The Slormancer – Arcane Mage With Violent Contract Build

This build relies on Arcane Breach with the Violent Contact upgrade as its primary source of damage, making it an Ancestral Strike build. In this strategy, Arcane Breach delivers the initial blow, and if an enemy survives, Walking Bomb and the remaining damage from Arcane Breach finish the job. While this build excels at clearing large groups of enemies quickly, it may take a bit longer to deal with fewer or scattered foes.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

1. You can swiftly eliminate large groups of enemies.
2. Arcane Breach can be spammed at no mana cost with Faith of the Ancient and a decent Ancestral Strike chance.
3. Fast leveling thanks to the Staff of the Trainee.
4. This build allows you to cover a significant area.
5. You only need to use two skills.

Cons:

1. It’s a glass cannon build, meaning you’re vulnerable to damage.
2. It’s not as efficient against fewer enemies.
3. To maximize its potential, you need both versions of the Staff of the Trainee (Primordial and non-Primordial) at max level (1000), along with character level progression. While not overly challenging, this may be a bit annoying.
4. You must level up your skills before using the Primordial Staff of the Trainee due to the Malediction.
5. Some players might find it boring, as the primary actions involve spamming Arcane Breach and occasionally using Time Warp to escape.

Skills and Upgrades

Mastery: Time warp

• Tier 1: Experienced battlemage
• Tier 2: Replenish
• Tier 3: Life shaper
• Tier 4: Crisis warp
• Tier 5: None or Volatile clone
• Tier 6: Temporal pact
• Tier 7: Ancestral command
• Tier 8: None

Primary skill: Arcane breach

• Tier 1: Violent contact
• Tier 2: Multi-breaches
• Tier 3: Arcane flux
• Tier 4: Ephemeral rift
• Tier 5: Gravitational force

Secondary skill: Rift nova (Only if you use Battlemage Mantle)

• Tier 1: Arcanic concordance
• Tier 2: Greater rift
• Tier 3: Any
• Tier 4: Autonomous nova
• Tier 5: Time stop

Skills and Upgrades Notes

Time warp

• The Time Warp mastery plays a crucial role in enhancing mobility and mana regeneration, especially before acquiring Faith of the Ancients. This is achieved through the abilities Replenish and Life Shaper. At Tier 7 of this mastery, you can unlock Ancestral Command, which, when fully upgraded, grants a 10% chance for Ancestral Strikes.

Arcane breach

• Arcane Breach serves as your primary damage-dealing skill. The inclusion of the Violent Contact upgrade allows you to deliver burst damage across a wide area. By utilizing Multi-Breaches and Faith of the Ancients, you can continually cast Arcane Breach, as long as you trigger an Ancestral Strike within the duration of Faith of the Ancients’ buff. Additionally, spamming this skill increases your attack speed if you’ve chosen the Arcane Flux upgrade.

Rift nova

• Rift Nova should be employed when you possess the Battlemage Mantle. This combination can be used both offensively and defensively. Offensively, it grants extra Ancestral procs with increased critical chance and damage. Defensively, it’s effective because of the Time Stop effect, which can help you control the battlefield.

Attributes

Fury 10

Zeal 28

Willpower 75

Ancestral Legacy

Elemental boost
Neutral – Ancestral gift
Max rank: 10

• You have +4 per rank Elemental damage.
• You have +1% per rank Elemental damage.

Ardent strike
Fire – Ancestral strike
Max rank: 10

• Your ancestral strikes create 3+1 per rank fireballs.

Arming the bomb
Max rank: 1

• Your ancestral strikes now turn the enemy hit into a walking bomb
• Walking bomb trigger after 2 seconds or after being killed, dealing 100% elemental damage to enemies within 1.25 yards radius. Walking bomb spread to enemies hit by the explosion, once.

Crawling disaster
Fire – Upgrade
Max rank: 1

• Walking bomb spread twice.

Air conditioner
Ice – Aura
Max rank: 10
Cost: 10% Mana locked

• While this aura is toggle on, enemies within a 2 yards radius around you have 25 + 2% per rank attack speed multiplier.

Slorm Reapers, Runes and Ultimatums

Slorm reaper: Primordial staff of the trainee

Stats at lvl 1000 (Primordial and non primordial) with 150 affinity

Slormsmith: Cory.

• 135 – 250 reaper damage.
• Max level: 1000.
• +1750% Experience gain.
• Whenever you deal damage to an enemy, you have X% chance to deal Y additional damage.
• Chance is equal to your current character level.
• Additional damage is equal to ten times your total experience gain.

Primordial benediction

• +1750% Experience gain.
• +1750% Experience gain multiplier.
• You have +Z reaper damage.
• Reaper damage is equal to the combined level of all your characters

Primordial malediction: You can no longer gain mastery.

A noteworthy point to consider is that reaching the maximum level of 1000 is not particularly challenging due to the bonus experience available. Moreover, when the non-Primordial staff is maxed out, you can swiftly level up the Primordial version from level 1 to 55 with a single use of Arcane Breach, particularly in The Great Forge Wrath V.

Additionally, it’s important to keep in mind that the Reaper’s effect can trigger with any instance of damage, including each tick of damage over time. However, this damage is added after the critical hit or ancestral strike effect, meaning it doesn’t benefit from the bonus damage provided by those effects.

Runes

• Activation: Hagan
• Effect: Nimble warrior
• Enhancement: Hagan or Beigarth

Ultimatum

Stats at lvl 15

Ultimatum of profund depth

• Area damage reduction set to 57.5%

Stats Priority

Unlimited

• Ancestral strike chance
• Ancestral strike damage
• Experience gain
• Area increased effect
• Life leech
• Life on hit
• Elemental damage
• Max life
• Damage reduction (All, Projectile and melee)

Limited

• Critical chance: Around 44% should be enough if you have Damasius Awareness.

Capped

• Elemental damage penetration

Legendary Items

Mandatory

• Faith of the ancients
• Damasius awareness
• Sahrusiel’s pact

Recommended

• Winds of harmony
• Black cape
• Battlemage mantle
• Sunlight and Moonlight essence
• Aiming assistance pads

Gameplay Video