🧙┃mage

[kindred oxide]

Being melee isn't that bad vs uber imo.

The fight I think is tilted against melee the most I shade of Orobyss haha.

[vivid wedge]

It's there too, I'm not listing absolutely everything (judgment yadda yadda)

But there's a lot more acolyte/sentinel/rogue

[spring crag]

I hope we can see crit HS skeletal mage on the list

Because I tested them offline

Same kill time as abom

[full bluff]

I made a shield rush build a long time ago, some koreans are working on... so lots being worked out over there in asia 🙂

Now I am anoyed, why fix Arcane Ascenance, and not fix transient rest buggy with AA

[kindred oxide]

Lol this sounds sweet. Shield rush is one of the coolest abilities.

[spring crag]

The spam one?

[kindred oxide]

I also want to test, low budget builds. How well builds perform with minimal gear.

It's one thing if a build goes nuclear once it hits all its power spikes or uber rare pieces. Red rings etc...

But if a build does a lot with very little, it's a fun experience even when you're not decked out.

I did an experiment with erasing strike pre buff. To see how far it can get only using free items from the bazaar

And it got to 850 corruption

[spring crag]

Hmm I have not tried builds with minimal gears

I want to test and optimize them

But abom is one of the few that works with minimal gear

[kindred oxide]

Hmmm. Maybe that build needs to be explored more.

[spring crag]

Btw I can say one thing

Forgw strike forge guard sucks

The forged weapon version is much better

And unless the build requires a shield, never use shield on forge guard

[granite sleet]

Guys, I'm following Frozen Sentinel's Vilathria Spoon Runemaster (https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/?flow=6afdd3a3-803a-4ecd-9700-d9dc7fc71691).

I am struggling a lot with staying alive on T100 Empowered and I feel damage is kind of meh. Can you please give me some tips?

My character: https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/gavlow/character/gavlorunemaster

[full bluff]

The radius increase suddenly becomes a boost!

Harbinger of Stars can trigger itself again

When did that happen...

[spring crag]

@kindred oxide I would also want to note: For clearing, flame reave is way better than shatter strike

But for bossing, shatter strike is an absolute monster. Flame reave is not even close

That's how these builds are

[full bluff]

Meteor now chain reacts until you are out mana...

heh this is just silly

[kindred oxide]

Good to know thanks! S2 Void Knight was the same way.

Time Rot was a boss killer. Erasing Strike was a dungeon crusher.

[full bluff]

the belt is useless when it triggers a chain like this 🙂

[cursive jacinth]

just dumb question how strong is 10 base damage ?

[calm plinth]

it really depends how much you can scale that, for example, Fire Aura has a base damage of 14 Fire, however i am scaling that to about 10M Uber with my build.

If you dont find ways to scale it it might just be 10

[cursive jacinth]

as in like % spell power?

i mean this :'

[calm plinth]

so scaling your damage has 3 main components -> Flat DMG (the 10 that you're referring to) then Increased Damage (would be Spell Damage (generic) or Physical/Fire/Cold, etc Spell Damage - only specific for said element) and then you have More damage, which is multiplicative total

Generally speaking you will want high amounts of flat damage and ways to get More Damage, any increased is good, but less overall net value for end numbers (dps)

[cursive jacinth]

Ah okok was just curios about i really wanted to give this to my friend that is playing voidknight and make him do even more for funzies

[carmine abyss]

qq guys,

currently playing lvl 90 shatter strike build got every 0lp unique and set gears for the build except red ring. my question is should I keep playing shatter strike or change to lightning blast? i got the fragment of enigma 0lp and some other gears too.

which is better overall? i am still at 100 monolith btw

😆

[calm plinth]

yea that would be a good buff, would be noticeable, cuz he has good scalers for his build, but it wont be like double damage or something ridiculous 😄

[cursive jacinth]

Or would it be better for a person with many many hits ? So all his spells / attacks get some small BASE damage in general

[calm plinth]

Play whatever you prefer, both builds can go high, there are good build guides available. Me personally, I don't like SS , it's just how it plays is not for me, several guys in here have posted plenty of info about the SS builds tho, so feel free to search for it, there were also planners.

When it comes to your gear, it is relatively weak, base uniques although good, are there just to enable your build, but for you to push higher you need to start slamming them with exalts. Don't hold your breath at 100C for red ring tho, it could drop (maybe) but usually people start finding them after 300, maybe even 500.

[calm plinth]

as the buff is giving specific base damage, it would only contribute to the people actually using it - e.g. for my Fire Aura build any buff that would give me Fire Spell power would be great, but Physical or Necrotic, wouldn't really do anything as i got no way to scale these specific types with my build

[full bluff]

I need ideas for sustain on a meteor sorcerer...

[calm plinth]

life sustain or mana?

[full bluff]

sustain of ward or health

[carmine abyss]

okay! thanks a lot! my last question is if I should start to look for 1 lp uniques then replace all my current 0 lp gears?

kinda lost at this point

[cursive jacinth]

OH for some reason i taught BASE damage always helps on all stuff i quess i was wrong

[calm plinth]

on Sorcerer side you have Fire/Cold/Lightning leech, there is corrupts for % of spell damage leached as health

[calm plinth]

yea bud, ideally you want to get at least +1LP, maybe higher if it's reasonable, then go to Julra and merge the Unique with a T7 Exalted, which will combine them into a Legendary item. There is healthy amount of guides on youtube explaining the steps you should be going through as you're progressing a build, even if its from a guide.

Additionally, don't forget that the Game Guide (press G in-game) also is an amazing source of information. Not everything is covered there, but anything basic is provided as well as generic pointers/explanations.

[calm plinth]

Additionally, take your time with the game, you dont need to kill Uber Aberoth or push 1000 corruption from the get go. I'm 700hrs in the game now and kinda still learning basics

[carmine abyss]

will do! thank you so much!

[calm plinth]

I'd imaigne those sources should be enough? not doing obsene dmg with my build atm, but 2% leech from DOTs (weaver's gift) is good enough to keep me up relatively high

[full bluff]

yeah, guess have to play ranged and stay out of harms way 🙂

[calm plinth]

also, another thing you might consider is the relic from the End of Dragons (forgot the name) where it drains your health per cast but u get ward, in combination with weaver's rings that also provides good buffer

[calm plinth]

aren't you a sorcerer/runemaster?

[calm plinth]

lol that area is kinda stupid, well done xD

[karmic folio]

you sure its not a different skill that procs it? Do you have shrapnel on meteor or frost claw?

[full bluff]

Yea, tried all variants, just basic meteor procs itself too, thats why it ruined the belt, can't have that on direct casts, drains mana for single meteors, so the belt is ruined

[karmic folio]

well its exactly what I want for my build, if you dont wanna autocast meteor then dont use the belt

[full bluff]

I want the skill, damage reduction, mana etc. 🙂 but I see the use of the self proc, it goes insane in a chain reaction

[karmic folio]

and that is not going to happen vs a single enemy

and vs normal enemys, they will die after the 1st meteor so they cant proc it again

[full bluff]

cast frost claws to trigger meteors, trigger frost claws, trigger elemental novas...

chains the entire map

I was out of mana in 2 sec 🙂

[karmic folio]

Iam gonna try to solve that mana issue but i need 3 more levels to start testing things out

[full bluff]

I can manage mana, but need some sustain of ward for when I have to stay in a close mess like this

[kindred oxide]

fyi, on the attempt where aberroth was at 4%, the time was 3:19.

[karmic folio]

thats alot of apm for a autocast build xD

[spring crag]

yeah. that is expected

[kindred oxide]

question. you have two items of comparable quality. so you have a backup when you corrupt one

which one do you corrupt first? the one that is slightly better? or the one that is slightly worse?

😂

[calm plinth]

depends how big u are on gamba 😄 if u wanna play it safe go with slightly worse first

[calm plinth]

man those omens are really rippy, im plowing through everything else, but somethimes i just get random one-shots when doing them

i mean, could be me-issue and i need to git gud, but still xD

[kindred oxide]

c) do both before looking to see if the first one succeeded or not.

is the psycho choice

[calm plinth]

hahahah gamba all the way xD

[kindred oxide]

maxxed

the other one is max on all the things I care about but +7 elem res, +21 necro res haha

[wise belfry]

noice

[kindred oxide]

hah. this maxxed too

this is actually really good, i no longer need the crit avoidance from a diff piece.

[harsh abyss]

For most builds you don't really need that much shred chance to cap it out, but it's definitely not bad

[kindred oxide]

yeah i agree.

[full bluff]

heh, found out I don't have to stay inside the circle of the omen, can just nuke it all from outside in less than 10 seconds

[kindred oxide]

second attempt after corrupting my gear

[spring crag]

nice

uber kill online at least

I'm sure the whole community will be excited to see flame reave finally good

now one question

how about fang of the berserker?

and get a frenzy corruption in shattered world?

[obtuse notch]

any build suggestions? 👀

[kindred oxide]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1sb1td7/flame_reave_spellblade_vs_uber_aberroth_build/

Flame Reave Spellblade Uber kill vid, some comments in the thread.

[kindred oxide]

in which build

i had to look it up

[spring crag]

flame reave?

with maxed gear I have both has same dmg

but fang gives more health leech

[kindred oxide]

ohhh

what about Endurance

start with 20, 20 from passives. Need 20 more.

[spring crag]

Have not checked endurance yet

[kindred oxide]

Reliquary Nest is really good for Flame Reave, but only gives 15

get the rest from an idol or something.

[spring crag]

right now

I wonder if immortal is worse than swat

because I have leech from fang already

@kindred oxide did you test whether swadding is better than immortal?

[elfin rapids]

Nice, congratz man.

[kindred oxide]

thanks!

[kindred oxide]

Immortal vise is better for surviving against bosses, which is the bottleneck. But swaddling gives great stats, plus weavers will.

immortal vise LP 2 is very rare.

perfect swaddling is hard to beat haha

[stray comet]

I’ve found 3 red rings, nemesis put necrotic resistance on all 3 😒 😒

[rotund ocean]

Slap on a boneclamor and baby, you got a stew ward per second going

[weary hamlet]

it had always been able to trigger itself with shrapnel, and now that they added triple frost claw on cast it can do so 15 times more often against single target, I played this as my ~starter this league (transitioned into it from fireball) and it's pretty cool how you can chain meteors by drinking pots

[half pollen]

Void fire aura is surprisingly solid as spellblade
Cinder chest has finally some use

[weary hamlet]

now add void VO

[half pollen]

Thats also surprisingly ok, although a little tight on mana

Lament might finally see some play

60 fire aura stacks go hard with 50% void damage per. Easy 3000% void damage

Getting enough attack speed for a 1.5 second cooldown surge seems kinda impossible though

Now if you could use all that increased damage for mages best void spell: disintegrate

[rotund ocean]

You need cooldown recovery for surge CD, not attack speed

[weary hamlet]

you do but I guess that with all the limitations of well being in disintegrate you max out on a lot fewer stacks of aura

you already used that chest in old versions back in 1.2

[finite cobalt]

what do you guys buy with timeless fragments ? more rune of corruptions ?

[rotund ocean]

ancient bones

Can never have enough ancient bones

[finite cobalt]

trying to get higher LP for your primordial I guess ?

[rotund ocean]

Yeah

and just better stat roll in general

[half pollen]

You need attack speed to get enough attacks in between surges to get the fire aura stacks from surge

Getting to 10 attacks in 1.5 seconds isnt easy

[rotund ocean]

Ah

[full bluff]

It triggers itself from just the meteor hit. So if I use the belt with direct cast, multi meteor, it triggers expensive single meteors

[weary hamlet]

yeah that one must be a bug, count on EHG to break random shit with every patch

[full bluff]

I am pretty sure it wasn't like that in season 3, I played direct cast meteor with the belt then

[half pollen]

Yeah the belt caused multiple meteors back then. You cant really play multi meteor with belt anymore. You either proc meteors or self cast them now

[full bluff]

The problem is the mana cost of proc meteor is so high that it makes the belt unusable

Charging me 100 mana for a single meteor

[half pollen]

Yeah, thats intended though. So no belt with multi meteor anymore

[full bluff]

In season 3 direct cast of meteor didn't trigger the proc so I could play with the belt, no problem then. Now it is just awful

But I guess thats the challenge of meteor builds, have to be something off

[weary hamlet]

they explicitly changed it so that it would not proc itself anymore, although as I mentioned shrapnel and now frost claw procs are work arounds

they even stated that meteors proccing themselves was degenerate gameplay

and then made the frost claw node two patches later

can't reason with EHG

[half pollen]

Maybe they like degenerate stuff

[weary hamlet]

just take a look at the game

twas funny to have them say it though

[full bluff]

Small details are lacking, like casting meteors while having arcane ascendance up, the meteors land after it ends... and you don't get the AA effects

[robust junco]

You should get the AA benefits (I don't know what they are, never played it) when the meteor is created

[half pollen]

You wont get mana on kill and stuff

[full bluff]

You get slow chance and mana kill

and more damage from slow

[half pollen]

Mana on kill works? I could swear that didnt for me

[full bluff]

I am retesting everything since it seems there were a lot of hidden changes to sorcerer stuff

Maybe some of the changes are good 🙂

[marsh cipher]

Hey guys theory crafted this build trying to make set items viable. Let me know your thoughts! Resistances filled out with idols
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qb6731x6

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 90

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Spellblade (50) / Runemaster (11)

General:

▸ Health: 1,579, Regen: 396.55/s
▸ Mana: 168.46, Regen: 10.64/s
▸ Ward Retention: 110%, Regen: 44/s
▸ Attributes: 66 Str / 35 Dex / 55 Int / 29 Att / 26 Vit
▸ Resistances: 65% / 77% / 65% / 66% / 45% / 65% / 59%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 65%, Threshold: 448
▸ Dodge Chance: 12% (358)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 56% (3,549)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 128%

Used skills:

Volcanic Orb / Flame Ward / Surge / Enchant Weapon / Shatter Strike

[charred mountain]

Is there a fun nova build?

Something that could easily farm 500corr

[full bluff]

This is my lazy farmer build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9prNPyvfJI4&t=5s, it is not Elemental Nova, but it is a kind nova

Requires almost no gear to farm 500 corruption

[rotund ocean]

The nova build for mage is flame reave with sunwreath

[half pollen]

Could you explain why you have both volcanic orb and shatter strike? Trying to do both will probably end up with neither doing any damage

[rotund ocean]

Because hes using the volcanic orb ring

[marsh cipher]

volcano orb ring and shatter strike is my main damage 😛

[kindred oxide]

I think this is good for this build. You want 60 Endurance and Brewmaster is an easy solution, but an alternative esp if you dont have access to Shattered Chains is Reliquary Nest + something like these

[half pollen]

I understand, but splitting your attention to two mana intensive skills is usually to the downside of both

The build looks like it tries to do too many things at once

[rotund ocean]

True, he doesn't have mana strike either so he'll be oom in like 2 seconds lol

Also has frostbite in his helmet despite not taking any nodes of frostbite in shatter strike tree, this build is strange

[half pollen]

I would recommend to either go for full health reg shatter strike combo with the relic for cold penetration per bleed on you (nib) or to fully focus on volcanic orb

[marsh cipher]

I see, I thought speccing into the mana nodes for the skills would be enough

Maybe I will add mana strike or use the nib

[lunar elbow]

guys am I losing my mind or is maxrolls guide for lightning blast runemaster just off?

Legends Entwined is the Primordial Unique for this build. It completes the Vilatria, Lich's Envy, and Ferebor Sets. You can obtain their Set Shards in
The Great Bridge. The Sets are used to provide valuable +Level to Skills.

it says this

but none of those sets provide any valuable +level to skills whatsoever??

[rotund ocean]

The legends entwined ring gives +level for every completed set

[lunar elbow]

OHHHHHH

okay that makes a lot more sense ty

oh damn

that ring is crazy

[half pollen]

The ring is absolutely cool. It carries sets on its back.

[weary hamlet]

self cast nova you'd be lucky to farm 50 corruption, the skill is hilariously bad. But builds that abuse proccing nova from frost claw were good in the past

[harsh abyss]

Tri-ele nova actually isn't as bad as you think. But it sucks getting it there.

Getting a +10 nova Crest of Unity is important and not super easy.

It's not a starter build, but you can make it work

[half pollen]

The main issue is that you need like 40 points in ele nova to get to the power level of a 20 point skill

[full bluff]

heh feel immortal back on runemaster after a day of playing sorcerer

[weary hamlet]

how good are we talking here? normal aby viable? uber viable? 500 corr? 1000 corr?

[weary hamlet]

a 10 point skill you mean

[full bluff]

I think a single spark charge from lightning blast does more damage

[weary hamlet]

getting 2 flat per int does that

[finite cobalt]

when you're crafting set affix, can you directly use a scroll to seal the affix the first time, or you actually need to first put the affix, then use the scroll to seal ? Every time I try the first one, it doesn't seal directly, so I might just waste FP doing that

[full bluff]

no, takes 2 steps

[weary hamlet]

the seal is a glyph, which by definition modifies affix upgrade, so you can't use it without upgrading an affix

[finite cobalt]

damn, so you have to use 2 affixes too, ok thanks

[full bluff]

yea, I keep running out of villatria shard

[finite cobalt]

this is where I am

it's both amazing and bad 😬

[full bluff]

My current one for area farming

Want one with more damage for bosses

[finite cobalt]

I'm playing CoC so I really need that -5 implicit and a cast speed prefix

[weary hamlet]

lol yours are pretty good

here's the best I got so far

[full bluff]

I don't know what to do with the helm yet, just using the original set item for now

[charred mountain]

Understood, thank you!

[full bluff]

Keep getting these high costs for t1 affix adding 🙁 cursed luck!

[full bluff]

Anyone know if this cooldown is per target or global?

[rotund ocean]

Looks global to me

[surreal steeple]

Was there a unique that made leech not stop at full life? Can't remember

[weary hamlet]

no, but if you use any low life affix like a t1 on gloves that stops you from ever being at full life

so the leech instances dont fall off

[half pollen]

That was fixed

Doesnt work anymore

[weary hamlet]

damn

[half pollen]

Only way now is lich passive

[surreal steeple]

rip

[waxen token]

at what level do you think I should swap to this if I have all the items required

[prime berry]

Which one of the two is best to use? Hydra runemaster

I assume the one with the ward corrupt, not sure if 52% crit multi is better over alll that extra ward gain

[ebon sparrow]

yall im looking for a meteor build, anyone have a good one? i keep findind ones and they js using all exalted like bro.. no

[weary hamlet]

there are like two or three if you are generous meteor builds, hard cast multi meteor mana stacking, blue feather band harbinger proc meteors, and eh thats about it

[ebon sparrow]

and build link

[sleek patrol]

How can I make fireball 0 mana?

[weary hamlet]

Spec into mana reduction, unspec some of the higher mana cost extra projectiles nodes, and use a -5 cost weapon

had to solve this on my coc meteor build recently too

[sleek patrol]

the issue is that it should be -1 already but it always stays 0.5 minimum

[weary hamlet]

must be rounding up from the piercing node if you have that

or rounding down from 1 mana if you have the blue band

remember that % increase/decrease apply after flat

[sleek patrol]

probably too low roll on ring, it's dr3ad's build and he has 0 mana FB with same talents and -mana on wand, back to grinding beast then https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/8z1z90o0#6

[weary hamlet]

your wand is -4 I'm using -5 to reach zero

probably same rounding issue

[nimble shoal]

Blue band will never bring a nonzero cost down to zero

Your -cost needs to bring you to 0

[lunar elbow]

ayyyyyyyy

I can finally switch build to runemaster

[prime berry]

Can someone help with crafting this, I've messed up many helmets by reaching 0 forging potential

The plan is to make the fire pen a primodial affix, get mana before life as a sealed affix, then on the 2 empty slots add intelligence and flat dodge rating

All while still having 1 forge potential left over to change intelligence to attunement lol

Is there a way to go about this I don't know of

[weary hamlet]

I don't think there is a miracle way to subvert the normal risks, just pray to rngesus

[prime berry]

Ah whelp xd I'll turn the fire pen into primodial affix before attempting

[full bluff]

Imprint it and get more of the same

If you haven't already

[prime berry]

You lost me, what do you mean?

[full bluff]

Imprint the item in the weaver tree to make copies of it, that you use for crafting.

Do not craft on your best item 🙂

[prime berry]

OH the weaver tree thing is not only for uniques?

[full bluff]

no no, it is for exalt printing 🙂

[prime berry]

Yeah this would be my best item, perfect 2 stats and 2 empty affixes to craft on

Thank you! Did not know this

[full bluff]

My belt printer

40+ attempts at corruption that orian belt, no luck yet

[prime berry]

Like this right?

[weary hamlet]

that said exalt printing was heavily nerfed in 1.4

[full bluff]

yes, there are 3 slots, 2 for armor

[weary hamlet]

especially multi exalt pieces

[prime berry]

40 is crazy xd

[full bluff]

2xT7 printing is gone as a realistic option, but single t7 works fine

For crafting an exalted to use it is almost the only way to get enough attempts

Since you depend on the base and all affixes count

[weary hamlet]

yea its a lot easier to get a ton of lp uniques now than good exalts to slam them

[full bluff]

Glad the 2xT7 farm is gone, it was not fun, doing boxes

[prime berry]

is it? I've been trying to 2 LP on my chest item for a while I've only been getting 1 LP drops

[full bluff]

More dopamine involved in this T7 + T7 corruption gamble

[prime berry]

From weaver tree imprinting drops that is

Haven't tried getting prophecies for body armor

[full bluff]

Which items are you looking for?

[prime berry]

This

[full bluff]

1 / 30 for LP2, prophecies is the way to go here

Can rune of ascend too, then use nemesis

[prime berry]

Ooooh ok did not know, I'll grab a few once I finish my crafting attempt on helmet

[full bluff]

Wish I knew what I know now about crafting, 5 days ago, would have saved me a lot of resources

[prime berry]

Haha I really am hoping the helmet doesn't get to 0 FP before I'm done with it

Would be a set and forget until a double t7 drop

[pale cedar]

Any spellblades in here with decent ward gen that can give me tips to getting enough ward so i dont get 1 shot while looking at an idol on the ground at corruption 200
? V_V

[weary hamlet]

think of it like this, if you are in cof then the RNG of getting uniques via prophecy is a lot lower than getting exalts via prophecy, so you want to outsource exalts to imprints as much as possible

[prime berry]

Crafft failed miserably

[prime berry]

This does make sense

[waxen token]

at what level should (or after which item) should I swap to Flame Reave

[pale cedar]

Flame reave is strong without any requirements if you're starting a new character. Just go toward rythmn of fire and spam flamereave, then use mana strike to get back mana

[delicate cape]

Can mage level as Runemaster 1-46 fairly comfortbaly, or is Shatter Strike really the way

[full bluff]

Easy to level as Runemaster

[delicate cape]

cant find an in-date guide.
My goal is to Lightning Blast at 46 because I have the unique offhand. TLDR on skills I shoudl use to get to 46?

[full bluff]

Blast everything with Glacier

[delicate cape]

ok so spec RUnemaster but just get to 46 with Glacier, instead of swapping Shattr Strike at 35

[full bluff]

Simple Glacier setup https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q9JgP2qk with some example gear

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 23

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (8)

General:

▸ Health: 330, Regen: 9.22/s
▸ Mana: 100.62, Regen: 12.56/s
▸ Ward Retention: 52%, Regen: 25/s
▸ Attributes: 15 Str / 0 Dex / 26 Int / 10 Att / 0 Vit
▸ Resistances: 42% / 25% / 55% / 38% / 24% / 3% / 9%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 66
▸ Dodge Chance: 8% (53)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (413)

Used skills:

Glacier / Teleport / Runic Invocation

[full bluff]

Get some mana regen on items and it feels much better

If you want alt overpowered leveling this is how I do it now with new mage chars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cRhN-PWejM

some fun in making a full legendary set to level up with

wrong link sorry

this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWYA--kZRk

[delicate cape]

What level does the FIrestarter's Torch fall off. Leveling with it now and it's insane (only lvl 6 tho)

[full bluff]

Could probably go to 46 with it

But need some extra boost gear to make it feel OP all the way

I overdid the gear for my alts, so I can go way into monos

150% run speed

[delicate cape]

nice.

I'm using Lightning Blast + additional chains right now just cuz the Spreading Flames proc seems to be the best utility from the Firestarter's Torch

I suspect that will fall off soon and I'll have to consider an actual fire skill

[full bluff]

I like the piercing homing fireballs, but need a T7 helm for that

hard to make if you don't already have a mage at high level

[delicate cape]

true. yeah this essentially first char. (2nd but first ripped, before having a chance to farm gear)

inc fire dmg over time is nice on the weapon too. so something like fireball with ignite chance does make sense

just would be a bit weak on the aoe. Ill look and see if fireball can "aoe" or chain tho

ah, i see...

[full bluff]

it can pierce, home in and aoe, but need points

[weary hamlet]

you dont need pierce to level with fireball, in fact you dont need torch either

as soon as you get spread you are good to go

then transition to line aoe later

then go for the explosion on 3 fireballs in a row subskill

your clear will be about the same as with pierce but for less investment and with better mana economy and single target

[harsh abyss]

I do it a bit different. I got for line right away to make bosses easy, and use ele nova for clear.

[delicate cape]

so far im really liking LB for aoe (procing the Spreeading Flames) still strong at my level.
Single target weak though. I was thinking of Fireball

[harsh abyss]

That's why I like line fireball

It's probably the best single target you can get while leveling

[delicate cape]

is that "Embers"

[harsh abyss]

yeah

[delicate cape]

yeah i saw that looked good.
Just didnt know if hte reduced cast speed and 50% projectile count was too much of a draw back

sounds like it's not. Do you still get +Projectile nodes on tree for that. I assume yes

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, but just the ones right after embers to start

[delicate cape]

makse sense. otherwise too much mana

[harsh abyss]

I go Dancing Fire -> Volatile Flames -> Arcane Divergence, though I usually end up speccing out of fireball into whatever I'm planning to do long term before I get to Arcane Divergence

My personal preference is to take 2 points in Conflagration instead of Adept on the way to Volatile Flames because the extra ignites are great for bosses

60% ignite chance for 4x projectiles is just better than 10% cast speed

[stray comet]

Took 30 runs

[harsh abyss]

Doing some limit finding in LE Tools:

[weary hamlet]

remind me again why did ehg in their infinite wisdom decided, no ele dot affix on sceptre?

[weary hamlet]

this on rogue/sent?

[harsh abyss]

Mage ~https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BGzbplex

[weary hamlet]

I wish we had a real source of omen idols given how much rng goes into them

[harsh abyss]

It's hard enough to even get regular idols

[weary hamlet]

at least we have prophecies, idol lizards/shrines/whatever

and weaver idols drop a lot from weaver trash

for omen idols you are SOL

at least they could make the omens drop like 5-10 at a time

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, we definitely need some way to farm them better.

[umbral perch]

Kinda feels like the COF boss drop faction bonus should apply to omen idols and altars >.>

(i assume it doesn't at the moment)

though i already pick up way too many altars

[weary hamlet]

of course it doesn't

[weary hamlet]

I used to but most altars with low rolls are turbo shit

[harsh abyss]

At the very least, the generic drop stuff should work. Like the chance to drop extra idols and stuff

Insane that they don't, tbh

[waxen token]

can someone send me their loot filter for flame reave please? I'm struggling there are none I could find

[cosmic dove]

Lightning disintegrate. Make it happen 😉

[harsh abyss]

My current plan is just the old classic: Static Orb + Focus (Mana Guide). Calling it the "Ethical Sorcerer" 😝

[weary hamlet]

nice 2 lp harbinger, I don't even have one good belt to slam into it

[delicate cape]

Hmm... how do i rebind my first skill slot to be "right click"? need it for Runic Invocation's Immutable Order

keystrokes work but not mouse buttons.

[weary hamlet]

nice the set drop bug ate two vilatria helmets

omegarip

[wary zephyr]

Hello,
Which one do you think i should use ?

i believe cast speed is better, but stats on the first one are slightly better

[weary hamlet]

what build are you on, LB?

then cast speed

[wary zephyr]

sorry, yes LB

thank you

[finite cobalt]

@weary hamlet what would be the best strat to get a good staff with vilatria ? My imprint is T7+T6 on prefixes, but maybe it's better to leave one open so it's more likely to drop "ready" for the set affix ?

[umbral perch]

ideal is probably T1/T1/T7/T6 or open/T1/T7/T6; the high tier affixes are very very likely to be randomized to a different affix while keeping their tier, but the T1 affixes are very likely to be preserved. and then you can seal one of the T1 prefixes with 100% success rate to make room. at least that was the meta last patch when going for LP2 slams, it might be different here if you really need specific suffixes

[finite cobalt]

I can't seal the T1 because I need to put vilatria and seal it. Ideal staff would be cast speed + crit multi, lightning pen + whatever (chance to blind or something).

[vivid wedge]

Ideally then:

T1 cast speed or crit multi
Open affix
High tier suffix
High tier suffix

(1/0/7/7 would be nice)

Then crafting process would be:

1. add vilatria to open slot
2. seal vilatria
3. add affix you care about
4. havoc the suffixes onto prefixes
5. upgrade subtype or suffixes or whatever else

[carmine abyss]

qq, running ss build at 133 corruption lvl 90 exactly same build from maxroll every 0 lp gear, but why am I so squishy? I have 45-75 resistances... will upgrading 1lp help a lot? my goal is 500 corruption

the problem is I got a lot of 1-2 lp gears for lightning blast build. including a legendary fragment of enigma (lightning dmg and ward)

would it be smart to change to lightning blast at this point?

still new to the game 😫

[weary hamlet]

upgrading to even 1 lp legendaries will help a lot

[carmine abyss]

where can I farm 1lp? I have been farming in 100 corruptions but no luck... got bunch of other 2lp and legendary items

should I change to lightning blast because I got 2lp armor and a legendary fragment

should I reduce my corruption to 100 and farm there?

[weary hamlet]

if you are on COF you are expected to use prophecies to get needed items

on MG you just buy them

[carmine abyss]

the problem is I am trying to farm wings of argentus in stolen lance.. then I killed more than 5 times of the boss but no luck.. then I am still wearing kestrel.

can I get the armor with prophecies?

because it says the armor is boos drops

thanks btw

[weary hamlet]

you mean you have a baseline unique kestrel with no slams?

[carmine abyss]

just got the basic unique

[weary hamlet]

at that point you need to take a look at the loot you are getting and start to realize that perhaps you should swap to a normal rare/exalt with relevant stats

cause if your survivability is bad then an exalt will have a lot more defensive stat budget like int (ward retention), resists, hp, etc

[vivid wedge]

Can you post your planner?

[weary hamlet]

you can't get boss drops via prophecies, that much is true. But wings is a reasonably rare drop so you can kill the dude another 10 times and not get it

[vivid wedge]

It's rare ish especially on that corruption and especially without cof rank 10

[carmine abyss]

and I get one shot in 133 corruptions

lmao one sec let me log into the game

[vivid wedge]

Just need char and account name to import into letools

[carmine abyss]

ohh

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QJW0kWPM

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 90

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (25) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (65) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,543, Regen: 18.6/s
▸ Mana: 180.46, Regen: 10.88/s
▸ Ward Retention: 228%, Regen: 134/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 65 Dex / 55 Int / 14 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 42% / 45% / 64% / 112% / 59% / 79% / 40%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 69%, Threshold: 309
▸ Dodge Chance: 17% (501)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 25% (961)

Used skills:

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

[carmine abyss]

hmmm tried my best to copy paste the build from maxroll but ye everything is 0 lp

[weary hamlet]

yea so the skills/passives are reasonable enough, your problem is bad gear

[carmine abyss]

but I copied everything

[weary hamlet]

start looking for rares/exalts for chest cause kestrel is pepega at that level

your hands and ring are very bad - are you not using crafting to upgrade items? You should

[carmine abyss]

i think i have this 1lp kestrel

[weary hamlet]

foot with 0 lp is also pretty bad if you have a good exalted boot use that in the meanwhile

and put your foot into nemesis

[carmine abyss]

actually I have been using forge system.. its just I saw I had 0 void resistance so I added that

[weary hamlet]

siphon is good for maximizing damage but if you are struggling with survivability you can also replace it with an exalted ring with hp/resists you lack and equip it back once you sort your gear

you can also largely fix your resists with blessings, currently you only have phys res blessing

[carmine abyss]

I am struggling atm.. so I need to change rings / foot / gloves to rare gears?

hmmm

[weary hamlet]

also you need crit defense in empowered monos and you have neither crit avoidance nor reduced damage from crits

[carmine abyss]

😩 i am overwhelmed

[weary hamlet]

I would adivse you to get the crit avoidance blessing in reign of dragons and equipping like a ring with one crit avoidance suffix

[carmine abyss]

sorry

sorry what should I do atm?

get the blessing?

[weary hamlet]

rare or exalted gear with relevant stats

you can go back to normal monos if you are struggling (and with that gear you will) and try to get blessings, although normal mono blessings are kinda bad but it's better than nothing

you can also unequip some more damage focused items like siphon or even the nib and replace with rare/exalts with defensive stats

[carmine abyss]

actually I was doing fine in 100 corruptions

i just died multiple times after 133

[weary hamlet]

you should have more than enough damage for 100 corr without them

you can go back to 100 then

100 is a lot better to farm than normal

[carmine abyss]

so I should farm gears and blessing in 100 ?

[nimble shoal]

Outside of hardcore, crit avoid is real low priority tbh. One of the lowest. Resists and health/endurance/ward are all above it for sure

[weary hamlet]

if you can farm empowered for blessings you should, as empowered blessings are a lot better than normal blessings

[weary hamlet]

nah it's turbo annoying to get randomly oneshot without it

[carmine abyss]

yes I can get them in 100 corruptions

[nimble shoal]

Eh, it's extremely rare ime

[weary hamlet]

also crit avoidance now gives free dodge which has synergy with sb passives

[nimble shoal]

It's to the point I just ignore crit mitigation usually for 300c and below

[weary hamlet]

and dex stacking

although yea I guess crit avoidance is a lower priority than hp, ward and resists

for resists the priority should be phys > void > fire > necro > cold/lightning > poison

poison res is the real dump stat

[elfin rapids]

LMAO that thing with 100% damage dealt to mana has 56170 ehp without even counting armor mitigation or damage reduction from Red Rings.

Btw you don't need to put 6 points into Transcendence passive on Runemaster tree because Fractured Crown erases your ward.

Also sad it can't use Vilatria on the helmet or staff to combine with Legends Entwined.

[vivid wedge]

So a few things I'm noticing:

No cold damage %
Amulet and chest especially need work
Rare ring isn't great

[nimble shoal]

Real, I never intentionally get poison res anymore. More important to get a cleanse and then just don't stand in ground DOTs

[vivid wedge]

Some of the SS points seem questionable, you have a lot of points that are getting you 60% crit multi and not % more nodes

[carmine abyss]

I was just following the build guide..

not sure what I was missing

[weary hamlet]

even worse now cause most of the dots in omens is ignites from the fu cking skeletal pyromancers

[carmine abyss]

also wondering if i can or should change to lightning blast with these gears?

[weary hamlet]

that tick for 50k per sec

[weary hamlet]

the guide probably expects you to have a great grasp of the game's fundamentals to know how to find and cover gaps in your defensives/gearing

[harsh abyss]

Focus has base damage equal to 60% of your max mana, flat damage shouldn't be that necessary

[carmine abyss]

literally need SOS! lmao

[vivid wedge]

You're right, you're following it very well

No issue with your process

[carmine abyss]

welp I tried my best

but ye didnt work

[vivid wedge]

I think it has a gap between "starter" and "1 lp slam wings of argentus" it's not saying

[carmine abyss]

[vivid wedge]

Hang on hang on this is easy to fix

Okay, chest: ideally get something with +2-3 to shatter strike, % hp as a suffix, and int or dex

[elfin rapids]

Oh i see what you did there, but in this case wouldn't Mana Guide be a better amulet? And how do you scale increased damage since Attunement doesn't do that for mage? (i hope in a future season they rework Sorcerer to become a mix of Attunement/Int based)

[carmine abyss]

so should I go back to 100 corruptions and farm the armor? or should I get the blessing 1st?

[vivid wedge]

Farm the corruption that you can comfortably do, if that's 100 then 100

[carmine abyss]

also should I care woven echo at the moment?

[vivid wedge]

You get more items by living than by doing a higher corruption

[vivid wedge]

Not yet, they're all challenging for different reasons and getting geared will make them easier

[carmine abyss]

I found its easy at 100 corruption so I upgraded then ye was a slap in the face

[vivid wedge]

I didn't particularly like the maxroll guide but I also played my SS spellblade a little differently

[carmine abyss]

so I can just ignore the tomb and weaver tree?

[vivid wedge]

Yes and no, weaver tree is important but also figuring out two things at once is a lot, if maxroll has a tree that probably works

[carmine abyss]

i was a d4 player so ye LE is very challenging 😆

[vivid wedge]

I suspect your damage is a little low and your defense layers (crit avoidance, resistances, ward, etc) are all a little suspect

[carmine abyss]

following the build simply doesnt work here because a lot of hidden features

[harsh abyss]

Listen, you're adding way too much complexity. I was just trying to see how much mana I could get 😝

[vivid wedge]

Spellblade gets a lot of survival on hit, so not surviving the initial hits makes it harder to get more ward

[harsh abyss]

In reality you'd definitely use mana guide, probably with a T7 lightning damage or something.

[carmine abyss]

guess I chose the wrong build.. maybe should have started with a simple point click class

[vivid wedge]

SS is fun! Are you merchants guild or CoF

[carmine abyss]

cof

[vivid wedge]

Gonna be honest SS is not as new player friendly as like lightning blast because you're more vulnerable by having to be up close

[weary hamlet]

I mean there are easier builds/classes in the game but its mostly just sentinel, sb and your build in particular is fine

[vivid wedge]

However it's fun so let's fix it

[weary hamlet]

you just need to take a step back from the guide and start working from your character, you have a survivability issue, you gotta fix it

[elfin rapids]

EHG also should improve that Focus node from 60% max mana as flat damage to 100% and raise the Lightning Wave frequency to 34% per point from 20%.

[weary hamlet]

like Siphon and Nib are endgame damage focused items, you don't need them at this point - but you do need more health, ward and resists if you keep dying

[vivid wedge]

The guide is like...a rough guide to where you want the journey to end up, but the bits in the middle it doesn't show

[carmine abyss]

should I or can I change to lightning blast with these gears?

[harsh abyss]

Do what they should do with ALL channeling skills and make them scale with cast speed.

Change that node to be a larger AOE radius

[weary hamlet]

I mean you can always change builds but LB will not be much better than your current situation if this is all you got, it's very gear dependent

a lot more so than your build

[carmine abyss]

ohhh

[vivid wedge]

Okay, I'm going to plug a different variety of SS which worked for me

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rwcL6ex7XVfPa9TyZaXcUwa-9fsjwuw-i_TyuBOc8DE/edit?tab=t.0

It's a little easier because it's mostly sets

However trading one thing that isn't clear for another thing may not help, so I guess focusing on basics:

1. what's killing you or making you not able to kill them
2. what can you improve to fix that

[weary hamlet]

also for better or worse a lot of builds these days, including most mage builds, are real focused on primary stat stacking so in this case int, you should aim to have int on all available pieces as a priority

it just gives you too much of both damage and defense

[carmine abyss]

welp I guess I was heading the wrong direction in the 1st place. because I did more than 15 times of lightless arbor dungeons to get the foot of mountain because the maxroll suggested.. then ye felt I wasnt rewarded as I expected..

I know its my fault

thought 0lp would work at this stage

[cosmic dove]

I just corrupted my boots and it wiped the T7 int slam off of them
so it is definitely for the worse 😂

[weary hamlet]

the part maxroll forgot to tell you is that you are supposed to get the weaver tree node that spawns dungeon mobs in your echoes which then drop dungeon loot, including these boots. Far better than wasting time farming the dungeon directly

[vivid wedge]

This depends on what you're seeing, so if the issue is:

1. a certain type of damage > resistance
2. run out of mana so mana striking a lot > mana efficiency nodes in SS
3. all damage types > ward passives

[carmine abyss]

please continue I am listening and taking a note

[vivid wedge]

Not your fault, they're not saying everything and it's like a momentary snapshot, it's not showing before and after

[weary hamlet]

honestly this reminds me why I dislike maxroll so much

their guides are maybe not "terrible" but they are most useful for people who need them the least

[vivid wedge]

Baseline stuff: cap resistances (75%) , cap crit avoidance, and add hp as suffixes, take ward on hit passives, and as many % more damage passives in SS as possible

Woven flesh from the Fall of the Outcasts timeline is a good starter

You shouldn't be mana striking much at all, use the node that consumes fire aura and that gives mana on hit

[carmine abyss]

do I have to get 1lp right now? or 0 lp is fine

i mean woven flesh

i can farm this in 100 corruptions

[vivid wedge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B4XdPqO9

@carmine abyss okay I redid some skill and passive allocation

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 90

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (70) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,459, Regen: 18.6/s
▸ Mana: 219.46, Regen: 10.88/s
▸ Ward Retention: 228%, Regen: 138/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 62 Dex / 55 Int / 14 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 57% / 48% / 67% / 112% / 59% / 79% / 40%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 69%, Threshold: 292
▸ Dodge Chance: 14% (392)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 25% (961)

Used skills:

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

[vivid wedge]

the goal of this is to give you more mana and give you more time to be shatter striking things

[carmine abyss]

okay i am gonna reset skills/passive points right now

[vivid wedge]

cold SS indirectly casts ice spikes, which will trigger Blade Conduit (passive) to give more mana regen, then you'll get fire aura stacks on enchant weapon, on hit, and on using flame shield, which you'll consume to get more mana on hit

moments when you're not hitting stuff with Shatter Strike are moments when you're not dealing as much damage as you could be

[vivid wedge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/o3ZbPlgV

some minor fixes to shield and mana strike

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 90

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (70) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 1,459, Regen: 18.6/s
▸ Mana: 219.46, Regen: 10.88/s
▸ Ward Retention: 228%, Regen: 138/s
▸ Attributes: 14 Str / 62 Dex / 55 Int / 14 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 57% / 48% / 67% / 112% / 59% / 79% / 40%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 69%, Threshold: 292
▸ Dodge Chance: 14% (392)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 25% (961)

Used skills:

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

[carmine abyss]

okay changed it all over

so what should I do now? farm Woven Flesh armor?

[vivid wedge]

first do a few 100 corruption echoes, see how it feels, see what's not going right

woven flesh is a good starter armor and pretty easy to farm

but first priority is to check:

1. do you have enough mana to Shatter Strike most of the time? you shouldn't be mana striking much
2. how's your damage feel at 100 corruption?

then over time, cap resistances (focus on a ring and amulet, in particular)

[carmine abyss]

ok will take off kestrel once i get woven flesh

[vivid wedge]

you can also consider dropping the relic, which while fantastic, can kill you pretty easily if you aren't watching the self-bleed stacks

so if survivalability is a problem, that's one thing to check- how much damage are you taking from that

[carmine abyss]

okay sure. btw I have ** Legends Entwined**

should i wear it?

with siphon of anguish??

[vivid wedge]

it's very good but it's an entirely different setup compared to the one you have now

[carmine abyss]

ohhh

[vivid wedge]

it's for doing lots of sets at a time

so for now, don't use it

it's also mutually exclusive with the dagger you're using, because both are 'primordial' items

aka rift beast stuff

[carmine abyss]

i saved a lot of set items

i think i have almost everything from the google doc u sent

[vivid wedge]

that's really good

[carmine abyss]

just missing one weapon and wings of argentus i believe

[vivid wedge]

and worth a look, but first try out the setup you have now with some alterations

even the google doc, while good, isn't really stating a lot of the 'how to build the defenses for your character' assumptions

[carmine abyss]

sure

i have 0 issue with survivability in 100 corruptions even with bloody nib

[vivid wedge]

excellent

once you've done a few, try 133 again

but before you go back, try to get an elemental resistance suffix somewhere

amulet, probably

[carmine abyss]

shouldnt i change my ring and gloves 1st?

[vivid wedge]

gloves are honestly okay

not great, if you have FP on them that'd be useful

the baseline that most people assume is that by empowered monoliths, you have T20 (two T5 prefixes, two T5 suffixes) on nearly every piece of gear

some of these (like the ring) are closer to T13, so those aren't matching the (unstated) assumptions

[carmine abyss]

btw do I have to add point to kindling blade because I use macro and no issue with pressing enchant weapon

[vivid wedge]

depends; you don't want it activating when you're not hitting stuff, but if you don't need it, fantastic

that was my assumption, so tailor it to you and remove it 🙂

[carmine abyss]

so what it basically does is auto casting enchant weapon whenever i hit mobs?

am I understanding it correctly?

[vivid wedge]

yes, but only as long as it's not on cooldown; the cooldown is 15s, and the duration is 9s, so there's a 6s gap

[carmine abyss]

ok i will add it then just in case i dont waste the buff.

[vivid wedge]

you're so much massively more powerful with enchant weapon it's hard to overstate

and that gets better the more skillpts you have (can add up to 40% extra attack speed..)

[carmine abyss]

yup i can see it doubled my dps from tooltips during the buff

btw do i have to get any blessings at this moment? like urgent ones

[vivid wedge]

nothing urgent

the big one that helps is the reign of dragons one, which is either +13-20 all resistance, or an absolute ton of crit avoidance (this can replace 2/3 of the woven flesh benefit..)

[carmine abyss]

i got the inflict the bleed on hit blessing because the guide says I need it with jormuns feast

[vivid wedge]

yeah, that's (one of) the things I don't like about it

[carmine abyss]

oh

welp

[vivid wedge]

it's correct, that you're getting crit multiplier from it

but what it's giving up is a lot of defensive power from the blessing - trading that for crit multiplier from the sword (via bleeds from the blessing)

and that can be valuable, but is less of a priority, I suspect if you're alive to hit stuff, the stuff dies fast

[carmine abyss]

true

ok just reset my skills need to farm the points back

while get the armor you mentioned

huge thanks btw

[vivid wedge]

no problem let me know how it goes

[carmine abyss]

btw I dont have to bother the weaver tree eh?

i have points that i didnt add and i dunno if there is a planner so i can copy and paste

[vivid wedge]

it helps, it will make getting some loot easier

but that's a whole other level of game knowledge

[carmine abyss]

hmmm

[vivid wedge]

the baseline is to get all of the nodes that have the little outlined box for imprinting

that makes it easier to get things like the thing in the box

[carmine abyss]

got it

just get the outlined boxes from the tree.

ok

[weary hamlet]

you can always respec it for functionally free, just invest them into things that seem good - while moving towards imprint slots

[vivid wedge]

it is very much intended as a 'what do I want to do a lot of right now' thing

if that's dungeons, or exiled mages, or nemesis, or rift beast, or whatever

there's probably a set of nodes for it

but the imprint slots are always there because you can affect what loot drops for you

[carmine abyss]

okay there 6 slots so i will try to get them all

[weary hamlet]

not bad

[tardy aurora]

is this suggestion to play frost wall? 😄

may be decent vs bosses

[carmine abyss]

how do I get more of this stability boost?

[weary hamlet]

random drops from mobs

[carmine abyss]

ah I see

thanks! 👍

[weary hamlet]

rngesus is sending you a sign

[full bluff]

New DPS staff, that affix is pretty good for scaling damage off move speed and the flat

[kindred oxide]

this is actually really good on flame reave

i replaced siphon of anguish, since im getting life steal from immortal vise

this is a big boost to damage and survivability.

[full bluff]

they are great

[stray comet]

Is it just CoF to farm these?

[weary hamlet]

its a pretty good ring all things considered, just overshadowed by the red ring

[kindred oxide]

yeah maybe i shouldve kept mine and used that instead

but i have it imprinted so maybe another will drop. i'll see if it's better than LP2 oceareon

[carmine abyss]

nice just got 1lp woven flesh

yeah i think i can melt everything without dying in 100c

gonna try 133 now

[autumn dagger]

how do I get a ring like this? How can it be this corrupted version but still have the Set modifier? Doesn't that require a craft but those items arent modifiable?

or can the corrupted rings still be crafted into a set piece?

[little pagoda]

you can break set items down into shards and add a shard onto an exalt item to turn it into a set

[carmine abyss]

@vivid wedge I am not sure if I am illusional. but I haven't died once to omen of strife (the new stuff this season) in 133 after wearing woven flesh and skill/passive you suggested

[hybrid girder]

qq hope someone knows. is the character sheet crit chance not accurate (pushing for crit cap and tooltip dps stops going up but character sheet is only 54%)

[carmine abyss]

also i noticed one thing that my mana is nearly always full

also upgraded my relic with nemesis added extra resistance .. i feel extremely tanky atm

[vivid wedge]

Very nice

[vivid wedge]

Yeah this was part SS skillpoints and part passive skillpoints, then you upgraded resistances and woven flesh means you can't be crit, so your defense is upgraded lots

[runic dragon]

Is anyone working on a fire disintergrate build?

[carmine abyss]

thanks a lot! so i also noticed i can corrupt 0lp uniques that i am wearing.. so I get random stats...i might get lucky to get stats useful such as resistance etc.

but i am wondering if i should put them into nemesis eggs 1st and empower them then if the stats are usesless then i can corrupt them

oh corruption rune just changed my set item to a random one... lmao

[kindred oxide]

I've never done this before. Can the set affix be used as a prefix or suffix? Or is that predetermined?

Does it have tiers?

I could prob just look it up hahah

[left hill]

currently each set item has a predetermined prefix or suffix shard when shattered. EHG has kind of talked about the possibility of set items having multiple shards they can turn into, but there's no confirmation that's going to happen and definitely not the case right now anyway

and yeah, they have tiers like other affixes

[carmine abyss]

so I can kill 133c boss super easy now and got wing of argentus... should i keep weariong woven flesh ?

[kindred oxide]

Sweet thanks

[carmine abyss]

didnt expect changing a few passives and skills can make such a difference

wut. just killed 167 corruption..

😆

without dying super easy

[carmine abyss]

should i wear argentus or woven flesh ?

[weary hamlet]

try argentus and see if you are getting rekt a lot more

[cosmic dove]

does this scale at all or meme?

[tardy aurora]

wings better

[carmine abyss]

just tried.. ye I can survive in 167 corruption

can tell dps is slightly better not sure

[carmine abyss]

thx

[weary hamlet]

I wasnt following but it was usually considered not worth the primal slot, but if your build got nothing better to do..

crit chance is easy to overcap on SB

[cosmic dove]

yeah was just curious. I'm wedded (kekw) to Legends Entwined atm

[vivid wedge]

Before you swap, you ideally want to have a replacement for the 100% crit avoidance it provides.

This is probably easiest via reign of dragons blessing (50-70% crit avoidance) + 1-2 crit avoidance suffixes somewhere on gear

Ideally also, you have a +4 shatterstrike chestplate that you slam onto the wings

That'll give you +6 skillpts for SS

[carmine abyss]

almost forgot yes.. i need the crit avoid blessing. and still farming shatterstrike exault armor.. no luck lol

[vivid wedge]

So if you have 1) any chestplate with a T7 suffix and 2) + skill levels to shatter strike:

1. add shatter strike levels to chestplate (T1)
2. rune of havoc the suffix over to the shatter strike prefix
3. do any rerolling of the % cold dmg you want

Havoc is random, so it's not guaranteed the first time, but it's a lot faster than trying to find one in the wild

[tardy aurora]

more frostbite chance never hurts

[carmine abyss]

nice! i didn't know we can do that.. definetely gonna try this method! thanks a lot! 💯

but wait.. t7 SS affix is +4 no? why how does it become +6 ?

[vivid wedge]

Argentus is +2 to cold melee

SS is both cold and melee tagged

[carmine abyss]

ohhhh i didnt know lol

it says cold attacks..

[sacred kite]

FYI don't know how common the knowledge is but u have way higher odds if all of your non t7 affixes are the same level. Not fully random

[carmine abyss]

thought jjust cold dmg

thats gud +6 total

[vivid wedge]

So cold spell skills like glacier don't benefit, but cold melee like SS and mana strike (if converted to cold) do

[vivid wedge]

This is good to know okay @carmine abyss try to match the non T7 tiers

[carmine abyss]

so I need a chest armor t7 affix (any) then add shatter strike affix and match the SS prefix lvl with the other 2 affixes?

eg. t7 void resistance t3 lightning dmg t2 armor t1 SS. then i should make t3 lightning dmg t3 armor t3 ss?

am I understanding it correctly?

[vivid wedge]

Yep exactly

[carmine abyss]

noice!

then use the rune of havoc

[vivid wedge]

It can't land on the same affix as before, so your options are:

Starting:
3-3-3-7

End possibilities:
7-3-3-3
3-7-3-3
3-3-7-3
3-3-3-7 (same as start)

[gusty girder]

is that true, ive seen it remain unchanged. i think, now im questioning myself

[carmine abyss]

so our goal is to get t7 SS

but should i use removal to remove everything else and keep t7 SS on the armor so I can combine it to my argentus 1lp ?

[vivid wedge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1k567ib/rune_of_havoc_101/

[gusty girder]

realistically all you can do is havoc and pray, havoc is weighted against going to low level mods

[gusty girder]

in level 2 or higher of the dungeon, you can guarantee 1 affix to slam

[vivid wedge]

Yeah please do not try to remove the others or you'll probably remove the SS :/

[carmine abyss]

ohhhh

lol

its rng

[vivid wedge]

Havocing will also drain your fp

[carmine abyss]

ye that i figured

[vivid wedge]

Slamming it is not RNG, but havocing is

[gusty girder]

oh i see, if the mods arent the same, there was a change. thanks for the thread

til

[sacred kite]

And you need 4 affixes to slam, so if you remove you might run out of fp before adding more back

[gusty girder]

you also cant use the eternity cache with items that dont have 4 affixes

[carmine abyss]

i get it as long as there is one t7 on a chestplate then it will add it to argentus 1lp

[vivid wedge]

For once this is a very boring craft, it's just find a T7, equal tiers, havoc and pray

You can probably guarantee the T5 lands on your unique

I don't know why you would but yknow

[gusty girder]

you can pick 1 mod you want to transfer over if you run the dungeon at level 2 or higher

so 1LP slams are always guraranteed, its 2LP+ where you have to prayge

[carmine abyss]

ok i think i need to do this by myself then everything would be more clear

[gusty girder]

just make sure you run the dungeon at level 2+. do not do level 1.

[carmine abyss]

noted! thanks a lot

gonna try it later

[vivid wedge]

I think you'd need to run it at 4? I forget the min levels, wings is a level 82 item

[gusty girder]

oh yea thats a consideration too

[tardy aurora]

yeah tier 4 julra, t3 is up to 75 ilvl

[vivid wedge]

Oh hey we're the 18%

[delicate cape]

why does the mage look like the Lanister patriarch. breh pls

[kindred oxide]

Tywin totally is someone who would strut around chanting "Fools, fools!"

[delicate cape]

i mean it's an exact replica of the guy. im surprised he hasnt sued

[full bluff]

Frost claw with meteor works as mana and ward regen

Gives a nicer flow to playing than arcane ascendance

[left hill]

but is he a man of many pockets?

[full bluff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de12dxcgWYg maybe a clever trick to add frost claw to the meteor, but have to give up 3 skill points...

[hybrid girder]

found it. character sheet crit chance is wrong

[sacred kite]

can you explain the idea?

[full bluff]

frost claw generates ward when cast, even in its current nerfed form, it still work. Same with the mana regen. Can get frost claw to 0 mana cost, then it becomes a generator. When meteor casts frost claw indirectly it generates both ward and mana. Enough to take care of the mana sustain and help with ward.

Comes at the cost of loosing 33% dmg

[left hill]

wait how does FC generate mana? isn't that only on direct cast?

[full bluff]

maybe

but seems that it does something

I am going over all old nerfs and bugs here 🙂

[fervent ledge]

How much DR does the frost shield runic invocation give?

Wondering how lb rm gets good survivability

[full bluff]

The mana regen from indirect frost claw does not work, only ward

[karmic folio]

you mean gift of winter node?

[full bluff]

Shiver Shell

[karmic folio]

yeah that one doesnt mention aynthing abut mana so why would it give mana

[full bluff]

ah yes mana node, thats gift

sorry, sleepy here

[karmic folio]

yeah and it says direct casts

[full bluff]

I know 🙂 but nothing works as it says with meteor

[karmic folio]

hmm

you mean the belt?

[full bluff]

belt and arcane ascendance

that I found so far

[karmic folio]

what doesnt work with arcane ascendance?

[full bluff]

effects like slow, more damage...

[karmic folio]

Chronoclasm Node?

well it has a 5 meter condition

and the damage is not multiplicative

[spring crag]

Hmm

it seems we have an uberroth kill with meteor finally https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1sbikgv/meteor_sorcerer_uber_abberoth_kill/

[delicate cape]

how hard is it to farm that Ladle wand from Exiles. Is it like 1:10, 1:100?
Havent seen one yet

[harsh abyss]

It's kinda rare, if you get the woven echo that is a bunch of exiled mages, try to hit that one a lot

It's probably like 1:30 or 1:50, depending on corruption/level. It used to be mega common but it feels like it's been made way rarer

[harsh abyss]

Wrongwarp seems like a weird choice compared to Ladle

[delicate cape]

ah damn. good to know

[harsh abyss]

It definitely FEELS more rare this season.

But I also haven't been playing much so who knows if that's just me

[delicate cape]

how do u get that. is that a drop

[spring crag]

well he said "there still room for improvement"

hmm for me

it's nice

but I don't like the fire animation of meteor when most of the damage is lightning

[harsh abyss]

I think it's a drop but you can slot it in the weaver spots that make it spawn in your webs

[spring crag]

btw

which is better for volcanic orb?

ice or fire?

[harsh abyss]

Lightning meteor is definitely the better animation, I totally agree.

[spring crag]

why dont we just have a node that converts meteor to cold or lightning?

[delicate cape]

i did weaver cycle very briefly. how do you access the tree again?

[spring crag]

so that we dont have to sacrifice ladle?

[harsh abyss]

Because the Stardust node exists, probably. The whole Meteor tree could use a revamp

[harsh abyss]

It's a faction, press Y to open the faction menu

[delicate cape]

Oh i must not have access to it yet. i only see CoF and MG options. Just getting to monos

[spring crag]

well this feels like grim dawn

some skills has the animation of one type, but the damage is another type

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, you need to get a weaver point by going throuhg a cemetary before you unlock the weaver tree

[delicate cape]

ty

[carmine abyss]

is there a good loot filter for mage in general?

or should I make my own one

[harsh abyss]

You can probably find one on most guides, but making your own is super easy in LE

[carmine abyss]

ok making one right now but do I have to care about idol altars? feel like its not that important?

[harsh abyss]

I'd make a rule that highlights T7 of the "+X omen idols" and "Effect of Prefixes/Suffixes/Both" on them

[carmine abyss]

ok got it

[delicate cape]

Lvl 52 Lightning Blast. I would be crushing so much harder if I could manage my mana. Any good tricks, other than mana regen on gear?

[carmine abyss]

so what corruptions drop t7 exalts?

[harsh abyss]

I think T7s start dropping in the level 90 timelines, but obviously they're more common the higher the corruption

I doubt omens follow different rules than that

[shrewd thistle]

https://youtu.be/LwibnVFYIj8?si=T0AFxEcl4K0cWoku
Is this a good build

[delicate cape]

Would (T5) Increased Area of Area Skills affix give much benefit for Spark Charges?

[delicate cape]

this is what im looking for, i think?

[karmic folio]

for clearing mobpacks I guess yeah

[delicate cape]

i wish there was a visual indicator or osmething

[karmic folio]

Does someone know if the -mana costs from foot of the mountain also applies to "damage dealt to mana before health"?

[delicate cape]

i'd doubt it.

[karmic folio]

You can actually reach 100% of that stat

so as long as you have mana you are immortal

[nimble shoal]

It does not

[karmic folio]

ok thanks

[harsh abyss]

Yep

[cosmic dove]

I had this drop a few times and I've never done the arbor dungeon
is tools wrong? is this a random drop / rune of ascendancy available?

[harsh abyss]

There's a node on the weaver tree that lets dungeon boss drops happen

[cosmic dove]

oh, forgot about that

duh

I need more to drop. I corrupted my only good one

[harsh abyss]

They feel pretty common from what I've seen

[tame loom]

yo

[delicate cape]

I'm confused. I used 1 of those Woven maps on my mono to create an echo. And when I ran it, it was a boss arena with "Ignixiros"... what happened?

[karmic folio]

well thats the Echo you placed^^ they are all different

[tame loom]

ferris show me that focus meteor build you were talking about

[delicate cape]

ah. lol good to know. i kinda just went in blind. ill start reading the descriptions, cuz that was sketch (HC)

[karmic folio]

I can make a clip in a few minutes, its really wild, it can auto cast meteors with the belt even on bosses

[tame loom]

yeah i want to use the belt too

do you have like a build guide or somethign for me to check

[karmic folio]

but I actually got rid of mana focus

it takes too much regen away

[tame loom]

yeah i mean its annoying

i cant use it and cast spells

[karmic folio]

and then I addet foot of the mountain and now its op

[tame loom]

the boots?

how did you sustain mana?

[karmic folio]

yeah

[karmic folio]

I have this crazy combination of Butcher Crown and the node on focus that gives more regen the more mana youre missing

[tame loom]

oh yeah i am using that too

mana is fine its just annoying that i cant cast anything when its active

mana guide makes it okay but wats the point if i cant cast

[karmic folio]

wait really? I thought Iam the only one who found that combo xD

[tame loom]

no no i meant i am ysing the node on focus

[karmic folio]

ahh but not the helmet

[tame loom]

not butcher crown i just started looking for items

yeap

[karmic folio]

the crown gives you way more mana then the normal regen, but you need to hit stuff

every 12% mana regen are 2 mana per second basically

[tame loom]

i mean hitting stuff is okay

cause metoer you are hitting shit

using this right now

but i dont like

arcane ascendancy

[karmic folio]

I have this

[tame loom]

i dont know why focus and acrane ascendacy make me disabled

[tame loom]

thats way more dps right

with lightning staff or just fire?

thats what i am thinking of doing

i do like teleport tho

[karmic folio]

i also played around with arcane ascendancy, you can make your meteors cheaper with it while not even being drained of mana but everything else is a bit more expensive

[tame loom]

yeah but i dont wanna cut off my legs

you know

[karmic folio]

I use unspecced teleport

elemental nova and frost claw are autocasts from meteor

I also use unspecced flame ward

[tame loom]

yeah

are you converting everything ti lighning?

[karmic folio]

so no lighting meteor

[tame loom]

wait i played that combo

[karmic folio]

but frost claw is lightning

[tame loom]

with somethign

spellblade?

[karmic folio]

its the weapons for a lightning blast build

[tame loom]

oh

[karmic folio]

need to do 1 more nemesis then i can make a video

[tame loom]

you havent tried the lightning staff?

[karmic folio]

i played it before I switched

with lightning staff you cant really do a infinite combo on bosses

[tame loom]

share me your build

like the lastepoch tools thing let me check it

let me try it out

finally got this shit

[delicate cape]

this sounds kinda nice but is the % so low that it's unlikely to see a timeline boss unique?

[karmic folio]

check this out

[tame loom]

still never 0

[karmic folio]

you see that insane mana sustain? And I only got 852 mana

[tame loom]

yeah that looks nice

but are you cast ele nova on yourself?

[karmic folio]

its cast with frost claw

[tame loom]

yeah

[karmic folio]

so wherever frost claw lands

[tame loom]

but you can make it target enemies

insteaf of you

[delicate cape]

is it actually 1 in 1,000 rare kills though (0.1%), or is that % multiplied against some other drop cahnce e.g. chance to drop a unique, so it's really like 1 in 1,000,000 rare kills?

[karmic folio]

i think thats only when you cast it manually

[tame loom]

no no

works on enemies as well

sec i was using it

my internet is having a hard time loading your videos xD

[karmic folio]

it doesnt trigger around me anyway

[tame loom]

oohh then its works fine

[karmic folio]

yeah its directly from folder, I can upload to streamable

[tame loom]

yeah do that

i wanna see

[delicate cape]

i played Weaver cycle very briefly, but havnet played since.

The layout of the Monoliths are different. Did they change the timeline bosses (or the 2 prerequisite encounters leading up to the boss)?

Playing HC and i'll just go blind if theyre the same (because I remember the mechanics, mostly), otherwise ill have to research

[karmic folio]

https://streamable.com/qw3t7i

[tame loom]

oh yeah that looks much better

lightning is boring

[karmic folio]

its cool but the weapon is too restricting

[delicate cape]

This seems like a very strong defensive layer (coming from Path of Exile).
Is that purely a defensive buff, or is there a situation that could end up doing more damage to me, in LE?

[karmic folio]

https://streamable.com/0zdkzx @tame loom

[desert steppe]

armor is only 70% as effective against non-physical

[tame loom]

yeah that looks really nice

[karmic folio]

yeah and its not even closely optimized

[tame loom]

using one of these rn

[karmic folio]

big novas I see

[delicate cape]

interesting. so id actually take more dmg with that helm. ok thx. thought it seemed too strong, thinking from poe mechanics

[desert steppe]

generally I think they're usually still considered a net positive mechanic when they appear, since the builds using them usually have a way to stack more defense of the target type

and there's a lot of other conversions that don't involve phys (or convert to phys instead)

but yeah in this case specifically it might end up making us take more damage unless we're stacking extra fire mitigation

[tame loom]

if that helmet can keep mana without focus i might just use that

cause rn i cant use the belt cause mana issues

[karmic folio]

no you have to use it together with focus, you just hold focus and everything else is automated

[tame loom]

the lightning staff isnt the way to go tho

i almost fell asleep with lightning

show me that hemet

helmet i

[karmic folio]

with and without focus on, 1200% regen is 100 mana per hit with the helmet

[tame loom]

wait that means amulet has to be the focus one right

[karmic folio]

no

dont use mana guide

[tame loom]

that means ill be stack in a place?

[karmic folio]

yes but you are very tanky

[tame loom]

sounds okay for bossing

but mapping might be annoying

if i have to sit

rn i use this on teleport

[karmic folio]

mapping is also good, you cast one meteor, teleport inside of the enemys and switch to focus and then wait till the screen is cleared, and then repeat

[tame loom]

this on flame ward

[carmine abyss]

is it wise to hide all corrupted items except legendary in the filter?

[tame loom]

no you have fliter the stats tho i think

[karmic folio]

you mean exalted

[carmine abyss]

i would keep exalted tier 7

[outer wharf]

isit me or black hole is still weak af

[cosmic dove]

BH isnt great
but if you get all the 100% multipliers and go pulsar
or stack fire resists it is ... not bad-ish

[carmine abyss]

I would keep some altars that I want plus t7 exalted... I find most of drops are useless

[tame loom]

yeah so filter them by the stats you want aand hide everything else

i am guessing you are on hhigh corruption now?

[carmine abyss]

not at all lol

[tame loom]

i have something like tis

and when i want hide any i slide them up and down

[carmine abyss]

okay! good to know thanks👍

[tame loom]

yeah you can edit it how you want

if i move hide all exalts to the top and put the t7 on top of that

it will only show t7

[outer wharf]

you mean crit multiplers?

[cosmic dove]

no, the multis in the black hole tree nodes
binary system, singularity, supermassive all multiply damage by 100%
and the other multis too

the problem is it requires lots of points
one trick is binary system means it is cold and fire tagged
so invoker set is +4 (+2 fire/+2 cold)
if you use it with legends entwined primordial set ring it is +5 (another +1 for completed set)

getting more sets done helps too for additional +1s

frozen tried to make it work as uber killer and gave up before his vacation
but it passable I think, not meta by any means

[outer wharf]

is there enough skill point to reach all this 3?

[cosmic dove]

yes if you use that ^^
and this

that can be +6 to BH because it is both fire and DOT skill

[outer wharf]

so need go fire build?

[cosmic dove]

you can reach 40 SP I think if you have maxxed gear

with binary system BH will be fire and cold

[outer wharf]

do u have the build tool for it? ermmm so to focus on cold or fire?

[cosmic dove]

frozensentenial I think has a version of build for it up on maxroll / YT video

[karmic folio]

afaik you only need Red Giant node for fire tag

[cosmic dove]

but ... he said several times he didnt recommend it

yeah Red Giant makes it 100% fire
but binary system is another 2x damage so kinda hard to pass up

[carmine abyss]

is lightning blast bad for clearing omens? or mid?

i have no issue for omens with ss build but wondering the pros and cons of lightning blast

[eternal mango]

Does this apply the damge reduction even while not channeling?

[neat crane]

probably not

is it affected by cdr ?

[eternal mango]

Similarly, I'd love to know if these are affected by CDR

because that can get absolutely wild with this

end up with 1 second cooldown before CDR on the reactive ward, and 6 second before cdr on sun and storms...

if CDR applies, that's... a lot

[neat crane]

nvm i tried with cdr it doesn't work

[karmic folio]

its not that much ward and you would waste alot of skillpoints

[umbral perch]

Passives are never affected by CDR, only the cooldown on the active use of a skill

[karmic folio]

whats the best meteor skin?

[weary hornet]

BEETEOR!

FLING HONEY

[karmic folio]

does it look funny when I have very huge meteors and alot of them?

[weary hornet]

No. It looks awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzXDiVa6RY4

[karmic folio]

hmm looks good

[weary hamlet]

meteor needs more cool skins, beeteor is ok but it's too much of a meme

and shattered is kinda horrible ngl

[eternal mango]

Reactive ward would be about 1000 ward with my current ~1600hp, on a 6s cooldown

[karmic folio]

it has 3 skins already tho, other skills dont have any

[weary hornet]

I guess art is subjective. I love beeteor.

SPLAT

[eternal mango]

Is reactive ward when you drop below 70%, or is it when you take damage that leaves you below 70%

[weary hamlet]

needs 20 before they can do skins for other skills, LOL style

[weary hornet]

And why not. I loved meteor before it was cool.

[karmic folio]

thats like 15 skillpoints for around 100 ward per second, compare that to Mana Shell first row in Sorc tree

[eternal mango]

I mean, it's a little different, because it's a ton of ward all at once, when you are losing hp which means your ward is probably gone

I have 257 mana, so manashell, with 8 points would be about... 41 ward

[karmic folio]

you only have to take 5 points into that node

[eternal mango]

well, if you take 5, it's 25 + 10, so 35

with my current mana

[karmic folio]

not too bad

[eternal mango]

Actually, reactive ward gives 60% of your hp as ward instantly when you drop below 70%

Silver rune boosts that to 87%

but it takes 13 points to go from 20 points deep in mage, to maxed silver rune

silver rune though, cuts the cooldown in half

[carmine abyss]

qq, how do I know the best idols and altars are for certain builds? should I just copy and paste from maxroll / LE tools? I find idols and altars are extremely annoying because I wana use filter then I dont know what to keep or hide..

[eternal mango]

Uhh... that's such a vague question it's impossible to answer without knowing the build

[karmic folio]

maybe just put the 6 points into reactive ward and leave it at that