Maxing Elemental MACCFollow

I’ve been building a 320/120 build for my hume sch/rdm and have everything except for a couple items, Temenos AF material, and 3 merits till 5/5 int. Actually, with all that I’ll have 321/120 counting food and weather.

My current skill set up is 317 skill, 5 macc and 119 int counting food and weather (not counting staff however). I haven’t had a chance to try this out on anything other than NW Apollyon KB and Ulli. So only 1-2 dozen nukes, not a big enough sample size but still not a single resist in this skill setup.

I’ve read Kaeko’s post on macc vs skill vs int, also read dozens of the posts on macc vs skill. With all the gear choices that are within my reach, I can hit a build with 326 skill 9 macc and a measely 105 int. Basically the difference is druids over mahatma slops, numerist over goliard feet, balrahn over tamas, omega over snow.

Is this a more accurate set than a 320/120? With the assumption that 1 macc = .9 skill and 2 int = 1 skill (.9 skill?) it works out to be a more accurate set.

I’ve heard as a blm that you want to shoot for over 330 skill for resistive hnm, but I do not know if you try to keep the same 120int or if you can drop your int for skill and macc. Or is the idea of 120 int just to keep reasonable damage.

I apologize for the incoherent rambling. What's your perspective on building the strongest possible elemental magic accuracy set?

Unless you're targeting a specific HNM, I usually follow this rule: For any given piece add up the INT, Skill, and M.Acc. Then pick the piece with the highest number. If two pieces are equal, go with the one with more INT (or with some MAB).

This is only if you're going for a resist build, however. Obviously for general use, you would favor large MAB pieces over resist build pieces.

This is not a terribly uncommon mentality, especially with the release of Focalization, which affords Klimaform-type tactics.

Is there any number(s) on the amount of MACC Klimaform grants?

Oh no, not at all. Focalization has no place on this type of strategy. The point is to use Alacrity to allow Klimaform being up 2/3 of the time, to nuke as much as needed. Focalization on the other hand would be good for one nuke only.

Focalization + Klimaform is a overkill; unless you want to replicate ES effects for something important (Sleeps/Grav). Nuking is not something I'd use Focalization for.

Klimaform is good, but I can't say hand-on-heart that it's going to floor your resist rates on genuinely tough monsters. Been there, tried that. Klimaform is a useful tool for mobs you get average resist rates on, but for mobs who resist you heavily anyway, Klimaform does little to annul that.

At best it'll take a high-resist mob to a moderate-resist mob. At worst you may not even notice the difference. And yes, I've used it as liberally as possible.

A good example is Imps who are phenomenally resistant to nukes. With fully merited Elemental skill + Torque + AF + Klimaform + over 120 INT I was barely denting them with Tier 4's. Elemental Seal seems a far greater bonus than Klimaform, in my humble opinion.

My own experiences with Klimaform haven't been quite as positive. While I'm still a couple merits short of 320 Ele in my skill build, jumping to my more MATK heavy set up still sees frequent resists on anything above your usual EXP mob. 40-50 MACC just seems way too insane for SE's standard of minimalism.

Perhaps something I'm curious over, however, is if Dark skill somehow improves its potency. Not exactly something easy to test, but it'd suggest some growth in the spell as we level since even the suggested 40-50 in the mid-40s would be HUGE.