Is there a post somewhere to build a pure mage?

I think some of the Air Magic tree has stuns involved...

As a Pure Mage, you probably want to bring up ALL the trees and build a couple of decks that you can switch between based upon the immediate situation. You'll need slows, roots and anything that can lower resistance for certain mobs, like Obsidian Golems that are essentially highly resistant to everything...

 

Do I need to raise Bludgeon since the wands and staves are bludgeon?

 

Not unless you wanna hit stuff with your stick, but the passive that gives you strength with a bludgeon equipped is nice for extra HP.

 

Curious how you pure mages handle the prevalence of magic immune mobs, like litches? I would love to go pure magic as well, but found several mobs an issue and reagent consumption expensive over mix of melee and magic.

 

Yea I really do not get this system, makes it hard for pure mage types...

 

I would like to know this as well....

 

Well, you either don't kill them or kill them with something else, or kill them with someone else. There are plenty of things that are easier/possible with specific builds and impossible with others. Luckily being a pure mage doesn't exempt you from having gm archery and a alternative gear set on you or anything like that, becuase of the open skill system. That being said there are types of magic that things like aether liches aren't immune to, like high level sun.

 

It all about attunment and then int. Pure mage is the longest way you can walk.
As a young mage i would suggest use a staff and bludgeon skills, just in case one encounters a mob that has more magic resistance as this one can overcome.
Wand and shield is also possible, it is a more definsive build. It is also not a failure learning to use a shield.
When magery becomes strong enough heigh enchanted / masterworked wands are the choice. (Sadly, staves are underpowered).

Also a pure mage has knowledge of more then one or two schools.

 

Banish undead and searing ray are realy powerful vs liches.

Dragons and obsidian golem are the only mobs hard to kill for a mage.

 

There must be a good combo out there for a pure mage - death seems like a strong contender, paired with fire and perhaps earth?

 

Thank you. I was going to link this. This fire / heal build is one of my favorite and in my mind one of the best at survivability. One can throw meteor shower in there to make it even better. I also have a death build using flurry and chaotic feedback on my page that I am very fond of to and its survivability is quite high to.

 

I don't like running around a lot, makes me sea sick

 

The death build using flurry and chaotic feedback maybe your cup of tea then (at least for things not resistant to death magic) I am able to currently stand toe to toe with many things including the obsidian destroyer (which is an incredibly tough beast at around 31000 hit points) with no problems.

 

i believe if you specialize in air magic you wont run into the air-immunity. Plus it will increase the already very effective stuns.

 

I don't want to spec in the death tree, looks too evil for me I roleplay my char as a special person born with special abilities, aka magic.... You know like white magic versus black magic ….

 

You might think that but no... Lightning is pretty much useless against all boss mobs.

 

Not really, too many mobs are way too resistant to magic to be viable from day one. But once you have loads of xp in pool and high level it is easy to transfer to nearly pure mage playstyle.

 

I think then sota needs to address this, or what is the point of being a mage? In every game I have played all the playstyles, fighters, archers, mages etc all kicked arse without the need to go into other tress....

 

I think you're confusing "kick arse" with being able to solo everything in the game with a specific set of skills, lots of builds are bad at soloing specific types of encounters. I cant solo every encounter in the game with pure melee with no heals, should they make them all weaker to melee so I can race a room before they kill me?

 

That's not true, there are builds good for pve solo mobs ( death and fire) builds good mostly for group ( pure healer, earth magic ) and builds mostly usefull for pvp ( ice and air, even if you can use those in pvp just as utility), depends all on what your goal is. You can do a pure mage, but you have to choose the one who fits better for your goal.