I regret on getting mind over matter

My max block summoner with 5k life/500 es/acrobatics(through ire)/20% evade was in very close proximity to it having taken the duelist life cluster. Spent 4 points getting MoM. Not impressed. But its not terrible either. My character has 300-500 mana at any given time meaning it would be on par with just getting more life nodes with those points.
The worst issue for me is not its efficiency though, its the fact that when you need your mana the most(after taking a heavy hit)...it is often not available. Which is a very large drawback.
There is a benefit beyond the immediate damage mitigation though. You regenerate/pot mana separately from life allowing for quicker recovery back to full.
I am keeping MoM despite its drawback though. But for anyone who has to spend more than 4 points to reach MoM i would recommend against it.
My build:

I'm a life, EB character that goes right past the MoM node. Why on earth *wouldn't* I take it?

You don't have to have a 7/3 ratio for it to be effective - it's just incrementally less effective if less. BUT, if it's less than 7/3 because you're running clarity, then that's a different story. I actually prefer to be a bit under 7/3 (if I have to be) and to run clarity and get a massive mana regen boost (170/s).

I've found MoM to be very good. Any build that "relies" on MoM's great weakness is degen damage, of course.

P.

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iamjace wrote:

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Hanatsu wrote:

I'm currently running MoM, Iron reflexes, and EB and its working pretty good lvl 72 nemesis.

you run IR and EB together? then what states do you pick up for gear? EV/ES? your armor is half when comparing to those who pick Armor/EV.
your physical damage migration is lower than others..

MoM won't reduce your damage .. just transfer some of the damage to your mana pool. and you need to spend a lot of passive points on doing this "transfer" which isn't worth it.

For the people just stacking armor/ev.. they just need to grab all HP nodes around their paths.. HP nodes are everywhere much easier to grab than Mana nodes

EV/ES gear + IR + MoM + EB + Arctic Armour > Pure Armour/EV

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iamjace wrote:

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Hanatsu wrote:

I'm currently running MoM, Iron reflexes, and EB and its working pretty good lvl 72 nemesis.

you run IR and EB together? then what states do you pick up for gear? EV/ES? your armor is half when comparing to those who pick Armor/EV.
your physical damage migration is lower than others..

MoM won't reduce your damage .. just transfer some of the damage to your mana pool. and you need to spend a lot of passive points on doing this "transfer" which isn't worth it.

For the people just stacking armor/ev.. they just need to grab all HP nodes around their paths.. HP nodes are everywhere much easier to grab than Mana nodes

you dont need to run the gear like that

just use a ES chest thats easily over 1k extra mana(so you should be at like atleast 2k total mana) there the rest of the gear can be evasion based and run grace.

MoM is kinda specific but the other point is the fact that it is not really meant to full tank it is more for those times when brutus desyncs and smashes you

Im doing just fine with the new MoM chest, IR, EB, 5k HP and about 450 mana per second(900 unreserved, 3k total mana). Im using EK and with AA im pretty much immune to reflect( Tried many reflect maps with phys reflect aura+ele reflect aura and was taking 0 dmg from reflect).
Im running grace+hatered+clarity. And when i get my hands on an alhpas howl my plan is to run Determination+grace+haterd on mana and calrity on life, with that i would reach around 15k armour, atm im at 9k armour.

You need to build around MoM if you want it to be effecitve.