Variation of the popular farming builds. Farming build = thauma swell body to double drops.
So far have tried:
-link2 thaum3 shadow2
-link2 thaum3 enchanter2
-pyro2 thaum3 sorc1 enchanter2 (liked this build for all-content most)
-link2 thaum2 feather3
-link2 thaum3 sage2 (current)
SP cost
Sage2 SP cost is just a little lower than shadow2 SP cost (and shadow SP cost is really a lot).
In order of SP cost: Enchanter2 lowest cost. Feather3 average (without spamming blood sucking). Sage2 high. Shadow2 extreme cost. Feather3 extreme if you spam bloodsucking.
Order of ease: enchanter2 easiest (just use AA). Shadow2 easy (just spam skill). Sage2 average (have to aim skill). Feather3 average~hard (need to skill animation cancel well during link and swell), only need kundela slash.
Damage mitigation during farming:
Sage is immune to magic and ranged attacks with missile hole, enchanter can block most physical attacks with enchant earth, and featherfoot is immune to melee attacks with levitation and is able to recover HP easily. Shadowmancer can use shadow hallucination clone to get a 20% max HP shield.
Currently, iToS sage micro dimension cannot hit flying mobs yet. KTOS Sage can hit flying mobs. Shadow2 is weaker vs flying targets. Featherfoot3 is weak vs mobs which resists hangman’s knot debuff, feather3 will need some AoE attack ratio gear in the future. Enchanter2 suffers if your ping is bad.
@Kanna You asked about this build with sage2.
Sage2 on this build is viable, 1x micro dimension (with attribute) on linked normal mobs will clear them. 1 overheat per link needed. Hangman’s knot is not needed unless you want to group mobs to swell them. Another combo is dimension compression + swell body + Ultimate dimension (with attribute).
First part of vid is the sage test, quite easy too. Linker+thaum build is very easy to play.