Best Mystic builds?

[Astral Projection]

Any suggestions on the best Mystic builds?

Warriors straightforward with Riposte, Broadswipes, Reach == destroy everything.

Hunters really good with Archery, Piercing, Crippling, Through Shot nice damage with innate hobble and armor shred.

Experimenting a lot but not finding Mystic build that compares to either of the above in damage output.

[Archon]

the damage per infusion on melee attacks. the one that reduces damage per infusion and the geomancer one and fire arms or some kind of attack transformation. Turns into an immortal one punch man with a flamethrower

[rockroser]

Well, things like vigorflow and openmind as well as soulsplit can do wonders, but it needs a lot of set up. Then there is ignite+ wich is pretty good on its own and even better with things like spiritblade. Or indingance with compulsion too

[zgrssd]

There is no "best" build. And even you just asking indicates you are in the phase where you overfocus on one build that works, never exploring what the other skills can do for you.

I tailor my infusion skill to the enemy:
I encounter a lot of stone and bone Interfusion nodes fighting Deepists or Thrixl for example.
With Morthagi, it is nearly no wood but plenty of tools and a lot of books and statues. And I would avoid bringing fire or debris - the Butler will make you choke on them.
There is no universal build.

[Indure]

My favorite build for a mystic is simply ignite+. It gives you everything you need and tremendous flexibility to kill single big targets or large groups of enemies. Paired with a water wand and a decent stunt chance and a mystic can clear whole rooms reliably with little risk to themselves.

The other abilities aren't needed, but utility abilities like Bard, Windwalk, and Heroism work well for Mystics (although they are great on all characters). Elementalist is also worth noting because it keeps your fires permanent.

I also like Wisdom on mystics because it dramatically reduces your clear times and is valuable for legacy characters that might have came into games late and are part of your B team.

A build I would like to try is elementalist and arches+ so you can get well placed Splintersalvos off reliably, but haven't got the skills at the right time to try it.

[jonnin]

mystic has a lot of options.
two of my favorites:
1) vigorflow x 2, openmind, soulsplit option, look for book +1 infuse. Use a bow. One shot near anything on 3 act games. Even higher stuff 2 shots is better than most can do.
2) ignite x 2 + anything to support this as above.

for a full build, consider the star bomb staff (climb a tree to recover one), or the celestial/ lightning transforms. A gem eye + stunt is nice.

I tried some of the melee transforms but even with a lot of infusions and soulsplitting you lack the armor to really take a hit. I kept dying with melee builds.

arches is just amazing. But that isn't a build, its one skill, you can work it into anything.

[Lemurian1972]

I had great fun in my most recent game with Naturalist+, once I realized that with a setup turn I can fire 3 vine attacks in a single round. Even easier if I'm using hefty existing trees and not flimsy summoned plants. I plan to remake this on a Mystic that doesn't have a wildly inappropriate transform (bear) and see how much better it will be properly geared.

[アンジェル]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Astral Projection:

Any suggestions on the best Mystic builds?

Warriors straightforward with Riposte, Broadswipes, Reach == destroy everything.

Hunters really good with Archery, Piercing, Crippling, Through Shot nice damage with innate hobble and armor shred.

Experimenting a lot but not finding Mystic build that compares to either of the above in damage output.

Promoting this thread while I am on this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/763890/discussions/0/3053986162873617041/

It is hard to speak about "best X build" since I found a lot of builds shine in different situations. My melee mystic you can see in the showcase thread e.g. I consider awesome with Indignance and Ignite+. Let her just walk straight into enemies and deal massive damage in melee and range.

Recently I had the luck to have a mystic transformed into a wolf, which is ridiculous strong too with Frenzy (attack three times action). That with heroism and rock shield is fun to play too.

I am also a fan of naturalist+ignite.

Then again: nothing I would consider best, yet a lot fun to play. With the statements about warriors and hunters of yours you might be surprised how much you miss out once you try other builds which is are not straightforward and probably odd.

But then once you seen a mystic which deals 20+ damage as melee without weapons, while killing all the small fry on the way from A to B, you might get an idea about that.

[rumpelstiltskin]

arches + nature ally is pretty good. arches alone in a large aoe pin, which is great, but with nature ally it'll also stealth the caster (meaning interfused attacks will ignore armor)

[Deso]

• Ignite+ & long reach - you can always flank and do multi-target attacks.
  
• Arches+ and elementalist+ is the master of AoE splinter salvo.
  
• Indulgence+ & soul slicing/stone scribber offers a good close range utility with enough survivability.
  
• Mythweaver+ and humanist+ really excel when a good object type shows up.
  
• Vigorflow+ & open mind is a master one hit ko sniper. (and other physical attacks from themes)

Of course you can combine 2 of these combos on the same character. It's also notwworth that Naturalist+ or stonescribe+ are quite good with multiple mystics due creating massive amounts of objects.

[アンジェル]

I start to wonder where the thread starter counts warrior and hunter with interfuse ability. They do not count as mystics to me, but they might count as mystic builds to a certain degree.

[blockpaw]

Gotta toss in another "up vote" for Ignite+ ! It's got so much power just on its own but it's also a fantastic complement for a hunter with Ember Arrows, especially if that's combined with Through Shot (+) as it becomes much easier to get that buff and maximize the number of targets hit.

I have to also give a shout out for the Mythweaver (+) ability – lots of solid damage, crowd control with stuns and the ability to give a character a boost to Potency (which can be nice for characters with transformation abilities or more mundane passives like Piercing Shots).

[jonnin]

interestingly, I didn't have it before, but vigor works with some (?all?) of the transformed ranged attacks (its working with celestial for me, only one I have atm).

[rumpelstiltskin]

Opprinnelig skrevet av jonnin:

interestingly, I didn't have it before, but vigor works with some (?all?) of the transformed ranged attacks (its working with celestial for me, only one I have atm).

really? great tip then. witherbolt will be completely insane with it, with its x1 x2 x4 damage, and i was already occasionally doing 28 damage on the 3rd hit with it (with a hunter)

[Rianith]

I think the point is this is the most fun magic system most folks have ever played.
I love it, but after 100+ hours, still haven't tried out all the ideas here.
Mostly just using Naturist and Ignite to win, fun enough...

[C_C]

Opprinnelig skrevet av jonnin:

mystic has a lot of options.
two of my favorites:
1) vigorflow x 2, openmind, soulsplit option, look for book +1 infuse. Use a bow. One shot near anything on 3 act games. Even higher stuff 2 shots is better than most can do.

How do you use book and bow at same time?