Full arcane archmage question

[sofocles]

Anybody know how to pull that off? Meaning no elemental dmg, all ARCANE
I was thinking about that born into magic bonus to dmg and rsistance + all resistance = to arcane resistance combo .

[jotwebe]

Should be possible. You'll probably still want a few utility spells for knockback and stun, even if damage isn't the point, and definitely will want to take meta for the cooldown reduction.

[Infinitum]

I've tried this a couple of times. Basically it's Tri-Beam until Aether Avatar, at which point you can laser most everything willy-nilly. Definetly get movement infusions/torques of psychoportation since they are your only escape in Avatar form (and you'll want to stay in that form as much as possible). Meta is mandatory for spellcraft as well since it's your only safe way to avoid your own Aether breach.

Wildfire Archmages are very much superior in all, but Aether ones are more fun once they get going.

EDIT: Ok, screwed around some in the Arena - forgot that infusions won't work with Avatar either. You might in fact want Temporal > Meta early and go for Essence of Speed after maxing Aether Avatar/Pure Aether. The reasoning is that with The Staff or Arcane Might and Avatar your recharge on Manathrust should be low enough to fire it almost continously (Staff lowers the recharge time to 2. 2/3 ~ .66 turns, and it takes you 1/1.6 = .625 of a turn to fire off a beam on max Essence). Not sure how this works out in practice - might have to settle for 4 Essence in order for the recharge to keep up. Still, that's a lot of potential beam damage per round any which way you cut it.

Only problem is it has the survivability of a wet paper bag whilst in Avatar form, basically you have to bring Disruption Shield to 5, try and stack Speed bonuses for running away and pray that your initial Shielding Rune + Arcane Reconstruction lasts you through the entire duration.

[sofocles]

also, what you are saying seems like a pain in the ass to lvl up

thanks for the info!

[SageAcrin]

I believe the cooldown system doesn't work in fractional cooldown-you either have 0 CD(can use as many times in a turn as you want) or 1 CD(can be used once per global turn), not inbetween.

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+       elseif self:attr("arcane_cooldown_divide") and (t.type[1] == "spell/arcane" or t.type[1] == "spell/aether") then

+               cd = math.ceil(cd / self.arcane_cooldown_divide)

This is the code for Aether Avatar. Since it uses math.ceil(Which makes the function round up, I believe.), it seems to me that, if you get the CD below 1, but not to 0(obviously impossible using a division formula, so you'd have to get it to 0 CD first to get to 0), your Cooldown would be 1.

Someone can confirm/deny this if they know more.

[Infinitum]

Cooldowns don't use the energy system? No nice things for us then.