🧙┃mage

[idle wren]

guys how do i get this made?

[tender wolf]

You dont, it will take 50 copies of +4 lightning blast to get those exact mods. You just get the important 4+ lightning blast mod and try to get 2 of the other ones

[idle wren]

yeah i know that much but i basically wonder abut how to get the set thing on there

[stable thicket]

which primordial can be the best to boost plasma orb runemaster build ? was thinking about legends entwinned with some set cooking or truesight

[full bluff]

legends with vilatria set carries any build 🙂

[proven haven]

Early empowered should be fine without any unqiues, the spark base damage is quite high with a bit of flat spell which applies to the sparks before you get enigma. You could even use vilatria set directly as a placeholder if you drop it

Before enigma use staff or wand with high flat spell and preferably minus mana

Then focus int and increased damage etc. You won't make much progress on crit until you get flat crit and a bunch of int and increased / multi slams.

[frozen dirge]

So you basically have to found an helmet with +LB skills and an open slot prefix to put the set affix on it

You need to shred the set item in a woven map to do it

Its kinda hard to get a good one, you have to be Lucky with rune of removal

[proven haven]

Legends with dex int hybrid stack might be okay with fundamental criterion and vilatria set and mad ladle. Could even use morning frost boots for more flat per dex but that's awkward to build. With lightning you can get decent amount of lightning pen from runic invo affixes and such

The classic is the reowyn staff with hybrid stack though, maybe fit a T8 in there

[full bluff]

Mana guide + reflect just made monos too easy... and boring 🙂

[stable thicket]

you think its worth to get invoker and halvar in bonus to take even more from legends ? evolutions end angle too ? since most of the dmg will comme from attributes

[proven haven]

Lmao hilarious but interesting I'll need to look at that too

[full bluff]

It clears faster at 1.3k corruption than my lb runemaster..., not sure about bosses, but just for monos it is a bit too easy

[proven haven]

Invoker and halvar both 3 item sets, you won't get completion without big sacrifices. The completion bonus from legends is really not good enough to sacrifice slots for alone, you still need to get something useful out of each slot

[stable thicket]

the 2 set isnt working with legends ?

[proven haven]

Half gives flat at least but it's through wrong type to work with your pen, shred, etc.

"Per completed set" it says

[stable thicket]

aww sad

[proven haven]

If you only have halvar boot + legend ring you are 2/3

[stable thicket]

sadge

so vilatria and ferebor

[proven haven]

Maybe. Depends how you plan to build it.

RR probably better than Ferebor unless you really need +1 skill

[stable thicket]

but then is legends still the best one to pickjust for vila even if its god set. will have to try

[idle wren]

so how do i manage to get the bottom 2 affixes on a helmet?

[restive remnant]

Do you have a build planner?

[frozen dirge]

@idle wren i told you how

[lean fractal]

what's the best slam on this for sorc? Mana + mana regen or multiplier?

[full bluff]

Trying to estimate number of ice shard from ice barrage per second at max rate... anyone got a number already?

[cerulean plinth]

I'm working on making an enigma catalyst for my lb runemaster. Does it HAVE to be spell critical strike chance? Or will normal crit chance work?

[humble abyss]

are the blood mage gloves really necessary for the LB build?

[cerulean plinth]

It's the +4% flat spell critical strike chance that you need them for

everything else is irrelevant

[left hill]

there's a woven echo called The Great Bridge where you can convert set items into Set Item Affix Shards. then use those shards on items (of the matching item type, e.g. helm=helm, 1Hsword=1Hsword) at the forge

[humble abyss]

Thanks mate. Since I already have 34% I guess I don't need them.

[cerulean plinth]

you're gonna need them to hit 100% crit

your crit chance scales your flat crit chance. and that 4% is huge

[proven haven]

^ You need 4% blood mage and 1000% total increased crit chance roughly.

You get 600%+ for free from the sorc crit per int node, a few other bits on various items, then a couple spell crit affixes and done.

[proven haven]

Normal crit chance is really bad for spell builds, the affix rolls way lower

[proven haven]

With the FC boosting it iirc I got a lot per second, ended up doing a surprising amount of damage

Was like 4+ per second iirc

[cerulean plinth]

is static shell an ok alternative for LB until I get an unstable core? I still don't have a 1lp one of those somehow

I don't have any mage exalted bodies atm, so it would just be a 1lp static shell with t7 int

[proven haven]

Yeah is fine. Mana might be a bit annoying but it's manageable

Shell probably top 3 best options for build

[cerulean plinth]

cool ty

[willow bay]

does this mean once i hit max stacks i do 80% less dmg with spell type?

[desert reef]

Might jump in on mage, best build for leveling?

[willow bay]

fireball ignite is wht i used for lvling

[cerulean plinth]

I'll probably just level with lightning blast even tho it's probably not the best idea

[willow bay]

lightning blast is great as well

[cerulean plinth]

I love twink leveling items

[desert reef]

sorry, where does this drop?

cant find it online but I see a lot people using it

[cerulean plinth]

you have to craft it

the tldr is

1. get a vilatria helm to drop (set item)
2. do the woven echo that lets you shatter set items
3. find a helm on the base you want with a t7 + open prefix (or a t1-t2 you can seal)
4. craft on the set affix
5. try and havoc the t7 to the set affix (if you want the set affix to be t7)

[desert reef]

ah okay, thanks

[proven haven]

Yeah pretty much. It's basically a pendulum item, the idea is you use cold spells for 10 seconds then fire spells for 10, repeat. There's some potential use case for doing big burst or something within the window but it isnt very popular.

[willow bay]

ya didnt think it stacked on ignite hits 😛

[cerulean plinth]

is lightning converted fireball as bad as it sounds

sounds kinda cool tho

[full bluff]

It is playable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJmL9g_ywBg, but lacks single target for bosses

[cerulean plinth]

I like how it looks

[full bluff]

You can also switch meteor to lightning for a purer lightning style, but staff is kind of downgrade

[cerulean plinth]

do you still need the staff crafted in order for lightning meteor with the ring being a thing?

[full bluff]

yes, need a vilatria staff, the ring doesn't give the effect

[cerulean plinth]

rip

[full bluff]

and you can't use enigma with the staff

[cerulean plinth]

😭

[full bluff]

I played it a bit, but feels so weak compared to sparks and wand

[cerulean plinth]

can't say I'm surprised. it's a cool concept tho

[full bluff]

it feels like a weaker lightning blast to play 🙂 but looks nice

[humble abyss]

I'm lvl 80 and I still haven't found mad alchemist ladle. Am I missing something here? my filter is set to show all unique items (even 0LP) and I made sure that it is in my top rule for build items, and I kill ever exiled mage that I see but I don't get them

[cerulean plinth]

I find it drops a lot more frequently as you're climbing corruption. Like im doing 1k corruption on my bear earthquake guy and they drop all the time

Have you gotten the rune prison complex echo yet?

Smack that bad boy in your weaver tree if you can

[humble abyss]

is that the one that gives chance for 2 exiled mages ? I took that and also the one for exiled mages to appear in cemeteries

[cerulean plinth]

No. It's a woven echo that has 5 (or 6) different sections with 5 exiled mages each

It's a rare drop from exiled mages

[cunning steeple]

Quick question y'all, I'm having trouble offsetting the bleed from Bloody Nib with my build - I've seen other builds stack a LOT of ward idols, is that the secret or am I just missing something?

[hollow dew]

Hi guyz i want to do a brand of deception runemaster build, what would be a nice primordial item for this build? I was thinking about a t8 chance to shock staff?
Btw if someone could share a planner for this build i would be really happy ^^

[full bluff]

Sorry, have never tried brand builds

[hollow dew]

np ty for the answer

[full bluff]

I tried to find a new item to fit in hydra build, not much luck yet

maybe shock on idols and reliquary nest for 60% more shock from idols..

I am playing around with static orb and plasma orb again, maybe brand can fit in there

[native wadi]

What sorc build you guys running for high corruption

[full bluff]

I like Lightning Blast, Glacier and Frost Claw for sorcerer, but guess it depends on how high 🙂

Anoying not being able to play static orb with lightning dmg and cfc invocation, because static orb must be left of rune bolt on the bar for cfc to work

right I mean 🙂

[stone rapids]

lb and shatter strike, hyrda good too, brand of deception also good

[proven haven]

You don't need the meteor converted to lightning for the flat lightning to benefit meteor

[proven haven]

I made a video on this recently
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMJlsYbXzZ4

Went over some options

Planners included

[hollow dew]

oh nice tyvm

[shut forum]

Tri elemental nova generates all runes for runemaster at each cast?

[solemn viper]

It does work pretty well, I use it with mana guide and lb, basically flame rush casts both orb and plasma, it’s really funny

[proven haven]

Annoying thing is that they compete for brand applications

EHG didnt give brand the timerot etc. treatment yet

[solemn viper]

Oh I don’t use any other brands in that build

Flame rush is lightning so no subjugation and I don’t use frost wall since I hate it

[proven haven]

Oh no I meant they compete for BoD

Since it's 1 stack limit

[solemn viper]

IIRC the brand is always on, but I’ll check tomorrow to make sure

I did see it on the dummy

[proven haven]

Yeah is always on but the strength of the brand is not always the same. You can apply a fat brand or a weak brand

Depends on the skill applying and the multis that skill is inheriting

Basically you can overwrite a strong brand with a weak brand

[solemn viper]

Oh I mean when your shock chance is high enough it should be fine, the difference shouldn’t be much

I used vilatria and the ring for shock chance

Plus the new ring

[proven haven]

It is a massive difference. I was going from like 10m dummy ticks to like 500k dummy ticks

Brand has a crazy amount of multis available

Err.. runic invocation I mean

It also transfers lightning pen to the brand

[solemn viper]

Well all the skills are lightning so you can’t really control what skill applies brand unfortunately

Maybe if you lower the mana cost of the spells you could

[proven haven]

Yea i just avoided using weaker skills that would overwrite

[solemn viper]

Leve only plasma orb over 15

[proven haven]

Yeah this works with LB

And I guess static, but then static isn't doing much in that case

[cerulean plinth]

Is there a way to guarantee the correct rune order without forcing a fire cold fire ability order? I like having my main ability on q, shield on w, movement on e, etc

[proven haven]

Yea you rebind hotkeys

[solemn viper]

Yeah static orb without the mana cost is pretty much useless

[cerulean plinth]

Oh that's true

Rebind it is then

[proven haven]

Plasma orb already kinda hits everything

https://youtu.be/CXoyZAtCCjQ here was just dex plasma orb in 1.2

[solemn viper]

True but it’s less funny

[proven haven]

I think this is buffed in 1.3

Can see 1000c boss oneshot at end, really high damage

[lean fractal]

is any of the buffed invocations decent now? Doomfrost has nice mechanics and almost double dps

[tropic crypt]

hey guys i just started playing RM, going for the lightning blast build. I have the blood gloves ,mad alch and enigma. Im still only critting for 1k-4k a hit. Is it just too low INT, or what is the main thing i need to do to get the damage up?

[sour trellis]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Kikubear/character/pay2win

im still noob but my gear is decent if you want to look , i hit pretty hard like 2m dmg buffed for LB

[tropic crypt]

thanks ill have a look. what was the main stat that scaled your damage in your opinion?

[cerulean plinth]

Int

[sour trellis]

The new ring entwined , crafting your own ring to set and crafting helm for set , and having int over 200

[cerulean plinth]

You have some crazy gear

Cof or merchant?

[tropic crypt]

thanks mate.

[tropic crypt]

ty ill start working on it

[cerulean plinth]

The set bonus from the set ring/helmet are part of the reason why. They're more important than you might think

[tropic crypt]

oh wow yeah that vilentia set 2 set would be huge increase after reading that

[south yoke]

:'c

[cerulean plinth]

Sheesh

How long did the 4lp grind take

Don't you need spell crit chance or is that on your chest?

[sour trellis]

Cast crit multi light pen the 3 main imo

[south yoke]

i tried to get spell crit instead of cast speed

[sour trellis]

You can put that on chest with int to hit cap

[south yoke]

and u will laugh my main is rogue and i was farming and then upsy hahaa

[south yoke]

thank you!

which affix is that? hehe

[sour trellis]

Increased spell crit doubled with 300 mana

[dusky owl]

I want to use Ice Barrage for boss damage. Any ideas for general build direction?

[south yoke]

i think glacier build use ice barrage

[unborn ravine]

don't know where to ask this, but if something consumes dot damage (like ignites) to deal damage, is it still benefiting from dot damage affixes?

[nimble shoal]

Yes, it doesn't change the remaining damage that they would do (unless it specifically says it does), just makes them do the rest of their damage immediately

[main mortar]

Would another mage do some stuff with me as a new player at some point to help me get some uniques for my lightning blast build. Apparently i need a unique relic and catalyst and idk how to do bosses/dungeons/haringers yer. Im around lvl 80

[hollow totem]

So I just made it to monoliths. I'm a runemaster following loaf/sentinels guide. I dropped an enigma and I chose cof. Is there an order of importance for uniques? Like if I wanted to target with a prophecy? Haven't made the swap to lb yet but prob will in the AM.

[quaint solstice]

:C

[proven haven]

I tried a bunch of different combos tbh and cast speed is the hardest stat to replace. Fully optimized i think you end up with cast speed on wand and catalyst with the crit elsewhere

Cast speed also scales your ward since TH conversion

[proven haven]

Enigma priority, then ladle, then legends / vilatria combo

Oh right and TH before legend's

[proven haven]

Combo with a lot of spell damage since IB gives more cold. Maybe Frostbite build. The classic was Frost Claw

IB can do big dps with crit setup too

[hollow totem]

TH?

[lucid hedge]

did T pose str stack mage now do well in s3?

[hollow totem]

Guessing this means twisted heart?

[humble abyss]

Is glacier still bugged for the LB build? Should i use flame rush or runebolt?

[tranquil oak]

what would be better for a spellblade ignite build? flamereave or firebrand?

[echo heart]

i gues... i gotta make a wildfire build now?

[austere jewel]

anyone ever tried black hole with sac embrace ? ngl it seems to combo well

[hollow totem]

ok I think I need some help/.advice. I swapped from loafs leveling setup to budget gear and my dmg is beyond ass now

[tranquil oak]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B4ya5N9o trying to plan a melee ignite build but honestly have no idea what i'm doing. idea was to use flame reave to trigger frost claw and fire aura and frost claw would trigger nova

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (8) / Spellblade (85)

General:

▸ Health: 1,186, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 143.51, Regen: 10/s
▸ Ward Retention: 130%, Regen: 57/s
▸ Attributes: 4 Str / 7 Dex / 40 Int / 4 Att / 4 Vit
▸ Resistances: 103% / 31% / 55% / 0% / 0% / 4% / 4%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 237
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (28)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 5% (106)

Used skills:

Flame Reave / Frost Claw / Elemental Nova / Enchant Weapon / Surge

[echo heart]

what's your mana management strategy?

[solemn viper]

The void gloves? I don’t think it’s that relevant, but there was a void meteor build going around last season

[austere jewel]

well its 200 flat void or a dot skill

it works on disintegrate but i havent seen it on Bhole

[solemn viper]

How would you stack it tho?

[hollow totem]

What's the best way to farm for ladle?

[whole harness]

Imprint the Rune Prison Complex woven echo and pickup exiled mage weaver nodes.

[full bluff]

Why do I keep playing sorcerer when I know runemaste technically is better 🙂

[austere jewel]

indirect casts

lightning blast can be cast indirectly via focus with mana guide or static

[hollow totem]

when you say imprint the Rune Prison Complex woven echo, that's something I get at the end of a cemetery, yes?

[cerulean plinth]

It's a rare drop from exiled mages. It's a woven echo

You can put it into your weaver tree and it'll randomly pop up as an echo when you're running monos

[hollow totem]

ah ok gotcha

[shy sonnet]

are the runewords you get from runic invocation not actual buffs you can see with at tooltip? Im not seing Reowyns activate when I use it

[full bluff]

Ice barrage feels like long range reflect build at lower corruption

[storm ice]

So I am running a LB Runemaster, I switched my LB to ice for survivability, but im noticing im like super wardy now, do you think switching it back to lightning etc might be a good idea?

im noobie af, first season i actually made it to monoliths/corruption

[shut forum]

Can chronostasis dual wield nuke?

[austere jewel]

what skill are you going to use for nuke ?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah but sustaining the ward for it is basically impossible.

4000 ward per double chrono proc? Good luck doing that multiple times a second 😝

Its a unique that hasnt been updated since the old ward formula when people we generating tens of thousands of ward per second.

[proven haven]

Someone tried it and made it work, but iirc from my own testing the gloves are currently bugged and giving pen to all elements, not just void

[austere jewel]

Wait so its op?

[proven haven]

It can be strong for dots yeah since they don't care about crit

[austere jewel]

Not a big fan of bugs

[proven haven]

Or you cast 1 Frost Claw doing 10 crits and stacking you before using. The cast that consumes can also generate

[vocal harbor]

I removed the point from the lightning -> cold conversion from Lightning Blast and yet it is still tagged as cold damage. Despecced the skill, restarted the game, verified game files, nothing is fixing it.

[tranquil oak]

thats one of the issues i was trying to figure out how to fix, i got +3 mana per enemy hit recovered on passive tree but other then that I'm not sure. was trying to find a way to not have to use mana strike but i may have to. and drop something

[jagged ermine]

U have a node in base mage tree that converts

[proven haven]

You probably have the passive that converts it

[vocal harbor]

Oh, I’m going to look into that thanks!

[shy sonnet]

Anybody know the answer to this?

[jagged ermine]

runeword too much text 💀

[tranquil oak]

guess i'll drop surge and grab mana strike

[proven haven]

It might depend on the invocation? I don't think Reowyns does but you can definitely tell it's active and doing another overwrites it

Try the haste one and see if that gives buff

[tranquil oak]

so anyone got any suggestions?

guess not -_-

[proven haven]

Flame Reave and Frost Claw are both mana hungry, that's why people usually use mana strike as a proc skill.

If you want to use both you probably end up spending a lot of your time just regenerating mana. You could do cooldown mana strike I guess

Negative mana focus, but that feels pretty bad.

Tp meteor is for sorc

[tranquil oak]

i'm looking at a lot of older spellblafe builds and i dont see how they getting mana either

[proven haven]

Usually mana strike

If it's an attack trigger spell build especially

[harsh abyss]

Vilatria (w/ ring) attack spell trigger felt pretty strong using dragoraths

[tranquil oak]

i just mean in general. looking at multiple builds but no mana recovery

[leaden marlin]

I'm stuck in the rut of lightning blast wizard, and I want to change. What's fun this season?

[proven haven]

There's always the good ole flappy bird mage

[leaden marlin]

Sorry I don't remember unlocking that skill

[full bluff]

I am back on the good old frost claw spamming for farming

[sour trellis]

I’m currently 248% or 370% cast speed buffed but was thinking of removing cast speed from cat and adding spell dmg crit multi instead . Think I should do this or leave cast speed and crit multi . Wouldn’t mind more spell dmg

[proven haven]

Spell damage is probably worse for int stacker but you would have to compatr

Calc your total increased damage and see relative increase for the affix

[hollow totem]

Can ladle drop from prophecy or just the exiled mage?

[south yoke]

HI GUYS i have 3lp foot of the mountain which is better to slam ?

obviously gonna swap str to int

or 3ple t6

[proven haven]

Mage only

[humble abyss]

@proven haven - do you recommend runebolt over glacier or flame rush?

[primal coral]

I was going for a void volcanic orb that was casted by disintegrate too bad you can't have no mana cost and lightning converted to fire for fire aura

[silent thunder]

Is anyone here running lightning blast converted to cold?

[storm ice]

I am

Use it with my runemaster, for the wards boost down the road

I keep everything else electric though, including the wall

[silent thunder]

How does the interaction with lightning aegis work? And what helmet are you using?

[storm ice]

ill have to log back in, but I do remember Lightning Aegis still procing,

just a placeholder helmet @silent thunder atm it give +2 to LB

[silent thunder]

Ah I see

Have you beaten Uber?

[storm ice]

No not yet, I actually rolled this character yester day and just got it up to level 83, I had a fire minion necro and it just wasnt cutting it

can say this is already much much stronger

[silent thunder]

I am 98, already made the +Lb helmet but I am missing the ward from cold fire cold

Thinking about switching over to cold to try things out, but I might lost a lot of damage. How often are you able to freeze bosses with that cold LB?

[storm ice]

I wish I could tell you how MUCH of a difference the ice makes, I put it on as soon as I could so didnt really get to gauge the difference from damage/survivability etc

So me personally? not often but I didnt spec into anything to increase forst chances

frost^

What skills are you running ?

[silent thunder]

LB, Teleport, Static, Flame Ward, Runic

[storm ice]

im running LB,Flame Ward, Static, Wall, Runic

[silent thunder]

Tried wall, it slows me down on clear, I usually just hold LB button and walk, things die

[storm ice]

lol thats fair, I have been debating on nixing it for something else just not sure what

[silent thunder]

I stopped on 400 corruption and can stand and spam Lb at bosses until they die

[storm ice]

lol

[silent thunder]

Static will help because it auto cast

Clear speed is important because I am farming for a 3ls red ring, I farmed like 6 so far

[storm ice]

that makes sense, this is my firstseason actually doing end game content. I am sure ill get to the clear speed point at some point 😛

[silent thunder]

Me too lol, season 3 is my first time playing

I played offline on a mage and it’s up to level 40+ then the season started, so I restarted

I am still very inexperienced at the game

[storm ice]

i have had it for a while just never really sank my teeth in, im glad I did

[steady pewter]

Be glad you didn't start in S2 as a Sentinel - having serious survivability whiplash lol

[proven haven]

Probably, depends what you prefer. For mapping mobility might be better, for bossing I think dps + sustain is probably better

I'm going to look into a speed clear swap when I start on the character

[modern thicket]

Can i please play with you! I want to farm red ring. I cant do corruption 700+ Easy!

Can i play with someone who has coruption 800+? I want to farm redring. Can you guys help me please?

[austere jewel]

Im playing the max roll lvling build with shatter strike. Is there a way to make clear smoother? A unique that can improve my lvling experience

[full bluff]

Wish someone would make a simple, good guide on mage leveling that we could just refer to 🙂

[whole verge]

pinching loaf and maxroll has one

[full bluff]

Maxroll one is shatter strike based which I feel doesn't fit the mage style of playing for those that want a caster style. Not seen pinching loaf guide.

[whole verge]

I mean but its "good" gets you fast to end game :P but define whats a good for u

Loaf's is a fireball build its under "mage solo found leveling"
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/xd77j0gs#4

[full bluff]

The purpose of the maxroll leveling guides seem to be get to level 70 as fast as possible, so you can start following the real build guides. Thats great for those that just want to skip to that part. I am more thinking about a guide for those that come asking for advice on how to play and they are in the level 20-30 range and just want to play the campaign and take it a bit slower. But maybe that group is small and most just enjoy exploring on their own. 🙂

[scenic dock]

for chest slam, lightning damage when having more than 300 max mana is better than lightning critical strike multiplier? How much better? Do we have math?

[proven haven]

I'll probably level with LB when I get back from vacation, idk if make a guide but probably put the vods up

[willow bay]

any idea if wildfire embers will be fixed?

[left hill]

don't think devs have commented on it 😞

[charred mountain]

Hey, first time playing mage, saw this from S2 and since I couldn't find anything in the patch notes, am I correct in thinking it's still good?
Also, does it have potential for Uberroth? If not, what build would you suggest instead?
TIA
https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/spark-charge-spellblade

[silk pewter]

Spark Charge Spellblade Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.2

Class

Mage / Spellblade

Used skills

• Mana Strike
• Lightning Blast
• Flame Ward
• Frost Claw
• Surge

Used unique items

• Boneclamor Barbute
• Dragorath's Claw
• Fragment of the Enigma
• Swaddling of the Erased

Tags

Monolith Farmer / Season Starter / Beginner / SSF

Created by JalYt_Justin · May 8, 2025, 11:33 PM

[full bluff]

I am trying the maxroll glacier build now and it is pretty good https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/glacier-sorcerer-guide

[full bluff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpwJk1s17Fs how it looks playing

[charred mountain]

If you get a wider screen you may be able to get a 360° view

[proven haven]

If you can't see the back of your own head you arent really gaming

[hollow totem]

Can you drop Vilatria from prophecy or only random drop?

[south yoke]

wtf? xd

[proven haven]

The set pieces? Both, they are global drops

[hollow totem]

ok thank you

[hollow totem]

Did they nerf the drop chance of Ladle or is my luck just that horrid?

[nimble shoal]

Bad luck

[south yoke]

whats the prio in the helmet for LB? because its pretty hard t_t i've wasted ton of havocs

this one is the best i've got so far

[sour trellis]

It’s not easy , I’m also farming upgrade for helm and ring . Here are the ones I’m using soo far

[south yoke]

xd i suck

[torpid bluff]

whats better currently sorcerer or rune master? just came back from a break so idk how strong they r

[proven haven]

Probably RM since they fixed jagged veil

[proven haven]

Thats pretty good. LB is prio then int

Could also do spell crit over 300 if going for that or something idk some options.

[echo heart]

highest I've ever gotten a skill level

[karmic mirage]

does our spells does critical dam?

[full bluff]

Finally found a way to use meteor that doesn't suck for mana sustain and play - in theory...

[undone ravine]

So I would like to definitively know if mirror images damage increases with intelligence or not because there no answer I can find that says it shouldn't as it's listed with scaling with int. I have tested on dummies in the area and the damage seems to not scale and the tool tips say it only adds health per int, however posts by people indicate that the damage should go up. In my test the images fireball alway did 17 damage, at 0 and 99 int, so I say it doesn't scale, however I think it should, mages and images don't have any real minion options. Lasty what's the point of the elemental bees per second idol, why is it mage and attunmunt physical scaling melee damage?

[proven haven]

It doesn't work on single target though, right?

[proven haven]

Yes

[full bluff]

Kind of does, you can sustain it for a while and the damage is not horrible. For most stuff it should work... maybe not long boss fights. Would have to regen with just glacier spam. But for burst damage single targets that are not bosses it is great.

[proven haven]

Try mana guide tbh

Dump mana recharge for a few seconds while tanky and mobile

Dump again

Only way I was able to get uber viable meteor so far

[full bluff]

Meteor damage is too low compared to mana cost. Other skills just outperforms. Like spamming long range glacier is more damage... even without crit

but for thematic play it works, freeze first with glacier then dump meteors on them 🙂

long range play, but slow

[full bluff]

I dont get why the meteor belt had to be nerfed, but maybe it was too good

in some way I dont get 🙂

[native zodiac]

how did they nerf the meteor belt?

[tribal veldt]

it's eterrover

[full bluff]

the multi meteors don't work anymore on indirect casts, makes the belt hard to use since you cast single meteors with high mana cost on crit..

Single target sustain is not horrible, maybe need higher mana pool

[native zodiac]

damn that's pretty terrible

[full bluff]

First attempt at a meteor build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMP4ybNgxfU

[vocal harbor]

Just updated and I don't stutter step anymore when casting lightning blast, I have to do it manually... RSI pain incoming 🥹

[austere jewel]

is this base 300% crit ? seems a bit weak cuz that'd be just +100% crit multi on mods

[solemn viper]

My understanding is you add 300 multi on top of your existing multi but I might be wrong since it kinda feels weak

[cerulean plinth]

I got my summon bear to 35 lol

[austere jewel]

Its a more dmg multi but if u take into account that it procs max 40℅ of the time then it really is weak if its only a 100℅ increase. However if its a +300℅ multi on top of your base 200 then it would be pretty nice. Effectively it would be a 120℅crit multi increase.

If combined with double dmg it would be juicy af

[full bluff]

If Harbinger of Stars would only use the cost of a single meteor, it would be a great item again 🙂

[south yoke]

good patch?

[hollow totem]

ok I'm officially over it. What's the actual drop rate of Ladle?

[stone rapids]

it’s on top of your base + any added crit multi. so if you had 100 crit multi added from passives/gear a deadly strike would have a total crit multi of 600% for example.

[austere jewel]

Damn, that makes it a very strong item then. Too bad u can only use 1 primordial. Crit hammerdin wouldve been so strong.

[proven haven]

Im not sure. A lot of crit builds end up with like 500+ multi so at the opportunity cost of 40% extra overcap crit and the Primordial usage you get like 50% more damage 40% of the time, so like 20% more damage

Maybe some build that easily gets crit cap but doesn't have much room for multi could benefit?

[echo heart]

Your bear underwent apotheosis and ascended to godhood, living within the Ursa Major and now watches upon us all

[jolly galleon]

I want to be a female mage 🙁

[cerulean plinth]

Gender locked classes 😭 it's like that in most arpgs unfortunately

[rancid meadow]

is glacier teleport still bugged?

[karmic mirage]

as sorcerer, im using glacier(personally favourite) , metor, focus and right-click attack=distingate
i feel metor is underwhelming because slow cast (surface area improved after i spec-ed upsize area nodes) but it forced me to replenish mana with focus during long fights.
should I respec/ditch metor and use other skills instead?

[proven haven]

You can play any way you want but these skills have pretty poor synergy. Meteor and Glacier often scaled with crit, generic/elemental/spell increased damage, cast speed, specific typed penetration / shred, etc.

Disintegrate usually scales with damage over time, elemental damage over time, sometimes crit chance, different element typing

Basically they don't really support each other or work together.

Usually you have 1 primary damage skill and 4 utilities or triggers, occasionally 1 AoE and 1 single target but usually not.

[balmy drum]

Is there any planner for a Lightning Blast run 2k echo? I only played Spellblade for a short time, completely new to this class

[proven haven]

There's quite a few planners depending on how you want to play. LB is popular this season so you get a choice

2K can be a bit sketchy though if you aren't using a tankier variant

[balmy drum]

I see some planners using crafted sets, which is another new area for me... I've never tried this feature before

[proven haven]

Yup Legends Entwined is the meta for LB now. You just shatter set pieces in the bridge echo then craft it onto an exalt as normal

Just need the set shard from that echo

[wild nymph]

does cast speed afect animation speed of triggered spells by any chance? (pls @ me, thanks)

[proven haven]

Edit: I missed the "triggered" part. No it doesn't.

[iron current]

anyone else having trouble with the glacier teleport node just not teleporting you like 75% of the time

it far casts the glacier but then you dont move

[south yoke]

yes, its already reported

[iron current]

ok thank you

[hexed grotto]

would you mind sharing the cook? I've been excited to play meteor for sometime but never played mage

[proven haven]

I don't think I uploaded the planner for it when I was testing, not at my PC for next couple days. But basically it was standard int stack with Legends ring, vilatria helm, ladle, I think Crystal Skull, mana guide, and around 1300 ish mana.

Damage idols, I think damage over 300 maybe 2x2

Maybe it was mana idols though

Arcane visage helm, unstable core with meteor int slam

[proven haven]

Here is the unlisted test footage from 1.2 with T7T5 slams minus RR tier items with just T7 slams, this was just some messing around. Legends Entwined giga juices the dps
https://youtu.be/KEs6sO7Ox7k

So the 1.3 test was way stronger

Didnt upload unfortunately

[hexed grotto]

I've never played mage, and I found that mage scales really differently from other classes and hence requires me to have a little bit more handholding

thanks for the tips

[proven haven]

Yeah this is a pretty unorthodox way to play mage. Basically just mana dump into recharge. It'll oneshot almost anything Uberroth just needs some help

[rustic scaffold]

so how's the spark charge spellblade build keep up now a days? does it still go kaboom?

[hexed grotto]

for example conceptualizing offense scaling is different, also how ward gen makes your tankiness different based on what you're doing

[proven haven]

Single target kinda weak

[rustic scaffold]

damn ripperoni. Guess I'll try doing na ignite build since my VO Runemaster one was kind a flop lol

[proven haven]

Mage has a lot of variety here. It has several options for ward scaling like low life support with reactive ward, or Twisted Heart, or mana spent gained as ward, or just ward generation and threshold. Or hybrid build, or just a bunch of DR and armor etc

Lost knowledge probably still usable on some builds

[hexed grotto]

oh wow, does meteor converted to lightning look like that? or is that mtx?

that's even cooler

[proven haven]

Thats how it looks

But with the 1.3 setup you wouldn't have that

[rustic scaffold]

I wonder if they haven't tackled anything on Mage due to their future plans with sigils.

[proven haven]

It would look fire but do mostly lightning damage

Idk if skill sigil are still even coming

[hexed grotto]

if my goal is not to do uber, would autobomber still work?

[proven haven]

The old road map is outdated

[hexed grotto]

for just chillin probably 1000c

[proven haven]

What you mean by autobomber

[rustic scaffold]

Lol rip. the Korruption is near

[hexed grotto]

meteor harbinger

[proven haven]

Meteor autobomber?

[hexed grotto]

yeah

[proven haven]

Its fine I guess. Definitely not an s tier build by any measure

Belt is giga nerfed

[hexed grotto]

I've been wanting to play since 1.1, never thought it's going to be nerfed to the pits

[rustic scaffold]

Is there a max to %mana spent on ward?

[proven haven]

Lost knowledge gives current mana as ward per cast

[hexed grotto]

so I guess for meteor autobomber it's a similar setup, but with harbinger of stars. and now procced by... static?

[proven haven]

Static shoots out lightning blasts

Automatically while moving

Same with arcane ascendance

It might be a bug and idk if it's changed in 1.3 but you could turn on arcane ascendance while mana guiding

And it also shoots out LB

And mana guide itself shoots out LBs

I think you could probably make a hybrid LB autobomber build that direct casts LB for bosses

[rustic scaffold]

I can't imagine the ember amulet somehow working with meteors

[proven haven]

Ember is kinda jank

[rustic scaffold]

yeah I mean if it gets fixed

[proven haven]

Even if so I don't think it competes with Legends ring regardless

[rustic scaffold]

I was trying to focus around it with VO with it, was kinda working but it became way too item dependant for ward generation

[proven haven]

Also I think LB autobomber is actually buffed a fair bit in 1.3

With the spark nova buffs

Probably better than meteor

[rustic scaffold]

but just imagine a bunch of little fire wisps casting a volley of meteors

just dream 🤝

[proven haven]

Can try it but it works out to like 30% more damage or something on paper iirc

Which isn't enough to make up for the primal slot

Even if it wasn't bugged

[hexed grotto]

that looks like a sick cook tbh

[rustic scaffold]

Hence the dream part 😂

It definitely turned out to be a dookie item

Though it is satisfying with those gloves that cast those fire tornadoes

[proven haven]

Yeah I already cooked that last league and it was a really fast 1kc farmer

Should be a fair bit better now

[hexed grotto]

different from tpose mage right?

[proven haven]

Yes

I uploaded it after t pose

[hexed grotto]

the reflect season really woke up the autobomber in me, the world is just nicer when everything just dies

I might try to cook it myself, learn mage from the ground up first. then figure out what's wrong in the ultra late

seems like a fun class, with not as many bugged skills. not sure if the second part of the sentence is true

thanks for the theorycrafting

[lean fractal]

Been trying some spell proc Spellblade for fun with Vilatria. Is there a world that dual wielding beats Enigma or other offhand?

Also i wonder if firebrand spell is even comparable to mana strike

[jagged ermine]

nah mana strike the goat for this kind of build

u can make it full range & stuff, xtra spark trigger

i tried both dw and enigma, and enigma is stronger

with DW your damage is really weak, with enigma you're a worse lightning blaster 😂

even with a flat spell dam slam+attack speed on offhand sword it came out lower dps

[tranquil bay]

So... anyone else noticing that all indirect fireball casts (even ones that draw from your skill tree) are not adding extra projectiles?

The fireball shrine, fireball node for Frost Wall, and Wildfire Embers neclace have all been shooting out singular fireballs even though my regular casts have five in sequence\

[left hill]

Wildfire Embers recasts are bugged to not use most (possibly all/any) skill trees. Not sure what's up with the other things mentioned

[tranquil bay]

Ah, ok! That means it will prob get fixed soon, so thats all good

would much rather get 25+ ignite stacs per recast instead of just 4 or 5.

[unreal umbra]

wouldnt hold your breath

put in a bug report though (f8), if enough people do it they might believe something is wrong with it.

[proven haven]

Flamereave scales the flat spell from vilatria into melee. You could also potentially do something with Cleaver / Polarus for lols. Strength runemaster with 1 flat spell damage per strength and giga armor lol. Maybe go Frost Claw with some of the new hybrid melee/spell stuff and get giga crit chance which scales ward generation for FC and glamdring to convert the melee back to spell. Or just do a classic melee into spell proc with mana strike, dragoraths build should be buffed now with the spark nova changes if you build into that I guess.

[midnight pine]

Hey little doubt on frostbite frostclaw, it's better to put freeze rate or elemental damage over time both T7 on a 1lp ring in priority ? ^^'

[jagged ermine]

depends on your freeze rate tbh

i'd say rough ballpark if ur freeze rate is like 2k5-3k ele over time is better

i tested around 3k2 and ele was a bit better than freeze rate but it rly depends where u at

maybe some frost claw expert could answer better than me :B

[gritty briar]

Hello everyone, need some advice / guidance. How do I craft this helmet?

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/lightning-blast-runemaster-guide

I am assuming one open prefix with a T7 mod to Lightning blast, craft a T1 Vilatria mod, seal it and then add intelligence?

[frozen dirge]

yes

[jagged ermine]

yeah best is to imprint 1 open affix helmet (base counts so pref. the good base) with a T7 mod and big forging potential

try chaos/redemption to fix the wrong affix(es), pray it doesnt eat all ur FP and u hit the ones you need like max hp

then you slam T1 set affix, seal

slam T1 lightning blast then havoc to T7

finish helmet with refinement

gotta fix the other affixes too 😂

there fixed the mini guide

when you imprint everything counts, so imprinting correct base + 1 or more correct affixes helps

[gritty briar]

Ahhhhh that explains omg how didnt i know this... i messed up so many exalted helmets wth...............................

[midnight pine]

Thank you ! ☺️

[gritty briar]

For COF, what is the best way to farm rune of havoc?

[hearty jolt]

there's no singular best way but rather the combination of everything you can do. Generic rune prophecies, all of the weaver tree rune related nodes (20% more rune drops and rare mobs are permanently enraged and drop more runes/glyphs), rift beast rune evolution stages, Uber aberroth, maybe spending your money at lightless arbor

[gritty briar]

Thanks @hearty jolt

[jagged ermine]

select "rare rune" option from rift beast lineage everytime you can

[hollow totem]

When you put gear in the weaver tree for higher drops like that is it based solely off the item or does the LP matter?

[silver frost]

how do pinching loaf & maxroll's lightning blast builds compare?

i've been following maxroll. i assume pinching loaf is prioritizing survivability over damage

[full bluff]

whats the main differences?

[nimble shoal]

Everything on the item matters, including rolls and LP

[hollow totem]

awesome. Wasn't sure thanks

[stone rapids]

i did end up trying this out last week and it was like ehhhhh playable but it’s like 1/100 the damage of just playing shatter strike lmao

the flame reave vilatria thing that is

[balmy drum]

Is it or Unstable Core better at dealing damage with Lightning Blast?

[willow bay]

anyone find a workaround for the wildfire embers ammy the amount of ignites spread seems super low

[proven haven]

Unstable because it gives a lot of inc damage and +1 skill for spark nova which applies more spark charges etc.

[proven haven]

Yeah. A lot of meme builds possible but not as many actually good things

[grizzled tide]

Is the lightning blast runemaster playable with the Glacier bug or it’s too impactful ?

[icy cobalt]

Any good cold based builds for mage this season?

[stone rapids]

trying to make spellblade builds is so frustrating because no matter what you do nothing is even in the same stratosphere as shatter strike dps wise it seems

[stone rapids]

shatter strike if you’re cool with melee mage

[icy cobalt]

is that best with spellblade?

[stone rapids]

well it’s a spellblade exclusive skill so yes

it can be one of the highest damaging builds in the game straight up but it’s more challenging to make tanky than most builds

[split cliff]

I want to make a lightning blast build, im still leveling. just hit 51, running sorcerer right now, but high health elites and bosses are slow to go down, no uniques yet... any suggestions on how to better do passive/skills?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B4l4aJ6B

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 51

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (43)

General:

▸ Health: 622, Regen: 13.14/s
▸ Mana: 161.76, Regen: 8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 32%, Regen: 32/s
▸ Attributes: 2 Str / 2 Dex / 7 Int / 2 Att / 2 Vit
▸ Resistances: 6% / 0% / 6% / 0% / 0% / 2% / 2%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 124
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (8)

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Flame Ward / Static Orb / Static

[proven haven]

Probably go runemaster tbh

[split cliff]

whats the benefit of doing that over sorc?

[stone rapids]

cfc, lot of generic passives that can apply to spark charges

[split cliff]

cfc?

[charred mountain]

Guess I'm switchin to SS?

[sudden kettle]

Shouldd I keep rolling glyph of envy on this chest, or is mana good for anything now?

[stone rapids]

reowyn’s frostguard, commonly called cfc because it uses the cold fire cold runes to invoke it. gives you a stupid amount of ward for free

[iron current]

anyone have any tips to help survivability? feels like any time flame ward isnt up i get 1 or 2 shot even with 6-7k ward and max res

[sinful shadow]

I can't get my mage to survive - tried everything, I changed to necro - which is effectively playing story mode.
Also - mage loot is rare, every second item I get (playing mage or necro) is a necro minion piece.

So - apart from maxing ward and crit avoid - what do I do ?

[willow bay]

butchers crown or wildfire embers for firebrand/reave ignite build

[reef flume]

I love style disintegrade, any good build in this ss ?

[willow bay]

think same one from S2 applies

if u got ignite/fire id suggest tersting out the wildfire ember

[balmy drum]

missed 50 crit multi 🥹

have gloves 😄

Enigma min int

[sand bridge]

Hows this for a lightning blast/focus build
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/olbVj4GQ

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (62) / Runemaster (5)

General:

▸ Health: 1,112, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 313.12, Regen: 14.72/s
▸ Ward Retention: 124%, Regen: 66/s
▸ Attributes: 2 Str / 2 Dex / 37 Int / 2 Att / 2 Vit
▸ Resistances: 24% / 0% / 55% / 0% / 0% / 2% / 2%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 222
▸ Armor Mitigation: 12% (315)

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Static / Focus / Arcane Ascendance / Teleport

[tardy grotto]

Hey, is Rune Powercore and Consolidator nodes in the Runic Invocation skill tree bugged? Spamming Runebolt (it's ice tag removed via it's skill tree) to change the combinations of Runes does not actually generate additional stacks of Runic Energy or lower the cool down of Runic Invocation. But once I cast a single ice skill and go back to spamming Runebolt, then I start generating additional stacks of Runic Energy and I see the cool down of Runic Invocation shorten.

At first I thought I was horribly misunderstanding the skill nodes. But it doesn't make sense to me.
Lightning - Fire - Fire Fire - Fire - Lightning Fire - Lightning - Fire
Are all different combinations of runes so this should be triggering the skill nodes.

I made a bug report, but I was wondering if anyone else noticed this.

[balmy drum]

[iron current]

how important is the chance to apply spark charge on fragment of enigma? i just got a 3 lp one but its only 10. idk if its worth holding it for another one to try to get to 12 or trying o replace the 2 lp 12 i have

[sand bridge]

Prob depends more on what you get on the LP

[proven haven]

It really depends on the build and how much spark chance you already have. With LB and full spark nova nodes you already have base 80% per LB hit. With 12% you would have 84% so 5% more spark charges, probably like 4% more damage ish

If you can get double prefix on 2LP with 12% it's probably better than 3LP with 10

[proven haven]

Nasty belt lol

[proven haven]

Get some armor if you can, get some DR, apply frailty, damage to mana before life hybrid, more movement speed (to avoid stuff), etc.

Usually no build has every defense layer. Gotta use what fits best

[sinful shadow]

Armour didn't help either, nor resists

[proven haven]

What kills you

[sinful shadow]

No idea ... I'm at full health with thousands of ward and then I'm dead

[proven haven]

It says what kills you

[sinful shadow]

It does not. Not that I can see in any logs.

[proven haven]

The game says "killing blow x damage", no?

On death screen

[sinful shadow]

Not seen anything useful... (that tells me the origin of the kill).

What ever it is - it seems to ignore my ward.

[balmy drum]

failled too much 🥹

reroll forever 😂

[balmy drum]

Perfection requires a bit of luck

[proven haven]

Why this over Exile or Telfun?

Just curious

[balmy drum]

Leveling boots, Telfun 2lp finally fed the turtle a few days ago

[proven haven]

Blood of Exile is same level and higher MS though, no? I guess harder to get LP

[balmy drum]

Just like I don't have both with 3lp

[proven haven]

2LP blood = 3LP foot though since blood has 30% ms built in

Mana is probably nice early though for spam

[balmy drum]

I will adjust after officially starting to grind Runemaster. Previously, I really disliked playing Sorcerer, so items for this class are very limited

I only have a unique 4lp, no wand or catalyst exalted... I'll craft some temporary items to farm frist

[scenic dock]

i am really struggling with uber, lb rm isnt really that tanky so i just need to l2p?

im also being randomly oneshot in 1k+ echos

[balmy drum]

Basically, 2lp can easily take him down. You just need to get killed by him enough times to learn how to dodge, or check out Frozensentinal's channel on YouTube, where he has a video guiding you with tips

lucky 🙏

[balmy drum]

God also wants me to play Lightning Blast, the first time I saw that 1fp can be upgraded 4 times 😂

[sand bridge]

Geez, these rolls lmao

Grats

[balmy drum]

5 times, all perfect failed

@proven haven Between Nihilis and EE, which one is better for this build? Do we need mana regeneration?

[polar crane]

anybody has planner for sorcerer?

[gleaming wing]

So what are some good builds?

[polar crane]

oh mean great minds think alike 🤣

[gleaming wing]

True, I play hardcore and I wanna try out the mage but idk, I like meteor but

[polar crane]

seems like everybody likes playing paladin and beastmaster :))

[proven haven]

Perfect nihilis probably wins with same amount of LP

Armor, ms, mana, etc. Just has a lot of stuff

But it kinda bricks your evade

[polar crane]

i tried upgrade gears from a ss2 guide but I failed 😂

[gleaming wing]

I've been playing meteor sorc and I just don't know how I feel about it, I just tske old builds and reuse and revamp them

[polar crane]

same here but it lacks of DPS

[gleaming wing]

Well you need to mana stack and get the set item that turns it into lightning damage

[proven haven]

Dude HC meteor sounds giga rip lol

[balmy drum]

I already know how to do it, but it's really unlucky 🥹

[gleaming wing]

It's not if you have the rings that give you ward based of mana spent

It's like 50% of mana spent to ward and meteor costs like 120 mana

[polar crane]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qe0wEdKA
i'm on this build rn

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 99

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.3

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (79) / Runemaster (13)

General:

▸ Health: 1,860, Regen: 19.86/s
▸ Mana: 1,656.15, Regen: 27.12/s
▸ Ward Retention: 305%, Regen: 236/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 58 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 113% / 52% / 58% / 58% / 58% / 59% / 59%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 62%, Threshold: 484
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (38)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,053)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 100%

Used skills:

Meteor / Black Hole / Teleport / Flame Ward / Focus

This build has a guide:

Void Meteor Sorcerer: A Little Meme That Could | LE Build Guide by Aersdri

[sudden wing]

hey yall, been starting with a runemaster and idk why but i cant seem to reliably generate CFC runes like guides say to generate with lightning blast and idk why that's the case but it does and ive been using the idol that keeps a rune combo, but after transfering frost wall dmg to fire it now just generates FFC and thus the only ice spell i have in my arsenal is glacier, but even after unequipping the idol it still just gives me FFC no matter how i use my skills

im tryna use this build btw if that helps
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/lightning-blast-runemaster-guide

[gleaming wing]

Seems legit

[polar crane]

this one is goddamn OP man,try it,won't let you down trust me

[sudden wing]

ye i love it so far but i literally cant generate CFC runes for the frostguard

literally any spell i do first gives me fire rune, idk if the order of spells on my hotbar matters, if it does i might need to convert flame ward into cold

[polar crane]

but this one is for ss2,I'm gonna fine some primordial items to make some upgrade

[proper hawk]

You should reread the immutable order node in Runic Invocations tree

[balmy drum]

damn it, nice roll

[sudden wing]

right on the money, turns out i just needed to turn flame ward into cold

thanks

[proper hawk]

damn thats nice

[sudden wing]

sorry to ping, but do you maybe have a loot filter for this build assuming you've used it? been struggling to find one and so far been playing without one

[polar crane]

just generate it from the planner you're following

[polar crane]

right here

[sudden wing]

could you pass the link? i can't find the planner for this, im just looking at the main maxroll site

nvm i found it thanks :p

[hollow totem]

What's better to shoot for on a 2LP enigma? T7 crit multi or T7 spell crit?

[balmy drum]

Depending on what your build needs

[harsh abyss]

Generally crit multi, you get a lot of spell crit by all the int you're stacking anyway

If you've got flat crit from another like the gloves, that can be enough to get you pretty far

[dusky owl]

Flame Reave "deals up to 50% less damage to distant enemies." Does this affect ignites applied by it? what about "% more (multiplicative) damage with flame reave" from the skill tree?

[harsh abyss]

Yes to both. The only things that won't affect ignite applied to it will be things that specity hit damage

[dusky owl]

Thanks! What about "more melee damage"?

nope, that specifies hits

This one says melee but not hits. Will it apply to ignites?

The wording of this passive seems to imply that melee attack damage bonuses normally don't apply to the ailments they inflict

So Enchant Weapon should (without skill tree points) do nothing to my ailment damage

Weird.

[hollow totem]

is there a target crit multi and spell crit % in game we should shoot for?

[balmy drum]

Crit multi and crit chance only apply to crit builds (damage over time doesn’t have crit). If you’re building for spells, choosing increased spell crit will be more beneficial than the affix increased crit chance (global). If you’ve already reached 100% crit chance from other sources, then increasing crit chance becomes useless, and you should opt for other choices

[hollow totem]

LB build so def need crit then. Now am I adding global crit chance and spell crit chance together then?

[balmy drum]

Both can be applied to your build

[hollow totem]

ty

[polar crane]

found this guy has a meteor sorcerer build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otlMKdZcbM4

but idk why he use lich's envy

[scenic dock]

im struggling on 1k+ and also on uber. Can someone tell me what to fix pls? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BE8OlwgQ

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 99

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (26) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (61)

General:

▸ Health: 1,548, Regen: 19.86/s
▸ Mana: 339.72, Regen: 12.32/s
▸ Ward Retention: 436%, Regen: 20/s
▸ Attributes: 46 Str / 30 Dex / 199 Int / 30 Att / 30 Vit
▸ Resistances: 67% / 73% / 67% / 81% / 80% / 73% / 73%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 39%, Threshold: 310
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (138)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 43% (2,515)

Used skills:

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

[scenic dock]

being randomly oneshot

[stone rapids]

correct, more (or increased) melee damage does not apply to ailments inflicted by melee attacks unless specified (like in volka’s razor). ember infusion would not increase the damage of ignites

[willow bay]

So im going for a ignite flame reave build so i worry about crit for reave or just stack ele dot and dot to the moon? Also would wildfire embers ammy or the new frenzy primordial helm be better?

[stone rapids]

ele dot, wildfire is generally pretty trash probably frenzy helm or even t8 ele dot is highest dmg, mask or blossom are also great tank options

[willow bay]

Ill run frenzy helm since i have one already

[icy cobalt]

hi guys, for the lightning blast runemaster why is the scholars legend entwined so good for the build? even with 2 sets completed doesnt it just give +2 skills, +10 all rest and +10 attributes?

does bonewisp work as well?

[harsh abyss]

Legend Entwined is necessary for the build.

Without that ring, you have to use the Vilatria staff to complete the set that gives you +1 lightning damage per 2 intelligence. That means you can't use the Fragment of the Enigma in your offhand, OR the Mad Alchemist's Ladle in your mainhand, which are the things that make the build super strong.

So while the +skills and attributes and stuff are nice, the fact that it completes the set there is actually the biggest value.

[balmy drum]

Never get best roll with the ring

[icy cobalt]

ahh i see, i didnt realize how strong the set bonuses themselves are

makes sense, thanks for the explanation!

[willow bay]

Anyone know how ignite is calculated?

[harsh abyss]

It does a base damage value, and that's modified by increases to fire damage and such. Each stack does that damage over it's lifetime

It's not like POE where it's calculated based off of the hit

[small topaz]

gday how are peeps gaining mana back on lightning blast runemaster, the only way i see is thru potions with ladle

[sterile tiger]

hi all, anyone knows some good build for sorc ? I can't find anything online for 1.3

[willow bay]

I was curious cuz i have 1900% fire dot damage on a 94 base fire with 400% ignite chance and 865 ignite damage so was trying to get a rough estimate

[small topaz]

gday, a legends entwined with 16 Int would help get your damage up a bit on uber, also your resistances need a lil work

getting 1LP on both amulet and ring would def boost your power a bit

[modern thicket]

Hello. I am on my alt character and i would like a lvl boost. I unlocked my Monos.

[willow bay]

Anyone know if i cam use a mg item in weaver tree to farm on cof

[charred mountain]

let's goooooooooooo

[willow bay]

is there no sources of + to flame reave?>

[vestal locust]

Level of Flame Reave is on the Body Armor
Also any + to Elemental or + to fire (or lightning if you converted it) works

[willow bay]

tyvm thought i was going crazy lol

the new frenzy helm is a bit rough to counter early on lol

[harsh abyss]

Base fire damage (I assume you mean spell or melee damage) has no effect on ignite.

The 865 ignite damage is including all of your increases to fire and dot damage and stuff, so each time you apply an ignite, it will do 865 over its duration.

Application speed is very important to dot builds, so things that hit a lot will apply lots of ignites. 400% ignite chance means every hit will apply 4 ignite stacks

[willow bay]

wht my planner shows for fire damage-dot

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, so that flat melee damage doesnt matter to ignite

[willow bay]

not looking at the melee i was talking about the DoT

[harsh abyss]

Ignite has a base damage of I think 40 over its duration, so multiply that by the 3333% increase ( 40 * 34.33) to get your base damage for each ignite stack.

However it can be misleading because you also can scale ignite with fire penetration (penetration is effectively a "more" multiplier) and duration increases increase the the total damage an ignite will do.

[willow bay]

so i would do 865 * 34.33 for the base damage per ignite?

[harsh abyss]

And other More multipliers from the skill that applies the ignite also apply to ignites it apploes. Any multiplier on a skill tree that doesnt specify "hit" damage will also apply to dots

[harsh abyss]

And you may have other conditional modifiers that the planner might not be showing.

[willow bay]

cuz according to ur formula that should roughly be 47,135.09 per ignite tick?

[harsh abyss]

So each ignite will do 1373 damage over its initial duration. Every melee hit will apply 4 ignites, with a 10% chance to apply a fifth

No that 1373 is including your increases to dot damage

[willow bay]

ah ok

so its 1373 per tick than?

[harsh abyss]

No, its 1373 per ignite over the base duration

Total for each stack you apply

The ignite duration gives More damage based on the duration as well. So if it lasts 4 seconds and does 1373 damage, but has 25% increased duration, it will actually last 5 seconds and do 1726 damage

The math that goes into calculating build dps is not trivial 😝

[willow bay]

i figured that hints why i just wanted base ignite per tick to see if my dmg is where it should be by estimation lol

[harsh abyss]

You also have to account for bonuses from the applying skill. Things like Ignite chance, More damage, increased duration, etc from the skill you apply it with wont be listed in the planner.

[willow bay]

yes if i wanted the REAL ignite per tick but im only trying to get a simple base estimate lol

[balmy drum]

Rune invocation convert to traversal with 9s cd 🤨

[willow bay]

frenzy helm seems a bit buggy on duel wielding

[hollow totem]

Is there a good crit multi or cast speed % you wanna shoot for on LB?

[balmy drum]

214int = 642% inc spell crit change with calculated destruction, right?

crit cap too much, already slammed wrong affixes with weapon and catalyst

[idle wren]

soo is a+ 4 helmet t7 affix?

[balmy drum]

I don’t use Runebolt, so t7 shred armor gloves don’t have much effect... 800-900 stacks of shred armor are overkill

Slamming an item before knowing what you actually need is downright miserable

[south yoke]

any crazy rare meteor build ? or something not meta haha

maybe volcanic orb ?

[tough crow]

Any tips for a new mage? Only level 25ish and this is my first time playing. Im kicking ass im not struggling at all but any tips would be appreciated regardless

[manic trellis]

is increased crit over 300 mana crit chance or crit multi

[scenic dock]

Its chance. Also you Can Check your character sheet after/before equipping the helmet

[novel loom]

is glacier (teleport) still bugged or has it been fixed ?

[proven haven]

We back! Feels good. LB cruising into empowered

Feels good as soon as you get enigma

Anyone do much testing with the LB champion affix belt? It feels a bit weird. Better than the math indicates it should be I believe

[balmy drum]

[south yoke]

dude i can't kill aberroth im too noob xd

[gloomy isle]

majasa is kicking mah butt

[proper hawk]

You are using convergence right? I seem to recall a bug in the past with a source of extra chains not getting reduced by convergence, maybe thats it?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I remember last season, any source of extra chains wasn't cut in half, so the belt was offering a full extra 4 chains

[proper hawk]

oh that's funny, i was remembering a few seasons ago when glyph of dominion's extra chains weren't being cut in half. tbh ive never checked if they fixed that bug

[harsh abyss]

Tbh I'm not even 100% sure it's a bug.

[proper hawk]

i mean, surely it is right? i cant imagine they meant for outside sources of chains to bypass convergence

[proven haven]

Ah yeah thata it

[outer swift]

is mana stacking sorc viable? anyone have any build guides for one? preferably recent, but any that still work

or if theres a runemaster one that also works. i understand very little about that subclass lol

[onyx tartan]

I leveled with the Mage leveling guide to 70. I already had found the spoon and off-hand. I switched to the lightning blast build, and instantly felt awful. Do I just need to plow through until I get a little better gear? Am I just failing to understand how to play? Shatterstrike was so easy, and suddenly it takes forever to kill stuff. What am I dumbing?

[proven haven]

how much int you have - I just leveled fresh solo character found from 1 to Aberroth the last couple days also went into LB @ about 70 (no ladle until around lvl 84) and it was destroying everything, had around 80 int when transitioning to LB

[balmy drum]

LB mtx sale for who need, 25 EP

[balmy drum]

I realized I need t7 cd on the belt for flame ward more than dual health

[wild nymph]

#❔┃ask-the-community message

[jovial drum]

yeah but that is stated for the normal non channeled skill, it doesn't seem that cast speed effects it when its channeled.

[wild nymph]

honestly im just referring to LE tools, sorry, a better way would be just to test

[jovial drum]

pressing alt in games is hard 🙂

clearly states when pressing alt that cast speed only effects how quick I can start it ...

@wild nymph Thanks for offering to help.. got me to where I needed to be to find the answer - appreciate it

[balmy drum]

Getting used to pressing evade and using Nihilis is truly a disaster for Runemaster

[balmy drum]

The most beautiful is the default skill 😂

[proven haven]

this might be enough for me to go EvolutionEnd instead

at least until t7t7 ms boots not having evade without blasting yourself seemsbad

[balmy drum]

Yes, I'm looking for an EE to replace, but it's bugged—rerolling wipes out all Evolutions, which looks really bad. I wish they would add a function to disable this summoning feature

[balmy drum]

find my dream ring

[proven haven]

What you mean, I'm just getting to the point to look for one now

What's your strat for farming a good one

[balmy drum]

Reroll will look like it

[balmy drum]

Finding a good sample item to imprint and a corruption milestone that I can clear quickly, I will gradually increase this corruption up to 2k2

[south yoke]

nay tips for farming 2t7 catalysts? or at least t7t6

any*

[balmy drum]

I just play for fun and play a lot, not optimizing my farming process

[balmy drum]

Nemesis Tower, or imprint catalyst with 1t7

[proven haven]

You imprint EE?

Isn't it exclusive?

[balmy drum]

Nope, just play alot 😆

[proven haven]

Oh I was talking about farming the unique haha

I got a few but not sure if a better way to get a lot quickly

[balmy drum]

High corruption can help abit for lp roll

[proven haven]

Yeah I'm still on 2 day old character

Just pushed to 500c might do 1k after a bit more gear

Seems like the beast thing is slow to farm though

[proven haven]

Makes sense, if it did work it would be a bug

[onyx tartan]

Int is 79

[onyx tartan]

Now 100. This feels better.

[hardy condor]

hi im looking toward new idea to make unused runic invocation work like "grand prism nova "" antipode of rune slinger"and "elemental tide" any idea ?

[stone rapids]

well, the bones of building around any invocation are mostly the same

you take fundamental criterion and stack the attribute that corresponds

for grand prism nova you probably at least want to consider the offhand with a bunch of text relating to grand prism nova

[pseudo verge]

I'm playing around grand prism nova and noticed it has insane AoE, with a little of investment in either points or area of effect affix it can hit the whole screen or more than that

Area in question

[hardy condor]

ok so good clear

[pseudo verge]

Yea

[charred mountain]

@robust junco let#s gooooooooo

[south yoke]

:p

int+ spell dmg? or lighting?

[pseudo verge]

I don't know if this is known but Lightning blast converted to cold via passive node doesn't convert it to cold but if you're a runemaster you get the cold rune.
It does convert the subskill correctly though

[balmy drum]

Int+ spell damage, but why not me drop?

[south yoke]

lol

[small topaz]

If I play shatter strike with mourningfrost should I just give up on trying to get enough cold and phys res, I currently have like 150 Dex on planned

[modern thicket]

I want to boost my xp on my alt character can somebody help me invite me to monos? Please! Thank you!

[frozen dirge]

you can xp like everyone instead of spam every channels

[stone rapids]

you get so much flat damage anyways that generally the defense cost of running mourningfrost is not worth it especially with how naturally squishy spellblade is, it’s good for aspirational setups or zhp but in most cases foot of the mountain or blood of the exile are just better

[swift karma]

Blade Weaver node on Spellblade question

It says it applies to spells triggered by the elemental melee, excluding equippable spells

Does this mean it will not apply to the lightning blast cast by surge? Only tidal wave, or the icicles on shatter strike?

[pseudo verge]

It will apply for the subskills, just not spark charges from Enigma for example

[swift karma]

Got it, so a souped up surge passive casting lightning blast with the all the chains will be boosted by bladeweaver, but the spark charges from the blasts will be untouched

The “equippable spells” language makes the confusing

[pseudo verge]

Not sure, but I think it applies to spark charges that way

Equippable can be meteors from belt, lightning blast on hit from the sword, Volcanus sword etc but triggered skills from your melee skill tree should apply, like surge

[swift karma]

Ahhhh equippable not meaning slotted on your skill bar then? That makes more sense

Guess I’ll have to double check with the dummy, but that’s gonna be a whole lot of clutter with surge casting 4 blasts

[pseudo verge]

Yeah from items basically

[swift karma]

Sweet! I might’ve cooked up a surprisingly decent spellblade that actually FEELS like a spell blade

Unfortunately takes an absurd amount of gear so it’s all offline built

[pseudo verge]

Sad 🥲

[swift karma]

I’ll keep testing it, maybe try and tone it down to something realistic. Or just post it and let someone with far more patience try and build an online version that doesn’t suck

Follow up, is it possible to get shatter strike to below 10 mana cost without foot of the mountain?

[stone rapids]

no and chances are if there were it wouldn’t be worth it anyways

[swift karma]

It would for the very specific niche use I’m trying to make work lol

[stone rapids]

the 2 repeats are mandatory for any build using shatter strike

[small topaz]

Tempted to make them for swapping to for uberroth or when I just kill a whole bunch of bosses in a row cos the damage seems insane hahah

[stone rapids]

shatter strike has insane dmg without it, if you do it for uber it’s like a 1 min fight but you will die to a single dot tick

[tepid gull]

If you have 100% of Damage taken to Mana before HP and your HP < Endurance Threshold, do you still get the 60% DR Endurance for your Mana?

[stone rapids]

no

this was the case back in beta but that changed

seed of ekkedrasil gives you a bit of that effect though

[tepid gull]

Man that sucks :/ I was about to cook up some Str stacking Runemaster with last bear affixes

with the 30% of mana as endurance threshold node that would've been about 1600 and 1800 Mana

but probably 0 damage

[small topaz]

Yah but I am pretty sure I'll be damn squishy anyway, we will see how it goes haha

[stone rapids]

i’ve done uber with shatter on zhp and a (relatively) tanky setup and i found the tankier setup to be much easier

[small topaz]

That's fair haha, I've only done it on Uber squishy zhp flay mana lich, ( I guess the build is still ok to dots tho)

[stone rapids]

lich has death seal though, mage has flame ward but it’s not comparable lol

[small topaz]

Cos it makes the fight like 30 sec 😂

[stone rapids]

death seal is rebuke but you can move

[small topaz]

That's true

Tbf I don't think I actually took a single non black hole hit in most of my fights

Cos I'm ok at dodging for like 45 sec then my brain stuffs it up

[stone rapids]

also flay lich is more mobile with more dmg bc marrow shards is giga bugged

i’ve done it on a pretty glass cannon setup with lich and it was pretty easy

shatter strike was mald inducing but that was also months ago and i’ve done the fight hundreds of times since then so idk

[proven haven]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oY3PZYwQ Uber down! Day 3 solo character found gear

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 98

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (26) / Spellblade (8) / Runemaster (57)

General:

▸ Health: 1,806, Regen: 34.71/s
▸ Mana: 255.93, Regen: 11.44/s
▸ Ward Retention: 473%, Regen: 33/s
▸ Attributes: 33 Str / 23 Dex / 214 Int / 16 Att / 16 Vit
▸ Resistances: 98% / 85% / 87% / 81% / 76% / 101% / 55%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 361
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (92)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 43% (2,494)

Used skills:

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

[harsh abyss]

I wonder if there's a workable sorcerer version comboing LB + Static Orb

[proven haven]

Whats the advantage of SO?

[harsh abyss]

Mana recovery and +2 LB chains. If you do: 3x LB > SO > Repeat, you basically stay at full mana (assuming SO cost is capped)

[proven haven]

ah as a utility

so that's what I did on my character early on actually

[harsh abyss]

If it still works like it used to, the +2 chains also aren't reduced by Convergence

[proven haven]

in theory it also can apply shocked ground

shock effect

+20 l pen

[harsh abyss]

yeah

And SO will do pretty decent damage since it scales off all the other lightning stuff you do

[proven haven]

it also can provide aegis, freeing a slot on LB

[harsh abyss]

total 5 hits with small orbs

[proven haven]

tbh you might lose more damage from casting SO instead of another LB

on paper +2 would be 40% more damage for next 5 hits

but it didn't feel that way

[harsh abyss]

Maybe, but each orb (and small orbs?) will have 100%+ spark charge chance

[proven haven]

oh the sorc thing

yeah its true

but it does have more damage

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, there's a lot of More in the SO tree

[proven haven]

each LB cast is like 15 spark charge each with 200 more damage

[harsh abyss]

You'll also get extra spark charges from the 40% spark nova chance on every crit from Sorc

[proven haven]

yea

maybe, it could be good

[harsh abyss]

Yea, I dunno

I might try it out after I finish up with POE2

[proven haven]

I did find it annoying to cast it all the time as RM

because I'm also casting runebolt

and frost wall

and runic

like on cooldown basically

I also think the cold convert breaks the shock ground?

but I didn't see anything about frostbite ground

[harsh abyss]

Well, you'd definitely build a bit differently. You don't need cold converts with Sorc, because you don't have RI

[warm merlin]

so Im at 400 corr with this build doing frostbite and been noticing the damage has been erratic, the bug is when you hit a loading screen it reverts it back to lightning... you have to hover on it an press alt for it to go back to cold

happens with both passive tree node and the node in LB skill tree

[swift karma]

If you remember what was the tooltip dps estimate on that shatter? Just trying to bench mark

[stone rapids]

sorry this was like 3 months ago and i had to delete that character as i was out of space

[swift karma]

Jesus that seems like a lot of spark charges per cast

[swift karma]

Ah understandable

[proven haven]

yea it's quite a bit, LB self chains 4 or 5 times, it has 30% extra casts or so from autocast, then spark nova basically duplicates every LB hit, and enigma has base 12%

[swift karma]

Oh does spark nova also have the chance to land a spark charge?

[proven haven]

yea

[swift karma]

I can see why your setup is pretty damn meta. My hybrid cook is fun but ultimately its path to success is still to lean one to shatter, nothing I can put together can make spells come close, fun flavor though

Is Vilatria mage only even reforged

[balmy drum]

So hate rune invocation change my setup skill bar

[harsh abyss]

Wait Spark Nova duplicates EVERY chain with convergence?

[balmy drum]

Havoc 5 times killed me

[proven haven]

it duplicates every lb hit, so therefore yes

[harsh abyss]

It's it only supposed to duplicate the first hit?

[balmy drum]

Mana cost +6 😂

[harsh abyss]

I always assumed this meant for the first hit, and then every chain didn't duplicate it

[balmy drum]

Went through a ton of failures, finally got one hit

It's an amulet with 3xt7, the affixes I needed were health and avoid, but I missed them

[pure marten]

thatll problay do for the season. getting tired of crafting helms

[balmy drum]

I swear, crafting a helmet like this makes me use more brainpower than ever before 😂

[pure marten]

im over it ive crafted so many and just missing 1 t5 health affix is ok for me 😅

[charred mountain]

Mine is just a random base with t7 LB and only 7 Int I think :p

Got fed up trying to get a perfect craft, it'll do till I reroll

Speaking of which, any fun mage builds out there, other than the ones on maxroll?
Does the Focus str-stacker perform nicely?

[polar crane]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/2ya8d0c6#2
I'm about to build my sor based on this planner,is it worth trying?

[balmy drum]

After swapping the amulet, I dealt damage very quickly, reducing this guy's health to 20%, and that was also when I completely ran out of mana 😂

[balmy drum]

The only way to build according to this planner is by cheating in offline mode

[stone rapids]

what’s the best sorc build for uber

glacier?

[polar crane]

I mean is there anything to change like items or skills in that planner,and the items is just reference only

[balmy drum]

Basically, you're mixing two unrelated builds. If you use a dagger with auto-call LB, it might work somewhat, though not very well

[polar crane]

yeah,Idk why that guy who built that planner use frost claw 😂

[harsh abyss]

Maybe he was considering Dragorath to use frost claw to proc LB, yeah

[charred mountain]

4LP +2 Nihilis, 4LP Shattered Worlds, 4LP Spoon, 4LP Core, 4LP Entwined, yeah no, this is the most unrealistic planner I've ever seen

[fresh lance]

Does disintegrate scale with elemental damage over time? I dont see any elemental tag but read some older comments that said it did

[nimble shoal]

Yes, fire, lightning, and cold are all considered elemental

[fresh lance]

Awesome thank you 🫡

[polar crane]

that's for reference only man 🤣 🤣

[polar crane]

I just wanna ask you guys if there's anything need to be changed such as items,skills,...etc..

[harsh abyss]

The beauty of LE is that you can try it out and see how you like it. The one thing that people pointed out the most is that you have Lightning Blast AND Frost Claw, which are both spammable spells. You don't want multiple of those usually.

Also, using 3-4 LP items on all your slots makes it a little hard to understand what you're going for as far as build priority. The reason people usually use 1-2LP items in their planners is it gives people looking at it an idea of what their most important stats are.

[half swallow]

ghê quá man

[polar crane]

kiếm được quả build của thằng TQ trên bilibili :))

[polar crane]

mẹ bọn này thằng deo nào cũng beast master với paladin deo còn gì khác :))

[half swallow]

kk toàn theo meta, chắc để đánh mấy cái endgame

out meta ăn hành vl

[polar crane]

quay đi quay lại cũng chỉ có nấy lối build chán vl :))

[warped kraken]

man lightning blast is pretty strong. uber down at lvl 89 lol

[balmy drum]

I have 4 Stormtides with 3lp but no Telfun, even though they have the same drop rate and ELLP

[balmy drum]

It's not difficult when you already have a certain amount of items; LB is very strong with Spark Nova, but not as OP as other builds

[warped kraken]

yea it aint no mana flay lich or EQ bear lol

[balmy drum]

i want t7 mana regen

[sterile tiger]

what I have to press to enable those description under affixes ?

[stable holly]

A lot of people hate trying things out for some reason. They just want to be told what works and go with that.

[balmy drum]

Always show mod ranges in setting game

[weary hamlet]

casual 4 lp on all uniques

[weary hamlet]

I wasn't following, why are people suddenly using spark nova? Did they fix it not applying spark charges?

[balmy drum]

I don't know if it has any issues or has been fixed, but LB damage only accounts for about 14% of the total damage I deal

[weary hamlet]

well for starters it used to literally not work for about 4 years until patch 1.2, but in 1.2 it didn't inherit most of the bonuses from LB tree including spark charges

[balmy drum]

I've only been playing Mage for 3 days, my friend, still learning a lot to optimize for myself since I don't like the popular guides for this class 😅

[rapid hinge]

dont like popular guides

play literally the most popular thing on mage

[balmy drum]

Yeah, they all use Rune Invocation or even Runebolt, and I don’t like how that works. It’s like when I played ES VK, everyone was using Orb and Healing Hands, but I used Void Cleave instead

[harsh abyss]

They did fix it, Frozen was saying that it applies a spark nova on EVERY hit instead of just first hit, maybe specifically with convergence

[weary hamlet]

omegalul but idk what else I expected from ehg

straight from the one little bug in the code meme

[balmy drum]

This morning, I was just complaining that I don’t have any Telfun 3lp 😆

[balmy drum]

unluck with havoc

[thorny hollow]

Really wishing we had a fire option for Mana Strike rn

[thorny hollow]

Can anyone tell me a good way to get mana back as a Sorc, that doesn't involve TP/Meteor tech, fireball from helm, or mana strike?

[weary hamlet]

choose one:

• way to get mana back
• good

mana management in this game is absolutely degenerate so the only real way is not to spend it

but yeah you also have the worst option of them all, focus

or spam runebolt which is more or less the same as fireball but more efficient

[livid plover]

This is my config for flame ward and it's been doing wonders for my mana

Lots of regen while in use

[sand quiver]

hmm for some reasoon i got a notif on this reply

[livid plover]

No idea

[full aspen]

NICE SERVER SETTINGS

👋

Time to leave

[sand spear]

wtff

whats going onnn

[sand quiver]

cant u guys just change it manually

[nimble grove]

Same wtf

[sand spear]

wtf i muyted this

[humble whale]

Just report the users name and block them and move on.

[sand spear]

what is going on tho was it hacked

wtfffff

[weary hamlet]

idk I didnt get anything, must be some spam bot tagging people or something

how do you not have most of your servers on mute

[sand spear]

i did dude

they hacked it

[spice topaz]

bruh these kind of questions annoy me to read, if he didnt have it on mute its cuz he didnt need to until now, like its obvious

it seems like the notification settings have been changed somehow, and it just started like 20 or so minutes ago. not sure what happened, but now it seems we gotta mute it

[balmy drum]

lol i need find catalyst

[balmy drum]

It seems like there are very few mage players this season; I don’t see anyone discussing like in other class channels

[polar crane]

well this season's meta for mage is all about lightning blast and vilatria is probably the best build fr

[balmy drum]

f me

[trim ice]

If the T7's would just be on the prefixes huh 😂

[balmy drum]

🥶

[balmy drum]

min attributes

[jagged ermine]

Buff mage frfr

[polar crane]

everyone plays beast and paladin 😅 😅 😅

[balmy drum]

It like 1.1 84% Mage

[polar crane]

if there's anyone plays mage,they'd definitely be a lightning blast runemaster 🤣 🤣 🤣

[balmy drum]

The 1.1 refresh is truly a disaster for Runemaster, Runemaster with the lowest pick rate

I think this game has no balance. whichever mastery is played a lot will get nerfed next season, and they’ll buff the other masteries

[balmy drum]

The important thing is what you enjoy playing. I have a friend who’s been playing Ballista every day for three seasons

He can't kill Uberroth on his own, but that doesn't stop him from playing Ballista

[hearty jolt]

I'm fine with nerfs as long as they don't delete a class

How they handled umbrals should be an example for all balancing moving forward

Same with judgement

Bring a build in line but don't kill it

[polar crane]

I think we're not here to seek balance but fun 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[balmy drum]

That's why I don't play Summon Bear, Druid, or Flay Lich, because I don't like them, and definitely not fun for me

[stable holly]

Have you been a good friend and told him "just don't get hit bro?"

[stable holly]

Balance can generate fun

[balmy drum]

Tankie ballista

[stable holly]

Go into offline mode, turn on god mode and 1 shots enemies and you'll soon stop having fun.

[balmy drum]

[weary hamlet]

nothing is more fun than 99% of builds being trash

and skills having one correct way to build them and a bunch of noob traps

[stable holly]

99% of builds will always be trash compared to the meta

[weary hamlet]

oh come on not this bullshit again

do they stamp you out in a factory?

there will always be builds that are better than others but the magnitude of this disparity right now is too large

also what is the point of having a skill tree when for most skills there is one correct way to build it? Why even have options like channeled LB when it's DOA?

just remove it and save my processor a few milliseconds of rendering the screen

[stable holly]

There will always be a best way to build something, you even said so yourself. That doesn't make it the only way to build something.

People very often gravitate to what the current strongest way to play a class, it's always been the case and always will be. That doesn't mean there aren't alternatives.

People just very often don't care about the alternatives.

Could the balance be better? Of course it could. Balance will never be perfect though. There will always be builds better than others.

[weary hamlet]

Yes, but one option can be better than the other by 10% or it can be better than the other by 1000%, which is usually the case in le

[stable holly]

Balance isn't perfect by any means and it's very difficult if not unreasonable or impossible to keep builds within a "reasonable" margin of each other whatever reasonable would even look like to you. There are a lot of unknowns even for the Devs going into a patch. They give us tools and they have a rough idea what people might do with those but they can't know everything people might do.

[grizzled tide]

Is the glacier bug fixed yet ?

[light kelp]

For lightning blast, on fragment of enigma, is int roll more important or spark charge explosion area?

would you go with 14 int with 140 explosion area, or 8 int with 231 explosion area?

[balmy drum]

Int and lightning skill

[light kelp]

light skill is always 1

[balmy drum]

Spark Charge not much damage, can choose area to stack ailments

[balmy drum]

But you need even more points for LB, at least 30 points or more

[light kelp]

yea I have 31

I mean on enigma there is only 1 roll

[balmy drum]

Another special thing is that it’s easier to get 3-4lp, and no catalyst is better than it for this lightning build

Scales of Eterra is an impressive item, but I don’t see it appearing in popular builds or endgame

[balmy drum]

kidding me? 🤨

[stable holly]

Something I haven't really thought too much about but do you think it would be a good change to normalise the chances of getting LP on items?

Probably not but idk

[balmy drum]

[weary hamlet]

the only point of the lp system is to have different uniques at different chances to get some, otherwise they could just always allow to slap that many affixes on every unqiue

[stable holly]

I understand the point of the current system but what if all LP chances were the same?

Nothing saying this would be a good chance or not, just a thought experiment if you will

[weary hamlet]

that's what I am saying, the main purpose of the LP system is to NOT have all LP chances the same

[stable holly]

Like all uniques can get 1 or 2 LP pretty achieveably, 3 LP is a grind and 4 LP is unheard of

[weary hamlet]

then weak uniques get even weaker and strong get even stronger

and they need to rebalance everything from scratch which obviously they aren't remotely capable of doing

[stable holly]

I understand that, just a thought nothing more

I don't expect or even think this would be a good change

[strange needle]

They just need to lower the lp of some items ,boots as an example have way too much lp requirement

[weary hamlet]

but that's only because they got move speed as an affix, something that shouldnt have been introduced to begin with

the lpl on many items makes very little sense

i.e. any of the wandering spirits uniques, the build is hot garbage

[balmy drum]

min spell damage 😭

[trim ice]

@balmy drum hey hope it's okay to tag you?
U seem pretty knowledgeable, i just came back to the game after some time and picked up a Lightning Blast build. Would you mind sharing ur build and or loot filter? And how do u manage to get these insane double T7's, any tips? My max corruption is currwntly 800ish but only really comfortable and not dying around 400ish 👀

[balmy drum]

I’ve only been playing Mage for 4 days, bro, my filter is super endgame, pretty much only I can use it... As for farming tips, just focus on Imprint and Nemesis Tower. There are plenty of guides on this. You can check out Frozensentinal’s YouTube channel; he shares them along with loot filters for builds

[balmy drum]

181 vs 231 cast speed not much different

[south yoke]

hi is this a good ring to slam? obviusly i'll change att to int but elemental does work with LB?

[harsh abyss]

It does, though you'd get higher rolls with Lightning damage. Obviously getting both that and Int on a ring is tough though, so it's a plenty good slam.

[trim ice]

With Lightning Blast bild: how much +% lightning / spell dmg should i aim for, before going all in on crit dmg?

[pseudo verge]

Pretty amazing how spellblade can get to 430c with this shit gear

[jagged ermine]

Hey since ur stacking int, the stat gives u both flat through uniques and % increase through "normal" scaling

That is the main reason the build scales so hard

So you should go for Crit multi where ever u can

[balmy drum]

Now I know it has "critical" too 😂

[willow bay]

was apex helm removed?

[south yoke]

so sad all the other sorc/ mage builds are way too far behind

[balmy drum]

Can work well but not new

[shut forum]

when a skill, thats cold element, has the tag melee does it scale with every elemental melee?

[jagged ermine]

Yez

[balmy drum]

🙏

[trim ice]

Okay okay thank you ^-^ 👍

[remote pagoda]

Disintegrate question. If I take both the Fire and Lightning only nodes, does it go back to being dual element?

Just want it to have Laser Focus and both elements if possible.

[weary hamlet]

this sounds like a bad plan for an already bad/mediocre skill but it should still be dual element

since you'll be converting each of its halves to its opposite

[remote pagoda]

I typed it out and now can't quite remember why I wanted it, but thank you!