Mana stacking Archmage - Stormweaver guide
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Archived guide
 Welcome to my Archmage stormweaver poe2 early access guide. This forum post contains spoilers! I actually recommend trying your first playthru blind. Bookmark this page and come back here if you get stuck. I will be sharing my poe2 journey here in a form of a guide. My goal with this character is to clear all content on softcore. Reaching high amound of mana will give us a defensive layer with Mind over Matter keystone. It will also scale our damage because Archmage. We will be scaling ES while picking up CI. Disclaimer: I dont follow other player builds so I will experiment a lot. If you decide to stick around expect a lot of respeccing / gem swaps. You can find me on discord: fori3d Updates: 07/12/2024 - v0.02 - updated leveling skills 06/12/2024 - v0.02 - added Skill trees 06/12/2024 - v0.01 - added Early level skill options 05/12/2024 - v0.01 - Forum Thread created
Mechanics explained
Archmage
 Permanent damage buff that reserves 100 spirit. More mana we have, the more damage we will do. We dont want to link support to this that increases spirit cost.
Mind over Matter (MoM)
 Turns our mana pool into effective life. Damage will drain our mana. We only take this node in late game once we have enough mana regen / mana recovery.
Chaos Innoculation (CI)
 This keystone giving us poison immunity but reduces our life to 1. Our ES and/or Mana is protecting our life. 1 life means we will be always on full life (low life passives do not work on this build).
Mana Tempest
 Damage buff skill we need to press. We use skill in burst windows when boss is frozen or derping around. It will drain our mana until we are inside of the tempest while making our skills do more damage. We will link this gem with empowering cull. When rares/bosses go low life activate tempest to cull the enemy (need to damage the boss to cull, activating the tempest by itself wont cull the enemy) - Not sure if this is going to be ingame
Cast on Shock
 It is a new type of meta gem that has a socket. We can put an active skill in it which will auto activate when reached enough energy. To get energy we need to shock enemies. Our main damage skill we do it for us and cast on shock skill will auto proc for extra damage. Spells to consider with Cast on shock: Arc, Conduit, Lightning bolt.
Leveling
lvl33 tree lvl41 tree If you are lacking defence. Look for vendor upgrades. Life / ES / Resist After taking arcane surge ascendancy you can rush for the Damage Taken From Mana nodes (18%) If you are lacking damage. Gamble gold for staves and hope for +2 spell or +3 lightning staff. Also Keep checking the vendor when you are in town for upgrades Assign fire skills to fire staff, lightning skill to lightning staff on weapon swap. (If u have a generic +2 all skill / spell dmg staff, dont need to assign skills)
Gem setup until level 30-35:
For clearing: Spark + Pierce + Unleash Flame wall + Fortress For Bosses: Ember Fusillade + Control Destruction + Ignition Solar orb
Gem setup after 30-35:
For clearing: Spark + Pierce + Control Destruction + Acceleration Flame wall + Fortress For Bosses: Arc - Unleash - Chain - Lightnin Pen Orb of Storms - Arcane Tempo Conductivity - Persistence - Magnified effect Mana Tempest - Premeditation - Inspiration Spirit: Arctic Armour
End game passive tree
Ascendancy
IF Playing with lightning skills: 8 - 9 - 4 - 5 IF Playing with cold or fire skills: 8 - 9 - 6 - 7  Arcane surge (8) -> Arcane surge effect (9) These 2 nodes mandatory for mana sustain. Then either take the path to 5 or 7. If using lightning skill like Ball lightning go for Shaper of Winter (5) for guaranteed chill (It enables us to use Elemental invocation meta gem) If using cold skill like eye of winter go for Shaper of Storms (7) for guaranteed shock (In this case we will use Cast on shock meta gem) (Will need to experiment. Maybe archmage will give the cold skill enough lightning damage to get shocks anyways.) Other option is to take 6 or 4 and then take 10. I will want to test Shaper of Winter tho. I will pick that up and see if chilling makes the playstyle safer. Taking 1 is also an option for more damage but getting a chill mechanic in the build might worth it. We can further slow enemies with temp chains to have a lazy and safe playstyle.
Gems
CHECK THE LEVELING SECTION. IF YOU ARE FURTHER THAN THAT EXPERIMENT, ENJOY THE GAME. UPDATING THIS LATER
Gear
Coming soon
Videos
Wont be posting video guides but I will show gameplay Last edited by Foridesign#0099 on Dec 7, 2024, 10:09:31 PM Last bumped on Dec 11, 2024, 4:55:03 PM
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Sorry if I'm wrong, but in Ascendancy section you posibly mixed pathes.
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" I didnt mix the pathing. I updated the ascendancy section with an explanation: At first Im taking Arcane surge -> then arcane surge effect. These 2 nodes mandatory for mana sustain. Then depending on what skill I end up using I either take the path to 5 or 7. Basically If I use lightning skill like Ball lightnoing I want that skill to chill/freeze enemies to have a safer playstyle so I would go for Shaper of Winter (5) for guaranteed chill If I end up using a cold skill like eye of winter I would go for Shaper of Storms (7) for guaranteed shock (will need to experiment. Maybe archmage will give the cold skill enough lightning damage to get shocks anyways.) Other option is to take 6 or 4 and then take 10. I will want to test Shaper of Winter tho. I will pick that up and see if chilling makes the playstyle safer. Taking 1 is also an option for more damage but getting a chill mechanic in the build might worth it. We can further slow enemies with temp chains to have a lazy and safe playstyle. Also keep in mind this chill/shock idea is experimental we dont know how good or reliable the freeze buildup. It is something I will test and update guide. Last edited by Foridesign#0099 on Dec 5, 2024, 5:39:11 AM
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Yes, I understand you. Thanks for explanation.
Last edited by Imanuilus#1788 on Dec 5, 2024, 6:37:06 AM
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If you are playing Archmage you dont need specing into Chill nodes
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" Yea its not needed. However I wanna test how effective the chill is when doing lightning damage. Also I want to see how chill stacks with temp chains. If the damage is low with the chill setup the double shock will be the play most likely. Last edited by Foridesign#0099 on Dec 5, 2024, 8:20:45 AM
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not taking +1 to spell proj notable? why?
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" Im not that familiar with the new tree. Maybe Im looking at an older version but Im not seeing +1 spell projectile on it. |
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Hybrid elemental builds shouldn't be overlooked. There are very important and powerful synergies.
Ignites do 100% more damage on frozen enemies gem (frostfire) and mana flare looks powerful too. Just by firing off a ball lightning on your cold build you will shock and can electrocute which is basically a stun. This can be auto triggered through cast when frozen. EOW benefits from flame wall + lightning warp drops shocked ground. EOW carries ground effects and transfers them onto enemies. I think sorc looks a bit squishy so freeze is very important. Even if you're playing lightning, try to trigger an auto freeze spell on shock. Last edited by apexmateria1#2307 on Dec 5, 2024, 10:23:20 PM
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