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Mage's Blessing
Boots
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Shoes of Focus
Book of Thoth
Spear of Desolation
Book of the Dead
Soul Reaver
Spear of the Magus
If applicable, You can add some other protections I'd suggest
- Magi's if too much CC
- Gauntlet Just sounds cool
Magi's Cloak
Gauntlet of Thebes
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Since you are getting book of thoth, an alternate start you can consider would be book of souls with 2 mana pots and 1 health pot.
Damage dealers, such as Vulcan, usually want to maximize their damage potential. They typically do not get many protection items. IF they do, they will usually only get one. As an FYI,
The other point is that most players looking to maximize that damage with power and penetration, with utility coming from specific things like CDR, and side effects (depending on god) coming from things like
In your build, you've got plenty of power...but absolutely zero penetration. Every god has natural protections, and can also build additional protections via items. The higher the protections, the more damage they block. Penetration (and protection reduction) is the answer to those protections, as it allows you to basically pretend they have less protections than they do. There's a large variety of items that provide this function, and they all have different effect. It's a bit much to go into this if you don't really know anything about it...and the fact you don't build ANY penetration is a bit telling that maybe you're not really familiar with the mathematical mechanics behind the game. This is no offense to you...if you don't ever really research, then you won't typically know.
To that end, this is a lot more reading than you probably want, but you'll find a lot of info in my Items guide here: https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/an-in-depth-discussion-on-item-choices-14522
Anyway, for Vulcan, due to his kit, you'll typically get some early penetration (e.g.
Another point, when you build
There are probably some other things I could talk about (that would be situational alternatives at least), but that's a good starting point.
Hope this helps.
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https://www.smitefire.com/smite/blog/kriega1/online-text-link-for-online-linking