For your equipment you should invest heavily in +Health, Damage Reduction, +Mana/Mana Recovery and +%Elemental* Damage (*based on your main damage skill and weapon damage type). Just bear in mind that these are no close combat characters, but have to use skills that do damage from a distance. And the weapon damage is irrelevant, once you won't attack with it, but cast spells. With a wand + shield instead of a staff you'll have 2 extra sockets for wfuntir. I have been playing pure Focus builds with Engineer, Embermage, and Outlander, just by using the pre-set skill and a staff until my main skill became availabe and until I was able to find some unique weapon different than a staff that only did elemental damage and fitted with my character (for example two poison pistols for the Outlander). This guide was made considering you'll use a wand + shield. However, this allows you to efficiently use skills that use weapon DPS as basis and convert it to elemental damage.This way, you kind of get a double bonus from Focus. PvP, Leveling, Chaos, Cube and GvG Build Guides for all Characters: Assassin, Gunner, Mage. This means, their base damage is affected by Focus, because Focus increases all elemental damage. Torchlight II All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Torchlight II > Guides > Kardfogu's Guides 863 ratings Kardfogu's Guide to Prismatic Bolt Embermage By Kardfogu Another build of mine for one of the common builds, the Prismatic Bolt Embermage. The Storm Mage is proficient in shocking enemies with variety of electric skills. In Maxroll, there is a calculator up to Argoss gear. Blazing Pillar (Level 21): You create a 4 giant pillars of intense flame that seek out and immolate nearby foes. This allows you to efficiently use all weapons that do only elemental damage and all skills that do elemental damage. Firebombs (Level 14): You hurl three gouts of flame that ignite the ground for 3 seconds and sometimes cause foes to stumble in panic as they burn. Icy Blast is best left at rank 1 until you can. If you want to make a pure focus build, the staff is a very viable weapon until you can find a different weapon of your choice that only does elemental damage. The basic setup here is to use Icy Blast to build up charge, and then spam Hailstorm until your charge depletes.
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