Blade Arc > Cadence Battlemage: how far in Arcanist?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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I’m leveling a full physique Blade Arc battlemage (with currently maxed Overload and high aps). Currently mid 50s flying through elite. Eventually I will probably respec to S&B Cadence/Discord, but could also just stay physical.

My question is how far down the Arcanist tree I need to go. if I stop at 15, I’ll need to pump a few points in spirit for rings, but I get the main goodies - mirror, sphere, and to a lesser extent arcane will/overload. Another 10 will give me elemental balance which would help out overload a lot since I won’t be getting many other sources of dot enhancement and I won’t have ‘all damage’ on everything. 17 will give me Conversion though. How good/vital are these secondary resists?

Also, how many +skills will I have roughly? In other words, will I ‘make up’ for the 10-17 mastery points vs. pumping more soldier skills?

TIA

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Interesting idea

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I took a break from testing for this build, it’s old but requires a lot of testing to be completed

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Generally it’s a minimum of 32 points in secondary mastery. Elemental balance is a must at least 10/12

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Any other thoughts?

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If i find some time to do the testing then i’d love to share that build of mine

But it’s too tedious. I think i started working on it about a month ago and it has changed skills, gear and devotions too many times :cry: