Celtic Heroes

Alright,, I'm mostly a soloing mage, so which is better? I have 120 vit., 310 focus, 5 str, 5 dex.

Problem with trident, the extra strength is useless to me, i don't have any crush slash or pierce items. Does it matter that much?

The orb has the resistances, and extra spell evasions, which is awesome.

The trident has and awesome 150 dmg bonus to my melee.

IF the trident is my option, which one; magic, ice, or fire? I kill all sorts of mobs to level.

Thank u!

I would suggest an orb out of those two. This is mainly because most mages don't auto attack that often and the trident is most effective when you are. Most of their damage comes from spells,which the trident would be useless in. The orb also has a higher energy regen, which should be beneficial to most mages. And the evasion stats are good for soloing.

When the time comes for buying the offhand of your choice, you might want to look around if anyone's selling. I've seen a couple of arcane orbs go for around 130-150k.

There is no reason not to just take off your wand and go hand to hand melee mage. You can still cast all the spells you want too.

Trident would be a good fit for you since it will boost your dex.

I hate the orb and think its useless compared to royal shield of the mountain.

I use fire blade but I already have a lot of dex so I would go fire or ice trident depending on which lure you like to put points into better.

yes, if you can get your hands on some greater solstice armour (or earthstone armour if its possible on your server) then drop the wand, and go hand to hand with a fire offhand imo, max your cloak and fire lure and bolt, throw extra points into storm and off you go! a face melting boxer

It's not part of the OP but there is merit in the mention of going h2h in that I can confirm that the awesome grims that Aggy drops are h2h. I don't melee as I'm a sigil user and melee takes too much damage away in the form of no mana regen, at least on bosses. I have started to play with melee on 140 wyverns but with <200 h2h its not making a difference yet. The big question in my mind is which lure to use. The Aggy grimiores have 15 crushing and are h2h so Giants?

yeah that would make sense, hand to hand (just gloves) is also crushing so it wont hurt

kasha if you can get your hands on some earthstone armour try going hand to hand with a high fire lure going, it really is amazing

kasha if you can get your hands on some earthstone armour try going hand to hand with a high fire lure going, it really is amazing

I have a full set, mostly greater, a piece or two of lessor, no radiant, on my rogue at the moment. I'll have to play with it on my mage. Hopefully this doesn't convince me to go fire mage!

it really is awesome! lol i play mage alt (lvl 83) and will level him with my earthstone, sadly he isnt high enough of a level to use my radiant greaves but the lesser chest works quite well,

I'm at level 84 with the following
Greater solstice greaves
Lesser solstice breastplate
+3 necklace heat damage
+1 necklace heat damage
Golden blade of fire
Golden helm of ? (Unsure the name ATM moment) 50+ heat
Heroic gloves of haste

With these, and my hand to hand at 840, I easily hit for 300 dmg per swing. The bonus is that the build has been more fun to play.

This is the melee mage build here, but it's so sad that mages feel they have to go down this route instead of casting. Something is seriously wrong here. Surely, if I wanted to go down this route, I should have chosen a rogue class or something instead.

I'm only mid level 80's and am sticking with casting for the moment. I'm hopeful that admin will make changes to the mage, as they indicated they would in another thread. I've got the orb, which I really like, but yes, melee mage looks pretty good at present...