Plus/ +7 Weapons/ Staffs etc & Mana Modifiers

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EightInchFloppyDisk#2190 wrote:

While this what you suggest is technically correct, I am not sure that trying to run it on the wrong ascendancy will bear any fruits.

There's isn't a wrong ascendancy for it. You mostly just want a bigger mana pool, which you want anyway, because it's more "health". That's why all the various Eldritch Battery but use items to get ES back stuff is used. Bigger mana pool means more mana per second, while the items give you your ES back so damage isn't as likely to eat up your mana.

If you believe arcane surge is required, there are two node clusters that let you trigger that on crit.

You can also cut costs a bit. For example, you can path over to Conservative Casting for a 16% reduction in casting costs, while putting Mental Toughness on your neck piece. You wouldn't focus as much on spamming fast casting spells, but instead go with slower, harder hitting ones. Especially if using Archmage, as that adds a % of your mana pool to the casting cost. And maybe you'll have to be a bit more wary of just how much +skill you stack on from gear, until your mana pool is big enough to handle the higher mana costs that come from that.

But anyway, MoM isn't meant to be that easy to use. And a 2k mana pool is the bare minimum a caster should have for it. And it won't feel great until you crank that mana pool up.

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Blazing_Angel#0549 wrote:

I have taken mind over matter which reduces mana recovery by 50% but then took another point in the tree which improves it by 15% so right now I have 35% reduced mana recover from baseline

Are you sure about that ?
Keystones tend to have a multiplicative effect , not additive .
For example Acrobatics reduce your Evasion by 70% after the other calculations , you can't cancel Acrobatics by picking 70% Evasion buff from elsewhere .

So your mana recovery is probably 42.5% lower , not 35% lower .
Either way this is massive : standard base mana recovery itself is totally incapable of keeping up with mana spending in Endgame unless you buff it by a ton & also lower by a lot the Mana costs .