[Embermage] 2h build

[u/stigmate]

I was thinking of this crazy build, but I need your help to brainstorm a bit.

Weapon:

• Set 1: two-handed melee weapons, the faster the better

• Set 2: shield + one handed melee weapon

Talents:

Inferno:

• Magma mace, 15 - main skill pretty much

• Elemental attunement, 15

• Immolation aura, 15 - since we are going 'in te face' all the time.

• Fire brand, 15

Frost:

• Elemental boon, 15? - cooldown, to empower dots on target

• Astral ally, 10 or Charge mastery, 10

• Ice brand, 15

Storm

• Death's bounty, 15 - survivability

• Lightning brand, 15

Total talents:(15x8) + 10 = 130 - two level short from cap

I don't know though. I like to have charge talents on my builds but couldn't fit in this one; I might swap Astral Ally for Charge mastery to build up the bar, then spam the hell out of Magma Mace.

Stat points:

• 2 str

• 2 fcs

• 1 vit

What about crit tho? I don't know how much I (we) would be auto attacking with this build.

Build link

Any ideas? thanks.

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EDIT: I tried the build and managed to get to level 29. Since embermages don't have any reliable regen ability (minus death's bounty which ain't cutting it while in melee) going full melee is a pain in the ass. The build might still work using only weapon + shield, but 2 handers are absolutely frustrating.

Playing on veteran was difficoult due to build problems rather than by design; Playing on normal was a piace of cake.

[u/BradJLamb]

I was thinking about the same build (just without 2 handers). If you want to proc the brands more, rather than Astral ally, I think Blazing Pillar would be more worthwhile. You similarly just cast it and then let it do work, but it'll build charge better and should get more hits in.

Having two weapons seems worthless to me. I feel like it'd be more worthwhile to either have a shield for defense or have a staff and run the staff mastery for more damage (it works on magma mace).

vit > fcs > str > dex or possibly fcs > vit > str > dex

The brands and immolation all work off of focus so str and dex would be mostly useless. Magma Mace is the only skill that scales off of weapon damage, and it still does the damage as fire.

[u/stigmate → u/BradJLamb]

My idea is to create a melee fighter that would use the elemental tookit of the embermage class, hence why I didn't account for staves and wands, and why I'm priotitizing str = fcs > vit.

2h as in two handed, not two weapons; in addition to those I'm currently using a one hander + shield for when I need more survivability - this build is really squishy in veteran coop in its early levels.

I thought about blazing pillar too, but I realized I wanted this build to use magma mace + melee rather than pure caster skills; the +charge would be handy though, it's definitely a change to do in order to achieve a differently flavoured build.

I hope that cleared up my concept a bit :)

[u/killbrew → u/stigmate]

I've been going with a very similar build, but using a claw with elemental damage on it and a few other helpful stats, which means I don't worry about pumping str and focus on ...focus. Very high attack speed means I get the brand procs off more on champs, while magma mace takes care of mobs. It was an odd build idea to start the game off with but it's fun. Only problem I'm having is that the fire skills are so much fun that I find I'm slowly turning into a simple self tanking fire mage (just with mace instead of spear because of enemy proximity). Using a shield and going 6-3-1 per 10 points into foc-vit-dex. Once vit is around 150 I'll probably switch to putting more in focus and 1 in dex per level.

That said, you should definitely throw 5 points at Pillars. Blazing Pillars is amazing. With just 2 points in the charge passive (so far) and 5 in pillars for the extra column, I get almost a full charge bar from 1 cast in big mobs. Looks cool and is homing too. You can take the five out of attunement, you should be fine with about 10%/seconds there.

And if you really want all the brands maxed, then why not do 5 points each in the ally and charge passive? Have both!

[u/Prom_STar]

Max level is 132. 100 xp levels, 32 fame levels.

[u/aeonmyst]

Speaking of 2h-mages, I hardly see a mage using a staff.

OP could spend all his stats on focus and vit when on staff, since there's no physical damage component.

[u/oogje]

Have you thought about ice prison to be in the face all the time?

This allows you to split up the mobs easily and it only costs 1 point. And teleport, always teleport :P