My MagPlar isn't my main (but I do BG alot), though I do have a new MagPlar I've been experimenting with that does pretty well (good kill/death ratio).

The build is focused on decent defense and speed at the expense of good spammable damage -- I rely on Radiant Oppression to make up that weakness.

Wearing 5 Aetherial Ascension for good resistance (crafted medium for passive damage bonus and speed), 5 Spinners for good pen and ok spell damage (weapon, jewelry, light waist), Kragh medium shoulder for more pen, and Oakensoul ring to get Major Sorcery at all time without having to slot/fuss with something like Degeneration, and all the other buffs.

It's build to play at range, primarily. Front bar (only bar, due to Oakensoul) is: Honor the Dead, Lingering Flair, Radiant Oppression, Race Against Time, Crushing Shock (Spinners Inferno Staff), and Dawnbreaker of Smiting.

Aetherial Ascension and Lingering Flare make you fairly tanky so that you can survive constantly being ganked and Dragon-leaped, but mostly you want to keep your distance and try to create opportunities to combine Crushing Shock with Dawnbreaker to get someone below ~30% then spam Radiant O -- which is a pretty powerful ranged execute. It's one of the few ranged spells that can actually kill anything in this tanky meta where DKs are all undead and hard to kill.

Biggest weakness is lack of a CC. You feel it.

Anyway, like I said -- I'm new to MagPlar, just experimenting. Would be very interested to get feedback on the build or hear/see what others are doing.

Baconlad wrote: »

Go full damage. No one likes to play against tanky players. No one likes to take five minutes killing anything.

I am in war maiden, 1p slimecraw, oakensoul and new moon acolyte, all light. Run fire staff sharpened with lover mundus.

I have 6.7k spell damage, 18k penetration, 40% crit, and 80% crit damage buff. (Slightly lower stats for BG's as these numbers are with CP)

I run dark flare, javelin, radiant destruction, mist form, honor the dead, meteor/ soul assault.

I run detect/magic pots and even have invisible pots on standby.

I am stage 4 vamp and I like to try and get into stealth often using vamp passive.

It's not an easy build. It's hard to go offensive when ur getting beat on because by the time you flip to offense you are half health.

I normally run between 15-25 kills in a BG. My highest was 45 KB in one BG. Super tanky 1vX sweatlords are a pain. But I'm ok with it. Being able to pull three times their kills is all I need to feel like I did something.

GL

I like the sound of this build for MagPlar, Baconlad.

I'm wondering how you get 18k penetration? I don't see any source of breach on your bar (elemental susceptability, power of the light) or in your gear? Going all light armor gives ~6.5k, lover ~2.7K, sharpened 3.2k = 12.4k? What am I missing?