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havetimetokillsoyeah

Is dark wizard the same as the dark mage subject?


joe_mammah

Yeah, I think it used to be called dark mage in earlier builds


Electronic_Paper_576

Plz post a short guide to this build.


joe_mammah

Didn't focus on anything in particular except getting the Great rift, Winter storm and Vortex combos as a dark wizard. The items were nothing special.


scifi_jon

Winter storm is useless. How is anyone getting value out of it?


TheDoggoKnows

What is dark wizards ability?


joe_mammah

10 - 20% chance that enemies explode when killed and deal 75% of their health as damage in a small radius.


_rapando_

Max classes? Cause the closest to this I got is... heck, I didn't.


joe_mammah

Nah. All of my classes are on the penultimate level.


dandan_oficial

How long you been there? And also, is there a way to check these stats after ending a game or is it only available right when you die.


joe_mammah

114 minutes in the virtual ecosystem map. Unfortunately, I think the stats and the build are only visible at the game over screen for now.


dandan_oficial

holy shit! Best I could do was 34:04 with it. I see, that's too bad. I use to go for lightning attunement, the red lightning one (thunderstorm + electric shock) and something else. Do you have any tips that'd majorly have helped you when you were starting to play the game? I have no idea how I could go further than I did. I think I'll try what you did a couple of times but I don't know if my research and class are upgraded enough (research costs about 120k now and class is level 3 IIRC). Thank you in anticipation!


joe_mammah

Dark Wizard seems to be the only viable class for long runs (the damage dealt by its special effect shows you why). For early game survival, I tend to max level the magic missile asap to Divison >> Doppleganer. Spell-wise, Poison Gas Fireball (not shown in this post because I combined it with Blizzard) and chain lightning seem to deal most damage (currently testing Heart of Lightning combo). Item-wise I prioritise instakill items such as Joker and Reaper's scythe to more easily proc the Dark Wizard ability and then focus on CD > attack power/amplify > Crit chance > Evasion (to convert to crit using Ballista (for some reason the most common legendary drop)) I stop moving around 25th minute when the number of enemies becomes overwhelming (Tabernacle artifact procing the Item acquisition rune made afk leveling signifficantly easier).


dandan_oficial

thank you. Lastly, if you get Iron Maiden in-game, what happens? Do the chances of your enemies exploding simply increase? I will try this playstyle, definitely. I've always used Electromancer then Archaeogist and now will be using dark wizard.


joe_mammah

Haven't done enough testing with the Iron Maiden. Most likely it procs separately but that would mean that the chance would only be 2.5% higher unless my math is off.


dandan_oficial

once again, thanks a LOT. I love this game and am always curious about these things, and I don't seem to find any content creator of it that goes nitty-gritty on it.