Best way to maintain mana as a bow user?

Get Mana Leech on your items, (1-2% of physical attack damage leeched as mana), and grab the Mind Drinker node near the shadow tree (2% of Physical attack damage leeched as mana), heck, Mind Drinker is literally all you need to sustain your mana.

In my opinion leeching works the best. Gives back a ton of mana. Need a decent mana pool (500 is plenty) so that your amount of mana leeched per second is enough to support constant firing. Can also use a quality leech gem to speed up the process.

With my lvl 70+ ranger I played through basically the entire game off of pure leech, still reserving about 3/4 of my pool for auras and using 5L skills. I don't even use a leech gems anymore (stopped using about lvl 60), all I have is 1% mana leech on my quiver and mind drinker (shadow node) and it is more than enough as long as I'm hitting things. If desync lies to you and you lose your mana, just chug a potion :)

Of course, if you're more elementally based you might need more leech gear, or to just use a gem. I use split arrow most of the time, which I have being about 95% physical, and fire arrow with added fire, more elemental, and hatred (about 30% physical) on single targets and bosses, but the overleech from my split arrow keeps my mana going for a decent time after I've been firing.

But, all depends on your build. If you're high health with life leech and regen, blood magic would work great.

More intelligence based and using energy shield? Mind as well go with pure mana regen and clarity.

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AusterlitZ wrote:

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skinnay wrote:

soul siphon!!

it will get moved for 1.00

yeah and there's also a passive point reset, so he can get it now...and then just get it again after the patch

Lioneyes glare / +100 mana

Blood magic support gem/passive or mana leech.