Build:Astral Hex Knight
Astral Hex Knight is a Character Build in Outward, created by Ham ShEggar.
Summary
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Astral Hex Knight A tanky mage build, that uses Astral Weapons and Shamanic Totems to apply hexes, while recovering Mana passively from their enchanted armour. 
Breakthroughs Required Faction 
Equipment Weapon Off-Hand Head Body Boots Backpack 
Levantine Secret 
Rain 
Arcane Unison 
Arcane Unison Any
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Quickslots 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Full Build Details
This build relies on users taking advantage of skill rotation to constantly apply hexes onto an opponent using their Astral Weapons. The Astral Pistol is the most important piece of equipment for this build, as it is used to apply up to 3 hexes quickly and in rapid succession, allowing the user to spam Rupture without having to set it up again (with Jinx). The choice of armour sacrifices raw damage for utility and efficiency, as the enchantments and armour choices not only regen 0.4 mana points passively, but also reduce cooldowns by 20%, which is reduced by a further 10% from the Sorobor academy passive buff Logistics Expert.
When it comes to food and boons, it is recommended to users to ingest whatever food they have with high mana restoring capabilities, such as Turmip Potage. All the Elemental Boons should be always active, as it gives a big overall damage increase, and the Discipline boon should be active on tough fights.
With all armour, enchantments and passives taken into consideration, this build has the following passive bonuses: 0.7 Mana regeneration, 15% Mana cost reduction, 13% movement speed increase (this includes the Armour Training passive), 30% cooldown reduction, 10% Corruption Resistance (from Metabolic Purge), 12% Frost damage bonus, 15% Fire damage bonus (from Fire Affinity), 14% Lightning damage bonus, 7% Ethereal damage bonus, 15% bonuses to buying and selling prices (from preferential treatment), 39% less stamina consumption while sprinting and a 5 weight Pouch bonus.
All the elemental bonuses can be increased by a further 15% if you choose to take Brains, which would boost your passive damage bonuses to: 27% Frost damage, 30% Fire damage, 29% Lightning damage, 22% Ethereal damage and 15% Decay damage.
Combos
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