big note about the etheral mines is that if you cast them into an enemy they only detonate once, whereas if you set the mine and it has time to exist rather than instantly exploding it will detonate a second time dealing insane damage
@@click4gameplay ive found it to be the case 90% of the time but the game can be... buggy at times (lightning balls will double damage at times too) best of luck with tests though :)
Is the 2nd detonation the effect of the last mage rune skill you can learn? (the one that makes runes more powerfull or give extra effect) i've learned the ability to cast runes without the book, to combine it with chakram stuff Extra question: how do people roll with a backpack without the rolling movement penalty?
4:02 Update after 1 year: With the upcoming update, the 1H Runic Blade will no longer act as a lexicon. While the 2H Runic Greatsword will now act as a lexicon. So you can cast Runic Magic with the 2H Runic Greatsword equipped without the Internalized Lexicon passive.
For everyone who was as confused as me in thinking whats the point of having a manual detonation button for the mine, considering it explodes on its own if an enemy walks on it, you can place the trap -> aggro the enemy -> cast the red rune once -> let the enemy walk into the trap in the next few seconds -> cast the red rune again for the trigger = you get a double explosion and basically double damage
I would advice against Internalized Lexicon. You can find a Book that amplifies the effects of every runes in a dungeon. Also, the added effects on every spell are incredibly strong.
between my gameplay, and watching lets play, etc. Rune magic just seems blatantly and massively better then every other magic. heck skill tree in general. Rune magic is all in one skill tree. not spread out between 3 or more.. It has no resource cost. no mana stones, no required active boons, nothing.. Its super versatile. light. melee weapon. massively powerful trap. Long range lit bolt. Sigil magic requires fire/cold stones, costing time/silver, and filling your inventory. As well as presumably quickslots. Wind sigil also a quickslot and activating the shrine in each zone. and you of course have to stand IN the sigils to make any use of them... And what do you get for all that? fairly weak effects. Fire sigil+spark-fireball. fire sigil+mana ward-immolate buff. 30% inc fire damage, dot on you. ice sigil+mana ward-aoe explosion. ice sigil+push-icebolt wind sigil+push-windbolt. wind sigil+conjure- aoe explosion on sigil conjure+reveal soul for a ghost pet. Reveal soul+spark for mana regen. Chakram are totally outclassed by flamethrower. While potentially they can burst a ton of damage. Flamethrower is just more reliably, and when the fire dot is allowed to do its job, with blocking/kiting, even then it catches up in dps. Chakram need the disciple boon active to even be used... Focus from war monk, gives a 250s buff, burns max stam, and has a 500s cd.. meaning a 50% downtime you can't even use your chakram. Brace, is a 200s cd.. not sure on the duration of the disc buff provided. but requires you to actively block an attack with it. Disc potion is your best bet I'm sure. didnt test the duration on those. 1 liveweed, water, ocher beetle. but now you guzzling potions just to use your attacks. then chakram has 3 skills to do what flamethrower does with one, filling your quickslot bar. and dance has an insane 120s cooldown.
I did rune mage and necromancy so that the summon can draw agro and I can cast more spells. If you get the special lexicon and the gold lich armor it cost almost no mana to do spells
Instead of necro, I added monk blocks to negate attacks and give discipline buff for more defense. But I can see why you wouldn't worry about protection if you've got them attacking a ghost. I also went with chest and boots as teneb, and only my helm was gold lich. Helm's the best piece of that set, but I was too used to teneb protecting against multiple elements and giving damage boost to some elements.
I really appreciate how detailed and informative your videos are. Considering the depth of the systems this game has, guides like this are a godsend. Keep up the great work 👍
I really like the lexicon rune magic, I struggled to like this game for a while but there is so much the game doesn't tell you it really makes discovering things feel cool and special.
Rune Magic is really great and helpful to a lot of builds. I chose Internalized Lexicon for my chakram build since runic protection is just awesome and the runic trap lets you decimate ghosts that your chakram can have trouble taking down since you can't apply ethereal damage to it. The rune lantern is probably one of the best sources of light in the game as well comparable to the glowstone backpack.
Wow this game really gets deep. I knew I was gonna love this game before I eve n got the chance to play it.... some may complain about the graphics but honestly I think they are charmingly dated. Thank you for all the uploads and future uploads. You know Iv spent 70 dollars on recent games that are supposed to be AAA and haven't had near as much fun playing as I do this game.
@@PsilocybeJedi iv noticed as long as your in a dungeon or town your okay. Iv read others saying as long as you move everything to your pocket before saving and logging out your stuff will still be there when you come back
@@PsilocybeJedi hope this helps you out if you happen to read this and I'm sure the devs are working on a patch but for now you can still enjoy the game just make sure you do one of the two.
just play the game on your first playthrough the way you would play if youtube or no sources of information existed. u dont want the game to feel like a chore( go here to get this and do this to get this) on your other paythroughs yeah experiemnt with builds but im just playing with as little influence as possible
there is a green lexicon in the game you can found it in dungeon on the first location It would be interesting to know how exactly it improves the listed skills.
special shoot out for the runnic armor chest ( purchasable at the smith in the blue chamber main town ) that gives +15 dmg to spectral and lightning dmg ( and a -5% to mana cost abilities )
A tip ( or a bug I dont really know ) : After casting the mana sword ( 1 handed ) you can unequip the lexicon ( for a shield or w/e ) and still be able to cast rune spells. As I said I dont know if it's intended or not because it doesnt work with the 2 handed sword
The name of the skill is Simon's gambit . And you get access to it by doing some quests for Levant as far as I can tell. just started the quest for melons (trying not to spoil here) when I could train with him for it
I just started not long ago, and live the Rune Sage stuff, but I also like being a fighter, so I mixed Rune Sage/Warrior Monk/and Spellblade (mostly for the extra hp/stam/and mana)
I feel like rune magic is great for the cost starting out for a jack of all trades mage. It's basically all you need to hold you over until you figure out what you specifically wanna do with magic
I'm actually sad there aren't too many unique combos. I have a rune mage trapper (Rune mage, Philosopher near exclusively for fire affinity and mana regen, and Rogue) A sword of Jack of all Traders (Kazite for the melee buff, merc for gun buff, wild ranger for extra health and some bow start off with the sniper shot, basically no other use for it) Planning on making a spellblade possibly, using warrior monk, kazite, and philosopher, but im not 100% sure. Shaman just seems very lackluster, Rogue is a good filler, merc is almost the BEST filler, philosopher doesn't do too much on its own element wise, it's like a physical mage.
Thanks for the guide, it was really handy! Quick question: Rune Blade seems to enchant your 1H weapon, while the upgrade turns it into a 2H sword. If you were to use Internalised Lexicon, what would happen if you use it with a Bow (So you dont need a Lexicon in your offhand)?
Just got a robe the witches wear on my character that isn't a mage lol, it's pretty decent for a starting mage. It has 20% resistance to fire, frost, and decay, but only -15% mana cost. Still for a robe without spending silver it's really good until you get the better robes. Also as far as I know, it's the only black robe for anyone interested in the fashion. Enmerkar forest seems to be the best place to farm bandits on PS4 until we get the patches cause I seem to kill bandits 2x a day where they spawn. Once I killed a group of 3 bandits 3x on the same spawn point in 1 day
Not sure if anyone already mention this but while you have the rune sword you don't need the lexicon. The sword act as a lexicon while equipped. To dispell just unequip the weapon.
Sweet, Hopefully there are more effects down the line, would be cool to have spells that take more than two runes to cast. Like a konami code of runes. Now if only I could learn how to hold the book the right way around. And the game would stop taking away all my mana stones.
Awesome guide, maybe you want to save it for build videos, but i wanted some details about which skills from other styles can be good pairing with Rune Magic. Aniway was really helpfull! Like and sub af.
Yo tnx. I thought the same, but since it's not an actual build because it's only one skill tree, I figured it would be a good idea. And runes can be really confusing. Anyway I'll do builds with rune sage tree for sure.
@@madthorn3094 Bows are rather underpowered compared to every other weapon, even with coral bow or horror w/ skills. At the very least in co-op they are.
Yeah, you'll find some special items at all 3 cities i'm pretty sure. One is a broken alchemists bottle, a wizards pokey stick and the blacksmiths vintage hammer, combine them with the strange rusty sword and it makes BRAND. The Un-rusted 1h weapon that inflicts chill and pain which increase the amount of frost and phsical damage you do to an enemy. (it's good as hell) Hope this helps.
If you get a quest from Risa to help Cierzo from a bandit raid, do everything and do that immediately. Leaving the first region while the quest is active instantly fails it and it blocks off Cierzo forever. I think it's forever, the damn tree is still blocking my city. I put my rusted sword in the chest of the light house.
When I cast the magic mine near an enemy it seems to just kind of disappear rather than detonating edit: Haven't noticed this in a while. Must've been fixed. Or it was my imagination
depends on how much mana reduction you get, I think if you get between 50-70% then you should get about 100 to account for having half mana and having to use your spells to get to max. If you have more than that then you can get away with 40-60.
I rather have the passive that nullifies the need for a lexicon plus I can cast spells with staffs which reduces the mana cost, from the video u dont seem to get a buff with the mine trap when u unlock the passive
El Gringo Feo if you get the light lexicon that gives you 10%-15% mana reduction and if your off hand is the jade mace that’s another 10% now match that up with the robes, hat and the gold litch boots you dont lose mana from being 100% mana reduction cost OH and the wizard backpack
I know this isn't the right place to ask but how do i deal with the bee swarms that the Hive monsters send at me? is running the only way? i tried it with a torch didn't work...
@@Razie1201 i realized that killing them fast is the best solution. sometimes the bees even went back inside the monster when you were standing close to them.
@@click4gameplay cheers for the response man, may be worth testing, would make runic magic even more diverse which would be interesting. love your work Man keep it up 😁👍
I'm confused why you said there are only 4 combinations. There are 4 runes and you use 2 at a time, assuming you can't do 2 of the same (DD, EE, FF, SS) and order doesn't matter, should there be 6 possibilities: DE, DF, DS, EF, ES, and FS?
You have to cast more spells to fix you burnt mana, or certain items I believe... soothing tea? Also never sleep unless you want to use the mage tent. Sleeping burns your mana and not sleeping gives you a mana regen if you can deal with the stamina regen nerf.
@@pemocity1450 1 Lavant for the tent, I think it still burns mana (not sure as I was about to buy it right before I stopped playing due to my stuff vanishing, pls fix) but you get a like 15% cost reduction buff. 2 sleeping does but give you the mana regen buff so you have to decide how you want to balance that out, I have not gotten the second level of not sleeping since I forget about it sometimes and can't find it online annoyingly so not sure how that is. And yes, only sleeping will burn your mana unless there is another way I am not aware of. So yea, dont sleep when possible and use the various teas to fix your burnt health/stamina/mana, some foods fix it as well.
@@auraegis5286 thanks for the info! Btw, before your staff vanished, had you previously logged out outside of a town? Cuss the item vanishing bug seems to happen when I log out outside of towns, to me.
@@pemocity1450 It was anywhere really you could put all your stuff in your pockets to prevent it apparently but I just decided to wait. And I just found out there is a patch today on the PS4 to fix all the issues I had so yay! I can finally play it again! They plan to work on textures and stuff next so that is nice, maybe we poor console peasants can see the rain one day and not just randomly become wet, I mean I was excited to leave my house the first time and face the angry mob but I was not THAT excited.
It whas a bug that you could cast runes whit the 2 handed sword provided from runes it is already fixed, so now you dont need the lexicon part at the top if you whant to go for the 2hand sword
Easiest way to make money is buy upp all thick oil, star mushroom, turnips in the starting town. Then combine thick oil + water to make warm potions, and combine star mushrooms + turnips + water to make astral potions, sell them, go to sleep in house for 3 days then buy it and craft again. I made like 3000 silver in 40 minutes doing this.
Im trying to do melee build with heavy armor and buffing myself with fire boons and lighting my weapon on fire with azerite spellblade skill tree abilities. I just wonder how hard it will be to maintain enough mana to keep buffs up with heavy armor... Maybe I need to take passive mana regen and increased mana pool from philosophical tree. Philosopher tree also has that fire affinity for increased fire dmg and protection which really works with build in my mind I think... now I just need a lot of silver xD As thir tree maybe shaman for summon :D
40 is enough but if you planning to use mana to only buff your weapon I recommend not having mana at all. Don't sacrifice health and stamina, instead use the Bolt, Spiritual, Ice, Dark, Fire, Poison Varnish and Rag items to add effects to your weapon. As for skills choose from these guys; at Cierzo, Kazite Spellblade. At Berg, Wild Hunter(take Breakthrough). At Levant, Mercenary(take Breakthrough). At Monsoon, Warrior Monk(take Breakthrough). If you decide to go full spellblade and have mana, take shield + one-handed mace. There is a guy in Berg right next to the smith that teaches a skill which makes you able to hit an incoming elemental attack with your make and it adds that element effect to your mace, you can combo that with spellblade skills. As for breakthrough, you don't have to take skill from wild hunter now.
I went full mana and I have now 140HP/140Stam/215mana Trained in spellblade(for HP), runes and Paladin(for Discipline). So with this I stay strong with any enemy infront of my char. Bosses are going down pretty smoothly, when I combine good defences (around 75 with buff, Decay i can make 90(Lich set)) , 4 points of protection (enough for 3-4 hits from boss). With fast enemies i switch to summoned blade or Wold-rune blade (electrical) which have two OP elements and go melee. For muiltiple enemies I spam runic-trap which is OP as it staggers an enemy and you have time to cast another one. There is runic heavy armor in Berg and very good 2H sword (drops from Epic Manticore and has electr.element) in the Ruins in the middle west of the Enmarkar forest. ...If you like tanky build. =============== One more suggestion - mana regen is very poor. You get only 0.15/sec from the passive and 0.2 if you are tired (0.3 if extremely tired)but you get -15%Stamina-regen (-30% if too tired) which is lame. I have with me around 40 mana potions and ~10 big mana potions, as they are so easy to make and are not consumed so fast
Yet another hard decision I have to make.. lol Internalized lexicon or prefix hmmm... I really love 2handers but i wanna be able to cast spells with it out, but the Light menders lexicon has nice bonus. Decisions, decisions
Casting runes will make your character to sheathe his/her weapons, which is pretty annoying and animation is too long. So the internal lexicon is useful only for players with offhand pistol, chacram or shield
@@jeanwinter5275 well thats kinda dumb. still would be better than breaking the 2h spell pulling out the lexicon, casting say the magic trap and then having to cast again for the 2h. Either way I already went with prefix :P
try starting it by adding its shortcut to steam (if u have it pirated, since this happened 10 minutes ago to me, opened outward thru steam and it solved it)
@@adrian-ei6lw Wooooooow. Actually advertising that you're cheap and trash enough to pirate games. Why would you even pirate this game instead of supporting the indie company so they can continue to make games? Vile, just vile.
I bet a really strong build would be a trap mage. Spec as mage and rouge. You can set 3 type of traps and re arm traps if you do this build. Nothing would be able to touch you
May sound weird but why does your character hold the book differently from console? Yours looks natural, but in my game they hold the book straight out and it looks awkward and stiff.
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big note about the etheral mines is that if you cast them into an enemy they only detonate once, whereas if you set the mine and it has time to exist rather than instantly exploding it will detonate a second time dealing insane damage
Really? Didn't notice this. Will test it when I get home. :3
@@click4gameplay ive found it to be the case 90% of the time but the game can be... buggy at times (lightning balls will double damage at times too)
best of luck with tests though :)
Sounds like a priming effect. How long does it have to linger before it gains this effect?
Is the 2nd detonation the effect of the last mage rune skill you can learn? (the one that makes runes more powerfull or give extra effect)
i've learned the ability to cast runes without the book, to combine it with chakram stuff
Extra question: how do people roll with a backpack without the rolling movement penalty?
I have never noticed this happening
4:02 Update after 1 year: With the upcoming update, the 1H Runic Blade will no longer act as a lexicon. While the 2H Runic Greatsword will now act as a lexicon. So you can cast Runic Magic with the 2H Runic Greatsword equipped without the Internalized Lexicon passive.
Sorobeans DLC update?
@@spencerkimllido7327 Not exactly the DLC update, but the update BEFORE the DLC update.
So yeah, this change went live.
@@matthewkwong3365 so you’re now able to cast spells like the lightning spell whilst wielding the 2 handed magic sword?
@@Fane7 Yep, although doing so will sheathe the sword. So you will experience some delay while switching from melee to casting runic spells.
@@matthewkwong3365 In that case, now If I have the Internalized Lexicon, will the character sheathe the sword?
Finally got the game yesterday and it's simply fantastic. Your guides have been a great help when i can't quite figure something out
For everyone who was as confused as me in thinking whats the point of having a manual detonation button for the mine, considering it explodes on its own if an enemy walks on it, you can place the trap -> aggro the enemy -> cast the red rune once -> let the enemy walk into the trap in the next few seconds -> cast the red rune again for the trigger = you get a double explosion and basically double damage
Oh thank you , i was unable to understand that pinned guy 😅
I would advice against Internalized Lexicon. You can find a Book that amplifies the effects of every runes in a dungeon. Also, the added effects on every spell are incredibly strong.
u need more likes
Internalized is great though for Melee focused characters though, Paladin style builds.
Exactly. A shield to go with your magic sword
Thanks for the info. But I think I'm still gonna get that skill. I'm trying to make a warrior rune mage.
Thanks for the advice. I'm still wondering how I'm going to get an that money in the first place.
between my gameplay, and watching lets play, etc.
Rune magic just seems blatantly and massively better then every other magic. heck skill tree in general.
Rune magic is all in one skill tree. not spread out between 3 or more.. It has no resource cost. no mana stones, no required active boons, nothing..
Its super versatile. light. melee weapon. massively powerful trap. Long range lit bolt.
Sigil magic requires fire/cold stones, costing time/silver, and filling your inventory. As well as presumably quickslots. Wind sigil also a quickslot and activating the shrine in each zone. and you of course have to stand IN the sigils to make any use of them... And what do you get for all that? fairly weak effects.
Fire sigil+spark-fireball.
fire sigil+mana ward-immolate buff. 30% inc fire damage, dot on you.
ice sigil+mana ward-aoe explosion.
ice sigil+push-icebolt
wind sigil+push-windbolt.
wind sigil+conjure- aoe explosion on sigil
conjure+reveal soul for a ghost pet.
Reveal soul+spark for mana regen.
Chakram are totally outclassed by flamethrower.
While potentially they can burst a ton of damage. Flamethrower is just more reliably, and when the fire dot is allowed to do its job, with blocking/kiting, even then it catches up in dps.
Chakram need the disciple boon active to even be used... Focus from war monk, gives a 250s buff, burns max stam, and has a 500s cd.. meaning a 50% downtime you can't even use your chakram. Brace, is a 200s cd.. not sure on the duration of the disc buff provided. but requires you to actively block an attack with it.
Disc potion is your best bet I'm sure. didnt test the duration on those. 1 liveweed, water, ocher beetle. but now you guzzling potions just to use your attacks.
then chakram has 3 skills to do what flamethrower does with one, filling your quickslot bar. and dance has an insane 120s cooldown.
Best channel so far for coverage of outward, keep up the good work
You are the only person to explain it clearly and quickly. THANK YOU
This game is so fucking underrated. Its so good.
I did rune mage and necromancy so that the summon can draw agro and I can cast more spells. If you get the special lexicon and the gold lich armor it cost almost no mana to do spells
Where do you learn necromancy?
The shaman in the wind cabal in the first area
Instead of necro, I added monk blocks to negate attacks and give discipline buff for more defense. But I can see why you wouldn't worry about protection if you've got them attacking a ghost.
I also went with chest and boots as teneb, and only my helm was gold lich. Helm's the best piece of that set, but I was too used to teneb protecting against multiple elements and giving damage boost to some elements.
yeah gold lich armor + the artifact lexicon make runes cost 1 mana each xD
Do you know where to get the resources to make gold lich armor? I haven't found any gold lich so far.
I really appreciate how detailed and informative your videos are. Considering the depth of the systems this game has, guides like this are a godsend. Keep up the great work 👍
I really like the lexicon rune magic, I struggled to like this game for a while but there is so much the game doesn't tell you it really makes discovering things feel cool and special.
This game is actually really deep. Love it.
Perfect man. Short, simple and to the point.
Don't judge a man by his stature!
I can barely remember my own birthday, so I can forget about using rune combinations.
Once you use them a couple times it's fairly easy
Hahahaha please just go watch the witch gameplay in dragon marked for death. Imagine if rune combinason were like this in outward😂😂😂
Rune Magic is really great and helpful to a lot of builds. I chose Internalized Lexicon for my chakram build since runic protection is just awesome and the runic trap lets you decimate ghosts that your chakram can have trouble taking down since you can't apply ethereal damage to it. The rune lantern is probably one of the best sources of light in the game as well comparable to the glowstone backpack.
what is Chakram magic? where do you learn it? I"m a rune mage atm. Or is it just a weapon you can use while using any magic?
Gothic 3 music? I see you are a man of culture as well.
Great guide! This is going to be the first build I attempt, and I learned a lot in a short amount of time with your concise explanations.
Wow this game really gets deep. I knew I was gonna love this game before I eve n got the chance to play it.... some may complain about the graphics but honestly I think they are charmingly dated. Thank you for all the uploads and future uploads. You know Iv spent 70 dollars on recent games that are supposed to be AAA and haven't had near as much fun playing as I do this game.
Only thing I can complain about is the inventory bug which makes it unplayable
@@PsilocybeJedi no bro there's a couple ways around it
@@PsilocybeJedi it doesn't excuse it by no means but there's a couple ways around it
@@PsilocybeJedi iv noticed as long as your in a dungeon or town your okay. Iv read others saying as long as you move everything to your pocket before saving and logging out your stuff will still be there when you come back
@@PsilocybeJedi hope this helps you out if you happen to read this and I'm sure the devs are working on a patch but for now you can still enjoy the game just make sure you do one of the two.
I'd love to see a video on all the skill trees. Would make it easier to decide what to do on my main
just play the game on your first playthrough the way you would play if youtube or no sources of information existed. u dont want the game to feel like a chore( go here to get this and do this to get this) on your other paythroughs yeah experiemnt with builds but im just playing with as little influence as possible
there is a green lexicon in the game you can found it in dungeon on the first location
It would be interesting to know how exactly it improves the listed skills.
it doesn't improve the skills, but it does reduce mana cost by 15%
Dude has gained 3k since the release stream. WELL DONE! :D
special shoot out for the runnic armor chest ( purchasable at the smith in the blue chamber main town ) that gives +15 dmg to spectral and lightning dmg ( and a -5% to mana cost abilities )
Excellent OW video once again Click!
A tip ( or a bug I dont really know ) : After casting the mana sword ( 1 handed ) you can unequip the lexicon ( for a shield or w/e ) and still be able to cast rune spells. As I said I dont know if it's intended or not because it doesnt work with the 2 handed sword
if you do reveal soul on a body or bones followed by spark you will gain alot of mana
Didn't know this..thanks man.
I got this game recently on sale where Gamestop had 50% off on pre-owned games... $12.50 and what an unbelievable game!
Thank you for showcasing all the skills! Much appreciated!
Very helpful, thank you for excellent coverage, keep this amazing game going my man, your the lifeblood of these great games!
The magic armor can be obtained from one of important families in the forest, the one who wants you to get mana
can you be more specific?
The name of the skill is Simon's gambit . And you get access to it by doing some quests for Levant as far as I can tell. just started the quest for melons (trying not to spoil here) when I could train with him for it
even though I already learned this stuff I still subbed and liked because this vid is great! explained clearly and will help many more others
I just started not long ago, and live the Rune Sage stuff, but I also like being a fighter, so I mixed Rune Sage/Warrior Monk/and Spellblade (mostly for the extra hp/stam/and mana)
I feel like rune magic is great for the cost starting out for a jack of all trades mage. It's basically all you need to hold you over until you figure out what you specifically wanna do with magic
Nice QoL change since this was made, you can now cast runes with the greatsword equipped. It counts as a Lexicon now.
Love the use of Kai Rosenkranz music. Gothic for life.
Kai is a genius.
Looking forward to build videos. Sad there's only three character slots, i want to try more combos
I'm actually sad there aren't too many unique combos. I have a rune mage trapper (Rune mage, Philosopher near exclusively for fire affinity and mana regen, and Rogue)
A sword of Jack of all Traders (Kazite for the melee buff, merc for gun buff, wild ranger for extra health and some bow start off with the sniper shot, basically no other use for it)
Planning on making a spellblade possibly, using warrior monk, kazite, and philosopher, but im not 100% sure. Shaman just seems very lackluster, Rogue is a good filler, merc is almost the BEST filler, philosopher doesn't do too much on its own element wise, it's like a physical mage.
Thanks for the guide, it was really handy! Quick question: Rune Blade seems to enchant your 1H weapon, while the upgrade turns it into a 2H sword. If you were to use Internalised Lexicon, what would happen if you use it with a Bow (So you dont need a Lexicon in your offhand)?
Just got a robe the witches wear on my character that isn't a mage lol, it's pretty decent for a starting mage. It has 20% resistance to fire, frost, and decay, but only -15% mana cost. Still for a robe without spending silver it's really good until you get the better robes. Also as far as I know, it's the only black robe for anyone interested in the fashion. Enmerkar forest seems to be the best place to farm bandits on PS4 until we get the patches cause I seem to kill bandits 2x a day where they spawn. Once I killed a group of 3 bandits 3x on the same spawn point in 1 day
Can u do a play through with a necromancer build
looks like so much fun
Not sure if anyone already mention this but while you have the rune sword you don't need the lexicon. The sword act as a lexicon while equipped. To dispell just unequip the weapon.
but do we still retain the 15% reduction buff after equipping sword?
Sweet, Hopefully there are more effects down the line, would be cool to have spells that take more than two runes to cast. Like a konami code of runes. Now if only I could learn how to hold the book the right way around. And the game would stop taking away all my mana stones.
Just found out those bugs I mentioned were patched today, so... yay for impeccable timing!
Awesome guide, maybe you want to save it for build videos, but i wanted some details about which skills from other styles can be good pairing with Rune Magic. Aniway was really helpfull! Like and sub af.
Yo tnx. I thought the same, but since it's not an actual build because it's only one skill tree, I figured it would be a good idea. And runes can be really confusing. Anyway I'll do builds with rune sage tree for sure.
@@click4gameplay Ye you right might be a little overwhelming to put too much info, again thanks for the guide!
Really interesting magic system!
small correction. after you cast runic sword u dont need the lexicon if its out including 2 handed
It works for me on 1h with the prefix skill but doesn't for 2h, and also doesn't work with either if I don't have prefix skill
Thank you so much for this magic seems super confusing.
Loving the Outward content, man. Keep it up! Could you do a shield and 1 hand guide?
internalized lexicon + beefy sword and shield man using the spells for extra protection and healing AND lightning?
DID SOMEONE SAY PALADIN BUILD?
I'd say get the runic prefix as the 1h buffed allows you to cast without a lexicon anyway
Love these videos. Good game coverage for sure. Subbed.
Looks like the magic from Shadowhunters tv show
hackmanite stone gear made by the blacksmith in Levant is the best armor for this build since it gives ethereal damage bonus to your rune traps.
Amazing as always! Thanks!
Trail to Hatmandor music from Two Worlds 2? Nice.
Those osts are actually from Gothic 3. The first one is Ishtar and the second one is Desert Nights.
Hey i noticed the gothic 3 music in the backgroud. you have some good taste dude :D
They updated it you can now cast runes with the two handed sword.
How come I dont hold the lexicon like that I hold it in front of my face like I'm trying to hide and it annoys me so much
Awesome video well done and thank you.
Will there be an Archer Guide? ...probably not, because bows disappear from your inventory when you dodge...
Damn, I noticed that actually. Really annoying bug. I want to do an archer guide so bad.
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Yes! I've had so many bows dissapear in the middle of combat :( . which is sad because bow combat is amazing in this game.
@@madthorn3094 Bows are rather underpowered compared to every other weapon, even with coral bow or horror w/ skills. At the very least in co-op they are.
got the game yesterday, literally raced home from work to play today and now steam is down for all of europe :(
I messed up and didn't get the internalized off hand rune skill T_T now I have to keep holding this damn book instead of a staff or something
i love how this game looks is there co-op?
thunderborn 32 yes
Is it possible for a type of magic archer build? Like enchanting your weapon with a fire buff to shot fire arrows or shot special elemental shots?
Unfortunately that isn't possible.
@@Pohvi Aw that sucks.
Unrelated, but have you figured out what to do with the "strange rusty sword" on top of Conflux Mountain?
Endo Roboto gotta add a special item from the 3 black Smith’s I’m pretty sure
Yeah, you'll find some special items at all 3 cities i'm pretty sure. One is a broken alchemists bottle, a wizards pokey stick and the blacksmiths vintage hammer, combine them with the strange rusty sword and it makes BRAND. The Un-rusted 1h weapon that inflicts chill and pain which increase the amount of frost and phsical damage you do to an enemy. (it's good as hell) Hope this helps.
Thanks for the tips guys.
If you get a quest from Risa to help Cierzo from a bandit raid, do everything and do that immediately. Leaving the first region while the quest is active instantly fails it and it blocks off Cierzo forever. I think it's forever, the damn tree is still blocking my city. I put my rusted sword in the chest of the light house.
Very useful!
I love the gothic 3 music xD
When I cast the magic mine near an enemy it seems to just kind of disappear rather than detonating edit: Haven't noticed this in a while. Must've been fixed. Or it was my imagination
the background music from gothic 3 :D love it xD
I know this is many years later but for a build similar to your paladin would i be better off using prefix blade or infusing a physical sword?
Great Videos !
How much mana should you get for an effective pure rune mage build?
depends on how much mana reduction you get, I think if you get between 50-70% then you should get about 100 to account for having half mana and having to use your spells to get to max. If you have more than that then you can get away with 40-60.
Can you do similar videos on all the skill lines, even if they are shorter I would love that
In the process of doing that actually.
I wonder where did you learn this? Through inside game or walkthrough from random websites?
If I remember correctly the wiki for Outward was already pretty deep, so I got most of the info from there.
I rather have the passive that nullifies the need for a lexicon plus I can cast spells with staffs which reduces the mana cost, from the video u dont seem to get a buff with the mine trap when u unlock the passive
Csn you use a staff as a melee weapon also?
El Gringo Feo if you get the light lexicon that gives you 10%-15% mana reduction and if your off hand is the jade mace that’s another 10% now match that up with the robes, hat and the gold litch boots you dont lose mana from being 100% mana reduction cost OH and the wizard backpack
How much Health would you recommend losing when granting mana?
I know this isn't the right place to ask but how do i deal with the bee swarms that the Hive monsters send at me? is running the only way? i tried it with a torch didn't work...
Not gonna lie I bought a bunch of lanterns and just kept throwing them kinda cheesy but it worked lol
@@Razie1201 i realized that killing them fast is the best solution. sometimes the bees even went back inside the monster when you were standing close to them.
Love your work man, will runic spells do different things when casting them in a wind/fire/ice siegel? Would be interesting to test...
I don't think so, but I didn't test it.
@@click4gameplay cheers for the response man, may be worth testing, would make runic magic even more diverse which would be interesting. love your work Man keep it up 😁👍
Love it. Just got the game on xbox haven't played yet. Is there any other magic where you could make a full mage build?
i have it too on xbox wanna coop?
Hey great video, but what armor is that? I really want it
thank you bud!
I'm confused why you said there are only 4 combinations. There are 4 runes and you use 2 at a time, assuming you can't do 2 of the same (DD, EE, FF, SS) and order doesn't matter, should there be 6 possibilities: DE, DF, DS, EF, ES, and FS?
Great vid!!!!
Btw, how do you manage your Burnt Mana? I'm having issues with that
You have to cast more spells to fix you burnt mana, or certain items I believe... soothing tea? Also never sleep unless you want to use the mage tent. Sleeping burns your mana and not sleeping gives you a mana regen if you can deal with the stamina regen nerf.
@@auraegis5286 ohh! 1) where do I get mage tent? 2) no sleep slows your Stamina regen? 3) is sleeping the ONLY way to Burn your Mana?
@@pemocity1450 1 Lavant for the tent, I think it still burns mana (not sure as I was about to buy it right before I stopped playing due to my stuff vanishing, pls fix) but you get a like 15% cost reduction buff. 2 sleeping does but give you the mana regen buff so you have to decide how you want to balance that out, I have not gotten the second level of not sleeping since I forget about it sometimes and can't find it online annoyingly so not sure how that is. And yes, only sleeping will burn your mana unless there is another way I am not aware of. So yea, dont sleep when possible and use the various teas to fix your burnt health/stamina/mana, some foods fix it as well.
@@auraegis5286 thanks for the info! Btw, before your staff vanished, had you previously logged out outside of a town? Cuss the item vanishing bug seems to happen when I log out outside of towns, to me.
@@pemocity1450 It was anywhere really you could put all your stuff in your pockets to prevent it apparently but I just decided to wait. And I just found out there is a patch today on the PS4 to fix all the issues I had so yay! I can finally play it again! They plan to work on textures and stuff next so that is nice, maybe we poor console peasants can see the rain one day and not just randomly become wet, I mean I was excited to leave my house the first time and face the angry mob but I was not THAT excited.
It whas a bug that you could cast runes whit the 2 handed sword provided from runes it is already fixed, so now you dont need the lexicon part at the top if you whant to go for the 2hand sword
can you make a video about how to make a good amount of money? or how you make money? thanks!
Easiest way to make money is buy upp all thick oil, star mushroom, turnips in the starting town. Then combine thick oil + water to make warm potions, and combine star mushrooms + turnips + water to make astral potions, sell them, go to sleep in house for 3 days then buy it and craft again. I made like 3000 silver in 40 minutes doing this.
Thank you
nice magic video :D!
Im trying to do melee build with heavy armor and buffing myself with fire boons and lighting my weapon on fire with azerite spellblade skill tree abilities.
I just wonder how hard it will be to maintain enough mana to keep buffs up with heavy armor...
Maybe I need to take passive mana regen and increased mana pool from philosophical tree.
Philosopher tree also has that fire affinity for increased fire dmg and protection which really works with build in my mind I think... now I just need a lot of silver xD
As thir tree maybe shaman for summon :D
40 is enough but if you planning to use mana to only buff your weapon I recommend not having mana at all. Don't sacrifice health and stamina, instead use the Bolt, Spiritual, Ice, Dark, Fire, Poison Varnish and Rag items to add effects to your weapon. As for skills choose from these guys; at Cierzo,
Kazite Spellblade. At Berg,
Wild Hunter(take Breakthrough). At Levant, Mercenary(take Breakthrough). At Monsoon, Warrior Monk(take Breakthrough).
If you decide to go full spellblade and have mana, take shield + one-handed mace. There is a guy in Berg right next to the smith that teaches a skill which makes you able to hit an incoming elemental attack with your make and it adds that element effect to your mace, you can combo that with spellblade skills. As for breakthrough, you don't have to take skill from wild hunter now.
@@harklight1526 okey thanks for the build idea. I was thinking of going elemental discharge though for bit of hybrid melee/caster.
I went full mana and I have now 140HP/140Stam/215mana
Trained in spellblade(for HP), runes and Paladin(for Discipline).
So with this I stay strong with any enemy infront of my char. Bosses are going down pretty smoothly, when I combine good defences (around 75 with buff, Decay i can make 90(Lich set)) , 4 points of protection (enough for 3-4 hits from boss). With fast enemies i switch to summoned blade or Wold-rune blade (electrical) which have two OP elements and go melee.
For muiltiple enemies I spam runic-trap which is OP as it staggers an enemy and you have time to cast another one.
There is runic heavy armor in Berg and very good 2H sword (drops from Epic Manticore and has electr.element) in the Ruins in the middle west of the Enmarkar forest. ...If you like tanky build.
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One more suggestion - mana regen is very poor. You get only 0.15/sec from the passive and 0.2 if you are tired (0.3 if extremely tired)but you get -15%Stamina-regen (-30% if too tired) which is lame. I have with me around 40 mana potions and ~10 big mana potions, as they are so easy to make and are not consumed so fast
And none of them are projectiles?
If you want to be cheesy get 1 mana, play sort of a shaman and when you get the >=100% mana reduction go rune mage.
Yet another hard decision I have to make.. lol Internalized lexicon or prefix hmmm... I really love 2handers but i wanna be able to cast spells with it out, but the Light menders lexicon has nice bonus. Decisions, decisions
Casting runes will make your character to sheathe his/her weapons, which is pretty annoying and animation is too long.
So the internal lexicon is useful only for players with offhand pistol, chacram or shield
@@jeanwinter5275 well thats kinda dumb. still would be better than breaking the 2h spell pulling out the lexicon, casting say the magic trap and then having to cast again for the 2h.
Either way I already went with prefix :P
Damn been enjoying the hell out of the game but now my pc crashes every time I try and load into my character :(
try starting it by adding its shortcut to steam (if u have it pirated, since this happened 10 minutes ago to me, opened outward thru steam and it solved it)
@@adrian-ei6lw Wooooooow. Actually advertising that you're cheap and trash enough to pirate games. Why would you even pirate this game instead of supporting the indie company so they can continue to make games? Vile, just vile.
I bet a really strong build would be a trap mage. Spec as mage and rouge. You can set 3 type of traps and re arm traps if you do this build. Nothing would be able to touch you
Seems like a very cheesy build. Very powerful but I can see it getting boring after you one-shot everything besides endgame bosses.
Wiki now says the blade also counts as a lexicon
Yup, I missed that.
@@click4gameplay which faction and classes you recommend for Runic mage build mate?
Subscribed!
What faction would you recommend?
6:20 where’s the video update for this? Or did you never make it lol. Allot of TH-camrs say they’ll make a follow up video and never do :(
Thanks
I wanna love this game so bad but the inventory deletion bugs have forever spoiled my experiences with this game
May sound weird but why does your character hold the book differently from console? Yours looks natural, but in my game they hold the book straight out and it looks awkward and stiff.
That's a bug actually that should get patched.
@@click4gameplay Hopefully. As soon. It looks odd and goofy and honestly the one thing I hate about Runic Sage
Does the pot head piece increase your mana?
Can you fire infuse a runic blade?