Game Mechanics Arcanist Buff

Arcanist needs a buff as we all know.
It is the weakest Archetype out of the 3 with no real function as Riftwalker does the Job better at dealing Damage then Arcanist is.
My suggestion would be so Psychokinises increases Meteor Damage by a ton so Arcanist can deal more damage.
Also you could make a Ability which puts your 50% or 25% of your Lifesteal onto the Spells (only for Arcanist) so that Arcanist doesnt die in 2 Seconds.

 

Agreed. It would also be cool if there was an ability that made it so you could cast +1 spell before the cost starts to go up.

 

arcanist is perfectly fine, rift only deals more damage at full winded which is impractical

 

of all the mage archetypes i believe riftwalker needs the most work as in my experience it just functions at a far lower level to the other 2, and its concept is sorta executed poorly too. Also as point_line mentioned, riftwalker will only do decent damage at max winded stacks which in my experience is slim to none.

 

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As an arcanist main, I disagree with your point. Un fact arcanist does not focus entirely on damage but also on mana sustain. I play a 10/5mr warp arcanist and I'm perfecly fine. Considering I can easly achieve over 100k dps quickly while maintaining good survivability shows how arcanist does NOT need a buff.
Riftwalker is also cool, especially as a manastorm abuse, but getting 30 winded takes ages

 

In my experience I’m getting around 200k with warp arcanist and I’m using 4/5 Mr

 

Nah not really, it's like comparing a thunder weapon and an earth weapon (Arcanist and riftwalker) Thunder weapons tend to have higher initial damage while earth has higher potential damage (from rage). So if you want quick high dmg for short runs arcanist is the best pick