The Mage is a caster class with a focus on harnessing the raw elements of nature to utterly destroy your foes. Mages are incredibly strong inLast Epoch, so here’s a leveling build to get you started with the class.
How to level as Mage in Last Epoch
When leveling the Mage, you should tie most of your focus into boosting up the class’s incredible AoE (Area of Effect). The Mage starts the game with one of their strongest, spammable AoE spells (Lightning Blast) and this build focuses on empowering it. More on that soon. First, we need to talk about Passives.
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Best Mage Passive Skills for Leveling - Last Epoch
Since the Mage is all about elemental damage, we’re going to focus on boosting that through Attribute bonuses and elemental damage increases in the passive tree. Specifically, Lightning damage is the core goal, as the build is centered around that core element.
Best Mage Skill Specializations for Leveling - Last Epoch
As previously mentioned, this build focuses on dealingLightning Damage, so the skills chosen support that damage type while providing mobility for positioning.
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How to play the Mage in Last Epoch
As a Mage that has focused on dealing Lightning Damage, you want to always be moving and always be arcing Lightning through your foes like a living current.Lighting Blastis your core room clearer, as it can be cast extremely fast and will hit the entirety of most groups you encounter. WhenStaticis at full charge, activate the skill todischarge the chargesfor extreme AoE damage. Against bosses, this should be done on cooldown. UseTeleportto generatemirror imagesto taunt enemies and keep them at bay. Taunted enemies with fixate on the images, allowing you to chain lightning through them with ease.
Best items and affixes for Mage in Last Epoch
For the most part, Mages this early in the game don’t typically need to have specific unique or legendary items to be functional, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some pieces of gear you should keep an eye out for.
What Mage Mastery should you pick in Last Epoch?
As with all other classes in Last Epoch, the Mage has access to three differentMasteriesthat you’re able to choose from as you progress through the main story.
Sorcerer Mastery in Last Epoch
Sorcerers are Mages that favor casting big, powerful spells from a distance to destroy their foes. The more Mana their massive spells cost, the more damaging they are. They focus almost entirely on offense, but their damage is nearly unparalleled as a result. Sorcerers need to build carefully, as their defensive options are a bit more limited.
Static Orbis a popular skill for Sorcerers due to its spammy nature, whileMeteorhas many build options, even when considering Uniques to build off.
Spellblade Mastery in Last Epoch
Spellblades are Mages that focus on channeling their elemental spells into the tip of their melee weapons. They are melee-focused combatants that grant themselves large amounts of Ward when throwing out spells through their melee attacks. As such, Spellblades are rather tanky regardless of the build focus.
Flame Reaveis a bread-and-butter choice for any aspiring Spellblade to build from.Shattering Strikeis also a solid choice if ice is more your fancy.
Runemaster Mastery in Last Epoch
Runemasters are Mages that focus on delivering their elemental carnage through the conduit of runes. By infusing magic into them, Runemasters can invoke unique spells that differ in function from the Sorcerer or Spellblade. Players looking for a more unorthodox way to play an elemental spellcaster should consider the Runemaster as an option.
Runeboltoffers several wacky customizations in its tree, allowing you to shape it exactly as you need it.Runic Invocationis what this class is most famous for due to its unique playstyle even amongst other Mage-related builds.
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