Can Runemaster have a single element focus?

[Goblin King Jareth]

Or to play it fully viable do you have to use all three? I was put off by that, and the idea of icons floating over my head...
I am that guy that will actually sacrifice some power for RP aesthetics.

[PacoXI]

I would just play sorcerer of you don't want to mix elements

[Goblin King Jareth]

Originally posted by PacoXI:

I would just play sorcerer of you don't want to mix elements

That's my plan already, but I feel like I'm missing on the RM tank hype train a bit, so I'm wondering how much I'm giving up here.
I really want to use Black Hole anyway so there's that.

[FPDevilTech]

well you can . there's a lightning blast build for example where you use Invocation as Teleport ( triple lightning )

[aqvamare]

Originally posted by Goblin King Jareth:

Or to play it fully viable do you have to use all three? I was put off by that, and the idea of icons floating over my head...
I am that guy that will actually sacrifice some power for RP aesthetics.

Yes you can, runemaster specific skill offer options to lock you favortite combo,

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by Goblin King Jareth:

Originally posted by PacoXI:

I would just play sorcerer of you don't want to mix elements

That's my plan already, but I feel like I'm missing on the RM tank hype train a bit, so I'm wondering how much I'm giving up here.
I really want to use Black Hole anyway so there's that.

If you want to play RM tank, you likely mean frost guard invocation. You can mostly automate it using the nodes in invocation. The invocation itself is Ice-Fire-Ice but you can sidestep that and focus on Ice as long as you put a fire skill, (flame rush) as the 2nd skill on your bar.

Basically if you find any invocation you like you can play it as a single element regardless by forcing the runes to generate based on your bar.

Edit: you can use this link to look up the invocations on the left side window.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/

and force the runes to generate the way you want using the invocation node: Immutable order, you can even auto-cast invocation with num lock using the node author of arcana.

[Goblin King Jareth]

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

Originally posted by Goblin King Jareth:

That's my plan already, but I feel like I'm missing on the RM tank hype train a bit, so I'm wondering how much I'm giving up here.
I really want to use Black Hole anyway so there's that.

If you want to play RM tank, you likely mean frost guard invocation. You can mostly automate it using the nodes in invocation. The invocation itself is Ice-Fire-Ice but you can sidestep that and focus on Ice as long as you put a fire skill, (flame rush) as the 2nd skill on your bar.

Basically if you find any invocation you like you can play it as a single element regardless by forcing the runes to generate based on your bar.

This is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, so I could also respec flame rush over to ice, got it. They have something like 80 quadrillion and 30 invocations, give or take a quadrillion so are people also just using one invocation mainly? Or how is that working when you do something beyond "activate defense invocation"?

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by Goblin King Jareth:

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

If you want to play RM tank, you likely mean frost guard invocation. You can mostly automate it using the nodes in invocation. The invocation itself is Ice-Fire-Ice but you can sidestep that and focus on Ice as long as you put a fire skill, (flame rush) as the 2nd skill on your bar.

Basically if you find any invocation you like you can play it as a single element regardless by forcing the runes to generate based on your bar.

This is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, so I could also respec flame rush over to ice, got it. They have something like 80 quadrillion and 30 invocations, give or take a quadrillion so are people also just using one invocation mainly? Or how is that working when you do something beyond "activate defense invocation"?

I think frost guard is the only invocation worth numlocking as a defense, but its personal taste. You might want to auto cast plasma orb for example. If you are using immutable order to force the generation as long as your left to right skill bar is of the elements you want you are good. You can even double up like Frost claw-flame rush-frost claw to force Ice-fire-ice runes. Conversion nodes are also taken into account for this generation. So you can stick to a one button frost claw build in this example and still generate the ice-fire-ice runes making RM the "single element" you are after.

Edit: my choice would be a frost claw focused build, using flame rush as movement to trigger glyph for the free resistances. with a skill bar of Frost claw-Flame rush-Frost claw-glyph-Invocation and numlock frostguard invocation

[Goblin King Jareth]

I'm kind of getting it now, thanks for your time in the detailed answers friend.

[Sussex]

I wish i knew what any of that meant. Sounds cool though. Just havent gotten round to playing the runemaster yet.

[Hazel]

The game is broad enough if you're competently connecting pieces of a build with intention you should have something that works regardless of meta.

When I played RM I happily made my way to the empowered monoliths just fine with a single invocation.