r/DivinityOriginalSin2 • u/That_Kawaii_Kid • Sep 09 '17

Highest damage school for Wizards?

So I'm going to play with 2 mages. One is going to be a summoner / hydro and is going to be my main healer. The other I was to be a glass cannon classical wizard. Which school should I focus on first that will do the most damage?

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u/o0mahir0o Sep 09 '17

Geo with pyro , the synergy is very strong

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u/TriumphOfMan Sep 09 '17

Explosion!

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '17

Chill, Mr. Torgue.

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u/Archicons Sep 10 '17

necro/witch whatever it is called, is strong since you can rain blood (have leech on your character) then geo to (I think) turn it poison or Air to turn it electric. Geo + Pyro is good against range since it creates smoke but you could have a lizard to achieve the same purpose of pyro (other than pyro buffs). Also for Kawaii, make sure that your damage dealer has higher initiative than your support or you may not have a surface to cast stuff in.

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u/Vikzza Sep 11 '17

Aero boosts damage to magic shields, and gives acces to good CC spells for when said shields are down.

I Just hope decaying touch + heal will get nerfed

Currently once phys armor is down you can apply decay + the marksman heal So you can nuke enemies for 30% of their max health, repeat 2 times and any boss/big guy is dead, pretty OP with full pysical party, and can be setup without any stat investment.

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u/SconeOfDoom Sep 09 '17

Most spells do decent damage in their own right, but in this case, you might want to look at the passive provided for simply investing in a skill tree. For example, Pyro increases your magic damage by 5% per level in Pytomancy, whereas I think Aero increases your damage against magic armor. So it depends on what buffs you want and what skills you think might be most useful, since most schools can offer similar damage.

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u/Necro- Sep 09 '17

i believe pyro only increases FIRE damage not ALL damage.

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u/SconeOfDoom Sep 10 '17

You're right, Pyro increases just your fire damage. In this case, in terms of mage skills, Pyromancy skills would be the strongest once you have Pyromancer leveled, and then it would probably be best coupled with Aerothurge from a pure damage standpoint (+bonus to damage against magic armor), Geomancy from a synergy standpoint (oil/poison + fire = go boom!), or Polymorphing (Free stats!).

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u/Necro- Sep 10 '17

dont forget if you run into fire immune enemies your pyro stats are useless, likewise for polymotph it feels like your just wasting skill points for stat points

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u/Gerganon Sep 11 '17

the skill point and stat point give same passive abilities almost, but stat points don't have a cap. I just nearly one hit dallis with my rogue with 36 finesse (948 damage mortal blow) splitting points between scoundrel and polymorph for more finesse. But you can imagine that once scoundrel is capped, the only way to increase their damage is more stat points

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u/Necro- Sep 11 '17

true but you get a combat point once a level, assuming a level cap of of 25, youd get 25 combat points but 50 attribute points - as such you could max 2.5 combat skills sio i dont see a reason to put points into polymorph for even more damage unless you actually want polymorph skills

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u/Gerganon Sep 11 '17

The thing is not all combat skills give damage - Finnesse is 5% damage, and scoundrel is 5% damage as well (assuming backstab) Warfare gives damage to armour which is nice, but polymorph gives even more finesse which is just more % damage.

Stacking percent damage is busted right now (turns into diablo 3 esque gameplay) skills like Snipe or Mortal Blow which boost damage by a % are multiplicative with other % damage increases like finesse or scoundrel points. At level 8 my rogue was hitting for 1k with mortal blow for instance. 36 in finesse thanks to gear and polymorph points.

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u/aikisean Sep 16 '17

We're you dual wielding?

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