Are Caster/RDPS builds even viable anymore?

[JoV]

i know, but do they stack? I always trough that they dont, and never actualy tried :roll:

Tbh idk, never tried it, but I doubt they do (they shouldn’t according to game mechanics but who knows maybe there is a bug). And even if they do stack, casting two of them would be mayor pita :rolleyes:

[blawsonhull]

Casters will never be as viable as melee characters because casters usually have to worry about mana and mana regen, whereas melee dps can just slap an ectoplasm on a ring and call it a day. When ultimate difficulty demands absurd amounts of hp, damage absorb, armor, OA, DA, resistances, resist reduction (the list goes on), there is nothing to spare for caster stats. Since every class in the game has to tank to some extent, casters need extra defensive padding that their soldier brethren would achieve more naturally. Playing a caster is a painstaking game that just isn’t worth it, not to mention the majority of spells fall off in later Ultimate compared to weapon skills, even at their over-maxed levels.

that’s a very good point. on top of being much easier to kill than melee (despite not having higher dmg), casters have ENTIRE EXTRA STATS that melee can completely ignore - mana/mana regen.

i know, but do they stack? I always trough that they dont, and never actualy tried :roll:

% based do stack but it’s not additive. multiplicative

[Azmodael]

Casters need to wear caster armor in order to sustain mana costs, which leaves them very vulnerable to melee attacks. Melee physical bosses can’t be CC-ed and they process to charge and rape casters.

[jiaco]

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[lacslyer]

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Again to clarify, I’m not shooting down your idea, but merely asking you to keep an open mind as to why they wouldn’t want to implement your idea. The band-aid fix style of it is reason enough for a developer to not simply implement it just because it’s worked in other games.

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[Caizee]

Casters need to wear caster armor in order to sustain mana costs, which leaves them very vulnerable to melee attacks. Melee physical bosses can’t be CC-ed and they process to charge and rape casters.

This exactly.

And when you move, you won’t do damage.
Funny thing is you dont even do much damage in comparison to your defence.

Being ranged is not an advantage, its a liability.

[Isyth]

To reply to OPs original question - yes, casters/RDPS are viable. And sadly, they are not as good as melee. More difficult to build, needs a lot of bis items to work. HP bar is a bit more yo-yo’ish due to low armor from caster/non-heavy armors.

My suggestion would be get a crucible farmer going and get all the items you want for your caster/rdps Will save a lot of time this way.

Or find a coop friend who is melee and can taunt while you unleash hell.

Cheers

Edit: Why no teleport spell on arcanist? Valdaran does it.

[Stupid_Dragon]

Edit: Why no teleport spell on arcanist? Valdaran does it.

It’s not exactly an unbound teleport, the one is a position swap and requires a target, and another one is basically an instant shadow strike and requires a target as well. I imagine unbound movement skill is hard to implement because of all of the cases when it might be used to access areas you’re not supposed to.