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No Rest for the Wicked: Battle Mage Lightning Spark Build Guide
This video introduces a Battle Mage build in "No Rest for the Wicked" that utilizes the Lightning Spark rune. This build combines melee combat and magic to provide high mobility and survivability, and is especially effective for both mob hunting and boss battles. The key is to secure fast movement speed to compensate for the weaknesses of rune attacks, and to flexibly switch between melee combat and magic.
This build offers a different play style than other builds and shows strong performance in both mob hunting and boss battles.
1. ⚡ Introducing the Lightning Spark Battle Mage Build: Concept and Core Ideas
- ✅ This build was inspired by the rare rune 'Charged Bolt', which can be obtained from legendary staves.
- ✅ The core concept is a sturdy melee mage who uses fast movement speed to attack and evade simultaneously.
- ✅ Unlike typical mages, you fight by recovering focus through melee attacks after casting, and then casting again.
- ✅ In the current game mechanics, you can use skills indefinitely through focus consumption reduction and focus recovery upon kill effects.
| Advantages | Description |
|---|---|
| High Mobility | You can evade enemy attacks and secure advantageous positions through fast movement speed. |
| Melee Combat Ability | Designed to survive melee attacks by increasing physical defense. |
| Continuous Skill Use | You can continuously use skills through the focus recovery mechanism. |
00:02 - 04:20
1. ⚡ Introducing the Lightning Spark Battle Mage Build: Concept and Core Ideas
- ✅ This build was inspired by the rare rune 'Charged Bolt', which can be obtained from legendary staves.
- ✅ The core concept is a sturdy melee mage who uses fast movement speed to attack and evade simultaneously.
- ✅ Unlike typical mages, you fight by recovering focus through melee attacks after casting, and then casting again.
- ✅ In the current game mechanics, you can use skills indefinitely through focus consumption reduction and focus recovery upon kill effects.
| Advantages | Description |
|---|---|
| High Mobility | You can evade enemy attacks and secure advantageous positions through fast movement speed. |
| Melee Combat Ability | Designed to survive melee attacks by increasing physical defense. |
| Continuous Skill Use | You can continuously use skills through the focus recovery mechanism. |
04:21 - 07:11
2. 🛡️ Gear Setup and the Importance of Movement Speed
- ✅ Use gear that deals additional damage to large enemies to deal more damage to monsters.
- ✅ Secure a high critical hit chance (88%) to enable stable damage dealing.
- ✅ The gloves and pants do not have the highest grade gems equipped, so it is not the final form yet, and additional stat improvements are possible.
- ✅ Movement speed is important for survival in the Echinos 2nd phase, allowing you to reposition and use skills more effectively.
- ✅ Use plate for armor, plate for helmet, leather for pants, and mesh material for gloves to increase physical resistance (51%).
| Part | Recommended Gear | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Armor | Plate Armor | Provides high physical defense |
| Helmet | Plate Helmet | Provides high physical defense |
| Pants | Leather Pants | Provides adequate defense and movement speed |
| Gloves | Mesh Gloves | Provides adequate defense and movement speed |
07:12 - 09:52
3. 🏃♂️ Movement Speed Acquisition Strategy and Utilization of Rune Attacks
- ✅ Grant movement speed increase options to pants and use gems to secure additional movement speed.
- ✅ Further enhance movement speed through enchantments.
- ✅ You can gain a movement speed bonus upon successful rune attacks, increasing movement speed by up to 102%.
- ⚠️ There is currently a bug where rune attacks are sometimes not judged as critical hits, causing focus recovery to not work properly.
- ✅ Increase movement speed to effectively use rune attacks even in melee combat situations.
| Movement Speed Increase Method | Effect |
|---|---|
| Pants Option | Base movement speed increase |
| Gem | Additional movement speed increase (up to 34%) |
| Enchantment | Additional movement speed increase (10%) |
| Rune Attack | Temporary movement speed increase (up to 72%) |
09:53 - 11:46
4. ⚔️ Staff Rune and Gear Option Selection Guide
- ✅ Staves can use staff runes, wand runes, and two-handed weapon runes.
- ✅ You can enhance melee combat abilities by using two-handed weapon runes such as 'Lightning Assault' (obtained from battle axes).
- ✅ Gear options prioritize large enemy damage, critical hit chance, and focus reduction, similar to fire mages.
- ✅ Choose food that provides a barrier effect to increase survivability.
- ✅ Currently, the maximum health-based build is the most powerful, and builds that utilize shields at low health can also be considered.
| Gear | Recommended Options |
|---|---|
| Weapon | Large enemy damage, critical hit chance |
| Armor | Focus reduction, critical hit chance |
| Food | Barrier effect |
11:47 - 14:42
5. 💎 Gem Selection and Final Stat Goals
- ✅ Maximize healing effects by utilizing low health skills.
- ✅ Secure armor penetration in at least two places to ignore enemy armor and increase damage.
- ✅ Aim to secure an additional 85% or more critical hit chance on top of the base 40%.
- ✅ Ultimately aim for 270% critical damage.
- ✅ Secure at least 350 focus to enable stable skill usage.
| Stat | Target Value |
|---|---|
| Critical Hit Chance | 85% or more |
| Critical Damage | 270% |
| Focus | 350 or more |
| Armor Penetration | At least 2 places |
This build offers a different play style than other builds and shows strong performance in both mob hunting and boss battles.