How I Play My Level 130 Mage

Hello and welcome to how I play my level 130 mage. Now, uh, today’s going to be kind of a progressive video. I’m not going to cover everything that I covered in the 125 video, but I believe this is a completely different character. So, we will talk about some things a little bit more in some cases. But, uh, I am not max AA. Um, [music] I am almost max AA. Uh, I got a lot of the stuff. I don’t think anything’s going to change when I get max A. Just know uh just you know a little reference for that when when we get to the parsing video and uh you know the DPS is not what you might have if you have max AA. So uh first up spells. First spell I have is twin cast. This allows our our uh nukes to uh cast twice uh when they get cast. It’s a lot of damage. Uh you can see right here I did a [laughter] did a test. This pets are still going. I don’t know what’s going on there. Um, my pet’s over there. I don’t know where these ones are coming from, but uh, uh, twin cost. So, I cast like spear and it does it twice, right? Pretty basic. It’s, it’s one of the greatest DPS abilities. Next up, we have raging servant. Um, X uh, II. So, that’s eight. Now, the the spell names in the, uh, [laughter] for the Shattering Row are a little weird. Uh, so there might be a little difference there. And I know burnout, uh, the burnout one is named wrong and that’s getting changed in the next patch, but uh, we’re not we don’t have that available right now. So, uh, this is our swarm pet and it is actually one of the greatest spells in the world, right? Almost instant cast. Summons this little guy out, right? And he is going to just be trunken damage on this guy. He’s hitting for like 100k a pop and he just spams attacks, right? Uh these swarm pets can off tank uh equivalent level mobs for, you know, the duration of their spell. They rarely die. Uh I’ve had them I’ve had them actually tank uh bosses while resing my tank. So uh you know, something to think about there, right? They’re they’re a very strong spell. Uh then we have a shock of the many. Uh, now this is an interesting spell and depending on how you have your group set up or the people heal you’re playing with, um, you’re going to get variable damage from this. So, if there’s nothing around the creature, right, you’re going to get 23,000 damage. So, it’s your pet plus maybe somebody else’s pet, right? If you’re not doing anything like servant, you know, host of the elements and all the other good stuff. If you’re not doing any of that stuff, you’re going to get terrible damage out of this. Uh, but if you start doing some damage, you’re going to go from uh, you know, let’s see, let’s say that 23,000 to 100,000 as soon as you have a third pet on there. And then 177,000 when you hit seven or more pets. And, you know, there’s ways to do that, right? You know, I have a shaman. That’s a pet, right? Uh, bards have swarm pets. the the warrior has like a pet that pops out. The holder uh the uh berserker has pets that pop out. The mug does something. So, you’re getting some pets plus all the swarm pets you can create. But you could optimize your group to boost mage damage. Like if you had a shadow knight because a shadow knight gets swarm pets plus a pet. Uh shaman gets a swarm pet plus a pet. So that’s two right there that’s adding to it, you know. So there is some definite optimization you can do to max out the damage that you’re getting from there. And that is one of the uh the highest damage on one. I believe it is the synergy spell too if I’m not mistaken. Uh no, raging servant is the is the uh so this is kind of cool. So, raging servant is the uh is the synergy spell which then gives us conjurous synergy which [music] then gives us a boost in damage to our shock of the many. [laughter] So, it’s all inter interconnected, right? And the the uh conjur synergy is a fire damage or chromatic damage spell that deals at least uh 100 damage. So, it’s uh that means a cleric I think can hit it with chromatic and I believe an enchanter can hit it with chromatic. Uh I might be wrong on that. And obviously wizard has a fire nuke. And then we have chaotic fire. Uh strikes your target with chaotic elemental fire causing 140,000 damage and a chance to trigger chaotic fire. Chaotic fire. And then it’s just like this random chance for all these different buffs, right? Extra damage uh and so on and so on. So you want to hit Chaotic Fire as much as you possibly can to trigger one of these and hopefully uh it’s a good one. And then we have Spear of Row, which is 185,000 nuke, right? So this is a huge nuke. If we just go ahead and pop one of these off real quick just to see that damage, right? Um [laughter] I can’t tell. Did it get resisted spells? Yeah, resisted. All right. The one 115 combat dummy resisted it. Right. But up here, you can see there’s a 3.6 million one. Oh, there we go. Uh what is that? 6.2 million. A Spirro row. Lucky critical. Uh so definitely very nice. Uh shock of malas. Uh this is our Malo shock spell. Now, I usually wouldn’t cast this uh but uh uh I added it to my multi mine a while back because it gives me one malow and then it uh theoretically puts on uh uh where’d it go? Does Does it not do damage? It should be doing the uh There we go. Oh, okay. It’s like spamming my everything here. Okay. I didn’t realize that. So you can see here we got Blaze of Fire, Shock of Blades didund or 1.7 million and then we got Lucky Twin Cast that did 1.6 million plus another 850,000. So this is pretty crazy, right? So it’s pretty crazy. Plus the uh all the AAs that go with that. So it’s nice to have. Now this is something I I’m experimenting with right now. Molten Dulite orb, right? So this summons this item. I I know in previous videos I’ve used it before and then I got rid of it because it was annoying. But this gives me 10 charges of a molten diceite or which casts bolt of molten diceite which is a 46,000 nuke, right? So I can just, you know, click this click. Boom. [music] Instant cast. I mean just did like 3 million damage with one clicky because it can twin cast that cast. It’s all focused also focused by the uh [music] uh the bolt line here. So, you can get more damage out of it, plus blaze of fire, which uh is something. And I don’t have my bard playing right now, so there’s some other stuff. I think I have uh I I think I hit my burns on accident at some point, so I got a lot of buffs up that I wouldn’t normally have, but uh it’s not really relevant right now. But, uh I think it’s worth casting. I mean, it’s you got to recast it a lot, so might be worth putting on, uh you know, like a short duration buff, right? Uh, this character is set up differently than my paladin group. So, uh, I haven’t ch I haven’t changed these guys over to that one yet because I don’t really play them anymore. Uh, but, uh, yeah, it’s a little different. So, I got some changes to make there. But, uh, then I have Elliptic Companion, which, uh, increases the pet power significantly. Then we have gather potential. Now, I actually put this in my multivine because I run these ma this mage uh and every mage I play, I run them into the ground. Uh I don’t care. I don’t look at their mana. I don’t do anything related to that. I just I hit the button. I hit the button and you know, if they don’t have mana, they’re going to gather potential on cooldown, right? And it it it kills DPS in certain situations, but at the same time, it’s not a very long cast. It’s a 12 second cast. Boom. It’s done. You don’t have to recast it every every round, right? Uh and by the time I’m usually casting it, you know, I really needed to cast it. So, it’s uh it’s definitely worth it there. And then uh Valiant Symbosis is our uh conversion. It converts pet health into mana. Uh I keep that up at all times. And then I keep a group call a hero. I memorize at all times. This is 100% the best spell in the game. I I cannot think of a spell that I use more than Call of Heroes. It is so fantastic. Being able to just go somewhere with the mage and then summon everybody there is timesaving and perfect. Uh then we have water elemental. Uh whatever. I like using the water elemental. Uh I I’ll switch between air and water, but my warrior does not need an air pet for stuns. And uh this gives me, you know, some some decent damage. Now, if we can get behind here, I think it’ll backstab and we can see some damage out of that. See other mess. Of course, he runs to the goddamn front. Uh let me see if I can uh companions shielding or summon companion at. Do I not even have it on my bar? There it is. There. There we Now he’s in the back. All right. So, we’ll see if we can get a backstab here. Backstab for 115,000. Right. He’s a He’s a He’s a damn rogue. So, he’s doing good damage, right? Uh most of my damage, I would say, comes from the pet, unless I’m doing some heavy nuking. Uh I think it’s like 30 25 to 30% of my damage in most parts is the pet. maybe a little bit more in certain cases, but it’s pretty uh pretty insane. Uh then we have uh Burning Veil, which is a tank buff. I put this on the tank. It’s a 58,000 damage shield. Pretty crazy. Uh [music] and then finally, Blazing Blast, which is a point blank AoE, 35,000. Uh and that’s mostly like when I’m running through like low-level areas and I just want to kill everything that’s on me [laughter] real quick. It’s just pop that and it’s all gone. But for the most part, we we got 14 spell slots. There’s a lot there that, you know, I’m not using because uh the way I’m playing this character boxed. All right. So, with all that, that’s the spells. Uh the other spells I use are um burnout, whichever the current level is. Uh I don’t think this is the current one. This is what the name of the current one should be, but this is the previous tier. Uh we’ll fix that next uh patch because you can’t they’re the same name. Uh ice flame guard. We use that. Uh the damage shield circle of the fire skin. I believe that’s what the current one is. Let me see here. Sure. I updated these. Yeah, this is 152 or 152,000 damage damage. Like if you see me do uh when I do the uh the missions, right, and I’m fighting the six uh blobs that spawn, right? Their health is just chunking down even though I’m not hitting them. And it’s cuz I have these massive this massive damage shield on my warrior. And uh this is the this is it. This plus uh burning veil at the same time. Absolute just mayhem going on there. Makes it a lot easier to do things. Uh and then we run the Arcane Distlect. um aura which increases pet damage. So that’s nice. Uh I use perfect levitation, invis undead, and invisibility quite a bit. And I also summon uh the mod shard. That’s the pretty much the only mod run I use just because it’s uh it’s a little painful to try to use more than one. Uh, and I have that use, you know, modulation shard 9 in my multi-bind assist key, which, uh, every time, uh, every cooldown, it will hit it for me. So, uh, that is my assist key. Xt target 19, which is where the target is. Uh, pet swarm sends the swarm pets to whatever my new target is. Pet attack sends the pet in there. [music] And then stand is there for the, uh, mobs that do the AoEDD. It just automatically stands me up and I don’t have to worry about doing it myself. All right. And then uh my hot bars are pretty much the same as I always do. My burn uh silent casting heart of the skyfire spire improve twin cast forceful rejuvenation to reset anything that’s not reset. And then focus arcanium focus thermmituge frenzied companion. Use the breastplate which is Uh, Zeal of the Elements allows your pets next eight bashes or backstabs to trigger companion assault, which is a 45,000 nuke. Uh, insane amount of damage there. Uh, I do have blood drinkers coding here. Uh, cuz I when I copied the this UI from another character, she had one. This character does not, and I have not updated that yet because there’s nothing in burn three. This character is not maxed at A. So I have not even bothered trying to, you know, [music] put in the uh the glyph which would be I think glyph of the ultimate power. Yeah. So I think this is it. Yeah. Glyph of ultimate power is what we’d put in uh actually slot zero. Uh burn three would be extra burn abilities that I don’t have in two one or two. So, that would be what we use when we when we max a and we have the abil any of the free AA to do that. I just noticed I’m missing like I’m missing a ton of these item AAS. We got to worry about that later. Um, let’s see here. But the multivine uh is raging servant then twin cast then shock of the many chaotic fire uh spear row shock of malice elliptic companion arcane whisper which lowers uh the targets hatred for me uh host of elements which increases uh our pet swarms by three a little elementals going out there. They’re level 132 and they’re pretty strong. Uh then we have force of elemental which is a uh aa nuke does 58,000 damage instant cast servant row which is a uh giant fire elemental that does uh fire damage 300,000 firebolt uh and it’s 100 level 131. Then we have companion necessity which is an AOE taunt um pet which uh generates a little aggro. We have turned summon which does not affect the multi-bind any way but it does uh what 10 million damage? No, a million damage. It’s hard to I wish there was commas. Uh it does a million damage to uh summoned plus it uh has a chance to trigger 650,000. Uh yeah, 650,000. And then uh companions Aegis, which is just a pet buff. Uh my pets uh run taunt, so having this on at all times might lower my DPS because I’m casting this on cooldown, but it >> [music] >> uh it uh keeps my pet alive most of the time. It is able to uh like if my tank dies, the pet is already uh tanking, right? And it’s a water pet, so it’s not as tanky as say the earth or the air pet. Uh but I have not had many issues where my tank dies and then the pet dies so fast that I can’t use uh the you know the shaman res to get him back. So uh just a thought there. Then we do elemental conversion which uh consumes what 200,000 of the pet health for 48,000 mana. I do this on cooldown. It’s a 50-minute reuse. Uh but if it wasn’t on cooldown, I would not uh I would probably forget to use it. Then we do gather potential or bane and then host in the shell uh which just puts a rune on the uh pet. All right, just makes him a little bit beefier. This thing lasts for 5 minutes and it’s a 4-minute reuse, so it’s like [cough] whatever. Uh and then here finally I have a an item just for using the molten diceite orb on cooldown. Now, if we uh just stand here for a second, and I’m going to All I’m pushing is five. So, keep that in mind. The only button I’m pushing is five. So, we’re just going to start hitting five as fast as my finger moves. Right now, you can kind of see we’re getting everything going. We used our mod rod. We used our uh orb mold delay site. Now, certain things are not triggering. Like if the spell doesn’t finish casting, it’s because the AAS are taking presidents over the multi-binds thing, right? You know, we’re casually getting, you know, 1.5 million DPS, right? Uh I’m not even trying right now to do anything other than push one button and we’re getting 1.5 million DPS on a target dummy, right? You can see there that the uh the pet is, you know, 142,000 damage of my 1.4 million and we just hit uh well, we were at 1.6. We’re 1.5. We’re staying at 1.5. Um, so, you know, it’s it’s decent damage, right? It’s pretty good damage. It’s low effort. You know, this is uh I think every single class in this game can be played with one button plus a few clickies, right? And, you know, it’s a very trivial uh trivial game when it comes to that kind of stuff. Uh, don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. I mean, it’s it’s it’s pretty trivial. Now, you could get a little bit more DPS, you know, actually paying attention to what some of these buffs say, like elemental flames and flames of power. You know, what do they say? Oh, you know, yeah, I shouldn’t be triggering that every time I do it. So, not a big deal. Uh, but those are just keep going. Uh, you see where now the molten diceite orb is down. I have to manually resum that, right? I don’t use uh any kind of automation. It’s just it’s just multi-binding all the buttons together. You can see there it’s already popped. So, uh, and it doesn’t affect the multi-bind at all. So, it’ll just you’ll just see that spam text right here like that when you don’t have it. And the way I’m when I’m looking at my other characters, right, I can see when they’re that’s spamming like they’re missing a mod rod or they’re missing that. So, you know, 1.6 million. Let’s just call it that right now, right? Like we’ll see what her real damage is when we uh go and kill like some mobs, right? like I I don’t think that’s real damage, right? Plus, I have all these buffs on that I have no idea what they are. Um, you know, I have full burns, I guess, on two right now, but it’s not the full burns cuz they’re not all activated. Uh, but you can see there, it’s uh decent amount of damage for the zero effort. Uh, you know, other than leveling up your character, so it’s pretty good. Uh, gearwise, you’re going to want the earring the best you can get, right? Uh, I have unfortunately not gotten a single single earring clasp to drop. So, I’m still using the summoner’s earring from uh the outer brood, which doesn’t even empower my 125 plus pet. So, I’m screwed right there. [laughter] Uh, I’m not getting anything. So, this is this is a unpower unempowered pet. Now, uh you’re going to want where is it at here? You’re going to want arms. Uh because the arms have blazing malice too which increases the fire damage of your the damage your fire spells. Right now since I am doing a shock of malow or malo shock of males uh since I’m doing that you’re going to also want the helmet uh because the helmet if I can all four toward surge magic based increase. So you want that. Uh, you’re going to want a two-hander uh that does proc damage. Now, you should be meleeing. Like I like I don’t really do it that much, but you should be meleeing if you’re playing just one character, but uh if you’re playing a box characters like I, you know, I used to turn it on, but it just got a little annoying at times for the way I do things. So, you’re going to want to do that. Uh, you’re also going to want the Riven Arcana Condor source. So, that’s going to be the power orb you want. Uh, and you want your mask. Obviously, you want this upgrade as much as you possibly can. I’m almost to the next tier. Um, now I do not use the cloak or the neck from Laurian Song or Night of Shadows or the ring because I don’t have them on this character. I did not give them to this character. I gave them to my other characters. Uh they might have she might have like the neck or something but she doesn’t have any achievements to make it worth you know not having these items here which are like you know twice the stats. So uh maybe one day I’ll have all those evolved and leveled up but uh you know not at this point in time. But that you know that gets you like 99% of the way right? There’s optimization you can do and changes you can do to make it, you know, a little bit better, but there’s not there’s not really like the a like a like I always get asked what AA do, right? The answer is all of them. There there’s no other answer than all of them. Um, when it comes to AAS and stuff like that, but obviously you can focus on what you use. Uh, like for example, let’s look at the focus tab. Now, if we sort this by per cost, right? This is how I sort everything. [music] Now, you can see that these things are expensive, right? 115. That’s three. It’s like doing three missions just to get enough AAS to buy one of these, right? Cuz you’re only getting 41 AAS per mission at um at uh 130. So, you got more grinding on your hands there. But I don’t use the rain spells, so I’m not going to put any points into that until I’m completely done. Right. I use shock the Where is it? [laughter] It’s down here. I use shock the mini. So, I’m max Oh, that’s the face site. Never mind. Uh, where is shock the mini focus shock the mini 25 and 25? I max that out cuz that’s what I use, right? Um, conjurous energy. I use that. I max it out. Um, hasten region servant, max it out. That’s what you use. Flames of power, that’s what I’m working on. Crepaceious fire. Fickle configuration. That’s what I use because that is I believe chaotic fire. That’s chaotic fire. Where is maybe it’s the next Oh yeah, in the chaotic fire line. Yeah. So these these are the ones I’m going to be using. So these are what I’m going to put points into. Shock of dark steel. Well, holy crap. I used shock of dark blade or the the blades here in this one. So that’s one I use. Spear of the molten shield. Spear line. I used Spear Row. So, that’s that. Now, everything below that, everything that’s like 17 or 16, I don’t use those. I don’t use them that much. Now, this one here is used in the clickie, but uh it’s not that big a deal right now. So, these are where I’m putting my points right now. These uh four AAS, and then once I’m finish them off, they’re done. The class A, you same thing, right? Uh a lot of these are autogs. Uh let’s see here. What do I got here? Second wind war, right? I don’t really use I don’t I don’t really use it, so don’t really care. Don’t really use the 75 of incoming melee damage, you know, reduction, right? If I raided, maybe that would be a thing. Turn summon. There’s not a lot of summon mobs. There’s more in this expansion, but there’s not a lot, so I don’t really uh put points into that right now. And then we go over here now. Companions, fortification, aegis, and uh stuff like that. Those are important. You’re going to want those. Uh, I don’t I didn’t put any more points in this one cuz because I didn’t have any AAS. So, it’s, you know, something else I’m working on. Destructive fear. You want to max that out. You know, it’s it’s it’s it’s kind of it’s kind of, you know, it’s painful, right? You know, I’m 65,000 AAS. I’ve spent 15,000 of those, right? So, that means the rest of those AAS were autogranted. So, you want to make sure you get all the way to 120. Get all those auto grants and get all that uh done. But for the most part, you want every single AA of the things you use. The things you don’t use, like right now, I don’t I don’t heal my pet ever. I’ve never I’ve never mimmed a pet heal spell on this character at all. Not once. And I’m not going to put any points into that now because we also get uh Hulk Binger. Chaotic boon allows a chance to heal unlimited pets in your area between 34,000 and 58,000 every time I do a direct damage spell. I don’t need to heal my pet. My pet is permanently full life because I’m spam nuking. So it’s like one of those things that just doesn’t even matter. Like I don’t need to put points in that. I don’t need to put points into that. I don’t need to put points into that, you know? So how you play your character is up to you. I just this I pick my spells and I stick with them. I focus them all out and then I eventually I’ll go back and I’ll max all these AAs out. But these the focus tab is not going to be maxed out until the uh all of the defensive ones were maxed out, right? Like these are useless AAs to me, but might as well max them out now. the longer I wait, right? I I think it was at 15 of whatever before the next when the next expansion comes out in December, I will get auto granted probably two or three ranks of that for Knight of Shadows, right? So, it just depends on uh how lazy you are. Uh I am extremely lazy and I’m not going to waste my points on things I don’t need. So, kind of a kind of a tangent there because I I’m always getting asked where do I what AAS do I get? Get the ones you use. It’s pretty it’s pretty obvious. Uh the ones I mention in here are the ones we use. Uh it’s you know it’s pretty self-explanatory. Uh but uh you know it is what it is. But that is pretty much how I play my mage uh at 130. She is a powerhouse. She is very strong character. Uh definitely fun. Uh, I’ve not tried soloing this character and I probably will do that at some point because I know a lot of people ask about the solo ability of a mage. Um, it’s just, you know, it’s a little bit more tricky than some of the other classes. But, uh, it is a strong class nonetheless and very high DPS and the most convenient class when it comes to call hero. So, uh, you have a lot of options. You have a lot of abilities and things to do, and you’re just a pure damage powerhouse with really good utility. Uh, but if you have any questions or comments, if I’m doing something wrong, if there is an optimization you can see in what I’m doing that would make improve my character, you let me know and I will uh do that in the next video, the 135 video, which will be in December. Uh, probably won’t be Ketka here. It’ll probably be a different mage cuz I go through so many mages. But uh we’ll see. And uh you know, it will it’ll be what it is. But uh thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic Yeah.