Shade wrote:Thanks Zennit, really useful info
Which other two trees did you use? Sounds like Melee was one... other Frost? I'm wondering where / how you solved the single-target damage issue you mentioned.
And... was this char only good in UL or was it good in other end-game areas too?
Edit: You said that you left Immersion at 1 point... patch notes said its damage has been "greatly increased" so I was wondering if that made it worth investing points in now. I'm wondering which skills you smax'd and which 1-pointers were useful? TIA
Mana sorc was a lot of fun to play as a first ladder character. At first I went Ice/Poison for 30% DR (15% from poison Passive, and 15% from ice elementals) straight from the get-go, she had good survivability.
When it comes to the Arcane tree:
One point Immersion
16 Points Familliar (This is just to hit the last mid/late game +tas)
Smax Arcane torrent
Smax Mana sweep
one point Anti-mass.
As I said I started with Poison and Ice, all I did for these trees was:
One pointing up to and including the poison passive (ONLY FOR THE DR% spell damage does not help us). The DR% doesn't get better than 15% no matter how many points. This is where in hind-sight leveling up, I may sacrifice this 15% DR to drop points into the thunder tree and thunder stone for single target damage when Immersion fails to do much damage in destruction.
Smax Ice Passive for defense.
From here, it's up to you where you wanna put extra points, I liked to only put a few into my ice elementals (And their other ice skill that grants extra hp) and put as many points as possible into the melee trees blades cause hey... They have 35k HP. It's insane, their damage isn't bad either!
As for Ubers, I went for Chronofield due to the physical pierce. Since all regular enemies have 0% physical resistance, this will put them into the negative and your mana skills will deal more damage. I did not put a point into the moon cookies. With anti-mass, they were pretty much not required at all.
I did not do anything other than UL with this character. I do not know of her general uber-viability. Her damage just seems... Off, somehow, with even 20k mana. But in UL you can actually spam mana sweep as the elementals don't have MP, so you wont get much mp back, hence you're doing your strongest attack over and over and over and they MELT.
Either way, super fun character, but you'll have a hard time doing endgame things with her I believe. Not saying it's impossible, but, it would take more skill than I have.
PS: If you haven't already,
Oracle
is absolutely amazing.