After the new Tundra update for Rune Slayer on Roblox, we have seen a whole host of changes, alongside brand new additions. With new weapons, races, armors and more – we now have even more options for builds. As a result, the mage class can also benefit from this so that you can do so much more to your existing mage class. If you’d like to make your mage class even better – not to worry, we have you covered! In this guide, we’ll be going over everything you need for the best mage build. With that said, let’s dive in!
Best Mage Build Guide
For the mage build, we’ll be going over the best races, abilities, spells, armor, weapons, runes and more that you can utilize. We’ll go over various options so that you can use the ones that are achievable.
Keep in mind that we’ll be using the Warlock class for this mage build.
We do recommend that you start leveling up so that you can get everything needed for the build. Our level up progression guide can help give you a good road map.
Best Race
The best race for the Mage by far is the Infernum Race, which has a 1% chance to drop. This is mainly due to the following racial passives you get with it in Rune Slayer:
- -5% Holy Resistance
- +10% Heat Resistance
- +1 Luck.
Keep in mind that you will not be able to join the Holy Sect, and will remain a Demon.
Alongside these passives, you can also get an ability depending on the evolution that you get. These evolutions are the two horned demon, four horned demon and six horned demon.
When you reach Level 25, you will be able to select between these evolutions.
The best evolution for the mage is definitely the four horned demon as he gets a +10% Magic Buff. Additionally, you also get the Hells Chains ability that activates when you use Hell’s Embrace – which does a decent amount of damage.
We do understand that getting the Infernum race is very luck based. So, here are some alternate races that you can also select for the best mage build:
- Seraphim (any evolution)
- 1% chance to drop
- Vampire
- 2% chance to drop
- Can also be acquired by killing vampires for Blood Vials
- Half Golem with Crystal Body Evolution
- 5.3% chance to drop
- Elf
- 4.25% chance to drop
So, if you’re having trouble with the higher tier races, you can try to pull the less rare ones!
Spells (Abilities)
Most of the spells that you’ll be choosing for the mage build will depend on your choice of staff. The staffs that we’ll be looking at are the Revenant’s Grasp and the Armageddon. We’ll be looking at them in detail later in the guide.
With that said, here is the breakdown of the spells you can take with the Mage Build:
- First Spell
- Fire Slice
- Choose this if you’re using Armageddon
- Excellent fire damaging ability as long as mobs have big hitboxes
- Waterfall
- Magic Repeater
- Choose between the two above if you’re using the Revenant’s Grasp
- These give lesser dread stacks than most spells
- Fire Slice
- Second Spell
- Flame Pillar
- Huge AoE wherever you place your mouse with excellent damage
- Can also reach flying targets, like Iskael the Frost Dragon
- Thunder Strike
- Does a lot of posture damage
- Suitable for PvP, single target damage
- Flame Pillar
- Third Spell
- Storm Sphere
- When this spell lands, it scales well with your Crit Chance and Crit Damage – dealing a lot of damage
- Stacks the lesser dread passive if using the Revenant’s Grasp
- Storm Sphere
- Fourth Spell
- Hell’s Embrace
- If you have the Infernum Race, you can select this one for the Hell Chains ability
- Hell’s Embrace
- Fifth Spell
- Arcane Storm
- Best AoE damaging spell in Rune Slayer
- Arcane Storm
- Sixth Spell
- Soul Steal
- Use this if you’re a Warlock class
- Suitable for getting extra damage
- Also allows you to gather souls you need for the Demonic Summons
- Soul Steal
- Seventh Spell
- Summon Imp
- Using Demonic Sacrifice with them gives you 10% Intellect scaling
- Summon Imp
- Eighth Spell
- Summon Fiend
- Useful for their ground slams and dragging mobs away
- Can also stun mobs with its roar
- Using Demonic Sacrifice with them allows you to get 2% health regeneration
- Summon Fiend
- Ninth Spell
- Blink
- Excellent movement ability to teleport you forward
- Blink
- Tenth Spell
- Mana Shield
- Reduces five incoming attacks
- Synergizes well with Diverted Energy
- Mana Shield
- Eleventh Spell
- Overload
- Increases Magic Power by 50% for 10 seconds
- Overload
- Twelfth Spell
- Demonic Sacrifice
- Used on the Demonic Summons for various buffs
- Demonic Sacrifice
- Thirteenth Spell
- Greater Intelligence
- Increases your Intelligence by 50
- Greater Intelligence
- Fourteenth Spell
- Conjure Food III
- Regenerates Hunger 55 per tick
- Conjure Food III
- Fifteenth Spell
- Conjure Water III
- Regenerates Mana 30 per tick
- Conjure Water III
Additionally, here are the abilities that you want to use for the Mage Build:
- Meditation
- Let’s you regenerate mana while casting
- Arcane Armor
- Increases armor based on intelligence
- Diverted Energy
- Magic Shield restores mana based on the damage taken when it is destroyed
- Clearcast
- When a spell successfully hits its target, there is a chance for the next spell to be mana free
Fairies & Pets
After the recent update, fairies now have a separate slot in your inventory. This allows you to have both a fairy and a pet in your inventory.
Starting off, here are your options for fairies for the mage build:
- Normal Fairy
- 0.4 Magic Buff every level
- 50% extra buff with Maelis Ring
- Elemental Fairy
- Choose the element of fairy based on the elemental spells you’ll be doing
- +10% Elemental Damage
- +15% with Maelis Ring
- Golden Fairy
- +3 Extra Loot Roll
- +10% Holy Spell Damage
- +4 Extra Loot Roll and +15% Holy Spell Damage with Maelis Ring
For the pets, you’ll mainly be choosing them either as a mount or as a tank for battles. Here are the pets you can take for the mage build:
- Snow Wolf
- Use Prime Meat to tame it in the Tundra
- Baby Spider
- Use Mandrake Meat to tame it in Spider Cave
If you want to get a better idea of the best pets, check out our best pets tier list!
Armors, Weapons & Accessories
Here are the options you should for as accessories for the Mage Build in Rune Slayer:
- Maelis’s Ring
- +50% Fairy Buff
- Piercing Magic Band or Charged Sorcerer’s Ring
- +10% Magic Pierce with Piercing Magic Band (mainly for PvP)
- +20 Intellect with Charged Sorcerer’s Ring
- Hex Ring or Sage Ring
- Choose based on your faction
- +24 Intellect
- +5 Spirit
- +8 Stamina
- Caster’s Ring or Lucky Ring
- +10% Cast Speed with Caster’s Ring
- +1 Luck with Lucky Ring
For the lantern, mage builds only really have one option. This is the Sapphire Lantern which offers a +3% Magic Power Buff. You can craft it using sapphires.
Additionally, for the offhand, you want to craft the Magician’s Sash. You can do this through a quest in the Lakeshire area. It gives you the following buffs:
- +15 Intellect
- +5 Spirit
- +5 Stamina
Depending on your faction, you should go with either x2 Holy Satchel or Infernal Satchel. Both of these offer +45 Weight each. You can buy them through the faction shop.
However, with the new Tundra update, you can just craft x2 Frostleaf Bags using the Tundra materials. This bag also gives +45 Weight.
For the armor, you want to get the entire Boreal Inquisitor Armor set with includes the following:
- Boreal Inquistor Hood
- Boreal Inquistor Robes
- Boreal Inquistor Pants
This armor set offers excellent intellect and cold resistance buffs, making it ideal for the build.
For the back accessory, we’ll be going with the Cowl of the Void or Archon’s Veil. Both of them are bought from the faction shops. They offer the following buffs:
- +25 Intellect
- +10 Spirit.
Finally, the weapons that you’ll be choosing are one of the following:
- Revenant’s Grasp
- +25 Intellect
- +15 Spirit
- +3% Magic Crit Chance
- With every magical strike, build lesser dread stacks
- When dread is procced, enemies receive 5% of their maximum health damage
- Can be used to summon skeletons as well
- Armageddon
- +34 Intellect
- +8 Spirit
- +3% Magic Crit Chance
- Every time you deal damage with a spell, a burst of hellfire will erupt (adapts depending on type of damage you deal)
Runes
Finally, we’ll be looking at the Runes that you can equip in different slots for your Mage Build. Here is a breakdown of the runes we recommend:
- Helmet (4 Rune Slots)
- Rune Golem
- Storm Caller
- Frosty
- Giant Bee
- Chest Plate (6 Rune Slots)
- Variation 1:
- King Mandrake
- Licht King
- Rat
- Whale
- Intellect or Spirit
- Intellect or Spirit
- Variation 2:
- Whale
- Licht King
- x4 Intellect
- Variation 1:
- Boots (4 Rune Slots)
- Banshee
- Sabertooth
- Intellect or Spirit
- Intellect or Spirit
- Weapon (3 Rune Slots)
- Spider Queen
- Wyvern
- Iskael, Lord of Endless Frost
- Off-hand (3 Rune Slots)
- Intellect or Spirit
- Intellect or Spirit
- Intellect or Spirit
That’s everything you need to know for the best mage build in Rune Slayer. This is probably the most efficient you can make this build right now. We do expect to get even more armor sets and staff in the future – which will likely change the build as well. Most of these build items should be attainable too as long as you’ve progressed enough with the story.
