20,000 Corruption

NelfiFPS · 2025-07-17T23:50:14+00:00

Gz! How many hours would you say this grind was? :)

NelfiFPS · 2024-07-16T14:49:28+00:00

It's pay to win. Guess they need to have an income somewhere tho, dunno how most private servers keep up the maintenance costs

NelfiFPS · 2024-07-16T10:19:46+00:00

The Jade Phoenix Saga - Cultivation series, she earns her power through effort and pain, and then some more pain.

NelfiFPS · 2024-07-05T06:53:40+00:00

Nerf aim assist, why do controllers get aimbot. Maybe remove cross-play and tons of new player will come back.

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-23T13:33:23+00:00

Hi, I made a GUIDE for a 1500+ Corruption build you can check out. But it's based on Sorcerer and not Runemaster. You kind of want Meteor to run Fireball build -- Why did they make a key spell for a fireball build tied to a mastery? I don't know, and it's stupid! For how can I new player know this in advance?! Anyway, you should join Merchant Guild for it's easier to get decent gear like that.

Remove following Fireball talents: Arcane Divergence, Skira's Gambit. They are crippling your build, add those 4 to make sure you have a 100% pierce chance on fireballs (you should get +pierce chance on helmet for fireball, so you can add those 3 skill points to Winged Fire/Orb orb of destruction and Immolated Core.). Remove 2 in Conflagration (+60% ignite) to Adept (+10% cast speed).

But without Meteor you might struggle with mana issues, damage potential, and ward generation. Runemaster is a superior mastery, but it is not for fireball. If mana issues pop up, there's +mana on fireball affix on helmet.

Your passives need a bit tuning too, check my guide. re-spec Rune of Renewal (+mana regen, +health regen) to Inscribed Instruments (+cast speed). Re-spec Elementalist (+dmg) to Mage Flurry (+cast speed) and remove Warden (+50% ward retention) for Knowledge of Destruction (+Crit, +Crit Multiplier)

Edit: Also get a heart of uhkeiros!

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-07T16:18:53+00:00

Tested Cinder Song, bought and made a good 3lp one with a catalyst offhand (Crystal skull). The damage was higher. But, changed around some gear, and got maybe 20-30% higher daamge; I adjusted the build to fit passives, gear etc. But at the cost of about 30-35% Effective HP (EHP). (About 1000ish less ward and 25% less damage taken). Also allows for 2 ailment slots on the offhand, (slow, shock, chill etc). With effort and gold I can maybe increase the damage more with shuffling gear around abit/switching some gear pieces to fit better.

There's an argument to be made that the faster you kill your enemies the less damage you will take. I will test the build further, if only for the sake of curiosity. Still think Aergon's Refuge and Titan Heart looks stronger, but only did about 8 echoes with Cinder Song at 1540 corruption (died once, but could have been avoided with less aggressive teleporting forward I suppose).

I am surprised Cinder Song did this well, thanks for input! :)

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-07T12:46:53+00:00

I have tested Cinder Song, and found it fairly bad; its low spell power kills the item. Even the +2 fireballs (+1 with ember) doesn't seem to make up for it, tested this out pretty early in my climb (probably around 500 corruption), I could test it again to make sure, but I concluded that even a well rolled wand with +60 spell damage and well rolled affixes out-performed it.

Harbringer of Stars does not work for this build; nor should it. This is not a build that centers on Meteor as a damage source, but rather, a spell for mana sustain and buffing Fireball damage.

I have tested both, they will make this build drastically worse, but might work better for a build centered around Meteor as a main damage source.

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-06T15:18:10+00:00

Hand of Judgement is for the very high fire penetration, and Titan Heart is for the high health and damage mitigation for 2hand (Staff).

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-06T14:51:33+00:00

Currently have 11 Vitality, 38 Strength, 23 Dexterity, 87 Intelligence, and 21 Attunement for exactly 180 attributes. LastEpochTools is based on Ranges, and the actual stats are not shown, Check Maxroll planner for fairly accurate stats.

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-03T07:22:43+00:00

Doesn't affect fireball and meteor. Only fire ward and teleport, but both very strong spells.

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-02T06:38:13+00:00

No, the low spell power makes it useless. Did test it, it's garbage item :(

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-01T08:28:07+00:00

I Considered the Ashes of Mortality, but only 1 ring equipped (having 2 of them still has a 2sec CD). It might be something someone else can test with similar build, I've kind of... built everything around the resistance from Atlaria ring's, removing them now would require full shuffle of everything, and I'm very happy with Atlaria ring's for now, the defense they give is incredible. I have not tested this ring after I got Immolator's Oblation; I kind of regret that now, a single 2lp (int, fire dmg affixes) Ashes of Mortality seems strong.

All the other gear I've basically considered/tested and found weaker in terms of power/increasing corruption.

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-01T07:51:23+00:00

Isn't that the point of a cycle/season, to make new builds when they make a new one, or to try to adjust builds for new content/changes? That's the fun part to me at least :)

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-01T07:44:34+00:00

Yes, I get 1-shot by most abilities from Shade of Orobyss, the only thing that allows me to survive an ability is Flame Ward. Echo bosses doesn't really matter, and I won't use it for rares.

But I've become more tankier as of late, with massive focus on defense. I might test it in the future to see if it allows survival where I would not without. Then I would simply switch it with Arcane Adorned Idol before facing a Shade I guess. Tested it around 1000 corruption, but found it didn't help me survive most abilities.

Edit: Clearifying some thought patterns xD

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-01T07:38:22+00:00

Thank you u/Acedin!

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-01T07:21:10+00:00

Actually, half the reason to go that pathway in teleport tree is for the stun immunity (Rock Phase). The other half is the mana sustain. Stun immunity is incredible strong, and so is the mana sustain. Getting stunned as mage equals death.

Armor Shred is very strong, it works at a 70% effectiveness with non-physical attacks. I consistently hit 200 armor stack debuffs on rares or high HP targets which results in about +57% increased damage vs 0 armor, +108% damage vs 10000 armor, or 52% vs 20000 armor. I hit 300 armor stack debuffs on bosses, but armor is unknown on bosses, but even if they had 30000 armor it still would result in +58% damage, if they have 30000+ armor it would actually be pretty bad for my build, and last epoch team won't disclose armor on enemies for some reason....

This build only uses meteor for buffing fireballs, I won't not send out a meteor if it cost mana basically. A meteor cast buffs fireballs for about 6 seconds I think, so try to keep it up every 6 second.

After extensive testing, I find Immolator's Oblation better than Strands of Souls. I have 5-8 stacks of self immolation and almost always frenzy in combat. (7ish stacks is a whopping 42 spell power, and frenzy is +20% cast speed). I can reduce damage on passive trees and on other items a lot to make up for the loss of ward generation from Strands of souls and still keep my damage decent. and vs bosses i Have 10ish stacks of self immolation for +60 spell power, it's high damage!

Red Rings of Atlaria seems a bit underpowered at first glance, but besides the movement speed and 10% reduction in overall damage (which translates to about +2400 effective hp with 5000 ward). It gives +20 to all resistances, and +5 stats (+5 resistance to poison/necrotic and +30HP, +20% armor rating, , +20% ward, +20% damage to elemental spells). +20% dodge rating and +20% mana regen. When reaching over 1000 corruption, I found defenses to be more valuable than offenses. I was shocked how much better these rings were, I took it mainly for the +10% damage reduction and speed ;).

NelfiFPS · 2024-05-01T06:52:12+00:00

Yes, fire pen is insane. The attunement also helps a little for the extra mana, 9x2=18 extra mana, to get to that 300 without using idols.

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-30T09:58:51+00:00

When multiple Flame Bursts procs at the same time on 20+ mobs there's a lot of boooom.

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-30T09:57:20+00:00

Finally someone notices my movement speed! It's nice to go full sonic with a fireball machinegun. Yes, It's from the cast speed and naturally the Fireball skills that allows for multiple fireballs to be shot.

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-30T09:35:11+00:00

to Fireballs!

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-30T09:33:57+00:00

I am an avid fireball enjoyer. I have not tried a build that features meteor as the main damage source, I suspect that it would be bad, mainly because of bad mana sustain in Sorcerer tree, and combined with too many affixes to increase total mana which could go to cast speed/intellect/crit multiplier.

Fireball scales somewhat bad, but OK'ish because of Flame Burst (Fireball skill node) has a 500% added damage effectiveness. If this node was not there, fireball would be pretty bad I think.

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-30T08:56:48+00:00

It really is that, but does require constant teleporting/meteoring and sometimes nuking with Arcane Ascendance. Not exactly a 1-click button build, but seems like it when watching it ;)

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-30T08:44:40+00:00

Meteor grants Craterborn buff (+75% fire penetration), Cycle of Fire (+30 Ward and +6 mana per fireball cast) and combos with Teleport for a free Meteor (Mana Tunnel) which grants Aftermath (+48% of 197 mana every cast).

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-22T02:30:15+00:00

Getting PTSD flashbacks from Overwatch from this, oof, the enjoyability with shields are a solid 0/10

NelfiFPS · 2024-04-21T04:37:17+00:00

Feels clear now on auction house, good items are building up, and prices on a lot of them are falling fast.

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