Celtic Heroes

I am a level 97 mage, and my build is mainly ice, but a little firebolt for extra quick damage. So here are my stats:

Str: 5
Dex: 5
Foc: around 270(I forget:P)
Vit: 215(221)

And my skills are:
Ice shards: 21/25
Ice blast: 15(20)/25
Ice lure: 4/25
Fire bolt: 17/25 (more than I should with this build)
Fire lure: 8/25 (again, more than I should)
Energy boost: 20/25
Energy sheild: 12(17)/25
Bandage: 7/25

I don't use attunement, because if you die in a lix or boss fight, you could have to wait 1-2mins for it to load up again.

My damage is around 650-850 most times on mobs, sometimes more, and fire bolt does around 250 on mobs which really helps with dps.

If you have any advice, please tell me and I would greatly appreciate it.

**Revision**


Ice shards: 22/25
Ice lure: 5(8)/25
Fire lure: 5/25

Focus:285

Instead of trying to fix your specific situation, let me give you some general advice that will hopefully help both you and other mages in the future.

You are way to spread out amongst your skills. By spreading yourself thin trying to combine both ice/fire mage skills you can't get your skills nearly as high and therefore are losing out on alot of dps. My personal opinion is that, for leveling, firemage is far more efficient, with the reason simply being that evades aren't nearly as detrimental. So my advice would be to choose between fire and ice, then consolidate your skills/ring to that side (a little overlap works, for example energy shield in a fire build or firebolt in an ice build, but experiment to find out what works best for you). As far as stats, i keep my base vit at around 2/3 of my base focus (with bonuses, focus is is far higher than vit).

I would also like to add that I find attune to be extremely useful whilst leveling. I would recomend giving it a shot.

^ What he said.

To add to your build, remove fire lure completely. It's a waste of points, especially if your fire bolt isn't even maxed.

If you're dying with attune on, fix the problem instead of just taking away attune. You probably die a lot easier without it. You need to look at maxing shards, blast attune. Need at least 10 points into lure for it to be nice and effective. After that, you can allocate remaining points into shield, boost and lastly fire bolt. If you can't maintain this build, I suggest going to fire build. Less energy intensive and faster DPS. Fire bolt, storm, attune and 10 or so points in lure and you should be good to go.

Thanks guys, and I will take your advice and use it wisely:)

1. Chose ice or fire but not both. the problem with a hybrid fire/ice build is that you need two lures (which means less skill points to put on dps skills)

You wont have the stat points, yet, but heres my build for optimum lvling/fastest killing.

Lvl 193
Ice Shard 50/40
Ice blast 50/40
Ice attune 49/40
Eshield 46/40
Ice lure 40/40

str 5
dex 5
vit 5 (-->160) (heath approx 2000) (due to item/set bonuses etc)
foc 980 (-->1450) (energy approx 9500) (due to item/set bonuses etc)

for a fire build, you can use the same build, but just use the 'fire' equivilent of the skill.

Your vit is too high compared to your focus.

now you can put 75% into focus, 25% into vit.

youll hit a lot harder and therefore wont need the same health because things will die fast.

Also looks as though you have a nice eshield ring which will help with the lower vit build

you have 27 skill points tied up in eboost and bandage wounds. that makes me cringe.

(if you can afford it) wait for double plat. Buy one maximum chest of plat (4000x2) and get 700 energy sigils and 350 health sigils, then put your 27 wasted skill points to max your 5 skills and become a supermage.

1. Chose ice or fire but not both. the problem with a hybrid fire/ice build is that you need two lures (which means less skill points to put on dps skills)

You wont have the stat points, yet, but heres my build for optimum lvling/fastest killing.

Lvl 193
Ice Shard 50/40
Ice blast 50/40
Ice attune 49/40
Eshield 46/40
Ice lure 40/40

str 5
dex 5
vit 5 (-->160) (heath approx 2000) (due to item/set bonuses etc)
foc 980 (-->1450) (energy approx 9500) (due to item/set bonuses etc)

for a fire build, you can use the same build, but just use the 'fire' equivilent of the skill.

Your vit is too high compared to your focus.

now you can put 75% into focus, 25% into vit.

youll hit a lot harder and therefore wont need the same health because things will die fast.

Also looks as though you have a nice eshield ring which will help with the lower vit build

you have 27 skill points tied up in eboost and bandage wounds. that makes me cringe.

(if you can afford it) wait for double plat. Buy one maximum chest of plat (4000x2) and get 700 energy sigils and 350 health sigils, then put your 27 wasted skill points to max your 5 skills and become a supermage.

i would not suggest stats like u did, since for him its lvling, not bossing (also aoes prob one hit u anyway)
would never use maxed lure for lvling, mobs' resistance isnt as high as bosses', so halved lure should do the work

what he did say that is completely true, is that its hard to mix 2 elementals, unlike pre update, u dont have attune for each and aoe for each

i would go with fire, but choose ice if u like, optimal build is ofc

firebolt - maxed
firestorm - maxed
fireattune - maxed
firelure - half of the current max skill pts, including bonuses (if u can go to 20, do 10, 25, 12-13, at some point get it to 25 and stop, cap is 25)

i would use rest in dps skill if u could afford pots, but u cant so

for surviving - e. shield
for energy regen - e.boost / sacrifice

i use ice shards, fast, great dmg, medium energy cost, fast cooldown, barely interruptable

Ok, so thanks for all the replies, but at my level(97), I can't afford to max out attunement, bolt, storm, and still have enough points to have a good sheild and energy boost. So I was wondering is there a way to incorporate a build with good damage but that still has a good energy boost and sheild?
PS: I have a royal energy sheild ring and a lesser fire attunement ring.

Oh, and is there also a way to have good dmg+fast kills with incenerate? I have a grand ring of incenerate too, and I really like the skill.

Oh, and is there also a way to have good dmg+fast kills with incenerate? I have a grand ring of incenerate too, and I really like the skill.

good skill, for long runs
long runs would be bosses/180+ mobs solo

also i would still try adding attune, not hard to get royal one as well, and the dmg it adds is insane, try dropping some pts from shield and boost, and use attune
lets say royal, thats 6/25, add 4 pts from each, thats another 8, 14/25 thats already a nice addition to ur build
u could also use sacrifice at lvl 1 and save 1-2 more pts in e.boost, if u can keep up