Need help on mana sustain for spellcasters

I'm playing Crackling Lance Elementalist as my main skill and a few secondary skill as I like to be a true spellcaster.
I have Arcanist Brand to trigger Shock Nova (for the maximum shock) supported by Elemental Proliferation and Arcane Surge for extra mana regen.
Phantasmal Sigil of Power for reduced mana cost, Orb of Storm and Frost Wall to protect me while I'm stationary.
10% reduced mana cost from 2x jewel.
Around 2.7k Maximum mana but reserved most of them with Wrath, Zealotry, Petrified Blood, Temporal Rift, Vitality.

Crackling Lance is at lvl26 and cast rate around 8.5/s. POB shows main skill @440mana/s and not include other spells yet.
I have no more sockets for Clarity and no more currency to find a better ring or amulet or watcher's eye.

Anything else I can do to sustain mana without sacrificing damage or skill gems?

Your best bet would be the Eldritch Battery keystone, turning your ES into mana and allowing constant ES recharge (as long as you dont also go for Mind over Matter) to take care of your mana issues.

The downside is that any skills or supports demanding mana to be spent wont work anymore, such as Inspiration or Sigil of Power etc.


Anyhow, Im not using mana as a ressource anymore, especially not as a caster, when EB is readily available and sort out most if not all mana related issues.

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Orbaal wrote:

Your best bet would be the Eldritch Battery keystone, turning your ES into mana and allowing constant ES recharge (as long as you dont also go for Mind over Matter) to take care of your mana issues.

The downside is that any skills or supports demanding mana to be spent wont work anymore, such as Inspiration or Sigil of Power etc.


Anyhow, Im not using mana as a ressource anymore, especially not as a caster, when EB is readily available and sort out most if not all mana related issues.

Thanks for the reply. But I need those energy shield to survive because I'm running low life for extra damage. That is why I need Arctic Armour and Vitality as well otherwise I would just use Clarity.

Inspiration support as a link for crackling lance would be one idea if you don't have that yet. - mana cost on rings is another, potentially on amulet as well. If that still doesn't cut it, one enduring mana flask will solve any mana issues a regular caster i.e non archemage, will ever have but it's a let down qol wise so i'd try to manage without it.

Unhide your characters so we can see what you are running exactly.

-mana cost items are generally more useful on attack builds because spell builds tend to cost astronomical amounts of mana. In most cases if you've been building mana and regen already, the key will be to give up an aura. You are trying to have everything and are facing the consequences of that decision.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Inspiration support as a link for crackling lance would be one idea if you don't have that yet. - mana cost on rings is another, potentially on amulet as well. If that still doesn't cut it, one enduring mana flask will solve any mana issues a regular caster i.e non archemage, will ever have but it's a let down qol wise so i'd try to manage without it.

Thanks! Inspiration is not really an optimal support as my build is running Elemental Overload, but I will consider that. I've tried Enduring mana flask but it does not really cut it because I spent too much mana at once. I just checked the Arcanist Brand and Shock Nova costs at least 105 mana/s.

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TemjinGold wrote:

Unhide your characters so we can see what you are running exactly.

-mana cost items are generally more useful on attack builds because spell builds tend to cost astronomical amounts of mana. In most cases if you've been building mana and regen already, the key will be to give up an aura. You are trying to have everything and are facing the consequences of that decision.

I think you are right, I'm facing the consequences for having too many skills at once. But I like to cast lots of skill, sigh...