Thanks!

@@Largecapacty46 that's the case for most builds, fire staff however has a higher crit chance on its abilities so critting is likely to happen if you have good up time.

that would be from the fire infused runeglass I have on the weapon, 8% weapon damage for 2s anytime I land an attack

That’s the one I was referring to for the weapon, but I see there’s constantly two ticks of burn damage. Where’s the second one other than the runeglass tick come from?

@@alecedwards2028 well it ticks multiple times so the number may be hovering from a previous tick. The only possible dots that can show up on hit are the flame attunement impact, 1-2 smolders based on if an ability crits, keenly jagged, and the runeglass dot.

it's a visual bug from the mana potion 20% fortify on the earring

@@nickh5485 oh i see. i was so confused and start calculating everything in my stats and gears. thanks mate!

That's definitely not for me, but if you're having fun with it then go nuts!

god bless

Understandable. I do always queue solo, I just prefer solid team play when playing OPR and that's what most of my builds emphasize. When playing well with a team the ideal situation are fights tilted in your favor i.e. outnumbering your foes in isolated fights. Being able to navigate fights when solo to make situations like that happen is an underrated skill that isn't capitalized on enough imo.

Hey thanks. Those perks are on that rapier by default and dont actually matter, the perk I added to it is the keenly jagged bleed on crits. It's all to do with the 15% damage amp against a bleeding target on both weapons. The main purpose is to bleed someone and hit them even harder with your firestaff

@@nickh5485 oh, got it now. thx m8

Personal preference, I've definitely killed people or lived situations that were otherwise impossible due to refreshing recovery though.

I found my arena experience in WoW actually helped me adapt a lot in New World when, you'd be surprised how the pillaring mentality in arena translates to positional abuse in New World. That being said though I'm super hyped for Cata Classic to come out next month, that was some of the best PvP WoW had.

That's definitely not a bad choice this season haha

I use full ice damage,you think is better than fire

@@turbitoescort7460 if you ran with an ig that's fine, personally I just lean into the fire damage because it assists other similar builds like fs/bb

It's the directional melee setting, they added it in game settings with the new movement

@@nickh5485 can you explain how to do it

@@gastoncrespo6908 flick the setting directional melee option under in game settings, then suddenly you can use free camera and wasd to control turning arcs. The only thing to take note of when turning full circles is that when your turning arc is half way through you need to swap from pressing either s or d (while holding w) to the opposite turning key (while holding s) immediately.

Jagged bleeds enable the 15% damage amp on both weapons so you can camp the firestaff for really high burst.

@@nickh5485 oh I meant on your Rapier tree. you selected the rapier bleed 5% passive. I don't think that adds any benefit for your build. Might be worth swapping that for the crit CDR on grace passive

the passive on the bleed tree

@@MrDerly oh I understand now, I kind of assumed it worked with keenly jagged but I haven't tested it. I'll double check that, if it doesn't work you're definitely right about it being useless

@@nickh5485 I've tested it before, and I'm fairly certain it only works with tondo/flurry bleeds. According to the balance of power video from a week or 2 ago, the Flourish and Finish weapon perk will also add a bleed to the flourish as well. so it'll be good to use eventually, but I don't think it's working for standard jagged bleeds. Might be worth swapping for now just to get more value from a passive!

It's super fun. The neck gives you a temporary life that if you kill someone else before the timer runs out you get to stay alive. However I use it more for the illegal perk combination of purify and stamina recovery on the same item.

It's the new freeform movement and directional melee settings they brought out this patch, you can flick them on and off in the game settings tab, directional melee lets you use WASD to control directional abilities.

I highly recommend it on both to make sure a bleed is always running on your target for the 15% damage amp

A mecrow video? did he highlight this one or something?

@@nickh5485yeah he talked about ur build and mentioned how op fs is. Your finisher makes the whole thing to another level that he overlooked

@@nickh5485 additionally KZbin algorithm put ur vid to both me and my mate’s feed after we both watched mecrow’s latest video

@@kentignal6891 I just checked his vid out, a lot of good info in there. Mecrows always pretty on top of things when it comes to stats, I liked his old war theory videos from a few months back quite a lot.

I'm not the biggest fan of enchanted ward on ranged set ups and prefer elemental aversion over it. If you really wanted more sustain you could swap out the 4/4 refreshing for shirking heals if you plan on getting into a lot of 1v1's. I enjoy refreshing on all my mage builds to lean into the ranged pressure you can output.

@@nickh5485 so i have to craft via armoring these pieces? coudlnt find any piece in killing

@@GRmike Yeah I crafted all these pieces via armoring, so it's a bit expensive unfortunately. Things are a lot easier when you can use featherweight because you get 2 free firelord pieces from the kiln.

@@nickh5485 did u gamble anything or u used azoth inductors?

@@GRmike I bought a few of them off the trading post for cheap luckily, only had to induct one.

Great tip! I hadn't really put too much thought into my rapiers talents in regards to the natures wrath at the time since I was new to it but I have since swapped momentum for light edge in the left tree. I kept adagio because I like the breathe in talent that follows it for the extra stamina when you dodge something.

Leaning into raw firestaff damage atm seems like the best idea to me when playing with nature's wrath to push things over the edge. If I was playing featherweight I'd play 200 con though.

I'm a big fan of refreshing recovery/stamina recovery on all my builds, when being run down it refreshes all your mobility to help break melee leashes or break LoS on ranged players or even fight back with advantage. It's especially strong if you ever use a BB.

@@nickh5485 Hmm, how is Phoenix good? Taking -20% of your max HP after you revive is pretty much just 5 ticks and you're dead. Hard to get a kill within that short period of time.

@@Domuh I like it for the illegal perk combination of purify/stam recov/refreshing recov. Normally you have to choose between stam and purify but with this ammy the second you get hit under 50% you're a new man. The rez effect isn't actually that good tbh. Only if you're stuck in an all-in does it get useful, and even then not by much.

allo allo, been a while! If you don't have this amulet another great choice is endless thirst earring with a neck that has stamina recovery + refreshing recovery + 15% thrust/slash resist

@@nickh5485 thx bro i gonna ust that for sure

@@nickh5485 for this optimised Natures wrath build.. i dont thin endless thirst is a good choice.. u cant use the empower on potion drink, and also the fortify doesnt give u much, on a light low con build. so basically the main features of endless thirst are useless on this build.. imo. sure u have a stronger healthpot, but longer cd, doesnt really make much dif, in total calc..

NW pvp is still mainly skill based. a good pvper can use many weapons and builds succesfully, while a bad or newer player can use "the most OP weps n build" and still get farmed. SKILL > GEAR. f.e., in opr, in noticed so many playas going FS, cuz they hear and think its the most op, and they can stand from "safe range". but in reality, these less skilled FS playas are so easy to kill. its only when u come across a skilled FS playa that u realise how strong it can be. but u can tell in the first secs. And there are actually many builds and weapons atm, that are really good, and strong. atm FS is the big topic. but it was the same with bows etc. in the past, where everyone started useing bow in opr, but most are just ranged retreaters, and fold and run and die as soon as pressed. on the other hand, a very good bow playa is so dangerous, and fights u at close range too, and has kiting and movement that really makes it hard to hit em. folks seem to want a weapon or build to perform by itself. but im happy that NW is still largely skill based! ;)

I find 3 elemental aversion is enough, it's also a lot rarer for mages to end up fighting each other in well structured team fights. Being all in'd by light melee players with ga/x and spear/x however is extremely common. Especially when many play in 5stacks.

@@nickh5485 i will try to reduce my elementals and see how it goes. And for natures wrath I believe fs/ga has a lot of potential too. I will try it with 150 or 200 con because its more risky.

It's likely a visual bug from the earring potion fortify that gives 20% armor 972 is my normal amount

+15% dmg vs bleeding targets.. it's a pretty standard offhand booster and rapier is useful for escape

What endless said is correct, I use it for the 15% damage amp vs bleeding targets that applies to both of my weapons. It's also why I have keenly jagged on both weapons. The target can even be bleeding from someone else's dot and I'll gain the damage boost.

Hahaha thanks. We've come to a gentleman's agreement then, I never saw you obliterating the lone healer in the backline, and you never saw me standing up top on the high ground.

seriously these fs builds in opr are really powerful im gonna try to build one with the azoth crystal armor that already comes with refreshing and enchanted ward

all the build info including the skill trees are in the first 60s of the video

thank you so much. I totally miss that😊

If I was to run 200 con i'd run it with my featherweight build. I've tried it in both, the featherweight one is SUPER tanky and a great all rounder. It does do significantly less burst than this set up though, nature's wrath seems to push fire staff over the edge and opens up for some crazy moments where you don't normally gets kills currently. Both sets are super viable though imo.

I saw you in a bunch of the oprs the last couple of days haha. And thanks! It's a super fun build.

Nah. Spear much more broken

Heya, yeah we chatted in opr haha

If you're using an unload spec a pristine ruby is best or an ignited runeglass one, and if you're using double down then use either ignited opal or ignited onyx. All the gems are quite similar in power currently so personal preference is okay too. Bb took a pretty big nerf overall from the gem nerf with int builds but it's still good.

It can still work for ranged light dps since you skirmish so much, but you don't need to build your gear around at all anymore after the nerfs, it's optional. For next season elemental aversion will be a big priority on all gear though.

@@nickh5485 and vigor?

Vigor and invig are pretty good due to everyone playing into disease now, I think melee players get more value from it than ranged dps do. If you were a dex player fighting another dex player it has great value too, but as a mage it doesn't matter as much with most of the situations you get into currently. I'd say if you weren't considering vigor, you'd be considering fire harnessing. So choose whatever you prefer between the two. Both are good choices now and in season 4.@@dexarina2497

@@nickh5485 have to be fire har, can't it be void for example and the use a t5 amethyst?

in season 4 you won't be using any conversion gems on firestaff, once they nerf t2 gems it'll be back to running normal conditional ones. Haven't tested which one is bis post opal nerf yet. For BB you can still run a conversion gem on it but I think it's likely using a normal conditional one will be better even if you have fire harnessing due to it removing double scaling if you use a conversion gem. So items like the greatsword/rapier/blunderbuss/spear all suffer using conversion gems since they only gain from int instead of their dual stat scaling.@@dexarina2497

It's kinda goated. Hard disagree my man, especially with the dodge change, mana is harder to come by this season if you play heavier on the staff. Going under 50% also loses you 5% damage.

Hey man, yeah the build is still up to date even after that shirking heal nerf it's still a bis perk. The only thing added now is I have a 700gs version of that chest piece and I have a 2nd ring I sometimes swap in with mortal empowerment on it instead of cleansing heart rune depending on my playstyle. I'll try get some new footage over the next few days I haven't been recording too many games, but the build is still crazy strong.

@@nickh5485 whats your opinion on alacritous punishment on weapon and empoering fireball + fire harnessing on armor?

Alacritous punishment is definitely a good choice at the moment, in wars you don't trade with dex as much which are everywhere in opr atm. Depends what you're struggling with. If you're having trouble vs melee it wouldn't help as much, especially in wars. Fireball on weapon is my personal must have this season. Fire harnassing on armor isn't worth it I feel, mages need a lot of weapon perks at the moment and to have those + fire harnessing would leave you without enough defense in your build.@@XlXth

The tier 2 gems currently add more raw damage in small burst windows with INT builds. With a lot of the pvp meta being kills made in 1-2s those gems are the best for the playstyle.

t2 gems scale 200% with int. it's more burst and consistent imo

Hey! Glad you enjoy the videos thank you. FS/IG pylon meteor is still really strong and all rosters need one for war. This season I'm trying out assassin and really enjoying it as FS/BB. All the same perks and talents are the same as before for meteor/pylon mage. Not sure what dc id is. These are my current firestaff talents, but they're only relevant if you play assassin. imgur.com/kr5OQjb

Starting off as bb/fs, which I think may also be usable in an aoe playstyle too, swapping burnout for meteor and playing closer to clumps to nade them and escape with net shot if needed. Once they release the IG artifact I most definitely will check out a deep aoe mage playstyle again. Especially if the rumors I heard about it are true.

@@nickh5485 who is the best fs for mage aoe now? thinking that attunment is nerf

@@gastoncrespo6908 for fire staff weapon perks? For aoe specifically your options are pretty wide now with the nerfs so you can make a lot of personal preference choices. Keen/vicious/attunement/keenly empowered are all at similar levels right now. I'd go with vicious/attunement/pillar for an aoe staff. But again, very free to choose anything after the rebalance of weapon perks. Just pillar would still be mandatory on weapon.