Help With Mage Build + Empowerments
 

I'm having alot of trouble figuring out a good build for my mage, all ive been able to find so far are AoE builds. Can anyone give me a good non-AoE build. Also i dont know what to empower, ive empowered fire blast with dmg increase and the same for magic missile (because I use magic missile 1 for spamming between cooldowns). I've also heard that duration time on lightning bolt adds stun. Help me out please!

First question. You gonna be soloing alot or are you gonna have a party, just not an AOE party?

AoE is what Mages are best at. Anyway full-INT if you want immediate benefits, 25SPR rest INT if you're looking to wait for end-game. Also take into account whether you want to be a 'Nuker' or 'Demolisher.' 'Nukers' annihilate for high burst damage at high SP-cost. 'Demolishers' do the same but for less SP cost and over a loner period of time.

Damage on MM is wasted. Put it on damage of your Fire spells, cool-down of AoEs and of Chain-Cast.

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to answer the first question, i both solo and party so im a bit confused on what to do there but i think ill go with the 25 spr and rest int build for that cuz so far its working really well.

for empowerments, should i start decreasing cooldown on MM and fire blast even though ive already added dmg or should i just decrease sp on my other spells?

What level range are you in?

with my mage, between yaknow, 1~25 or so, go with cooldown for a bunch of your skills. MM only need maybe 1 or 2 cooldown points, since its cooldown is already fast. For all of the others, just try 2~4 cooldown point if you can. For a build, mine's pure INT with a few end/int gears. as long as you have a lot of hp pots and stones/ or of course a good healer, you should be O.K.

btw, if you think you have enough cooldown for your skills, be sure to add damage. but i warn you- be sure to put enough cooldown in.. my first mage had almost all power, with a lil bit of cooldown.. >< i can barely use that mage anymore! ><
>< hope that kind of helps..

Statistically, endgame full INT still has an overall higher damage ratio. Excel never lies, after all.

The majority of the forerunners (true pro mages?) used full INT. I personally endorse it myself as well.

As for skill empowerments, once you near level 60, you technically don't need to spam MM as much anymore, because you'll have eight 5-15 second cooldown spells to work with. As a result, I recommend:

Magic Blast: 5 points to power.
Fire Ball: 5 points to power.
Fear: 5 points to duration.
Inferno: 5 points to cooldown.

If PvP-orientation is considered as well:

Chain Casting: 5 points to cooldown.
Stifle: 5 points to duration.

Those seem to be the most useful empowerments; all other empowerments are optional and may be configured to the user's play style.

that was really helpful triumph and cilla but since i dont get spells like fear and inferno till later (I am only lvl 30) should i put my points into cooldowns for all spells, i think that would prolly help me cuz in the long run, id be doing more dmg in a shorter amount of time

Magic Blast: 5 points to power.
Fire Ball: 5 points to power.
Fear: 5 points to duration.
Inferno: 5 points to cooldown.

do u mean magic misslie and fire bolt ??

woops... didn't mean to qoute that message from ankitsoodu xD

meant to quote from Triumph

yea Triumph just double checking...

Magic Blast = Magic Burst and Fire Ball = Fire Bolt right?