[EA] 100% cold converted Freezing Spark Stormweaver - Mana Stacking Archmage MoM+CI

I'm level 50 right now with ~195 mana regen per second but it feels like I'm in a weird zone where I'm having too many mana issues with MoM allocated and with it unallocated I'm just a bit too squishy for comfort but with too much mana. Any ideas? Is it time to start going into Energy Shield? I'm not really near CI on the tree yet and it doesn't feel like I have the available points to respec into ES stuff. Keep leveling and reassess after 5-10 levels?

+1, I'm also struggling, can barely stay alive and I'm not really killing enemies very quickly so I have to either use distance or dodge, but a lot of times I just pop. MoM really helps but I literally have to use a weapon skill as filler while I wait for my mana to regenerate. I don't know if I'll have enough damage were I to shuffle some of my nodes over to mana regeneration.

Great Build - absolute blasting

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ssandman#0449 wrote:

I'm level 50 right now with ~195 mana regen per second but it feels like I'm in a weird zone where I'm having too many mana issues with MoM allocated and with it unallocated I'm just a bit too squishy for comfort but with too much mana. Any ideas? Is it time to start going into Energy Shield? I'm not really near CI on the tree yet and it doesn't feel like I have the available points to respec into ES stuff. Keep leveling and reassess after 5-10 levels?

I ran into the same issue and around lvl 40-50, transitioned into high ES so i ended up with about 1k life - 1k es, no MoM and it went back to feeling much comfier. Hybrid life/es is not ideal for endgame, but having High ES also allows you to run MoM easier, as it only runs down your mana AFTER your es is fully depleted. You basically need to play it by ear and see how you're going for mana issues/spike damage and if you're not having a good time with MoM, go back to running the % damage taken as mana nodes instead of MoM.

Either way, I'm rewriting the guide, for better or worse to make us cold coversion, as I've fallen in love with freezing everything. I'll keep the old guide alive in an archived spoiler for those who want it.

The newest patch has completely removed cast on triggers for all effects as a viable possibility what should we pivot to now that this as come to past so that we are not forced to re-roll characters.

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Sahliel#2250 wrote:

The newest patch has completely removed cast on triggers for all effects as a viable possibility what should we pivot to now that this as come to past so that we are not forced to re-roll characters.

This will hurt clear, but does pretty much nothing for our boss strats. Pure cold or shock builds are getting really hurt by this, but luckily we didn't outright rely on comet for our sole damage. Trigger spells are dead though 100%.

I'll have to test this out and see what works, maybe just manually casting comet or cold snap after freezing with spark for now. we just need to remove the trigger points from the passive tree.

Hello,

I need to say first I am noobish and newish player of PoE, and I have few questions regarding your build:

- What stats should I aim for Spectre?
- What do you think about the Cast on Shock change, and is it causing this build to change in any way?
- Is it worth putting extra support gems for Archmage, other than Clarity? (if yes - which ones, and if not - why?)

But nonetheless - your build is super fun and amazing, I am having a blast clearing and dealing tones of damage, while simultaneously covering the whole screen with sparks :D

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Amaterasu1703#1695 wrote:

Hello,

I need to say first I am noobish and newish player of PoE, and I have few questions regarding your build:

- What stats should I aim for Spectre?

Sceptre? same as a wand, alough sceptre really is a last resort for extra spirit. You're better off getting it from armor, althought it's not really a problem for the reason below:

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Amaterasu1703#1695 wrote:

- What do you think about the Cast on Shock change, and is it causing this build to change in any way?

All cast on _____ builds are dead. We can't use cast on shock/freeze anymore, but I need to get home after work and test to see if this whole build can survive the nerf. I think it will....

At least we save 60 spirit that we can use for something else.

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Amaterasu1703#1695 wrote:

- Is it worth putting extra support gems for Archmage, other than Clarity? (if yes - which ones, and if not - why?)

nope. atrchmage is mana hungry as hell, any extra links will just multiply the mana costs and we don't want that.

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Amaterasu1703#1695 wrote:

But nonetheless - your build is super fun and amazing, I am having a blast clearing and dealing tones of damage, while simultaneously covering the whole screen with sparks :D

Thank mate, i hope it survives this nerf and continues to be viable!

Hello, how you would build arc now since they nerfed cast on shock, also for leveling what can we use to do more boss damage, I feel limited with my spark.

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vyuthex#7317 wrote:

Hello, how you would build arc now since they nerfed cast on shock, also for leveling what can we use to do more boss damage, I feel limited with my spark.

Arc is still fine as a manual cast for bosses, although after playing with cold conversion, spark + frost bomb + frost wall is still great for bosses. I'm thinking since they nerfed SRS too, levelling a new character as a pure cold sorc with frost bolt etc and then respeccing when you can cold convert to spark might be the way to go.

I might play around with taking every single trigger energy node on the passive tree to see if cast on freeze can still function. As it stands, we already take half of them anyway.