Archmage and mana regeneration

Obviously using archmage on a pledge of hands and awakened spell echo on a MBL mana stacking build is going to be difficult to balance wihout pathfinder mana flask chugging.

I just made a mana regen build using arcane surge buff stacking (arcane heroism cluster passive) and got my mana regen just under 6k per second during a +-10 sec arcane surge. With nexus gloves I managed to sustain without needing mana potions except for long boss fights. Even when each spell cast was 5k per cast the 30% chance of a refund from the nexus gloves kick in enough to never run dry mapping. A normal mana flask was enough to top up during sustained casting.

The ball lightning archmage mana stacker is a boss melter at the best of times but I found during the 50 phase sirus fight I died sometimes because my mana pots ran dry before the end of the fight. I made the build with random crap I pick up during the league and wanted to try max mana regen. I didn't think it would work but it works REALLY well.

During arcane surge your damage goes up 300%. This build is the cheapest and easiest endgame build I have ever used. Pretty generic uniques costing a few chaos each. 6-8 ex for the 6 links. Probably 15 ex total with the cluster jewels and megalomanics. With the proper investment you could easily push the mana regen to 8-9k per second which would make you practically immortal in delve darkness. This would require a couple of voices realistically and a bunch of esoteric megalomanics but still very doable.

Mana regen using arcane surge whodathunk?

share pob?

I think EB needs a buff :)

I will have to set it up in POB.

https://pastebin.com/YqTe7Knn

The mana regen is lower on POB by about 800-1000 mana per sec for some reason and the build is "there abouts". Ball lightning hits 9 times per projectile using slower projectiles and 6 times using awakened greater projectiles so the dps is x9(or x6)x4 per cast to a stationary target. It is 2.1 million damage per tick.

Using the Agnostic keystone the mana regen drops to about 3500/s (in game) per sec while you have health damage but it is a 130% life regen per sec (2500) way more than your life pool. The build can be improved and I think elementalist would offer the best dps with the exact same setup with golems.

You get 58% of damage taken from mana with the scion also. The heirophant would be super tanky but I dont know much about the class tbh.

EDIT - reason the mana regen was lower was clarity wasn't on the build.
EDIT - I forgot to add lightning exposure and shock +60% so the damage per cast goes up to about 130m.

Isnt 2k life low? Even with a 50% MOM thats 4k effective HP.

Yeah thats great dps but this is pure glass cannon. And the glass is thin.

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Krayken wrote:

Isnt 2k life low? Even with a 50% MOM thats 4k effective HP.

Yeah thats great dps but this is pure glass cannon. And the glass is thin.

58% mom @ 12000 mana is 5k + 30% attack block 12% attack dodge 44% spell block during flask. A down side is chaos res and hits from sirus otherwise chaos dot is nothing to the regen. Phys damage from spikeys is okay unless you teleport into a pack. Arcane cloak give 7500 HP as well for 8 seconds with a 2.68 cooldown. Can face take awakener 9 sirus if you know when to use it. Unless you get one shot your life is full before you notice it has taken damage. Every build can be one shot.

thumbs up

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Soulscar1 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/YqTe7Knn

Wait, does that Might of the Meek grant 50% increased effect of the small passive nodes granted by Unnatural Instinct??

EDIT: Also, I don't know if something went wrong but The Agnostic doesn't seem allocated on that tree? Where are you getting it?

Also, holy mackerel, you really got 12332 mana? That's massive.

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adghar wrote:

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Soulscar1 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/YqTe7Knn

Wait, does that Might of the Meek grant 50% increased effect of the small passive nodes granted by Unnatural Instinct??

EDIT: Also, I don't know if something went wrong but The Agnostic doesn't seem allocated on that tree? Where are you getting it?

Also, holy mackerel, you really got 12332 mana? That's massive.

When you allocate agnostic on POB it shows it "active" so you lose mana regen as if you were losing life.

Yes unnatural instinct gets 50% on unallocated passives from might of the meek 100% with 2. Only viable on scion buillds imo.

Just transferred the build to my elementalist.

https://pastebin.com/8z4hxUC2

Elementalist gets 3700 hp elemental aegis, more regen from exposure procs passive and is immune to elemental ailments with 4 golems.