🧙┃mage

[weary hamlet]

I wasnt following the judgment saga closely but I think I heard people mention that with the new power creep the one punch man is back on the menu

[proven haven]

I did some math and it looks like it can be pretty good yea

[weary hamlet]

from what I see currently the meta is judgment aura with spirit xylem

[proven haven]

Even Xylem can do like 5s dummy kill with aura

While being stupid tanky

[weary hamlet]

not that ditching the shield is making a dent in your survivability either way cause lol you are a sentinel

just press vengeance or something

[proven haven]

Only giga tank option for mage is mana tank really

And it kinda sucks for scaling damage, go figure

Especially now that affixes are even more limited

[weary hamlet]

you could do ward at high mana if only builds that required high mana also didn't have, you know, high mana expenditure

for example transient rest is pretty good at high mana necro which actually stays at 100% mana at all times

[proven haven]

You can't really do much with high mana because you arent able to build offense and defense at the same time like other classes

Eg. Attuned stack

[weary hamlet]

also your asshole is extra impenetrable with white ox + passives giving you a 35% DR which is not even an option on mage

like imagine having permanent flame ward

for free

that's just playing sentinel lol

[proven haven]

You mean old Frostguard

Rip

And then there's madness which in theory works well with mana stack, since mana tank no ward

But int and mana stack at same time is hard

[weary hamlet]

only with the crown, with the seed you can just stack both

see transient rest being abused on necro

[proven haven]

Seed is good yea

Always has been

But it's a high opportunity cost

[weary hamlet]

and if 28% to mana is not enough you can prop that up by a few long idols with what 8% per?

[proven haven]

With 2t7s you could do these hybrid builds fairly well

[weary hamlet]

now with the new altars you can have what, 4 of those?

[proven haven]

Maybe new stuff is better idk

[weary hamlet]

I mean good f ucking luck rolling the weaver blessings

[proven haven]

Eg mana on belt

Good luck getting weird idols / altars

[weary hamlet]

wait right you can theoretically roll the altar with 50% increased weaver blessing effect

so that would put those idols to 12% damage to mana

no damn the bastards thought of that, there is no altar that would allow 4 long idols with good access to refracted slots

best you can do is 3 refracted on a pyramid altar

[rotund ocean]

pyramid only allows 2 weaver idols

You can do spire

unless weaver enchant doesn't count as "weaver"

[errant dragon]

50% and 60% from corruption, and ocular altar allows for 4x enchant

[weary hamlet]

these are heretical

weaver are the 1x1 and 2x1/1x2 small idols

[rotund ocean]

Except the one with the corruption limit is bugged and doesn't actually work

[weary hamlet]

also wait there is a normal AND corrupted affixes for damage dealt to mana on helmet, with the two on a high roll and the seed you can hit 100% damage done to mana

or more

lol

I wonder how that's gonna work, wanna bet EHG never tested that?

[rotund ocean]

I mean why would it not work?

You play mana flay lich, you stack 4k mana, you get hit once by uber, there goes all your mana

[weary hamlet]

no I mean if you go over 100% damage dealt to mana before health, you'd just get drained for more mana than damage lul

[errant dragon]

in general things are limited to 100% and overcapping does nothing

unlike poe 😄

[weary hamlet]

also between the natural conversion and endurance affecting damage to mana with the seed it shouldn't be so bad

[weary hamlet]

except a bunch of exceptions and bugs of course

[weary hamlet]

I mean, not so bad except on mage with very poor access to mana regen at best

[errant dragon]

true also, just from my experience theres been quite few instances of going over 100% doing anything

[sharp mantle]

mana regen is just a weak stat in general even if you in theory have access to a lot of it

[weary hamlet]

it should just generally be tied to your max mana, like baseline you regen let's say 5% of max mana per second

then stacking a bunch of mana regen at least makes it move the needle

[rotund ocean]

Or at least give us flat mana regen on an affix or a tree or something

[hazy quest]

anyone able to confirm the new spellblade updates wording for added melee to spell damage. ie if i have a weapon with 100 melee damage on it, does it then also have 40 spell damage? or is it more the percentage side ie. 400%increased lightning melee damage also adds 180% lightning spell damage

[proven haven]

I've already tested all this with seed mana tank vs Uber. You can literally stand in Uber slam and not care

Even without full 100% damage to mana and a bit of leech its pretty strong defense

Of course full mana tank eats so many affixes its hard to do damage

Could maybe do fractured crown but the seed endurance is huge DR plus keep ward buffer

But then you need endurance, and a lot of damage to mana affixes

Could probably do a hybrid of some sort that does a bit of damage but remains almost immortal.

[weary hamlet]

yup gotta go with the idol plan I outlined above, maybe you with your time played can even farm it up before the next season

but maybe ehg will oblige and delay it for another 8 months

[proven haven]

Idk thats such a heavy price to pay

Primal relic just to boost mana stats that dont do much else

Plus all the other affixes

Maybe Xylem or something for hybrid stack

[naive pollen]

hi guys can anyone recomend me leveling guide for mage ? i would like to do later runemaster so idealy the one with this spec

[full bluff]

Try farm and craft Unstable Core with T7 Meteor and T7 int?

or T6 int

[tardy aurora]

https://youtu.be/kltzJ4Q-ztk

[kindred lintel]

is this good for single target or it only affect the nearby enemies so for clear etc ?

[nimble shoal]

It doesn't affect your total damage, it just triggers them sooner. So only really helps clearing by not needing to wait as long for some charges to pop.

[kindred lintel]

ahh okay

just gonna take that point out and put it on spark nova to make 100%

thanks father

[rotund ocean]

Will the real Toast please stand up

[tight swift]

Anyone playing lightning blast, solve mana issues later? When you have to keep moving to survive? Pressing pots all day is getting tiresome.

[delicate cape]

yeah. that makes a lot of sense cuz i felt like that should be 1-shotting me. so just stand in it for now... lol?

Ohhhhhhhhh. that's waht Im missing then. that +1 spell dmg per 2 Int? thx.

[vivid wedge]

What's your tree like? Costs became reasonable once I dropped to 6 cost LB

[tight swift]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/ericeya/character/CtrlAltDeleet

[umbral perch]

The wise thing to do is to maintain good habits by always dodging it but uh I've definitely just been standing in it

[sly vortex]

has someone see this ?ingame i not see anyone sell Cast Speed ?like in pic

[weary hamlet]

uh trading exists? it still has active people at this point?

maybe the filters are bugged or something

[tight swift]

those are some perfect idols. Will be hard to come by but it does exist

[sterile ledge]

will anything ever be funnier to me than blasting a bunch of prophecies, seeing 0 drops after a boss and then pressing disable filter

[half pollen]

Man I wish someone finally revolutionizes the arpg genre to get rid of those stupid filter stuff

[proven haven]

Never take point out of spark nova. 4/4 is basically 2x damage. Final Spark is great for burst or clear, as you detonate packs or rares quicker. Also giving them less time to hit you

For something like Uber its better to put extra point in spark charge damage. For everything else, imo take point out of spark charge damage and put in final spark.

[left hill]

what's amazing is EHG has set up tools like "lucky" rolling (roll twice, take better value) and imprinting as ways to deliver higher quality without relying on quantity and then still does this rather than expand how those tools are used 😭

[sterile ledge]

why would they, arpg players just want a billion useless items to shit out of a boss really....

🙃

[quiet folio]

Did anyone try some kind of orbitting Volcanic Orb build via the new rings and skill changes?

[weary hamlet]

tried playing it for like 15 min but it was too much visual clutter for me

at least non orbiting VO is localized in one place

and this crap shits out particles all over your screen

can't even see the mobs

but it's real funny if you stack up on increased orb speed

[quiet folio]

does it speed up rotation then?

[weary hamlet]

of course

[half pollen]

Does the orb hit multiple times when you speed up rotation? Or still only once per enemy?

[cosmic dove]

you should try BH/Pulsar with off-CD meteor storm spam
😂

[harsh abyss]

How has Crit Pulsar been feeling?

[cosmic dove]

it's definitely a build that is there
stacking BH multis and crit works, it just lacks the "infinite" scaling of ignite/fire resist so in the end Frozen (shockingly) was correct with his approach I'm guessing

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, that sounds about right. 10:1 ignite scaling is tough to beat

[cosmic dove]

oh that reminds me though, I did have a question for you

[full bluff]

has a certain playstyle

[cosmic dove]

this says "more" but doesnt have the "multiplicative with other modifiers" text
would this multi get transfered to Pulsar's Collapses?

[harsh abyss]

It SHOULD, but only if the enemies are close to the center of the origin point. But also I've never tried it, so 🤷‍♀️

[brave burrow]

anyone having a flame reave filter? wanna switch from lightning blast

[cosmic dove]

you can get it to 90% which means you could have three 100% multi, one 90%, and scattered double cast

which is kinda crazy

[lunar elbow]

help, my shatter spellblade build is too squishy at 300+ corruption, any tips?

[harsh abyss]

If you unspecc completely and only put points into that and pulsar, you should be able to test it pretty easily by casting a black hole on top of the dummy and another one nearby

The one nearby would do 90% less damage, which would be noticeable

[cosmic dove]

true. I'll test it if I get motivated

it is kinda a dumb point anyway
you already have 2 points in it for singularity

so it would just be that last point

[harsh abyss]

I've been struggling this season for some reason. Haven't found a build I really like and nothing feels right

[full bluff]

What playstyle are you looking for?

[cosmic dove]

I actually like the playstyle of it but I know I could be playing 6 other builds and doing things much faster

[lunar elbow]

same, also struggling

[harsh abyss]

I'm not sure. So far I've tried out: Gordian Prism Nova, Mana Stack Static Orb, LB Runemaster, Spell Trigger Spellblade, Fire Aura Spellblade, Cascade Blademaster, Bladestorm Blademaster, Tornado Shaman, Attribute Stack Bear

[lunar elbow]

I'm currently on shatter spellblade and I have no idea how to continue scaling it, sort of fallen into a plateau around 300 corruption where I get oneshot from time to time

[cosmic dove]

did you nova/gordian dreams not pan out?

[lunar elbow]

is there any mage build that can actually tank and survive my mistakes when I get hit by an attack for 7k damage?

[harsh abyss]

I never got to the point where it starts to feel good, I got bored before I even found some of the key pieces (T7 +ele nova, Unstable Core, Mad Ladle)

I still think it can be good if you max it out, I just haven't had the gumption to try to get there.

[lunar elbow]

what's the tankiest mage build atm?

LB runemaster?

[harsh abyss]

Probably Strength Stack Brand of Deceoption

[lunar elbow]

never even heard of that :D

[harsh abyss]

You can look up planners for it. Basically you use Mana Guide to channel Focus, and then the LBs it casts trigger Brand of Deception, which does insane damage when you're stacking intelligence (for shock chance with Vilatria helmet), but you actually stack strength and use Cleaver Solution to make your Int equal to Strength, which means you're getting a crapton of armor from the strength as well as all the int bonuses.

[lunar elbow]

ahh

[harsh abyss]

And since you don't care about the damage that Focus does, you can take all the defensive stuff in that tree to be giga tanky on top of the armor

[lunar elbow]

is it even any good though?

[weary hamlet]

like I didnt do frame by frame analysis but it seemed to me that yes it did core damage every time it rolled over a mob

[full bluff]

I am really enjoying meteor now, actually farming with it, never happened before

[versed hare]

plus when channeling focus with mana guide you can use the less DOT taken while channenling idols to get a lot of DR on dots, especially now with the new idol altars

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, and also the "all resists while channeling" node makes it hella easy to cap resists

[versed hare]

yes

[cosmic dove]

this is why disintegrate is so awesome and the basis of so many builds...

...oh wait 😭

[full bluff]

For Omen Veil farming Focus works fine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XgMrjYsjWc

[harsh abyss]

I mean, the reason why Focus channeling is the only good channel spell is the same reason Warpath is the only good channeling attack. Being locked in place is a death sentence

[versed hare]

i wish they would let disintegrate use mana guides movement

[half pollen]

They could just add a cooldown to disintegrate and give it a 90% damage reduction for 4 seconds or something. So you could actually survive while not moving

[harsh abyss]

Even if it was 50% reduction but all channeled skills allowed movement, it would be good

[versed hare]

yeah

[harsh abyss]

Maybe since I can't figure out what to play, I'll revisit the old classic. @weary hamlet It's Channeled LB time.

[versed hare]

I'm kinda thinking if I can do something with vaions chariot boots and Wrongwarp and movespeed stacking, that would synergize so well

[weary hamlet]

lol you won't believe it but I just wanted you to suggest playing cold channeled lb

[harsh abyss]

Oh? Why cold?

[weary hamlet]

why lightning?

[harsh abyss]

Because I don't think Spark Nova gets converted

And lightning is way cooler

[weary hamlet]

it does, I tested it back in 1.2

with focal blast omegalul

[harsh abyss]

oh, hmm

[kindred oxide]

As flame reave, would you trade 10% of your damage output for about 40% bigger area of effect? 😂

[weary hamlet]

it wasn't so terrible I played it at like 400 corr with crap gear just fine

and that was back in 1.2 mind you

[weary hamlet]

just swap this between monos and bosses

[harsh abyss]

I haven't played channeled LB since 1.2, and Halo Effect was still broken then

[weary hamlet]

nah that was the patch when they fixed it

[harsh abyss]

was it? hmm

Well, it was like 5 year ago anyway 🤷‍♀️

Also I think they may have broken the 0-mana version of it, since teleport Mana Tuneel + other refunds can't stack any more

[nimble shoal]

Lightning is definitely way hotter than ice

[harsh abyss]

And LB is still one of the only channeled spells that stops mana regen (Unless they just have never bothered to fix the tooltip)

[weary hamlet]

speaking about focal blast I had a good ole big think about it and it might be much improved by the last two patches

[half pollen]

I would suggest void damage flame reave! Its quite the zoomy build

[weary hamlet]

cause its bottleneck had always been points in LB tree it nees like 34

and now you can hit that many

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, that makes sense

Channeled LB is probably much better now too, since primordials exist

[weary hamlet]

stat stack outta the ass + weaver neck + legends entwined + amulet corruption + chest corruption

can now use ladle or something cause with vilatrias you got your flat covered, supplement by idols if necessary

[weary hamlet]

what are you gonna be running?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, that's probably good for Focal, not great for channel

Since channel doesn't care about cast speed

[harsh abyss]

Probably LE + Weaver neck + Vilatria helm + Ferobor ring , like everyone else

however I've been considering Vilatria reforged staff instead of helm.

Hyper stack vilatria is +100 flat damage. A good staff is also ~100 flat damage, which is effectively 100% more damage (probably more like 75% given flat you can get elsewhere, but still)

[weary hamlet]

the question is, can you cap crit with a staff?

[harsh abyss]

Weaver amulet makes crit cap trivial

[weary hamlet]

although wait right the weaver amulet

keep forgetting about it

[harsh abyss]

Also, since I can't benefit from cast speed, Ladle basically doesn't matter

[brave burrow]

could you post your lootfilter ?

[cosmic dove]

@harsh abyss game is monitoring discord to troll, confirmed. 😉

[harsh abyss]

lol

[weary hamlet]

rngesus blesses

fireball build inches ever closer

got nothing to slam this lol

[harsh abyss]

Just confirmed that channeled LB does indeed stop mana regen from working, so I'll need to rework my RM build.

Garbage

[umbral perch]

Probably a bug, right?

[weary hamlet]

lol didnt they allow mana regen during all channeling a while ago?

they probably forgot that channeled lb exists

[harsh abyss]

Everything EXCEPT LB apparently

[weary hamlet]

forgot to flip a flag

[umbral perch]

I really don't want to know how spaghetti their code base is that they can't audit things like that

[weary hamlet]

a black box and a bunch of xmls

[harsh abyss]

As someone with a long career in games QA, I'd love to get my grubby hands on their backend and make some changes, lol

[delicate cape]

Will the COF "if 1 set item drops, the whole set drops" work with setitems that drop from Soulfire Bastion boss?

[harsh abyss]

But, with the -20 mana cost for channeling, it's only like 16 mana per second with a decent staff/wand, so it's not the end of the world to build around. Being able to channel for 20 seconds or so straight is easy enough to deal with.

[harsh abyss]

yeah

[kindred oxide]

Its the merchant guild one from TSM. Did you still want it

[brave burrow]

ah you are trade mb. I saw your video and wanted to switch from LB but i am CoF

[kindred oxide]

Maybe. Uber is the only one I might want thst damage, so if I can kill him with the giga range

[lunar elbow]

halp how do I fix this in my build

[proven haven]

Its not the LB applying, its runic invocation. You could apply with LB but coverage is meh.

Runic invo gets stupid amounts of multis and pen that transfer to the dot.

I generally just swapped into plasma orb for clear and it still blasted trash

[lunar elbow]

my dps is never any issue but the moment I stop paying attention for even half a second I get oneshot by a random champion XD

is that just how it is to play mage?

[proven haven]

Usually yea more or less

[lunar elbow]

oof

I'm gonna start levelling up a void knight

[proven haven]

The tanky mage builds lack the damage of the tanky sentinel builds

And also do less damage

[harsh abyss]

lol

[proven haven]

And have less tanky

[wanton harness]

is Armor Shred the only that is important on a Mad Alch Ladle?

[proven haven]

Depends on build. 99% of the time yes

[wanton harness]

just doing the standard LB build from Maxroll

[proven haven]

Yep I am familiar with the build

Same story

[wanton harness]

gr8 thanks! dont wanna spend a fortune on getting a all max roll ladle when its really not necessary

[proven haven]

You dont even need max rolled shred for direct cast LB to soft cap shred.

[wanton harness]

damn okay! i am just a regular slam one LP and call it a day kind of player so making sure i dont mess stuff up

[proven haven]

It hits iirc around 20 times per cast, with cast speed up around 80 times per second

Factoring nova, self chain, spark charge, etc.

Yep. Slam + corruption, ezpz

[wanton harness]

since we are on that topic, should i go for crit multi or cast speed for it?

[proven haven]

Depends how good your idols are most likely, its a major source of cast speed but getting good ones is a grind.

You could math it, technically depending on how much you already have of each the other could be better

[wanton harness]

i am coming from frog build so most are just minion idols :/ I am gona hold off till i get better gear.

thanks for your valuable input kind stranger

[proven haven]

Its not like getting 1LP ladies or T7 is hard

Just do one of each

Imprint rune prison echo when you get it

If your crit chance is low definitely cast speed though

Early priority on that

[left hill]

me, debating aiming for the Area+DOT% corruption on a non-DOT build just for absolutely silly AOE coverage:

[granite condor]

Is Spellblade Bad besides shattered strike? My build is not working and I stacked spell damage

[proven haven]

That would depend on your threshold for "not bad". If you mean s tier stuff, then yes, bad

[granite condor]

I m barely doing damage

[proven haven]

To what, uber?

100 corruption?

Campaign?

[granite condor]

100 c

[proven haven]

Yea no thats just a build issue

Spellblade can easily do 500c plus with a handful of builds

[granite condor]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A83pba48

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 85

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (11) / Spellblade (60) / Runemaster (7)

General:

▸ Health: 1,284, Regen: 22.9/s
▸ Mana: 306.21, Regen: 10.16/s
▸ Ward Retention: 190%, Regen: 160/s
▸ Attributes: 7 Str / 42 Dex / 95 Int / 0 Att / 13 Vit
▸ Resistances: 92% / 58% / 107% / 23% / 139% / 91% / 42%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 45%, Threshold: 257
▸ Dodge Chance: 14% (391)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 24% (860)

Used skills:

Lightning Blast / Surge / Mana Strike / Static Orb / Enchant Weapon

[granite condor]

I stacked a lot spell damage but it doesn’t work

[weary hamlet]

rogue S tier or normal class S tier?

[granite condor]

I love rogue

My most played class

[weary hamlet]

cause if our benchmark is rogue builds then the best SB build is straight up uninstall tier

[proven haven]

Tbh you just have a lot of "bad nodes" and gear choices. Not your fault or anything, just most paths are really suboptimal

Eg. LB fork is dogshit for single target

And the cold LB nodes kinda suck

[granite condor]

I changed that already

[proven haven]

LB without spark charge generally just sucks

I think you also lack shred

And attack speed

[delicate cape]

I cant find this affix (ring), but it's crazy. what is it / from

[proven haven]

Also the LB T8 affix is probably a bad use of Primordial for indirect LB

[granite condor]

Thanks for your advice

[proven haven]

Its fairly weak, especially since the nerf

You'd probably kill low hp trash really well, id guess. Good AoE

But no single target

[weary hamlet]

remind me again frozen does spark nova still trigger from every hit of convergence instead of just the first?

[kindred oxide]

What's your threshold for stier stuff?

[proven haven]

I believe so.

I didnt actually check but the damage is still there so probably

[weary hamlet]

then that must be half of the reason why even the current lb build is reasonably good

[proven haven]

Well spark nova is about half the total damage

[weary hamlet]

cause I fail to see a world where that interaction is intended

[proven haven]

So if you take that away you lose about 80% of that half

[weary hamlet]

but then again I have a much better opinion of the dev team than warranted by the game

[granite condor]

What gear would you recommend?

[proven haven]

Basically only LB for mage. Only mage id put there

And its kinda barely there, with how insane some other stuff is

[kindred oxide]

Ahh just figured tiers were kinda arbitrary. So all builds are "bad" cept LB haha

[proven haven]

Idk. Havent done a lot of mana strike stuff, and nothing since 1.4

Just know that spark charges is usually the play

I dont think Static Orb is going to do much more than utility

So use that for lightning aegis and shock ground

Then go into spark charges

Enigma and so on.

[proven haven]

Everything is arbitrary and subjective

[weary hamlet]

they are maxroll have builds with 300m dps and 20m dps in s tier

[harsh abyss]

Static Orb is probably good for clear

And +2 LB chains

[weary hamlet]

orbiting so omegalul

clearing trash since 2017

[proven haven]

LB kinda checks the boxes. Its ranged, good AoE, fairly quick clear, can do high corruption well, decent tanky, can do Uber with 1t7 gear, etc.

100M+ dps minmaxed

SO is probably at least A tier

SS same

Its not so much that the tiers actually matter, its just so you can do a relative comparison

[left hill]

reforged set affix shard from the weaver set ring

[harsh abyss]

I minmaxed a SO build with 11000 mana. Getting it would be nigh impossible because of omen idols, but still

[proven haven]

Is this meme troll stuff?

Like Xylem or whatever

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, Xylem is the only way to get that high, 10 mana per attunement is insane

[proven haven]

Hm yeah

Would it even do damage though?

Not much room for flat, crit, etc.

[harsh abyss]

Well, Xylem still has 80 flat, which is decent

[proven haven]

Yea but ladle vilatria is like 120 ish * 1.48

Plus all the idol flat you can get

And tree flat also multied

[harsh abyss]

yeah

But 2200% more damage from mana is probably pretty good for static orb 😝

I mostly did it for fun. There's no way you're getting 4x omen idols with +mana/+%mana%armor

[proven haven]

At that point you need to go frac crown or something lmao

Or lost knowkedge

Mana to ward

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I used frac crown

[proven haven]

Mana to ward kinda cracked

[tight swift]

My LB build is good in damage but super glass cannon. Im in corr 1580 and i gotta now have "meaningful combat" with the mobs and bosses.

[harsh abyss]

lol if you're at 1580 corruption, you've beat the game

[tight swift]

I wanna resolve mana issue and foot of the mountain is really just useless as i cant stand still lol

[tight swift]

O shit really. My first season LOL

[proven haven]

Hm maybe, I think thats a little too hard into mana but I could see a world where you go a bit more balanced and still do big damage

With att stack you lack int usually

Means hard time on crit and etc

Lack cast speed lack other stuff

[weary hamlet]

lol did Aaron personally put the loot into my mobs?

[tight swift]

Is the only way to sustain mana is to drink pots? Or mana regen affixes?

[cosmic dove]

so I have this (running meme Pulsar BH)

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I mean it was basically a planner test to see how high mana could go. If I thought it was actually achievable, I'd have put more effort into it.

[cosmic dove]

should I slam the CHC or the crit multi (havoc it over and pray)?

[kindred oxide]

My opinion on spellblade, the whole do melee attacks to proc spells hasn't been the greatest.

That play style leads you to build towards that but that kinda makes you divest between your melee damage and spell damage.

The stronger spellblade builds are more focused in how they deal damage and just build layers of damage multipliers on the melee attack.

Unless someone finds a really strong proc build or Fire Aura build.

[harsh abyss]

Apparently there's an issue where typed damage is also not being converted via the spellblade passive. So if you have +100 flat lightning damage, it doesn't give you +40 spell lightning damage

[kindred oxide]

Like flame reave just takes your spell damage and converts it to melee damage. The damage comes from the melee attack. Not so much the spell procs

[harsh abyss]

That REALLY hinders the viability of spell trigger builds

[kindred oxide]

Yeah that's also right, the passive is reportedly not working correctly. I wonder if this fix would be enough

But I've just been better off going all melee damage. And converting my spell into Melee.

[proven haven]

You never slam crit chance for spell build imo. Bad affix

[cosmic dove]

got it. my choices on limited on 2H melee for caster so I wanted to check

[weary hamlet]

does it though? Like what are you using in a normal proc build, dagorath's claw? It barely has any flat on it and you don't want to slam any

[cosmic dove]

woot!

[full bluff]

Max area, max radius, only 2 meteors is very nice for just nuking the screen in lower corruption (below 1000).

3 meteors is nice too 🙂

[cosmic dove]

woah reroll worked 😮

[tight swift]

perma stun lock the boss - but of course, run out of mana because i'm not wearing foot of the mountain, would be easier with foot of the mountain. lol

[quiet folio]

can you still permafreeze bosses? like Julra T4 etc?

[full bluff]

You can perma stun

[tight swift]

pretty op. i cancel uber aberroth's mechs too but the HP is too big to stun that often, but still do-able

[kindred oxide]

from gauntlet of strife? Good stuff!

[tight swift]

all bosses except uber aberroth

[full bluff]

In echos everything is stunned if I can just hit it once, pretty useful when you are squishy

Are these used for any build?

[lunar elbow]

yeah for fire aura spellblade

it runs cold conversion and stacks 100+ fire auras

not sure if it's actually a BIS idol even for that build tho

I think they rather run omen idol with +40% cold damage (2x if 300+ mana)

[gusty girder]

is the teleport refund node roken or did they change how it works

[left hill]

patch made it so refunds can't stack above 100%

[lunar elbow]

how do you even farm for a mad alchemists ladle

[grim storm]

do the shrapnel node sin metero affect the damage from sharapnel in Volcanic orb?

[gusty girder]

mage out here paying 120% mana costs for procs while rogue has shadow rend using shadow cascade which uses umbral blades, all at the cost of 0 mana for their triggers. cool story

[quartz carbon]

Any flame Reave build guys?

[vivid wedge]

One of the funniest things to me has been seeing rogue stack ward way higher than mage while stacking almost zero ward retention

[umbral perch]

Oh you've gotta be kidding me. Guess I may need to park my spell trigger spellblade until that's fixed, or at least reorient my weapon choices. How sure are we/EHG?

I've been main handing Frozen Ire which has a flat cold implicit

That's 23 flat damage I haven't been getting

[cosmic dove]

@harsh abyss I found this. the 1LP version took me ages to find a suitable slam
any tricks on getting a worthy 2LP slam or is it 99% likely to be wasted?

[harsh abyss]

Well, its 66% chance to be wasted at most 😝

[cosmic dove]

yeah I havent seen a 2-hander with 2 affixes I would want

I think the only choices are crit multi, all attributes, and mana (?)

[harsh abyss]

%Cold damage is probably also good, or %increased crit if you arent capped

[elfin rapids]

I can see Frost Claw being a good spell proc because it benefits from flat melee (just as Flame Reave benefits from flat spell) and also because it doesn't have a proc limit per second.

[umbral perch]

is frost claw ALSO only converting generic flat melee damage? or is it just the passive that's bugged?

[elfin rapids]

A maximum rolled Jasper's staff has 273 flat damage (94 melee implicit + 104 spell implicit + 75 melee unique mod) for both the Flame Reave and Frost Claw at the same time. I'm not even counting the 40% from Spellblade Mastery (whether it is working or not) nor the stacks of Searing Blade that give +2 flat melee each.

[kindred oxide]

yeah exactly. melee-to-spell and spell-to-melee conversion.

mixing melee and spell skills (eg. via procs) in your build doesnt seem to be effective.

but consolidating both stats and layering offensive multipliers is the way to go.

[elfin rapids]

My point is to consolidate both stats AND mixing melee and spells as procs at the same time.

[kindred oxide]

frostclaw off of flame reave via macuahuitl?

[elfin rapids]

To me it seems Frost Claw procs would just be free damage on top of Flame Reave, but i haven't really tested it so i don't know, just theorycrafting.

It's not like you have to go out of your way to build damage for it.

[kindred oxide]

prob would need mana strike for mana. similar to what flame reave is already doing. that would prob do a lot of damage.

okay hold on let me try this. im going to take my points out of teleport, put them into frost claw. keep teleport on my bar.

and put points into the passive.

i dont even need diff gear. but i might want a front facing flame reave

lmao i dont even know how to build frost claw. this is my first time playing mage. im figuring this out

[kindred oxide]

i know i want macuahuitl, the fire node, and conversion. thats obvs. gonna farm the points

[elfin rapids]

That just the 20 point, if you have more can put into the two more damage nodes.

[kindred oxide]

this is hilarious

i have an aoe flame reave, and a directional frost claw

and in aoe situations it just goes where it wants

[elfin rapids]

The wording on it makes it seem that it goes to the enemy in which the Macuahuitl proc happened.

[kindred oxide]

does Gift of Winter still work when indirectly cast? the tooltip says otherwise

[sterile ledge]

Finally gave in and rolled my way into a starting LE build, everything has spiked (except survivability which i need a couple changes to fix armour and health). But got a question as I haven't really looked into the pool much, but is there a halfway decent fire wand/staff yet? Or is my best bet for weapon gonna be wrongwarp as usual, or maybe aergons for a potential bit of defense?

[kindred oxide]

and afaik this was a fixed bug

i dont expect maxroll to update their stuff

[elfin rapids]

Pretty sure -6 mana cost works, but the generate mana doesn't.

[kindred oxide]

lmao

oh okay

i trust

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, poorly worded tooltip

[kindred oxide]

Okay, so I took two points out of it to put into damage

if i have mana probs ill peel back

I'm using Oceareon and Red Ring. No Sunwreath.

i'll see how the mana goes

[lunar elbow]

god damn, the double omen echo at 300 corruption is hella rough

I don't have any issues with anything else at this corruption level, but that one is insane

[elfin rapids]

Doesn't the lack of Sunwreath affects your Flame Drinker passive? Because on Flame Reave tree you have that -56% mana cost node which can put your cost below 10.

[kindred oxide]

nope still 11.4

okay this is annoying

corruption max rolled my Oceareon

4% less damage from chilled enemies

became 2% less damage from chilled enemies

that was the most important stat on this ring

instead of taking the better number, it takes the higher integer 😂

[elfin rapids]

LMAO

[uncut lintel]

I made a bug report about that yesterday

[kindred oxide]

I tested it and the damage it adds is pretty inconsequential

not enough modifiers and it just drains my mp faster. i can sustain it with mana strike, but that costs damage

also, i underestimated how much harder this game is when i have to aim my attacks

[elfin rapids]

That's sad.

I was pretty excited about that one.

[karmic folio]

Confluence of Fate works the same way, its not really a bug

[karmic folio]

i mean 4% vs 2% is basically no difference, since its multiplicative with everything else and not additive

on my Focus I have 3 nodes with 20% less dmg taken each and all together give 49% instead of 60%

[kindred oxide]

It's just because like:
(Base x 1.16 x 1.48 x 1.60 x 1.50 x 1.32)
+50% Crit Multi and +8 Melee.

Those are the multipliers you are getting out of Flame Reave's skill tree.

(Base x 1.30 x 1.18)

That's all you're getting out of Frost Claw

and Frost Claw scales off INT only

while Flame Reave scales off of INT and DEX

napkin math says Frostclaw added like 3.9% to my DPS.

that's before counting what it costs to mana. 5 passive points I had to move, and taking skills out of surge/teleport.

was cool to try out tho haha

[karmic folio]

With Meteor does it make a difference if I take 120% more spell damage or 120% more fire damage?

[lunar elbow]

ayyyy nice

[nimble shoal]

If your meteor is dealing only spell and fire damage, no

[karmic folio]

ok ty

[lunar elbow]

grrrr

why is this bloody thing so borderline impossible to beat

:D

I finally managed to beat the regular double omen thing

and now I get this

[karmic folio]

these omen runs would be much easier for me if those bosses were actualy untargetable and not just invincible, I autocast over 20 meteors per second at them and just go oom all the time

[left hill]

I like that they're targetable sometimes so I can whack them with mana strike right as it starts if I enter while low on mana 😅

[karmic folio]

thats smart

[lunar elbow]

but it's not just me right?

the difficulty of that particular echo is really really higher than everything else no?

I just ignored it and added an extra +70 corruption and the shade died in like 3 hits :/

those champions that get empowered by the omens feel like they got about 20x the hp

[karmic folio]

was that the triple omen thing where you can do all at once ?

[lunar elbow]

no I think it was just 2

and all the mobs are champions

it's the second part that really messes me up, getting oneshot by like a random 10k attack from a newly spawned mob offscreen

[nimble shoal]

The triple omen echo is significantly harder imo

[lunar elbow]

haha I guess it ought to be at least 50% harder

but I feel like it would just be the same thing really, just with an extra empowered champion wailing at you

[nimble shoal]

It's 3 greater windows, and to do it properly, you need to have all three open at the same time for at least a moment

there's basically nowhere to move because the room is filled with enemies lol

[cosmic dove]

this took a long time to find 😂

[cosmic dove]

@harsh abyss you have time for some pulsar build TCing?

[lunar elbow]

HAHA OH GOD

I JUST GOT THE TRIPLE ONE NOW HAHAHA

nahhhhh how the hell am I supposed to beat this

oh yeah I think it might have been the triple one before as well I was just too panicked to notice it

pinnacle of chaos

what a bs echo :D

like bruh

I kill like 5 champions and then I'm toast

it's like, the first 3 are easy because of how they each spawn in one corner, but by the time you've killed a couple, you're suddenly against 1v3 nonsense oneshot hits

[real rain]

Yeah they are ridiculously overtuned lol

[lunar elbow]

like are these even supposed to be beatable when you first start finding them?

before finding one your build feels completely OP for the corruption level, and then you find this and you feel like you did something crazy wrong in the build somewhere :D

[real rain]

There's no way to beat them at that time with an average build, it's just too much tbh

[lunar elbow]

I could probably beat one if I had like +100 extra primary stats or something basic like that

but not like this

should probably keep them to only having 2 at a time until 500+ corruption at least

maybe 750+ corruption even

2 I could probably beat rn

but 3 no way

[left hill]

not sure the intent from EHG, but I think folks have been saying they've had to drop down like 200c lower than their norm for that

[lunar elbow]

ah, well thanks for confirming

at least I know there's nothing wrong on my end :D

[delicate cape]

why r all the key echoes "arena keys" i dont even do those on hc.
Is there a reason there arent "generic key" echoes? and can i do anything like trade-ins with the arena keys

[pulsar belfry]

can i legendary a staff into my wand?

[tight swift]

If you have friends to help, u can do it. For me, i cleared it when i lowered the corruption to like 300.

[half pollen]

No

[lunar elbow]

haha friends

yummy yummy skill levels tho

[tight swift]

what corruption were you doing it on?

[lunar elbow]

301

o_o

[tight swift]

crazy dps

but you are still struggling?

[lunar elbow]

I found a funny build

it's not tanky enough though

[tight swift]

interesting build

[lunar elbow]

XD

[tight swift]

is it spellblade?

[lunar elbow]

yeah

it's the one where you hold down 2 buttons

mana strike and shatter strike

it's always out of mana but if you have shatterstrike to the left of manastrike it will prioritize shatterstrike

so it goes like shatterstrike->manastrike->shatterstrike->etc on repeat by itself

[tight swift]

that's cool is there youtube video for a build or is yours more unique

[lunar elbow]

no it's basically the same as the regular spellblade shatterstrike buil d

just different gear

[tight swift]

ah ok

[tight swift]

if you want i can try helping with the omen of veil quest

[weary hamlet]

they made the arena key echoes back in 2019 and never bothered to update them since, small indie company

[left hill]

scissors, weaver amulet, both?

[vivid wedge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oYE9RmXD

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 2,733, Regen: 51.92/s
▸ Mana: 162.51, Regen: 9.44/s
▸ Ward Retention: 340%, Regen: 149/s
▸ Attributes: 121 Str / 36 Dex / 121 Int / 19 Att / 64 Vit
▸ Resistances: 110% / 73% / 122% / 83% / 83% / 82% / 106%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 51%, Threshold: 883
▸ Dodge Chance: 11% (336)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 44% (2,555)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Used skills:

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

[vivid wedge]

nevermind apparently we got it up to 5-6k cold %

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qnag7g40

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

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

General:

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

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 1,511
▸ Dodge Chance: 16% (525)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 41% (2,290)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Used skills:

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

[left hill]

"more" damage showing up in the "increased" is kind of silly

[lunar elbow]

ohhhh nice

[tight swift]

finally beat uber aberroth

[delicate cape]

I finally just did a major respec (HC SSF), swapping my exalted helm, ring, gloves, amulet with set forged. And chest + boots into legendaries.

It's great. the damage is insane.

But my mana sustain is ass and kinda breaks the build. I understand the concept of Foot of the Mountain retaining "free casting" if you don't move (Glacier is fine).
But I went from ~20 mana regen (free casting and playing), to almost none, and it just is a bit disappointing from a "feel" perspective, even though the damage is like 4-5x.

Any recommendations?

[tight swift]

it's a hp pot pickup sim game

[delicate cape]

Oh...........F....

That makes bossing somewhat challenging. Also "standing still" for the benefit of Mountain is not ideal for HC

[left hill]

if you can fit Focus into your skill specializations, you could spec it for the Null Profusion chain and just tap it when it's off cooldown and you go under 0 mana to gain 40% back

[unborn hamlet]

Unfortunately yes

Unless you have 600-700 mana

Spam drink potions so your Orian belt restores your mana

Foot of the mountain is just a situational mana sustain

I personally use flame rush instead of glacier for movement because of the frenzy on exit nodes

[delicate cape]

is foot of mountain reallyi BiS. I dont love it.
I know it' snot gospel but the maxroll guide has it as Aspirational.

[delicate cape]

thats waht made me almost do it. and i toyed w/ Flame Rush a little. but I ultimately liked the "instant" nature of Glacier

[unborn hamlet]

What build? I assume lightning blast considering the items?

If so, yes foot of the mountain is BiS because of the +12 to all

Helps with the +skill attribute stacking for the amulet

I would use unstable core 1LP instead of static shell too

More DMG more mana more mana regen and more skill points to use

But I assume you don't wanna die since it's a HC char so I can understand, the armour against shocked enemies is pretty strong

In that case look into help from someone to get shattered worlds relic,

+9/10 all, permanent haste, good DMG reduction roll, preferably 1LP so you can slam int, but usable even without it

Definitely better than the scroll you have

[real rain]

isn't twisted heart bis for LB?

[unborn hamlet]

yesnt

It's there for defensive layer

SW is way better DPS , utility, and good DMG reduction roll makes it almost as good as twisted

Only thing you lose on is some cast speed which is redundant if you have good idols

+10 to all is just too powerful for the build

[full bluff]

Anyone found a way of WASD movement with Mana Guide Focus to work, with aimed teleport at the same time?

Since Focus becomes a movement skill I can't WASD move with Focus at the same time as having aimed teleport

Focus as movement skill does not count as a short range movement skill in WASD setup. Makes it impossible to use in combination with long range teleport.

[proven haven]

Yea SW is fine. You still have frostguard for ward but lose TH.

Flat crit means you dont need crit elsewhere, so means you dont need crit on amulet or glove. Frenzy effect is really good to if perma frenzy especially.

[proven haven]

I wish

[full bluff]

I need 3 fixes to improve my meteor gameplay:

• Fix the cast-on-crit proc on Harbinger of Stars belt to not trigger on meteor crits
• Make Focus + Mana Guide Count as short range movement skill for WASD Controls
• Make Arcane Ascendance buff effects like slow, more damage, mana on kill count based on if you cast the skill while in Arcane Ascendance mode, not on if you are in AA when they land/hit

[proven haven]

Didn't they kill the AA thing?

[full bluff]

I am stopping, dropping into AA, cast Meteor, then move on, but problem is that the meteors don't land until I am out of AA, so the buffs don't count

WASD movement fix is the most important to me, since it is a major change in how to play. Could be just adding Focus to the list of short movement skills, then it is fixed 🙂

[real rain]

yeah that's fair, ik it's insanely powerful but I'd probably miss the extra ward a lot

[rare pilot]

Guys is there any S tier spellblade build this season? (that can comfortably kill uberroth like LB)

[real rain]

flame reave can get sub 3 minute kills with decent gear, pretty sure shatter strike was already getting good uber kill times as well

[rare pilot]

Immortal vise and shattered world not needed right? Because I play CoF so I can't get those before uberroth (can Market people even buy ubberoth gear before killing ubberoth?)

[real rain]

you can indeed buy uber gear

but yeah they're not needed

[rare pilot]

Wow....

For flame reave I've seen two kills with 2 builds (one by bokchoy that uses mana strike, and one by lizard which doesn't use mana strike). Which one does higher dps?

[real rain]

I can't stand MG tbh, if I want to play the market I'll play poe where I can't target farm items efficiently. LE will always feel more satisfying as CoF. the imprint nerfs suck though.

and well

bokchoy has a 3 minute and 2 minute kill. lizard took over 4 minutes.

so def not lizards

[rare pilot]

Sameee I don't want to play the market lol and tbh I feel like it's more satisfying to get first kill without his gear

[real rain]

yeah absolutely

it feels more earned

I saw another sub 3 minute kill using dual wielding but I feel like that's asking to get one shot in the uber fight

you lose so much damage reduction that the 2 handed version has access to

[rare pilot]

Oh wow, and seems you don't gain that much dps over the 2 handed version too

Since it's also sub 3

[real rain]

the flame reave staff is absurd so ye

the more attack speed you have the stronger it is

• more levels to flame reave is insane since the tree has so many sources of more damage

[rare pilot]

Ah

I see in bokchoy first clear his planner uses immortal vise and shattered world. I guess vise can be replaced with falcon fist before I get it and what do I replace SW with? Twisted heart for extra survivability?

[real rain]

falcon fist with LP is what I'd use yeah since you can get a lot of attack speed just from that

[proven haven]

Yea the staff math looked pretty crazy tbh. When I did the calcs it should be possible to get like 10m hits on Uber

With cooldown, granted, but still pretty high with normal spec

[rare pilot]

Woahhh it's FrozenSentinel!

[robust junco]

More like frozen mage 😎

[rare pilot]

I can finally make use of my 3lp fist then, niceeee

[real rain]

I got lucky and hit the frenzy + attack speed corruption on my staff so with falcon fists the attack speed is crazy

[rare pilot]

Wtf

What's the reliable source of frenzy before SW? I guess corrupted throne of ambition?

[full bluff]

Think they would ever be open to make a weapon swap feature?

Running AOE staff and single damage staff now

Anoying having to manually switch

[weary hamlet]

hopefully not, it really dilutes build identity/specialization and weapon swap gameplay is usually very annoying

can't remember a game off the top of my head where it wouldn't be a UI/UX nightmare

poe2 perhaps where you can fully automate it depending on build so it's a non-mechanic to begin with

[full bluff]

AOE staff and stun staff for bosses

[native jacinth]

Isn’t there a node in FR for frenzy too i think

[rare pilot]

yup found it, thanks!

[native jacinth]

I haven’t used it yet will when I get 4 on my chest, if u use it can. You let me know how often it’s up?

[robust junco]

EHG Mike is a pretty big fan of weapon swap, and have tried for years to put it into the game. He mentioned a few times that it's not coming.

[weary hamlet]

damn I forgot that line fireball only works for direct casts

rest in pis s my fireball ignite build with embers

might need to swap into flame claw zzz

also embers is still just as bad as we imagined, getting an average of one recast of fireball per wisp's lifetime

might also swap into glyph ignite, now the question is, life based with runeword avalanche must be the way right?

[rotund ocean]

Has anyone tried flame reave with embers?

[weary hamlet]

ignite chance would be wasted entirely, and for the rest, let's do a quick napkin math, if we are getting an average of one wisp every 2 sec, and if we are spamming flame reave and not using the cooldown version, we can expect to get maybe one recast of flame reave per wisp on average over its entire lifetime

so is one flame reave per 2 seconds (that can also miss etc) better than the crit multi neck?

[finite cobalt]

legends entwined was a mistake

[weary hamlet]

yea

[finite cobalt]

I'm so mad that my fireball CoC meteor is already 2x better than with bluefeather while I only have like 2 sets activated and can up that to 4 or 5 maybe

what a dumb item

[rotund ocean]

I can see it being good for omen veil farming

Cover the entire arena with flame reaves

[weary hamlet]

wisps must be within 12m of you too to trigger

just in case

[rotund ocean]

but Bokchoy already showed covering the entire area by stacking area lol

[weary hamlet]

how do you manage mana without blue feather tho? I only tried the blue band version and only at very low gear

[weary hamlet]

yea do you even need it with FR being what it is

[finite cobalt]

so far I'm using marina's wand with -5 mana cost until I get a good staff, it's enough to get fireball cost to 0. Helm needs the chance to refund mana on fireball, ideally would be T7 I guess

[weary hamlet]

yea I get the fireball stuff but you get meteors that cost what 50 mana, that's a lot of fireballing to refill

with blue band you get twice the meteors per fireball mana wise

also the chaining via potion refill from your belt is twice as effective

cause again twice the meteors per mana pool

[finite cobalt]

yeah true, I hate using potions though so there's that

[weary hamlet]

its like use potion, instant 10 meteors, use another, instant 10 meteors again, etc

[finite cobalt]

but I think the damage can go much higher than with bluefeather though

[weary hamlet]

of course this is most relevant on bosses

[weary hamlet]

can it? You already maximize on most damage nodes in meteor except 100% crit on high mana, but crit is relatively easy to cap on meteor

[finite cobalt]

more attributes = more flat damage for vilatria, the gear is also easier I suppose

it's also more comfy because you get all res too ...

some unfinished sets also gives nice bonus at 2 parts : invoker gives 15% cast speed, halvar 20 cold spell and 20 phys spell which is decent for meteor

also meteor at 50 costs gets a better %more bonus from the sorc passive right

[daring epoch]

So I've followed the endgame / aspirational build for lightning rune master, mostly t7 + t/6/5 2 or 3 lp uniques. And I struggle with normal abberoth. Am I missing something? thought this build was an uber abby destroyer

[proven haven]

Yes absolutely

[weary hamlet]

so did anybody actually play ele nova this patch? It's still abysmal right?

getting all the juicy ele nova drops

and prism nova too

rngesus hates me he wants me to suffer

[cosmic dove]

yeah Zerak tried to start nova and gave up pretty quick

[kindred oxide]

Crit multi neck is so strong for this build. Just cuz it gets crit so easily.

And with Attack Speed gloves, you're casting 10 flame reaves within a 2.4s cd. So 1 more is 10%.

That's not bad but I think multi neck is just too much value, defense too

[weary hamlet]

weakling! although I don't imagine playing a 40k dps build either

[kindred oxide]

Swaddling of the Erased is really good for Gloves. Reliquary Nest is a good relic too.

[coral lion]

I think Sorc needs to get reworked

[weary hamlet]

im not suffering enough, need to roll another meme build

other than random oneshots my coc meteor is not too bad with a few gear upgrades

should I roll glyph of dominion or wandering spirits aco?

glyph sounds like a more reasonable build so probably need to go with aco

but with the power creep it's still gonna pwn normal aby and 500+ corr which is my benchmark for meme builds

[kindred oxide]

If not for MG I wouldnt have figured out spellblade and might have rerolled or lost interest. .

Experimenting with throwaway uniques for like 1000 gold. MG is great for mad scientists lol.

[coral lion]

First change
From:

• Meteor
  5 Static Orb
  15 Ice Barrage
  30 Arcane Ascendance
  40 Black Hole

To:

• Arcane Ascendance
  5 Static Orb
  15 Meteor
  30 Ice Barrage
  40 Blackhole

[cosmic dove]

can I interest you in a BH/Pulsar w/ Meteor Shower back up?
no?
I understand 😂

[weary hamlet]

lol no

[full bluff]

I tried using elemental nova damage proc from meteor, it does 200k dmg on dummy, so was just 10% boost to meteor

elemental nova by itself went to a bit over 600k

[cosmic dove]

I've gotten BH/Pulsar to 300C but ...

[weary hamlet]

a meme build still needs to be fun

[cosmic dove]

this dropped which was cool

[weary hamlet]

meteor bh sounds like eating fiberglass

[coral lion]

I used Mana strike for my sorc to proc lightning: Static Orb, Meteor, Frost Claw and Elemental Nova. Not enough to regenerate mana with all that fire power. I ditched Elemental Nova for Focus Traveler.

[weary hamlet]

like idk VO sb is still kinda fun

even if it's pretty bad

[cosmic dove]

I actual like how it plays but I'm not afraid a more than one button press ... crazy I know 😉

[weary hamlet]

although old VO frostbite SB is pretty good for a non meta build

[cosmic dove]

@weary hamlet actually since I am meme-ing it up, question for you
I discovered that I dont really have mana issues so null nodes on Focus were wasted in 99% of content
I dropped them and with all the ICRS for BH, focus CD is 2s
I grabbed the teleport/focus node and it works
this means my skills are: BH, Meteor, Flame Ward, Focus. I can drop teleport. the question is--what would possibly be useful in place of it

AA is a no go for me, I hate standing still
FC w/ Heat Flux on Meteor works if I spec fully into reduced cost. but I have to give up 3 meteor nodes for heat flux and I'm pretty sure the damage from 18 FCs is giving back less than that
Snap Freeze to interrupt bosses but it is pretty situational
Flame Rush has a 1.6s CD but I am not sure what it gives me other than a little frenzy

any suggestions/thoughts?

[weary hamlet]

remind me again you are talking about the pulsar build?

[sterile ledge]

yeeee just took out my first omen champion window

[cosmic dove]

yeah. I drop BHs mainly, meteor in between BH CDs

[weary hamlet]

you know what, I have no idea what else would be useful in that build either

flame rush can be used for its dr I guess

[cosmic dove]

I got to 300C and bosses vaporize with 6 BHs on them
I am squishy as hell but that is the mage life

[weary hamlet]

also your shit does add random incidental ignites right? could eat them for ward with flame rush omegalul

scraping the bottom of the barrel here

[cosmic dove]

yeah I thought about that but you are right
trash doesnt live long enough to be able to rush through them
so it would only be on bosses

[weary hamlet]

damn getting hard checked by lack of dispel in omens with my health belt

and losing a ton of ward with the cleanse belt

getting globaled from 2k hp and 6k ward by fu cking pyromancers

[cosmic dove]

yeah 300C is new to me (first season I ever put any time in)
and damn the damage ramps up

[weary hamlet]

its just a few overtuned mobs as usual

and weaver spirits on nemesis/champs

the pyromancers from soulfire were never not a problem but thye just plopped them as is into monos and added even more scaling from omens

typical EHG when you get oneshot by damage "over time"

and this build isnt even that squishy with 18% dr from meteor belt and another 10 from red ring and you know flame ward etc

[cosmic dove]

I come from a HC diablo background
but I quickly noped right out of HC in LE because of all that ^^

[weary hamlet]

yea I don't bother with HC either too much random bullshit in the game

[finite cobalt]

that one woven echo where you have to defeat 8 primordial champion beasts, 10 times harder than most other stuff but it's written nowhere 😬

[weary hamlet]

it was all over the feedback back in 1.3 cause it was just as bad

well guess what EHG don't give a shit

[left hill]

should be slightly better now that their fire/ice whirlwind DOTs aren't doing insane per-tick damage. but ya...

[versed hawk]

Anyone made a successful Voidwinter bolts build?

[weary hamlet]

I don't think that I ever saw one, the damage seems to be a little low for that

[umbral perch]

if the conversion on Bane of Winter is also bugged (like the spellblade mastery's supposedly is) to only apply to generic melee damage, then you're only getting 94 spell damage out of your weapon. probably needs other sources of flat damage to get very far

[harsh abyss]

One day they'll have a season where things people are specifically hyped for aren't bugged, but it won't be this season

[umbral perch]

been digging through the various weapon options in light of the mastery conversion being bugged and Jasper's Searing Pride is looking like a strong winner for spell trigger builds at the 1LP level of gear. at least for raw spell damage. even for cold >_<

at 2LP if you slam T7 attack speed and T7 spell damage on Transcriber's Graver that is more flat

[waxen token]

is flame reave uber viable? I really don't wanna swap to shatter strike for it

[weary hamlet]

yea

[lunar elbow]

ehehehe now we cooking

juicy

[river kayak]

I just hit lvl 70 playing this build and it's a lot of fun. Need a lot of gear still though

[lunar elbow]

I just hit the full build pretty much

now it just needs upgrades and idol tweaking

[river kayak]

What pieces should I go for first?

Having trouble prioritizing

[lunar elbow]

legends entwined ring and abandoned eyes of the weaver amulet

those two combined with a bunch of common set pieces that you can just slam corruption on is absurd amounts of value early game

[river kayak]

Ok are you following maxroll build because I don't see those?

[lunar elbow]

nah xd

I have basically copied this build: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qnag7g40

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

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

General:

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

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 41%, Threshold: 1,511
▸ Dodge Chance: 16% (525)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 41% (2,290)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 91%

Used skills:

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

[river kayak]

Ok

[lunar elbow]

but without knowing it

[river kayak]

Oh you're doing the strength version

[lunar elbow]

yeah :D

[river kayak]

The maxroll is dex but says to build like yours if you want to go strength!

[vivid wedge]

you can get some really fun % more via brutality conversion

~60% more without too much hassle

[torn rampart]

did anyone crack uberoth with fire aura

[kindred oxide]

Yeah! Strong uber killer. Shatter Strike is better at it though.

Flame Reave is better wave clear.

Shatter Strike is better single target.

[kindred oxide]

I'm curious bout this too. I think it's damage potential is too low but waiting for someone to prove that wrong.

[proven haven]

I think I can get it there with a bit of tweaking. Only had a couple days to play with it before I went away on vacation and did pinnacle

Omen pinnacle

A lot of room for improvement

[umbral perch]

Just to sanity check, Blade Weaver would boost Shatterstrike and the Ice Spikes it triggers, and ailments applied by both, but would not boost any resulting Glacier casts, right?

[harsh abyss]

Correct, any skill you can specialize in doesn't get boosted by things like that.

[cosmic dove]

@harsh abyss any idea on how I can get pulsar crit maxed?
2-handed sword and almost every slot a set so I'm struggling
(meteor is fine because of its base crit node)

[harsh abyss]

Intelligence stacking with weaver amulet is probably the best bet. It gives a decent amount of flat and your intelligence should be enough to cap it from there?

[cosmic dove]

true but you already have me doing invoker in ammy/ring slots (with LE in 2nd ring)

[harsh abyss]

Yeah it's a tough call. You'd lose 5 levels from Invoker being gone, but if you can stack 240 total attributes, you can use ferobor + weaver amulet, which will be +2 from sets and +2 from attributes

[cosmic dove]

hmm Id have to check. I dont think Im at 240 yet

well I'm at 230 but a lot of that is from LE ...

[harsh abyss]

Well, you're gonna get more from LE by replacing invoker with 2 sets

So that might push you over 240

[cosmic dove]

I will have to farm, I didnt have Ferobor on my loot filter so I dont have any

but maybe this will work

[harsh abyss]

Ah yeah, in the future I'd recommend leaving all the sets on your filter to start out so you can have a few for shattering

Ferobor specifically is a good one to pair with LE in basically any mage build

[sharp sun]

wtf did i just made 🤣

[delicate cape]

I have a T6 cast speed and crit multi.

Is 1 generally gonna be preferred

I worry about cast speed cuz I'm already burning thru my mana..

[tight swift]

if i had 2 LP on spoon, i would go t7 crit multi, t6 cast speed

if it's 1 LP, just go for crit

[delicate cape]

ok cool

I have a 2LP Fragment of the Enigma. Unforutnately this is the best offhand i have. may YOLO it

Actually i may wait for something better. 2LP is 1:12, and im playing HC SSF, sooo.. hm

yeah i wait

How do i start getting more double-exalted and T7s. I havent seen barely any T7s....

[umbral perch]

nemesis and high CoF rank, plus optimizing your weaver tree to drop as many exalts as possible (e.g. do a bunch of Trove maps with caches dropping exalted items)

[carmine abyss]

can I put mad alchmist ladle in the woven tree slots? will it increase the drop rate eg. cache loot or champions etc ?

[nimble shoal]

It won't help you get more copies of it, since it's a boss drop

[carmine abyss]

will it increase the drop rate from exiled mages though ?

[sterile ledge]

wait, can corrupting overcap stats?

[nimble shoal]

No

[carmine abyss]

ohhh so the slots wont work for boss drops

ok

tysm

[nimble shoal]

Nah, some stats can have rounding errors like that, it's not limited to corrupted affixes

[sterile ledge]

ah phew, that saves me some min max headaches i guess 😅

was just testing out a 1lp with a junk t7 spell damage to see dps change with ww vs just an exalted for now and then got worried id need to yolo for overcaps as well

[steel steppe]

I recently updated my Attunement Stacking Runemaster with Exulis. It's phenomenal for farming, but single target is also ok. Here is a video with Fractured Prison fight 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhJfvWIM4Gg

but I use it mostly to farm Omen Veils at 1000c

[carmine abyss]

can someone tell me what spiderling packs mean?

from the woven tree

[left hill]

dusk spiders and that sort of thing. basically just flavor. they die hilariously quick

[carmine abyss]

ohhhh is it recommended to put a point into it? sometimes beacons can be extra?

[left hill]

honestly idk if guides recommend it. i have a point in currently bc I'd rather see other echoes spawn and not beacons, but I could see a case for the super beacons to make it easier to bee-line to specific echoes

[carmine abyss]

how do we get super beacons btw? is it by using a woven echo?

cant remember exactly but I've seen it somewhere

[left hill]

it's a weaver node right before the "loot lizards drop extra exalted items" node

[nimble shoal]

There is a woven beacon you can place, but also a weaver node that make rare super beacons randomly

[carmine abyss]

found it ty

[carmine abyss]

i see! thx \

[sacred kite]

Is there a bug with Legends Entwined? I have 3 sets active but only getting the +skill bonus for 2: Vilatria's, Weaver Amulet, and Last gift of the Mountain

[nimble shoal]

Is your Halvar set complete or do you only have the relic on?

[delicate cape]

Thx. i dont think ive seen a trove map yet. are they rare / hard to get a bunch on SSF?

[umbral perch]

you can eventually buy them with memory amber; the peak strat a few patches ago was to do lostwood folly to seed weaver mobs into false temples or cemeteries of reweaving, clear them for more amber than you spent buying them, and spend the excess on troves

[kindred oxide]

idk why anyone says spellblade is squishy

"squishy" is an adjective that describes a build, not a specialization

so what they mean is "i built my spellblade squishy"

[delicate cape]

classes can inherently be squishier than others, based on the skills and passives they use

[vivid wedge]

"spellblade's reliance on on-hit ward generation, combined with relatively average other defenses (general DR, dodge, armor) and needing to be melee to get those hits in, makes it squisher than other masteries"

[nimble shoal]

The mage looks like a fairly squishy guy, just has that aura, you know?

[weary wagon]

@proven haven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0JclZMTujU&t=316s does this still work?

[kindred oxide]

I feel tankier than my similarly geared erasing strike on spellblade. shrug

Ate two of the three triple flail 😂

[delicate cape]

I've go the follwoing uncompleted Woven Echoes. Are any of them particularly rippy / currently overtuned?

• Bloodline Glade
• Vault of the Barnacle King
• Nesting Grove
• Cenotaph of Worlds
• Oerden's Watch
• Collapsing Horizon

never done any of those)

[vivid wedge]

what's your planner? from what you've been saying it's been a fun build

[kindred oxide]

imo: spellblade is meant to diversify their defenses. defensive layers are subject to diminishing returns. DR% granted by each point becomes less the more you have. (exception: endurance which is capped at 60%)

some other specs aren't built to have diverse defenses and are instead given tools towards one specific defensive layer. a erasing strike VK does not care about ward or dodge, for instance. but naturally has very high armor.

spellblade's passive tree rewards you for having a little bit in everything.

i'm trying out a tankier set for omen farming. one sec

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qnag8z40

This is a little bit different. I went with double red ring, no sunwreath. got those nodes from the tree instead.

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (5) / Spellblade (80) / Runemaster (8)

General:

▸ Health: 3,082, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 330.51, Regen: 13.76/s
▸ Ward Retention: 250%, Regen: 244/s
▸ Attributes: 36 Str / 77 Dex / 104 Int / 22 Att / 31 Vit
▸ Resistances: 124% / 78% / 100% / 76% / 126% / 150% / 83%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 71%, Threshold: 852
▸ Dodge Chance: 19% (645)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 48% (2,916)
▸ Block Chance: 14%, Mitigation: 28% (588)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 100%

Used skills:

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

[carmine abyss]

can someone tell me why this corrupted mountain boots give me an extra all skill points? while the regualr one doesnt?? is this a bug ?

+1 extra attrubute doesnt mean skill points but cant tell the reason behind it

[left hill]

Bloodline Glade, Cenotaph of Worlds, and Oerdan's Watch, relative to their minimum corruption requirements, are kind of overtuned imo. Like, if you think "oh, it has 100 minimum, should be like any otther 100-minimum echo," you'll be caught off-guard. By the time you can comfortably do 150-175 though you can do them without an issue.

Bloodline Glade maybe less so now that they fixed the broken DOT effects on Rift Beasts bypassing resistance or whatever. Though they can still hit you quite hard (again relative to what 100C minimum might suggest) with the charge move if you don't play around that.

[delicate cape]

thx! 🙂

Is there a way to farm the Temporal Keystone? I just burned through all mine. Now I'm addicted to just boss killing

[left hill]

Get rank 5 on the Harbinger progression and fight Harbingers.
Also can spec for loot lizards on the weaver tree, including the Green/Blue loot lizard with champions, because green loot lizards can drop them.

[delicate cape]

RIP 89. Damn.
I was getting strong too.

One of those casters put a bunch of cold meteors on me and I didnt really notice. seems overtuned tbh.

[real rain]

There's a lot of overtuned mobs in this game sadly.

[delicate cape]

yeah... kinda makes HC tough. I feel like PoE was like that for a few years. This last league, I really enjoyed HC poe. Felt smooth

[trim jasper]

Maybe youre wearing the weaver set amulet?
The thing gives more all skill points depending on the total amount of your attributes

[carmine abyss]

ohhhh!

tysm i was so curious about this

🫶

[dawn widget]

Hot damn I can use this

[kindred oxide]

WOW that is very nice

[dawn widget]

Actually was curious... since you reccomended to swap relic for reliquary nest then what do i do for the amulet since i cant equip 2 primordial items

[harsh abyss]

Couple easy options are Nihilis or Abandoned Weaver amulet

[left hill]

i'm really enjoying Cursed Coin with the +1 Skill corruption for +2 skills total (and a bunch of mostly irrelevant lightning resistance)

but i'm also aiming for Harmony of the First at some point, so exalted amulet makes a bit more sense in this case

[lunar elbow]

weaver amulet only really makes sense when you go hard for it

like this :D

or I guess I mean legends entwined

but they kinda combo

just make a bunch of reforged pieces with a bunch of stats on them

[lunar elbow]

holy shit what, I had no idea this corrupted affix existed

that's a single affix that deadass just more than doubles my damage output

wtf

well, at least assuming I haven't already stacked tons of % increased melee damage

[left hill]

yeah, it's a pretty nice one, even once you have a bunch of %inc, for the ~10% More multiplier (on 20+ cost melee attacks)

[lunar elbow]

ye true

and besides melee damage % is pretty rare to find elsewhere

I only have 175% without it

so it'd still add a whole lot

[left hill]

well, any other relevant %increased is in the same bucket. e.g. if you're using a fire melee attack, increased %elemental, %fire, %melee all add together. plus any increased % scaling the skill has from attributes (int or dex)

[lunar elbow]

ohhh, all damage type increased are in the same bucket?

[weary hamlet]

must be a rounding error somewhere

[weary hamlet]

reason #768634 not to play hardcore in LE

[vivid wedge]

Sorta, they all combine their tags the way you'd think:

• Increased** fire melee** % as an affix adds only to fire melee %
• increased elemental melee % adds to fire, lightning, and cold melee %
• Increased melee % adds to fire, lightning, cold, necrotic, etc melee %
• Increased fire % adds to fire melee %, fire spell %, fire throwing %, fire bow %...
• Increased elemental % adds to fire/cold/lightning melee/spell/throwing/bow %...

So for stuff like flame reave which is fire and melee tagged and does only fire damage, all of the above get added up. For a fire spell like fireball, it'd be fire %, elemental %, spell %, fire spell %, elemental spell %..

[weary hamlet]

main stat is a hidden increased damage modifier so you'll have at least some

[weary hamlet]

basically the formula is, (base+flat)x(sum(% increased))xMore1xMore2xMore3...

thus the value of increased is relatively low compared to more modifiers, but depending on the exact math picking up some increased might be optimal

[robust junco]

Where ADE?????

[weary hamlet]

especially i.e. for ele dot affixes in respective builds which tend to have high numbers

[robust junco]

All ruined

[weary hamlet]

in base+flat

obviously

[radiant zenith]

So in the volcanic orb tree on mage, is there anyway to see the damage done by the Flame Glyph -> Fire Nova, Explosive Orb and Explosive Ground?

[weary hamlet]

some of these should show up the tooltip if you hover the nodes with alt (or was it ctrl?) but tooltips are notoriously unreliable

if tooltips don't show up you can look up the subskills on le tools in skills section

[radiant zenith]

well i want to see an approx dmg on the tooltip is what i want, but ya the tooltips arent showing up for those even pressing ctrl+alt sadge

[dusk junco]

Can you use wasd movement with Lightning Blast Runemaster? Since its basically only Lightning Blast for damage and Glacier for movement?

[weary hamlet]

you can use wasd movement with any build, it's just a matter of convenience. I.e. wasd movement is not very useful for builds relying on skill queueing

one skill builds obviously don't suffer from that but if you are playing like VO builds that might be an issue

[weary hamlet]

gotta whip out the calc and add everything up by hand like back in the days of yore

[dusk junco]

Thanks. Would you say Lightning Blast Runemaster only uses 2-3 skills regularly?

[weary hamlet]

idk I don't play that build

but other than LB what do you even need

[weary hamlet]

also while we are on the page of tooltips, VO is uniquely (not uniquely) terrible in this regard cause tooltips for explosive ground are extra useless, they don't even list the amount of explosive ground created by the skill

but don't worry that's hardly unique, I was just playing wandering spirits aco yesterday and the tooltips for that skill are worse than useless, they are actively misleading

like if you read the tooltip you could conclude that the skill actually works in an opposite way to how it really functions and thus half of its tree and synergies would make no sense

[lunar elbow]

eyy pretty decent

[daring epoch]

Anyone got some uber abberoth lightning strike runemaster builds? I followed maxroll one with multiple double t7 gears and cant even down normal abberoth? 🤔

[unborn hamlet]

Uh, if you mean lightning blast then you must be missing something crucial

I kill normal Abby before he finishes his first slam

[robust junco]

If you are playing online you can easily share your planner so we can have a look

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/

[lunar elbow]

I'm currently at the stage where I am oneshotting timeline bosses, shades and harbingers at 420 corruption, but if I go higher or into a triple omen I start getting oneshot by random mobs again XD

[daring epoch]

awesome thanks

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Tektik/character/Matrix

[lunar elbow]

how do you guys build tankiness on spellblade?

just more ward?

[robust junco]

And with this you can't kill normal Abberoth??!?!?

[daring epoch]

I get 1 shot

but can down him but its deffiently not quick

[robust junco]

You have to dodge the big slam

And pretty much most aoe

That's normal

[daring epoch]

ah okay, been a while since I played so sort of forgot mechanics

[robust junco]

Wait

Isn't spark Charge most of your dmg?

[daring epoch]

Yeah

[robust junco]

I need someone with more experience than me

But this should be 5/5 imo

You are missing a lot of dmg there

[daring epoch]

oh? I thought it would be if ive followed the guide

maybe I missed it

list doesnt look updated pretty sure i did max it but ill check when im online

deffiently a fun build to play so hope i can push it more

[robust junco]

I don't have any experience with the build, never played it but from what I saw in videos your dmg come from spark Charge, and this is the juiciest node

Like this node doesn't apply to spark charges

[daring epoch]

sweet

ill look more into it

was going to give up and go back to another character lol

[robust junco]

With that gear, you should plow through regular Abby

Go back to your guide /'video and make sure you didn't miss smth

I had worse gear on worse build and bear Abby yesterday with ease

Also, please dodge the AoE

[daring epoch]

Haha ok

thanks

[weary hamlet]

your defensive mechanic is clenching the butt cheeks real hard

you could try low life or vessel but they eat up too much of stat budget

[unborn hamlet]

yes

the guiide has some things outdated

mortal capacitor is a need 5/5

as said above remove shattershock, put all those points into mortal capacitor

and fix your blessings a bit

you pretty much have minroll on all of em

its annoying but with temporal keystones u can do bosses till u hit what u need

[lunar elbow]

I see, indeed

[lunar elbow]

I managed to get a pretty decent build going now I think

time to push for 1000+ corruption

[rancid vine]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QdzJaJb9
Did have someone improvments ideas?

[silk pewter]

Sorcerer, Level 99

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

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

General:

▸ Health: 1,766, Regen: 19.86/s
▸ Mana: 1,390.39, Regen: 25.04/s
▸ Ward Retention: 288%, Regen: 202/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 58 Int / 1 Att / 1 Vit
▸ Resistances: 119% / 52% / 57% / 56% / 59% / 57% / 57%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 58%, Threshold: 459
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (38)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 33% (1,692)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 100%

Used skills:

Meteor / Black Hole / Flame Ward / Teleport / Focus

[unborn hamlet]

definitely altar

according to this u use none

and i cant quite say if this is meteor spam or blackhole as main skill, but the belt that summons extra meteors on crit should be better than strand of souls

Orian´s belt at 2-3LP and 20INT roll could also win out (Orian is pretty much the best belt for all INT builds)

[kindred lintel]

which one do i use ? the only difference is 2 lightning blast will go into spark nova, from 50% chance to 100% is it worth the 8 int loss ?

[rotund ocean]

corrupt both and see what happens

[kindred lintel]

we have a winner

i think we have a winner

dont know which wins haha im already crit capped

[rotund ocean]

I'd go with the right one personally

[kindred lintel]

the +4?

[rotund ocean]

Yeah, if you're already crit capped

two res, +14 ward per second, increased health

[kindred lintel]

isnt the8 int better ? damage wise ?

[rotund ocean]

Depends on if its better than the 58% spell damage increase you're getting from the class affix

[kindred lintel]

class affix ?

[rotund ocean]

the + to lightning blast

also gives increased spell damage

[kindred lintel]

oh true

actually i might have an idea, ill use the +4

spec into shatter shock and volatile lightning

only in shattershock 2 points30% more damage

actually more because of chill

[carmine abyss]

qq why does Lightning blast build more armor? what does armor do and ain't resistances are better even after 75% cap? newbie here

[rotund ocean]

Resistances don't do anything past cap

[carmine abyss]

ohhhh

so it shows 140% and still working like 75%?

[rotund ocean]

Yep

[carmine abyss]

damm

hmm

[rotund ocean]

Only thing resistances past cap does is for specific items or perks that specify it does something based on your total uncapped resistance

or to save you from marked for death

[carmine abyss]

how about armor?

[rotund ocean]

70% of armor still works for non-dot damage outside of physical

[carmine abyss]

I am currently in 500 corruptions.. I can get 6000 armors in fights with buffs but I get one shot sometimes

[rotund ocean]

At 500+ corruption, the only thing that makes a difference is straight damage reduction

That's why endurance is important

[carmine abyss]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QJW0Rj0W

can you tell me what stats I need to work on for not getting one shot?

[silk pewter]

Runemaster, Level 99

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Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.2

Class:

Mage (20) / Sorcerer (26) / Spellblade (6) / Runemaster (60)

General:

▸ Health: 1,665, Regen: 19.86/s
▸ Mana: 390.72, Regen: 11.28/s
▸ Ward Retention: 392%, Regen: 32/s
▸ Attributes: 49 Str / 38 Dex / 202 Int / 33 Att / 38 Vit
▸ Resistances: 97% / 38% / 116% / 105% / 93% / 70% / 88%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 44%, Threshold: 333
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (152)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 49% (3,079)

Used skills:

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

[carmine abyss]

still working on helmet and catalyst

[rotund ocean]

I would farm a better twisted heart too

The rolls are pretty low

and its an easy drop

[carmine abyss]

oh what stats of twisted heart should I pay attention to?

[rotund ocean]

Increased health goes up to 20% and the ward conversion goes up to 8%

[carmine abyss]

I see!

tysm

[rotund ocean]

And that ring could use more defenses too

[carmine abyss]

definitely I just failed crafting on that one

so endurance is preventing me from getting one shot? how about strike avoidance? sometimes I cant tell the difference

and people told me lightning blast doesnt need strike avoidance but more armors?

[rotund ocean]

It'll tell you on the death screen if you died from a crit

[carmine abyss]

I keep dying in the fading brink (boss echo)

[rotund ocean]

Yeah fading brink is no joke

[carmine abyss]

any tip?

[rotund ocean]

Arguably harder than the new omen boss

Dont get hit

Because everything one shots

Try doing it at corruption 300 instead of 500

that'll also help

[carmine abyss]

yes its harder than I expected and now I wana reduce my corruption lvl for it

😩

[unborn hamlet]

The right one

In this case the 2 points to light blast is more DMG than 8extra int

Also don't underestimate 1% extra light pen

[unborn hamlet]

This does not work on spark charge which is majority of LB dmg

Invest into mortal capacitor 5/5 top priority with extra points

Top right corner

[sacred kite]

Ooh duh it's complete set not active set. Thanks!

[formal olive]

I can't get Lightning Blast to chain to myself. I do not have Convergence. Anyone know what's going on?

Well scratch that - I think I just saw it bounce to me. There just isn't a buff icon for when you get the increased dmg/crit chance.

[unborn hamlet]

problem with this specific node is that once u get weaver necklace its completely useless

so just dont forget to respec that into more dmg later 👌

[formal olive]

Ahaha, I was so confused at first thinking what does the Erased weaver amulet have to do with it. Then I realized you meant Eyes of the Weaver set amulet 🤣

[weary hamlet]

I remember complaining about that in 2020

2026, nothing changed

[weary hamlet]

it's been very mid ever since they removed its ability to stack, used to be an easy way to cap crit. Which was probably not good but now it serves more or less no purpose

not to mention conflicting with convergence

[proven haven]

5/5 Mortal capacitor comes after spark novas, multi cast, etc. Especially post nerf to enigma tbh

Can make a copy of my LB dps sheet for that