Best rogue and mage specializations?

[Seruthei]

Hello!

What rogue and mage specializations are people enjoying the most?

What do you enjoy about them?

I want to see people's input on what they are liking/not liking, but there's so much other "discussion" going on it's really difficult to sort through to find feedback on the gameplay itself.

[Seruthei]

Bump!

[Seruthei]

Bump, again!

[CrazyOdd]

Originally posted by dustin1280:

I think a spellblade mage focused on boosting tempest as much as possible, might be one of the most powerful options for mage...

With a proper build you can get bleed, shocked, and burning stacked on enemies using tempest alone.

I think with proper itemization (companions and your protag gear) you can also likely get necrosis on them as well (again using ONLY tempest)

That said I am still VERY early in the game, and have minimal gear ( available...
So there might be better options that I just haven't experimented with yet.

That said my strategy is a tempest focused spellblade, trying to get as much DOTs through tempest as I possibly can. The other two are cooldown based rather than mana based...

Spellblade wants to focus on Fire and Shock, as the main skill points, gives most benefit to those. Most other things, will just reduce the max output of those.

[Chekita]

If by best you mean what can do the most damage I would say it is really relative, specially considering if you are playing on Nightmare, simply because most of your damage will come from you compounding modifiers that agree with the GEAR you have.
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So, for instance, this happened to me: I was playing enchanter MAGE and pretty much swallowing every single enemy in the game with non stop area damage and control, the moment the best gear I had was for necrotic damage I was completely forced to change to it in order to kill the Formless one Demon that regen it's life in Docktown and was also forced to change builds to kill a Champion in the Warden's map that keeps teleporting non stop and is completely freaking annoying, because he would ignore both area damage and control and just keep on running and teleporting without taking any damage.
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So, on both accounts I dont think there is a single type of class that is the best, because they are best in their respective areas and scenarios and also depend way too much on gear for Nightmare.
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If you can't compound modifiers in any class you are using to diminish enemy defense and maximize your damage, your damage will be outclassed by anything really.

[Spicedstoner]

Duelist necro bleed rogues wild i defeated a level 50 boss at 32 ish

[Drake Ravenwolf]

Originally posted by Mijj:

That's why as a mage I switched my ranged build with staff (right side of the grid) to the bottom one to use dagger + orb and now the game is too easy, I even kill the option level 50 boss with my level 35... Oh and I play in "difficult" mode

Just what I heard

[Seruthei]

Thanks for the input!

A lot of lovers of spell blade! The dagger+orb feels way more fluid than the staff (at least where I'm at so far) so I'm not surprised.

I had hoped there would be a comparison of relative power levels by now, but I guess that's probably a ways out still.

Thanks for the info!!