Celtic Heroes

This was in response to a melee mage build in the mage forum:
http://www.onethumbmobile.com/celticher ... 49&t=16191
Also I posted this on the wiki:
http://www.danny-schenk.com/celtic-hero ... Melee_mage

Minimum energy use mage.

No strength.

This can be elite.

Stats like this at high level, divide as necessary.
Strength 5
Dexterity 5
Vitality 650
Energy 50

You don't want to dodge

Skills:
Max fire cloak
Max lure fire
Max Energy boost
Half max pierce lure (for grouping)
Half max slash lure (for grouping)

No magic lure because wand damage is negligable, might as well go all else fire and max only 1 lure.

Heroic speed gloves
Golden blade of fire
Fastest wand you can find, mabye sunflower or yulestave not sure. EDIT: just go bare hand!
Greater earthstone type armor for fire damage.
Ect.
Now do this and Rule.

Fastest wand you can find, mabye sunflower or yulestave not sure.

Just go bare hand. The additional wand damage is negligible compared to the added damage dealt because of the speed of the bare hand.

Fastest wand you can find, mabye sunflower or yulestave not sure.

Just go bare hand. The additional wand damage is negligible compared to the added damage dealt because of the speed of the bare hand.

Didn't think of that, perfect.

I just realized how OP this is. Scary.

Sign me up for a book of alt and rebirth. .

Don't nerf me bro!

Thanks for following up on this, mdimarco.

I guess i was focusing too much on wand and magic damage when i toyed with this melee mage build idea. I expected hostile feedback hahah so u are giving me hope. still think itd be cool if wand damage could be affected by adjusting stats like strength or even focus.

Interesting, i hadnt considered h2h seriously either even though ive leveled it on my mage some, have done so purely for fun. What kind of damage is h2h? Crush i imagine? Slash? And would a lure work? And wouldnt strength be useful for bare hands this time

This isn't really anything new ever since the new lux blades came out and was upgraded to 200 dmg, then a melee mage (or druid) became feasible. Some of our mages/druids have tried this weeks ago.
With the introduction of Radiant armor and necklaces from Ythair, mages/druids can actually get 400-800 per hit (with and without lures) on a wyverns, much faster kills than relying on damage spells that require energy (and spells also get evaded a lot).

This isn't really anything new ever since the new lux blades came out and was upgraded to 200 dmg, then a melee mage (or druid) became feasible. Some of our mages/druids have tried this weeks ago.
With the introduction of Radiant armor and necklaces from Ythair, mages/druids can actually get 400-800 per hit (with and without lures) on a wyverns, much faster kills than relying on damage spells that require energy (and spells also get evaded a lot).

Wow, have yet to see any class on beleneus using h2h and radiant/elemental blade.

Perfect for mage because of the energy regen skills, fire cloak, and lures.

So this build is OP like I was thinking. This is actually better than a spellcasting mage and brings mage into the realm of DPS king again!

This isn't really anything new ever since the new lux blades came out and was upgraded to 200 dmg, then a melee mage (or druid) became feasible. Some of our mages/druids have tried this weeks ago.
With the introduction of Radiant armor and necklaces from Ythair, mages/druids can actually get 400-800 per hit (with and without lures) on a wyverns, much faster kills than relying on damage spells that require energy (and spells also get evaded a lot).

Wow, have yet to see any class on beleneus using h2h and radiant/elemental blade.

Perfect for mage because of the energy regen skills, fire cloak, and lures.

So this build is OP like I was thinking. This is actually better than a spellcasting mage and brings mage into the realm of DPS king again!

Sigh, the fact that this build can compete or beat the dps of a Focus based caster type mage just goes to show how broken the mage class truly is.

Tog

This isn't really anything new ever since the new lux blades came out and was upgraded to 200 dmg, then a melee mage (or druid) became feasible. Some of our mages/druids have tried this weeks ago.
With the introduction of Radiant armor and necklaces from Ythair, mages/druids can actually get 400-800 per hit (with and without lures) on a wyverns, much faster kills than relying on damage spells that require energy (and spells also get evaded a lot).

Wow, have yet to see any class on beleneus using h2h and radiant/elemental blade.

Perfect for mage because of the energy regen skills, fire cloak, and lures.

So this build is OP like I was thinking. This is actually better than a spellcasting mage and brings mage into the realm of DPS king again!

Sigh, the fact that this build can compete or beat the dps of a Focus based caster type mage just goes to show how broken the mage class truly is.

Tog

Yep, but heres the exciting part... This build should not only beat a spellcasting mage in DPS, but EVERY class and build! (EDIT: actually no, any melee class with the same gear would out DPS us. Looks like we are still behind . But it is still better than an elite spellcasting mage.)

Also it will have 4k health that a druid can heal! Talk about a decent tank.

Unless I'm missing something. I will try this out soon minus the radiant and let you all know how it goes.

I don't know if I would use a blade of fire however, especially since frost seems more OW based and will help you more leveling up in SV as well. But um I love the build and I love the time you put into it, going to definately try it thanks.