Noob alert!

[bojck]

I have a few tips:

1. If you are not playing the current ANB event, don't wait any further : ) There's a lot of info in the forum about ANB. In brief, you can 'unlock' a character using a fraction of the gems it normally takes. You gain xp faster, craft cheaper, level-up skills with 'books of learning, and can take up to 2 items out of the event to your main. Check it out!
2. Buy all recipes from the recipe vendor for 50k gold every 3 hours. All of them, not just the mage ones - it takes a couple of weeks.
3. Farm xp and materials in trials. Do short runs (2-3 minutes max), with xp on all gear and ideally with an xp booster. I'd suggest to use nova, immolate and DfA, frostbolt and arclightning as primary; glass cannon, fleet footed and celerity/power infusion as passives. +fire damage on gear, Igniters' sash, ELR armour, GMC weapons.
4. Check the mage tutorials :P
5. Did I say check ANB? It can save you thousands of gems.
6. Have fun : )

[Carza]

I can confirm it is a Glacies Tempestas, albeit only a rare, I have frost bolt, frost and. Fire dots,and beam, buffs are mage armour, power and haste, all lvl 7 atm just gem farming to boost them to 10.

On the crit inbalance I play a lot of diablo 3 so my thought here was to get the percentage up on trigger before I put into dmg.

Thanks for all this, it's a steep learning curve to begin with, and there's a lot of info to absorbe.

[NoSuchReality]

In general movement speed is very important for trials. Without it good movement speed, managing the mob, keeping safe distance from elites and escaping Elban and other Boss attacks is not possible. Most players use movement speed on both pants and boots. It appears neither your pants nor boots have it based on your movement speed. This is a huge hinderance to clearing trials.

I can't tell from the image, but you should verify the equipped tome is a Glacies Tempestas. To fully leverage the Grand Magisters Command set, you need to have Frost Bolt as either your primary or secondary attack (one finger or two finger attack). You then need frost and fire spells. Easiest to use is Frost Nova to learn with Immolate. To evoke the shock and shatter effects.

At the moment your Ability Rate is low, the new sweet spot is about 1500. You also may want to switch to in Integralas Mantle as it gives an AR buff. Having all six pieces of Elemental Lords Regalia also shortens the cooldown on your frost & fire spells.

Ultimately, clearing trials boils down to casting your big spells.

Your Haste is a little low, but passable to clear mid tier Trials.

Your Crit Rating looks good but is out of balance at the moment. CR controls how often you crit hit. CD, (crit damage) controls how much damage you do on the crit hit. You've got quite a few points in CR, but very little CD.

[Carza]

Okies this is what I got so far, bearing in mind 1wk old,

[NoSuchReality]

Post your toon details page we can Look at it and give pointers. Fill in your Set up with crafted rare level piece to complete the sets. Double check the damage parameters on your weapon set, it is, IMHO, the single most important stat of them all. A poor base damage stat is punishing.

[Carza]

Easiest play, IMHO, doesn’t require glory, find or craft an Elemental Lord Regalia set. A Grand Magisters Command weapon set.

Learn to effectively use shock, shatter, mob management, and managing the map and boss summoning.

Have a few ELR items boots, pants and GMC, gd low level trinkets doing 6,05M DPS but finding it hard to get past TL 66

[NoSuchReality]

So the game is easily playable without a set sash, trinket or bracer of mastery up to about TL110. You can play 3 or 4 different sets up to clearing TL100.

A lot of stuff on the forum and discord is geared towards late game (TL130+), speed running for ANB, or optimizing you character after champion level 1500.

Easiest play, IMHO, doesn’t require glory, find or craft an Elemental Lord Regalia set. A Grand Magisters Command weapon set.

Learn to effectively use shock, shatter, mob management, and managing the map and boss summoning.

[Carza]

Wish I had read the forums and the stickies before I started this game. I'm a noob mage, been on the game for a week. Bought the season pass and dropped glories on storm gear?. After reading this thread I have got a few items and bought the sash for 10 glories. Have 25 glories left, I guess the question is I have low level trinkets do I spend them on getting a decent legendary one? Oh..... And the CT thread and math Fry's my brain. Plz some one dumb it down.

Mobile phone only........