to just buy a good starting chest to imprint, something with multiple junk T7s and lots of FP? idk how MG search works, never played MG

[molten cobalt]

i really wanted to play the game tonight

but the patch killed it

such a shame

[odd thistle]

yes it won't sustain if that's all you do, but 1: doing exclusively that is boring and 2: woven echos can't proc the Commoners Riches imprinted item, so when you run out of amber, go run some regular monolith echos for a while to refill, hit all the cemetarys that pop up cause they're full of amber

especially if you spec into bonus amber and more cemetaries

[odd thistle]

you mean the channeling bug?

[molten cobalt]

yes

[odd thistle]

fortunately it also affects sentinels so there's a chance we get a quick hotfix

[molten cobalt]

yeah i do hope so

[odd thistle]

if it was just mages I think we'd be waitin a while lol

[molten cobalt]

they dont want to p1ss off such a large playerbase

i usually never run regular echoes

i just do a combination of false temple and unclaimed trove and the one you cannot buy, forgot the name

with the fire spitting lizards in it

false temple costs 750 but gives 1500-2000

[odd thistle]

you could also throw in some Sepulchre of the Lost for more chances at your Echoing Riches imprint (the bottom left imprint in the weaver tree)

but if you never do regular echos then the top right imprint (commoners riches) is wasted, and I think they're a good break from the monotony, and they build up lots of memory amber at no cost so you don't have to worry as much about self sustain

but, I totally get wanting to self sustain on woven echos, in which case 3 temples and 2 troves works great

[molten cobalt]

everything has a cost

so cannot say "at no cost"

[odd thistle]

wdym?

[molten cobalt]

everything has an alternative cost

[odd thistle]

the regular echos that appear naturally?

I guess your cost is time, slightly less optimal running?

but no amber cost I mean

[molten cobalt]

and basically zero chance for a lizard shrine

whereas false temple has extremely high chance for one

one time i had 3 lizard shrines in the same false temple

many times i have gotten 2

[odd thistle]

sure, but I've yet to get a single good item off a lizard. All the truly insane items are from imprinting nemesis triple exalts

or imprinting uniques

[molten cobalt]

lots of runes and lots of exalteds

and some uniques

[odd thistle]

hence I prefer to hedge my chances at triggering each of the imprint slots

plus by exploring the regular echos you can discover your imprinted woven echos, so then you can get free troves or whatever else you imprinted

[molten cobalt]

so i would rather run a false temple and get 2000 amber than run regular echoes

super fast, super smooth, lizards

lots of amber

[odd thistle]

yeah that's fair

I think the game's more fun with some variety, but definitely splitting shrines and troves is more variety than just troves which is what I do when I feel like spending amber

[molten cobalt]

i have a 4x exalt item somewhere

but one of them being sealed

at least i think i still got it and didnt brick/ruin it

[odd thistle]

I don't think the imprints look at sealed affixes but not sure

[unreal blade]

spin to win vk is like 25% of the playerbase so yeah i'd expect a rapid fix

[hybrid schooner]

yall think the t7 str or t7 light pen is better prio on helm?

[odd thistle]

str 100%

[molten cobalt]

for brand? str ofc

[odd thistle]

str is THE most important stat in every slot you can get it

[molten cobalt]

its not even close

[odd thistle]

I was dumb early on and went for T7 movement T6 str on boots when I coulda gone the opposite

[unreal blade]

except vilatria imo

[odd thistle]

still trying to correct that mistake

[hybrid schooner]

lol

[odd thistle]

I think T7 str T5 vilatria > T7 vilatria T5 str

[hybrid schooner]

really

[unreal blade]

t5 vilatria is a large shock loss

[hybrid schooner]

im hacing trouble getting a good seed helmet for my imprints. they all shit FP

my chests however are up to 70 FP, t7 t7 t6

[odd thistle]

it is but you already have so much shock

checking my assumption on Frozen's spreadsheet, they're damn close, at least for my current gear

[unreal blade]

could say the same about the more multi from strength though

[odd thistle]

oh I forgot about the increased pen that also comes with the Vila affix

with that Vila wins out

[odd thistle]

yes but the str gives you armor for survivability, and more dmg from the chest, and ward retention from the int, and damage scaling on the skill from the int, just so much all together

but yeah Vila giving shock AND pen is very good if you don't already have a lot of pen

[unreal blade]

yeah they are going to be close, but i do think vilatria is superior

[molten cobalt]

there it is

shame it will never be useful to me

[junior coral]

do skill shards I get from Shattering a chest for something like Frost wall duration Shards also let me use that shard on other items like a helmet?

or is that only chest version

[unreal blade]

ideal is something like t7 str, t5 pen with lightning invocations, sealed t7 vilatria but gl with that.

[molten cobalt]

another nice one, but also shield

[odd thistle]

same shard for all types that can use it

[molten cobalt]

i can never actually use this in a build

[cobalt matrix]

Is flame rush bugged for anyone else while using focus after the patch?

I hold the button but it triggers instantly

[molten cobalt]

it is broken

[odd thistle]

could work out well for a 2LP bastion

[molten cobalt]

have not managed to get one with high enough base STR

5 is best i got

I'd rather use a 10 str 1lp one

[cobalt matrix]

oh aight thanks

thought I was going crazy

[hybrid schooner]

i bricked a 2lp 10 str today.. dude i been dropping thousands of shields from prophs... that shiled so rare

i have almost every shield 4lp

[molten cobalt]

yeah 2lp bastion isnt fun to farm

[proven hornet]

@sinful coyote @unreal blade more cannon and the dps window tips helped a lot, never doing that again though. Thanks guys

[stone bloom]

helloo guys im new to the game im playing mage level 22

can some1 give me good guide to start wat build to run and how to level up fast ?

[hybrid schooner]

wrong helm...

afraid to click the havoc again

meh aint gonna use it anyways

[stone bloom]

??

[junior coral]

im still using regular set helemt. i have no clue how to do all that too complex

[hybrid schooner]

pretty straight forwards once you shatter a couple set helms

its just like any other affix then

[unreal blade]

not a bad helm

[stone bloom]

can some1 help guys

[molten cobalt]

no STR on it though

so kinda is a bad helm

[hybrid schooner]

im tryn to grind ghrough patch bug, its pretty rough. feels terrible

[molten cobalt]

yeah thats why im not even trying

[hybrid schooner]

ye this blows

[junior coral]

weird my snap shot stopped working

oh nvmind lag

[hybrid schooner]

yeee, wake me when this gets fixed.

[last chasm]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spellblade-leveling-guide

[dusk grail]

How do you set up loot filter to recolour exalted items with like two tier 6s? Is there anyway to do it

[molten cobalt]

yes

it is done rather easily

[worn valley]

can someone link me a RM str build with all the points allocated? the one from FZ has points unallocated

At least for me for some reason

[hybrid schooner]

the skill points? because they wont do anything really or they would mess up the mechanics of the build

[worn valley]

Ok was thinking it might have been that, thanks

[molten cobalt]

in some cases i think he intentionally capped it at 20

to not demand +skill rank items

some skills benefit from having more points

like focus

flame ward too

[worn valley]

Ok thanks for clearing that up for me

[last knoll]

Does anyone know if there's any tools to calculate crit chance for specific skills? Is this something LE tools can do?

[molten cobalt]

the build planner will sumarize stats, but it will not take into account crit chance from skill nodes for example

[boreal widget]

How on earth do you build around that one volcanic orb item that converts it to void damage? Is there some other void synergy I can grab? I know of the void pulse staff but that's it.

[hybrid schooner]

idk, mage has no void damage scaling

[hallow sapphire]

Any of you guys have a build guide for meteor autobomber?

[last knoll]

Yeah I think I'm over capped on crit so trying to figure out where the breakpoint is, is kinda hard without sitting at dummy hitting the button for 100+ casts. Was hoping someone made an excel or something so I don't have to haha

[boreal widget]

I wasn't aware that was how penetration works, is that the wrong text?

Or am I braindead

Anyways my dumb build is somehow doing 300cor despite being horribly setup so I got that going for me.

I don't know how to manage caps I'm so bad

[unreal blade]

you can calculate it manually and LETools makes it easy to do so. go to the offense tab of the planner, add up all the %increase crit chance. look at your skill tree and see if that skill has any additional %increased crit or %flat crit. add any %inc crit to the amount you calculated first. add any %flat crit to the base of 5%. you should have 2 numbers, your total %inc crit and total %flat crit. take the %inc crit, divide it by 100 then add 1. multiply this number with your %flat crit and that is your crit rate with that particular skill.

example:

LETools %inc crit list total: 150%
Skill tree %inc crit: 25%
Skill tree %flat crit: 2%
Base crit: 5%

total %inc crit is 175%
total %flat is 7%

175/100 = 1.75. 1.75 + 1 = 2.75
2.75 * 7 = 19.25% crit

[unreal blade]

uh... that must be really old text lol

[boreal widget]

I put a bug report for it then, just making sure I wasn't crazy

I wish I was better at math so I could determine the best way to build this dumb black hole

When I have one skill thats +15% more damage, one thats +10% more fire damage, one thats +25% more elite damage, one thats +15% more damage (again), one that's +10% more damage (again), onr thats +15% fire penetration (I already have 90), and then +duration vs more +damage is so hard to tell which points are most bang for buck.

I figure one point in each separate 'more' damage is better than putting them all in the same 'more' since they'll be exponential to one another instead of additive right? 1.3 x 1.3 x 1.45 x 1.3 x 1.75 is better than 2.0 x 1.5 x 1.6 x 1.1

[hallow sapphire]

Is low life still the go to?

[warped crow]

very expensive oof

black hole is annoying skill uwu

[boreal widget]

Expensive?

[warped crow]

ye needs alot of stuff and passive points

[boreal widget]

Yea like I said this build is really stupid

[warped crow]

and at the same time you question your sanity for even trying

lol

[boreal widget]

it is silly seeing rares / nemesis dash into a black hole and vaporize

[warped crow]

if you shoot projectiles near the black hole it should try to suck them up owo

[boreal widget]

And I mean vaporize. Bosses are super easy because it just deletes them unless they dodge around to much to not touch it for more than a microsecond (stupid spear harbringer lady)

[last knoll]

Thank you thank you. Very much appreciate the detail. Any tips on trying to determine if crit multi is better than other options like pen/flat damage? The tool tip is inaccurate due to it not considering crit being capped. I've been going to training dummies and seeing the hit damage mostly but gets tricky sometimes

[flat storm]

Any other spellblade builds worth playing other than shatter strike

[warped crow]

like the orobyss/void nemesis black hole

[boreal widget]

Need to get my calculator on how boosted the damage is lmao

35.6x from skill tree alone before gear modifiers

[warped crow]

move one point out of the first passive going toward apocalypse

and put it on pulsar

[boreal widget]

Nah, pulsar doesn't get boosted by black hole damage and ticks for like, 10k

while the extra point in event horizon boosts the entire black hole damage by 1.15

[warped crow]

ic

nvm then

[boreal widget]

Err sorry pulsar is boosted but uh

Its base damage is 15

[unreal blade]

would have to math it out, unfortunately

[boreal widget]

Also it has one other issue

I cant see SHIT

[warped crow]

LOL

[odd gazelle]

dam that hotfix was fast, is focus channeling back to glory?

[warped crow]

armageddon should be a meteor passive that makes it always fall on top of you xD

[unreal blade]

flame rush still broken with it, but if you weren't using flame rush it should be back to original

[lunar crest]

Can any Shatter mains help me push this higher than 300c? 🙏🏻

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B7YOy26A

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (70) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,551, Regen: 25.08/s
▸ Mana: 162.51, Regen: 11.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 304%, Regen: 294/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 54 Dex / 53 Int / 1 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 104% / 86% / 72% / 81% / 52% / 79% / 56%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 33%, Threshold: 310
▸ Dodge Chance: 15% (486)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,332)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 106%

Used skills:

None

[boreal widget]

I just noticed collapse bugs out the visual, it tries to show the double star for the explosion and re-adds the cold damage for it before moving back into a single hole

[warped crow]

lol\

[odd gazelle]

thanks niche, I was using FR for mapping

[boreal widget]

This is unplayble lmfao

[whole relic]

Hi! Saw your post and was wondering if it mattered what the " Any mage chest base, any affixes" starting tiers of affixes were? Like if it starts out as a T1/T1/T1/T1 is there a chance to become a T7/T7/T6 or should I be skipping those and focus on finding starting bases that have T5/T5/T5 for example? Thanks!

[odd thistle]

short answer: you want an item that dropped that way, and then you don't want to touch it at all.

the reason for this is that FP is one of the things that the "similar items" will inherit. Since you will need to craft on the items, you want them to have as much FP as possible, so you want the item you imprint to have as much FP as possible

[whole relic]

Oh I meant more for farming nemesis like should I empower EVERY chest base I see or should I filter out ones that start with lower tiers of affixes

[odd thistle]

oh I see. Ideally it's already purple when you first look at a new nemesis, those are the most likely to come out triple exalted (in fact they might be the only ones where it's even possible, I'm not sure), but if you're looking for your first chest to imprint at all, I'd probably roll the dice on a yellow. Doesn't matter if they're T1 or T5.

the best time to do this is actually early empowered monos. Once you kill 2 harbingers, the egg becomes much more likely, so there's one less slot in many of your nemesis that could have potentially been a good exalt

[whole relic]

Yeah... been seeing egg in basically every roll haha
Corruption doesn't matter for this right? Might start my second character early just to farm for exalteds

[odd thistle]

I believe that's correct that corruption doesn't influence it, but I'm not 100% sure.

the nemesis tower is probably still faster for finding the bases you want than rolling a new character. Weapons are annoying though cause you'll see so many of the wrong weapon base

[whole relic]

I was going to roll a new character this weekend anyways - I'll spend my remaining 100k amber on towers and just hope for a hit. If I get something I'll hold off on the rerolling haha
Appreciate you thanks! ❤️

[odd thistle]

you bet

good luck!

[whole relic]

Just sucks doing towers since it's the only strat where you just deplete all your amber haha

[odd thistle]

honestly you should be able to find 1 of each base you want in MUCH less than 100k amber

just make sure you banish off the bat if all the items are wrong

you can also do this while working on other stuff if you have the weaver tree nodes that guarantee a nemesis in every tomb and cemetary, and just imprint the nemesis tower and run it when you see one

[left hill]

is Celestial Doom just dogwater? I tried mathing it out, and even with huge mana stacking and assuming you're out of mana when you trigger it (for enormous crit multiplier with Focus's mana regen at 0 mana), it just seems like the damage isn't there. Can get it into the low millions on like absolute god gear. Am I missing anything, or is it just that bad?

[junior coral]

i think i've hit my limit as MG. Gonna go play something else. Havoc runes are too rare.

stuck at lp1 but i guess thats a decent goal

and no crafted stormcrown

[odd thistle]

you tried that lightless arbor strat?

[junior coral]

yeah i spent 5million gold and got 0 keys after 10 minutes

[odd thistle]

damn

[junior coral]

im done for the season i guess not a big deal lp1 is a decent goal

ill go COF next season so i can fully play

I even have 1 billion gold but without havoc i can't craft the items

[hybrid schooner]

so what did gthey hot fix.. cause my channels are all still broken

roll back the patch. jfc

[whole relic]

I spent 50k for one item yesterday haha
Also! What do you think is better for imprints assuming the same FP? A T7/T7 or a T7/T6/T6?

[odd thistle]

depends whether you'd be satisfied with a T7/T6 for your 2LP slam or if you only want T7/T7

[odd thistle]

you can click stuff while channeling, like chests or shrines. Flame Ward while channeling still broken.

[whole relic]

Gotcha haha time to look for more T7/T7s!

[hallow sapphire]

Do you guys do low life or nah

[empty hawk]

Just farm uber or tag along with someone you l ldrop runes

I do alot of uber helping you can tag along

I am merchant and i sit on 300 havocs

Spending 5m gold should get u atleast 10-20 havocs, thats what i usually get from harbor

[junior coral]

uber? lol

im lp1 with bad rolls...and a mage

and like 10 havoc runes , no set helmet forged

[junior coral]

i get 1-2 when i do this

tried it 4 times. 10 milllion gold total around 3 havok. maybe bugged?

[cosmic dove]

curious...that's like 31+ skill points in black hole
can you give just a quick break down of the gear that got you there?

[junior coral]

i have absolutely 0 clue how ot make this set forged helmet on MG. like no path to it

for this cobbled together bugged STR tpose build

[cosmic dove]

thanks. I didnt know about the sword

[boreal widget]

Yea its... working. I'm able to do 300 but I can't kill majasa or do the 10 harbringer gauntlet t.t

[cosmic dove]

I was wondering if you had binary system if plus to cold and fire skills counted

wasnt sure what tag it applied

[boreal widget]

+cold oens't count anymore, only +fire

And if you use singularity it becomes pure fire again but still gets +100% to damage

[odd thistle]

Just wear the actual set helm for the time being?

[junior coral]

crap this is all i could muster. is this worse than a regular Viltatras Crown?

[junior coral]

until when? seems like its not possible on MG

like just forever?

[odd thistle]

I think that’s decent (after you spend that last FP switching int to str obviously)

What about MG makes it impossible? The lack of havoc runes?

[junior coral]

yah and also hard to find the right exalted

they aren't even in the AH

[harsh abyss]

If you're doing brand build, shock chance is your #1 stat, so it's probably worse.

Otherwise it's fine

[junior coral]

what corruption level does double t7 start showing up