Mage/Dark Wizard Help Rate My Build

Hello! I have recently created this build for my 101 Mage, and am looking for some feedback on it. My playstyle is Water/Air, and for this setup I focused on Mana Regen, spell damage, and health. The ring I used is crafted, and I picked it up on the Trade Market. I do not know what the recipe for it is, so if somebody could share that here it would be appreciated!

 

The build you put together is fine. It's not optimal but going of of what you were aiming for I got this: https://wynnbuilder.github.io/#4_0Au0h+0jn0tv0ts2SL0OJ0OM0SQ000e21001r1g00001004fI
Just a few notes:
- always powder your weapons (water or air in this case) curse (water special) gives more dmg then air but it's hard to charge with fast attackspeed so either works
- Pro Tempore is just a better Memento
- idk the ring recipe I'm sorry
- unless the 1 more intel matters always go detectives ring over reminder
- in this case same story for dia hydro and example (if you have enough to use it)

 

The 1 point of Intelligence does make a difference! I'm able to achieve 75% Spell reduction with it. And while I would like to use some of the Legendary Island gear (Emphasis on the amulet), I haven't done that quest yet. Think I could solo it with this setup? Thanks for the advice!

 

If you want to solo I'd suggest something more like this that has more ehp without agi

Either yours or Diddi's can prolly solo though (just dodge meteors lul)

Spoiler: Obligatory plug for my favorite mage build

https://wynnbuilder.github.io/#4_0690px0D40Wi09q09q0OJ0Ji0A4+i0o211M1V1g00001006CO
WynnBuilder build:
> Blue Mask
> Time Rift
> Dark Shroud
> Dragon Dance
> Black Catalyst
> Black Catalyst
> Diamond Hydro Bracelet
> Contrast
> Peaceful Rest [f6f6f6]

 

Should I add powders to my armor?

 

Tier 4 powders? maybe

tier 5-6 powders? No, not until you get a build you really enjoy using and want to keep using it (unless you're filthy rich)

 

people who build cumulonimbus aren't allowed to call themselves a water/air player

pro tempore isn't a better memento (but yeah memento sucks lmao).

it doesn't. on your original build you have enough points to hit 129 regardless of whether you use reminder/example or not.

wfa morrowind beats your original build on all three fronts so i assume it's fine
also i stumbled upon something while building for this post so here's a meme build that isn't that bad

 

Probably would use Peaceful Rest over Morrowind (Which is fine if you're a WS addict or just want to be a tank) but if you want you can use https://wynnbuilder.github.io/#4_0lS0dL0u509A09q09q02d0OM0SQ000021150x1g00001004fI. Also if you don't know why Atlas is there is because it has a super slow speed for abusing Curse. You can also go use https://wynnbuilder.github.io/#4_0250dL0u50Ty09q09q0TN0OM0SQ00+m1m1H0x1g00001004fI if 6/4s mixed mana can sustain 1/1/1/2 costs though I'm not sure if it can.

Also I would avoid powdering armor unless it was Rage Hero/Gma or Heavy Spell Concentration (Though I wouldn't call heavy spell viable right now unless it's Hadal).

 

for mage, its better to build using raw spell items over the % ones, gives you more dmg

 

for WFA raw spell items
I tried searching for raw spell items and there weren't many items that worked in my builds above

 

Generally speaking this is true but that doesn't mean that you can't build items with % spell or % elemental dmg. You should generally evaluate the dmg of an item by looking at the weapon you're using (calculate average dmg and multiplie with attackspeed) then look at raw spell value + %spell (% value of the average dmg of your weapon) + % elemental dmg ( % value of the average damage of each element). The item with the highest combined value gives more dmg for that weapon.

This is just untrue, I just opened wynndata.tk/items/, searched for all the armor pieces level 80+ without strenght and dex requirement and with raw spell and I have 31 results

 

yes they exist but that doesnt mean they're meta

 

There’s a pretty decent item pool of relevant WFA rawstack items

 

Fishscale can be actually useful in my second build, but I tried searching but for my builds it seems like Fishscale can replace the chestplate for second build and also theres probably some really good wfa raw spell items but in the morrowind builds i made theres not really too many of them, since most of them have some downside in my builds above or don't have the same advantage as the items in the builds i made above.

 

your build sucks!
i think the problem is that meta raw sd options for morrowind are air-centric whilst you tried to split investment across the three elements

 

also I found the recipe for the ring: https://www.wynndata.tk/cr/643805286

 

Should I aim towards this build? The damage and defenses seem pretty solid, though I would need help completing The Hive and Legendary Island!

https://wynndata.tk/s/g9s6o2

 

you're probably better off using intensity over that crafted but sure

 

I tried it out with Intensity, and although the damage from Teleport and Ice Snake were increased, Meteor suffered a 700 hit to damage. There might be better crafted rings out there though, especially if any give flat spell damage!

 

700 damage isn't worth relegating yourself to a crafted imo, especially when there's a direct non-crafted switch-in. up to you