#16
by Somber
Left out lure, I had it halved.
AoE leveling tower wouldn't work well for all floors. Summoning is where AoE starts to not be as effective due to most mage mobs. I lixed on all levels besides the first using my druid and could gather the room and bees them.
All floors up until summoning you can aoe the room. I only ran bark, combo and hp regen and had no issues with pulling 4-5 mobs and not dying. A mage doing the same, barked, wouldn't have issues either.
On floors where you can't aoe as well, I'd definitely switch build up a bit to allow some magic lure where's it's more beneficial to single mob target.
The idea of a lixing buikd is to lix as quickly as possible, not worrying about bosses which is why I run 2 aoes. I wouldn't want to run a semi effective lixing build just so I could do bosses as well. I personally have alts to boss with while I lix so it's not an issue.
For me personally, I find the double aoe build most effective. My mage is only 147, but I see this type of build being viable up until summoning chambers floor.
At 190 it'll be easier to run all these skills due to items.
With the gear waiting for me at that level, I've got roughly 93 skill points extra.
+9 firestorm neck
+8 cloak of fire/shield charm
+9 eshield skull
+7 firestorm/blast mord ring
+8 attune ring
+8 firestorm event ring
+8 iceblast event ring
+8 firebolt edl gloves
+5 cloak of fire dl top
+8 attune or firebolt bracer x2
I plan on running firestorm, iceblast, fire bolt, cloak of fire, fire attune, half lure, rest in eshield.
That type of build allows the mage to run a lot of dps and killing multiple mobs at once.