🧙┃mage

[remote urchin]

sheer?

[dusky pelican]

found the perfect mage helmet jwith about best affixes and open prefix ... i shattered it instead of crafting on it bec clumsy :(

[remote urchin]

also, are people using dual wield, or are they going sword + catalyst/shield?

[dusky pelican]

but is that the sword you mean?

I am doing shield version, a wee bit more tankyness

[remote urchin]

Nah, was talking about the only linked above it

Does fire aura count as damage over time?

If so yours looks decent

[dusky pelican]

yes it does

so it should help for sure, and if i unequip the number goes down, which could only have caused it by the weapon base and void dmg there and pen...

[remote urchin]

well, pen obviously wouldn't show on tooltips. but thats good to know theres a good targetfarmable weapon out there

[bright wing]

Can you recommend a good mage build for this season?

[dusky pelican]

Oh it doesn't? that weapon gives 5k dtooltip... is the spellblade passive that good... damn

[remote urchin]

depends on your intelligence i suppose, it doesn't have too much base damage on its own

[remote urchin]

unless things changed, it woulnd't make sense for pen to work on tooltips as what resistance does a monster have? It depends on their base type, affixes, are they a boss, etc

[dusky pelican]

true

only 156 int, but i just found hybrid t7 belt i can slap on a nice orions belt

bestest belt, any of the three would do fine

i should find a 4LP orian now :P

[little pagoda]

orions is annoying because it needs to be high int as well xD

[plucky portal]

my fire aura only 10k. i guess i got some work to do.

[dusky pelican]

like most say, tooltip dps is just an indication of % inc effects tho, so unsure if you should rely on it :P

[dusky pelican]

Yeah i got 2 LP 17 int one ... unsure if i should just wear the belt as is, or use it for this orian

[dusky pelican]

And you have to know i am highly invested already :P CoF wise

[plucky portal]

yea i am playing catch up. i skipped a few seasons. so just getting used all cool new woven, and primal, mechanics let alone omens.

[obsidian quarry]

how does the volcanic orb set interact with the unique spear that makes it void? Can I trigger the two orbs as cold and fire and they both come out as void?

[glossy quarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VXbHmMA44

The triple omen killer is here

[stray comet]

After 300k favors, red ring finally dropped

[modest heath]

So I'm debating between mana strike spellblade and a void knight, since i heard they've had some QOL love recently

[sleek meteor]

chat

i have an idea

use one of the new set rings to get orbiting volcanic orbs then get the exploding ground node

[dusky pelican]

Created an abomination

well created... weaver did

[carmine abyss]

quick question! what should I choose to clear? I just entered monolith

I just cleared one that gives runes but I dunno which one I should clear next

[vivid wedge]

Generally clear farther and farther away from the starting point as the farther out you go the better rewards

Aside from that, whatever thing you need next!

[carmine abyss]

so basically I just keep expanding the map further and further? also maxroll says I need to progress through the Fall of the Outcasts, The Stolen Lance, The Black Sun, and Reign of Dragons timelines in that order.

so when should I move on to the stolen lance? am in the fall of the outcasts atm

[vivid wedge]

so that's outdated as of this patch, you have to accrue 5 points in the outer timelines, and each one is worth 1-2 points (should be a quest that describes that)

but when you get enough stability (top bar of a timeline) to do all three quest echoes, the final one will be a boss that completes the timeline

[sleek meteor]

got any idea which mastery i should go with for a volcanic orb build?

[carmine abyss]

ah I see! tysm! 🫶

[agile juniper]

dex into guile cooldown reduction stack flame rush volcanic orb

curious to see if can get FR to like 0.5 sec or less

then you just need to solve mana issue at the same time and boom

prob fastest mapper in game

[sleek meteor]

acuity?

2% increased mana regen per acuity

[left hill]

could also/alternately do giga ICRS Surge+Flame Reave using the ICRS boosts from Altar layouts + affixes to juice the 18% surge ICRS idol affixes

[kindred oxide]

Which did you go with? I played VK season 2 and spellblade this season.

[agile juniper]

the real question is

where in the hell do i get 4 of these

🤣

[sleek meteor]

wouldnt the flame rush volcanic orbs exploding when the flame rush ends kinda remove the point of having orbiting volcanic orbs?

actually i forgor how flame rush works

oh its channeled

[sleek meteor]

whats icrs?

[sleek meteor]

trade i guess?

[left hill]

increased cooldown recovery speed

[sleek meteor]

thats a weird way to abreviate that

[left hill]

it's literally its initialization

[sleek meteor]

cdr sounds better

[left hill]

means a completely different thing mechanically

[sleek meteor]

does le actually have a cdr stat?

[left hill]

in very rare cases in skill trees, yeah

[plucky portal]

I feel kinda burnt out. i always do this.
320 corruption is my highest corruption. and i can just barely keep it up.
mean while see videos of people doing 800 corruption on different builds with ease.

i played a lot over the weekend.
maybe i'll wait for someone else to figure out some high corruption but easy gear video and try then.

[agile juniper]

i would most likely not run the two set rings for orbit

[agile juniper]

play lightning blast runemaster

i'm just about to hit 300 corruption in dogwater gear and uncapped res

[spring crag]

hmm

for mages, is flame reave better now?

last patch flame reave is not very good bossing

[cyan field]

Well, getting this at level 27 while leveling lightning blast is kinda lucky ^^

[sleek meteor]

im pretty sure you only need one?

nvm

i thought it had the orbit effect at one ring

[desert steppe]

this is actually sleeper stronk on firebrand's node isn't it

just 4 mana for a 300% ADE bonus

[kindred oxide]

yeah this spellblade build is still going strong at 1000.

and red ring just dropped in this cemetery

lets go

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QDxwXZL7

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 98

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Spellblade (84) / Runemaster (7)

General:

▸ Health: 2,328, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 305.5, Regen: 8.4/s
▸ Ward Retention: 157%, Regen: 148/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 72 Dex / 72 Int / 11 Att / 27 Vit
▸ Resistances: 131% / 75% / 85% / 75% / 94% / 116% / 111%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 59%, Threshold: 466
▸ Dodge Chance: 15% (481)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,126)
▸ Block Chance: 15%, Mitigation: 26% (477)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 85%

Used skills:

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

[desert steppe]

how's the survivability?

[kindred oxide]

surprisingly strong. i just did my first pull of uber. the damage is decent

maybe a bit low, will take better gear or perseverance but ubers def in reach for spellblade. with reasonable to obtain gear

[desert steppe]

mana is okay with just mana strike on CD?

[kindred oxide]

mana takes a long time to drain, mana strike restores like 200 mana.

so even if mana strike CD is double, i wouldnt notice

[desert steppe]

nice, I hate the "hold RMB + LMB" playstyle on manastrike + shatterstrike

[kindred oxide]

kk maybe thats a bit exaggerating but it takes longer than its cd to bottom out

[desert steppe]

I wonder if shatter can drop that now too

pressing manastrike once on CD is definitely much more palatable

[kindred oxide]

not even on CD. like sometimes in a whole map, twice

on bosses when mana reave is being spammed

you need to use it every now and then. it's like a gun running out of ammo and reloading.

one reload for like 20 shots

okay i pulled uber like 5x and got the first add dead.

then i died because i had a fire vortex on me that camouflaged under my own attacks.

uber is 100% within reach

will revisit later

[desert steppe]

ah man flame reave and firebrand's +skill affixes are both on chest

[kindred oxide]

just now, i did an omen and mana strike just once

[spring crag]

are you using the siphon ring purely for leech?

for primal unique, I wonder

which would be better here

fang of the berserker or the amulet

since you can slam frenzy corrupted affix in shattered world

[left hill]

CD mana strike is 100% what I'm planning for my shatter build #🧙┃mage message. less gear-intensive than Null Profusion and similar time not spent shatterstriking. might even save a couple passive points, but I gotta test some stuff.

main downside is it's a little squishier since % mana idols also give % armor and mana stacking also boosts ward/second through passive. but should be fine still

[desert steppe]

what's button tricking

[kindred oxide]

yeah just purely for leech. i mean up to 8% movement speed and up to +18 elem res is relevant too.

the leech is important. if you take damage that doesnt kill you, the flame reave spam is constantly healing. and it scales with your absurd damage output so it instantly heals you.

[left hill]

this post explains it: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1k5dnqx/comment/moh4was/

[desert steppe]

oh double press

💀

[left hill]

ya, instead of manually alternating, just using the queuing

nothing super fancy

[desert steppe]

btw which passive gives ward/s based on max mana again?

[spring crag]

hmm just wonder

what is your hit to uber and what is your health

since if 2% of your dmg to uber is more than your health then you don't need the ring

hmm your health is about 2000 so I guess you needs the ring

[brisk helm]

Yo spell blade is comfy as

This is like cast on crit heaven

[spring crag]

since you needs about 200k damage per hits to uber for your health

@kindred oxide next question is belt vs amulet primodial

you can get up to 25% more damage if you can slam frenzy in shattered world (if the more damage is affected by frenzy effect)

that does not even include added strength

[desert steppe]

hmm do I want to bother with ward build on a spellblade

feels like there's so many ward-related stats I'd have to get

vs just some endurance on health

but also it feels like there's so many ward support for the class

[modest heath]

Started with Allie's VK and it's going well. I might make a second char to try out Terranisaur's mana strike spellblade

[sturdy minnow]

btw any alternative recommendation glove for spellblade fire aura? I'm lvl95 and frosbite shackles hasnt dropped for me 😿
currently using experimental missing health to ward + atk speed glove

[kindred oxide]

imo, you're meant to diversify your defenses on spellblade. the passive tree and skill trees all kinda point you towards that.

eg.
-the passive that increases ward retention % based on your + armor %.
-the passive that gives dodge based on your Intelligence .
-the passive that gives Intelligence (ward stat) and Endurance (health stat)

tldr: ward health hybrid. armor and dodge too.

[desert steppe]

😰

the dodge one caps at 100 dodge right

isn't that like, nothing?

never actually built a rogue but I was under the impression that they need it in the thousands

[kindred oxide]

it's not very much but like. most defensive stat has diminishing returns. like the more you have, the less value you get from the next point you put into it.

armor for instance, eHP increase diminishes. you get most value the first few thousand points.

ward decay formula. your ward regenerates strongest the less you have

the only stat that gets better the more you have is endurance, but to a cap of 60

so diversifying defenses is already a good thing to do. just some classes arent built that way.

[kindred oxide]

it's 200. and the passive gives you +1 dex +1 int per point which is very good. the dodge is just a bonus.

[desert steppe]

wish it was easier to test builds x_x

[unreal forge]

Anyone knows how much mana is needed before glyph of dominion starts procing instantly to give fire auras?

[ashen halo]

Did you ever get an answer to this? I'm trying to figure this out right now myself.

[eternal mango]

It casts lightning bolt

Its new to this major patch

It seems to not chain though

[ashen halo]

Great, thank you. I was just confused because the description says "Lightning Blast," but the node says "Arcane Lightning Casts," as does the detailed info when you hold alt.

Huh, that's... a choice. Wonder if that's a bug or intended. Either way though, thank you!

[eternal mango]

Oh, its in the patch notes that its lightning bolt now

Was changed for this season

Last season it was not

[ashen halo]

Yeah I saw that, that's why I was asking, because the in-game tooltip for the node still references "Arcane Lightning" rather than Lightning Blast in a few places

[eternal mango]

I have no real way to unequivocally prove that its lightning blast I just read the patch notes after making that message

[ashen halo]

Yeah, well I'm going to assume that's the case as well, thanks for the answer <3

[desert steppe]

skills like flame reave that's both int and dex benefit from both +skills right

[elfin rapids]

Yes, just as Elemental Nova gets +3 from Unstable Core because +1 Cold +1 Fire +1 Lightning

[normal hazel]

Yo mages. Who's playing Lightning Blast? Im thinking about changing from my Sprigin totem to mage? Thoughts? I have all the uniques for the Mage build already soo?

Follow up question. What kinda twink leveling set up could i use, just the basic Maxroll lvling guide? but with nice corrupted items with heaps of flat dmg etc?

[neon cradle]

I'm playing, maxroll is decent, also check FrozenSentinel youtube channel, his guides are amazing.

Btw how do u guys increase movement speed with runemaster LB? blood of the exile boots instead of foot of the mountain?

[weary hamlet]

keep in mind that ADE isn't everything, the other half is more modifiers. Or rather the lack thereof in firebrand tree. And even those that are there, half are more melee damage specifically

[weary hamlet]

virgin increase your movement speed vs chad a wizard is never late

[normal hazel]

So you're doing the maxroll blater from teir lists i gather ("bino guide"). I might follow Sents, i played his last time and felt pretty nice

[normal hazel]

i think im ready to lvl. gonna go fire lvling i thinkg

[wispy rune]

ive heard meteor sorc is doing some funny things rn. anyone got some clips/videos?

[ornate coral]

i am playing it, gearing up was tough but now im having ok'ish time, tankiness is non-existant tho im strugging at 400c

[normal hazel]

"OK ish..."

[ornate coral]

Bcz i die too much for my liking and i did not find a good way to improve yet lol

[normal hazel]

that sucks though dude. I love off meta builds, but hate how tricky some are to get going well

[weary hamlet]

you building coc meteors or self cast mana stacking? That one should have few survivability issues in 400

just stack on mana outta the ass with the normal stuff supplemented by damage to mana and lost knowledge

[ornate coral]

Self cast but i dont have enough mana , i think my gear choice is bad

[weary hamlet]

the fun starts with about 2k I guess

[ornate coral]

Too much damage probably , aside from bosse i one shot every ennemies

Way overkill actually since 1 meteor is enough and i send 5 🤣

[weary hamlet]

I mean you'll oneshot most mobs with any variant of meteor, shit barely has any hp outside of champions/mini bosses

[neon cradle]

What? 😅

[weary hamlet]

rushing around like a student late for class is unbecoming for a master of sorcery

[ornate coral]

Do you have a build guide for the self cast mana stacker by any chance ? To compare with what im running

[weary hamlet]

nah I don't think that I have one at hand, maybe there's something on maxroll

my current sorc is still in coc and still with terrible gear as I swapped to my primalist to farm out the harbingers/etc, and I'm not sure if I'll go with self cast meteor any time soon

wildfire embers ignite is next for that sorc I guess

[stray comet]

anyone know if reforged set items CAN get the attribute corruption?

[little pagoda]

I dont think so

[desert steppe]

It's not too bad-ish i think, around 3x multi

Altho yeah it's half the melee numbers 💀

Guess all in all it'd make it deal around the same damage as the base skill

[weary hamlet]

not sure on this one but perhaps you need to be corrupting an item that's already reforged as opposed to the baseline set

cause I'm pretty sure reforged set items fall under the generic "forgeable items" category and not set items

source though: my ass

[full bluff]

can confirm that, have corrupted a lot of reforged sets

[weary hamlet]

wait you are saying that they can get the affix?

[full bluff]

If reforged = an item with a crafted set affix, they can get the same corruptions as any crafted item. Corrupting a set item turns it into a regular item with random affixes + set affix. Think I done over a 100 of them by now, for villatria gambling. Sometimes get 3xT7 of various affix types

Make sure to report bugs this week, since it is most likely to get them fixed and "save" mage for the next months 🙂

[rotund ocean]

Believe me, I have

You'd think they'd fix iceblink by now, considering it's a "known issue"

Flame caller node in Flame Reave is bugged, makes it cost 6 more mana. Leech node in Elemental Weapon is bugged, doesn't actually provide leech

[full bluff]

There will be a few bug fix patches the next weeks

I want my MTX lightning blast "bug" fixed

Spark Nova doesn't convert to blood nova

Visually the cold spark novas does not fit with my ligtning and red theme

[weary hamlet]

I hear that this time around we arent even the most bugged class, as nothing in new rogue skills/sets works as intended

[weary hamlet]

which is ironic as I'm fairly sure that it did convert for older MTX

[rotund ocean]

Figures

[full bluff]

Mike said the big job of making a skill cosmetic was the sub skills, so I expected it would. But it is no big deal. Just important to my vanity

[weary hamlet]

cosmetics not working correctly defeats the entire point of even having cosmetics

[full bluff]

Since lightning blast is the most popular skill it should convert the entire thing...

I am casting red lightning blasts that spark into a cold nova. Maybe only the red one is bugged

You don't notice the spark nova effect when using lightning, but when it is converted to cold it really shows

Ugly yellow nova with lightning

[full bluff]

If they want to sell me something, make more skill cosmetics, with variations in colors, lighting and so on. I am ready to pay for such luxury items 🙂

[weary hamlet]

What they need for cosmetics is more thematic cohesion and better development of in-game/in-universe themes, like some of the cosmetics don't look too bad but they have fu ck all in common with anything related to LE

like all the cosmic skill cosmetics, there is absolutely nothing in the game that would look that way

so it looks like shit from a cheap crossover game

like fortnite or mtg

[pulsar schooner]

Does someone spend some time to make a good lootfilter for LB mage 300+ Corruption (t7 slam bases, uniques removed only the one for egg etc.) ? mind sharing it
//edit
altars/idols .. also

[slender glen]

Guys, where do you get double t7 bases? I'm farming 1000 corrupt monos but not a single 1

[full bluff]

Nemesis or even higher corruption to increase the chance.

Bit sad that my current way of getting my endgame chase weapon is back to opening even more boxes for 2xt7

Just need 3x amount of boxes this season

Or even more to succedd with corruption

Dream weapon, hope to 2/3 of it done

3xT7 is bit too much I guess, will be lucky to get 2xT7

[solemn tiger]

How is light blast this season? did nerf really hurted this build much? can't decide if i want to try out ligth blast or flay lich on ssf 😄

[full bluff]

Everyone is playing lightning blast, so it is great

[solemn tiger]

Good to know, im curious how tanky it can get, compared to like lich hmm

[muted lagoon]

frozen sentinel said the build actually got slightly buffed once ur endgame geared

[full bluff]

I haven't played lightning blast since season 2, so don't know much about how it plays. Just see that everyone enjoys it, so guess it is both good damage and tanky

[muted lagoon]

with corruptions

[solemn tiger]

Does spark charge got fixed? i saw some notes that it was somewhat bugged?

[rotund ocean]

mama mia

That staff

[full bluff]

Quite a lot more random stuff in this seasons target farm, so have several options that I count as target, can't be too picky

The weapon is by far the hardest for me

Can't count on getting 2xt7 slams on everything

and hit good corruption

[normal hazel]

yo fellow mages. dont spose someone could grab me the 3 dungeon wp's?

[full bluff]

I only have 2

[normal hazel]

ill take em my dude!

save me heaps of walking

[full bluff]

My name is RedKatt

[modern thicket]

Can someone please help me beat the lightless arbor dungeon on t4 please?

[full bluff]

never grouped in this game, so lets see 🙂

[normal hazel]

Cheers man

[full bluff]

Current long term target farm planner https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BZ3OWbJr

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 100

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.1

Class:

None

General:

▸ Health: 1,268, Regen: 33.6/s
▸ Mana: 969.3, Regen: 24.72/s
▸ Ward Retention: 326%, Regen: 20/s
▸ Attributes: 29 Str / 29 Dex / 163 Int / 23 Att / 23 Vit
▸ Resistances: 26% / 26% / 57% / 26% / 26% / 49% / 49%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 33%, Threshold: 292
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (137)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (920)

Used skills:

None

[weary hamlet]

yeah but all builds were buffed by corruption etc, it was still relatively nerfed - although the nerf wasn't too bad

[full bluff]

3 / 10 pieces done so far

[full bluff]

You teleported me to Australia 😛

[normal hazel]

Welcome to down under mate

my bad, soz about lag haha

[desert steppe]

peeps do these kind of ward nodes actually matter?

even with 4k health that's just like, 400 ward burst, 600ish with more points at the end of the tree

don't ward stacking builds usually go for like 10k numbers or something

[full bluff]

At max points it is almost 4k ward

[desert steppe]

wait how

how many health do mages usually have?

oh wait I haven't multi by 6

🤦‍♂️

[full bluff]

and a % increase at the end

If you stack life and use twisted heart to generate ward, it can have a use

[desert steppe]

dropping shattered worlds tho 😭

[weary hamlet]

that node isnt broken or anything but it can be decent if you dont have a better use for points

[desert steppe]

can you get tanky enough as spellblade focusing solely on health builds?

without any ward investment

[dusky pelican]

Define ward investment?

[full bluff]

4k health, endurance, leech, use a shield, parry, maybe

[desert steppe]

not building anything for ward specifically, just whatever the nodes/skills happen to give

[full bluff]

but spellblade seem to be based around doing damage before taking damage

[dusky pelican]

I kinda have almost 0 ward focussed gear, but my tree provides plenty, like standing still 2k

And then goes up to 3k or something with all the on hit stuff

[desert steppe]

I'm gonna be honest my perception of ward is kinda warped by what I saw a couple seasons ago with like 15-25k wards so I'm totally lost on what's a good amount of wards nowadays

💀

[dusky pelican]

yeah no clue, but i think 4-6k is quite decent if you can keep it up consistently (could be wrong)

if non hybrid

this is me standing still

but i do have to note that i am an int stacker as well, which contributes quite a bit

[ornate coral]

Little question guys, im using fire meteor build with vilatria helm + primordial ring so lot of flat lighting damage added on meteor, what pen do i want? Fire or lightining?

[full bluff]

In the old times we could get enough ward to tank almost any hit, now that is really hard, so it is more about sustain it seems. How much generation / per second can you do, to sustain taking damage

[pulsar schooner]

Anybody willing to share his endgame lootfilter for LB Mage? With a good setup for slam item, havoc, idols and altars ? With bad stuff removed?

[dusky pelican]

That set converts it to lightning, so lightning pen

[ornate coral]

It's the staff that convert it to lightning no? Im not using it

[dusky pelican]

Ah yeah sorry

[desert steppe]

is this enough for uber/1.2k+ corr?

[weary hamlet]

maybe? mage has no real synergy with health based defenses with very few niche exceptions

[dusky pelican]

forgot to read the legends ring

[weary hamlet]

25k? rookie numbers, we had 250k at release

[dusky pelican]

then you are dealing fire+lightning dmg I guess

[desert steppe]

thankfully I wasn't born yet at that time 😂

[ornate coral]

Yeah i am, but i don't know if the final outcome need fire or lightning pen, or which one is the most needed for me, confusing

[full bluff]

You want lightning pen when using vilatria staff for meteor

[dusky pelican]

No clue, never got to kill him yet, and I am working towards it with my Lightning Aura build, but currently struggling against strife first, then will do omen boss and then attempt uber, but to repeat, no clue.

[ornate coral]

And if dont have the staff, but still stack lightning damage through helmet + legend entwined and int?

[full bluff]

same, still lightning pen, the generic added is lightning

[dusky pelican]

part of the int will be lightning dmg through the set, other part is base generic dmg that converts to base dmg of the skill iirc.

[full bluff]

BUT

your meteor is fire without the staff 😛

[dusky pelican]

yeah

[full bluff]

then fire pen

getting confused myself here

[ornate coral]

Yeah, i wonder if the total added damage sums up to be fire then fire pen is needed, or if the spell deals fire but the added damage need it's own pen

[dusky pelican]

ah but meteor has no flat scaling based off int

hmmz

only has the 240 flat fire base dmg :D

[full bluff]

One more try, the villatria added damage is lightning even if meteor is fire... so if you have more flat lightning than flat fire, you should pick...

[ornate coral]

my guess would be fire pen if i had never played any other arpg's

[desert steppe]

you'd be dealing mixed damage and each needs their own pen

[full bluff]

I think I have done this calculation before and ended up not using any pen at all

[dusky pelican]

yeah like Redkatt said, dealign more fire? fire pen might provide more dps. Dealing more lightning...

Unsure if generic elemental pen exists somewhere

[ornate coral]

Sadly this is not like poe where i see my exact X Type of damage

here idk if i have more fire base or added lightning lol

[dusky pelican]

You can count however

240 fire base (+ any flat spell damage from tree/skill tree/items)
then int will provide the lightning flat one

[full bluff]

What is your weapon? Think that influences the choice here

[desert steppe]

there's some stuff like this but I can't imagine they'd be common

[ornate coral]

But then counting is difficult bcz this exist + other scalers

[full bluff]

Use villatria staff and convert it all to lighting, easier to think then 🙂

[ornate coral]

this rn, i did get an LP3 and wondering what suffixe would i like since those 2 pref i enjoy

[desert steppe]

load it up to letools and check the + damage for each ele!

[dusky pelican]

But the only source of flat lightning is the set? right?

[full bluff]

for that I would get lightning pen or stun

[dusky pelican]

Because any generic flat spell damage will def be fire.

[desert steppe]

assuming it's generic and not applied directly on the skill

[dusky pelican]

I feel like the base lightnign damage they are doing now is not that much in a way

[ornate coral]

Oh well it's defintly lightning xD

[dusky pelican]

odd

did not expect that

[ornate coral]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BxvXPg77

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 98

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (63) / Spellblade (5) / Runemaster (23)

General:

▸ Health: 1,590, Regen: 19.72/s
▸ Mana: 479.04, Regen: 15.92/s
▸ Ward Retention: 404%, Regen: 135/s
▸ Attributes: 51 Str / 42 Dex / 174 Int / 35 Att / 42 Vit
▸ Resistances: 125% / 109% / 110% / 100% / 87% / 114% / 141%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 51%, Threshold: 392
▸ Dodge Chance: 10% (314)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 43% (2,460)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 95%

Used skills:

Teleport / Meteor / Flame Ward / Focus / Arcane Ascendance

[ornate coral]

I guess lightning pen it is then

[dusky pelican]

yeah that 80% more non fire hits likea truck on the dmg scaling indeed, my bad

[mild bluff]

game finally making it up to me for witholding the ladels

[ornate coral]

Welcome to the gang bud, yours is so well rolled compared to mine haha gg

[desert steppe]

ohhh, it's because of the added damage effectiveness

the 250 base damage is just at base 1x multi

[dusky pelican]

that calc is wrong?

[desert steppe]

while the lightning, altho only 85, is added at 12x effect

[dusky pelican]

the calc is wrong

or not?

[ornate coral]

I guess the added lightning has more value bcz of all the % scalers around it?

[desert steppe]

actually i was under the impression that base damage is multiplied by added effectiveness

[dusky pelican]

how can 240 + 29 ... multiplied by 12 be lower than 85.5 multiplied by 12?

[desert steppe]

but I guess only real added damage are mult.iplied

[dusky pelican]

ahhh

[ornate coral]

This is kinda bs

[dusky pelican]

yeah base dmg is not multiplied? odd

ok then, then it makes sense

[ornate coral]

Now bug or intented is the real question here

[full bluff]

Base damage is already multiplied when it is listed on the skill

[ornate coral]

And that would explain why meteor has always been a shit spell

[mild bluff]

now another 20 hours to find a wand worthy enough haha

[desert steppe]

ah, no wonder it has such a big base

[dusky pelican]

well TIL :D

[ornate coral]

2 days of farm, only got a double T6, the pain is giga

[desert steppe]

actually that's perfectly in line, since usually spell base damage is only 20, guess that's for standard 100% ADE spell

[full bluff]

all skills have something like 20 base damage, then 1200% = 240

[dusky pelican]

true

[ornate coral]

But then added damage has a massive impact

[dusky pelican]

the calc should in a way show it differently to be less confusing then

[ornate coral]

and since meteor mana cost is way higher than other skill and only sorc mastery can play it, the passiv is too undertuned

to make it up

[full bluff]

Just think of base damage as flat 20 🙂

[dusky pelican]

either way, lightning pen is teh way to go indeed :P

[desert steppe]

which passive?

[dusky pelican]

49 vs 85.5 (which cna become bigger i suppose with more int)

[ornate coral]

this one

Aside from meteor, nothing really uses it no?

Dont even know a build that is sorc based and that is not meteor actually

[dusky pelican]

so anything 100 or more mana would profit from this you mean?

[ornate coral]

glacier maybe?

[ornate coral]

profit at 100%

[desert steppe]

if we're talking base cost, actually I think the other skills are quite expensive too

[ornate coral]

but the way you build around is to reduce the cost

[dusky pelican]

Glacier can def go above 100 as well

[desert steppe]

let it go up and mana strike!

[full bluff]

This is my attempt at meteor build last season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQYw_P2oovs, it works but I didn't like the slower playstyle and locking in place when casting. Think it would be even harder this season

[desert steppe]

builder spender ||🤮 ||

[ornate coral]

But thanks anyway for the big help, lightning pen it is

time to farm 10000 wands

Do you have any tips for imprints while im at it?

[vivid wedge]

Horns of ukheiros is one of those items that is usually bad until you want to increase mana cost for scaling reasons

[ornate coral]

I have this stashed, is this a good imprint?

[full bluff]

Better get a single T7, easier to work with 1 stat than 2

[dusky pelican]

yeah if farming new wand, might as well go all out on the tiers :P

[ornate coral]

Oh what?

So it's better to have a single T7 of any sort? Or one im chasing?

[full bluff]

2xT6 = 1xT7 in value, but way easier to craft and hit a single affix, than 2

almost same value 🙂

[ornate coral]

so 1 T7 and nothing? If i hit a T7/6 is it better?

[full bluff]

Easiest is 1 T7 and 1 T5

[ornate coral]

Of the mods i want?

[full bluff]

Thats the same value as 2xT6

but you can craft the T5, you can't craft T6

(crafting is the brainy part of LE, I can't explain it as well as some)

[mild bluff]

worst part is i have an insane wand to slam in it but its corrupted

[ornate coral]

I just don't get the best thing to imprint part

What you are saying goes against everything ive seen in reddit/ytb xD

[desert steppe]

a 7/6 would be better than a 7/0 yeah

[full bluff]

Trying to say that imprinting a T7 is better than 2xT6

[desert steppe]

but 7/0 is easier to work with than 6/6

[ornate coral]

I see

Regaring that T7, does it has to be the T7 im chasing?

[desert steppe]

since you want to at least get T7 on the affix you're gonna guarantee

[full bluff]

No, any T7 can work

[desert steppe]

no, but it helps for subsequent drops if you manage to craft one with the affix you want later

[ornate coral]

does it have to be 7-1/1-1 or open slots?

[desert steppe]

(but depending on remaining FP, might also make subsequent drops drop with that much lower FP)

[full bluff]

There are some advantage to having the T7 on a suffix that you dont care about, then crafting + havoc what you need

[desert steppe]

open slots gud

means you get to craft in the affix you want for free

[ornate coral]

My most wanted are crit multi + mana/mana regen and lightning pen as suffix

What would my ideal imprint?

[desert steppe]

T7/7/7 on all those 3 😂

[ornate coral]

I wish haha

[full bluff]

Realistically, 1 T7, 3 open slots, the T7 on a suffix

So your drops are single affix T7 🙂

[ornate coral]

so 0-0/0-7

and as much fp

[stray comet]

Anyone got a successful corrupt on a set item?

[ornate coral]

can only mix/maxroll, cannot be quiped ot turned into rare+set affix sealed

[desert steppe]

btw guys how important is flame ward for survivability

[ornate coral]

from my experience

[stray comet]

I’ve been told you can get corrupt affixes on them

[ornate coral]

I have yet to see any then ^^

[full bluff]

Best you can get and still keep as set item is perfect stats

[ornate coral]

Obviously it's never on the items you want 😄

[weary hamlet]

aaaand it goes into the square hole

[weary hamlet]

I mean at least this is not that hard to calc, take the skill's base fire damage plus any flat on your weapon (which isn't a lot on like ladle) and compare it to flat lightning from vilatria

[full bluff]

If I kill bosses with other people in my party, can we trade drops then?

Like doing the last Omen chain encounter in a party

[weary hamlet]

yes

[ornate coral]

It's hapenning, i wanna cry

[gilded iron]

finally

[desert steppe]

alright more ward questions - assuming I go ward on spellblade, should I go low health ward generation or just stack ward from other source types?

[dusky pelican]

Depends on the gear, if you want some other stuff on gear, try find it elsewhere...

[neon cradle]

man, getting the right ormen idols is mission impossible in ssf, I hvaen't dropped single large one with cast speed yet :/

[weary hamlet]

low life is a lot of investment for not a lot of profit since your pirmal slot is either closed or if you try architects that has anti-synergy with your incidental ward gain effects

[weary hamlet]

always had been, at least for normal idols you can spam prophecies but omen idol drops are very rare

[desert steppe]

I want to try bane of winter shatter strike but it's so tight on skillpoints 💀

[gusty girder]

whew lad, shatter strike doing a bajillion damage but having to rely on flame ward 24/7 is interesting gameplay

[half pollen]

Whats your dummy kill time?

[neon cradle]

If I have spoon anad catalyst 1LP so far should transfer cast speed on both or one cast speed the other crit multi? or both crit multi? I assume there's no cap for cast speed in game and it will always give qol + defense (ward generation) not only dmg like crit multi, but wanted to ask before I do it :F

[ornate coral]

Sorry to bother again, i think i got something interesting, should i try the 50/50 annul or seal it? Does the seal affect the imprint?

[gilded iron]

finally atleast something usable 😄

[ornate coral]

Alr, my turn for some corruptions i guess

[gilded iron]

i would be interested how some of them happened, + mana and stun chance? didnt you use the guaranteed mod?

[ornate coral]

i used the guaranteed on the mana

[gilded iron]

meh, that couldve turned out better

[ornate coral]

i dont reallt need more damage so i try stuff

[gilded iron]

on the mana?

[ornate coral]

thats 5 Lost corruptions tho

2 revered to 0 lp with no rolls

[gilded iron]

oh i didnt know that could happen

[ornate coral]

Okay, i corrupted my main wand bcz this outcome got me a lil mad

Now thats a big W

[gilded iron]

ah the good old rage corrupt

[ornate coral]

This is exactly the mod i was hoping for haha

[gilded iron]

you wanted + mana cost?

[ornate coral]

the area

My meteors are HUGE LMAO

[gilded iron]

oohh i was under the assumption you are also lb

now the mana and stuff makes sense

[ornate coral]

shit takes the whole screen lmao, love it

[gilded iron]

https://tenor.com/e2qNTcbB4A3.gif

oh goddamnit, gif display is disabled here 😄

[ornate coral]

It's funny, increased area of effect dosn't show in character sheet

[mellow willow]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/8z1z90o0#6 has anyone tried this builds this seaon ? I am trying but cant get to 0 mana on fireball ( im level 58 )

and currently with staves -4 mana cos my fireball is

which is not triggering bluefeather band

[ornate coral]

pretty sure y can get -5

Dreadful has a video on meteor bluefeather where he reaches 0 mana cost, check it

[mellow willow]

yeap this build is from his vido

video*

and its his planner

[desert steppe]

is survivability that bad outside flame ward window?

[mellow willow]

and on this planner he has -4 Spell cost wand -_-

[left hill]

how big is the impact?

[ornate coral]

lemme find a way to record real quick

[full bluff]

Lets see video!

That could work, having meteors screen wide area, make casting and moving a lot easier

[mellow willow]

anyone else playing meteor ? is any way to sustain mana w/o this annyoing mana regen skills ?

[umbral perch]

As I recall, the video very specifically calls out that you need a -5 mana cost wand or staff, and cites the exact subtype and implicit at which that first becomes available. Planner is incorrect if it has -4

[celest parrot]

Guys 400k dps Lightning Blast lvl 77 , am i on a good way?

[umbral perch]

In the planner he has a base type that rolls 3-5 mana cost reduction. -4 is the average which is what the planner is showing you. The build requires level 60 to use a crystal wand, if you're 58 you cannot use the build with a wand yet. And the lowest staff with -5 is at level 70.

[stray comet]

More DPS than my lvl 99 shatter so i'd say yeah lmao

I'm literally grinding for these 2x T7 exalts, they must've nerfed it

[left hill]

ya, good exalteds seem a lot harder to find

[ornate coral]

@full bluff

[full bluff]

The efficient way of crafting seems to have changed a lot, trying to work it out now

[ornate coral]

Sorry that took longer than expected lol

[full bluff]

Looks promising!

I want to play meteor too now, but can't switch build yet

[ornate coral]

Haha, my build is so bad still, i need to improve on so many things

[full bluff]

Find a functioning playstyle first, then work on the power

[ornate coral]

Im using lightless harbour body armour but it's actually 100% useless i need to farm unstable core i think

[full bluff]

This looks promising for playstyle

[ornate coral]

And i need multiple lp uniques now

[full bluff]

Been working all morning on the plan/list of stuff that has to be done / farmed... will take weeks or months

Trying to figure out the most efficient ways, think, before blasting

I rather not run around opening boxes for 100 hours

[weary hamlet]

I'm using a -5 nemesis wand on my sorc to hit this breakpoint

[mellow willow]

@weary hamlet u play this build ? works good in s4 ?

waht is level requirement for nemesis wand ?

[weary hamlet]

I saw a build with the regular mana return skills/passives and the harbinger staff, how was that called again, that gives you max mana. Some weird interaction leads it to actively gaining more mana than you spend

[weary hamlet]

I pivoted into it on my league starter and I didnt update gear, worked like shit more or less but I guess you can push it to a reasonable amount of corr if you invest into gear

I don't even have a twisted heart on it yet

[mellow willow]

yes looks like its not best build 😉 Just having fun crashed all i wanted on my bladedancer

just wodnering how this meteor works in s4 after buffs

[weary hamlet]

I think it's a safe bet that hard cast meteor is gonna be better just because the survivability should be ahead

damage to mana is a free extra defensive layer

while with the band you want to have like uh 200-250 or so

so that you can chain on bosses with pot refill

[mellow willow]

i tried version with focus but i jast hate this channeling even with unique neck which making it able to move

[harsh abyss]

Does Band reduce the amount of mana it takes from "damage to mana" effects though?

[mellow willow]

however dmg was better

[weary hamlet]

no

[harsh abyss]

Doesn't seem like it'll be very good defensively then 😝

[weary hamlet]

so with a small and mostly empty mana pool it's not effective on blue band builds

[mellow willow]

theoritecaly when u spam fireballs u get ward

[harsh abyss]

Look at mr fancy pants with his 0 cost fireballs

[wary zephyr]

Hello,

I'm trying the Lightning blast runemaster build, and it's not going well lol. My leveling build was much better.
I know i'm far from optimal, but i can barelly make it through a lvl 100.
Am i missing something ?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, you're missing Vilatria

It's a huge source of damage

You need a Vilatria helmet (reforged optional) + the Legends Entwined primordial ring to create the set. Those are key pieces to making the build feel good

[tribal veldt]

foot of the mountain without slammed movement speed, you poor soul

[weary hamlet]

had been the play on coc builds for a while now from what I gather, as it turns out that not standing in melee and regening with the fireball affix beats trying to mana strike shit

fu ck mana strike all my homies hate mana strike

[harsh abyss]

I messed around a bit with mana strike + static orb and it felt pretty good. Didn't get crazy far with it though

[wary zephyr]

thansk, i guess i'll be back to my shitty leveling build in the mean time :x

[mellow willow]

Vilatria helmet is very rare and doesnt match this particular build compelty as this is all fire based

[harsh abyss]

That was for Seuv, not you

[mellow willow]

tried with vilatria set different build dmg wasa way better but i just hate chaneling focus and wandering like idiot around

[wary zephyr]

and do you guys think a Frostbite Frost Claw build is playable without Frostbite Shackles ?

[harsh abyss]

Definitely, though shackles is just a straight upgrade. It's a big source of frostbite chance, but you can get it from idols and chest/helm affixes too

[weary hamlet]

why wouldnt it be playable without it? you are just losing some ward

the build will still function

[wary zephyr]

great, will try that one, thanks

[prime berry]

Hello, does anyone play the hydrahedron build? I finally got all the unique items and still feel I don't really do damage with the build

[wary zephyr]

I don't have enough gold to respe...

[heavy raft]

I've been running the RF (fire aura) frost build. At about 200~ corruption at the moment. My res is all capped, ward at about 5k with 89% crit avoidance. I still seem to get chunked and one-shot quite often and struggling to figure out what else I need to change in my build to improve survivability. Anyone have any ideas?

[full bluff]

lucky one

so close to target

[ornate coral]

Idk if it's a bug but i have a weird interaction going, when im negative mana i cannot use focus, anyone ever had this?
From what i could notice, i cannot use focus while im moving and have negative mana (pretty sure casting focus while moving would just immobilize me and start the channeling before)

[desert steppe]

armor perhaps? or DoT mitigation

[spring crag]

hmm

just tested flame reave build

I would say that it is top B tier

[gusty girder]

If he looks at you wrong, you die when flameward isn’t up. Not to mention dots being oppressive with a 2.2k hp pool.

The good news is with CDR, flameward has a really high up time and he doesn’t actually auto a lot so the hits are spaced out

[desert steppe]

how much stable ward do you get on top of that?

[gusty girder]

None, using Nib.

[mellow willow]

ltes be honest all mage builds are liek B tier this season except LB Runemaster

[gusty girder]

Which ticks it faster than I recover it

[desert steppe]

oh that's actually insane that you get through that with just 2.2k hp

flameward stronk

[gusty girder]

Flame ward is ridiculously op and holding up a lot of mage builds

[gusty girder]

Aberoth doesn’t really do unscripted attacks, his autos are rare and most of the fight is remembering that there’s a ground degen buried by other ground fx or a blade of chaos floating around

Most of my deaths were to the dots. Can’t really hanging around them for more than a splits second

[desert steppe]

I last killed him in season 2 so I should probably do tankier builds first to get back into the groove haha

[mellow willow]

which sorcerer build you find best this season ?

[prime berry]

^Anyone ? Struggling at corruption 100 with this

[weary hamlet]

well I don't play hydra or any invocation build for that matter but with a well-maximized criterion you should not be doing no damage

[harsh abyss]

Unless your spell damage is super low, you might need to upgrade your wand/staff/scepter

[full bluff]

madness feels like madness to play, ward cut in half

but 70% more damage

[prime berry]

I'm at 103% increased spell damage, I'm using a unique staff as per the maxoll guide

[kindred oxide]

Really? I'm higher on it. Full on flame reave truther.

I don't think it's on the same level as the top falconer, rune master, or VK. If those are S, flame reave is A.

[prime berry]

It goes up to 183% in combat with all the buffs

[cosmic dove]

@harsh abyss the off meta meme pulsar build was a slog to get going but it's doing OK
question though. I tried to play around with Armageddon (meteor per second per BH) and mana is unsustainable
Archmage doesnt work for proc'ed meteors
I tried channeling focus even and it can't keep up if I have 3 BHs active
is there a mana solution for Armageddon or is it a trap skill point?

[kindred oxide]

I pulled uber yesterday maybe 4-5x. Got past the first add and died cuz his flame vortex was invisible under my fire AoEs.

The damage was definitely there, and I added about 10% after that with upgrades.

[weary hamlet]

been a trap ever since they changed random meteors for free into the meteor skill procs that cost mana

[desert moat]

what corruption is it where u can just keep doing shade to add corruption?

[kindred oxide]

I think it has to do with how many Gaze you currently have?

Someone confirm/correct

[gusty girder]

I would always get shade on first map completion of new corruption when I held 8 gaze. Dunno if something like 5-7 also works.

[full bluff]

I kill mono boss with needle idol, do one mono, shade mono spawns, kill shade, repeat, never thought about why that works

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, Ashunava is right, there isn't a mana solution for it really. It's a bait because proc'd meteors only drop one meteor and still cost the full mana amount. And it's hard to make meteor good without taking the multi-meteor nodes. So unless you're doing mana guide coc meteor, self cast is the only real way to play meteor.

[kindred oxide]

Same. I wasn't sure on the number but 8 feels right. I got it when I had 10 but not at 6.

Echo, shade, timeline boss, repeat.

[short spoke]

I'm using meteor main and black hole, with arcane ascendance focus and fire sheild

[daring ridge]

Hi everyone, i just did a fat helmet but i just saw that the ring is also primordial and i cant equip my helmet. Is the helmet better and i try to replace the ring by something else ? or there is no interest on that helmet? cuz i cant sell it so..

[neon depot]

for lightning blast you want the ring to count as set for all your other set items

[daring ridge]

yeah i know..

[neon depot]

looks like your other ring and gloves have sets on them, so youd want primordial ring

so yeah no helmet

helmet would be worst

just get a +4 helmet

[daring ridge]

i just spent so much money

[neon depot]

CoF is better lol

[cosmic dove]

this is similar to my crazy home brew
I went Pulsar BH but needed something to cast in between so I'm manually casting meteor. other skills are flame ward, teleport, and focus
just curious how you have set things up. are you using Armageddon (probably not)?
is BH full DOT or are you using pulsar?

[daring ridge]

i already got one but i wanted to go for a +6 i didnt know the ring was primordial too

what is CoF?

[weary spire]

Someone knows why my fire aura stays cold even If i remove the conversion Skillpoints? Stays even cold If i try converting it to lightning.

[desert steppe]

the self-found faction, as opposed to the merchant's guild

[desert steppe]

do you have this in passive tree?

[weary spire]

No removed the Points i Had there but my Aura still shreda cold res and stays cold as tag

When i relog it says fire but as soon as the First Aura triggers it Changes to cold again

[desert steppe]

so both the passive tree and the one on flame ward tree both unspecced already?

I run out of ideas then 💀

[weary spire]

Ohh wow it was the Flame Ward node. Had only passive unspecced. Thanks!

[desert steppe]

when you said skillpoints at first I thought you were talking about the flame ward one 😄

[weary spire]

Meant passives sry 😂

[timid knot]

hey jsut curious if your playing lightnign blast sorc what is some good budget gear to help u clear monos faster?

struggling to find "budget" gear since there is some standard gear i need but having difficulty finding it

[dull reef]

For me, any LB build lives and dies by their Cast Speed Idols. I don't play the most meta LB build, though.

[timid knot]

the idols they want me to get are lighting damage idols with the double lighting affixes. its rediculous how much they cost in the darn bazaar. looking at 300k-450k per idol and i need 3 of them. only in regular monos not empowered so gold is a struggle to get. also i am in mg but cant find good stuff to sell for money

[dull reef]

If you're in non-empowered monos, the cast speed ones are probably good enough to help you progress.

Presumably cheaper as they're less meta, apparently.

[desert moat]

make sure u have the single target chain node with some cast speed and ur dmg will be fine

[dull reef]

Heh. I never figured out how to get clear with the single-target chain. Is it just 'more dakka more faster'?

[timid knot]

lol my current dmg is like maybe 3k dmg at the max on a crit hit. apparently also most of the build revolves around "static" charges and is automatic.. or so they say

also i cannot for the life of me figure out how many charges i am getting from the enigma.

[dull reef]

Oh right, spark charge clear. Fair.

[desert moat]

i dmd u , i can give u a full break down of the build if youd like

[dull reef]

3k damage does sound very low.

[coral thorn]

what skills got updated to be able to trigger lightning blast? i remember hearing that was happening but i dont remember what skill was made to be able to trigger it

[harsh abyss]

I think the only new trigger is Enchant Weapon casts it now? But Static, Arcane Ascendence, and Frost Wall can all trigger it. The big change is that you can swap Shatter Strike to lightning, so you can combo that with Dragorath's Claw or Battlemage's Endeavor to cast lightning blasts.

[weary hamlet]

bro tf are these drops..

still not a single good essence weaver

[little pagoda]

apart from uber abby ive got nothing else to do xD

[dusky pelican]

slick corruptions exist

basically a bit of spellblade in my spellblade :P

[quiet folio]

that any good for my spellblade? lol

[half pollen]

just stack fire auras with cinders chest and do a void flame reave kind of build

[cosmic dove]

did anything every happen with cold-converted volcanic orb?

[little pagoda]

anyone say bees

[stray comet]

This 1 orr

This 1?

[weary hamlet]

its a pretty good build if that's what you are asking

mostly played in spellblade in frostbite these days

dual wield two yrun's penance, stack armor shred, that kind of thing

ironically the reduction in VO mana cost is a nerf to that build as it reduces your ward gained from mana

I wasnt following but perhaps these days you can ditch the second penance and use the 20% more damage set

[cosmic dove]

cool thanks
I always get a frost mage alt ish when I do play LE
trying to resist though

[weary hamlet]

last patch VO spellblade was played with wings of discord to abuse the less VO speed idols but with idol altars you don't need it anymore, although good luck rolling a juiced prefix altar

[cosmic dove]

you said mostly. is there a non-spellblade version?

[weary hamlet]

I guess you'd play it on sorc if you want to build it for direct damage

[harsh abyss]

You could do RM if you wanted to do frostbite with it

The "convert armor shred to frostbite" node is kind of insane. Though I guess you can get that on sorc too

[cosmic dove]

is there any invocation that would provide utility? outside the normal ward one ofc

[plucky portal]

Think i am gonna give up the fire aura build for spellblade. doesn't really make sense when sorcer or runemaster can do it so much better. imo.

spellblade should be pushing melee damage anyway.

which i gues only leaves shatterstrike build or flame reave build.

[kindred oxide]

Not gonna lie. Fire Aura was a trap that many of us walked into.

Learned a lot from it tho

Flame Reave plays almost the same style, easy to play, easy to build

[full bluff]

Whats the big issues with the fire aura builds?

Mine was that I felt like playing a squishy judgement paladin

[kindred oxide]

That is one of the issues. Builds purely ward based defenses on a spec that offers more. And can't sustain the ward.

Needs a passive that increases the damage that you take lol.

Your reward for playing melee is negative 8% DR.

[weary hamlet]

or on sb, you take that node on any frostbite build on sorc

[harsh abyss]

I wonder how it would feel on a cold based Battlemage's Endeavor + Frost Claw trigger build

[kindred oxide]

Offensively, Fire Aura doesn't have many things to scale damage with it.

Lets compare to Flame Reave:

Reave scales with INT and DEX. Aura scales with INT.

Reave has a very deep and busted skill tree. The 30th point you put into this tree still has multiplicative bonus. It's insane. I mean just look at it lol. Aura doesn't even have a tree. It's supposed to be a part of Flame Ward.

Reave scales with Attack Speed. Aura has limited scaling. eg. Firebrand caps you at 4 stacks per second no matter how fast you're hitting. With Reave, if you're attacking twice as fast, you're dealing twice the damage.

Reave scales with crit. Very heavily. Aura has no crit interaction. This is huge. Spellblade passives crit caps you very very easily. Defender of Welryn x Prodigy should be the basis of every Spellblade offense, it is very strong.

Fire Aura takes zero advantage of this huge asset that Spellblade has access to. Instead puts 15 points into Sorc.

Aiming Firebrand sucks. Spamming an omni directional damage spell is really easy.

Building FR is really easy too. The build consists of common easy to find uniques.

[left hill]

FA getting spun off as its own skill would be nice. Then it also wouldn't eat up a bunch of space on SB passive tree (e.g. elemental conversions). Maybe someday.

[full bluff]

Glad the Flame Reave builds are working, something new/improved to play with. So far volcanic orb and fire aura feels like a bit of ... Maybe just need someone to work it out

I tried the spinning volcanic orb and it felt worse than playing stationary orbs, atleast I could aim those and run around

[gilded iron]

ehhh, finally a nice one

oh two good ones in a row, just low roll ms but still have some 2lp pairs for when i get a better exalted

[prime berry]

Anyone playing hydrahedron? Struggling when I just entered empowered monoliths

I do have all the uniques for the build on maxroll

[lunar elbow]

what's the best levelling build atm?

[gilded iron]

for mage? glacier into shatter strike

[lunar elbow]

I'm currently on a glacier build but I'm at level 35 already

should I keep going with it or switch to something else?

feels like it's just about starting to taper off

[gilded tangle]

Guys how do I craft this

[gilded iron]

what result do you want?

[gilded tangle]

I def need to remove the spell damage right

[gilded iron]

swap to shatter strike asap

[gilded tangle]

Im shatter strike btw

[gilded iron]

you can either glyph of chaos it and pray or if its very low tier you can seal it

[lunar elbow]

ok sounds good, that one doesn't require any uniques right?

[gilded iron]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spellblade-leveling-guide this got me to level 70 easy

[lunar elbow]

ah cool cool

[gilded tangle]

omg! lol

Are you kidding me this sword is crazy

[gilded iron]

now you have two options, glyph of hope and just push the last affix to 5 or add one affix and glyph of despair it into a seal then add another one, you might run out of FP though

[gilded tangle]

I actually used evolution? the one that doubles

[gilded iron]

oh well

[prime berry]

Anyone? Really don't want to reroll

[meager widget]

I just got Keplahan's rings for the first time. I play a Firebrand Spellblade. Is the fire ring any good? I've never played withVolcanic Orb and I'm contemplating losing Surge and picking up Volcanic Orb so I can specialize it

[rotund ocean]

It's not worth the mana cost

[meager widget]

Disappointing to hear. For now I'm just going to use the fire ring since it is a listed DPS increase, but not invest in the skill

[dusky pelican]

So close with my mage.... last phase got him to like 60% hp (new boss) lightning version of fire aura

[spring crag]

hmm it might has more sustain and clear speed than shatter but dmg is not top A tier.

Still a good build

[kindred oxide]

what metric would you consider A tier?

[spring crag]

how fast it can kill dummy and uber

[kindred oxide]

i'll report back

[spring crag]

report?

[kindred oxide]

i think im in reach of killing uber

[spring crag]

I try offline gear

[kindred oxide]

i shall let you know my results, to see if it falls within your criteria of more than B

[spring crag]

ah ok

[kindred oxide]

but tbh i think the gear req for the build is like really reasonable.

[spring crag]

I tried max t7 offline gear but it requires around 1 min

for me that's between bottom A and top B

[kindred oxide]

but like. with just LP1 & 2 starter gear. T4 julra dies before the cast.

[spring crag]

other builds like flame wraith and rip blood warlock needs 48 sec

[kindred oxide]

ive played builds that did more damage than this too in prev seasons. but those are like S tier damage haha

[spring crag]

now one question

[stray comet]

Stat stacking has made me a mage melee tank xD

[spring crag]

do you consider fang of the berserker?

[kindred oxide]

about to head out to a hockey game tho. i dont have the waypoint for colosseum

for uber, i was pushing second phase before the second slam.

first fire vortex after the add was dead

that was comparable to my erasing strike vk when i first killed it

in comparable gear quality

but these are really arbitrary metrics so i digress lol

[spring crag]

@kindred oxide okay I changed my mind

flame reave is bottom A tier

[tiny quail]

man i love my lightning blast

its giga fun

[spring crag]

forgot to undo the cold conversion of flame ward

anyway uber killing time with full t7 gears is about 52 secs

after a bit practice

maybe it's the most reasonable fre build for mage now

the other fire build might be hydra runemaster

[kindred oxide]

Yeah! I think that's reasonable. I thought B was sleeping on it a bit.

[spring crag]

but that thing strictly requires a lot of good affixes

well it's reasonable due to not havng to insanely scale with good t7 affixes

hydra runemaster and forged weapon fg are perfect examples of a build that scale with good t7 affixes

I would expect a 2-3 min uberroth killing time with online gear

since this one does not depend too much on rolling good t7 affixes

[normal hazel]

HOME TIME! Time to Blast!!! With lightnghing !!!#!#@$

[lunar elbow]

guys can someone explain how immutable order works with skills without elements?

[harsh abyss]

It doesn't

Skills without elements don't create runes

[lunar elbow]

so

how does it work then? it loops the two you have?

[flint wolf]

any idea if nodes like this in shatter strike scale ice spikes or other triggered spells? my hunch is no, but would like to confirm

[harsh abyss]

I've never tried it, tbh, but probably

[lunar elbow]

I was looking at this build and I don't understand how he generates fire lightning fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VXbHmMA44

without having a single lighting skill equipped

[vivid wedge]

Focus for lightning?

[lunar elbow]

like at 13:40 in the video he even addresses it and points to his action bar and says "fire cold fire" without actually having that on his bar

:S

[vivid wedge]

Via mana guide

[weary wagon]

yo

[lunar elbow]

ohhh

wait

I see now

he has cold conversion on fire shield

[weary wagon]

do i have to use foot of the mountain for lightning blast?

can i use diff boots?

[lunar elbow]

and for some reason enchant weapon counts as fire

[flint wolf]

its a nice defensive item. good one to aim for. there could be other options tho

[lunar elbow]

I think because he's running fire aura on enchant weapon it counts as fire?

although not sure why it would since it doesn't change any tags

[weary wagon]

is there a guide on how to make the helmet for lightning blast

cause im confused

i know u get the set item

then shatter it for the shards

then what do u do after that

[flint wolf]

im not familiar with the build. if you have a build link it might help.

but applying the set shards is done by completing a specific woven echo that has that as a reward at the end

[weary wagon]

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

this one

[flint wolf]

under the gear section. look at the starter options for something interim if you havent yet.

[vivid wedge]

Particularly 1) get a T7 suffix exalted, 2) add a T1 set prefix by crafting it on like any other affix, 3) either havoc the set thing to T7 or seal it, depending on how much you like it

[flint wolf]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/resources/set-items-crafting @weary wagon probabyl the guide you need

[vivid wedge]

Great Bridge is the woven echo, buyable at spider rank 4 iirc

[lunar elbow]

guys I found a bug

I converted my mana strike to cold, but when I respec it doesn't change back to lightning

:E

[vivid wedge]

You aren't using yrun sword right

[lunar elbow]

oh shit yeah I am

that explains it XD

[lunar elbow]

thanks haha

[dull lynx]

how does immutable order work with skills that have dual element tags?

[proven haven]

No you don't. Just use telfun or blood of the exile

[karmic folio]

Does Ice Barrage fire more shards when I have more Cast Speed?

[proven haven]

It prioritizes an element you dont already have, and for tie breaker it always uses the same order. I think it was F > L > C but forget

[dull lynx]

was trying to see if the autobomber build could have a little RNG by using disintegrate in place of enchant weapon but after testing it looks like it always picks the lightning tag up from disintegrate

[proven haven]

Yea because you dont have lightning

Disintegrate is ass though tbh

[dull lynx]

trying to see if there's a way to combine the Wild Magic build from 2 years ago with your recent autobomber build

yea i wasn't speccing disintegrate, just threw it on for immutable order

[proven haven]

Yea I think you could maybe unvar runebolt into spam Eis

Eos

But you give up several slots to do that

[dull lynx]

yea. also was wondering if maybe playing around with flame rush and speccing into glyph of dominion would be interesting since the build uses flame rush a lot anyways, speccing into glyph (instead of enchant weapon) and then getting extra levels to flame rush to go to the node where flame rush casts glyph of dominion at the end

[tacit coral]

@proven haven your rf t-pose is goated

[lunar elbow]

lol thanks for the tips btw

I switched from runemaster glacier build to a spellblade shatter build and now everything scales like crazy

100% more damage and 200% more ward

I also happened to have 2x Yruns Penance :D

[normal hazel]

When can i play lightning blast? i gather when i have the offhand and i have lvl 50 with enough points into RuneMaster to have the perma buff

[weary wagon]

@flint wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Sz6uIoISA i found the video on it

oh shxt hes in here wtf?! @proven haven

the GOAT mage

[weary wagon]

i just rune of removal the prefix on this and i have 18FP left

is there a chance for the set shards to take all the FP

[normal hazel]

what should i look to upgrade first on Lightning Blast? Feeling pretty weak dmg wise atm

[karmic hare]

Get all your sets + ring, especially helmet set

[normal hazel]

kk

[normal hazel]

so +2 helm and the ammy and 2 rings. easypz

[zinc pewter]

Hi, guys. Any meteor build at the radar?

[vivid wedge]

no, the next thing would be: add T1 vilatria, seal T1 vilatria, then do whatever (probably int)

[zinc pewter]

I think it is a really beautiful skill and kind wanna make a build around it

[muted lagoon]

seen like 2-3 posts on reddit with people trying

and showing off how it looks

[weary wagon]

best i could do

i did it finally

[celest parrot]

Is anyone selling one of these helmets i can buy good price

[vivid wedge]

Fantastic, this is now like 95% of the stuff you care about and giving you lots of power; the stuff to improve on can happen over time

Great craft

[dull lynx]

Now corrupt it

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-gif-24496452

[modern thicket]

Can someone please help me and beat THe seekers summit Woven echo? I dont have it! Please help me guys!

[weary hamlet]

no, which is a shame really, but ice barrage is like 6 years old now and in dire need of skill tree update

[finite cobalt]

is the woven echo to craft set affix rare ?

[weary hamlet]

you mean to shatter? nah it's common

[finite cobalt]

damn never got it yet lol

gearing up is so frustrating in the endgame, it's layers of rng upon of layers of rng, and I don't even have good gear in the first place

[full bluff]

Every step is a like a puzzle of bugs, noob traps, trade-offs, kiss-curse, luck and praying the random number generator favours you

You can corrupt set items to make them possible to shatter for shards, if you have sets piling up

[finite cobalt]

I don't, that's the worst part, I have like 1 set lol

Vilatria isn't that rare usually but oh well

[full bluff]

It is cheap to get with favour

if you are CoF

Imprinting works too

[finite cobalt]

I am, I burned most of my favor to try to get some exalted staves / helm first, but alas

[full bluff]

heh, all out of resources too now, using my last favor on getting some havoc runes

[finite cobalt]

oh yeah that too, but it didn't drop 😄

try to farm rift beast too, apparently they drop there

[full bluff]

Someone hid/put a lot of wine barrels in the weaver tombs that I keep getting stuck behind when teleporting. Something new I guess 🙂

[vivid wedge]

I'm mid learning all the random shit, and a lot of it is stuff that isn't said anywhere until someone tells you. Eg favor troves being really helpful, all the weirdness around imprinting and havocing, plus all the woven echoes and ways to arrange them in patterns that are particularly good..

[full bluff]

Blasting and brain challenge of the game

[spark vector]

Why would the game explain every intricacy or use case of a item? It tells you what the item does and it is up to the player on how to best use that item.

[vivid wedge]

I don't expect the game to tell me at all, but there's a huuuge difference when you know the things vs before you know the things, and you can see it in what people ask and what they're struggling with

[full bluff]

I enjoy the struggle, finding a solution, we need a struggle chat channel here, for figuring stuff out 🙂

[vivid wedge]

If you're looking for a natural T7 lightning blast it's going to take you a bit

[full bluff]

I just use mage channel since the smartest people hang out here

You are either really dumb or really smart playing mage

[vivid wedge]

Yeah, I love the strategies and it's been fun to learn, it's just a little crazy having my point of view on how to do x thing changing so fast

[full bluff]

Small tip, there is a lot of half right and guessing going around now, so best to test a bit yourself 🙂

I tested imprinting 2xT7 for a few days now, no luck at all, so I guess it is not the way to go, but I could be wrong

[vivid wedge]

Most recent thing for me was rift beasts being fantastic for havoc runes if you configure them right, and also answers a question I had

Expected prophecies, got rift beasts; so the learning curve goes sometimes

[full bluff]

How did you set up rift beasts for havovs?

I need a few 100 havocs 🙂

[vivid wedge]

Still haven't tested myself, but rare rune mods

[full bluff]

I am testing favor prophecies for havoc today, while farming enchants for idols

Target is 200+ havocs in store

then I get a reward of world class bottle of wine 🙂

+12 spell dmg enchants are tricky

and why minion crit on mage idols... silly stuff

[spring crag]

@proven haven did you try hydra RM this season?

[left echo]

how long take you to get your first set of vilatria? i started from league start and now almost 40 hr and havent seen it. every season before i seen them a lot and even not pick them up

[tame loom]

anyone has any meteor builds i can refer?

[finite cobalt]

I'm lvl 91 and dropped it twice so far 🫠

and same, I was showered with it previous seasons

I'm not that hard pressed to find it because I don't have a staff or helm for it anyway, but if you are, you can probably get some set prophecies for staff or helm, you'll drop both anyway if you have some CoF ranks

[left echo]

im rank 8 for COF,i got 5 set helm proph (with double cost/mono only) and no at all

without that heml, my lihgning blast only deal 3k on crit

i cant even do lv90 mono

so i start a bladedancer, and there is nothing drop on my second char but i got enough gear from my mage drop and can do lv100 mono on corrupt100

this season drop is so stupid, they hide and nerf so hard, also, every season i usually have the build does not need rare drop can do lv 100, but omen this season, one shot me from one kind of bug with posion DOT damage

the producer really deserve what they have made in this season, i will go back to poe if it still not drop in another 50 maps

[mild bluff]

guess i know what im leveling next

[weary hamlet]

just buy it from the vendor then, it's like 1k

[weary hamlet]

kinda true but it's still not nearly as esoteric as poe "crafting"

[finite cobalt]

I don't see it, my faction is very low for some reason

[spark vector]

What is better for LB RM, Orian's Decent or a Champion Spark Belt?

[full bluff]

New stat page for character

Only 29 deaths for me...

Felt like more

[tame loom]

why does feel broken to get at lvl 40

[weary hamlet]

it requires rank 4, but that should be easy to get as early levels fly by

[spark vector]

LE has been giving away broken items at a low level for a long time

[normal hazel]

If i want to farm this helm, can i use Weapon Set drops from COF? Since sets drap all together?

[spark vector]

Is there a limit to how many sets you can benefit from for Legend's Entwined?

[weary hamlet]

as many as you can fit onto your character

[spark vector]

Hmm, odd

When I equip a set on my belt I don't get any extra stats from the ring

[calm plinth]

as many as u can fit

[calm plinth]

it's per Complete set, not equipped piece from a set

most sets including a belt would be 3 piece, thus u will have 2/3 (with legends entwined + belt)

[spark vector]

Oh

I misunderstood that

I thought it was so long as I had a set bonus basically

That makes sense

Literally says it on the ring too

Reading is hard

Yeah all belt sets are 3 piece

[calm plinth]

LESGOOOO 😄

[spark vector]

GG!

[full bluff]

Crafting and corrupting a good weapon is the best part of building, knowing the reward for sucess is 50% more damage

[stray comet]

Is pinnacle of chaos the biggest challenge of omen windows?

[spark vector]

The game needs more content though tbf, not more ways to get overkill levels of damage

[midnight current]

Does foot of the mountain still exist?! 30 runs at t4 and nothing 🙁 RNGesus is not my friend

[calm plinth]

lol just dropped 3LP Tabi of Dusk & Dawn

[calm plinth]

yea, was farming it yesterday, dropped on T3 first try with 1LP, then took me another 6 kills to drop another one

[weary hamlet]

got a whole tab of them from farming monos with the dungeon packs node

[humble mortar]

whats the best leveling mage for a season starter?

i have no twink items

[weary hamlet]

fireball or something, most spells are very easy to level with

some people advocate for glacier, ele nova, etc

[humble mortar]

you have a place to me to see those builds? i didnt have much knowledge about mage

[midnight current]

Totally forgot about this node omg

[calm plinth]

well that's a bit of a broken combo xD btw just natural drop

T4 Alchemist Ladle , too bad it's not the Mad Alchemist xD

sorry, LP4

[full bluff]

corrupt? Only one like that I have....

Could use the throwing damage I guess

[weary hamlet]

wdym? that's a normal low life ward affix

you can't get one part of it without the other

[calm plinth]

yea, but LL with Titan's Heart wasn't really a thing, as u would go for other chests, right? Wow it might be good based on rolls?

[weary hamlet]

yeah in that sense you are right, you can corrupt it on some strong uniques without having to rely on last steps/exsang/astral blood etc

[midnight current]

I added the node and got 2 drop in 5 minutes...

[weary hamlet]

its really common

[midnight current]

But only 45% from the dungeon boss 🙁

[weary hamlet]

alright folks hear me out, orbiting volcanic orb with the set.. but with INCREASING SPEED PER SECOND

[full bluff]

does the increase speed work? Slow didn't do much for me

[weary hamlet]

it does I just tested it

looks funny af

but I need to level my sb up a bunch more before I can swap to the orb build

[robust junco]

So you do a lot of Core Hits?

[weary hamlet]

that's the part I've not tested yet

but that's the idea

it rotates like 4 times per sec by the end of its lifespan

and you can just hard cast a few extra orbs between procs

spam mana strike

use fire converted surge or flame rush for the other half of the set

rush has its own VO synergy nodes that I've not tested yet

[robust junco]

Ashunava pov

[buoyant snow]

is lightning blast runemaster pretty tanky? i started season with zhp ballista and starting to get tired of randomly dying

[proven haven]

Im pretty sure it would be strong, tried it last season and I think its only gotten better with more attributes available

Plus idol buffs

Idols huge for reowyn fortress

Same with plasma orb and a few other good invos

Like LLL or Igneous for nuking uber

Hydra awkward wanting to use hydra relic over reliquary

[weary hamlet]

this but with 1000000% more epilepsy

[harsh abyss]

I feel like igneous is sleeper op

[stray comet]

LE is really starting to come into it's own with multiple gear check "boss" content, my journey this season since corruption began has been Aberoth > Majassa echo > Fading brink > pinnacle of chaos > new pinnacle boss and still need to do uber aberroth

That amulet from the new boss seems quite underwhelming for a chase item though

[robust junco]

It's very specific

But can give you a lot of dmg

[harsh abyss]

I mean, that's how chase items should be, right? Niche but crazy strong in their niche?

[stray comet]

for brutality it's 2% increased health per 10

[robust junco]

That the extra benefit of the amulet

But brutality give More Dmg to Melee attacks

Madness gives Spell Crit Multi

[fossil lynx]

Dang it lol, I'm not even done properly gearing my MA paladin, and already stumbled on a cool new shiny build I'd like to try: RF mana guide runemaster.

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, for a Strength stacker, the amulet is pretty excellent. You're probably looking at 40-50% increased health

[prime berry]

Anyone that plays hydrahedron can help me understand why I'm doing no damage? Can barely do corruption 100

[full bluff]

I was testing madness a bit, but the gain from extra crit multi dropped off once I got crit multi from other sources

[spring crag]

hmm I want to try a fire RM

so I can accept all fire builds that deal at least hydra level

biggest problem for hydra is how to balance the ward, armor and dodge

armor and dodge is obtained via minor idols only

ward can be found in huge idols

the one that grants ward can casting flame ward

[prime berry]

Are you playing hydra?

I am playing it and I am STRUGGLING

I don't want to reroll but I really want to fix this build I'm so frustrated

[weary hamlet]

dude you keep asking this but you don't show your planner, upload your current setup on le tools and link it

[prime berry]

How do I upload a planner?

I keep asking because I keep trying to fix this build and completely lost what to do

[weary hamlet]

go to planner, click import on the right, select online, input account/character name and it will load it

afterwards press save/share and copy the link

[prime berry]

Alright I'll do that thank you

[weary hamlet]

but how can we help if you don't see what you are doing? I'm sure plenty of experienced people here can take a look for obvious mistakes

[prime berry]

Right I didn't know importing a planner existed until you mentioned it

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Av9Y8q6O

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 86

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (18) / Spellblade (3) / Runemaster (58)

General:

▸ Health: 1,269, Regen: 18.04/s
▸ Mana: 197.11, Regen: 14/s
▸ Ward Retention: 263%, Regen: 11/s
▸ Attributes: 7 Str / 7 Dex / 81 Int / 14 Att / 7 Vit
▸ Resistances: 50% / 55% / 124% / 69% / 57% / 50% / 17%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 26%, Threshold: 254
▸ Dodge Chance: 10% (257)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 32% (1,410)
▸ Block Chance: 1%, Mitigation: 5% (24)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 50%

Used skills:

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

[prime berry]

This should be it

[stray comet]

You could be right, an extra 30% at 150 brutality would be nice

The DR for DoT is also great considering the poison in omen windows is troublesome

[harsh abyss]

Primalist can pretty easily stack strength to 250

Especially with a good Exulis roll

[stray comet]

my SS build can get to around 150-200

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, 40% increased health at 200 is really good

[stray comet]

So it's more worth than the weaver amulet which i'm pairing with primordial ring? i think i'd lose out on 2 skill points

I just wish it didn't come pre-corrupted, would've been good to get LP on it