Spear Mage Guide

For patch: 5.0.0

Spear in all its glory

Guide Book

So a bit different than other builds, the spear is gonna be your only damaging weapon for this build.

This build does not use int scaling gems to take adavantage of ice gauntlet damage. If you wanna do that for whatever reason, replace the freedoms with ice harnessing and use frost runeglass on you armour.

Gearing

First of all the perks in the tables are ordered based on the most important perk in the first slot. So Perk 1 and 2 are mandatory, while perk 3 is optional.

Weapons

Artifact Item Type Gem Perk 1 Perk 2 Perk 3 Acquisition-Links
Spear Japser (runeglass) Penetrating Backstab Plagued Crits Attunement
Deep Freeze Ice-Gauntlet Any-Runeglass Vicious Refreshing Move Healing Tomb Glacial Tarn

Armour

Named Weight Item-Type Perk-1 Perk-2 Perk-3 Acquisition-Links
Bergan's Gaze Medium Helmet Health Shirking Heals Elemental Aversion PvP Track
Dragatacht Medium Chest Health Shirking Heals Elemental Aversion PvP Track
Frigid Dawn Gloves Heavy Gloves Elemental-Aversion Enchanted Ward Shirking Heals Glacial Tarn
Iron Heart Heavy Legs Refreshing Enchanted Ward Shirking Heals PvP Track
Freezeframe Medium Boots Health Fortifying Perforate Elemental Aversion Winter Rune Forge

Jewelry

Named Item Type Perk 1 Perk 2 Perk 3 Acquisition-Links
Tanglevine Amulet Amulet Thrust Protection Shirking Empower Health Elysian Wilds
Deepriver Ring Ring Hearty Thrust-Damage Purifying Heart Siren's Brute
Endless Thirst Earring Empowered Toast Fortifying Toast Healing Heart Savage Divide

Optional

This my ideal setup, but you dont have too run this exact setup. Here are some alternatives to certain items:

  • Spears

    Plagued crits can be replaced by Fortifying Perforate, Keen Speed, Rogue, Keenly Jagged, etc. You can find a good farmable spear here

  • Ice Gauntlet Weapon Perks

    Unending Thaw is a very good option. It allows you too root, slow and keep the 15% damage modifier on them from the ice gauntlet artifact.

  • Spear Weapon Perks

    Leeching Cyclone is optional. It's a pretty decent option, but has sadly been pretty nerfed by the disease buffs.

  • Ring

    You can use mortal empowerment instead of purifying heart.

Heartrune

So for heartrunes we have a couple options.

  • Rending Vines

    Rending Vines is a fantastic offensive and defensive option.

  • Stoneform

    Stoneform is bugged and hasnt been fixed yet. Avoid if possible.

    A very good option, as it allows for much lower con.

Attributes

150 con is pretty safe, but with stoneform you can probably push it too 100.

Strenght Dexterity Intelligence Focus Constitution Example Images
200 250 5 5 150 example
200 300 5 5 100 example

Resistance

We should be looking for 20% thrust resistance 24% fire resistance, 5% strike, 15% slash. We use 4 rubies, 2 onyxes and 2 moonstones to achieve this.

Weapon Tree

Spear

  • Vault kick bis

    A pretty big counter too anyone using shields. Vault kick destroys blocked stamina. Spear weapon tree

  • W enjoyer

    As the name implies this is the most aggresive tree. Spear weapon tree

  • Arena build

    Probably the most fun build, but pretty shit in group fights Spear weapon tree

Ice Gauntlet

  • Deep Freeze Storm

    Only viable option, as you need storm too proc artifact modifier. Ice Gauntlet weapon tree