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Staff, magic damage. Focused on curses and damage over time. Painful blow: 1 s cooldown, very cheap. Has mana regeneration and lifesteal.

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What matters

What matters: survival and mana. This line's damage comes over time, so slowing mobs and cutting their damage before they reach you is important. Lifesteal options reduce potion use while auto-hunting.

What super skills add: Despair (area damage every 26 s, mob attack −60% for 12 s), Gem of Mortification (mob physical attack −90% for 10 s, 42% uptime), +950 health (Dark Lord's Defense) and lifesteal (Soul Hunt). One of the lines that gains the most from super skills, but the mana cost is high.

Recommended super picks (6)

Values are for level 5 of the skill. The starred option is my pick for auto-hunting.

Super skill stone advice

Super skill stones add to the skill's cooldown. The Buff (self) and Buff (self + party) stones that go on buff skills add +60, +180 or +600 s, attack stones +21–62 s. Among active stones the only family without a cost is “Cooldown reduction”, which shortens the cooldown by 1–5 s; passive stones add no cooldown. The rates below are calculated from the stones' cooldown additions.

Example: in the Gunner line, fitting a +60 s Acceleration stone on Rapid Fire makes the buff's uptime 22% instead of 48% (only the cooldown addition is counted). Do not put Buff (self) / Buff (self + party) stones on short-cooldown buffs.

Buff super skills

Uptime = duration ÷ cooldown. The colours and the advice measure only the cooldown cost: green means a loss of at most 15%, yellow up to 35%, red more. The value of the stone effect and the stone's own duration (under the column header) are not counted. For stones with their own duration, uptime would be much lower if that duration applied to the whole buff (not certain), so the option without its own duration is shown separately.

The recommended picks of the Sorceress line include no buff super skill, so there is no buff stone advice for this line.

Only some families' stones have their own duration (+60 s → 10 s; +10 min → 5 s / 10 s); for those stones the tooltip shows the stone's duration instead of the skill's. The +3 min families' stones have no duration of their own and the tooltip shows the skill's own duration. Whether that duration applies only to the stone's extra effect or to the whole buff is unknown. Unknown

Damage and debuff super skills

Cooldown reduction (Unique: −5 s) lets the skill fire more often. Violent shock (Unique: damage +100% according to the description, cooldown +21 s) only makes sense on damaging skills; exactly how the multiplier is applied is unknown. The “×” value compares the total effect per unit of time with no stone. The lower limit of cooldowns is unknown, so cells with a large gain carry a ? mark.

How the damage multiplier is applied and whether cooldowns have a lower limit is unknown; on very short cooldowns the real gain may be smaller. Control stones (shock, suspension, silence) are mostly for PvP. Unknown

Passive super skills (Lv.10 and Lv.45 rows) take passive stones, which add no cooldown; a Health stone is the safest choice for auto-hunting.

Class details (4)

Scores use the “Balanced” priority with super skills included; # is the overall rank.

Succubus 54 pts

Sorceress → Banshee → Succubus

Cheap short-cooldown spell and a permanent attack buff; never short of mana.

• Complete Codex: Collapse 2 Debuff frequent damage Cooldown 5 s · MP cost 17 · Duration 20 s · Bonus magic attack 605 ~ 630 · Attack Power -30%
• Braids of Am-Amon Buff Cooldown 60 s · MP cost 56 · Duration 60 s · Uptime 100% · Attack Power +15%
• Painful blow Debuff frequent damage Cooldown 1 s · MP cost 4 · Duration 3 s · Bonus magic attack 174 ~ 180 · Unable to move · Unable to attack · Unable to use items
• Life tap Damage lifesteal Cooldown 20 s · MP cost 14 · Lifesteal +90
• Knowledge of the codex Passive skill permanent passive Attack Power +5% · Health +5%

Lilim 46 pts

Sorceress → Banshee → Lilim

Strong damage over time but long cooldowns; more of a PvP / curse class.

• Complete Codex: Doom Debuff damage over time Cooldown 60 s · MP cost 46 · Duration 10 s · Bonus magic attack 453 ~ 476 · Health -324
• Blades of Shadow 2 Debuff area damage Cooldown 40 s · MP cost 43 · Duration 10 s · Bonus magic attack 308 ~ 324 · Health -80
• Complete Codex: Collapse 2 Debuff Cooldown 30 s · MP cost 43 · Duration 15 s · Bonus magic attack 372 ~ 403 · Attack Power -30%

Blood Witch 50 pts

Sorceress → Spellbinder → Blood Witch

Mana steal and drain skills; almost no mana problems.

• Cursed Codex: Mutilation 2 Debuff damage over time Cooldown 8 s · MP cost 22 · Duration 10 s · Bonus magic attack 290 ~ 304 · Health -336
• Complete Codex: Mana Combustion 2 Damage Cooldown 5 s · MP cost 45 · Bonus magic attack 326 ~ 348 · Mana -400
• Hellfire Damage frequent damage Cooldown 15 s · MP cost 46 · Duration 0.2 s · Bonus magic attack 465 ~ 487
• Occult Codex: Gluttony Debuff mana steal Cooldown 60 s · MP cost 76 · Duration 30 s · Phys. Defense -200 · Magical Defense -120 · Mana Steal +1,000
• Cursed Codex: Compression Debuff lifesteal Cooldown 25 s · MP cost 43 · Duration 24 s · Bonus magic attack 231 ~ 253 · Health -42 · Mana -24 · Attack Speed -35%

Moon Witch 50 pts

Sorceress → Spellbinder → Moon Witch

Area damage with a poison cloud and a curse that lowers enemy defense.

• Damage Codex: Bleed 2 Debuff frequent damage Cooldown 6 s · MP cost 17 · Duration 10 s · Bonus magic attack 190 ~ 213 · Health -93
• Fangs of Despair Damage area damage Cooldown 15 s · MP cost 46 · Duration 10 s · Bonus magic attack 267 ~ 290 · Health -200
• Mind Destruction Damage Cooldown 10 s · MP cost 46 · Bonus magic attack 334 ~ 366
• Occult Codex: Weakening 2 Debuff weakens enemies Cooldown 60 s · MP cost 44 · Duration 20 s · Bonus magic attack 93 ~ 125 · Phys. Defense -30% · Magical Defense -30%