🧙┃mage

[harsh abyss]

If you get lucky

[uncut zealot]

meh

build seems liek a lag fest

[uncut zealot]

so might just go a diff direction

[uncut zealot]

go abck to gaming. your input is as invaluable as it can be rn

[harsh abyss]

At most you generally go 1 second between invocations, so putting it on CD doesnt seem great.

[uncut zealot]

yeah that isnt ideal

how laggy is the build lol

cuz it sounds atrocious

[harsh abyss]

I have no lag problems, but I have a good machine

[marsh oracle]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q9qVxeZQ
generally, can you give advice on this build? feels squishy sometimes, stuff like this happens

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 94

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (29) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 1,500, Regen: 35.52/s
▸ Mana: 149.48, Regen: 8.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 120%, Regen: 103/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 6 Dex / 53 Int / 1 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 84% / 87% / 76% / 116% / 116% / 87% / 83%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 300
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (64)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 29% (1,281)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 38%

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Glyph of Dominion / Runic Invocation / Frost Wall / Static Orb

[uncut zealot]

im running on a $3200 pc and frostcalw ele nova put my fps to like 10

[hybrid schooner]

theres a possible fix. with the game open and running.open task manager >details, right click lastepoch.exe>set affinity> and uncheck CPU 0

you have to do this every time u launch

[uncut zealot]

id rather find new build

[lucid hedge]

After died the screen shows what killed u? is it by (Crit) something like that, if yes u need crit avoidance to 100% or reduce dmg from crit 100% or blind the enemy(reduce enemy crit by 100%)

[marsh oracle]

i have crit dmg reduce over 100%

[lucid hedge]

corruption level?

[marsh oracle]

sorry, forgot to include

131 corr

[proven cargo]

lmao I did this and my HUD disappeared

oh well RIP that echo

[lucid hedge]

Guess the only way is to pump ur ward retention higher to maintain higher capacity of ward, and maybe more armor

[marsh oracle]

thanks, I will work on that

[lucid hedge]

even with 2000 ward condition, ur EHP is around 4k-5k

[marsh oracle]

how many EHP I should aim for?

[acoustic sorrel]

is meteor viable as a skill in itself?

[lucid hedge]

hmm... sorry I dont know that either... need to keep balance between EHP and your dps...my own mage is around 12k, currently in 400 corruption

[harsh abyss]

Yes

[hybrid schooner]

just about every skill is scalable to be viable in this game if done right. at least for everything but super high corr and uber abberoth. but pretty much every skill can be tuned properly

[lucid hedge]

if u can maintain ur ward(maintain with ward retention and generate fast enough to stay) around 6k, you will have 10k ehp with ur current gear

[lucid hedge]

so far any mages build can fight uber abberoth easier?

[marsh oracle]

i can reach 3k if casting and standing on glyph of dominion but its kinda tricky

[hybrid schooner]

i seen 3 different builds do uber so far on mage

focus build, shattet strike, hyrdahedron

not so say that others cant or havnet, ive seen these 3 at least

they all made it look easy. so idk. really have to know what youre doing there too

[lucid hedge]

focus build is kinda slow... frozensentinel even use snapshot bug to maintain frost wall buff to kill it faster with bod build

maybe i will check the hydrahedron

plus the flame rush bug... focus build is so clunky to use right now

[hybrid schooner]

ya it wasnt exactly blazing even with the snap, but he is missing a lot of potential damage

which isnt easy to get

[lucid hedge]

spark charge build from last season isnt that viable either for bossing... or am i wrong about that?

[hybrid schooner]

Binaqc said spark claw was absolutely dead, but i did see a guy over 1k corr

he was off screening stuff. idk how it would do if it took a hit

[lucid hedge]

actually content now are more lean towards bossing fight

many of the valuable drops are from elite and rares, and bosses

just my personal thought

[harsh abyss]

Spark charge FC was deleted from the game,yeah

But other spark charge builds still exist

[hybrid schooner]

wondering if this would work with your ignite idea. idk if you have to have damned on too. but if you had 1k+ stacks of ignite on.

frostbite gets well over 1k easyily. id assume ignite could as well

[solemn viper]

You can do a funny build with ignite on you and on the target as well, you just have to pair it with belt and relic lol

[gaunt plank]

Yeah I was considering using this, I found a 2 LP one earlier today

[hybrid schooner]

a step in the right direction here

[gaunt plank]

How does shattering strike's ignite conversion work regarding the duration? Does it apply a new debuff with a new duration, or just switch the existing debuff over?

[hybrid schooner]

hmm let me pull it up

a hit converts all the stacks to FB

i think youd want to put on frostite duration idols and stuff

if you went full on for the ailment setup there youd essentially get as much ignite chance and frostbite chance as possible, and damage over time scaling

no need crit

if you pull up the frostclaw tree, look at the middle bottom. could spec into frostclaw for this also, and not have it on you hot bar

frostclaw would be applying tons of frostbite

just thoughts. i not a pro. i did frostbite build a long time ago with shater strike

[vapid patio]

can anyone give me some tips

[warped crow]

yes ... it used to be the meta actually long time ago

thats why it has a 2 second cooldown rn sadge

[vapid patio]

Making a spell blade but maybe I’m going about things the wrong way? Seems like my damage is severely lacking now that I’m speccing into class abilities

I’m not sure how dps is calculated either because they approximation is just wrong lol

This is with enchant weapon buff up on me

[warped crow]

make sure your actually cycling right

[vapid patio]

I do NOT deal that much with firebrand but flame reave deals some decent damage

[warped crow]

you need enough firebrand stacks to super juice your flamereave

firebrand is gonna barely do any dmg compared to that

[vapid patio]

I mean I’m hitting like 200s in terms of damage with fire brand at max stack 6

Flame reave no enchant I’m hitting 500

So I’m confused on like what I’m doing wrong lol

[warped crow]

it can do dmg but its designed to be a building skill

so you can use all those stacks on another skill

[vapid patio]

So flame reave is the main dps skill?

[warped crow]

ye

[vapid patio]

I’m going for a lighting spellblade so I was hoping to specialize into surge for that

[warped crow]

not sure how surge plays

[vapid patio]

In terms of gear am I suppose to be wielding swords or a scepter?

[warped crow]

swords

[gaunt plank]

I considered doing this but it was pretty mana intensive. With practice playing the build and doing a fix or two I can probably make it work. But if I can do that, then I could also just not run it and use Flame Ward instead. I couldn't really fit it in before.

[vapid patio]

hmm ok, is the focus spell damage or melee damage for affixes?

[warped crow]

melee

[vapid patio]

it’s wracking my brain having melee damage when it scales with int lol

[warped crow]

it also scales dex sometimes i think

lel

[vapid patio]

yeah I’m not investing in that

[warped crow]

lol

[gaunt plank]

Assuming the needed skills would be Firebrand, Enchant Weapon, Shatter Strike, travel (I'm using teleport currently), and right now mana strike because I'm just sort of being lazy and leveling to 80ish with shatter strike alone

[broken pecan]

well I've got every class to empowered monos except mage, what build should I go for?

[warped crow]

fireball uwu

[broken pecan]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZWVaHLM-r0

my entire response to that

[hybrid schooner]

charging up my fireball rn

[lucid hedge]

if just want get to empowered mono, any build also can go easily... pure lightning blast, fireball, bod.. juz any.. but mage upper limit is just not as high as others... especially in fighting uber abberoth

[broken pecan]

how about just to farm up and kill abby ~350 corruption?

[hybrid schooner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5MKAz7tR8

[lucid hedge]

seems like i missed spellblade.. never play one before

[broken pecan]

ah, shatter strike

[hybrid schooner]

that dude blasting

if we could save spec my secondary would absolutely always be shatter strike

[broken pecan]

that's a ton of damage, but I was hoping for ranged, everything else I'm playing is melee except my warlock and she's just running Decay so she might as well be.

[hybrid schooner]

i like to play a good echo farming spec to gear up shatter strike

i find SS to be rough clearing echos

[lucid hedge]

his build is insane lol

i mean the gear

but uber abby requirement is a full setup... understandable

[broken pecan]

I just wanna kill normal babby abby

[hybrid schooner]

ya, im nearly positive hes not using that spec to farm monos

[lucid hedge]

1lp red ring x2... too hard to get it

[lucid hedge]

normal abby u can refer bod build

[hybrid schooner]

nah ude red rings drop like candy, i was getting liek 6 a day

[broken pecan]

bod build?

[lucid hedge]

not sure about others

[hybrid schooner]

and if they dont come LP jsut egg them

[lucid hedge]

i m not in cof

[hybrid schooner]

does that matter? MG cant egg?

i mean the first red ring is hard. but once you get it just slot it on all the weaver imprints

[lucid hedge]

=3= i m trying hard to get my first red ring

hahaha

[hybrid schooner]

ahh

[lucid hedge]

and yet my fren who start later than me

[hybrid schooner]

ya if not COF, all you can do is buy one one gamble crappy rings with rune

[lucid hedge]

get 2 full perfect roll red ring and a 2lp orion eye

earn 3b with these 3 items

fml

[hybrid schooner]

hmm

[broken pecan]

I don't see anything that could be called a bod build.

[lucid hedge]

brand of deception

[hybrid schooner]

i had red ring slotted for less than 2 days and got my fill. took it off. 2 lp ring aint gonna happen anyways

[lucid hedge]

search frozensentinel (str stack) or bigdaddy (int build)

[hybrid schooner]

thats what i run

str

[lucid hedge]

i m running it too... except now the flame rush bugged and once awhile i suffered from it

randomly stucked and get killed

[hybrid schooner]

ya ive managed to work around it. it was super annoying at first

[lucid hedge]

have to release mana guide first before flame rush

but still stuck once awhile

[hybrid schooner]

yep

[lucid hedge]

u used lightning web? or plasma orb?

[hybrid schooner]

at 1000 corr i have enough damage for eveything just using orb. but generally bossing i do web

i wasdoing web for echoes for a while too. but im full clearing a lot now so i do orb

[broken pecan]

I don't see aaaany brand of deception builds for bigdaddy but maybe this one? https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/bigdaddy/character/EbakaMakaka it's the only recent mage build

[lucid hedge]

a min i search for u

[broken pecan]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oXeDGG6A ?

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (20) / Spellblade (14) / Runemaster (59)

General:

▸ Health: 1,650, Regen: 26.8/s
▸ Mana: 284.59, Regen: 15.76/s
▸ Ward Retention: 409%, Regen: 94/s
▸ Attributes: 160 Str / 20 Dex / 160 Int / 10 Att / 10 Vit
▸ Resistances: 95% / 90% / 102% / 79% / 114% / 74% / 45%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 400
▸ Dodge Chance: 11% (359)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 70% (6,505)
▸ Block Chance: 174%, Mitigation: 46% (1,748)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 101%

Used skills:

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

[lucid hedge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrUy3P_V_Lo&t=1539s&ab_channel=Bigdaddy

[broken pecan]

oh I was looking on lastepoch tools

[visual kelp]

Hey, any ideas for a mage build? I tried meteor changed to lightning , it was pretty good but couldn't manage more damage for 100+ corruption and the clear speed of monoliths wasn't soo fast. (Almost had every gear needed) . Now I tried Nova (always three element) it was cool until 100+ corruption, damage is low. I don't know what to try , I want a decent clear speed for monoliths and decent damage for bosses. Thanks ✌️

[lucid hedge]

as from what i understand,
str stack (from frozensentinel)

• require mana guide + cleaver + criterion to work
• gameplay could be clunky at times (wait cd, setup, and burst if want big dmg), mana guide channeling makes u walk slow
• mage equipment does not come with str stat, u need to go to the new weaver stage convert int to str for ur exalted eq
• higher dmg but there are learning curve to makes the dps rotation goes smooth
• better defensive than int due to the free armor from str... so u will have very high armor + ward

• current flame rush bugged so its hard to play until it get fixed
  int (from bigdaddy)

• not really require any specific unique to make it work
• gameplay is smoother but lack of big burst
• eq is easier to build
• more wards, sustain is worse than str due to lower armor, but mobility is much higher and easier (free movement and teleport instead of flame rush)

correct me if i m wrong :x i m not a pro

[waxen locust]

so I tried both and I mostly agree with your observations but I fell like move through echoes was not a problem because of flame rush. also teleport has much longer cooldown than FR
in terms of getting the build online yes, it does require a lot more investment than int build but it rewards you with better survivability and damage

when you're saying flame rush is bugged what exactly are you referring to?

[lucid hedge]

did u use mana guide for focus channeling?

[waxen locust]

yes, and it wasn't that bad

you just need some movement speed as you're moving at 80% of your MS

[broken pecan]

I can always swap gear off my crowstorm since it uses the same axe and shield, I just need the criterion which Ic an probably buy

[lucid hedge]

before patch, we were able to pressing right click (focus channeling), click flame rush (pressing for traveling), then after flame rush release, it will straight back to focus channeling (the whole time never release right click for focus channeling)

means we are 24/7 in channeling status (mana guide -> flame rush -> mana guide)

[waxen locust]

ah got ya, yes

[lucid hedge]

but after patch, during mana guide channeling and u use flame rush... the flame rush will instantly stop

or sometimes it get stuck

[hybrid schooner]

i scoot around real fast. evat at 1000 corr im not even in focus half the time. as long as i have a frresh orb up. channel, flame rush, dash, run run.. repeat

can swap a red ring for crab ring if you wanted for swiftness

i may jsut slam the double t7 boots i have. idk if pulling a 3lp is practical for those boots

says lp3 is 1:3700 which isnt bad. and the boots arent exactly rare so they drop often

[fast mantle]

Hey guys, I'm following this build : https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/o3zj0raB
But I don't get why Mad Alchemist is better than Triboelectra?

Thanks for your pov

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (61) / Runemaster (32)

General:

▸ Health: 2,201, Regen: 27.36/s
▸ Mana: 267.51, Regen: 12.4/s
▸ Ward Retention: 394%, Regen: 65/s
▸ Attributes: 20 Str / 11 Dex / 191 Int / 11 Att / 15 Vit
▸ Resistances: 67% / 63% / 67% / 86% / 70% / 57% / 31%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 440
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (44)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 52% (3,369)

Used skills:

Meteor / Static Orb / Lightning Blast / Flame Ward / Teleport

[boreal widget]

I imagine the armor shred + electrify lightning pen+ spell damage + cast speed add up to more than what triboelectra can give

[fast mantle]

okay thanks for the tips

[hybrid schooner]

get as high of shred armor as u can on ladle. also it has scaling cast speed with intel

if i remember right, the shread armor value is the only affix you worry about being rolled wwell on there

then 100 intel, which isnt hard to get. is aohter 50% cast speed. can prob get 150 intel relatively easy this season

[fast mantle]

okay ! thanks a lot for these details

I think for now (lvl81) my tribo is better but I keep the mad Alchemist for later

[boreal widget]

Tried a new build, was signifigantly worse than my mega-jank old build so guess its back to mega-jank old build and I should try and fine tune it 😭

[boreal widget]

Does grasp of the blood mage work on damage over time damage?

[molten cobalt]

jackpot

9str too

time to find a slam item and fail

[topaz stirrup]

Is there a list of int scaling items/passives/skill nodes? Atm going strong on spark charges, but want to see if there is any other skill I can swap to in the future if I'm getting bored. (spellblade)

I know I can get quite a bit of crit and loads of ward stuff so most builds should work with it.. But if there's something other than the spark charge off hand that gives even more scaling from it

[spark juniper]

Anyone playing cold sorcerer nowadays?

[molten cobalt]

im surprised to see the equipped one giving me a bigger dmg inc

[teal musk]

ive seen people mention the frost wall glitch in relation to the hydrahedron builds what does this mean?

[tawny stream]

I got a win11 update, LE Settings are different and now I cant use flame rush as a travel skill while channeling with focus / mana guide. Is there an option in the setting that defaulted and I am overlooking`?

[warped crow]

you never could? ... you have to take that passive that removes the cooldown

make sure you didnt unequip something that removed it

oh also attack without moving setting maybe?

[tawny stream]

Hm I think I didnt explained it good, sry.
When I channel and want to flame rush it normally stopped channeling for a split second, I moved to my target location and flame rush did this explosion (my invocation)
Now when I press it while channeling I get no movement and just the explosion as if I traveled

[warped crow]

sounds like you keep hitting terrain and it stops the flame rush

i dont know why tho

[tawny stream]

I thought about it to but when I only use flame rush it funcitons normally (with the same position and target location)

[warped crow]

are you holding down both focus and flame rush?

its probably bugged ngl ... but that could explain why flame rush keeps getting instantly cancled too

[tawny stream]

i got focus on my right mouse holding it all the way and then flame rush on top

[warped crow]

idk then

[tawny stream]

thank you nonetheless

[cobalt matrix]

Flame rush is bugged with Focus

EHG already looking into it

You have to stop holding Focus and cast it for now

[tawny stream]

oh ok that would explain it
thanks

[warped crow]

i mean it makes sense because thats how other skills work that can be cancled midcast

but ye its a convenient mechanic

[cobalt matrix]

You don't get the benefits of Focus while casting Flame Rush so it's more of a QoL

[warped crow]

ye

[versed heron]

slam into 2lp kestrel pray for me

easy peasy

[hasty obsidian]

rigged

[molten cobalt]

they are snapshotting the damage benefit

[zinc pewter]

so. did u manage to fix your STR build?

[molten cobalt]

i did!

[zinc pewter]

😂

whats was the problem

[molten cobalt]

that fking shield

the unique frost wall duration shield

try to snap shot with it and it'll fk up your damage

[zinc pewter]

thinkinh in swapping to that build. running a spellblade 80ish right now

got some t7 strenght itens

[molten cobalt]

it's still fked due to the channeling bug though

making it hard to control

[zinc pewter]

u mean the focus + flame rush?

[molten cobalt]

ye

feels like ass atm

[zinc pewter]

probably will try the lightning meteor sorcerer build

[molten cobalt]

at least some iterations of that build also uses Focus

[teal musk]

Oh is that the thing with like waiting for the last second before passing through?

[molten cobalt]

and passing through with flame rush, yes

can you attribute swap sealed mods or is this one bricked?

i need t7 STR

[teal musk]

could you elaborate on that, i saw this video of someone doing abberoth with them saying they're using the snapshot frostwall and its specced in their planner but I don't even see frost wall go down during the fight theyre using an unspecced volcanic orb, whats the reasoning behind that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN1UM3Yv71M&lc=UgznfcM9BaOdH4oI_iB4AaABAg

[molten cobalt]

you dont use frost wall after snap shotting it

it would ruin it

[teal musk]

oh then i think im misunderstanding how it works, you pass through frost wall with flame rush at the last second then it just stays like that? you don't have to keep doing it?

[molten cobalt]

it stays until you die or leave monolith area

[teal musk]

ah ok that makes sense, appreciate it, i was confused

[molten cobalt]

wut?

[clear bramble]

Yeah I got this bug not too long ago too

Rare though

I ran like 400 echos and only got it once

[molten cobalt]

i want them 😦

[nimble rover]

they can also spawn on the "roof". maybe they will fix it one day

[fervent ledge]

How much should my brand be ticking with just lp1 items on STR build

[next lance]

yo can someone help me out, i leveled to 70 with spellblade because my guide said that and specced over to glacier sorc since that was the build i wanted to play, but know i literally do 0 dmg and cant clear one dungeon

[weary hamlet]

you got duped by maxroll, there is no point in hardcore minmaxing of "leveling builds" and now you likely have leftover gear from your SB that doesn't do anything for spell damage, link your character if you want more detailed overview

[next lance]

no i used loot filter for glacier and i use the best gear with the stats i have for that but its pretty shit, how can i link my char?

those are my stats rn

i also have 166% cold dmg increase

[weary hamlet]

you have a weapon with no flat spell damage

use a wand, scepter or staff

[next lance]

okay, i got the wand from the guide but its lvl 83 hahaha

best guide ever

[weary hamlet]

you can import your character's build in lastepochtools build planner

you don't need a leveling guide in this game and least of all a convoluted setup that has you respec classes

[next lance]

i see

[next lance]

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

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 70

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (56) / Runemaster (7)

General:

▸ Health: 956, Regen: 15.8/s
▸ Mana: 356.91, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 190%, Regen: 63/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 47 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 94% / 178% / 96% / 49% / 51% / 74% / 90%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 31%, Threshold: 191
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (66)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 19% (438)
▸ Block Chance: 4%, Mitigation: 25% (286)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 55%

Used skills:

Flame Ward / Glacier / Ice Barrage / Teleport / Arcane Ascendance

[next lance]

thats it now

i just use some random wand i found it was the only one lets see if i can do some dmg

[weary hamlet]

yeah this staff is bad for your build but it's better than a weapon with no spell damage. Your amulet is also bad and you should replace it with any rare or exalt with relevant stats, the 50% less crit will kill your sustained damage. Your relic has the same issue, you already have some leech from sorc tree and you can get more from a blessing in Black Sun, replace it for something with actual stats

for idols you should look to replace yours with weaver items with better stats, namely ward retention/ward threshold/ward per second

[prime whale]

just found this too lol

almost same exact roll

[next lance]

ye the spell dmg mustve been the main problem now i can atleast kill something

[prime whale]

but i only have shit axe exalts so i can't use it yet

[molten cobalt]

Yep same here

I would want at least double t7 before I go for it

[gaunt plank]

I asked the devs last night - it converts ignites as-is including the duration, so scaling ignite duration is the move

[hybrid schooner]

@next lance ya dude i been trying to cook a god multi ex axe for my 3 lp too. i have 7/6 right now, i want 7 7 6 imprint min

if you get good imprint im COF, we can party and get it to drop. maybe i can have one!

il print something that you need too

[last knoll]

Is conflagrate (Ignite consume on Enchant Weapon) damage considered a spell or is it just ignite?

[zinc pewter]

anyone doing frost claw/elemental nova?

looks good.

[last knoll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG9LKKytoeo&t=104s

[zinc pewter]

sounds crazy huh

[hybrid schooner]

i leveled at frsotclaw frostbite. freeze is pretty useless now

but in general claw nova still wroks

ikeep geting fkn roasted because this flame rush bug

[uncut zealot]

Neither. Doesn’t scale

It scales off of the damage of ignite and the node beyond it

[hybrid schooner]

finally, been spitting bricks doods

[gaunt plank]

Alright so after further testing, I don't think ignite conversion is worth it, better to just play frostbite shattering strike

Ignites just don't last long enough

[hybrid schooner]

as soon as you hit SS it shouls swap tho right

at least on paper you should be able to get more stacks that way, frostbite on hit evefywhere u can, and then ignite on hit everywhere else

[hoary blade]

is int stacking a viable damage strategy? are there any specific skills better suited for int stackers?

[hybrid schooner]

would be great for the ingite conversion

its lready nearly BIS for SS too

[gaunt plank]

My goal was to stack a ton with firebrand and then convert to watch stuff die, doesn't seem like that's possible though

[hybrid schooner]

@hoary blade almost all our builds were int before. but they chopped the value of ward retention each pt of int gives in half. and then scaled up the decay rate. so it doesnt give us shit for survivability any more

[gaunt plank]

But you're right that I can just stack ignite chance and do it that way

[hybrid schooner]

@gaunt plank ya dude i was imagining you putting frostbite on hit ANYWHERE possible. and then ignite comes in places that frostbite cant. like this weapon.. 200% ignite on hit is monsterous

[fervent ledge]

Any MG players here

[hoary blade]

so does that mean lowlife strats are also bad now?

[hybrid schooner]

uhh i seen a couple of them do uberroth. lowlife sounds like a painful way to play

like it looks easy when they melt a boss and upload a video. but how many times did they die

[mellow basalt]

Im new to LE, was following the shatter strike maxroll guide to level. Just hit 85 and started doing empowered monoliths but now I die pretty easily lol. Any better shatter strike builds I could follow?

[hybrid schooner]

IMO shatterstrike is a difficult one to get up and running. i tried it agin this season briefly but same problem. u wont be tanky until you at least half way to BIS gear

im running anothe build in the mean time putting items away to slap together a BIS shatter build eventually

[mellow basalt]

Hmm that sucks. I really didn't want to start with using the op broken builds

[hybrid schooner]

SS is arguably broken when you get it up and running. but you gotta get there ya know

ill post a SS build hold on. its a bit different

[mellow basalt]

I meant like those void knight or Sentinel builds everyone talking about facerolling everything with zero gear

[hybrid schooner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5MKAz7tR8

[mellow basalt]

What are you using in the meantime? I mean im already 85 mage I'd rather not start a new chr to farm for SS gear lol

[hybrid schooner]

strength stack focus build

[mellow basalt]

And Im using cof I don't care for trading since im very casual player lol

[hybrid schooner]

great clear speed. 1k corr is a sweet, relax farm spot.

[mellow basalt]

Hmm, any guide for that one?

[hybrid schooner]

frozensentinel on YT has the build

theres been a few slightly variations to it

[mellow basalt]

Thanks I'll look into that maybe switch over

[fervent ledge]

Cof is better for most players.

MG switch maybe later once you have saved up regular dropped gear and thousands of havocs

[fervent ledge]

What corruption do you think that build should be able to do with only 1lp? I am not having any luck with havoc drops or exalted drops so came really slam 2lp atm

[hybrid schooner]

if you have the t7 slams on the right pieces, 1k

[fervent ledge]

Oh wow

But I feel a lot of the power comes from lp2 like shock and pen

Like shock on neck , pen on chest

[hybrid schooner]

its mostly strength slam so its easy AF

[fervent ledge]

Pen on axe

[hybrid schooner]

priority is always strength everywhere exceot for help

helm

[fervent ledge]

Yeah I been having rough times making helm with almsot no havocs lol

[hybrid schooner]

so its easy AF, intel, dex, str, just swap it around in that echo

if you slam str on everything, you already cooking

[fervent ledge]

Gonna try to farm havocs with weaver tree and echoes today

Then I can start make helmet

[hybrid schooner]

ya pick up the prophecies that say "runes" too

those will drop havocs

[fervent ledge]

I picked the trap faction

[scarlet pewter]

is frostwall snapshotting bannable? I’ve been staying away from it but seems like the couple uber kills I’ve seen have both used it

[fervent ledge]

No havoc for me

[hybrid schooner]

@scarlet pewternah dude. a lot of builds are snapshotting its just just us

not jsut us

[fervent ledge]

Yeah the best builds for every class other than Sentinel and Rogue

[scarlet pewter]

well it’s more that flamerushing through the wall to keep the buff

[fervent ledge]

Use snap shotting

And even then sentinel and rogue are more powerful lol

[scarlet pewter]

that’d be bannable over the snapshotting itself

[hybrid schooner]

i hate that its always in ARPGS, but if i know it exhists im gonna use it

[scarlet pewter]

Just wanted to check I’ve been staying away from it

[fervent ledge]

They would ban every top player of three classes lol

While leaving the OP sent and rogue

[rough minnow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/olereLkA Nova -> Invocation -> Nova x2 -> Invocation -> Nova x3(third is empowed) -> Bigg Invocation ?

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (21) / Sorcerer (5) / Runemaster (81)

General:

▸ Health: 1,242, Regen: 24.8/s
▸ Mana: 189.26, Regen: 17.12/s
▸ Ward Retention: 108%, Regen: 52/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 35 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 24% / 0% / 24% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 248
▸ Armor Mitigation: 11% (284)

Used skills:

Elemental Nova / Runic Invocation / Teleport / Flame Ward / Frost Wall

[fervent ledge]

I have all lp1 atm after snap shotting I only tick for 300k

[scarlet pewter]

managed to tweak the build and gear a bit to get similar damage just using FW regularly, but with two days now lost to the bug

[fervent ledge]

So lp2 must be adding like thousand times more dps

[hybrid schooner]

i dont tink invocation scales at all off the ability that is applying it. at least not in the way u are thinking

[prime whale]

is that a dual T7 ?

[hybrid schooner]

ya dub t7 boot

[scarlet pewter]

^correct, invocation is a cast from our other skills which takes its own skill tree/doesn’t inherit

[hybrid schooner]

my boot imprint is fat, i can cook those boots all day

[fervent ledge]

I need a double t7 slot to imprint. I have not had any drop yet

But again I'm the trap faction

[hybrid schooner]

its pretty amazing. once you get like a 7 7 6 for eadh slot, you can cook all day long. and sit down to craft and see which of them survives to slam. and not feel bad about runing the trip exhauklts

[prime whale]

I think there's a strat for farming havocs but you need gold

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1kbao47/my_rune_of_havoc_farming_strategy_mg_not_monos/

[fervent ledge]

I tried that already

[scarlet pewter]

imprint a double exalted (t7/t6), they can (rarely) drop as double t7

[fervent ledge]

I spent 20million and got like 2

[prime whale]

wow

[fervent ledge]

I stopped playing a few days after that lol

[hybrid schooner]

im swimming in havocs over here with cof

[fervent ledge]

MG is a trap for most players

[prime whale]

you using rune prophecies ?

[hybrid schooner]

ya i snag a few when i go pick up prophs, i dont go all in on them

just to keep them coming

[fervent ledge]

Gonna do cof next season for sure. But I have a feeling it'll be nerfed

[fervent ledge]

Seems insanely easier to gear in it

[prime whale]

havocs make COF pretty fun to play

[hybrid schooner]

i burn them often

[gaunt plank]

CoF makes the game so approachable for literally everyone tbh. I can't stand mandatory trading, LE is so good at making that not a thing

[hybrid schooner]

same thing with runes of creation, ill use them liberally as well

[rough minnow]

hey fellas

I came up with a wacky build concept

for runemaster

[prime whale]

the issue with COF is with finding some specific uniques with legendary potential but getting the T7 that you want is so much easier

[fervent ledge]

Yup this season is basically dead for me for picking MG. Gonna just play next season

[gaunt plank]

Just reroll CoF baby

[fervent ledge]

Don't want to start from scratch game back lot is too big

[prime whale]

the prices in MG get absurd for some meta affixes

[fervent ledge]

Log

[rough minnow]

Anyone mind taking a look to see if this makes sense, conceptually speaking?

[hybrid schooner]

if you party with a cof player they can just drop stuff they dont need too. theres a ton of shit lp3 i dont even pick up anymore

[gaunt plank]

Hey I remember your pfp think I think - were we putting together grand prism nova builds last year?

[hybrid schooner]

@rough minnowthat wont scale your invocation if thats what youre going for

[rough minnow]

What won't

[rough minnow]

We might have

[fervent ledge]

I hope cof isn't nerfed that's my plan for when I pick this game back up in s3

[hybrid schooner]

u said big invocation. all that nova will not scale invocation damage

[fervent ledge]

Is 300k ticks normal for lp1

[rough minnow]

Nah that would just be prism as the prior invocations would be 1 or 2 runes

[trim sundial]

channeling focus and flame rush is still broken...

[gaunt plank]

Just FYI, Gordian Prism won't cast 2x grand nova if you have the repeat node

[nimble rover]

well frost wall snapshoting is also here to compensate right?

[rough minnow]

@gaunt plank not using that, so i think i'm safe

[hybrid schooner]

@fervent ledgedepends, are you applying brand with orb, are using the single target setup

[trim sundial]

i dont think so

[nimble rover]

wdym

[rough minnow]

@gaunt plank it already has 30% chance to give you another and the idols lock you from wasting it

[gaunt plank]

Didn't even click on your skill tree, yeah you're probably safe. My actual advice is choose one damage type to scale and don't wear crest of unity. Unstable core is also not great as you're basically never going to be casting 6x nova

[rough minnow]

with 2 sec gap, you're allowed to do 6 novas in between 3 invocations

that's roughly what i want to go for actually

[gaunt plank]

I still wouldn't use crest of unity

[harsh abyss]

Crest of unity is good, it's actually the Runic Energy nodes that aren't really worth it.

[fervent ledge]

Single target

[rough minnow]

That's fine, didnt intend to use those anyway

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, they don't work because you're casting Runic Invocation every 1s or so

[spring iris]

hey guys im playing shatterstrike
what stats do i want rolled on my Scissor of Atropos?

[hybrid schooner]

think t7 attack speed is prio

start with that

[zinc pewter]

so... what are the mage builds that can do uber?

str RM and what

[hybrid schooner]

shatterstrike, and i think hyrdahedron did it too

it was a fire build, was either hydra or fire claw idk

[zinc pewter]

might continue with my spellblade so

[weary hamlet]

crest of unity is good.. as long as you use it as a 18% less damage taken slot and not in an actual ele nova build

[wind dove]

can anyone boots me some lv on alt char?

[harsh abyss]

It's fine for ele nova RM. Scaling all 3 elements as RM isn't that much worse than scaling a single element.

[spring iris]

ok well i got one with T7 ATSP and one with 9 base crit which actually also gave me decent damage increase, but i feel like cold damage/melee cold dmg is good aswell no?

[zinc pewter]

thinkinh in using crestofUnity at a sorcerer frost claw/ele nova build

[gaunt plank]

I made it to like 500 corruption with my grand nova RM last year - the big solve is single target for that build. It just does like no boss damage.

[hybrid schooner]

ya i was 4k+ on my frstobite claw setup.. i had a macro setup up so i could afk for 7 mines while i killed orobyss

[fervent ledge]

If I put a t7 strength into immortal vice is that good vs exalted gloves

[hoary blade]

is there a cap for elemental penetration

[hybrid schooner]

uhh link gloves, i dont recal what those are

and no i dont think there is a ca

[fervent ledge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAwRgTALCCsQ

[hybrid schooner]

o ya those are great

wait how do u have those

oo mg, right

[fervent ledge]

One of the few good things about MG yeah lol

Uniques kinda easy. Exalts rough

Well depending on the unique

There are literally no LP red rings in ah

[gaunt plank]

Do you guys know if Fire Aura hits, or is it just like tick damage?

[fervent ledge]

Or any axes with shock chance and lightning pen. Or necklace with shock and ele dot

Gotta havoc, AH is hit or miss

[alpine rock]

Hey gang, I'm seeking a little help. First time player absolutely loving the game, but starting to struggle with my defenses as I push towards the end of the starter monoliths (I'm in the lvl 85 zone now).

Can anybody provide me with a list of defensive stats to prioritize on gear, and/or any uniques I might not be target farming that focus on survivability?

Playing Lightning Meteor and struggling to find a guide specific to the build so I'm not sure where go to next. Thanks all!

[gaunt plank]

Mage is in a pretty tough spot defensively if I'm not mistaken

You should prioritize getting crit immunity, though

A lot of people farm the empowered Reign of Dragons first so as to get the 70% crit immunity blessing

[weary hamlet]

doesnt hit

[gaunt plank]

Didn't think so, ty

[fervent ledge]

Damn egg keeps giving me red rings with dodge lol

[hybrid schooner]

brugh the second green circle from these posessed siege glems is wild. u have about .1 second to move or u dead

[fervent ledge]

I have one STR red ring. I will use a Julra in second slot. For 2lp what's good after Str on ring

[hybrid schooner]

u can slam a crab ring too, good option

i would go crab ring

[fervent ledge]

STR and lightning DMG?

For 2lp

[hybrid schooner]

uhh. if thers a ele dot affix thats best. if not ya. or a resistance u need

dex would even work too. dex scales your echo clearing if you using orb

all of that STR is only scaling your damage when you set up for single target

[rough minnow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oNKjnX5A fleshed out the concept a bit more

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Runemaster (88)

General:

▸ Health: 1,410, Regen: 98.28/s
▸ Mana: 268.07, Regen: 19.36/s
▸ Ward Retention: 303%, Regen: 225/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 76 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 81% / 97% / 81% / 80% / 98% / 83% / 57%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 282
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,125)

Used skills:

Elemental Nova / Runic Invocation / Teleport / Flame Ward / Frost Wall

[rough minnow]

Clear: 3 novas -> Invocation
Bossing: Nova -> Invo, 2x Nova -> Invo, 3x Nova -> Invo

[hybrid schooner]

cool. just a note. if youre hard casting the invocation it will break the snapshot if youre using it

[boreal widget]

Man I was hoping I could combo desintigrate and BH for a dot build but they both need incompatible legendaries 😭

[rough minnow]

elaborate?

[hybrid schooner]

if you press invocation, the frostwall snapshot goes away

[boreal widget]

Black hole tickles without that stupid 2h sword. Disintegrate for some reason is designed to scale off crit and needs ingvar's head

[rough minnow]

which snapshot is that?

[hybrid schooner]

more damage for frostwall duration

[boreal widget]

How is damage snapshot? Is it at time of cast?

[hybrid schooner]

if you idnt know about it and wernt gonna use it then it wont matter. just noting this

[rough minnow]

You mean Heaping Cold?

[spiral viper]

if i cast static by hand its estimated damage at max charges is 170k but if it is casted by surge est. dmg. becomes around 20-30(which is how much it actually deals) why is that?

[hybrid schooner]

if you put of a frostwall, wih gear on that hax duration to maximize the duration. then go through the wall. you will have the damage snapshoteted as long as you dont go through any ore walls or hard cast invocation

[harsh abyss]

That sounds like a bug

[hybrid schooner]

helm and chest with t7 wall duration, cast wall, go through wall right at the end. swap back to normal helm and chest

ya, not intended. but i dont think storm crows are suppose to do 197 billions dps either

[fervent ledge]

And abomination

[harsh abyss]

Yeah obviously snapshotting is bad, but that doesn't even look like snapshotting

[fervent ledge]

And wraith Lord

[harsh abyss]

That's just a bug that it can affect more than one RI/Glyph

[hybrid schooner]

ARPS always have gigga snapshots. the ners always find them

nerds

[scarlet pewter]

I don’t think it’s the snapshotting that makes it sketch it’s the bug with aspirants arrival not being consumed for indirect casts

On the flip side aspirants is also bugged and doesn’t re-apply

[hybrid schooner]

ya thats fine. the unethical part is knowing about it and swapping gear to max the duration

[rough minnow]

either way

im kinda wondering if self-cast nova is viable or not...

and that seemed like the best way to go around it

The set +3 to elemental is a nice touch too

[scarlet pewter]

I’ve been staying away from explicitly abusing it and found flipping from bastion to horn of ukerios enables a ton of extra damage

[rough minnow]

so the whole concept of a lvl 32-34 nova seemed appealing

[scarlet pewter]

can get 3-6 frost wall casts off between RI/flamedash, each one adding 5 stacks of runic energy

and can slap all res on the shield and then use Oceania’s for another (distinct) 20% more multi

[rough minnow]

Do you guys think this is conceptually sound?

[hybrid schooner]

@rough minnowi really dont know enough to be useful here

[rough minnow]

what do you wanna know

[scarlet pewter]

It sounds fun to try and report back

[hybrid schooner]

no i mean im dumb. i dont know enough about the class

[rough minnow]

so i guess my followup question is how is the ward situation looking like this patch?

i saw mana-stacking ward got nerfed

hows runemaster holding up in that regard

[hybrid schooner]

pretty tough to even get close to 10 ward i can tell u that

like 5k is pretty solid

[rough minnow]

thats not too bad is it?

[hybrid schooner]

i guess. i see people with no halth or ward taking hits and not dieing . i have 18k armor and still get roasted

granted, the daamage reductioon value of armor over about 5k is greatly dimished

6000 armor = 75% DR...while 18000 armor = 83% DR

[half pollen]

Thats 32% less damage, thats pretty solid

[boreal widget]

With snapshotting, if I drop a black hole, then use flame ward and craterborn the existing one wont benefit right? Or are things like that updated real time as your stats change.

[hybrid schooner]

@half pollen ya if you look at the math that way, it is good

[half pollen]

Most spells wouldnt update

[rough minnow]

so

i think the problem i have here

is that i dont think ele nova and grand prism nova speccing is compatible as you wanna run fundamental criterion for grand prism

and not so much unstable core

Sorcerer might be a better take...

[hybrid schooner]

fundamental i think only way to scale your invocation damage

[rough minnow]

Shattered cycle exists, in which case you could go rah, rah rah, rah rah rah, fire prism nova

and stack str

[hybrid schooner]

ooo

[rough minnow]

Which is how i'd probably build prism nova

[gaunt plank]

I thought about doing exactly that actually

but invoking every other cast seemed tedious

[rough minnow]

you dont, outside of bosses

[gaunt plank]

Like I didn't want to play a piano lol

[rough minnow]

i mean it has cast speed built in

[hybrid schooner]

bruh, sorc on diablo 4... 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 31 4 21 412 31 3 12 3 12 4512 231 12 312 3

[rough minnow]

Okay so what if

[hybrid schooner]

thats about 3 seconds of gameplay

[gaunt plank]

wtf build were you playing

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I've taken grand prism to 150ish corruption so far, I wouldn't use Fundamental Criterion, you don't always have the same combination with tri-element builds

[hybrid schooner]

sorc, meta has been lightenign spear for a while now. i had to set up everything that id press on CD always to autocast macro. or else risk a visit to the doctor

[harsh abyss]

It would be super onerous to care about the specific rune order

[gaunt plank]

but the GPN order is what matters, not the order of your runes, because of Gordian Prism

[rough minnow]

if you have crest of unity or specced ele nova, you always have the same order

[harsh abyss]

Gordian prism doesn't set your rune order, it just guarantees the same invocation. With a super high cast speed, casting exactly 3 novas doesn't always happen

Sometimes you'll cast 4, and then you've borked your fundamental criterion, for example

[rough minnow]

Hence the idol

(Unvar's exile)

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it could help for sure

IDK if it's worth the rune space though

[rough minnow]

I was debating running self-cast nova but i think that grand prism nova seems to have way more scaling.

[harsh abyss]

The way I did it was both. Because with Elemental Starfield, each invocation casts 3 novas, which is awesome

[rough minnow]

Yeah but they buffed direct novas, specifically

[harsh abyss]

And it still casts 3 with crest of unity

People were saying that with Crest it would only cast 1, but it definitely still does 3

[molten cobalt]

for rune of havoc farming, generic runes prophecy is the way to go?

[hybrid schooner]

yes

[gaunt plank]

My point is that you can't bork your fundamental criterion if you're using Gordian Prism. It makes anything you cast count as Grand Prism Nova, and GPN is Gon Rah Heo. No matter what you cast, you're casting Gon Rah Heo, which is ultimately why I didn't go Criterion. I didn't want to stack attunement.

[molten cobalt]

i saw your screenshot, very jealous

big fat 0 here

[hybrid schooner]

snag a few of them every tim u rotate back for prophs to keep them flowing. ya! sick boots

they are supe cheap proph. if you stack up on them you going to fill up your proph slots

[rough minnow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/omeK0LJo so current take, considering:
a) Taking out unstable core for fundamental criteriion and go pure fire prism nova with str stacking
b) Take out Gordian Prism and Shattered Cycle and, Idk, use a crystal skull and wrongwarp instead and go Sorc

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Runemaster (88)

General:

▸ Health: 1,410, Regen: 126.36/s
▸ Mana: 268.07, Regen: 19.36/s
▸ Ward Retention: 303%, Regen: 235/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 76 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 81% / 97% / 81% / 80% / 98% / 83% / 57%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 282
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,125)

Used skills:

Elemental Nova / Runic Invocation / Teleport / Flame Ward / Frost Wall

[molten cobalt]

its the bottle neck to all crafting atm

i need them for every craft

[harsh abyss]

Yeah Criterion only really sounds good if you can stack strength AND int with Cleaver.

[rough minnow]

Feels like im splitting two wildly different concepts in spite of similarity

[molten cobalt]

best lenses for it?

[hybrid schooner]

rune, mono only, double rewards

thats what i do for everything

[molten cobalt]

prolly a safe bet

double cost and double usage?

[hybrid schooner]

nah just double reward

[gaunt plank]

Yeah I really just don't think ele nova and grand prism nova work together which is kind of wack. The best idea I came up with was lightning blast w/ a lightning grand prism nova and using Triboelectra

[hybrid schooner]

if i constantly had a surplus of favor maybe go double use

[gaunt plank]

Which I still might do, I did find a 2 LP Tribo

[harsh abyss]

Triboelectra is good even with tri-element nova, +3 levels to RI and Nova is huge

[gaunt plank]

I just think LB does really well for single target and then you can just use grand nova for your clear

[harsh abyss]

yeah, not a bad idea

It might work, the nova build struggles with single target, and convergence LB can definitely do it

[gaunt plank]

It seemed cool, and then I started cooking up this shatter strike build

But I'm liking the nova one more and more as I find out how much a pain in the ass this is

Oh shit I also found a belt I think

[molten cobalt]

wow they truly are cheap

1400 favor for 22 runes

jesus

does it matter where i trigger the prophecy?

does it have to be in a cemetary for example

[hybrid schooner]

nah dont matter

[gaunt plank]

Nooo I can't find it. I had a belt w/ the t7 champion's mod for lightning blast

I wonder what I did with it

[harsh abyss]

You could kinda do both, tbh. If you drop Flame Ward, you could just choose whether it's time to cast nova or LB

[scarlet pewter]

Are you sure the damage is hits or DoTs? I’m running around 81% from armor, no bastion, max rez, and ~20-30% other DR and haven’t died to anything but DoT damage at least up to 900 corruption. Around 1900hp, 6-7k ward

[gaunt plank]

I'll do a quick mock up of the lighting idea

[molten cobalt]

this is gonna take a while...

generic rune one is rare

[gaunt plank]

Yeah it's not super common

But it's very worth, I spent like 2 hours farming runes last night and got like 60 havocs

[harsh abyss]

Here's my current one with absolute trash gear, but was doing decently well at 150ish corruption: https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/sarthalas/character/Cerryl

Only reason I stopped playing it was because I wanted to try other stuff

[hybrid schooner]

@molten cobaltwhat does your best neck and 1h axe imprint look like

[molten cobalt]

crap

i dont even have a double 7 axe

nor double 7 amulet

[hybrid schooner]

i have these 3 lps burning a hole in my pocket. big sas. i wont slam until 7 7

sad

[molten cobalt]

speaking of amulet

i was surprised to see the one without shock chance gives more damage

would not have been my guess

[hybrid schooner]

i mean is it noticable, i would think it would be hard to yll

[molten cobalt]

yes

definitely able to tell

[rough minnow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QkeXL9wo DIY Grand Prism Nova

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (58) / Runemaster (35)

General:

▸ Health: 1,242, Regen: 33.6/s
▸ Mana: 316.91, Regen: 17.76/s
▸ Ward Retention: 281%, Regen: 221/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 84 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 195% / 211% / 195% / 80% / 98% / 83% / 57%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 248
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,125)

Used skills:

Elemental Nova / Arcane Ascendance / Teleport / Flame Ward / Snap Freeze

[rough minnow]

just a casual level 40 Ele Nova

nothing to see here

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, ele nova is silly like that

[rough minnow]

taking off the runic invocation shit allowed me to actually get respectable ele res for crest

errr off with that idol

[graceful scarab]

Which stat between dexterity and intelligence scales shatter strike harder?

For spellblade

[hybrid schooner]

dex, bar a long shot

its not even close

[rough minnow]

flat is king

[graceful scarab]

I ask more because of atlaria, I'll put dex on both rings then thanks

Int I imagine is still worth stacking as secondary, right?

[hybrid schooner]

ya int second

dex is flat damage scaling, and crit

intel is just cold damage+ and some ward retention

[graceful scarab]

Thanks a ton

[gaunt plank]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qee0dJ2Q

This was the basic idea I had. LB for single target, RI for traversal/clear, you also get Flame Ward (with focus on armor/DR), Focus, and Glyph of Dominion for even more LB craziness on bosses + cleanse

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (25) / Runemaster (40)

General:

▸ Health: 1,158, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 120.51, Regen: 9.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 32%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 16 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 24% / 0% / 24% / 0% / 0% / 1% / 1%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 232

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Runic Invocation / Focus / Flame Ward / Glyph of Dominion

[gaunt plank]

You could, of course, drop something for Static Orb and do some cool shenanigans that way

[harsh abyss]

Feel like kind of a waste of Gordian Prism, tbh

Most of the value comes from being able to do repeated invocations when it doesn't consume your runes.

[gaunt plank]

I don't really disagree, you could probably just run Static in this build and do the exact same thing with better synergies

[harsh abyss]

And you could have a MUCH higher value offhand in that case, yeah

[gaunt plank]

GPN does significantly more damage though, I think, and using RI as a traversal skill is pretty nice because it opens up that teleport slot

[harsh abyss]

Yeah true

GPN has 600% effectiveness and hits like the whole screen

[gaunt plank]

Yeah it's pretty crazy, it's the main reason I wanted to do a single element version

[harsh abyss]

Honestly it's worth trying and seeing how it feels

Definitely a different use case, but it does solve the main weakness of the nova GPM build

And it also frees up all the bs you have to do to make nova not suck, heh

Why Word of Rahyeh if you're going full lightning? Seems like a waste of 4 points

[gaunt plank]

Yeah I think I will, I need to consider what stats to prioritize though. It's going to have a pretty big mana problem for single target

Uh let me look

Oh, yeah I have no idea why I did that

[harsh abyss]

TBH you could probably just build for a high enough mana pool that you can cast enough LBs before needing to focus that it doesn't feel bad.

[gaunt plank]

Oh wait no

I did that on purpose

[harsh abyss]

But... you'll never have a Rah rune?

[gaunt plank]

GPN has a Rah rune in it, and there aren't a lot of better spots for points. I took them under the impression that Gordian doesn't care about what runes I have regarding casting, only what runes are required to do the cast

[harsh abyss]

I think you're misunderstanding how Gordian Prism works

It uses the runes you have to cast GPM and converts GPM to whatever runes you have

So you're going to have a GGG GPM

Also you can save 3 mana cost in LB by dropping 1 point in Chain Lightning because Convergence rounds up

[gaunt plank]

With this wording, I feel that it doesn't care what runes you have, it will cast GPN regardless, not convert the runes you have to what GPN requires. Evidence is based on the node that does the repeat casts, which will cast the correct invocation instead of GPN on the repeat.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, the next line is the important one though

So you'll never have a Rah rune

Because you just cast lightning spells

Should be easy enough to test if it works like you think or like I think, but I'm confident that RI node isn't going to be super valuable, heh

[gaunt plank]

Yeah it was always something I was going to test, I just haven't yet

[rough minnow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oPPZE4lo adjusting further.

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (58) / Runemaster (35)

General:

▸ Health: 1,242, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 555.13, Regen: 21.04/s
▸ Ward Retention: 221%, Regen: 231/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 84 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 194% / 210% / 194% / 80% / 98% / 83% / 57%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 248
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,194)

Used skills:

Elemental Nova / Arcane Ascendance / Teleport / Flame Ward / Snap Freeze

[harsh abyss]

FYI: I'm pretty sure "Lightning Critical Strike Multiplier" is not "Critical Strike Multiplier with Lightning Skills"

So only your lightning will get the increased crit multi. There's probably a better stat you can use that affects the whole spell.

[rough minnow]

oh? you sure?

[harsh abyss]

Reasonably sure, but not 100%

[rough minnow]

Np, just t7 ele res instead

😄

[harsh abyss]

It'll be a PITA to test meaningfully. You could ask in #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs because it's a pretty niche question and hard to test

[rough minnow]

That makes for 92 total ele pen

that should count for something

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, 18% ele pen is a pretty decent situation

[rough minnow]

why do i still feel like this isnt doing enough damage lol

[harsh abyss]

Because it's really hard to make ele nova do enough damage, even with 40 levels

[rough minnow]

they did give it uhh 31% extra more damage

and 20% effectiveness

an 6 flat

but that still feels like nothing here mh

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it got buffed, but it's still a lot of work to make it good, heh

[worn valley]

Anyone got a link to a good lightning meteor setup? This RM build isnt for me

[rough minnow]

eh, back to warlock tposing for me. Might do the str stack prism runemaster version though that sounds pretty litty

[molten cobalt]

another day of them not fixing the channeling bug

sigh

[charred stone]

Kind of a generic question but around how much armour would be desirable to run a static shell over say an exsanguinous? Or is that too situational of a question

[molten cobalt]

anyone know why this tab cannot be sorted?

like nothing happens when I click sort

[harsh abyss]

Try moving one of the idols so it's "misaligned" and off-pattern, then click sort again?

Or put a different size/shape idol in it and sort

[molten cobalt]

i did

its.. broken

[harsh abyss]

And nothing?

[molten cobalt]

nada

[harsh abyss]

You might say it's... out of sorts

[molten cobalt]

worked hard on that one huh

[harsh abyss]

heh

IDK, weird bug for sure

[molten cobalt]

dad humour

OCD made me redo entire tab

now it works

but had to empty it and reset filtering

[harsh abyss]

Weird

[quasi wedge]

anyone tried getting this to overlap?

[prime whale]

anyone knows what this does and how does those weapons that can be "upgraded" look like ?

[cosmic dove]

I tried a bit but dont see how you would get that many overlaps
I love the visual of it though
maybe if you went all in on area of effect

[noble shale]

what are you guys playing for builds right now?

[quasi wedge]

@cosmic dove jeah max it out

[spring iris]

why is foot of the mountain rated so good? i have to stand still to get an effect? i wont really proc that ever no?

[molten cobalt]

i would assume it can upgrade affix rolls within range and also upgrade to higher tier

just like nemesis

never actually tested because you gotta wear them

which would break my build

[prime whale]

hmm so that's kind of like empowering items

yeah since it's weapons its a bit awkward to kill harbingers with it

[molten cobalt]

i need my cleaver

removing it bricks my entire build

[spring iris]

Hey guys!
why is foot of the mountain rated so good? i have to stand still to get an effect? i wont really proc that ever no?

AND can you reroll weavers will items where you can reroll the uniques by sacrifing aswell?

[prime whale]

is that decent or is lightning pen better than damage over time ?

the rolls are pretty good

also have this one

It's so hard to find red rings though...

[weary hamlet]

foot has decent stats and is easy to get at reasonable LP, on top of everything else it does

[scenic dock]

@woven yarrow what do you replace meteor with in the lb version of spark charge sorc?

[hoary blade]

hello, recently came back after only playing in season 0. If I intend to join the trader's guild, is it still correct to buy up all the shatter runes with my gold during the early levels

[autumn violet]

just buy what you need, you'll have plenty from drops

[quasi wedge]

does this make glyph an invocation for the purposes of fundamental criterion?

[harsh abyss]

No

[steel oasis]

does the fire aura on crit, share a cooldown with the helmet and chest version, i know you cant stack the idols, but are the chest and the helmet their own casts

[quasi wedge]

yo ele nova might be shit for self cast

but actually bonkers for applying Brand of deception?

[rugged shell]

If you don't need huge single target it is

Since most trashmobs die to even 10k dot procs in ~500 corr u could use it for clear, but you can't really change anything for it if you are doing the fundamental criterion build

[quasi wedge]

but if I am doing the brand of deception build?

brand itself could be strong enough, and nova has tons of %more dmg multis

[rugged shell]

I mean you can't fit it in a skillslot.

[quasi wedge]

wdym

[rugged shell]

You need focus that's one, then you need flame rush that's two, then you need tunic invo that's three, then lightning strike / frost wall and you basically need flame ward

Ive personally used L F L runic for lightning web and had no problems with clear even in 500+ corr.

[quasi wedge]

hmm
IDK about the meta build

[rugged shell]

I mean fundamental criterion is the meta for brand... Lol

[quasi wedge]

but my concept is use tons of % more multipliers Ele nova has, to apply juiced Brand

jeah I never understood FC's role in that build

what does it do

[rugged shell]

You use cleaver right?

[quasi wedge]

no I mean what is FC scaling in a brand build exactly

shock chance from the invocation or?

[rugged shell]

Strength gives 3% more damage if heo is middle rune

So if you have 100 str you get 300% more damage

And 400% increased damage from int for runic invocation

[rugged shell]

Cause strength = int due to cleaver

[quasi wedge]

I know

but what are you scaling with that

which invo

oh wait

the 400% more dmg scales the brand?

[rugged shell]

Yes the more damage scales brand from fc

And the increased damage int gives for runic invocation

[rugged shell]

Anything with frost as the middle rune

But I like L F L lightning web

It's good for clear and single target

[harsh abyss]

It's just not great with anything that scales with flat spell damage because you're giving up like 60+ flat spell damage from a wand/scepter

[rugged shell]

Used covenant arc (FFL) before but clear was way worse

[quasi wedge]

aha

well my build would be weaker I guess

only 150% more from elemental nova

[rugged shell]

Brand is a dot

[quasi wedge]

but it would have similar single target

due to static having 5x

[harsh abyss]

Brand also doesn't rely on flat added spell damage, which is important.

[rugged shell]

I never said anything about flat spell damage?

[harsh abyss]

Yes I know

[rugged shell]

The main damage dealer in the build is brand of deception

My tooltip says like 1000 DPS on flame rush but the dot procs for 4-5 million on dummy

[rugged shell]

Idk since runic invocation gets around 100% more damage from the tree and other stuff like penetration 1% per 3 int it's most likely going to have more damage

But if you like static by all means go for it and play it your own way

[quasi wedge]

I see

well whatever I seem to make, sucks compared to fundamental criterion

[rugged shell]

Yeah it's just that everything clicks too well together with fc compared to anything else

[blazing root]

for people using the nova RI with the unique (whatever that thing is called that makes all RI the spicier version of ele nova) what skills are you using?

[boreal widget]

Is there an easy way to search skill bonuses in last epoch tools? I'm trying to make sure I'm not missing any potential options

Between the words changing from 'spell' to or skill and elemental vs specific element and all that

Trying to find all sources of 'fire skill/spell' 'damage over time spell/skill' 'all skills' and 'elemental skill/spell'

[broken pecan]

glacier leveling is pain

[harsh abyss]

I keep telling people fireball + nova leveling is the way

[broken pecan]

not sure on the passives or specs for those

[harsh abyss]

That's the beauty of LE, it's easy enough to just... figure out

[boreal widget]

Blegh, looks like I just gotta keep praying for a red ring and that necklace off oro, can't seem to find anyt other options :(

[gaunt plank]

Tested and confirmed that you were right

[boreal widget]

Best way to grind out first red ring is just rune of ascendance on CoF rings right?

[harsh abyss]

That or just ring prophecies maybe

[gaunt plank]

def do both

[boreal widget]

True but ascendance farming is easier it feels like

[gaunt plank]

The problem with just doing ascendence is that you run out of rings

[boreal widget]

Ah, I changed my filter to show all rings of all kinds CoF tagged

[gaunt plank]

And running prophecies to get more rings, you might as well take unique ring prophecies

So did I lol

[boreal widget]

And I run the uh

lost cache map for other stuff still

get a ton of rings via it

[gaunt plank]

That makes sense then

[gaunt plank]

This is not a good base, but it would be extremely cool for my build.

The LB mod seems preeeeetty nice

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it looks amazing

I got a max rolled one with 35% proc chance and kinda want to make a convergence build just for it

[cunning lynx]

what invocations are worth building around? is it only hydrahedron?

[uncut zealot]

There’s quite a few that are fine

[nimble rover]

plasma orb and hydrahedron pretty much

[peak axle]

Hello Mages! 🫡

So, I've finally decided to roll a Mage, but I don't know which mastery to go for. I do not want to become a "Spellblade" because I already have many Melee characters. So it's either Sorcerer or Runemaster.

I don't know which mastery that uses this, but I saw a person I was in a group with, where he/she used and spammed lightning spheres that spun around him/her. Pardon my newbieness, but hopefully you know which skill I'm talking about? What is the skill called?

[blazing root]

Anyone got a grand prism nova planner? Curious about skills and passives

[molten cobalt]

that would probably be static orb

with the skill node for orbiting

[hybrid schooner]

ya its prob the build a lot of us using. the orb is jsut a vehicle to apply a DOT the way we are set up

[molten cobalt]

right!

its probably plasma orb invocation

[hybrid schooner]

could totally set it up to scale the orb damage if thats what you want

[peak axle]

Well I kinda want to use it as a direct damage rather than DoT if that's possible and is it viable to go for Cold damage (I like ice magic), or should I stick to lightning?

[molten cobalt]

Plasma orb cannot be cold damage

[peak axle]

No I was talking about Static Orb

[molten cobalt]

And you’re gonna suffer if you want to use that to deal direct damage

I don’t know if you can covert static orb

Aren’t all skills able to be converted?

Orbiting static orb is not gonna be a good source of damage though

The DoT feels like direct damage though. If you didn’t know there was a DoT involved you’d never notice and you’d think it was direct damage

[peak axle]

Hmm alright. Do you have any suggestions for skills that could be used as direct damage rather then DoTs then? I'd rather avoid Frost Claw cause I've tried it pre season 2 and I want to try something new.

[molten cobalt]

Most of the strong builds revolve around you using a skill to trigger another that does the damage

Like hydrahedon build

Or brand of deception

[nimble rover]

you can play hydra with direct invocations also

[blazing root]

explain hydrahedron indirect vs direct, if you don't mind

[hybrid schooner]

this absolutely feels like its direct damage too. its not a stacking DOT. 1 stack, last 4 seconds

its fairly direct

[molten cobalt]

Yeah as I said, you don’t notice it’s a DoT

[peak axle]

Well I'm tempted to try it even though I despite DoTs cause it looked freaking awesome! 👍

[molten cobalt]

Then you should check FrozenSentinel on YouTube

He has a few videos on it

[peak axle]

You read my mind, was just about to ask for a guide or similar :P

[nimble rover]

inderect its when you cast it via flame rush epilogue node. and direct its when you cast it with runic invocation itself

[blazing root]

what's the actual benefit to casting the invocation through flame rush?

[molten cobalt]

He has a video he posted around start of the league where he goes through all the 5 or so steps you’d take from new player to endgame

[peak axle]

Excellent! Thank you so much for the information 🙂

[molten cobalt]

Shorter cooldown is one

You bypass the longer cooldown of RI

[nimble rover]

currently the main benefit is that frost wall node aspirant's arrival can be snapshotted with flame rush for 360% more damage on flame rush casted invocation. also never late node works for it

[hybrid schooner]

ye its like 1/4 the cooldown

[nimble rover]

when you play direct invocation hydra it has no cd

so its not the case

[molten cobalt]

I see

[blazing root]

cd added through Author Of Arcana node?

[molten cobalt]

Well let’s not teach everyone to snapshot 😅

[nimble rover]

we should actually teach everyone so they fix it. and buff the class to compensate

[blazing root]

Only Runemaster build I played was on original game release, played a runebolt build that just did random runes and teleport on RI

full chaos

[nimble rover]

because currently ppl who are not using this bug are doomed

[molten cobalt]

Not gonna be fixed until season 3

They already commented on it

[nimble rover]

why

well rip

[molten cobalt]

That’s what they said

[blazing root]

they don't fix things that aren't "gamebreaking" basically

[molten cobalt]

That they will TRY to get it fixed for season 3

So not even guaranteed

[nimble rover]

it is gamebreaking it is 5x times more damage

they just need to balance mage damage without exploits

[blazing root]

nah, because then you'd rebalance

that's too much

[nimble rover]

i see so tahts basically new never late. this node was bugged for years i guess

[molten cobalt]

If they haven’t fixed if for years I’m not holding my breath for season 3

But who knows

[nimble rover]

ah i mean dont get me wrong. i just watched frosts video and i kinda agree in terms of if you are not exploiting as mage rn you are done basically

[molten cobalt]

I agree

[nimble rover]

and if you are main mage and dont want to do it. well rip. disappointment is your best friend

[molten cobalt]

I do it as a way to somewhat level the playing field

But it does feel bad

[nimble rover]

you can play direct hydra without snapshot maybe on super giga gear it will not be that bad.

[molten cobalt]

I have zero interest in other classes

[nimble rover]

but dot build is dead without it

[molten cobalt]

It would struggle hard against uber aberroth

But it can still farm 1000+ corruption easily even without snapshot

[nimble rover]

ye you will not bypass dps check on uber

and will die form mechanics

anyway according to data just 16 Rms killed uber

[molten cobalt]

I will get to it when they fix the focus issue

I would have done it by now if channeling wasn’t broken

[nimble rover]

ive started hydra like yday. having fun. i like it more that brand . at least i will have option to test direct cast without snapshot also wit hgear

[hybrid schooner]

on god can i find a 1h axe and neck to impront

[molten cobalt]

No

You shall not

You want it too badly

[nimble rover]

you will get it when you will not need it ofc

[hollow bolt]

Anyone tried uber abberoth on shatterstrike yet?

[hybrid schooner]

nah, im tryna offspec that for now. puttiing some things aside

[whole gale]

Does +dmg while channeling buff the hydrahedron from runic invocation if it is spawned via flame rush?

[hybrid schooner]

hmm, no idea

relic affi right

@hollow bolt theres a couple people that have cleared uber with it on ty tho

yt

the damage output is amazing

[hollow bolt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5MKAz7tR8

this guy's uber kill on spellblade was insane

[hybrid schooner]

ya thats the guy

[hollow bolt]

i dont know if he's tanky enough to take some hits or he's just avoiding the hits out of force of habit

[hybrid schooner]

theres no shot hes even close to my damage reduction, and a lot of that stuff will kill me easy. i think hes jsut avoiding it well

theres really only a few things he does that will absolutely kill anyone. most of the purple stuff on the ground or flyn around isnt that bad

[hollow bolt]

hydrahedron apparently has a pretty easy time killing uber

[earnest marten]

Hydra get buffed? Can i see the link?

[unreal blade]

definitely not easy. have to dodge really well.

[hybrid schooner]

brother what the actual F.. i turned a t7 affix info experimental and now its a fk t3

smd

[hollow bolt]

yeah but you don't have to attack you just have to keep dodging while your hydra will nail him

[unreal blade]

given that only 16 runemasters have killed uber none of the builds killing it are easy. only 6 sorcs and 13 spellblades too.

[hybrid schooner]

well lesson learned.. it does not keep the affix tier... which is wild

[hollow bolt]

you do have to do the rotation which is annoying i guess

[unreal blade]

meanwhile nearly 3000 sentinels have killed it lol

[hollow bolt]

bro that guy in the spellblade video has perf gear and is playing it perf meanwhile i have trash gear on vk and i can just face tank uber attacks

lol

[hybrid schooner]

can u face tank it for me pls

[hollow bolt]

i do die to the big slam

but the rest can face tank but i lose mana so i can't attack thats the downside

[sleek meteor]

any ideas for fun builds?

[odd thistle]

oof, burning a T7 to learn that 😬

[vapid patio]

aight I hate these mfs

LAGS ME TF OUT with all that blood

[winged fjord]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qee6vdmQ
So this is what ive got so far, mostly focusing on lightning with volcanic orb for some access to other runes and because it helps with large groups. Im not experienced at all in build planning so im unsure where to work on first

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 72

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (28) / Sorcerer (9) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (43)

General:

▸ Health: 922, Regen: 17.37/s
▸ Mana: 194.36, Regen: 10.16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 258%, Regen: 88/s
▸ Attributes: 5 Str / 5 Dex / 98 Int / 5 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 114% / 69% / 58% / 79% / 0% / 79% / 56%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 184
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (97)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 13% (226)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 35%

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Static / Runic Invocation / Teleport / Volcanic Orb

[winged fjord]

if anyone has any feedback for what I should be doing with this build it'd be greatly appreciated

[odd thistle]

you're playing this right now yeah?

what direction do you want to take it, or what are you struggling with?

do you want more damage, more survivability, better mana, etc?

[marsh dirge]

i need 1 build with lightning blast , can clear all content...

i'm leveling with that loll

[rugged bronze]

brand build with lightning blast is pretty popular rn

[marsh dirge]

but i see so few players using build that

but still good for now?

[solemn viper]

Are you sorc or rm?

[marsh dirge]

sorc bro

[solemn viper]

Bigdaddy sorc is pretty much the best option for lb

https://youtu.be/mkyrrZgsRc4?si=N11fBZdtPlF2IvgH

[marsh dirge]

fk

nice bro

thx u so muchh

waitt what

i see what's fly lightning around him

maybe different skill

it's static orb right?

[rugged bronze]

Static orb

[tough plaza]

I saw raxx said fireball was his worst ranked skill this patch. What makes it so bad?

[rapid hinge]

that's what playing only busted skills/build do to a man

take what he says with a big grain of salt

yes it's an outdated skill but it's far from worst skill in the game

its main problem is that 2 of its major scaling channels (number of projectiles and cast speed) de-scale each other

and flameburst subskill - which contributes a big portion of damage for crit fb builds, still isnt affected by modifiers from the tree, despite 1.2 patch note stated that it does now

[balmy loom]

yeah, primalist have much worse skills
can't understand how it makes fireball good or at least decent btw

[rapid hinge]

what's good to you

it could bring you to 1k corruption in 1.0

and it only got better now

[balmy loom]

can you show me fireball build that can do it?

[rapid hinge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCk7M5kIcg

[balmy loom]

yeah, 3k ward in one year past non nerfed state with character geared in legos, what a gorgeous build!

[frail hedge]

Is this good as a spellblade? or is frostbite not used as much?

[sharp quest]

Allo people, is there a way to see my current total spell damage

and like overall damage, i only see stats for "increased" damage in my character sheet

[weary hamlet]

experimental crafting never had, but in its current state all experimental items are underpowered cause no more easy seal via rune of research

[weary hamlet]

you can build shatter strike for frostbite but it's strictly worse than building it for direct damage. You can use it on sorc or rm in frostbite builds though even though the suffix is a dud

[frail hedge]

guess I'll just use it for the Melee Cold ATM

[half pollen]

Chance to apply frostbite is pretty bad for mage in General since it has access to a armor shred to frostbite conversion which gets you to 1000% frost bite chance pretty easily

Biggest issue is finding a spell thats good at applying the frostbites. VO can do an OK job. Sadly there arent any good cold invocations on runemaster. Otherwise you could play strength stack frostbite runemaster

[molten cobalt]

I can’t understand why people say hey let’s go play a mage, but melee

Are those people feeling alright?

[frail hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/starsector-guardian-i-cast-fist-modded-crablobab-gif-10046389322256225861

I cast fist

[molten cobalt]

Yeah pretty much

It ruins entire class fantasy

[half pollen]

I think a melee spell caster could be very cool. But spellblade just doesnt feel like that to me

Its more like a blademaster with a lazer sword. Not a mage

[weary hamlet]

idk why that guy is so rectal about melee or hybrid mages, it's been an archetype since forever both in fantasy literature and in games

also, jedi or something

[half pollen]

Biggest issue with spell blade for me is that its just different flavors of standing in place and attacking outside of the few odd surge builds

[weary hamlet]

that's like every build in the game

stand and attack with different flavors

but yeah I kinda agree that the skills themselves are not particularly interesting and lack synergy

[peak oracle]

Oh lmao

Frozen sent made a dex rm

Its like the same build but dex

And its way more damage

[left hill]

Are the only item-based ways to increase mana cost Gate Staff (20-52%), Horn of Ukheiros shield (50%), and Sunwreath (+4-10 for Flame Reave specifically) ring?

[fervent ledge]

Even in single target?

[prime whale]

10M tick, not too bad

[fervent ledge]

Same as frozen sentinel build?

[prime whale]

yeah with CCL invocation

but that's max buffed damage

or I think it is

still have good progress to make on the gear

[peak oracle]

Much less tanky

[prime whale]

Interesting to note he did that on offline mode, I didn't even think about that for creating new builds