🧙┃mage

[molten cobalt]

told ya

every time

you think its 50/50, but it aint

[junior coral]

Okay I think my dmg is looking not weird and messed up anymore

i dunno what fixed it tho

it was 100k regular to 400k snap earlier now 600k regular to 4.5m snap. i didn't change how i do anything

i can now play

still mad about missing that 3lp slam on Mana Guide

[prime whale]

dropped one with the affix and exalted but its kinda shit

T6 only and went to the wrong spot

[junior coral]

I feel i might buy some immortal vice now. but my resistances will get totally fucced

and that maybe looks only good for bossing

i was weary on spending big bucks on a broken char but now its fixed im gonna maybe try it

Thoughts? Only good for bossing or you think also maps?

[prime whale]

whats the implicit range on that ?

[junior coral]

24% armor to dot

I see a 22% one for similiar price, 9STR too

[prime whale]

I'd say that's pretty good

[blazing root]

Less damage from rares would help if you are doing tombs and such right? Iirc weaver laser is hit atm too, though it might still kill you

[prime whale]

I think the final gear has those gloves with +16 str

[junior coral]

i spose i get frailty idol then

[prime whale]

but idk how it would compare in maps to an exalted one

I still have shit gloves

[junior coral]

hmm true

[blazing root]

Sorry, not "less" dmg from rares but less burst

[junior coral]

oh ya

[molten cobalt]

ya they are nice

are you kidding me?

second pair rolled the exact same mod

just great

sigh

[harsh abyss]

You'll get one eventually. At least we have the guaranteed slam now.

[boreal widget]

Are there some good places to slot mana to try and reach that 1k mana on sorcerer? Unsure how I'm supposed to even get that much

[harsh abyss]

1k mana is pretty easy. On chest, helm, weapons you can get a few hundred pretty easily

You can get a staff with double mana rolls for TONS of mana

[prime whale]

I wonder if T7 this instead of all res isnt a better option

that would make it +2000 block effectiveness and 10 dex

[harsh abyss]

You cant slam that on a legendary though.

[molten cobalt]

cant slam set mods

[prime whale]

ah true i forgot

[molten cobalt]

otherwise yes it would be

an all res slam would allow you to spec more into damage on idols instead of res

damage or ward

[prime whale]

yeah true

This one would be good too

[molten cobalt]

still using 3 medium idols with res on

[prime whale]

since we have 100% block chance

[molten cobalt]

would love to change those 3

[molten cobalt]

yeah thats not bad either

but wouldnt work for DoT would it

and thats realistically the only issue

[prime whale]

theres also those

[molten cobalt]

80 isnt much

[prime whale]

yeah but you could get up to 640

with the all res on shield

[molten cobalt]

rather take

or

[prime whale]

block effectiveness adds a ton of EHP vs hit but true the ehp vs dot is the issue

so it's probably not that good

[molten cobalt]

you'd have to swap shield then

to get block effectiveness to apply to DoT

[prime whale]

is there such a thing ?

[molten cobalt]

but then your block chance is poopoo

vs hits

[prime whale]

according to the calculator even with 3LP of that shield with block affixes your EHP vs hit would go down a lot

and somehow EHP vs dot too but idk if it calculates the effect from the item

yeah 35% isnt worth it at all

[molten cobalt]

probably does not

[prime whale]

so the all res is by far the best because of idol flexibility yeah

[molten cobalt]

yeah

[prime whale]

you get maxed res everywhere with 2 red rings and that

then you can even change your blessings

[broken pecan]

of course the one that has the extra level has HALF of the % damage

not sure which I should wear.

is the level of runic invocation worth the loss of the %s and the ward decay threshold

[dark haven]

so im only like level 80, im playing a fireball leveling build i believe. can link if you would like. but i feel very weak. and im stil not sure what im doing gear wise 100% yet. any suggestions?
should i change my build up? should i try to get some better items through crafting and such?

any help would be appreciated

[gaunt plank]

Hard to say what's wrong without seeing what you're working with

[dark haven]

is there a way to link my character or not in this game?

[prime whale]

just found this calculator for havoc, pretty nice even has avg forging cost
https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/havoc

[gaunt plank]

on lastepochtools.com

Import your character and it will give you a link

[boreal widget]

I see, sadly stuck using a 2h sword for build but maybe I can get a 2LP version and luck out adding mana.

[spark juniper]

is there a way to translate high max mana or ward into a damage increase with some unique?

[harsh abyss]

If you can get t7 mana on armor you can still get there. Idk if it still works, but you also used to be able to slam %increased mana on chest and helm (from rogue and sentinel) and it didnt class lock them

Also dont underestimate the idols that are %increased mana and armor. You can get a good 40% mana from max rolled ones

[boreal widget]

That's a good point, I'm not sure how badly I need the mana but trying to tweak my build and seeing options. Right now suffering because I can't get orobyss to drop that stupid necklace unless its in the 5 oro fight, but then I can't get more of the convo echo to spawn

[harsh abyss]

The idols are pretty key, that much %increased mana is huge. The armor doesnt hurt too

[harsh abyss]

These idols are so insane.

[signal aurora]

would black hole somehow work with frostbite? I just like how the default cold BH looks

[harsh abyss]

Not really? You could use it as supplemental damage on top of whatever other frostbite stuff you do, but as a frostbite applicator it wouldn't be good

[boreal widget]

Cold black hole is pretty much just for CC, you can get some good cold ramp and big pull on it but that's it from what I can tell.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, you can scale it with cold DoT stuff, but without a good source of fast hits it doesn't really do what you want it to.

[signal aurora]

rip, what about glacier? surely you can spec into frostbite somehow and get an excuse to use blackhole for the pull and whatnot

[boreal widget]

What's the best thing to slot into my necklace 1LP? Leaning towards fire damage but unsure

[empty quarry]

Any quick solutions to not recovering Ward quick enough (as a Sorcerer)? Getting tired of slowly getting whittled down despite doing 100k damage nukes and seemingly not benefiting from any sort of leech or mana spent (I have 22% mana spent gained as Ward). It feels like my combined 3.8k HP+Ward means nothing cause I'm not recovering it

[boreal widget]

Twisted heart go brrr for me when it comes to ward

[empty quarry]

I'll give it a try - right now I'm just watching my Ward jump to 4k when I'm not getting hit but I get so frustrated being unable to heal anything when I actually do get hit at high Corruption

Idk if I'm laying my defenses wrong

Capped Res, 1k armor, 71% reduced bonus damage from Crit

Idk if I can afford to pump Endurance above that

[placid snow]

Anybody recommend a gear guide for shatter strike spell blade? I'm new to last epoch and lvl 72 or 73, just learning echos and idk wtf items I'm supposed to be saving

[warped crow]

got bored so started spamming CoF wands for wrongwarp uwu

[hollow bolt]

Scissors with melee attack speed

[hollow bolt]

Imprint

[warped crow]

i can now lel

[hollow bolt]

even with the imprint the drop rate on wrongwrap is crazy low

it took me so long to drop another one for my vk

[woven yarrow]

pretty good tooltip 😄

[warped crow]

they should add volatile reversal to the list of spells to trigger chronowarp

[winged fjord]

I cant find anything up to date, is there any Runic invocation combo thats good for singling a boss?

Edit: as in, good enough to justify using RI as my single and let LB be my clearer

[warped crow]

cuz its basically just a worse teleport rn

[hollow bolt]

void smite uses it just for the extra damage per movement speed

[junior coral]

my dmg is back down to 300k...

[hollow bolt]

its a lot of extra damage

[junior coral]

i really dont wanna be bug chasing every hour. gonna go back to chronomancer lol

[warped crow]

lol

[blazing root]

Wtf

[junior coral]

playing bugged builds leading too too much headaches

maybe ill spend another day figure out whats cuasing me to do 10x less dmg randomly

but thats it

[hybrid schooner]

the fact that flame rush is still broken is wild.. every time i die because of flame rush i get so heated. absolutely disgusted with this rn

[winged fjord]

how is flame rush broken? I was thinking of using that in place of teleport

[gaunt plank]

Why is Wrongwarp good? Wouldn't the random teleport just be super annoying?

[harsh abyss]

It is super annoying, that's why I don't use it

I tried it on my nova + prism build and just didn't enjoy it

[hybrid schooner]

yo, anyone know if that Scissor of atropos weaver sword can drop from imprints? i ask because it seams like a specific drop to that one weaver boss in the echos

[solemn viper]

You can re roll the stats in the woven echo that let’s you sacrifice 1 unique

[broken pecan]

I forget that's a thing

[solemn viper]

But it might come out worse

I usually stock a ton of items before rolling the stats

[desert mulch]

Rolled a pair of Oceareon's on my main, debating between making a Static orb/Meteor Sorc or a brand of deception Runemaster atm. Anyone got a reccomendation?

[hasty obsidian]

Oceareon with increase stun chance in meteor skill tree

stun those bosses

[slate robin]

Anyone have a planner for mana stack build? I tried mana meteor but it feels awful

[hasty obsidian]

mana stack static orbs or?

and what's wrong with meteor, i'm playing it just fine...

[slate robin]

Any mana stack. I like the theme of it. Can I see your planner for meteor?

[hasty obsidian]

here you go: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BMr9gVro

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 99

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (28) / Sorcerer (84)

General:

▸ Health: 1,246, Regen: 24.86/s
▸ Mana: 1,277.5, Regen: 22.16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 327%, Regen: 211/s
▸ Attributes: 21 Str / 15 Dex / 69 Int / 3 Att / 8 Vit
▸ Resistances: 84% / 82% / 81% / 79% / 76% / 94% / 76%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 69%, Threshold: 311
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (218)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 34% (1,719)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 104%

Used skills:

Teleport / Flame Ward / Meteor / Black Hole / Focus

[hasty obsidian]

still have room for improvements at rings, amulet and gloves

i'm using this build at 550c, rarely die

[slate robin]

Def will try this out ty!

[hasty obsidian]

black hole is for bosses, since meteor alone can't reach very high in damage

[slate robin]

Mind if I toss you a dm if I have questions about the build?

[hasty obsidian]

sure

[boreal widget]

Should I get stun threshold as I go up corruption? Its irritating to get microstunned stunned by a projectile from a regular mob

[hasty obsidian]

are you using teleport skill? it has, nodes that give you stun immune and stun resist buff after teleport

[boreal widget]

Ah, sucks that makes it have a really long cooldown but yea

[bright patio]

as somebody who doesn't like doing swaps, i cannot make decisions

is there a "wrong" choice in this lmao

ig survivability is hard to come by

dmg is rarely an issue

those extra ss levels just feel so good

[solemn viper]

You take the node that grants longer buffs and you are unstunnable

[hasty obsidian]

^

maximum 8s buff

[solemn viper]

With some cdr is not that bad, like 5/6 sec cd

[hasty obsidian]

or you can take the stun resist nodes, right at the start, along with lightning res, it helps a lot too

[solemn viper]

You can’t go wrong but the cold damage on wings is low so you might as well take null and just face tank everything lol

[bright patio]

it's a weird middle ground where like, monos feel good i guess

but the extra dps is enough to make me feel safer in certain situations

thinking out loud haha

[hasty obsidian]

do you have any questions? i'm eager to help xd i'm on my gaming break haha

[bright patio]

tankier is probably generally better, and ye the cold dmg is low

bugged me since i got em

bout to do a nemesis run just farmed a bunch

[solemn viper]

Farm the eagle, nemesis, echo that let’s you reroll stats

I got almost max on both stats that way

Then proceeded to quit spell blade because I was bored lmao

[bright patio]

omg i ALWAYS forget about that thank you so much

omg you just saved me i was moments away from wasting resources lmfao

i really need a break from farming follys too i'm about to rip my hair out lmao

still need to find a good reen

[hasty obsidian]

haha i'm on my break from farming perfect blessings, my hands hurt

[bright patio]

the potential even tho unrealistic keeps me farming dw scissors

i hate it

like just give a guy t7 multi and t7 aspd pls

[hasty obsidian]

ww rolls is so random, i hate it a lot

[bright patio]

it's so love hate like i love the concept of the idea

[hasty obsidian]

ye

[bright patio]

but i rage at the results

poison damage? alt f4

[hasty obsidian]

lmao

oh you need atk speed? stops at tier5 and improves some bs like resists

[solemn viper]

Yeah that bs as well

[bright patio]

i'd benefit from more but like, i'm fine rn

i aint farming uber aberroth by any stretch but i just hit 500

[solemn viper]

It’s the worst thing to do as spellblade

[bright patio]

500-600ish

yeah i'm learning fast

red ring feels so necessary for quality of life

lotta required stats for optimizing damage lol

which i'm loving bc i'm a masochist

i'm mainly trying to homebrew but i do want to ask for a piece of advice

in terms of like, health decision (ward/hp), i've been doing some weird hybrid of ward sustain and health sustain

it feels like it's working rly well but idk about the ceiling of it/if i should consider full investing

like 2k ward 3.3k life ish

[solemn viper]

Idk ward seems really weak on spellblade, 3k hp and 3k armor was the sweet spot for me, 2k was also ok

[bright patio]

it really only feels ok rn when i have % ward from mana spent

actually like very good for sustain

but siphon ring + shatter belt sustain feels near instant also so

and hybrid health too good

i rly only use ward affixes on idols right now i guess

sorry if it's a lot to ask but could i DM you and chat more about this? you seem very helpful and well informed

[chilly robin]

hello guys, is blackhole without fire modifier viable?

[solemn viper]

That and I also had the new red gloves, 1 shatter strike and I went back to full

[bright patio]

jesus

ok privilege LMAOOO

[solemn viper]

But you sacrifice some damage

[bright patio]

i don't feel bad at all about mana sustain/uptime

maybe my aspd is fine if that's the case? idk

it feels very fluid

i'm running double echo tho so probably hard to fully visually tell

a lot of this is in the process of being changed esp one of the shitty scissors https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/jiesus/character/Jeisus

just need to run a few temporal/find a couple t7

[solemn viper]

Not the uberroth gloves, the common red ones, they are ok even tho they give spell damage

[bright patio]

ok i thought so but for some goddamn reason i didn't test them

i think it's bc they looked disappointing

the dmg turned into overtime is quite obviously insane

so i should be logical LMAO

[hasty obsidian]

black hole is best with fire, coz it also benefits from crater buff from meteor, cold is not as good tho, you miss 100 more damage mod with cold

[bright patio]

am rather determined to eventually kill uberoth (after a lot of practice bc can't face tank) so all the help/advice is much appreciated

[chilly robin]

sad, i just wanted to play blackhole with pull :c

[bright patio]

long road ahead HAHAAH

[solemn viper]

Your gear is good lol only thing is the gloves and the scissors yeah, get 1 eye of reen and 1 scissor

[bright patio]

100000%

[lucid hedge]

any fun mage build recommend aside of the BOD Tpose build? the flame rush stuck bug killed me so much...

[bright patio]

those are the pieces i'm working

and dex

[lucid hedge]

trying to find any fun one

is the black hole one fun?

or maybe i should try spellblade... hmm

[hasty obsidian]

you can just try and make the best version of it, see how far can it gets you, it's fun

[lucid hedge]

spellblade main dps is shatter strike?

[bright patio]

most popular for sure, idk about strongest but i wouldn't be surprised at all

i think firebrand can go off

kinda curious about this myself re: other spellblade builds

[solemn viper]

Oh yeah I wanted to try firebrand with the new weaver sword but I’m not gonna gamba for more affixes lol

Let me know if you cook something with it lol

[harsh abyss]

Funny story, I'm currently building a sorcerer for max stun. The new weaver idols allow us to get another 160% stun duration, so with 250%ish increased from that and the meteor tree, we're looking at ~1.3 second stuns

[chilly robin]

i tried something but it's kinda hard scaling without the fire modifier

[hasty obsidian]

you're using meteor?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, Vilatria Meteor

Instead of many meteors, go for all the stuff that makes one meteor do tons of dps

[hasty obsidian]

haha

[harsh abyss]

I just beat Majasa and bugged her out of going below ground because I stunned her so much

[hasty obsidian]

i remember playing that, 1 meteor cover my whole screen

[bright patio]

i might try to cook bc i got lucky with some LP's but can't promise it'll get too hot

[harsh abyss]

It's honestly my favorite way to play meteor

[bright patio]

there's already a lot of obstacles with spellblade lol

[hasty obsidian]

right, a mage with a staff, casting big spell, my fantasy too

[bright patio]

for some reason spellblade has always been so goddamn appealing to me

and it's a shame it's actually quite rare in most games until more recently

[harsh abyss]

No screen spam, just big kaboom. I also use Teleport (mana tunnel) + Static with 200 charges, for an additional giant kaboom

[bright patio]

all mage archetypes actually

1 big damage number feels great this is true

i tried runemaster til only like, lv 30 when i tried the game for a couple days awhile ago before the season started

it was crazy even at lvl 30

how does sorcerer play/feel compared to the others?

[harsh abyss]

Depends on how you build it obviously, but there's a few super strong builds

[bright patio]

oh for sure i meant like the core style w/ core skills

i can lookup a vid

ez

[harsh abyss]

Sorcerer has some of the strongest "mage" fantasy out there, giant meteor, cool lightning explosions, etc

Even just building Lightning Blast as your main skill is very appropriate

[bright patio]

ok rad rad, i easily coulda looked more into the very basic style, just beelined to the sword

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, swordmage is one of my favorites too

[bright patio]

yeah i've gotten some insane sounding lightning blast exalteds

[harsh abyss]

I have a swordmage build on my list, but I need ot get some specific drops for it to be god

[bright patio]

spellblade is proof that melee can work very well in an arpg also, incredibly satisfying

actually have to pay attention but still

[harsh abyss]

I think their intent is for every class to actually have to pay attention, Sentinel is just a bit overtuned right now

[bright patio]

what're you looking for?

i LOVE farming shit with people/helping out

unless it's like a casual "if i get it then sure"

hmu i'm always down to farm a boss/timeline

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, it's on the list for if I get a good rolled Battlemage's Endeavor

But it's not a huge priority, I like to try out a lot of builds

[bright patio]

yeah i'm in the same boat

anytime i find something that sounds good for another class tbh

literally considered trying a 2h spellblade build for battlemage endeavor

w/ lightning conversion

i have no experience though so my ideas could end up trash

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, my build for it is a bit funky, because I want to try and push Mana Strike to its limits. You can get 15% current mana as flat damage for mana strike AND 100% crit chance. Everyone says it can't scale well enough, but I imagine a sorcerer getting between 150-300 extra flat damage on it could make it decently strong.

Pairing that with specific sorcerer defenses and some other stuff you can do with mana scaling feels like you can do some fun stuff.

[bright patio]

YES!!

i'm very interested in the mana strike sword also

uhh

[harsh abyss]

LE is probably the best ARPG to try stuff out in, that's why it's my #1 ARPG, heh

[bright patio]

100% mana strike converted to cold

[harsh abyss]

yeah, Yrun's whatever

[bright patio]

i feel like you could do a lot w/ that w/ the saved affix points

and the lightning nodes for dmg

lot of hybrid ele potential

[harsh abyss]

The lightning nodes get converted to cold too, so that flat 15% turns into cold damage

[bright patio]

omg it does i couldn't find confirmation

i didn't know the order actually works out to be all cold

[harsh abyss]

I was considering doing that with the Shattered Lance set, because that gives huge % melee cold damage

[bright patio]

so it really is easy to transition into

for some reason i just guessed the lightning affixes got ignored on passive tree

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I asked about it in the dev channel because it wasn't clear and Mike confirmed it

[bright patio]

i get a lot of ideas

multiples because what if i like it?

also i rly need to farm shades if anybody wants to join/maybe do a confluence

idk how bad they are on multiplayer, i could only do like 500 comfortably tbh

[harsh abyss]

Lol I'll never get to 500 because I'm lazy

[bright patio]

i get hyperfocused

tbh i hate it kinda

gear starts to get disappointing when you need specific things

[harsh abyss]

Yeah that's how it is for any game

[bright patio]

but i also dread the beginning stages

[harsh abyss]

The only problem with the mana strike build is you're stacking mana (prefix) and health regen (suffix). It's going to be hard to get all the affixes you need to do all the scaling you'll need. That's why that version is pretty low on my list.

The Battlemage's Endeavor is much easier to gear because you're just mana stacking

[bright patio]

yeah the affix pool for even the "best" builds are very demanding

[harsh abyss]

I don't mind leveling in LE, it goes quick once you find a style you like. I just build ele nova + fireball (the line version) and it melts the campaign, especially if you have a Firestarter's Torch

[bright patio]

that's true and i need to remember dungeon skip is a thing

i'm a poe vet (i promise i don't have rabies they scare me too) and it's just a lot diff

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, though I don't usually do it even. I just blaze through the campaign and it's super easy once you've done it a few times

[bright patio]

yeah it's like that for every game, truly i will admit it just stems from a lack of patience in tutorial-designed content

not a fault of the game but like, personal

it is fast but it's also something i just want to get done so i end up just stickin w/ one char a season'

then chilling

[harsh abyss]

That's definitely fair

[shadow swallow]

hello guys im running a mana strike build, atm im at 290 corruption, im doing ok damage but i die really easy, can someone help me improve it please 😄

[solemn viper]

With the weaver affixes? Damn

I’m curious to see how the range plays out, but anyway my spell blade is a sorc now so rip lol

[bright patio]

yeah i'm not expecting something like that to go far at all, but curiosity might get the best of me

if i like how a piece of gear looks i'll do something

LP just makes so many things possible to play with ahaha

[solemn viper]

The new weaver weapons don’t look bad at all, besides maybe scissors but that could be because I hate them lol

I like the staff but it’s not for mage sadly, ehg really said mage can suck it this season lol

[bright patio]

yeah like i 1000% understand being at the bottom is generally inevitable after a long season of high popularity

but idk the ease some people are having i'm like "where"

[solemn viper]

True class balance is possible, but I guess it’s not their priority

[bright patio]

yeah i see both sides to it

but don't necessarily agree with how it's bein handled

[solemn viper]

Waiting 1 year for a new season and then your class sucks it really makes me not want to play that much lol

[bright patio]

like it's okay for a class to be overpowered, but to the point of distorting the reality of the rest of the classes is a bit much lol

[harsh abyss]

No harm in waiting until next season, tbh.

[bright patio]

yee

like i said, i understand both sides

and i'm having fun with the challenge

my first reg aberroth kill felt incredible/earned bc of it for instance

[solemn viper]

If next season is in 1 year we’re doomed lol

[bright patio]

i think things will get figured out also

[harsh abyss]

They've said they're shooting for 3 months. This one was so long because they had some fundamental problems to fix

[solemn viper]

The mistake they made was nerfing ward instead of buffing all the other spells, if you have like 20 viable spells I doubt people will play lb or frostclaw

[harsh abyss]

Thats probably why balance is so our of whack too. Too long without players getting in to test the changes.

[solemn viper]

That would be awesome

[harsh abyss]

Like EHG can only do so much internal testing. Thats nothing compared to 150k+ players jumping in.

[solemn viper]

True but that’s an issue that’s been going on since release, they shouldn’t be surprised lol

[bright patio]

there's too much of a bad track record for me to actively want seasons too soon together

with that model of design anyway

yeah i get super eager for new content but this kinda proves what you can do if you extend a month or two (not 8 months tho pls no)

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, we'll have to see what balance they hit between speed and content.

[solemn viper]

That didn’t do much last season tho lol

It’s clear they wanna keep endgame the same with monoliths, woven echos are nice but still the same thing just new

I think the best thing they could do next season is a big balance patch and everyone would be happy

Man imagine using all kind of invocation on rm

[bright patio]

well they've spoken about their priorities to increase the power of lower performing classes

[solemn viper]

Or anything but t-posing and afking

[bright patio]

or at least that's their priority over nerfs, they have mentioned intentions of mid-season balance patches and such

but yeah we don't know details but at lesat it's not totally ignored

[solemn viper]

Oh yeah I trust them, I know they do big mistakes but always fix them it just takes time

[bright patio]

but yeah i am eager to see what they put otu lol

[proud swift]

If I do not change the element of Rune Bolt as RuneMaster then in which order do I gain runes if I cast them 3 times in a row?

[sudden oak]

hello guys. is there a list of builds that killed hc uber abby?

[bright patio]

@solemn viper big big gain from weaver echo just now ty for the tip

[bright patio]

there was a list of classes on reddit, but it just looked like a screenshot of a google spreadsheet so idk if there was a source attached

we take these we take these

idc lightning i'll live with this

got this one too which is great, but dex will make it obsolete soon enough

[frail hedge]

Ok my build has like 1.3 Mill damage but I have almost no armor or healthj

[frail hedge]

Fellow Scissor enjoyer

[hasty obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-scissor-scissors-catch-gif-25285592

[bright patio]

brooo those are beautiful

i'm at about 2m dps in combat 2.5khp and 2.5kish ward

[frail hedge]

1.3 Mill my part but im still 77

[bright patio]

damn dude you're doin great

i'm 99 lmao, but in bosses i use null portent rn

puts me at about 3.3k/2.8k

i'm happy with the slam lol

[frail hedge]

I was thinking of running Wall of Nothing

[bright patio]

it's really nice, i tried it

but struggles when it comes to big hits

it's nice having some kinda flat% damage reduction

[weary hamlet]

yeah people love to whine about fine tuning balance but come on the current state of balance suggests that nobody had run even the basic math on sentinel once. It's incredibly dumb. It's not rocket science to just add up all the multipliers one class or skill has and compare them to the same value on another skill or class

the balance is broken in incredibly obvious ways and they aren't gonna be addressing it until the next season

cause nO mIdSeAs0n NeRfS

[weary hamlet]

the issue of frost claw is not just ward, it's a better fireball than fireball, a better ice barrage than ice barrage, and a better LB than LB

it's an incredibly dumb skill that has way too much for way too little investment, and also unique melee synergies that any other spell on mage lacks

maybe it wouldnt be so bad in principle if they released it as is in 0.9 and then started to rework 3-4 older skills per patch to the same design standards but we all see what we see, there had been no effort in this regard and it's not even on their radar for the next patch either

as it's already announced to be focused on lich

[chilly robin]

guys, the tooltip dps in skill is trustable?

[weary hamlet]

no

[quasi wedge]

I wish stupid gordian prism worked as advertised

[chilly robin]

hmm thx

[weary hamlet]

maybe they'll fix it in 2.0

[quasi wedge]

if it did
I could make it perma crit

[chilly robin]

i'm trying to compare 2 staffs but it's insanely a downgrade

[quasi wedge]

bruh 😿 how long until nova is playable

[fickle smelt]

do u want to get ur build nerfed when u wake up??

[quasi wedge]

seriously, I could make it perma crit with only 2 passives

10% base by using Never late

because apparently it makes RI with traversal tag always use it

and then 9% from tree

24% base without taking anything else

just need 400% inc crit

which is like 1 LP away with other passives

and then stack fundamental criterion

[weary hamlet]

maybe in LE 2

[weary hamlet]

if that means that the game is balanced? yes, sure

[quasi wedge]

still tempted to do it

[weary hamlet]

also, which of "my builds"? I don't play one character, this aint an MMO

[fickle smelt]

if they nerf sentinel half the playerbase will suffer tho

even if only vk its a lot of people

[quasi wedge]

alternative is big fireball, FC stack but focus on spreading flames

[weary hamlet]

great! Everybody should suffer if they think they can just roll the most OP shit ever and get away with it

[fickle smelt]

thing is not everyone has time to play 10 chars

[quasi wedge]

which would ultimately be a weaker version of the Brand of deception

[weary hamlet]

I'm a dad with 50 kids and 500 jobs

[fickle smelt]

u dont need to have 500 jobs to only want to play one char

also saying people that play op shit needs to suffer is kinda weird

[weary hamlet]

and you don't need to have 500 jobs to want the game to be at least remotely balanced

it aint rocket science mate

[fickle smelt]

u also cant just make half the playerbase unhappy just for balance

[weary hamlet]

yeah let's disregard half of the playerbase that is unhappy with shit balance

[fickle smelt]

u can still play the game with bad balance no one is forcing u to play void knight

but nerfing mid season means whatever u made is just worse

incentive to play will be lower if people see mid league nerfs and think to themselves " oh why play a new character maybe they get nerfed tmr again"

[sleek reef]

people forget like 90% of the playerbase doesnt make it past like 200-300c

which if you know what youre doing, almost any build can manage

[fickle smelt]

why does balance even matter so much when u can farm 300 c on every class no problem

i do get that sentinel is way too overpowered now but asking for mid season nerfs is not it

[sleek reef]

and god forbid people enjoy a power fantasy in an arpg by playing the op flavour of the patch shit

[fickle smelt]

really op stuff just needs to be different, i dont think sentinel being op for 1 patch is that bad

if he stays that strong for more then we have problem right, it just gets stale

[sleek reef]

Its just a case of passive trees being updated is a huge power boost that foregoes their enemy power shifts to counteract power creep, when other classes with old passive trees get overhauled itll be better

Afaik this is the first time theyve done a massive overhaul to a whole class' passive tree, they can now more accurately gauge power increases through that and make it more balanced when they do the same for the other classes

[fickle smelt]

kinda weird that paladins can just infinite tank tho

its fair to want better balance for sure

[sleek reef]

Eh, thats more of an issue with the damage system

Health, resist, DR and ward only takes you so far

[fickle smelt]

100% block

[molten cobalt]

When the balance is so off that the boss that in their own words MAYBE 1% can actually do can be outright afk face tanked by one class and that class only then it matters

[sleek reef]

When you get to points of everything being a oneshot through 20k eHP, block and dodge become a bit of an issue

[fickle smelt]

well theres still only like 4000 total unique abby kills so

from the stats

[molten cobalt]

It should be 1% of each class not 1% of player base

But we have thousands of sentinels having done uber aberroth and 16 rune masters

[fickle smelt]

if u mean that yeah its kinda weird

im not saying balance is good im saying we cant just call for mid league nerfs

[molten cobalt]

Nono

That’s never a good strategy

[fickle smelt]

yeah thats what i was arguing about

with the previous guy

i mean literally just see poe2

[molten cobalt]

Right

I just jumped in head first hehe

Didn’t read the lore

[fickle smelt]

thats all good👍

total 35 unique mage kills compared to 2000 JUST VOID KNIGHTS is uhhhh

something

[molten cobalt]

Yeah it’s clearly very off

And they can’t bring everyone else up to sentinel, because then they gotta power creep entire game

So they need to nerf sentinel

And probably that other build, the one that kills uber in 40 sec

[sudden oak]

hey guys. what mage build would u recommend for pushing like 600-800c and uber abby? 😉

[fickle smelt]

falconer

[fickle smelt]

not mage

[bright patio]

i'm having a blast but i also am a masochist so generally if i recommend it it's not a good recommendation

it's rough

[sudden oak]

shattter strike and runebolt can kill it no?

[bright patio]

oh for sure, shatter strike can do it in a decent time as well

just have to play very very very well

compared to other classes

[molten cobalt]

Brand autobomber or hydrahedron

[bright patio]

very very little margin for error

[molten cobalt]

But brand autobomber is kinda scuffed ever since they fked up channeling

[bright patio]

https://youtu.be/ew5MKAz7tR8?si=QEXMa0m8TrTEE9z0 @sudden oak

[solemn viper]

oh so rip mage for 1 more season? sadge

[bright patio]

an uber abby clear on spellblade looks much diff than one that doesn't have to sweat their life away

[solemn viper]

maybe with skill sigils we will get better skills

[left hill]

I wonder if there's some kind of viable boss face-tanking thing with Wall of Nothing and Foot of the Mountain 🤔

[proud swift]

With Rune Bolt's Arcane Restoration node at 100% I will gain mana per Rune Bolt ball or is it just flat 12 mana gained?

[bright patio]

maybe if you can stack enough % mana spent gained as ward for something like spell blade combo'd with those

but then idk where you'd get damage

[prime whale]

they should do midseason buffs on other things then 😂

[prime whale]

mage giga chads

where did you find those numbers btw ?

[fickle smelt]

dev stream

[prime whale]

ah thanks

[fickle smelt]

its 2157 vks

[bright patio]

not surprised at all just motivates me more

i'm gonna die irl b4 it happens tho

stay tuned

[prime whale]

poor bladedancers

that's my other class

[fickle smelt]

at least they can respec into falcons

[prime whale]

just doesnt have the survavibility

i wonder what build they used

[fickle smelt]

im more interested in the 6 sorcs

[haughty monolith]

wtf did i just loot

[coral sail]

The harbinger of stars / meteor tree nerf is absolutely ridiculous

Why did they nerf an already mediocre class

On an already underutilised skill

For an already meme-tier belt

I am honestly absolutely lost at what they were thinking

Meteor doesn't even land on your cursor, it can miss. Moving all those meteors to direct casts = belt literally summons one meteor and it misses often, what on Earth is that

[nimble rover]

you can kill uber with glacier sorc that im sure for 100%.

[molten cobalt]

Prolly 3k void knights by now

[fickle smelt]

real and true

[molten cobalt]

A regular item?

[lucid hedge]

surprised that forge knight is one of the lowest count to kill uber abby

i thought all 3 sentinel classes are OP now

[weary pendant]

Can you guys recommend a good unique/s that works with desintigrate?

[fickle smelt]

forge knight is just boring

[thin gorge]

Hi friends, question pls. I am following this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqrHIIi-w0&t=931s

and this is my build as of the moment: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Av4wm2RB

I am wondering why when I use focus and flame rush, no plasma orb is orbiting around me?

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 77

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (28) / Spellblade (10) / Runemaster (46)

General:

▸ Health: 1,213, Regen: 21.78/s
▸ Mana: 226.89, Regen: 13.68/s
▸ Ward Retention: 106%, Regen: 12/s
▸ Attributes: 28 Str / 18 Dex / 28 Int / 6 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 27% / 27% / 58% / 12% / 9% / 14% / 14%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 28%, Threshold: 243
▸ Dodge Chance: 9% (194)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 11% (184)
▸ Block Chance: 42%, Mitigation: 26% (355)

Used skills:

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

[molten cobalt]

You are using the wrong elements

That’s lightning lightning fire isn’t it

Plasma orb is not LLF

FLF

Fire lightning fire

[thin gorge]

this is what I am seeing

i figured it out, apparently the order in the fast key matters

[molten cobalt]

Yeah like I said

Wrong elements

[thin gorge]

i tried putting the flame rush in right click and focus on W

[molten cobalt]

Due to a node in the skill tree yes

[bright patio]

officially got my first uber abby attempt in the moment i had the chance lol

boy howdy he quick

[thin gorge]

what node is that? I will have a read. LOL sorry total newbie here

[spiral flame]

Planning out my Mage alt. I think I’ve narrowed it down to Autobomber Runenaster (a la FrozenSentinel) or Black Hole Sorcerer (Dr3ad). I have end game mains I can farm all the gear with. Any advice? Playing with controller, mostly.

[bright patio]

don't get hit

[molten cobalt]

Bottom middle

[bright patio]

LOL sorry, mages are just v squishy right now. i don't know much about those builds, don't listen to me

[spiral flame]

lol

[bright patio]

i'm only useful for shatterstrike things

[thin gorge]

i am trying to follow this build, will this feel good? haha i want a fast mapper that doesnt die often.

[molten cobalt]

One has a chance to kill uber aberroth and farming 1000+ corruption fairly easily, the other will struggle with everything

[molten cobalt]

It’s the fastest mapper of all mage builds

[bright patio]

is spellblade really that much of an advantage?

[thin gorge]

which is which?

[bright patio]

wait i'm confused

all mages have killed uber abberoth

[molten cobalt]

In the order written

[thin gorge]

cool, i am on the right track 😄

[molten cobalt]

Yup

[bright patio]

sorry, didn't mean to interrupt. which mage are you talking about re: killing uber abby and farming 1000+

[molten cobalt]

Brand autobomber

It’s the easiest and strongest mage build atm

[bright patio]

i'm practicing uber abby rn on spellblade and really not having much trouble; it's hard for sure but like

[molten cobalt]

BUT it’s scuffed since they bugged out channeling

[bright patio]

there are tankable things

[thin gorge]

how about bigdaddy's frostclaw nova?

[molten cobalt]

You can do it if you just git gud that is correct

Damage helps to speed it up to minimize times you could potential f up

[bright patio]

ok i just want to clarify, because it's really designed to have to get gud, at least that's what the devs wanted

[molten cobalt]

And minimize laser beams

[bright patio]

oh absolutely

like mages are at ahuge disadvantage, no doubt

just like to clarify to new ppl that it's technically possible just a ton more work

[molten cobalt]

Yeah

And it requires pretty good gear

[nimble rover]

without wall snapshot this brand dot build is super weak tho. keep in mind

[molten cobalt]

Unless you’re a literal god player who never gets hit even once

[bright patio]

there are a few things you can get hit by and i'm p sure there's some rng involved

like if he does certain combos you can get screwed

[molten cobalt]

Definitely doable without, just longer fight

[nimble rover]

doable but almost zdps build

[bright patio]

i think spellblade is rly only able to do it "reasonably" because it can kill it fast

well, "fast" being like 2.5 min in a vid i saw, probably way faster

[thin gorge]

in str stacking runemaster autobomber, we will scale our damage with intelligence, and tankiness with str? any other affix I should aim for? Also, with the boots, I only have lp1, what is prefered, ms or str?

[bright patio]

their gear was good but could be better

[molten cobalt]

STR scales the damage

And tank

[bright patio]

but also could tell from the clear vid how much practice it took

[thin gorge]

because of the cleaver weapon is it?

[molten cobalt]

Yes you’re literally only stacking STR

Any int on gear or passives mean 0

You get nothing for it

[thin gorge]

ahh

[bright patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5MKAz7tR8&t=2s&ab_channel=GoldenExperience (in case anybody wanted to see, it's actually really cool seeing this fight done so actively)

do yt videos not preview in here? o well

[molten cobalt]

Nope

[thin gorge]

how about for the boots? I am guessing str is preferred, MS means very little because we are zooming with flame rush. am i right?

[bright patio]

highly recommend watching it, the guy is a god

[molten cobalt]

Back in 1.0 we couldn’t even post pictures here and it was perma slow mode

It was horrid

[bright patio]

oof

good to know we're treated like adults now

[molten cobalt]

Nah

The filter is still extreme

Can’t even write p1ss

We’re still treated like children

[molten cobalt]

Movement speed still means a lot

[bright patio]

ok so i've discovered with really crap gear i can tank 3 puddles

better than i expected lol

[thin gorge]

but if on LP1, str is preferred?

[molten cobalt]

Yes STR is always #1

[bright patio]

attributes > almost anything in most scenarios

(on prefix, unless you need to meet a certain stat req for something else)

i feel like there def is a movement speed requirement for uber abb

at least "as intended"

[molten cobalt]

End game you’ll have one setup with STR, for bosses

And another set of gear with DEX for plasma orb speed farming

With a dex set you can run 2000+ corruption with no snapshot

And just demolish everything

[thin gorge]

should I do this first? haha what is recommended. I want a speed farmer. I have another char that is judgement paladin and can kill normal abberoth. uber i am not aiming right now

[molten cobalt]

If you want

[thin gorge]

from frozen sentinel as well right?

[molten cobalt]

But then cleaver is useless

[thin gorge]

yeah. change weapon only right? the rest can reuse?

[molten cobalt]

He has a version yeah

I mean even with 30 dex I’m crushing corruption 1000

[thin gorge]

may you recommend a guide?

[molten cobalt]

For dex version? Don’t have one

But I’m sure frozenSentinel did a decent job

[thin gorge]

hmm str version, can do high corruption as well right? just not as fast

[molten cobalt]

Yeah it can

I’m at 1200 something atm

Could go higher but have not bothered yet

[thin gorge]

i have one red ring, that dont have lp. so sad

[molten cobalt]

Imprint it

[thin gorge]

yep imprinted on 3 nodes

[molten cobalt]

Crab ring is fine too, super easy to get 2lp

3lp crab ring is easier to get than 1lp red ring

[thin gorge]

when it is imprinted, it can drop anywhere now right? as long as i follow the condition of the node, champion drop, chest drop, etc

[rugged bronze]

Has anyone tried uber ab with ignite black hole meteor sorc yet?

[merry river]

Only specific boss loot doest work. Loot specific to certain timelines will still loot elsewhere if you inprint it

[prime whale]

another one

does nemesis also improve the implicit rolls of the uniques ?

I think that was a 5 str I put in the nemesis egg

[molten cobalt]

Yes

[molten cobalt]

Yes it can upgrade the rolls

[prime whale]

damn that's pretty nice

[molten cobalt]

Don’t know if it can do that AND give lp at the same time though

Or if it rolls on give lp or improve stats

[jaunty prawn]

I'm considering to run a mage for my next character, any recommended builds for endgame that are fun to play and can beat up the endboss?

Shatterstrike maybe?

[molten cobalt]

Shatterstrike isn’t really a mage

It’s more akin to a rogue

[thin gorge]

for LP2 ring aside from red ring, crab ring for example. what is a good 1st is str, what is a good 2nd affix?

[left hill]

The "more" multipliers on Mana Strike don't apply to Spark Charges applied by it, right? Since even though it applies an ailment, the ailment isn't doing the damage itself, but proc'ing a separate spell?

[thin gorge]

i mean, what other 3 affix is good haha, as I will craft one that I can slam to a 2LP ring.

[sharp quest]

Ello people, it's my first time playing this and I recently got into the endgame monolith and weaver tree system. I'm playing a runemaster lightning blast mage. Is there anyone that wouldn't mind if I dm them asking about equipment/relics/statues etc. and some endgame mechanics for my character

[full bluff]

You can message me

[sand cosmos]

speaking of messaging you, could you share your loot filter for v4?

[full bluff]

My loot filter is mostly double exalts and 2+ lp items and specific idols

[full bluff]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/3ApbG3JB big mess of a filter

Testing out dropping aegis for quad cast and using minor pen idols instead

[quasi wedge]

why isn't this used

that's 600 base dmg/sec with 18% base crit

[prime whale]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-gta-sa-cj-gta-again-gif-20425950

[quasi wedge]

is it because of low AoE or something?

[hybrid schooner]

@quasi wedge for what biuld. the focus build is only scaling the DOT damge on the invocation.

some extra tiny unscaled shocks arent going to do anything

[quasi wedge]

if I understand correctly, the node gives me 60% of my max mana as damage every second while channelling focus

which is 300 dmg with only 500 mana

[hybrid schooner]

lord why you have so much mana

[quasi wedge]

and then Never late adds 16% base crit

base crit of waves is 6

[hybrid schooner]

we dont have any cirt multi or crit rate either

[quasi wedge]

we get crit multi easily

[hybrid schooner]

the focus build?? where

lets say you had crit multi, wheres the crit chance coming from

[quasi wedge]

from never late

[hybrid schooner]

im gonna look at the tree, sec

is this passive tree?

[quasi wedge]

runemaster passive tree

[junior coral]

What is the best non bugged build for RM or Sorc?

I see a few Sorcs killed Uber what build did they use

[hybrid schooner]

ive tried to wiggle some pts around in passive tree dude theres not much to grab and not many spare points to mess with. only pts i see that are negotiable are the 6 pts in essence of celerity and 2 pts in arcane momentum.

sorc passives

at best maybe u get 20% crit hance, that means that the thing your talking about will be nly 20% effective

never late, next ability will have higher crit chance. what ability exactly.

dont have any non channled spells on our bar

[quasi wedge]

never late makes Traversal skills gain the crit

since we make our Focus traversal

our focus will get the crit, always

[hybrid schooner]

maybe, the focus isnt not doing hardly any damage

99% of our damage is coming from the DOT applied with flame rush

[junior coral]

So for test dummy it days like 10x dmg compared to real enemies, is that normal

[hybrid schooner]

ya

[quasi wedge]

did I miss something

[hybrid schooner]

they dont have any armor or resists

[quasi wedge]

or has the Trinity been buffed to always be one beam?

nvm a bug

[junior coral]

so lets say i go from 20% lightning pen to 60%, my dmg will like 3x?

on actual mobs

[hybrid schooner]

im not sure of the math, but i do know when i went from like 10 to 50 it was pretty huge

[junior coral]

On actual mobs i'm doing around 400k DoT Ticks with mostly LP1 items (STR RM)

My bar far weakest LP1 alt atm.

Going to try hard to craft a t5 lightning pen at least chest today.

It's really difficult on MG though.

[hybrid schooner]

priority is strength there

need the lp2

ive failed the double t7 chest slam 7 times already

[junior coral]

I have 24 strenght in chest atm. my dps is real bad tho

I think my char is maxed I did 500 corr and Aberroth with it thats fine enough for me

[hybrid schooner]

what, you did uber aberoth

[junior coral]

shit i mean regular

im not doing uber on MG

thats like .....torture

There is 0 progression on MG atm

Im basically playing without a faction

[hybrid schooner]

people buy a bill gold for like $4, so they dont care how much they spend on an item they want. so people list items knowing this, so everything is inflated. so if you dont buy gold or land some super rare item drops. gg

[left hill]

Can the Triple Strike node on Firebrand shotgun enemies? Or can they only be hit by 1 line each?

[junior coral]

no i have the gold. the issue is any decent items are bought up instantly by RMT and bots

i can make gold cap in a day. In fact that's all i really find fun now when i log in.

[molten cobalt]

Then there’s people who use THAT trading forum

If you know

[left hill]

does that actually work though? because Never Late also says non-channeled, and Focus is channeled

[molten cobalt]

The one who shall not be named

[hybrid schooner]

people still use this?

[rugged bronze]

What trading forum?

[junior coral]

What damage are you guys doing on real mobs

for strenght RM

[hybrid schooner]

they MOST definitley reduced the rarity of LP on this item.. i leave 3 lps on the ground they are so common now

[molten cobalt]

The one that starts with d2

[quasi wedge]

oh, you're right

but the RI+making it traversal works

[molten cobalt]

Where you essentially trade ingame stuff for forum currency and then you can trade for stuff in any game that’s supported

[rugged bronze]

Oh that site

[molten cobalt]

Of course not allowed by EHG

[quasi wedge]

hmm gordian prism build then?

fundamental criterion and never late to buff dmg

and focus+mana guide to be immortal

downside is stacking atunement instead of str

alternatively I was thinking of doing the Aergon's fireball

which would be 400 DPS dot but it would be harder to use 'cause I'd have to stop and cast

but more fun I guess since the skill has more oomph

[rugged bronze]

Black hole and meteor as a build feel so bad in clearing

[solemn viper]

Sorcerer does lol, 4 lp is insane

[junior coral]

Spellblade must be kinda popular at least as far as mages go, i sell a +4 shattering strike chests every few hour for 200mill in seconds

[gaunt plank]

It's more about shatter strike being pretty much the only feasible build for spellblade, and most people don't pick that stuff up to sell.

[grand karma]

how does one get str on a mage helmet? i pretty sure that it doesn't normally drop

[gaunt plank]

Str drops on mage helmets all the time

But you could also just use that one woven echo that changes one attribute to another

[molten cobalt]

It never drops on mage bases

But it can drop on other non mage bases

[junior coral]

ahh. also maybe mages fastest Uber killer right?

just made two more +4s i love these new runes

[gaunt plank]

Does it not? Huh, I guess I didn't realize that it was locked

That's my bad then

[molten cobalt]

We can’t apply it with shards either

So if you want a mage base the only way is getting int or dex and swapping

[junior coral]

i just gotta find a triple T7 to imprint 😄

that will make it way eaiser to craft

[molten cobalt]

Realistically you’re not gonna hit 3 top mods on a triple t7 base

At best you can seal the 4th affix and choose freely, but the other 3 you gotta reroll with rune and then it rolls all of them

[junior coral]

oh ya

[molten cobalt]

So best is pretty much double t7 with 1 empty slot and 1 t1-t2 affix

So you seal, then craft 2 desired, then shuffle the t7

[junior coral]

so i found out how to easily farm rune of havoc/redemption. is there some crazy glyph of dispair farm too?

crafting is so legit in this game

[dark haven]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/barkwin/character/arkwin

what would my biggest upgrade be

[winged fjord]

ive jsut given up making my own build, but the issue is that most of my gear leans into lightning damage, but any build for runemaster im seeing seems to rely on anything but that. any build that uses lightning damage that I can find seems to be out of date or requires gear outside of what I can get. Does anyone have a lightning runemaster build thats buildable pre corruption monos?

I have been workshopping in the end of time trying to get something of mine to work for the past 12 hours and have nothing for it, it sucks

[left hill]

Can the Triple Strike node on Firebrand hit the same enemy 3x at point blank range?

[weary hamlet]

it doesnt shotgun

as a rule skills dont shotgun in LE like that

although I'm sure that rule has just as many exceptions

[left hill]

🙁

[proud swift]

What is the minimum total health would you all say a ranged ward based RuneMaster should have?

[solemn viper]

Does anyone know how null potent less damage taken works exactly? Is it 20% dr for each uncapped res or is it 20% total?

[weary hamlet]

per damage type

[solemn viper]

So a total of 140% reduced damage?

Seems like a lot

[nimble rover]

20% for each damage element. you need overcap each for 40% for this result. so minimum res is 115 for each damage type for max result

[left hill]

to try to clarify it a bit for Kween, overcapped necrotic resistance does nothing against fire damage you take, for instance

[solemn viper]

So if I get every res to 115 I would end up with 140 damage reduction is that right?

[left hill]

no

[nimble rover]

you will have 20 for each element

[left hill]

you would have 20% against all types

[nimble rover]

so 20 dr overall

[solemn viper]

Ohhh ok got it

Sadge

Wanted to cook a funny build

[nimble rover]

ah its still super strong item for some builds

[solemn viper]

So it’s basically like a red ring but you got to invest in overcapping the res

[nimble rover]

this new pale of the ox armor is even more busted if you have some kind of minion tho

[nimble rover]

2 red rings but yes.

for red ring you also need to invest tho. but in attributes

[solemn viper]

Yeah but having 180 int seems more useful

[nimble rover]

and if you dont have 180 you have 0 dr. with null you will have atleast something if you overcapped

[solemn viper]

Still a nice piece of gear might cook something

If only nemesis would add more then 1 lp

[nimble rover]

it can

it is also kinda easy to do in tower. but not with high LP value items ofc haha

[solemn viper]

I’m not that lucky unfortunately I just need to farm and hope for the best lol

But I will get it eventually

Tower and turtle until I get more lp

[harsh abyss]

Remember you don't have to have 180 int specifically, you just have to have 180 total attributes, and Red Ring gives a decent amount towards that.

[proud swift]

The suffix "Chance to apply armor shred on hit" works with magic damage spells too?

[harsh abyss]

Anything that hits, yeah

[winged fjord]

Does lightning blasts Convergence node conflict with closed curcuit, or does it still allow chaining to allies for the increased crit and damage?

[proud swift]

Thanks

[harsh abyss]

It should still allow chaining to allies, but investing in chains and channeling isnt good. Channeled casts dont count as direct casts (except the first one), so to get enough chains to chain back to yourself or to an ally you'd have to start and stop channeling multiple times.

[winged fjord]

Convergence makes it channel?

[harsh abyss]

Oh sorry. Brain mix up

Convergence wont chain to anything other than the first target hit

So no, it wont move to another target at all, so no allies

[winged fjord]

damn, oh well

so if im making lightning blast a boss killer, should I make RI a horde clear? or is that not necessary?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, if you use convergence you'll need something else for clear. You could use RI, Static Orb, fireball... lots of good options

[full bluff]

You can use spark charges on LB for both bosses and clear

[winged fjord]

So not using RI's frostgaurd isnt a mistake? I keep seeing people swear by its defense

[bleak otter]

what are some good builds for 1000 corruption as a sorc?

[gilded hare]

is there a way to reduce spell cost more than -5?

ideally I just need -6

[junior coral]

damn i was close to getting the 40% pen on chest. it rolled the 80% hp regen...shit

[molten cobalt]

brand autobomber

[bleak otter]

is there somewhere a planner for that build?

but isnt it a primalist? i wanted to stay sorc

[winged fjord]

from what ive seen id need gear that adds levels to lightning blast in order to pull that off. I dont currently have any gear that does that

[molten cobalt]

runemaster

[junior coral]

i hate having to do ordrens watch again when i fail a slam 😂

and i keep dying in it due to the flame rush mana guide bug not being fixed 😄

[molten cobalt]

ordens watch is fked in it's own right

on one of the sides of that map you get stuck on invisible objects all the time

the other side is super smooth

[proud swift]

Is the Arcane Restoration node from Rune Bolt tree just flat 12 mana regained or is it 12 mana per Rune Bolt projectile regained?

[junior coral]

darn another RIP

[winged fjord]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qd48l6YQ

I think ive put something together that might work as a build, im not sure though, if anyone has any feedback it'd help

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 76

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (26) / Runemaster (43)

General:

▸ Health: 1,025, Regen: 17.97/s
▸ Mana: 201.72, Regen: 9.84/s
▸ Ward Retention: 250%, Regen: 88/s
▸ Attributes: 0 Str / 0 Dex / 92 Int / 0 Att / 0 Vit
▸ Resistances: 70% / 79% / 101% / 118% / 0% / 79% / 64%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 205
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (130)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 11% (200)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 56%

Used skills:

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

[broken pecan]

so for the dex version of the autobomber I should use a sceptre with dex on it to maximize the damage? or am I reading that wrong.

[molten cobalt]

i guess?

its not so important when you're stacking 150+ dex

you gonna be flattening everything instantly

[broken pecan]

wel I have only 16 right now

I've got that set corsair shield with 14...

beyond that I can only really also repalce the weapon?

or slam dex on my blood mage gloves

get a good dex belt maybe

[prime whale]

what are you using for havoc farming ?

[molten cobalt]

mostly same pieces of gear, except maybe twisted heart?

[broken pecan]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QWLVd5ZB currently only 74 so no heart

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 74

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (2) / Spellblade (7) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 1,205, Regen: 20.36/s
▸ Mana: 230.37, Regen: 13.92/s
▸ Ward Retention: 87%, Regen: 16/s
▸ Attributes: 31 Str / 16 Dex / 31 Int / 6 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 96% / 93% / 120% / 8% / 3% / 40% / 44%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 241
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (64)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (693)
▸ Block Chance: 45%, Mitigation: 27% (372)

Used skills:

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

[broken pecan]

feed me knowledge of what to do

[molten cobalt]

i dunno

never did a pure dex stacker

[prime whale]

dex stacker is kinda "new" isnt it ?

[molten cobalt]

not new for the game

but semi new thing for this season

because you dont really need it

[proud swift]

Made this lightning RuneMaster build. Most casted spell will be Ball Lightning (Gon Gon Gon) which will auto cast Crackling Glyph & Sea Of Sparks. If enemies are getting too close then I cast Antipode of Mesembria (Rah Gon Hoe) to Pull targets in which auto casts Twin Embers (more or less useless)& Dancing Sparks good for ward 10+1 per intelligence. Please provide feedback 🙂 . Uniques and stuff i'll consider later.

Reowyn's Frostguard will be casted every 13 seconds for the ward which will auto cast 2 useless spells Rune Shard & Unvar's Eternal Embers.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qq42Yw0A

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (16) / Runemaster (72)

General:

▸ Health: 1,942, Regen: 31/s
▸ Mana: 488.51, Regen: 13.12/s
▸ Ward Retention: 199%, Regen: 223/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 92 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 77% / 93% / 77% / 77% / 76% / 81% / 79%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 388
▸ Dodge Chance: 7% (216)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 13% (358)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 122%

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Flame Rush / Frost Wall / Runebolt / Runic Invocation

[left hill]

is Bane of Winter any good for a Spellblade? The 1% crit multiplier per 10% chill with melee attacks seems... really lackluster. Since it's not that easy to stack melee/generic chill chance high, and there also isn't much reason to stack high chill chance because of stack cap, and 1:10 is a terrible ratio.

[boreal widget]

Is there a guide to how different scalings work together? Like is %Spellpower exponential with %Xdamage?

[molten cobalt]

exponential?

that is a term used nowhere in damage math

[boreal widget]

Multiplicative*

[molten cobalt]

anything saying increased is additive

"more" is multiplicative

tooltip also usually says if its multi or not

[boreal widget]

Yes I know that part, but '%spellpower' doesn't say increase or more

[molten cobalt]

err no not tooltip on items

thats passive nodes im thinking of

[molten cobalt]

% spellpower?

screenshot?

spell damage?

[boreal widget]

Derp, its spell damage not spell power. My morning brain read it wrong and answered own question lmfao

[boreal widget]

Great means I can ignore it

[broken pecan]

some kind of visual bug with plasma orb for me, it seems to hit on the opposite side of where it looks like it is

[gilded hare]

After much fiddling I came up with a clunky as shit, but semi-functioning CoC LB/Lightning Meteor Sorcerer build: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oY46w2VB

Thoughts/feedback would be greatly appreciated, it's definitely squishy but pretty fun to play.

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 93

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (34) / Sorcerer (60) / Runemaster (19)

General:

▸ Health: 1,805, Regen: 28.15/s
▸ Mana: 788.07, Regen: 33.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 184%, Regen: 4/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 92 Int / 7 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 24% / 0% / 64% / 40% / 0% / 1% / 1%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 361
▸ Armor Mitigation: 10% (230)

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Flame Ward / Focus / Meteor / Frost Wall

[harsh abyss]

Do you have a 4lp prism wraps?

[gilded hare]

so that build is what I put together as aspirational, I have most of it, but obviously not the 4LP stuff

just running 1 or 2LP legendaries currently with a 3LP harbinger belt

[harsh abyss]

It definitely could work, Idk if you'd just be better off just casting meteor yourself though.

[gilded hare]

so I pretty much made the whole build around harbinger just because I love the idea of CoC meteors

[harsh abyss]

Fair enough, some armor might help you feel tankier. Its a really good defensive layer

[floral pier]

Why don't you use mana guide to float around like a harby using focus and the auto lightning from that can proc your meteors? You could also add static with auto LB more casts

[gilded hare]

I was using static but didn't like it very much

could try going more into the lightning focus nodes, but I enjoy casting LB, I might try that though

[junior coral]

Lightless Harbour then the chest at the end dumping millions of gold

[molten cobalt]

or just do prophecies

[junior coral]

yeah for COF i think its prophecies and MG its arbour chest

[boreal widget]

Are there any good not-weapon items for fire damage builds? I'm really struggling to find uniques to target for my build that aren't generics (Omnis/red rings/etc)

[prime whale]

well kinda failed but not the worst

[boreal widget]

What in the goddamn

Guess I don't need unique boots after all

[molten cobalt]

you do

no t7 = crap

[boreal widget]

I guess, sealed CDR when its my best stat for my jank ass build is helpful. If I find a unique I have to find one I can 2LP and get CDR+Movespeed t.t

[uncut zealot]

Can’t LP sealed affix

Not you’d want to with a t6

[boreal widget]

I mean yes, I'm saying I can't find a unique that I'd want to slam over just having 4 affix + slammed good affix

Unless I lucked out on like 3LP. Stymied Fate is the only unique that fits well with my build (Black hole sorcerer, with black hole main dmg source)

[thin gorge]

When i press flame rush from focus, it is a bit inconsistent but I feel like it happened more often than it should that the channeling is cancelled and I end up not moving at all. Does this happen to you? any tips?

[broken pecan]

not sure which of these to wear while leveling into early empowered monos

as the autobomber

[thin gorge]

My guess is the Vilatria's. Shock chance scales our damage.

[broken pecan]

true, and I haven't really needed more tank

[thin gorge]

we are the same build my friend

but I am newbie too haha

maybe you are not

[broken pecan]

I just need a better belt

last epoch is a lot like PoE for me, 275 hours and I still don't know what I'm doing, (I have 1788 hours in poe)

[thin gorge]

i have 4.5k hours in poe, and I am still noob lol

[broken pecan]

yeah

it's one of those game where you need to hyper autistic to make builds, so the rest of us just follow them

[thin gorge]

are you running with CoF or MG?

[broken pecan]

MG

[thin gorge]

I just recently joined MG. and ohhh man.

[broken pecan]

if I were doing SSF I'd do CoF

[thin gorge]

it is soooo much fun

[lunar crest]

I give up on Shatter, how's Hydra RM?

[gaunt plank]

What would be the best way to scale cold converted LB?

Just standard int + cold/spell damage + cast speed?

[harsh abyss]

Pretty much. You can use focal blast, but I've always felt like the beam is a bit too short and thin

(Thats what she said)

[boreal widget]

Could someone help me theorycraft my build? I'm 100% going to try and push this to kill aberroth. Farming red rings but trying to find other things I can use.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Ap4W92mA

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 99

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (84) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,718, Regen: 30.86/s
▸ Mana: 403.75, Regen: 15.6/s
▸ Ward Retention: 195%, Regen: 162/s
▸ Attributes: 17 Str / 1 Dex / 51 Int / 1 Att / 12 Vit
▸ Resistances: 106% / 72% / 90% / 100% / 110% / 103% / 156%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 344
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (170)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (1,195)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 110%

Used skills:

Snap Freeze / Meteor / Flame Ward / Black Hole / Teleport

[boreal widget]

Rings/Chest I'm farming to replace since no longer need set bonus, got a 2LP heart I gotta find an exalt to slam

[harsh abyss]

How are you intending to ever have mana?

[gaunt plank]

I also don't really understand the point of the sword? Is it just for +6 black hole? Seems like a waste of a strong gear slot

[harsh abyss]

It does give 60 flat spell damage, and 6 levels for BH is a pretty huge boost to damage

I think Dr3ad used it in his BH build, so its been pretty popular recently.

[broken pecan]

hmmm pushed for empowered monos and now I'm made of glass.

[harsh abyss]

Make sure those resistances are shored up. Get some armor (30-40% isnt too hard), make sure you have other defenses too

The All Resists blessing makes gearing waaaaay easier

[broken pecan]

my resistances are butts.

well, my elementals are capped

everything else is butts

[harsh abyss]

That'll do it.

[broken pecan]

the problem is I'm running all uniques or sets and I can't get the resists I need on the idols I want.

[harsh abyss]

If you're using (or can use) a wand/scepter, you can sacrifice some damage from a catalyst to equip a shield. That can make you way tankier for a bit until you get better defensive gear

Unless your build NEEDS all the uniques and sets, dropping 1 or 3 pieces to fix your resists is a good idea. Cant farm gear when you die to a slight breeze

And you shouldnt need absolutely maxed dps to clear 100c monos

[broken pecan]

I'm following https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AV846ydB
from the video guide, but like...
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B40ReYLB

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Mage (28) / Sorcerer (13) / Spellblade (14) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 1,665, Regen: 32.16/s
▸ Mana: 311.86, Regen: 15.76/s
▸ Ward Retention: 360%, Regen: 77/s
▸ Attributes: 155 Str / 22 Dex / 155 Int / 10 Att / 10 Vit
▸ Resistances: 142% / 79% / 98% / 80% / 114% / 79% / 65%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 403
▸ Dodge Chance: 11% (334)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 69% (6,055)
▸ Block Chance: 169%, Mitigation: 23% (366)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 101%

Used skills:

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

This build has a guide:

Strength Stack Runemaster - All Content Viable Tank Autobomber Mage - Build Guide | LE 1.2 by FrozenSentinel

Runemaster, Level 79

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (4) / Spellblade (10) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 1,209, Regen: 21.06/s
▸ Mana: 324.9, Regen: 12.64/s
▸ Ward Retention: 74%, Regen: 16/s
▸ Attributes: 32 Str / 16 Dex / 32 Int / 12 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 111% / 98% / 172% / 52% / 3% / 40% / 23%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 242
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (64)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (1,020)
▸ Block Chance: 46%, Mitigation: 26% (372)

Used skills:

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

[harsh abyss]

You might be trying to force in the str stacking before your gear can support it.

You can get 60-80% of the build value from int stacking, which is much easier for mage. Then swap to str stacking later.

[broken pecan]

so swap to the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrUy3P_V_Lo version?

[merry river]

hi, is there a way to reroll a unique affix without losing the lp? Or i need to find another 4lp sword? Cuz the entire point of this sword is that one affix...

[harsh abyss]

Youd need another 4lp to reroll it with the echo, good luck!

[harsh abyss]

I'm not an expert on the build, but probably

[merry river]

damnit, ok ty

[harsh abyss]

You could also use the 4lp to reroll a 3lp, but obviously thats not ideal

[bright patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhH6DktfRKE&ab_channel=CaseyGregory

first attempt at Uber Abby on Spellblade - need a ton of upgrades but wanted to try it right when I had the chance. This is gonna be a journey 😭

I feel like double red rings are a necessity for dmg reduction, sheesh

[harsh abyss]

Part of me thinks Red Rings are too necessary, but on the other hand, Uber Abby is intended for hyperoptimized builds, so eh

[broken pecan]

well I did some experimenting and I've improved my damage a lot, but not my tankiness. hrm

[bright patio]

Yeah I’m totally fine with a required high tier unique for this one, just annoying when I haven’t even found my first one yet

[harsh abyss]

Yeah

[bright patio]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Jiesus/character/Jeisus

thjs setup is as tanky as I’ve been able to get so far (red rings / boss dmg spread over time are the two big things I’m not using rn)

The boots are super nice if you need to stay mobile but for actual tankiness I’d recommend something else

[broken pecan]

different build

[bright patio]

I also might go 1-handed and get a busted shield, idk

[broken pecan]

I'm doing runic autobomber

[bright patio]

Ahhh gotcha, idk if you have a specific unique helm for your build but I found this one does wonders for sustain/ehp

Best of luck either way we all strugglin to survive even a tickle around here

[broken pecan]

except my necrotic resistance is like zero

[bright patio]

Well getting your res up should be your first prio if you need tankiness

And null portent synergizes w res investment super well - 20% flat damage reduction potential just from the chest

Armour also huge

[broken pecan]

tryna figure out how without sacrificing tooo much damage.

[bright patio]

The best tip I got from people was that damage will never be your problem, and to optimize defenses first then fix damage

At least in current state for mage

Like sure you won’t speed kill but best way to keep high dps is to be able to maintain uptime

[last chasm]

which would be more viable frost claw sorc or rune lightning frost claw?

[broken pecan]

have to go buy a resist ring and some idols then.

[bright patio]

Yeah i use idols and blessings for all my res/armour

And then two affixes for crit immunity

[broken pecan]

mmm, need to be able to survive to get those blessings

[bright patio]

I dropped a lot of dmg to use tanky gear (health/damage reduction etc) and it almost felt I was doing more dmg bc it was just less stressful lol

I’m happy to harbinger farm with ya if you want

[broken pecan]

I just got empowered monos on this toon

[bright patio]

Well feel free to hit me up if you want any help getting over the defences hurdle

It’s a struggle

[broken pecan]

just gonna have to go spend gold I guess.

[bright patio]

Well for blessings fr don’t hesitate, happy to help unlock/upgrade blessings

Wish I could find more than one vod of Spellblade doing uber Abby lmao but only like 15 have even killed it on SB

[mint ivy]

https://youtu.be/yrlCyx6TxEI MY SPELLBLADE FLAME REAVE BUILD FK OP

[bright patio]

Ooo a flame reave clear, Ty for sharing this stoked to give it a look

[mint ivy]

np bro

[bright patio]

What corruption?

Looking specifically for an uber Abby kill vid to study

I’m running Shatterstrike rn and damage is great just finding a way to survive more than 2 basic attacks haha

[mint ivy]

im at 350 cor or som. I dont have maxed out my gear and im unlcky with drops

[mint ivy]

ye its also good dmg, but i tought it was a bit boring

you need endurance and 100% crit avoid. thats the main shit

[bright patio]

Yeah SS gets repetitive but i find fun in seeing how aggressive I can plan while dodging and such

[mint ivy]

true its good