The state of spells without Archmage is just sad
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The spells are soooooo prohibitively expensive in the game that it is pretty much impossible to compete with attacks . The only thing fixing this now is Archmage and having every single build being mana stacker is just very bad and boring for the game.
if you want ANY diversity of builds that do spell damage and not only Int stackers and Mana stackers, please rething the mana costs of spells and even skills Last bumped on Jan 13, 2025, 3:25:20 AM
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I'm finding that I can't play without Archmage, but the constant, and I mean CONSTANT complaining of "Out of mana!" is truly wearing on my sanity. I am poor, no way I can afford any of that fancy "stacking" or whatever, all I can do is just become deaf to my char's endless suffering for lack of mana. one, two casts of Arc, "Need mana!", a few Sparks, "No mana!", maybe a Comet or some Frost Bolts: "Out of mana!". I'm running out of mana.
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" You can turn oom complains off in the settings. Won't solve your mana issues but can save your sanity :P |
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If you think mana is bad for casters, you haven't seen my nearly 300 mana cost Sunder, and my other skills aren't much better off. If I didn't have mana leech on my mace, I would be out of mana flasks after 3 enemy groups.
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mana cost is def out of control even as a caster with 500 mana regen 4k mana mom obviously or i would have twice the mana regen and if I didnt recover 4% on kill I would always be oom and flask gives me 500 mana wtf is that
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It is pretty clear that mana management in general is off by a considerable amount.
I always chuckle when my mana cost goes up by 20% for a 3% boost in performance on a skill |
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Totems are only sustainable with bloodmagic and even that always puts you on the brink of getting gibbed, even if you pick a situation where it should be relatively save to summon and top up again ^^
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i´m playing a cold chronomancer and without archmage its really hard to scale up my dps, its sad to not have other compareable choices and if they are going to nerf it because stormweavers are zooming its looking dire for us chronomancers unless they give us other options.
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Stacking exposure as stormweaver works but you can do that with archmage too so it's still just better.
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" 2% mana on kill jewels, +mana on kill on gloves and wands are not really expensive mods to search for. You should not rely just on passive mana regen to support constant casting. I'm not saying that mana costs are not in need of adjustment, but they are not unmanageable in the current game version for casters. If you want to really see Mana issues, go roll a witch hunter. |
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