Mage/Dark Wizard Lament Tank Build

This is my current build for when I hit 100 on mage. I don't mind sharing it, because keeping it a secret does nothing to help anyone.
Any improvements or any testers would be appreciated.
Each item will be explained in 2 parts: The explanation for the item, and the ID requirements.
If people really want, I can add powders. But the powders should all be water anyways.
The idea of this build, is that you will have enough mana regen while hitting enemies, to alternate spells whilst being a tank, and having decent damage.

Morph-Stardust
-This is better than a blue mask in many ways, but in order to compensate for half the skill points, you need high skill point IDs on the other items.
-Try for 2/4 mana regen and 40+ total skillpoints.

Gravity
-You need very high IDs on the other items to wear this, but makes you harder to kill.
-Try for a low -walkspeed debuff, and no -1 attack speed debuff.

Libra
Alternature for if you don't have enough skillpoints to use Gravity. This has weaker defense, but some water damage.

Vaward
-Spell and melee damage. Lots of skill points, which go towards wearing Gravity.
-Good melee/spell wanted, but make sure you have about 25+ total skillpoints.

Capricorn
-Spell, mana regen/steal, speed and skillpoints towards Gravity.
-Try for good spell damage, 2/4 mana regen, and 14+ total skillpoints.

Prism (2)
-More defense, and skillpoints. Need 2 of them.
-Try for atleast 15 total skillpoints each.

Squid Anklet
-Water damage, and more mana regen.
-Try for 2/4 mana regen, and 5%+ water damage.

Royal Stormy Amulet
-Mana regen, water damage, intelligence.
-Unless your rich and can afford an IDed royal stormy, don't worry about IDs.

Lament
-Mana steal, and a water weapon.
-Higher mana steal wanted, but can be lower if other IDs are good.

Requiem
Alternative for Lament.

Lunar Spine
Alternature for Lament.

Skill Points
The skillpoints depend on the IDs on your items. Put enough intel into lament to use it, then spread out the rest of your skillpoints. If you end up with more than 50 for each element, put the rest into intel.​

 

great build, also statue can be a good alternative as less mobile but much more bulky if one is using libra. It allows for even more hp of up to 9000 for one boot giving the hp around 18k plus lots of elemental defense making this build even tankier.

 

So basically the generic elemental tank build that uses lament as the weapon. No offense, but it would be nice if someone came up with something original because almost every build thread nowadays is morph stardust/blue mask + gravity with 2x prism which is incredibly overused. Anyway, you don't need mana regen items if you are using lament, especially if you have thorns and reflection since thorns/reflection have a chance to trigger mana steal. I would switch out the mana regen items for more cactus items (neutrino and fermion in particular) and you will basically have infinite mana in combat. Keep in mind lament is a PvE weapon and you could easily replace it with fatal using the exact same build and do 20k meteors.

 

but hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Bulky mages especially statue mages/elemental tank regen mages lack actual flaws outside of statue mage's lack of mobility and their dmg output not being anything crazy unless they are using fatal or something.

 

It's still overused as hell and makes it so certain builds can only be beaten by using a certain counter to that build instead of it being who is better at using the class. The fact that you need a specific build to counter another build is pretty broken imo and don't even get started with mage + statue (especially with gaia/monster/fatal).

 

you learn something new everyday

also i wasnt intending this for pvp but it seems like it would work

 

agreed, is pretty basic. Capricorn is a nice choice though. Could use some more mana, as it is a lament build.

 

Use the lament melee, I get 20/4 mana with a 9 msteal lament (i made the build around my lament, so it might not work as well for a lament with very different ids)

 

Right, 2/4 stormys very likely do not cost alot anymore because of that glitch right after the update released, also you should duel my gravity Gaia mage

 

Still not as overused as the generic raw spell damage build.

 

glitch? elaborate?

im scared
i dont pvp
am big pleb

 

When the update first came out you could reid items bought for a merchant, eg the royal amulets and hive gear for like a day

 

oh, i thought you meant the gameplay update or something, otherwise i wouldn't have said anything about getting better IDs

 

What? People are just finding out about that. Elemental tank builds are much more overused.

 

How tf do you want to use Lament
You need 250 sp only For Gravity and then 60 more int for Lament

 

Very high skillpoint Ids, but it should work.