Considering Returning

[Kanibalector]

I haven't played the game in probably 4 or 5 years, I am considering returning with a pure mage around 50ish.

What do I really need to know about changes to the game before coming back?

[Fryinhades]

There is a promo code that will give you a month - 90 days free.. enchanting has changed drastically and steam is the pure mage bolt of choice for most

[Skeletor]

There is a promo code that will give you a month - 90 days free.. enchanting has changed drastically and steam is the pure mage bolt of choice for most

Wait there's a 90 day free now? Code?

[Rinualdo]

https://gswiki.play.net/Creating_Adv..._February_2021
GS2021WINTERTIDES

[Kanibalector]

Things have changed on the spell front quite a bit, I'm considering trying to make use of time stop, seems like it might be fun. Enchanting has changed significantly, but I was never really a big enchanter anyway, big dreams, no execution. My current considerations are just to take spells to max available for each sphere. i.e. 550, 435, 950, but I'm not up to date on what other effects that might have. Also, I think I might need to take Fire Lore to 20 for the Steam viability. I believe my old training plan called for as much AS as possible, but I can't really remember. Any suggestions ?

Current Skill set:
(at level 59), your base skill bonuses, ranks and goals are:
Skill Name | Actual Actual
| Bonus Ranks Goals In-Game Time to Goal
Physical Fitness...................| 86 19 19
Arcane Symbols.....................| 222 122 122
Magic Item Use.....................| 222 122 122
Spell Aiming.......................| 222 122 122
Harness Power......................| 202 102 102
Elemental Mana Control.............| 161 61 61
Elemental Lore - Air...............| 0 0 0
Elemental Lore - Fire..............| 0 0 0
Elemental Lore - Water.............| 25 5 5
Survival...........................| 161 61 61
Perception.........................| 161 61 61
Climbing...........................| 102 24 24
Swimming...........................| 102 24 24

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 59 59

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 59 59

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 28 28

[Kanibalector]

I could put myself at 550, 435, and 950, 21 ranks of fire lore, 1x EMC, 2x AS, MIU, HP, 1x Perc/Survival (bounty missions, easy money). This would allow me to go to 953 in Wizard ranks. Might be a couple levels before I could take wizard to full 1x, but then i'd just be catching up slowly in my off ranks. Thoughts?

[kutter]

So I am at work right now so I cannot look at my pure but I can tell you from beginning to cap he was ever only more than 1X in spell aim and spell training. I can see value in more than 1X in HP since it shortens cool down on rapid fire, in fact mine is at 2X dor no cool down. But more than 1X in AS and MIU means sacrificing spells or lores.

Just my .02.

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[wetsand]

Here is my wizard:

(at level 59), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
  Skill Name                         | Current Current
                                     |   Bonus   Ranks
  Armor Use..........................|      10       2
  Physical Fitness...................|     159      59
  Arcane Symbols.....................|     159      59
  Magic Item Use.....................|     159      59
  Spell Aiming.......................|     222     122
  Harness Power......................|     159      59
  Elemental Mana Control.............|     159      59
  Elemental Lore - Fire..............|      90      20
  Survival...........................|     105      25
  Perception.........................|     159      59
  Climbing...........................|     140      40
  Swimming...........................|      90      20
Spell Lists
  Major Elemental....................|              50
Spell Lists
  Minor Elemental....................|              49
Spell Lists
  Wizard.............................|              59
Training Points: 17 Phy 0 Mnt (1612 Phy converted to Mnt)

Pretty standard build. I would prioritize 900's to level for 917 and enchanting. Get 20 ranks of fire lore for steam and stop training lore(s) til much later.

[kutter]

wetsand is pretty much where most wizards builds are at except for a CS build using a lot of earth lore and earthen fury or of course a melee wizard which still works really well, my UAC wizard is 86 now

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[Kanibalector]

Well, since I can't login to the game right now I'll update.

I dropped the extra HP, MIU, and AS to 1x. Moved Major Elemental and Minor elemental to level and am way short on wizard, but I haven't noticed any enchanting problems. I started enchanting my own robe as a test starting at +20 and i'm currently at +32, every test gives me the message that it would take a miracle to fail (or whatever that wording is for open roll fail only). Figure if I can get it to +35 without having to up my wizard levels, then I should be fine for now.

Plan is to stop MnE at 75, I think, not sure, would need to research more the gain/loss, but I'm pretty happy with it.

Haven't used rapidfire at all. Just sleep from time to time and steam bolt seems to get the job done.