Guide Class Building Guide (5 Parts)

WithTheFish · Apr 4, 2016

Excellent work, nice to get some info on making decent build.

Fread · Apr 5, 2016

Ironraptor3 said: ↑

Previous Guide: None

The six guides: table of contents

1) Efficiency
2) Notable Mechanics and Cautions
3) Example builds (and my own builds) for each class with break down explanation
4) Dual and Multielement Builds
5) Mathematic Optimization, Brainstorming, and (Future) Powders
6) Cosplay and item sets

Introduction: This building guide should serve as a method for answering any questions one may have about the best way to make a class that fits their playstyle. Many of these items will be for levels 60+, with matching skill point totals. If you are below level 60, in all honesty you should not be worried about what you are building. Spread your skill points around so that you can wear any armor you may encounter, and play around with different aspects of the elements. This guide will try and address anything and everything, but there may be points that I do not know from a lack of testing, and perhaps just got plain wrong. If such a thing happens, feel free to point it out, and I will change it~

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A major point of building is efficiency-blah blah blah blah blah

Here's what you want to consider: Every stat point should be used to its fullest potential. That being said, that means:

1) You have conditions favorable to the element, and have precise %'s for each element if the stat is not being dictated by a minimum requirement:

Earth/Strength: should have high base damage, % does not truly matter for this.

Lightning/Dexterity : should have very high attack speeds, making your damage output mirror that of the probability. Having a nice fraction for a % to crit also is nice if you are hellbent on spending a majority of points in this.

Water/Intelligence: Make sure you can fall back on spells, even if you are focused around a melee-int build. Make sure all of your spells are efficiently reduced in costs. (Ex. 80 and 85% has no difference in this area). Heal is nice.

Fire/Defense: Your equipment should have a decent amount of hp, resistance, and sustain. There is no point in sheer defense if you get one hit by a certain element or have poor sustain. Same advice as strength %.

Air/Agility: Same advice as lightning, more or less.

2) You deal that element in damage. Pretty straightforward, hopefully. There is no point in a 70% damage increase if your base for that element is 0 damage. Do not fret about weapons like empire builder, Az, Thrundacrack, and Lunar Spine. When powders are added, simply add the damage they increase that you cannot deal both via spells or the weapon's base damage.

3) You have positive raw element defense in the element (more on that in part two, it is in fact important).

4) Your armor contains the natural id's that occur in these types of elements (yes, these influence the playstyle of each build beyond the trait of the actual element). Common ones are:

Earth/Strength:

Poison*

Thorns*

Melee Damage*

Hp Regen*

Lightning/Dexterity: (Has no really unique traits)

Attack Speed*

Poison*

Spell Damage*

Melee Damage*

Mana Steal*

Walk Speed*

Water/Intelligence:

Mana Regen

Reflection

Spell Damage*

Fire/Defense:

Health Bonus

Exploding

Thorns*

Life Steal*

Hp Regen*

Air/Agility:

Walk Speed

Life Steal*

Reflection*

Mana Steal*

Attack Speed*

Hp Regen*

* = shared by more than one element.

With all of these, you enjoy the full strength of each element as well as their respective benefits, without losing much if anything. As stat points are less and less effective the more you invest, it is not recommended to attempt maxing an element unless you have leftover skill points or a piece of your gear requires it. Attempt to have a reasonable amount of the above mentioned things before finishing investing.

Alrighty, already on part two~ Now let's see, where to start first? Ah well, I'll just dive right into it again. Anything that seems misleading or wierd, just take a look at the examples I provide below each point.

Tiers are surprisingly, not everything

I will say this, I too for a while was convinced that you needed to have a mythic and full legendary to have a good endgame set.

^ This is completely wrong

Benefits of low tier items: They are very common

Lower trading prices

Easy to get multiples of, therefore choosing the best ids and easier to get maxed

Now you may ask, why would I use lower tier items just because they are cheap and easy to max? Well the answer to this is that, simply, some are better than higher tiers.

For weapons, legendaries and mythics are simply the best, with no rivals, but legendaries can easily outperform mythics.

Example 1: Phoenix wing vs Monster (Fire-Air legendary wand vs Pure Fire Legendary Wand)

Monster: For full defense. -A lot of intelligence. Heal is mage's greatest defensive aspect, and scales with your intelligence.

Phoenix Wing: Gives you more hp, agility, and no -intelligence. Dual elemental damage, with 2 tiers greater attack speed than monster.

Speaks for itself which is better. The argument that monster is for damage is negated by the fact that Gaia is a mythic wand with the same attack speed and much higher base and +raw damage). Gaia also double scales its elemental damage, and gives more stat points overall, leaving monster with no actual niche.

This is due to the fact that higher tiers of weapons are specialized to a certain combination of elements. Mythics are usually put at a large disadvantage against certain elements or playstyles to compensate for the immense advantages the lend to their users. Though legendaries too, are specialized, it is worth noting that they are able to cope with most challenges they may be brought to face.

Example 2: Chakram and Rewind vs Weathered and Archangel (Dual element air legendaries vs pure air mythics)

Chakram and Rewind: Both super fast attack speed, very high walk speed, deal more than one element in damage, maxing the efficiency of dual element builds. They also have unique effects, including poison and high mana regen, respectively.

Weathered: Extremely high damage output, walkspeed in between chakram and rewind. Expensive mythic with little to its name other than a very high base neutral; it only has very fast attack speed.

Archangel: Highest walk speed dagger. High pure base air attack, fast attack speed. Decent for tanky air builds, but is overall outperformed by alazarin in this regard.

Simply looking at these stats, unless you are a pure air build (or really only care about speed *cough* broettinger), chakram and rewind are obviously preferable, despite being the much cheaper option. Did I mention they also both have considerably less stat requirements than the mythics?

For armor, anything besides normal goes.

Did I mention that for level 89+ there are at least two uniques per armor slot that are incredibly good, and on top of that, viable as endgame?

Helmets:

Sunray: Basically darksteel full helm. Tons of hp, tons of elemental defenses, tons of reflection.

Aquamarine: This is basically pisces, with raw spell instead of raw melee. For spell orientated earth-water builds, this is the pick of choice over the legendary pisces. Mana regen and good defenses included~

Chestplates:

Nether's Reach: Only lightning-flame chestplate in game.

Azurite: Only earth-water chestplate in game.

Leggings (these are the best uniques in the game, by far. If you use a dual element build that matches these elements, I STRONGLY recommend using these over your gut instinct unless you can prove they are totally outclassed. This comes from personal experience, these leggings outrank both rare and legendaries of similar elements and levels. More in part III).

Resolve: Air-Fire

Turquoise: Earth-Water

Both of these leggings are essentially the same, only for different dual elements. Both have no negative element resistances, immense hp, give stat points in both their specialties, give very high elemental defense in their specialties, and have hp regen. They contain no negatives, and can act as very defensive backbones for an armor set.

Boots:

Corruption Seal: Highest life steal boots. Perfect for lifesteal builds.

Undefined: best raw damage boots. Good hp, hp regen, and raw damage in both spell and melee. No negatives; very good for those that cannot decide on what boots to wear who like using both spells and melee.

Sapphire: Mana steal and reflection, good for this type of build.

Elemental Defense (LOOK (YAY CLICKBATE-ESQUE CAPS) A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS) (Also I could afford to do more testing, perhaps someone can undertake this~)

When I was attempting to build multielement (more in part 3), I noticed something. When I was wearing Kratke (equal elemental defenses across the board), my elemental defense did not equal what my armor was giving me. instead, I found that when I had 22 points in strength and 20 in the rest, I had 150 earth defense, and 30 in the rest (kratke gives 30 in each). This, interested me to say the least. Then I put 1 point in dex, making my stats: 22-21-20-20-20 and my elemental defense 150-120-30-30-30. I concluded that the highest stat was multiplied by 5, then the next by 4, etc. Equal stats assumed the lower value, ending with 150-120-90-60-30.

According to this, having stat points that are different by at least 1 will significantly improve your defenses.

I am unsure how negatives and unequal element defense works at this point in time. What I have found strange is that, when I removed my leo the other day (+200 fire def -300 water def), I actually gained fire defense... (Needs confirmation and testing)

Negative Damage

Negative Damage can actually be done. It heals mobs and players, and can overheal mobs.

Having -damage will decrease from the total damage you do with the rest of your attack. Therefore, increasing it, even if it is still a negative number, nonetheless increases your damage output.

Negative Poison Damage

Negative poison, unlike negative damage, does not heal. Rather, it deals your melee attack per second. You may be thinking, so I can just wear something with -poison and use alkatraz and taurus, and hit people multiple times in a few seconds. You are absolutely CORRECT. No clue as to why this exists, I am unsure if this is a bug.

Super Fast Speed and Poison

Poison does not deal damage when you are hitting, making fighting a constant choice of to simply avoid or attack and reproc poison

Super fast speed has been cited by numerous people to melee at a similar rate to very fast because of this same problem.

^ This is most likely a bug.

% Vs Raw and misconceptions

Before the most recent patch, raw was actually added to the base of the weapon before attack speed was multiplied. This allowed players with high raw spell to deal many 10's of thousands of damage with weapons that had around 10 base overall. This was fixed however, so:

Any damage without % at the end is raw. It is added as a neutral constant to the end of your damage.

Ex: If I was doing 200 neutral and 50 water with ice snake, and then equipped an item with +200 spell, I would be doing 400 neutral and 50 water. Same goes for melee

% (People do in fact ask me this, perhaps they are too shy to ask others) multiplies your damage. It is technically better than raw, but harder to come by, and usually only adds a few % when a viable item with it is found. Raw outclasses % unless you have either very high % or very high base damage (Not only because a low base multiplied by a small % is low, but because many pieces with raw are better suited to endgame for additional reasons).

Ex: If I did 1000 neutral damage with my melee, and had +100% melee damage, I would deal 2000 neutral damage.

Notable Skill Point Traits

If you have not noticed, as you add more and more to a specific skill, the % increases by less and less. The most recent posts have demonstrated this as a bounded equation of the third degree (x*x*x or x^3) with a minimum at 0 and a maximum at 80%. It is concave down, meaning that the function increases by less and less per change in x (skill points invested).

Because earth and lightning scale your damage and elemental damage, they do infact DOUBLE scale any base earth and lightning weapons, making these much more powerful with much less skill investment.

Dex and strength sadly do not stack. Dealing +80% damage with strength and getting a critical hit with dexterity will not lead you to +160% total damage, rather it will simply be a 100% increase. Though this means that using both is very inefficient, most strength-dex items hold a special place in my heart for being so diverse and lending the user immense damage regardless (stalagmites, post ultima, petrified horror, crash, etc). You regardless still increase your damage, as attacks that do not crit are affected by strength, meaning that at no point in time are you dealing no extra damage. This is a good safety net, and I would really like to see more of these items, and a build using them.

Here is where I will include some of the better builds I have seen, as well as the builds I personally use as extra at the end. These are to serve as examples and perhaps even give you an idea for your own build.

* = I have tried and tested or played as something similar, and would indeed personally recommend using.

Mage:

Rainstorm:

Third Eye - Spell damage, mana regen

Aquarius - Spell damage, mana regen

Crystal - Walk speed, reflection, mana regen

Memento - Spell damage, mana regen

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Jester Ring - 3 pieces = +300 raw spell

Raging Wind - Walk speed, Agility

Jester Bracelet - 3 piece set bonus

Jester Necklace - 3 piece set bonus

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Lunar Spine/Pure - Water/Air wands. Lunar spine should be pretty good after powders are added.

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Summary: Infinite spells, all spells MUST hit at least somewhat hard, as you have quite a bit of raw spell damage. Reflection also threatens other spell builds, making it near impossible to directly compete with this build. Finally, the walk speed helps add air attributes to it, and gives it the ability to sidestep fatal attacks.

Can't really think of one that hasn't been said somewhere here, I am open to suggestions

Archer:

*Freedom:

Blue Mask/Shimmersight - Blue mask for stats, which you can invest in other things, Shimmersight for mana regen and lesser stat boosts. Shimmersight also has much higher hp and gives elemental defenses.

Libra - The centerpiece of armor of the set, as it increases all of your elemental defenses, elemental damages, and stat points.

Vaward/Kratke - Vaward for health, Kratke for damage. Kratke is better for elemental defense, Vaward is better for hp.

Capricorn/Clock Boots - Capricorn for speed and mana steal, Clock boots (only +2 if you have collected those before it was patched) for attack speed multipliers added to your spells.

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Rainbow/Intensity/Jester Ring: Rainbow for damage, Intensity if you have it instead of rainbow, Jester ring if you want the triple set bonus

Rainbow/Intensity/Jester Ring: ^ (Two jester rings does in fact stack the bonus)

Nebulous: Surprisingly high spell damage, also has elemental defense.

Master/Royal Stormy/Jester Necklace: Master for stats, Stormy for needed mana regen, Jester necklace to complete the triple set.

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Freedom/Fog of Creation/Awakening - Freedom is for those who have it, foc and awakening are more or less the same, if you do not have a freedom and would like to use this build, stick with one of these.

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Summary: The attacks of this archer dish out the highest elemental damage in the game. This is nothing to shrink away from, and deals similar damage to that of average Az hits, with much less variability and in every element rather than 1. This set is relatively immune to weaker elemental attacks.

Speedy Offense:

Aries/Third Eye: Aries for walk speed, Third Eye for a spell orientated set (As it has mana regen and spell damage)

Booster Plate: Highest walkspeed chest in game

Sagittarius: Best walkspeed leggings and has raw spell

Wind Mimic/Almuj's Walkers: Wind mimic is slightly slower than almuj's walkers, but almuj's walkers have so little hp, it is negligible.

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Raging Wind/Stratus: Raging wind if you have it, if not, use stratus. These are the highest and second highest walk speed rings.

Raging Wind/Stratus: ^

Contrail: Highest walk speed Bracelet

Royal Cyclone:

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Stratisformis/Gale/Ether: Stratis if you are rich (Best walk speed item in the game, up to 92% walk speed), Gale is the second highest walk bow in the game, Ether has slightly less walk speed, but its +2 tiers attack speed makes it essential in dishing out damage.

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Summary: This is the fastest paced build in the game. Choosing all walk speed items will make you sanik (I cannot follow broettinger with my field of vision, even with 130% sensitivity). Bomb arrows from the spell aspect of the build, however, absolutely decimate foes. No one can run away from you, or keep up.

Warrior:

Cactus:

Call of the Void/Any tanky helmet - call of the void if you are lacking overall thorns and reflection at the end of acquiring the armor.

Leo/Endurance - Leo for Hp Regen and Hp, endurance to amp up your thorns

Veneer - Hp Regen and Hp

Statue - Highest HP item in game, reduces your walk speed to 0

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Tisauns Honor - Reflection and Defense

Tisauns Honor - ^

Justice - Defense

Altum Spatium - Reflection and elemental defense

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Guardian - Hp Regen

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Summary: This set is... annoying, but I guess it works. Hp regen items can be replaced with lifesteal items if you choose apocalypse over guardian. This build grants the user massive hp, and thorns/reflection. In order to kill this build, one must have more hp than it (or deal enough damage to finish after weakening) or at least have higher sustain. Otherwise, this build will simply eat the damage, and the attacker will suffer their own attack, only in complete neutral damage (which I don't really understand, as you are typically not weak to your own attacks).

*Thunderstorm:

Third Eye - as you can tell, third eye is very common in builds, as it offers strong defensive capabilities, up to 130 raw spell, and up to 4/4 mana regen

Soul Signal - High raw damage addition, high hp and high soul point regen. Also gives stat points in dex and int.

Crystal - high reflection, 3/4 mana regen, walk speed bonus

Memento - 4/4 mana regen, high base raw spell, high hp

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Finesse - raw spell, dex and int points

Finesse - raw spell, dex and int points

Squid Anklet - mana regen

Bottled Thunderstorm - good stat additions

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Thrundacrack - super fast thunder mythic spear. 10/10 Like warrior with Az -IGN

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Summary: This build hits fast with near infinite spells if used right. The damage output with mixed attacks is also staggering, which coupled with its walk speed, makes this build absolutely terrifying. This build has enough defense to receive multiple hits and counter attack, and enough attack to decimate enemies.

Assassin:

Pure lightning:

Any - does not truly matter, try something with high damage or walk speed

Mummy's Rag - +2 tiers attack speed

Electrocharge Greaves - +2 tiers attackspeed

+2 clock boots or stalagmites - stalagmites give walk speed, +2 clock boots if you have them will deal significantly more damage

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Raging Wind/Breezehands - Wind for walk speed, Breezehands for an extra +1

Finesse - Spell damage and dexterity

Any - doesn't matter

Cyclone - add positive walk speed

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Crossroad kiler - super slow lightning weapon

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Summary: this build takes advantage of the attack speed multiplier in spells, easily dealing far over 10k damage in lightning alone.

Can't really think of one that hasn't been said somewhere here, I am open to suggestions

Next part: Continued
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-walk speed works on assassin too (kinda)
-Rip's build?
-Jay's build?
-Poison/melee build

CleansingFlames · Apr 5, 2016

What are the skill points for the mage rainstorm build?

DragonEngineer · Apr 5, 2016

For my mage build is this Lunar Spine good?

Icy · Apr 5, 2016

This guide is bear approved.

Ironraptor3 · Apr 5, 2016

AldoreiHermit said: ↑

-walk speed works on assassin too (kinda)
-Rip's build?
-Jay's build?
-Poison/melee build
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Fair enough, I'll add my take on an hp regen build that isn't my asssassin

Ironraptor3 · Apr 5, 2016

Holy_Yoshi said: ↑

What are the skill points for the mage rainstorm build?
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Any you feel are necessary, make sure it fits at least the minimum requirements for the equipment.

Update for part 4: It is a very long section; I am in fact working on it though. I am not blowing it off~

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DragonEngineer said: ↑

For my mage build is this Lunar Spine good?
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Your mage is only focused on fighting qira, so an air-water elemental weapon would be relatively useless. Though, it may be more appropriate if the spell%, attack speed, and neutral damage does more damage than any other neutral weapon you can find.

ohwooops · Apr 5, 2016

Ironraptor3 said: ↑

Warrior: Sandstorm
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Hehehe... It's actually Darude Sandstorm

kill me

Ironraptor3 · Apr 5, 2016

OhHerro said: ↑

Hehehe... It's actually Darude Sandstorm

kill me
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*slits OhHerro's throat with my liquified Sun*

Ironraptor3 · Apr 7, 2016

I have finally finished part 4! This part took me quite a while to do. Editing in the tables I made didn't work, so here they are (I will include a separate set of links to jump back and forth) (Sorry for sloppy parts of tables)

Back to part four

Ironraptor3 · Apr 7, 2016

Nighttime bump~

MinerDwarf222 · Apr 7, 2016

Ironraptor3 said: ↑

Nighttime bump~
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Are the 2 builds you posted for archer for levels 90+ or can I level 81/82 get most of it.

Ironraptor3 · Apr 7, 2016

MinerDwarf222 said: ↑

Are the 2 builds you posted for archer for levels 90+ or can I level 81/82 get most of it.
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Air-water archer id reccommend 90+ at least. Multielement works on all levels, especially for archer. Check the multielement item table i made in part 4 to see some items to wear/bows to use

stop · Apr 9, 2016

Probably should add that Salted liked the post to get more views. lol...

Ironraptor3 · Apr 9, 2016

BOT Jerry said: ↑

Probably should add that Salted liked the post to get more views. lol...
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XD true

stop · Apr 9, 2016

Uhh do you mind putting the skill points for each build?
:P

Ironraptor3 · Apr 9, 2016

BOT Jerry said: ↑

Uhh do you mind putting the skill points for each build?
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I will, not atm tho

Skype Bot · Apr 12, 2016

Question: How do people find the items for their builds? I can't use the item guide, because it doesn't include all the items.

Ironraptor3 · Apr 12, 2016

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Question: How do people find the items for their builds? I can't use the item guide, because it doesn't include all the items.
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Eh, i used the wiki a bit to see general items, then I looked on the forums to see if anyone had pics of them somewhere.

Skype Bot · Apr 12, 2016

Ok, thanks.

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