Need to know if my build is good for pve

[ahmoudadha]

[Rx8]

Curse is the worst skill for PvE...

[Avshow]

u do net need 6 skills, 5 skills fine, and u do need aoe skills (for light and ice , u need to upgrade the right sub)

[GoodSyntax]

Remove the DMG passive (and put it into Armor), since I would assume you use a DMG% pet. See http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...=1#post1580851 for details from Null_Void

As far as skills go, 7 is too many, and a waste of skill points.

If you are confident in your ability to stay alive (or run with a good party), I would go with a full offensive build. Clock, Ice, Fireball and Lightning is the classic build for this type of Sorc. This will give you great crowd control and a nice set of high damage skills. If you are ambitious, and have good control with it, Gale is an underutilized skill in elites. Granted, I've seen a lot of Sorcs fail miserably with Gale, but some of the best Sorcs I know can effectively keep mobs rooted, frozen and/or knocked down 100% of the time with Ice, Gale and Clock. If you lack the necessary control to utilize Gale, you end up scattering mobs all over the place and runs turn into a glorious mess.

For me, I would go with the following:

Frost Bolt (3/5): Add Ice Wielder and Shiver upgrades.
Time Shift (4/5): All upgrades except for Time Bomb
Fireball (4/5): All upgrades except for Scorch
Lightning Strike (4/5): All upgrades except for Shock

Passives:
Armor: 5/5
Crit: 5/5
Dex: 5/5
Int: 5/5
Str: 5/5

[emkochiu]

Passive: use 5/5 Agility (+dex) instead of 5/5 dmg. Mage should use dmg pet, dmg passive doesnt stack with it.
I dont like curse in pve, use more point in fire and ice.
Check some build here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/foru...***-Discussion

[Visiting]

@ Kali, if you reference Madnex's armor chart, would 5 armor points on mage really make all that much of a difference? Personally, I'd run 5/5 INT/Dex/Str/Crit - Then put points into Fire/Ice/Clock/Shield/Lightning/Gale (using the builds others have already stated here)

[GoodSyntax]

@ Kali, if you reference Madnex's armor chart, would 5 armor points on mage really make all that much of a difference? Personally, I'd run 5/5 INT/Dex/Str/Crit - Then put points into Fire/Ice/Clock/Shield/Lightning/Gale (using the builds others have already stated here)

It's not a large difference, probably about 60 Armor, but if you are going with a full offensive build, you'll be left pretty squishy, which is why I would go with the armor passive. Sure, Madnex can use like 17 skills and swap skills instantly while pulling and attacking, but I sure as heck can't, so I go 4 skills and max out passives.

[Raregem]

Armor will work in some cases but keep in mind that it gets voided by the debuff system.

This goes for certain PvE cases too like Arachna's poison pools, Frostir's blue aura, Shuyal dogs' bite, etc. Basically anything that applies an armor debuff kills the durability passive.

I'd probably go for gale over armor. Though if gale is used wrong in pve it can be a headache for a party.

[vawaid]

Is a mage ok without damage over time upgrades?

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[vawaid]

In pvp it's ideal . In pve it's really slow

So if I only running elite, I should put points to other skill right?

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[VenomsChaos]

I am useing

5 clock
5 fire
4 shield
3 lighting
3-5 ice

2 gale
2 heal

On km3 + easy maps i am useing gale, heal, fire, clock.

on elites shield, clock, ice, fire.
At bosses change clock to lighting.

passives str,dex,int

[Dex Scene]

5/5 clock????

Imo the explode upgrade is useless.

[Dex Scene]

What else is there to put it in? In about a month were going to level up to 46 and have 5 more skill points with nothing to spend it on

I have armor passive so i save a point from Explode upgrade. Yeah when new caps come we can get them.