🧙┃mage

[heady echo]

i use all the points, fill out spellblade tree

then go runemaster for final 8 at 92

[tiny quail]

yeah but i mean im only lvl 82, so im missing 18 points from lvl 100

[heady echo]

send me a screenshot of your in game passives

[tiny quail]

i just made a full respecc

[heady echo]

4 in arcane shield

thats what ur missing

[tiny quail]

yeah i added one

ive done this now, any other passives that are more important than what ive taken?

appriciate your help btw

[heady echo]

ur gunna want int crit passive over bladeweaving

remove all 10 from bladeweaving and put 5 in the first int/endurance node and 4 in the node after

unless youre already crit capped

[tiny quail]

gotcha

tyty!

[heady echo]

also to save yourself grief on shatterstrike, dont take whiteout, max the mana efficiency and area nodes first

if youre full mana all the time, try one point in whiteout, if still full mana, then add the second

otherwise youll be manastrike with a side of ss instead of pure ss with a side of mana strike

[tiny quail]

ya

thats what ive been doing this whole time

[heady echo]

4lp hand of judgement kekw

might slam it just for the free attunement stats

[tiny quail]

this is op, why didnt i already have that

[mild bluff]

cause its not really needed

you think its insane and then you realise you can just click the button

[heady echo]

its qol point

considering we have a billion on str stack

[tiny quail]

i mean, clicking buttons is hard

okay...

[heady echo]

rip lol

[uncut zealot]

Is swapping to lb possible when we get the catalyst?

[tiny quail]

lol shatterstrike went from 40k tooltip to 140k and im now missing tons of points in everything

[tiny quail]

According to maxroll guide, yes

[elfin rapids]

Black Hole Cold Tag fixed with the new patch.

[heady echo]

new patch stoncs

and catalyst drops fixed

i shoulda swapped my shit sooner

i just finished slamming all my stuff

holy the damage is insane

and i dont need mana strike like at all

[tiny quail]

how does the set bonus craft work? do i do it on 3mod exalted items?

[heady echo]

yeah or seal one of the mods on an exalt

[tiny quail]

ah ok!

some reason i thought you could only do it on rare items

[bronze osprey]

any spellblades know if i get the fire aura keystone in my passives and get the res shred but then convert it, does it also convert the shred or is it useless

[heady echo]

it converts

[tiny quail]

which planner have you progressed tooo btw?

also, do you know which of the sets we use. which slot has the most combined set parts? like, should i be doing weapon set prophecies to get most of all the sets we need?

damn that thought was hard to explain xD

[harsh abyss]

You could replace the helm with vilatria

[dusky pelican]

hahaha

[tawny orchid]

is lightning blast sorc bad this season or it's just skill issue

[tiny quail]

true but would mess up my void res bad

is there a void res blessing?

[heady echo]

most of this one https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QeYwVw1P

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 2,798, Regen: 452.2/s
▸ Mana: 209.51, Regen: 9.76/s
▸ Ward Retention: 386%, Regen: 52/s
▸ Attributes: 144 Str / 71 Dex / 144 Int / 29 Att / 76 Vit
▸ Resistances: 78% / 116% / 80% / 95% / 75% / 106% / 158%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 1,411
▸ Dodge Chance: 13% (425)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 41% (2,290)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Used skills:

Shatter Strike / Mana Strike / Flame Ward / Enchant Weapon / Surge

[heady echo]

weapon and helm

[tiny quail]

ty

[dusky pelican]

can't seem to find last bear anywhere :D

[heady echo]

prophecy target axe

[tiny quail]

you got brutality?!

[dusky pelican]

alright

[heady echo]

no, brutality is exilus which is last and the final planner

[tiny quail]

exilus?

[heady echo]

final planner neck

[tiny quail]

ah

exilus new for s4?

[heady echo]

ya

from new pinnacle boss

[tiny quail]

AH

[dusky pelican]

random lineage completion gave this one...i am lucky

Still no ring for it with attribnute t7 :(

[heady echo]

nice, t7s start around zone 90

id slam a t6 for now

[dusky pelican]

cruising empowered 150 corruption so

should happen soon :P

[heady echo]

oh ok

just unlucky lol

[cosmic dove]

from today's patch:

Looks like you can use Binary System and Singularity and the Binary System doesnt count as 2 BHs

[pine seal]

can i swap to lightning blast the moment i can equip the enigma or should i finish leveling first?

[dry void]

Has anybody tried Meteor or the new black hole changes yet? Thinking of rolling one. Are they any better?

[cosmic dove]

you mean in season 4 or today's BH patch changes?

[dry void]

In season four, I didn't know they did a patch to it today.

[cosmic dove]

I just got to basic monos so not really a test
but I'm loving the new meteor
only tested BH a little. the CDR node is very very good

[dry void]

Hell yeah I really want to roll a sorcerer so I guess I'll run Meteor and maybe play with Volcanic Orb a little bit and Black Hole

[heady echo]

jesus

the pinnacle of chaos is no joke

cap crit avoid before you do it

and turn your settings to low

[marble shale]

does idols like this even exists? nothing on trade...

[novel bane]

when converting fire aura to either cold or lightning - is the damage still considered a DoT for that respective element?

[heady echo]

yeah but it will take a while

[dry void]

Typically damage conversions convert everything about it so it would still be a dot in that respective element

[harsh abyss]

They probably don't exist yet. That's like a perfect roll idol, it's gonna take time for people to farm them up.

And they have to farm more than they want to use for their own builds before they start selling them

[neon depot]

How does freeze multi get converted when you go lightning on a skill

Ive seen multiple lightning conversions and none of them highlight if that changes or if its just a dead stat

[heady echo]

i think freeze multi turns to shock chance

[ashen glacier]

wow lb build is really bad without the required gear. i might just stick with acolyte i dont wanna do spellblade for a few days/weeks

i got the catalyst and spoon and its still horrific

or what item should i get next to maybe make it decent

[nimble shoal]

If it doesn't say anything about it in the conversion, then it's just a dead stat. Most of the time, freeze rate just gets deleted.

[ashen glacier]

anyone have any ideas on how i can salvage this character before I just swap to my Necro

last resort

[cosmic dove]

I am no expert but I also dont have the gear for either build I want to try (meteor / BH)
I found just getting a weapon upgrade with spell damage makes a huge difference
I dont know if that would work with LB or not

[heady echo]

what level are you? and what gear do you have?

[calm plinth]

not sure what you're playing, but oh boy does Fire Aura Spellblade SLAAAAAAAP bro, im still gathering items for my build that i've put through, but i'm just plowing through monos, and i'm oneshotting stuff right left and center xD bare in mind up to lvl 67 i just kept my gear from campaign, just a couple of items that i changed that made sense. I just drop Mad Alchemist Ladle tho, so that brought even more umpf. I know lagon was nerfed, but in campaign i brough it to 10% from the opening and he phased xD

imma grab some sleep cuz work and what not xD

[ashen glacier]

thats what build i was doing fire aura it was good but i just wanted to do LB. i swapped it was so much worse lol. i guess for LB u need all end game gear

[ashen glacier]

im 68 i had the offhand and spoon , and then some other random crap tbh. nothing special. i guess i was too used to a OP build b4 that

[heady echo]

did you have crit maxed?

crit chance is what makes lb

[ashen glacier]

i need a lot more gera for that, guess il jus tstick with fire brand

until i can farm for thsoe items

or ill farm on my Acolyte

[calm plinth]

sshow me what u got atm

[ashen glacier]

until i can aford lb gear

[calm plinth]

enigma is madee for melee now

or u r caster?

[ashen glacier]

i tried to do typical LB caster from maxroll, but didn't have the gear

[calm plinth]

whatever feeels better, but spark LB was looking really good. didnt geet to sim it, but ssshould be blaasssting

[ashen glacier]

i just needed better gear i think like thet neck and rings

[calm plinth]

i see

gl & hf

[ashen glacier]

yeah im on my necro atm, its real fun 😛 , ill use it to farm the required gear and go back in a week or 2 to RM

i only rolled mage to do LB/RM. don't wanna farm as spellblade

[desert moat]

i have all the gear for lb , just need the spoon , anyone have rune prison echo?

[left hill]

*sees patch notes*
🙏 the Iceblink fix is next on the fix-list 🙏

[finite cobalt]

the problem is meteor scale with crits, BH with DoT / ignite. I guess you can scale collapse with crit but it's probably a harder path than just focusing on the dumb %fire res node

[wise belfry]

that looks like a fun bunch of equipment

[umbral perch]

in Glacier, when an explosion creates a Vortex, does the size of teh explosion affect the vortex size or damage? It looks like not, which means taking Lesser Glacier to reduce the mana cost gives you cheap but full damage vortexes, right?

possibly a good setup for triggering it off shattering strike, won't break the bank mana-wise

[half pollen]

Vortexes sadly suck since they dont scale with the glacier more nodes

[robust junco]

Really ?

Oh yeah

[weary hamlet]

yea I saw some youtuber play them for the lulz a few patches ago but it's always been a meme

largely for this reason

[robust junco]

Yeah, that was dread

But I didnt remember them not benefiting more dmg from glacier

Its funny, I notice a trend here

Subskills / Items procc skills that dont have more Dmg are usually pretty bad

I wonder

[full bluff]

Anyone tried building around the volcanic orb rings yet?

[weary hamlet]

from the authors of, the number of more multipliers defining the viability of skills

[weary hamlet]

nah but I will try it later this patch, sounds like complete meme though

[umbral perch]

is the orbit speed affected by modifiers to volcanic orb speed?

[full bluff]

I tried it for 2 min to see if I could level with it, but felt so weak

and this corruption rune machine eats everything, out of keys, havocs, t7 slam items, nothing left to corrupt almost 🙂

First time I feel that Frost Wall does something useful by itself, in these omen windows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYmrn1nMqH0

[neon cradle]

How's spellblade changes so far? Any good trigerred setups? Or pure melee shatter strike still best?

[ornate coral]

Hey guys, any tips on farming grasp of the blood mage gloves? Does it has to be in ending the storm timeline?

[glossy quarry]

Shatter strike is in top ladder with paladin!

[heady echo]

triggered and eating fire auras means you dont need mana strike almost at all

[mental hamlet]

Anyone got an idea on the skill tree for Lightning Blast for Battlemage's Endeavour ?
Should I take Convergence AND Divergence ?

[glossy quarry]

NOOO

SAVVYSPELLBLADE DIED

AT 99

[elder wraith]

RIP

[eternal mango]

I got a mage question

Arcane Current was revamped supposedly in this patch
Arcane Current now casts Lightning Blast instead of the Arcane Lightning subskill. It now also specifies that it casts at other enemies within 6 meters of your target (this is just a description change). Its threshold bonus grants 50% more Critical Strike chance for Lightning Blasts cast this way (from always critically strikes for Arcane Lightning).

But the description alt text still shows arcane current...

Does anyone know if this actually does lightning blast, and if so, after casting at a target, can it chain, or is it a single link only?

Also, does it need direct casts of lightning skills?

[weary vale]

I just woke up and read the patchnotes, so glad to see that I was not going crazy about this.

[gleaming wraith]

Amen

And the fact that it was Mages only explains why I talked to some people who were finding them

[little pagoda]

oops xD

[gleaming wraith]

Took me about 2 minutes after the patch to get my Fragment of the Enigma. Glad it's fixed.

[eternal mango]

Do spark charges stack, or can you only have one on an enemy at a time?

[gleaming wraith]

Afaik they stack.

[mental hamlet]

Ok !

Now we talk

And I have this one waiting !

[weary hamlet]

lol I'm still stuck using this on my coc meteor sorc, finding -5 mana cost bases turns out to be harder than I thought

[mild bluff]

anyone have any tips for survivability with fire aura? like ive got 3k ward, all res capped, crit avoid and im still getting 1 shot at like 130 corruption

[glossy quarry]

1 shot by what?

If champions it is understandable

[mild bluff]

i got one shot by a rift beast bite when i posted that

[weary hamlet]

dude I was just oneshot by a champion in a woven echo with like 12k damage in 100 corr

the balance is still ass when it comes to this random scaling

[mild bluff]

which one? bumble bear?

[weary hamlet]

no some random jobber in the champion arena echo

maybe the void axe thrower guy

[lament flint]

Is Mana strike bugged? Not got mana orbs

[weary hamlet]

mana orbs are still invisible, same as always

[ornate coral]

Any tips on farming legends entwined ? Do i fully invest into weaver tree for beast? Can i imprint it? or prophcies?

[weary hamlet]

you sure you arent getting actual mana regen? it works just fine for me

[mild bluff]

I love how every season this game has couple of random pumpers

[weary hamlet]

1 - yes
2 - no
3 - no

[mild bluff]

i still flinch at tundra stalkers

[lament flint]

I don't see anything about mana regen, I will try to check the stats

[weary hamlet]

I mean, when you use mana strike, do you get mana? Baseline without the extra effects from its tree?

if you do, there are your mana orbs

[lament flint]

I don't seem to be, just regular mana regen

[ornate coral]

Same question for the weaver amulet abandoned eyes of the weaver please?

[weary hamlet]

that's a generic pool set drop, I'm sure I've got a couple from random sources already so all the usual things apply

prophecies etc

thanks nemesis, thanks corruption

top tier rolls right there

[calm plinth]

drops in a different way, it's from Age of winter timeline, got nothing to do with beasts

[calm plinth]

that's a sweet piece of gear :3 GZ

[ornate coral]

No i was asking the way to increzaed my chances for this specific items^^

[lament flint]

see here, maybe I am missing something

[mild bluff]

Maybe its time to swap build

[finite cobalt]

now that's a coc ring

[weary hamlet]

did you spec the nodes in upper left of the tree that replace mana with ward?

[lament flint]

that must be it

[weary hamlet]

key word here is "instead"

[lament flint]

Yeah, I can't read apparently. thank you

[weary hamlet]

I wish harbinger just had 6 potion slots by default instead of the mana condition which is pointless in a blue feather band build

for truly apocalyptic amounts of meteors

uh.. go home orobyss, yer drunk

not sure what else I expected tbh

[errant moon]

for lagoon relic is it better to do empowered or normal ?

[little pagoda]

get a twisted relic? xD

[mild bluff]

nah twisted heart isnt really good since im not directly casting spells often

[errant moon]

wish heart would work on any spell cast

[neon cradle]

I dont want to use it for mana regen 😉 I want it for dmg, plus without mana strike blade weaver is no go anyway.

[ornate coral]

Can legend entwine drop from rift beasts?

[timber solar]

yes

[mortal parrot]

Then can you give me some explain? Thanks!

[ornate coral]

And is there a way to see my exact % crit chance on my skill?

[quasi coral]

what did they change this season for mage ?

[tiny quail]

FINALLY! but damn.. no lp and poop roll 🙁

[errant moon]

changes were made mostly on spellblade passives

[quasi coral]

so melee mage ,, hmmm ,

[weary hamlet]

you can calculate it mentally (or in excel), otherwise not

ironically POE is now ahead of LE in this regard

[ivory atlas]

Someone know where drop this amu?

[dull dirge]

Looks like fractured prison woven echo

[marble shale]

How to make item like this? Rare but with Set bonus?

[ornate coral]

Prophecies that drop uniques wands and requires exalted mage kill, can drop mad alch ladle?

[frigid crescent]

the prophecy cant drop a boss specific drop

[errant moon]

you need a woven echo that lets you shatter set items to get affix shards

its something someting turtle or what

this one

[mental hamlet]

Does it give me 3 mana sometimes when i hit something on melee ?

Or does the mana scale with someth ing

[weary hamlet]

it's up to 100% chance to get 3 mana

it doesn't scale just as it says in the tooltip

[mental hamlet]

Ok, thanks.

[tiny quail]

That the one for gambling lp. The one they need is called something with bridge

[errant moon]

ah right

true

[versed hare]

anyone got an idea what to do with Exulis as a mage?

[little pagoda]

wear it

[spring crag]

hmm

so is flame reave good in this season?

I want to try an uber viable fire mage build

[stray comet]

Defence on shatter still questionable

[dull dirge]

What corruption are you at?

[stray comet]

200 corruption, dmg isn't the issue i get these one hits sometimes

[dull dirge]

Man I was really hoping the defenses got better lol

[stray comet]

even with my crit avoidance at 100% and around 50% armor currently, i still get trucked occasionally

[dull dirge]

I’ll still try to make Spellblade work but worst case I can always respec to a lightning blast build

[fathom tundra]

lightning blasst doesn't work without the unique catalys + the unique wand for mana!!

[mild bluff]

yeah and 3 different layers of dr

[fathom tundra]

having to respec again into shatterstrike T-T

[little pagoda]

Mage overall gets slapped without twisted

[stray comet]

Yeah, kinda ridiculous, it's even more evident on lightning conversion SS

[weary hamlet]

we started whining about mage survivability being hard locked into one specific unique (checks notes) 2 years before twisted heart EVEN EXISTED

and good news is, shit hadnt changed much since then

[tiny quail]

anyone else struggling with exalted items this season?

even on cof

[stray comet]

once i got a bit higher corruption the exalts was easier

[tiny quail]

like how high?

[stray comet]

200

[tiny quail]

oh ok

[mild bluff]

check your loot filter

[tiny quail]

im using one that @heady echo made.

it looks okay, i guess i just need more drop rate, higher corr

[slim cairn]

which rolls do i need to care about on mad alchemists ladle

for lightning blast

armour shred % only?

[tiny quail]

kinda all

what makes it good is cuz it gives so much

but id rather take a 30%~ in all than one with spread out values and high armor shred

[slim cairn]

does frailty matter f.e.?

it seems to be limited to 3 stacks anyway

does poison really deal damage for us etc

im buying a 3lp ladle so gotta decide rn CAUGHT

[little pagoda]

the whole point of it is it gives cast speed and % dmg

[tiny quail]

yeah but there is no dead stat on it

al though i dont know specifically for lb

i wanna use refinement to get the value higher or lower right? im just making sure now cuz it only has 4 fp

it got worse xD

[mental hamlet]

It just reroll once again so yeah, i can get worth.

[tiny quail]

ugghh i hate how it takes away points randomly for skills when you swap things around. last point added system would be the biggest QoL they could do

[ornate coral]

Anyone trying corrupted this amulet and got a postive result ? im on a 10 streak of transforming it to rare i start to believe there is no other outcome...

[weary hamlet]

I'm pretty sure that most if not all "positive" outcomes for corrupting sets is transforming into reforged items

whether or not that's intended or yet another bug is up to anyone's guess

[ornate coral]

So i have to stop corrupting this amulet

[mild bluff]

Whats the alternative to flame aura? Shatter?

[nimble shoal]

It can't add affixes to sets, it can only affect their rolls or convert them to a reforged set, basically

[mental hamlet]

You can make the exact amulet rare in corruption ?

[weary hamlet]

I still don't know why they decided to go this way about it

[ornate coral]

Is there any positive reason to imprint a primodial unique?

[finite cobalt]

it's my feeling too, loot is either bugged or stealth nerfed. I noticed the catalyst bug the first day, so I wouldn't be surprised if some other things broke too

[tiny quail]

which catalyst bug?

[mental hamlet]

Imprint can only give you item that drop normally, no ?

[finite cobalt]

catalyst weren't dropping at all the first day for mages, fixed today

[tiny quail]

yeah you cant imprint boss items etc cuz they wont drop as normal drop

[tiny quail]

oh fr?

[weary hamlet]

catalysts didnt drop at all for mage, along with the same bug for other item types for other classes

[stray comet]

is stat stacking strength > brutality really worth it if you get one shot at higher corruption

[nimble shoal]

Something about giant tooltips, set item tooltips just don't support more stuff in them currently

[tiny quail]

wow! how does that even occur

[nimble shoal]

Not really no, since none of them are random drops you won't be able to get any primordial uniques from imprints

[weary hamlet]

man the tooltips for non-set items arent any smaller these days

[tiny quail]

you guys are discussing that there is no point in corrupting set items right?

[weary hamlet]

right

[tiny quail]

yeah

annoying

btw anyone know what this is?

[stray comet]

Corruption

[tiny quail]

no? corruption is in the mid

[mental hamlet]

I suppose it's the icon beside it ^^"

[tiny quail]

its something to do with omen i THINK but idk

[mental hamlet]

There is so much icons that AREN'T hoverable it's a bit annoying.

[tiny quail]

yeah

[stray comet]

is it not the corruption amount for the harbinger?

[tiny quail]

hm

[mental hamlet]

Could be

[weary hamlet]

wait I thought this was corruption too

[tiny quail]

yeah could be actually

[stray comet]

I'm pretty sure

[tiny quail]

i need 125 corr for next harby

but in this mono i did do it on 100

i cant find anything in game guide

[mental hamlet]

Advice to ask in #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs . Dev or Modo could help you there, probably :p

[tiny quail]

its not important tbh im just curious

btw i think they fixed memory leaks?

[heady echo]

i havent had to restart as much

[weary hamlet]

nah not all of them, my performance still degrades heavily after an hour or so on coc meteor

[heady echo]

i also put all my settings to low since they mentioned an issue with textures

it looks like shit but i have 240 frames now

[tiny quail]

oh really? ive had no problems since the patch last night

[mental hamlet]

Oh so that's why when i was playing in act IX and X, i was powerpoint

[tiny quail]

but i mainly had sound issues and just a lill lagg/thing

powerpoint?

[weary hamlet]

I didnt play anything beyond majelka this season but there is one ancient era map that literally gives me single digit FPS

primal cascades? it's the end point for the beasts chain

[tiny quail]

it was really bad with the spikes at some points, but sounds almost exploded my sound bar on next to mute lol

[mental hamlet]

Talking about Woven Echoes, the Colosseum and the chain fight of Rift Beast 100 corruption hurt too much for me to handle. 🙁

[tiny quail]

what is colosseum?

[mental hamlet]

You fight 2 npc that hurt too much xD

In an arena

[nimble shoal]

If you want a reforged set item or just a perfect rolled set item, it's fine. Alternatively, you can do it just to shatter reforged sets for set shards to make your own reforged set (to eventually corrupt)

[weary hamlet]

yup had been an issue ever since they made them and they didn't do shit to fix the scaling

[little pagoda]

man day 3 and im already burned out

I honestly hate the gear progression in this game

[uneven ember]

Does binary work with pulsar?

If yes, do both of the black holes explode?

[weary hamlet]

eh corruption is not too bad, if anything it does seem to address some of these problems

I'll just be playing this season more casually, you know, some of the new builds on rogue look cool and I never played it much

but for mage, I guess I'm fed up with mana strike being required in most builds, the animation and hitbox on that thing is yikes

[uneven ember]

Yeah im using claw for my mana generation and an unspecialized strike is better.

Im gonna take ranged on it and just... deal with it. Glacier oneshots everything right now anyways

[little pagoda]

hmm my t7 int only rolled 21, can I reroll this to 24?

[heady echo]

yea

use the rune for it

[weary hamlet]

I swapped to fireball on my sorc but man I tried a few builds I wanted on SB and by level 20 figured that I can't do this

[heady echo]

refinement i think

[weary hamlet]

just no

[uneven ember]

Im enjoying the extreme damage of "medium glacier only" its just the whole mana thing.

[pearl bramble]

anybody running pure fire damage fire aura spellblade successfully ?

[mental hamlet]

I must say, i really hate the resistance downscaling from level.

You just cap res you avoid being OS by anything and keep being OS by anything but less. 🙁

[lean elbow]

Alright how has the mage been this season for you guys

[weary hamlet]

not sure what you mean here, the resistance system in this game is the least punishing in the genre

[little pagoda]

yesss

[hollow bolt]

goratha got such a sick flame reave lightning blast spark charge build going

looks cool af

[left hill]

shatter sb going well so far. being cruising largely off a weapon that dropped from an omen window at like... level 30? maybe? (doing lvl 90 timelines next). don't quote me exactly on when it dropped, but it was very early on. haven't crafted once outside the tutorial yet. occasionally have upgraded some defensive piece with an exalted that dropped. not using any uniques yet except Snowblind helm

[minor monolith]

The perma frenzy relic I got at lvl8 is still carrying me in the 70s

[novel bane]

Anyone have a guide for a spellblade build that isn't squishy AF? First time playing this class (always played Sentinel) and it feels like i can't get both damage and survivability without severely sacfricing the other...

[tiny quail]

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1rwcL6ex7XVfPa9TyZaXcUwa-9fsjwuw-i_TyuBOc8DE/mobilebasic

Im doing this

It’s good

[modern dawn]

How would these new set items interact with Lament?

Void Orb was one of my favorite builds in earlier seasons and I'm thinking about seeing if I can work any synergy into here.

Would the orbs that are created always be void? Would they alternate?

[stray comet]

If it can't get corrupted for stat stacking that kinda sucks

[ashen glacier]

okay i farmed a bit mroe gear. got the set amulet. Now im diong only 1/10th the dmg of my abom necro that is 15 lvls lower than me instead of 1/20th lol (LB BUILD)

[novel bane]

thanks, i'll check this out

[ashen glacier]

i just need the ring now maybe that will fix things?

never botched a character so hard in an arpg before lol

[unreal salmon]

is there a way to see fire aura tooltip?

[ornate coral]

I mean i corrupted vilatria set, all i god was min or max roll never any affix

[gilded iron]

any tips how to get the LB runemaster running? I'm basically a new player (only played before multiplayer was a thing)

attached my current gear state, the non-uniques have lightning dmg, spell dmg, int wherever possible

[ashen glacier]

yeah i can't get this to work

the dmg is unbeleivably low

[stray comet]

Yh seems it's either that outcome or bricking the item

[ashen glacier]

welll back to Necro to farm more again 😄

[stray comet]

Unless someones done it, it seems the amulet can't corrupt for attributes btw

[mild bluff]

What are you playing?

[tiny quail]

eww

[tiny quail]

dang, wonder why

[ashen glacier]

lb rm but without the proper gear

i didn't know it was so strict, but used my last gold getting a few peices so i can't respec now 😄

i use my necro to farm more gold to buy more peices

I think all I need now is legends entwined but i dont see how ti will make the build good all of a sudden

probably gonna just go play something else in that case

[gilded iron]

cant you kill anything at all or just cant push?

once i got the offhand it started doing echoes just fine

[ashen glacier]

i mean i can it just puts me to sleep suepr low dps lower than like a lvl 30

[gilded iron]

oh you started leveling with lb?

[ashen glacier]

im lvl 68 atm

[gilded iron]

do you have the offhand?

[ashen glacier]

ya

and spoon

[gilded iron]

hm idk, once i got that i started going through echoes easy

[ashen glacier]

maybe im too used to OP classes?

[gilded iron]

and I am a new player all things considered, poe vet but didnt play since singleplayer only 😄

[ashen glacier]

I dunno what to do tbh.

im stuck on the toon

[ashen glacier]

what number are your crits usually, mine only like 2k~

[gilded iron]

2.5-3k

mhh i feel thats totally fine for early progression

what made it feel a lot better was the final spark node

so dmg wasnt as delayed

[ashen glacier]

do you run glacier for teleport or runic bolts for more dmg

[gilded iron]

glacier

[ashen glacier]

also my flame aura lvling build was doing like 5x more dmg as well

lb seems very finnicky build

[little pagoda]

made some good progress today

1lp'd most of my items now

[little pagoda]

Lb is strong af

dunno about levelling tbh

[ashen glacier]

i still need a lot more gear tbh ill try later

[gilded iron]

then help us plebs how to get it stronger 😄

[ashen glacier]

gonna farm up gold on my necro frist to buy

[little pagoda]

you can slam a bunch of key pieces with the rune

the one that turns it into a unique/ set

[gilded iron]

which ones?

[little pagoda]

I forgot the name lmao

[gilded iron]

you remember the slots?

[little pagoda]

Are yous market or cof

[gilded iron]

cof

[ashen glacier]

?i dunno what that means

[ashen glacier]

oh to make the neck?

[gilded iron]

i think the neck is one of the things you cant cause its a weaver exclusive 😄

[little pagoda]

you can slam one

I did

[gilded iron]

oh yeah i see, with a 1 in 48 chance xD

[little pagoda]

weaver neck is strong gives you a bunch of crit, you can slam enigma offhand

[gilded iron]

yeah we both have enigma

[ashen glacier]

So far I have spoon, fragment, and actually just bought the neck. Now i need legends entwined

[little pagoda]

you can farm the rift beast for a legends entwined

[ashen glacier]

and then put some INT on my gear

missing a lot INT could be my major issue

[little pagoda]

its quite easy, espically if you find a rift beast chain or an omen chain ( you can do the omen chain and buy a rift chain)

yeah its the int

rift beast can also drop the ferebor ring + Vil hat

[ashen glacier]

wow nice

[little pagoda]

when evolving the beast pick petals, horns and then bones in that orderr

because you need petals + heart, the heart is rare and only drops from lvl 60~ beasts but you can buy a heart for 30 petals + 20 horns + 10k

[gilded iron]

what do you need the heart for?

[gilded iron]

and may i ask, how much dmg do your crits do currently?

[little pagoda]

dunno ive seen like 20k

but theres so many hits I cant keep track, im doing 350 corruption easy enough

[gilded iron]

man did i miss that new player feeling in arpgs, figuring out why i dont do dmg wasnt one of my most fun tasks though 😄

[ashen glacier]

i have a 1 lp spoon what is the most important thing to put on it

[little pagoda]

cast speed

[ashen glacier]

what is a good method to get back mana

[gilded iron]

belt + spoon = potion -> mana

[little pagoda]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/

gimme a sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xT4Bf136sM&t=319s click the link in the description there

I use that version and runebolt gives you max mana instantly

[gilded iron]

mhh that version looks 99% like the official one on maxroll minus runebolt 😄

[ornate coral]

Finally got my first mad alch ladle ! We all agree there is 0 reason to imprint it right?

[ashen glacier]

do you use runic bolt or glacier to tp? i seen people use diff

[cerulean plinth]

wow

might have to make a runemaster at some point

[little pagoda]

ruinic invo

[little pagoda]

yh it wont do anything

[little pagoda]

frozen is the mage guy, if anything maxroll copies off him

[ashen glacier]

ill try runebolt over glacier

[ornate coral]

Anyoen found decent corrupted altar for mages? im kinda lost as to what looks good

[errant moon]

idk so far my build Archaic Altar seems to be the best

[severe lintel]

so, I have a goal for later this season to make a Rainbow Edge build

Rainbow Edge isn't really that good but getting a 3-4LP one should be relatively easy I imagine?

are there any good spellblade builds that can basically run an exalted sword and spam spell triggers? ideally with a bit of a tri-elemental style

[gilded iron]

thanks for his guide, changed some stuff he suggested and it feels like I tripled my dmg

[errant moon]

doubt any tri-elemental style one you could do frost nova trigger on frost claw but thats just bad
or
there is the build im playing which triggers like 6(7 if we count the 2 sources of lightning blast) spells with a %chance so DPS is either good or mid

[severe lintel]

could i see your build?

[errant moon]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oYE9Ga3J

this is the plan idk if i would recommend it

i do enjoy it

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (76) / Runemaster (12)

General:

▸ Health: 3,232, Regen: 23.6/s
▸ Mana: 313.51, Regen: 20/s
▸ Ward Retention: 56%, Regen: 206/s
▸ Attributes: 15 Str / 40 Dex / 158 Int / 21 Att / 25 Vit
▸ Resistances: 92% / 106% / 156% / 110% / 70% / 78% / 102%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 54%, Threshold: 646
▸ Dodge Chance: 25% (868)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (983)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 99%

Used skills:

Mana Strike / Frost Claw / Lightning Blast / Static Orb / Enchant Weapon

[errant moon]

i can show you how it play in voice with screen share if you want

[severe lintel]

that's okay, but thank you!

[ashen glacier]

i changed some stuff up im certainly doing better, but stil feel super weak vs my abom necro

[errant moon]

inc lightning dmg or shred ?

[dull dirge]

stupid question but can multiple spark charges be applied?

[errant moon]

no

as far as i know i think it even says it has a limit of 1

could be wrong

[heady echo]

easy to get 100% chance now

[errant moon]

well it does not say it has a limit so maybe you can apply more

hmm may get it on my build too an other source of dmg is never bad

[uncut zealot]

Not necessarily true. Depending what the alternative that you’re giving up is lol

[proven dome]

ive been thinking to try something similar

hows this working out for you

[errant moon]

it pretty nice the only down side if you roll low on triggers but with high AS it doesnt matter

[proven dome]

good clear good st?

[errant moon]

yeah

its kind of sucks to be stuck farming lagon for relic

[dusky pelican]

Hmmmz these pinnacle of chaos's (the double omen wthat spawns 3 champions per wave) ... is tricky on fire aura, i need to get bulkier... is life best way as spellblade, or .... i need ideas :D

i breeze through most of it in empowered 175, but that.... that is ugh

[wheat holly]

For Spellblades, does added fire damage on a weapon count towards the 40% of added melee damage gained as added spell damage?

[low hollow]

Ah crud. Enchant Weapon has a visual bug that is eventually causing me frame hitching.

[errant moon]

added dmg should work yeah

[meager widget]

I've been getting wrecked by the new content. I don't think my Firebrand Spellblade build works anymore

[errant moon]

get more ward generation and it will be fine

at 3000 ward normal mirrors are fine

[meager widget]

I'm at 3220 ward

[finite cobalt]

does aftermath's meteor work for CoC ?

[tiny quail]

hey, what can i do to have my mana handle this? any tips?

[errant moon]

it should work but if you cast a lot you will gain nearly nothing back

[heady echo]

Eat your fire auras and max bladeweaving. Take the icicle node in shatterstrike to keep up 6 stacks of bladeweaving

Also go get a foot of the mountain

[tiny quail]

eat fire aura? 😮

which one is icicle node? 😮

[errant moon]

you can do glacier trigger too glacier has a node that recovers mana i think

[tiny quail]

ohhh

i need a friggen chest armor with 1 lp then

this slot is cursed for me

but what is "eat your fire auras"?

[tiny quail]

ohhhh

[heady echo]

The big hexagon

[mild bluff]

testing flame aura on the dummy, why do the numbers change so much. With 2 aura ive hit between 27-32k

[tiny quail]

gotcha

[mild bluff]

basically trying to decide whats better until i get ladel

dps seems...similar?

its hard to tell

[errant moon]

for what build is this for ? affixes are all over the place so hard to tell

guess fire aura

[rotund ocean]

If they're both similar, corrupt the second one and see what happens

[errant moon]

but yeah corrupt and pray it will be better

[mild bluff]

good shout

[tender wasp]

the amount that Surge gets me stuck in walls

is driving me insane T.T

[tiny quail]

so true

[tender wasp]

especially in tombs

[mild bluff]

yeah it is, just a placeholder while i farm for ladel.

100 mages and counting 🥀

[tiny quail]

lightles arbor is sooo boring

[errant moon]

you will get one soon too

[mild bluff]

sodds law, never see it when i want it

[uncut zealot]

Ladle is annoying af to farm lol

[tiny quail]

yeah, i always get tons when i dont need it, but when i do need it i get ZERO

thats not great...

[trim hatch]

just did rune prison with a buddy

double mages

0 ladels

existence is pain

[tiny quail]

That’s me with wings argentum or what ever the chest is called… idk since it doesn’t drop… 24 bosses today

[trim hatch]

yeah I've killed formosas like 5 times and still dont have the gloves

[tiny quail]

This season is cursed

[dusky pelican]

hmmm at least somewhat bit of synergy

[eternal mango]

Does whiteout on shatter strike count as activating the skill twice?

[left hill]

(1) take all the mana efficiency nodes in Shatterstrike
(2) either do a lot of mana stacking and use Focus Null Profusion node chain or do the Shatter Strike Glacier proc (with Glacier spec'd for mana on crit and disabling big explosion) OR spec Mana Strike for all the +mana stuff including the cooldown node
(3) max the Bladeweaving passive
(4) optionally take the mana-on-kill Shatterstrike node

I'm having no mana problems with the mana strike setup, basically just tap mana strike very occasionally and I'm good. I haven't stacked up attack speed yet, but having calc'd it, it should sustain later on fine enough (as good as Null Profusion but needing less gear investment, since both want ICRS but only Focus wants mana stacking)

[cosmic dove]

completely different build (meteor) but I'm hating Focus
do you think mana strike could work better? I need to regen hundred's of mana and Focus does a crap job of it

[left hill]

that's why I only really recommend focus with manastacking and null profusion (outside of mana guide builds ofc). bc then it's just tap and keep doing what you were doing

[cosmic dove]

I just got to monos so 529 mana. no opportunities to stack yet

[stray comet]

Could run brutus crown

[harsh abyss]

With meteor, mana stacking and null profusion is usually the way

If you get up to like 1000 mana, thats when it tends to start to feel good.

[tender wasp]

Anyone running a flame reave build gone past corruption 200? I need an outline on a solid build I could use as guidance

[cosmic dove]

I'll stick with it. just gearing up so cant really judge anything

[dusky pelican]

Tooltip question

Does this mean frostclaw before this node, could not hit same target? and second: Does the second line mean if it can't hit same target with all projectiles... it will do less?

[eternal mango]

There are a lot of abilities that are basically, if you do a melee attack and hit atleast 1 enemy...

Does the recast on shatter count as 2 attacks for these?

[umbral perch]

Without this node I believe frostclaw can only hit an enemy once (maybe twice, projectiles and explosion). With this node, all three projectiles can hit one enemy. It could deal less if the burst and projectiles can both hit, but in practice the primary target is going to get hit three times very very reliably

[umbral perch]

Should

[dusky pelican]

So considering i want to use this to proc more crits for fire aura, this is very useful for single target, check!

[umbral perch]

Yeah I don't think I've ever seen anyone use frost claw without that node

[dusky pelican]

(unless i override the max per sec ofc)

[cosmic dove]

heh

[dusky pelican]

Would anyone believe me i didn't even hit a single t7 attribut on a ring yet? :P For my Legends.

Almost considering using the Havoc/Redemtion (forgot which)

[eternal mango]

welp I just tested it with arcane shielding, and it only gave me 1 stack

[umbral perch]

Arcane shield says 'directly' though

I would expect warden's echo to work with recasts since it does not

[full bluff]

8 int or 10 movement speed?

[eternal mango]

so you think it's work with mana reaver?

[umbral perch]

Would expect so

[mild bluff]

both ruined, what are the odds

[crystal swift]

Somebody drop Rune Prison Complex ????????

[dry cedar]

is there any way to get reactive ward to proc off cd? exsanguinous doesnt seem to work

or does it if i actually take a hit? im just testing in town

[river kayak]

Anyone having any luck with a meteor build?

[mortal gate]

hey fam, newbie here, currently in chapter 9 levelling with the maxroll shatterstrike build. I ascended a catalyst into fragment of the enigma (first attempt, lol). Is it worth immediately switching to the lightning blast build? or is there other gear i should acquire first? cheers

[dusky pelican]

oh my

the fix that is coming.... surge will be safe to use in tombs/cemetaries!

hooray

[dusky pelican]

Yes, drops from the exiled mages themselves

already had one

[crystal swift]

i know killed more than 200 no drop

[dusky pelican]

general question:
How m,uch % can you get to proc frost claw?
30 from within tree, 20 from passive tree, is there more that I do not know off?

[dusky pelican]

It's heavily rng'd ...sorry, last season i had to find it for a loooooooooong time as well.

guess it is 50% max to proc frost claws from melee hit

[lost siren]

Has anyone made a guide of that shatter strike build that was doing insane fps drops on YouTube earlier this week?

[sacred ruin]

isn't that just shattering strike with procs

[lost siren]

dunno, this is the first time I looked at mage as a remotely possible chance to play since launch lol

[hollow bolt]

You mean the shatter strike with glacier?

[sacred ruin]

yeah pretty sure it's just shattering strike to proc glacier/claw/whatever

[lost siren]

it was a video with a guy with a very particular voice. Let me check if I can find it

Insane Shatter Strike Spellblade Glacier Explosions Build Guide! Screen-Wide Chaos In LE 1.4
Created by Grunfire on March 27, 2026

[hollow bolt]

Bait because he’s standing in a specific spot for all the dummies to get hit by his shards

you won’t get in the actual maps

where the enemies are more spread out

[lost siren]

good point. I guess I won't be playing mage again then lol

[sacred ruin]

shattering strike is still good

[hollow bolt]

flame reave is good

[sacred ruin]

i just wouldn't go that variant

[hollow bolt]

Shatter strike still good

[sacred ruin]

fire aura is pretty gucci

[tender wasp]

Is this it? Are we saved?!

[clever sphinx]

any good mage builds I can play this season?

[tender wasp]

I'm using flame reave now feels pretty good considering how bad my gear is but I have no solid builds to follow so I'll prob swap to shatter strike until I have better gear to follow someone else's build

[clever sphinx]

spellblade seems like it's the move then

[tender wasp]

Spell blade seems like it has a few good options

Really hoping someone comes up with a mana strike static orb setup or flame reave lightning blast.

[clever sphinx]

that one sword that procs lightning blasts on hit caught my eye

what was it called?

battlemages fervor?

[hollow bolt]

Goratha is doing flame reave lighting blast

looks sick

[tender wasp]

Oh is it? Does he have a guide?!

Or a maxroll or something

I'd love to follow it

[hollow bolt]

no guide. His twitch is goratha

[tender wasp]

Sweet ty

[clever sphinx]

i mean if that doesn't work, i'll switch over to mana guide and be lazy 😛

i do want to try out black hole sun sorc

[lost siren]

I wish I was smart enough to look at someone's build on a video and go like 'yeah I know how to do that work'. I would end with some kind of mishmash that wouldnt work at all lolsob

[stray comet]

If your cool with a glass cannon build then sure

[clever sphinx]

It's not hard to make spellblade tanky

[stray comet]

Explain

[lost siren]

tanky he means that is hard to die. hard mean it's not easy, not hard = not not hard. Spellblade is a class. You welcome. 😄

[tender wasp]

I wish there was a way to look up Goratha's gear lol

That is exactly what I was trying to do but he does way more damage

[stray comet]

Explain more

[lost siren]

that's the contrary of less. Means plenty. More than 1 if 1 is not a lot. There you go.

I'll see myself out

[sacred kite]

Idk who that is, but if they play online couldn't you just pull their character into letools?

[stray comet]

not clear enough

[clever sphinx]

the spellblade tree already comes with ward generation of various types. gear and skill choices prioritizing defense over damage obviously

It's a matter of perspective

[tender wasp]

Maybe? I only know their twitch account tho not their account name

[stray comet]

ehh doesn't really fit the mage fantasy, a very tanky mage that does no damage... might as well play something else

[clever sphinx]

obviously you need to balance out the defense with more offense. that's one of the points of playing an arpg is to strategize these things

you can have your fantasy of having a squishy mage i guess

[stray comet]

My point is for spellblade specifically, you have to overcompensate either or

[clever sphinx]

i can't just pop out a build planner and explain it to you in seconds

[clever sphinx]

not necessarily

[stray comet]

around 1000+ corruption it definitely feels like it

[clever sphinx]

i mean it really depends on what damage skill you have

[ashen glacier]

does legends entweined work in imprinter

[clever sphinx]

shatterstrike can get past 1000+ corruption, maybe flame reave too. I can't see surge of all things even getting past 300+

Mana strike for sure has potential to get up there

[stray comet]

The fact that it's skill dependent proves my point, there's not enough base defence in the mage kit

[ashen glacier]

btw for set bonus shards can I use staff for putting the set bonus into a different helmet?

staff is way cheaper on AH

[clever sphinx]

My point is you have to factor in gear

If you're slotting in shit gear, you're gonna keep dying

[stray comet]

you could have optimal gear with surge and still not reach high corruption, that's a balancing issue

[clever sphinx]

That's just surge though

you won't have that problem with shatter strike

defensive skills like flame ward and teleport

it's just a matter of synergizing these things

like any class

mind you i haven't played heavily since the launch of season 3, so I have no idea what it's like to go into season 4

[stray comet]

I'm on shatterstrike pushing 200+ corruption now, i'm seeing the same issues from season 2 even with the changes unfortunatley

[clever sphinx]

We'll see. i'm gonna test it out for myself soon

[stray comet]

They probably need more DR on the passives

[clever sphinx]

eh maybe. theres like one on runemaster for 8 points if you shock or chill enemies

that's why i mentioned gear choice is important

[stray comet]

i'm talking specifically about spellblade passive nodes, the runemaster node would be good to have generally

them changing the spellblade mastery bonus actually is a nerf to defence

[clever sphinx]

spellblade has endurance stacking towards the end at the 35 point mark

mental fortitude

dodge rating at the 25 point mark. illusory combatant

arcane shielding

[stray comet]

it takes quite a bit of gear investment for dodge rating to be useful btw

[novel bane]

survivability of mage sucks - feels like their entire defense is built on flame ward

[ashen glacier]

its good once u get gear/build

[stray comet]

i've played at 1000+ corruption with good gear, it's crazy time investment in comparison to other classes that don't even use uniques

[livid gust]

my plan for mine is life stacking with full ward conversion and see how that works out

[novel bane]

yeah i mean to be fair - ive played sentinel and primalist mostly. just feels like the discrepancy between survivability on the classes is ridiculous.

[livid gust]

on sentinel i had to try to die healing hands just carry any paladin buildi make

[stray comet]

Exactly, once you play other classes you realise how weak defensively mage is but i've been told it's been like this for 2 years

[livid gust]

has anyone tried fire aura in different elements?

are people just going frost cuz more survivability?

[novel bane]

im playing regular fire aura at the moment - i was waiting to switch to cold until i got the gloves, but ive killed the boss 12 times and havent gotten them

damage is fine - but a strong breeze kills me

[stray comet]

Pretty much, frozen is a pseudo defensive layer

[livid gust]

what lvl are u i just got to monos doing the campaign skip waiting for key

im wondering when im suposed to find resistance

[novel bane]

88 - on dummies i was procing like 500k

at like 40 stacks of fire aura

[livid gust]

im just wondering what 5th skill i should have

im running with both teleport and surge specced atm

[novel bane]

i am using Surge, Enchant, Flame Ward, FireBrand, and Flame Reave

[livid gust]

i have never understood y use reave

that makes 0 sense to me

everyone is doing it and i feel like im missing something

[novel bane]

i have surge specced to proc it on use - flame reave activates as a circle and uses spreading flame. then i have the +3 second cool down going as well

im mainly using it for suedo clear speed

[clever sphinx]

flame reave procs lightning blast

[novel bane]

but again i haven't been able to push corruption because i die to everything

[novel bane]

im not proccing lb

[livid gust]

using it to proc lightning blast makes even less sense

[novel bane]

yeah not sure why u proc lb on fire aura build...

[livid gust]

yea ok maybe i did the right play to go teleport for all the defensive bonuses

sounds like surge is bait for dps increase and using teleport for defensive buffs is better

[uncut zealot]

does corruptio always switch base of the item? its so beyond annoying

[clever sphinx]

not doing fire aura. it seems like bait

[livid gust]

its random ur just super unlucky

[novel bane]

damage is strong i just cant figure out survivability

[hollow bolt]

What corruption

[novel bane]

100 lol. i pretty much get 1 shot - have like 2k hp and 2k ward (unless flame ward is up)

[livid gust]

i dont want u to swap build but i am curious what would happen if u take the extra armor and ward bonuses from teleport instead of surge

lose invuln period + dmg for more consistant survivability

"consistant"

[novel bane]

surge maintains A LOT of fire aura stacks for me though through fulmination. it's the only way i can maintain stacks between packs most of the time

[livid gust]

is 15 stacks that much dmg? like i said im still early into the build so im only at a consistant 12 stacks atm

[novel bane]

it feels like it when playing. i tried without it and my clear went to shit

[livid gust]

u know what now i want to get to 100 corruption just to see how bad it is

[hollow bolt]

Resistance

[novel bane]

im capped

[clever sphinx]

you got a build planner?

[novel bane]

nope - completely self-made which is probably why it's shit

i'd switch to cold in maxroll's guide but those gloves have eluded me

[livid gust]

no i think the question was do u have it or can u put it on one so we can see

[hollow bolt]

on spellblade you have to solve your survivability through gear mostly unlike sentienl where you get a lot of resist and dr throughout the the tree

[livid gust]

anonther thing that confuses me is alot of builds going fire aura are not using burst of fire from enchant weapon

and i also dont get y

feels like a massive dps boost

[novel bane]

im using that to as a spell proc for mad alchmist's ladle

[marble shale]

I have lvl32 Lightning blast, i need 1 point to put in Final spark, is it better take off 1 point from Halo Effect or from Mortal capacitor? Also in guide there is rare gloves with set bonus to get +1 lvl from ring but only in Mid version, why not use it in Aspriational too? Or Swaddling of the Erased is reallt better than rare gloves and +1 all skills?

[eternal mango]

Does flameward need to be on your bar, to cast it when stunned, if it's specialized with the cast on stunned node?

[hollow bolt]

yes

[eternal mango]

Does it need to be on your bar to get the fire aura duration, and fire aura damage

[hollow bolt]

the only time something doesn't have to be on your bar is if it procs from using something else

[hollow bolt]

if those are coming from bonuses from the flame ward tree then it has to proc but it wont auto proc if its not on your bar

[eternal mango]

The duration and damage boost don't require flame ward to be used.

It's entirely a passive, sourced from flame ward, but doesn't require flameward to be active

Atleast that's how I understand it?

Actually... this should be easy to test. Check fire aura damage, then put it on bar

Okay, tried the 15% damage on bar, off bar, and removing the skill point entirely

On bar, off bar, same damage
removing skill point lowered damage by 15%

The on stun cast of flame I assume needs it then

[livid gust]

eye of flame specifies it applies to everyone but im pretty sure dilation only applies as long as flameward is up

as in any fire aura applied during its duration has an increased duration bonus applied to it

[harsh abyss]

Both are passive bonuses that apply to all fire auras

[livid gust]

yup im wrong hes right it just applies to every

[left hill]

finished off the 90 timelines on my sb today, had to say goodbye to my level 20 or w/e weapon at last. carried me so long

[pure magnet]

Is the power vent node on enchant weapon broken?

[umbral perch]

i saw reports that it works, but not if you take the nearby node for casting ele nova

[sterile tree]

is this a good item? I mean worth saving for just in case scenario

[dapper chasm]

It works like a charm, as long as you dont take the Unstable node close by

[harsh abyss]

Not really, the regular affixes are pretty low level

[runic steeple]

any shattersrike spellblade loot filters available? besides the automated one lol

[torn sluice]

Spellblade focusing fire aura, melee damage, or mixture of both? Whats the verdict?

[native jacinth]

I’m level 51 sb doing fire aura, seems okay to level but dunno how it’s gonna work later

[torn sluice]

I'm doing a mixture at 8x and its decent. Nothing ridiculous yet

Haven't focused on gear yet though, just what I find in monos

[native jacinth]

Word I saw ds lily has a cold version she is doing

[tender wasp]

Of Flame Reave?

[native jacinth]

I think she is doing just fire brand. I have found a few online that are flame reave but seems like they still have mana issues

[torn sluice]

I'm using both and mana is okay. Just gotta be careful with what you spec on the tree

A lot of it makes it cost additional mana

[dapper chasm]

Firebrand x Fire Aura works like a charm

[native jacinth]

Oh word, it’s my first time playing a mage tbh I’m not familiar with the trees and skills at all pretty fun so far

[torn sluice]

I push primalists most seasons but thought I'd try something different and I'm loving it so far

[neon cradle]

How do u guys deal with self bleed stacks as shatter stike spell blade wearing diothane's bloody nib relic, especially in that new leage mechanic? due to the amount of monsters im getting 50+ stacks and killing myself almost, im phys capped, have some dmg reductions elswhere as well, and endurance. I'm about to drop that relic and use velocyn's jaw dagger instead for penetration, since it's so frustrating or respec ;p

[rotund ocean]

Exsanguinous

That's why you see every spellblade wearing that

[native jacinth]

Same same, I was gonna get a wildfire ember the necklace or whatever and try that sounds like we’re doing kinda the same build maybe that could be fun? Dunno ha

[tender wasp]

Are they? I feel like the ward gen is fine without exsang I dunno

Lizard's build doesn't run it either

[rotund ocean]

The point is it makes you immune to bleed, which counteracts the bleed you get from the relic

In addition to the ward

Those two items go hand in hand

[neon cradle]

what? that is not true, only certain builds wear it no, the shatter strike

[tender wasp]

yeah i dunno what he is talking about

i've only seen a couple use exsang

[neon cradle]

yeah, wings of argentus is most optimal one, but that relic is driving me crazy with that new omen mechanic and 50+ bleed stacks, with 30 it's fine but 50+ it's too much

[rotund ocean]

Then I guess no one knows how to play spellblade anymore lol

Exsang + bloody nib has been a staple for shatter strike spellblade since beta

[neon cradle]

as soon as I get a decen rare relic im gonna throw thatn hing away

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzBsEYFYGYg this is supposed to be most optimal chest

[tender wasp]

yeah which also negates the bleeding quite a bit while moving

[rotund ocean]

For flame reave maybe

[neon cradle]

yeah but only 20% less :/

I might switch to entwined set stacking instead and use nomral relic with set imprintend on it, since I have decent roll of that ring but without LP

[tender wasp]

chest 20%, ring 10%, then overcapped nec res and helm also just negates most if not all. Not counting the ward on hit and leech

[native jacinth]

Oh that’s why people have that helmet in build I was wondering

[neon cradle]

that 20% chest is contradictory with those boots, and in general gameplay type since u want to stand and spam

[neon cradle]

what helmet? boneclamor? I guess I need to stack ton of ward per sec to counter the those 50+ bleed stacks

[tender wasp]

how long do they last?

the stacks

i don't have the boots

[native jacinth]

Yeah

[torn sluice]

Definitely similar and I was also thinking wildfire neck ahaha

[neon cradle]

I'm using that helmet but do not have much overcapped necrotic res so far

[neon cradle]

u lose all stacks the moment u move

all contradictory items and mechanic gameplaywise I might respect once my hate cross the red line

also clear speed with shatter strike is meh tbh

[tender wasp]

.>

[neon cradle]

I loved the idea initially of changes that allow to trigger spells.... but the issue is u need to use specializations for all those spells to actually be decent, and we only have 5 :/ so at the end of a day it didnt change anything in spellblade imho

[tender wasp]

uhh

have you seen goratha's build?

he is doing flame reave > lightning blast

works really well

his clear is really good

I dunno what the bar is for good clear for each person but

SS has always been good clear IMO

just wipes the whole screen for me

[neon cradle]

I've seen it, it's definitely better than ss. How come ss wipes the whole screen for u if there's no way to stack such big aoe? u would need ice spikes and they do not pierce as well, but still better clear with them than just ss

[tender wasp]

i need to see gorathas weapon tho

i dunno what he slammed

[neon cradle]

Also with ss and not specing into triggerred spells that 40% melee -> spell is wasted as well

[umbral perch]

I assume the way to wipe the screen with SS is triggering glacier via the ice spikes

I am still in campaign but having a good time with that setup

[neon cradle]

That is definitelly better, but u need to give up one 1 out of 5 specializations and that's massive downside, no specced teleport, no specced mana strike or no specced surge strike

And unforutnately those glacier nodes to recover mana are not enough in single targets later on, plus there's not enough points to get all good nodes in ss with glacier trigger and ice spikes

I might try later on going full right hand side with scaling ice spike dmg and distrancec travel, and drop the upper left area

[eternal mango]

Is this node broken? I don't see any change in added ward per second on the sheet when I change my int

[neon cradle]

btw if on top of those 50+ bleed stacks u will get any other source of dot dmg, like poison etc u screwed :F

[tender wasp]

@neon cradle K Swapped bnack to ice strike

i mean SS

i can get 100 bleed stacks and still never lose ward

no exsang

can sit in side a tier 2 mirror packed with mobs

never lose health

or ward

it stays up

[neon cradle]

nice, might be that i miss ton of ward per sec from idols and necrotic overcap then

[tender wasp]

I think the helm is a huge deal but yeah i ahve no problem keeping health up with 90-100 stacks

[dapper chasm]

Anyone tried to focus on Fire Aura without going SB ?

[errant moon]

lets begin day3 of lagoon farming

[tender wasp]

god i need gloves so badly tho

lol

i have no gloves

[neon cradle]

helmet is not enough u need to then stack a lot of necro res 😉

[tender wasp]

i only have 142

my gear is terrible lol

[neon cradle]

then it only gives u 22 ward per sec, not a chance helm gvies u that immunity

[tender wasp]

lol

you realize we have a bunch of ward gain from spellblade passive, passive tree, helm, the offhand itself implicit, shatter strike itself right?

[neon cradle]

Thanks for sharing, I got all those nodes as well.

[golden sluice]

Does the mage have dot auras?

[dapper chasm]

Fire Aura
(which, despite its name, can turn cold or lightning)

[golden sluice]

Oh i like that, im trying to do a lighting mage, you remember the name of the skill?

[dawn yacht]

Hi Everyone,
I am playing the lightning Runemaster build (from maxroll). I had a doubt that whenever I am using lightning blast my HP is draining. I can't see any skill that should do that or may be I am unaware. Is this normal?

[dapper chasm]

You can generate the Fire Aura during Flame Ward, providing you took the node, and you can also convert it to lightning this way.

Later on, you can use first part of spell blade tree to handle Fire Aura element conversion and further enhance its usage

[golden sluice]

Thanks Valar

[granite nacelle]

can anyone exlpain to me why runemaster spell casting seems to be predicated on the ordering of the runes on your bar over the order in which you press them to generate the spells?

[dapper chasm]

You took the node that do exactly that
(Immutable Order, big node just under the center)

[dusky pelican]

I wonder which version of fire aura could possibly be considered better scaling...
Fire, cold or lightning?
For some reason I am leaning towards lightning bec of vilatria set bonus, and shock?

[full bluff]

Advantage of cold is the damage buff from Ice Barrage

[dapper chasm]

I'ld say it depends on the synergies you build around Fire Aura

[tribal veldt]

firebrand has some fire damage-only buffs in it right, so that's a strong argument for not converting

[dusky pelican]

But firebrand provides 9 times 40% fire or lightning res?

that is 360% more dmg as well, what does ice barage do, let me c heck.

[dapper chasm]

You didn't mention Spellblade in your message :p

[dusky pelican]

ah sorry

yeah spellblade, my bad :P

very important thing i forgot to mention indeed

[full bluff]

For Firebrand, I guess the answer is fire 🙂

[dapper chasm]

By going Cold as Spellblade, you could scale global damage further i believe, but that's some kind of lateral movement from only scaling fire aura

[dusky pelican]

hmmz

but i fail to see why cold can provide that way more cold res than fire/lightning from firebrand, but i think i will check some online builds for ideas then

cuz that and the vilatria helm set when stacking int, is then quite a bit of "free" flat dmg (imagine 150 int, that is 150 + 75 flat dmg that goes through the windmill

[granite nacelle]

Gotcha, thanks 🙇‍♂️ should've spent more time reading than blasting

[dapper chasm]

that's why i said it depends if you only care, strictly, about fire aura scaling

i believe builds going cold also scales damage through Frost Claw / Ice Barrage

[dusky pelican]

yeah

i see frost claw proccing ice barrage then providing the 60% global cold buff

[dapper chasm]

(i kinda agree for lightning, doing a lightning flavour fire aura myself, not as spellblade tho

[dusky pelican]

but then you lose the fire/lightning res from firebrand which is 360

[tribal veldt]

has anyone double-checked that the spreading flames firebrand buff doesn't convert with lightningbrand 😆

[dusky pelican]

So I think i am not graspign why that 60% and not scaling int that much is way better

[tribal veldt]

EHG would implement that sort of thing and never mention it

[dusky pelican]

And does it do well, and you stacking int with the set bonus somehow? :D

i mean i am now level 95, doing pure fire, but something in me tells me there might be a better way :D

[dapper chasm]

That wouldn't make sense as it is worded as of now

[dapper chasm]

i'm still in leveling, 76 atm, daddy week end :>

[dusky pelican]

:D

[dapper chasm]

stacking Int indeed, but still trying to find my own way to flavour it

[tribal veldt]

you would be correct but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, EHG have a track record of that

example: this converts to scaling with fire/void res on ignite/time rot when you convert Vengeance, there is 0 way to know this besides asking a dev or testing it

[dusky pelican]

yeah was trying my own flavour of fire, but hmmz switching might be painful, i will gather some gear here and there and maybe after the harby quest line completion i might try it out

making a second char just to change the flavour would feel weird wouldn't it

albeit less xpensive :P

[dapper chasm]

I mean, it isn't explicitly stated, but that does make sense as it is worded

Flaming Sword (swap fire) states bleed chance from all sources is converted to ignite. Makes sense than any mechanic related to bleed is then swapped to ignite

[dapper chasm]

right :p

[dusky pelican]

is that a sign i do should do it? :P

[weary hamlet]

damn the game is sending me a sign

[native jacinth]

I mean seems like a lot of ways to scale fire, no?

[mild bluff]

how am i dropping this but not ladel

[gilded tangle]

Hey all! I reached level 80 with my spellblade on Hardcore but died unfortunately.

I am now level 39 as Sorcerer and I am struggling to find a good set of spells. Been levelling with Lightning Blast and Meteor, got some good corrupted items but its feeling weak. At least a lot weaker than the Spellblade

Lightning blast feels good with mobs, but single target is pretty bad. Its not straightforward to scale meteor and lightning blast at the same time. Should I maybe go full lightning?

[weary hamlet]

I leveled my first character this league as fireball sorc, was a breeze. But I play SC

good versions of LB require a lot of uniques to work

[dapper chasm]

I leveled with Lightning FIre Aura (few points in first part of SB tree) for clearing, and Lightning Blast for single target (chain on the same target node)

[heady mural]

:o

[gilded tangle]

Thanks for the tips! I will stick with Meteor a bit longer. I invested so so much on mana regen and still meteor consumes so so much

Spellblade felt so nice by this point because it was so easy to fix the mana consumption of Shatter strike

by this point I was breezing through with no mana issues haha I might go Spellblade again

[tiny quail]

ty for that!

[tiny quail]

fully buffed?

[heady mural]

yee just for memes

didnt know i could get such number xdd

[tiny quail]

yeah! crazy 😄

is it playable?

[glossy quarry]

I love spellblade

but I really hate that I cant cast shatter strike

with mana strike at the same time

I swear that was possible before

but now its hard so its clunky sometimes not getting full damage

[tiny quail]

lol that is soooooo long

[glossy quarry]

intelligence users be like

ez

[tiny quail]

i hope surge is included xD

[proud path]

fellas, any1 else having problems on dropping the mad alchemist ladle? ive wiped out almost the whole lineage of exiled mages

[tiny quail]

ive got 2 this season, they do seem rare af

[mental hamlet]

Ok i'm sorry for doubting Armor so much.
This is a whole new game now that i'm higher than 1k armor Oo

[tiny quail]

this had a super sound im mekas filter! is it good?

[mental hamlet]

I don't like this layout because i 'm using mainly 1x3/4 ones ^^"

[tiny quail]

but affixes are good?

this one seems good btw

[mental hamlet]

With something like this, yes it is 😄

I'm sad the corruption isnt that good for me but overall, +50% effect of weaver is good (for you altar)

[tiny quail]

DANG

but how would i even touch the refracted areas in the corners 🙁

[weary hamlet]

was quite possible for me just yesterday, is your mana strike to the left of SS on your bar?

[weary hamlet]

ain't even the longest text on an item nowadays, shit's out of control

[weary hamlet]

not bad but not great as far as I see, this corrupted affix is rather common

[tiny quail]

oh ok

[glossy quarry]

I switched it, mana strike has to be on my mouse and SS on my mouse

that fixed it

[ornate coral]

Hey guys, i am pusing 400c rn, my damage is way above chart tho my tankiness is way below, any tips to help me survive more ? Im playing vilatria meteor sorc, dunno how i can send my current character chart?

[mental hamlet]

idk for you but health and armor/dodge help a lot. (For me, on melee, armor was a revelation)

[ornate coral]

Yeah i think i went to hard on damage lol, 1K5 hp around 2K ward and 2K5 armour, no dodge

[mental hamlet]

I think with a bit optimized gear, I could go to 3k armor. Higher need to have some luck on gear ^^"

For my point of view, you choose between dodge and armor.

[dapper chasm]

Has anyone of you guys found the Mana Guide unique amulet ?
(just realized i've never found it while having at least 5 of every others amulet xD)

[ornate coral]

thanks for the tips, will try to improve that part hopefully it helps

[ornate coral]

i did yeah

[dapper chasm]

thanks, was wondering if it was bugged

[full bluff]

Took me way too long to find the first Mana Guide, used a lot of ascendance runes 🙂

[neon cradle]

decided to respec to runemaster lb and it's lkike 100000 times better than spellblade, defense, dmg, no bleed stacks, clear speed is so much better, omg, sad but true

[scenic dock]

are we en par with VK / rogue this season as LB RM?

[glossy quarry]

Lb runemaster still on top

[ashen glacier]

same i finally got the gear last night and its amazing

its like top on ladder to last i checked

[abstract junco]

Why is shock chance important for lightning blast?

[neon cradle]

Does glacier as travel skill make sense to use or runebolt ftw? The downside is that it shares same cdr with rune invocation when I cast glacier, unless I remove enigma from passives 😉

[hardy condor]

is there any hope for a runemaster runebolt that use the runic invocation that shhot runbolt or is it pointless ? i am doing it right now and dmg is abysmally low i dont have fundamentally critrion but iam not sur it will be enough to make dmg jut decent ?

[half pollen]

You cannot deal any damage with runic invocation without criterion. The skill and the item are so tied together.

[finite cobalt]

best way to scale coc meteor blackhole is vilatria right ? Does it matter if blackhole have no lightning tag ?

[half pollen]

Well without lightning tag you are bound to have some fire spell damage component which wont scale with lightning pen, lightning damage and so on

This can work but usually is a pain in the ass to gear for and most of the time worse than going all the way into one element

Oh wait, you only use your black whole as a way to spawn meteors. I thought you wanted to do fire meteor with added lightning damage, my bad

[gilded iron]

which one should i prefer?

[proud path]

the one on the right, the 12% chance on spark is way better

[spark vector]

20% more spark charges!

[slim cairn]

im wanting to push my corruption as high as possible and farm ubers, how does lightning blast compare to Falconer in that regard?

[weary hamlet]

yeah like 10 of those, it's pretty common

[weary hamlet]

yeah it's not like the whole class is busted, it's just one good build. Like how many flame wall, flame rush, or idk glyph of dominion builds are even good?

[weary hamlet]

I never found a good use for traversal glacier, maybe if you use it for procs on a sb build and have some free points, which you won't since it's very points hungry. And it doesn't have much of an upside over unspecced teleport

[spark vector]

They can both push as high as is really relevant

[weary hamlet]

you can scale it to like 200-300 corr but then again you can probably clear 200-300 corr with unspecced auto attack

[amber galleon]

I still feel its too early to say which build is on top, when 90% of the community is playing builds that were strong in the previous season, rather than trying something new

People are just waiting for content creators to have a new build for them, pretty much

[hardy condor]

yeah so i can push it to rgular aberroth andd forgt about it causs it will get painfully slow to clear ?

[outer folio]

is lightning blast not strong anymore or am i doing something wrong

[little pagoda]

your doing something wrong

[outer folio]

hmm i can barely clear lvl 62 maps at lvl 70

i just switched to it from a leveling guide

i have fragement and laddle

[little pagoda]

do you have int?

[outer folio]

+28 int from gear

[little pagoda]

and do you have the right spec's?