Allie's Cast on Crit Spark Charge Runemaster Build Guide

VERY Visually Satisfying esp. With High Graphics Settings

30-40k+ Ward on Bosses & 8-10k Ward During Echoes

Decently Fast Echo Clear Speed

Decently High/Very High Boss DPS

Requires (very common) Uniques to Work

Can Run Into Mana Problems Sometimes

Has Odd FPS Issues In Arena & Some Echoes

Cannot Start Properly Playing The Build Until Level 46

PLEASE READ THIS THIS IS SUPER SUPER IMPORTANT - You NEED to have the following abilities as your first 3 skills IN THIS ORDER in this build: Flame Rush - Frost Claw - Snap Freeze. You can swap Snap Freeze & Flame Rush if you want but your first 3 skills MUST be COLD FIRE COLD. You can also put Runic Invocation as your first button but then the following 3 keys MUST BE the 3 mentioned in that order. This is due to us using Immutable Order 1/1 for Runic Invocation to always force Reowyn's Frostguard without us needing to do the invocation correctly. This is major increase to QoL you just NEED to setup your bar with COLD FIRE COLD as your ability skill tags.

This means your bar should be one of the following:

1. Runic Invocation Flame Rush Frost Claw Snap Freeze
2. Runic Invocation Snap Freeze Frost Claw Flame Rush
3. Flame Rush Frost Claw Snap Freeze Runic Invocation
4. Snap Freeze Frost Claw Flame Rush Runic Invocation

Damage & Playstyle

This build will be very simple to play with your rotation simply being using Frost Claw to trigger Lightning Blast through Dragorath's Claw which then apply Spark Charges to enemies. Due to us taking Chain Lightning 1/4, we will have great spread throughout packs allowing us to apply a lot more Spark Charges. Due to the nature of how Frost Claw works, you don't even need to perfectly aim on top of a pack or an enemy, simply hitting close enough to them will be enough! This is due to us being capped at 3 Lightning Blasts a second through Dragorath's Claw meaning we don't care to hit everything. On Bosses, you will want to aim properly as the individual hits can still apply Spark Charges through Fragment of the Enigma's 12% base chance. When combined with Flame Rush's very low cooldown and the Haste from Flame Ward's Flame Runner 1/1, this build will feel very fast!

PLEASE NOTE - If you spam Frost Claw you WILL run out of Mana during Echoes. There is also a small chance you will go OOM if you don't spam anyways. This is due to Gift of Winter 3/3 only being a 36% chance to basically refund your mana. The thing about Gift of Winter 3/3 is that it works with ALL casts of Frost Claw including the bonus ones from On Through The Snow 1/1, Ever Onward 1/1 & A Crack in the Ice 1/1. This means you have 4 36% chances to trigger Gift of Winter 3/3 per cast of Frost Claw meaning on average you will be Mana positive. On Bosses, if you STAND STILL which you can given how tanky you will be, Foot of the Mountain will lower your Mana costs so much to where you never have a chance to go OOM. All this means is, during Echoes, just press Frost Claw 1-3 times per pack and move on, the Spark Charges will take care of the rest and you will not go OOM.

On Bosses our playstyle will change a little bit, we want to TAP Flame Rush while standing on top of a boss. This will make you move a fraction of an inch but it will still trigger Flame Rush's damage which is all we need as if the boss gets hit by it, it will have Brand of Subjugation applied to it from Branding Cold 1/1. We need Brand of Subjugation to be active on a Boss to benefit from Celestial Doom 7/10 which is the majority of our Ward Gain when fighting a Boss & it will also activate the 18% More Damage of Decree of the Burning Wind 8/8. You only need to do this every 3 seconds to keep Brand of Subjugation up on bosses, otherwise you want to stand still. This build WILL facetank all mechanics, dont be scared of them. You want to make sure you are planted and are just casting Frost Claw to rebuild your Foot of the Mountain otherwise you will not be able to sustain your Mana. A bit of moving around is fine if needed but outside of Flame Rush Taps, you want to stand still.

New Tech

Video on Closed Circuit 1/1 Tech Here -

We can pick up Closed Circuit 1/1 to make the 1 Chain from Chain Lightning 1/4 chain onto us. With us procing 3 Lightning Blasts a second, this is roughly 150% increased PrefixSpell Damage & PrefixLightning Damage and 400% PrefixCritical Strike Chance on Bosses. This means we can completly drop Prismatic Gaze and actually be able to hit 100% Critical Strike Chance now on bosses vs the ~80% we had before while giving us a whole Helmet slot back allowing us to pick up stats such as PrefixIntelligence or PrefixLightning Critical Strike Multiplier. While these Chains to you wount happen often while doing Echoes, on Bosses especially due to how big the Chain Range is, you will have 100% uptime on the maximum stacks you could hold easily. This does mean you lose a bit of PrefixCritical Strike Chance while doing Echoes from the consistent uptime of Prismatic Gaze but this will not be an issue and I promise you wount notice it.

Defences

This build has pretty much 0 chance to fall over and will be able to facetank pretty much everything up until 2k+ Corruption with no problems. This is due to our amazing defence layers such as Reowyn's Frostguard & Sphere of Protection 8/8 giving us a permanent 38% Less Damage Taken. This by itself is already better than most classes on its own and we will have this permamently at all times. This is due to us utilizing Runic Invocation & Immutable Order 1/1 as mentioned above, we can lazily always cast Reowyn's Frostguard meaning we can just Num Lock Runic Invocation and just forget about it. To add onto this, we will also be picking up Arcane Focus 8/8, Celestial Doom 7/10, Shiver Shell 3/3 & Dragorath's Claw's Ward on Crit to give us a lot of Ward every time we attack with Frost Claw. When this is all put together, we will be generating thousands of Ward on top of all of the Less Damage we take. This means that this build will be natrually very very tanky and have 0 issues surviving pretty much everything.

If that wasn't enough, we also have Flame Ward giving us Barrier 5/5 & Prismatic Buffer 2/3 which will have ~50% Uptime due to all of the SuffixIncreased Cooldown Recovery Speed we will be stacking & due to Ancient Inscriptions 8/10. Finally because we arent tanky enough, Flame Rush just makes us take 40% Less Damage while dashing with it making us pretty much the tankiest build in the game while everything is active at once.

Num Lock

Due to us wanting to always use Runic Invocation & Flame Ward on cooldown, we want to ideally Num Lock both skills. This will allow us to auto cast both spells without needing to actually press the buttons.

If you want a tutorial on how to Num Lock & how to set it up, I have a 3 minute guide here - https://youtu.be/kQeyAlRu-Bw

Leveling this build will be very easy as we get to play with Glacier and Mana Strike from Level 5 all the way to Level 46 when we can equip Fragment of the Enigma. This guide will assume you have a Fragment of the Enigma ready to go and will only guide you on how to level with Glacier up until Level 46. The Passive Tree in the Passive Tree Section of the Guide will be the same Passive Tree you want to use while leveling. Leveling with Glacier is an absolute breeze and pretty much the correct way to level every Mage build due to just how strong it is!

If you want an in-depth explination of how to level this, id recommend watching the Video Guide!

Step by Step guide at the bottom

NOTE - This Leveling Section is written as if you have no leveling gear at all and you are playing a new fresh character. If you have leveling gear, I encourage you to use it as it will make your live easier.

I have a guide on Leveling Gear you can use here - https://youtu.be/AjktGvXLAaM

Build Planner with Glacier & Mana Strike Leveling Trees - https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BgRLV8xQ

Make sure to focus on PrefixSpell Damage on all of your gear that can have PrefixSpell Damage on. Otherwise, MAKE SURE to keep upgrading your Wand or Sceptre as you progress through the story. Glacier has a total of 625% Effectiveness of Added Damage across the 3 seperate hits it does making the Added Damage that gets higher and higher on better Wand & Sceptre bases very important.

Levels 1-5

To start our journey to a busted build we first need to unlock Glacier. This will happen at ~Level 5 as you enter the Temple. When you first get to town, check the gear vendor for any Silver Rings and other useful items. For the first few Levels, ailments such as SuffixChance to Ignite on Hit, SuffixChance to Poison on Hit or SuffixChance to Bleed on Hit are king at DPS and are better than any other roll. Get yourself an item for every slot if you can and try to Craft PrefixIntelligence & PrefixSpell Damage everywhere you can. Use Lightning Blast until you unlock Elemental Nova then Specialize into Elemental Nova and pick up a point in Arcana Elementorum 1/5 to make your life a bit easier. Once you put 5 Passive Points into your Passive Tree you unlock Glacier. Despecialize out of Elemental Nova and Specialize into Glacier which will be the bread and butter of our leveling experience all the way to Level 46 along with Mana Strike.

For now, your Mana cost on Glacier will be abysmal but thats ok. Just try your best to clump up enemies and use 1 Glacier to kill the majority of them, its ok if some stragglers live, just run to the next pack. Glacier is a very unique skill that does 3 expanding hits of Ice that to more and more Damage. The 3rd hit will be ~60% of the total damage of the skill which will be the important one to land. On Bosses you will be spamming Glacier until you run out of Mana followed by Mana Strike to get it back. Bosses should melt in seconds and be a breeze with this.

Levels 5-46

Your experience from here will be a pretty relaxing one without too many issues. At Level 7 you unlock Flame Ward which should be used on cooldown as a defensive layer. At Level 8 you will Specialize into Mana Strike allowing you to regen your mana substantually faster and at Level 9 you unlock Teleport. We will be using an Unspecialized Teleport all the way until Level 50 where we can unlock our 5th Slot to Specialize into Flame Rush. I'd recommend to not use Flame Rush when you unlock it and to just keep using Teleport.

At Level 20 you will unlock your 3rd Slot and this is when we will Specialize into Runic Invocation. For now, this will not do anything until we unlock Immutable Order 1/1.

Once you do unlock Immutable Order 1/1 we will need to setup our Skills on our bar in the following order:

Glacier - Flame Ward - Snap Freeze.

These HAVE to be the first 3 skills from Left to Right OR you can have Runic Invocation on your Left-most key THEN Glacier - Flame Ward - Snap Freeze. This will ensure Immutable Order 1/1 will always give you Cold Fire Cold whenever you use any skill allowing us to spam Runic Invocation for Reowyn's Frostguard. This skill is not ok. It offers 30% Less Damage taken which we will have up pretty much permanently and a lot of Ward. Assuming this is setup correctly, you will have 0 issues leveling as you will be too tanky to die.

Its up to you if you want to set this up to be tankier or to keep using Teleport.

At Level 35 you will unlock your 4th Slot which we will use to pick up Frost Claw. This is simply here just to soak up Experience for later, for now you are still going to be using Glacier & Mana Strike.

Level 46+

At Level 46 you can finally put on Fragment of the Enigma which is when the build really starts. Despecialize out of Glacier & Mana Strike and Specialize into Lightning Blast & Flame Ward. Follow the trees in the Skills section of the Build Guide. You are now going to be primarly using Frost Claw while still continuing to use Flame Ward & Runic Invocation on cooldown.

Your new order for Runic Invocation is now:

Glacier - Frost Claw - Snap Freeze

Make sure you have the Lava Talon 1/1 point on Frost Claw allocated so it counts as a Fire skill for Immutable Order 1/1. Its ok if this means you dont have space for Flame Ward on your bar until you drop Teleport for Flame Rush, you dont even really need Flame Ward yet. Once you have 3 points in Cloud Answer 3/3 & Mortal Capacitor 5/5 your damage will skyrocket and have 0 issues leveling. The final thing to mention is that at Level 50 you unlock your 5th Slot and thats when you pick up Flame Rush. Once you have Snowballing 1/1, replace Glacier on your bars with Flame Rush as it will now be a Cold skill.

Build Planner with Glacier & Mana Strike Leveling Trees - https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BgRLV8xQ

Step by Step Guide

1. Play Lightning Blast into Specializing Elemental Nova with 1 point in Arcana Elementorum 1/5 until Level 5.
2. At Level 5 Specialize into Glacier. You will be using Glacier & Mana Strike as your 2 main skills filling in with Mana Strike when out of Mana.
3. At Level 7 start using Flame Ward & at Level 9 use Teleport. At Level 8 Specialize into Mana Strike, this will greatly help with any mana issues you might have as you level it.
4. At Level 20 Specialize into Runic Invocation, ignore it until you pick up Immutable Order 1/1 then follow the instructions in the Level 5-46 Section on how to setup your Action Bar.
5. At Level 35 Specialize into Frost Claw and ignore it. It is just there to soak up Experience for later, keep using Glacier for now.
6. At Level 46, equip Dragorath's Claw & Fragment of the Enigma and Despecialize out of Glacier & Mana Strike. Specialize into Lightning Blast & Flame Ward. Frost Claw is now your main ability and will be how you proc Lightning Blasts. Refer to the Level 46+ Section on how to setup your Action Bar for Runic Invocation & Immutable Order 1/1.
7. At Level 50 Specialize into Flame Rush and stop using Teleport. Once you have Snowballing 1/1, replace Glacier on your bars with Flame Rush for Runic Invocation's Immutable Order 1/1.

The Endgame for this build will involve some gear swapping and farming for LP.

Eventually you will want to swap over to a Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros and ideally try to get Tier 7 PrefixLevel of Frost Claw on it. Otherwise, you will want to look for LP versions of the rest of the gear and to follow the LP Priority listed in the Equipment section of the Guide.

Outside of that, look for Exalted items and upgrade your gear according to the stat priority in the Equipment section.

Lastly, we will eventually be swapping over to the Elemental Nova version of this build which will require a Tier 6/7 PrefixLevel of Frost Claw preferably on a Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros but ANY Relic works with the Mod. There are some other items to consider such as Mad Alchemist's Ladle & Crest of Unity which you might want to keep if you find a verison with LP. The Elemental Nova version of the build is further discused here - https://youtu.be/crXaYJD_gV8

Loot fitler can be found in the link below!

This filter is designed to show you leveling gear for Glacier & for Frost Claw plus any other useful stats you might want while leveling!

This filter is also good as a general Endgame Monolith filter for this build.

Filter Link - https://www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/LB78YZo3

To import it into LE:

1. Go to the Link
2. Click Export at the top & click Copy to Clipboard
3. In-Game: Go to Settings - Gameplay - Manage Loot Filters
4. Click the Green Plus at the top
5. Paste Clipboard Contents

For Endgame, I recommend using my general Endgame Filter and adjusting it to see the relevant Exalted Mods for this build.

Filter Link - https://www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/0AKZbXob

Video Guide on how to set it up - https://youtu.be/_4RGTF4n5cQ