How the heck do you support the mana cost of 5 link gems?

Ok I have taken all the +mana regen nodes and +30% from gear, I have like 150% bonus regen.


With clarity I regen 45mana per second.


THIS IS WITHOUT CAST SPEED TALENTS


Freezing pulse -> LMP -> FASTER pROJECTILE -> COLD PENETRATE = 60 mana per second.

With just 4 sockets and a low modifier(projectiles is just 10%) I am losing mana.


If I get another gem, say added cold damage, I'll lose 84 mana per second, completely impossible to keep up with.

And no don't give me that "use mana leech/reduced mana gems" cause that just friggin makes it the same as a 4linked freezing pulse.

There is no crazy answer for this other than get more mana regen. Get it from gear.

They need to lower the base cost of int skills.

The str/dex guys use like 3 mana per skill and with blood magic just 10 points away they can use 6links instantly no problem.

honestly I dont think you should ever have a 6 link support. instead why not share supports?

the way i've been looking at it is 6L gear is for your bread and butter abilities, especially if they're similar in type and give them both 4 support gems.

like for my summoner, im pairing up zombies and spectre so they each get 4 support gems.

or my dualist who is getting cleave and dual strike

5 support is just over doing things.

Its called gear with maximum mana and maximum mana talents.

People fail to realize this because they all go full DPS talents.

You could always play Eldritch Battery and go full HP nodes after, its viable.

Some support gems dont encrease mana cost.

Where does it say that you should be able to non-stop spam abilities anyway? So you are losing 15 mana/second - you must be able to go a good amount of time before exhausting it? And then it will replenish 3 times as quick, how often can you actually just stand there firing freezing pulse without moving? Out of every 4 seconds, you can fire it 3 seconds, sounds pretty good to me. Go up to 84 mana per sec and it gets a bit worse, that's why you need to decide whether the extra damage per hit is worth it.

I have no experiance with this but you can get gear and possibly gems that increase mana on hit or kill or % on dmg. This would allow you to keep attacking without loss.

I only see myself using 5L for spell totems, since you only cast it once in awhile. The other 4L I used right now is Reduced mana with my auras. I using FP with just LMP and Faster Projectiles, that's good enough because I need to spam it. I will add Iron Will after I've leveled it up more to FP since it doesn't add mana cost.

I haven't take more than half the mana regen nodes and I'm at 58 mana/sec with Clarity, perhaps you need more from your gear.

How is it even possible to have so low mana reg on a witch? :o
Atm I reg 45mp/sec w/o clarity, 88.7 with clarity.
Im lvl 69 and my gear is pure shit, mana reg on 1 part and 4 parts doesn't even give any mana.