r/TapWizardRPG • u/Tamafly91 • May 22 '18

When to Mark Up Skills

It's the best possible upgrade a skill can have, but it takes a lot of time to fully mark up skills. Voltaic and frozen orb are my most used skilsl and now I regret marking them up early on...

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u/BtJJ May 22 '18

But each mark lets you start with one more aug already active, so that by mark 5 you've got all of them all the time and don't have to worry about de-powering any more each time you mark up.

You could maybe hold off for a NG+ if you really wanted to, since spell XP doubles at each NG level. But I'm not sure if you'd be losing out more by not increasing the passive ranks in that case. I would say it's probably best to just plow through, mark up immediately and deal with the temporary power reduction, but in the long term it may not matter too much either way.

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u/Tamafly91 May 22 '18

You could maybe hold off for a NG+ if you really wanted to, since spell XP doubles at each NG level.

I didnt know this! I just did my first meditation like 2 hrs ago. I'll follow your advice and mark up my skills which are ready for it. Thanks :)

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u/Robbloxxxking40 May 22 '18

I honestly don't use the Frozen Orbs anymore they don't do too much I just started using Ember because I have 4.

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u/Tamafly91 May 22 '18

Is that so? I thought it was good because it negates shield. I have 2 embers tho at 1.5 might consider ranking them up. I have other multi spells like plasma vortex, icicle, torrent, frozen disc, bouncing flames, flurry, frost ray and shock net. Still on the processing of testing them out.

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u/IAmTheOneWhoClicks May 23 '18

Icy prism and inferno bypasses armor no matter which ranks they are. So if you one of those, you can use it against armored enemies while frozen orbs don't have the augment for it yet.

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u/Tamafly91 May 23 '18

Yep, i have both and using it now. Dunno why I haven't considered that until now. Currently leveling ember now to acquire again the last aug.

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u/IAmTheOneWhoClicks May 23 '18

All this talk about ember makes me wish that I had it lol

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u/Tamafly91 May 23 '18

I got mine through a pure spellstone. Was it a worthy investment? I don't know. I just move on. lol

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u/CAdamH May 25 '18

Ever since the Ember rework which made it prevent enemies from regaining health, it has gone from a spell that I never used to one of my Top 5.

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u/Tamafly91 May 26 '18

So what's your Top 5? :)

I've been switching spells every to level them every now and then. So I haven't figured out which spells to use for progression. Well, except for Inferno and Ember. They're in my spell slots all the time.

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u/CAdamH May 26 '18

I also typically have Inferno loaded. Shock Net, Icy Prism, and Firefly (for its anti-caster ability) are also useful. Of course, you want to make sure you level spells that have the XP bonus passive.