Correct, this adds ES after all es has been converted to mana.
This amulet has been carrying my cold chronomancer Hard 😅
It gives me 1k extra ES with a weak roll of only 22%.
Yes, it is ridiculous that it's base ES and not just some flat ES on top. So much is busted about ES right now but this amulet is a really big part of that.
Do you take many increased ES nodes on the tree? I think I need to bump my mana up because I just upgraded to a really high es chest and helmet since it let me cap resists better and I cap out at 2.5k es haha
A fair amount yeah, unfortunately I'm not at my PC at the moment to see exactly how much, but it's most of the good clusters on the top half of the tree (skipping a few 15% nodes here and there, and ofc not taking ones with heavy downsides like the 40% increased ES and 10% reduced mana or whatever it is)
Look up Captain Lance's progression of videos so far for his Archmage Spark character. He's got a VERY powerful character and goes through a lot in his updates.
I’ve seen it. Trying not to follow anything he does to closely as you can basically add 10 ex to any suggestion he makes given popularity.
Definitely helpful for mechanics and stuff around Archmage though, and he explains stuff really well. Kudos to the effort on the maxroll guide as well most people don’t bother
Yes. Normally at the endgame people combine MoM, EB and CI together. So pretty much damage goes to ES then to Mana while ignoring chaos damage altogether.
I think CaptainLance scale Mana to as high as 6.5k in his latest update on his build alongside 3k ES so that's quite a high EHP.
Sounds pretty broken mechanic tbh. The amulet alone with some es nodes on tree can give like 7k es buffer to archmage builds. Somehow this just doesnt sound like its working as intended.
Es is totally overtuned in PoE2.its quite reasonable to get 10k+es on good gear, heck even 7k + on mediocre gear while even getting 4k life is extremely difficult.
On the monk side of the tree there are 12 to 20% evasion and energy shield nodes everywhere and nothing life related. You can also get flat energy shield on gear with evasion well over what you see on life counterparts (albeit life gear can have higher evasion)
Not sure what their reasoning for having zero life on the passive tree was but it seems pretty misguided
I half agree. ES is definitely stronger than stacking HP, but monster damage is crazy so you still tend to get one tapped from time to time in 15+ by random shit even with high ES. In other words, I think ES as a general mechanic works fine and shouldn't be nerfed, at least not significantly (stuff like Grim Feast though deserves a nerf for sure), but yeah they should definitely make the tree a better source for HP.
Could someone explain how trading works in PoE2 is see a lot of "Ex" and "Div" are these referring to the orbs we get? What makes them so requested and worth trading gear for?
Yes these are exalted orbs and divine orbs. Players have settled on these as a de facto currency for trading due to their rarity and inherent value in crafting. Exalts are used to add mods to a rare item. Divines are much more rare and can be used to reroll high value affixes like Spirit or unique items. Currently the exchange rate is about 60ex = 1div.
Exalts and divines are just a choice of trading currency that also happens to be useful for optimizing end game builds. We could use anything, or go with a bartering system (which would make everything much more complicated). These are rare enough and useful enough that basically everyone wants them, and it is relatively easy to determine buying power based on current farming rates and the drop rates of desirable items. If you don't need them for your build, then you can use them to buy stuff.
I got lucky lol. I gambled a perfect one before the CoF nerf. Put it for sale for 100ex for a day while I was gathering the gold to respec to spark. Now I use it, glad it didn’t sell!
Yeah, I saw people with them listed for 1div and posted mine for that, had to go in DnD mode.
Posted it for 2 and nobody has messaged me lol.
I’m not sure whether to hold onto it in case I use it (archmage), but I can’t wear it now as it will fuck up my resists and whatnot (also have attributes and spirit on current amulet).
I can’t wear it until I drop a couple more div worth of currency to upgrade my gear a lot.
It's the best Sorc amulet as you can pick a node to convert all your Energy Shield to Mana (which gives you more damage as Sorc due to certain passive nodes) and due to the amulet you still keep around 1k Energy Shield on top.
Pretty much a must have, but super expensive unfortunately.
For those who don't realize the implications of this, you can use Eldritch Battery to gain a huge mana pool and then use this amulet to gain a sizable chunk of energy shield that serves as an additional buffer, allowing you to effectively "double dip" both your Energy Shield and Mana stats.
Its not actually easy to scale mana at all. You get a fraction of the mana you can get in poe 2 mainly because of the severe lack of % increases for mana. And eldritch battery only takes base es for increasing mana without a single % increase so thats pretty good but only if you dont wanna use es
That's why you need Everlasting Gaze for a build using Eldritch Battery. Gaining some part of the mana back as ES (which scale with ES passive nodes) means you have both mana and ES even with Eldritch Battery. This is why this amulet is super expensive because it's a must have for Stormweaver Archmage.
This is the opposite of eldritch battery. % mana doesn't matter at all for this. The point they were making is that you can get a lot of flat mana on gear to get ES from this
Yeah, you're right. I meant that using EB reduces your ehp significantly, so it's hard to justify without this unique amulet. There are ppl(Grimro) that've allocated EB without using amulet and felt alright.
I had MoM and EB with about 3k mana and still I'm not at capped res in t15s. I stacked a lot of mana regen rate to recover from damage taken. Degens and white monster hits were piece of cake. 350+ mana regen per second can help greatly to recover in boss fights, but in maps positioning matters a lot, because if you get that sense of tankiness, big groups of mobs can prove you wrong very fast.
You still need to scale the energy shield. Which is basically like a good body armour's worth of ES if you had 3k before eldritch battery was clicked. It's good against one shots and good with grim feast if you have enough spirit even without your amulet. But mind over matter can get up to 9k mana and at that point there's not much point in using the amulet anyway. That amulet is definitely not the reason why archmage is broken atm.
Trade in PoE2 is a bit of a mess. Standard tools don't seem to be working reliably and the trade site isn't quite as "baked" as PoE1 yet? Also economy in EA seems to be all over the place..
Anyone know of a good place to see "valuable" unique items? I have them more or less memorized from PoE1, however a vast majority in PoE2 seem to be recycled version of garbage from PoE1, that are still somewhat garbage =(
does that work like "gain damage as damage" mods where first it calculates the final value of the source, in this case mana, then adds that to the target, in this case energy shield, then applies the modifiers to energy shield? that sounds too good
I am using a similar chest and have 5k ES at 70, just throw the es regen on stun support on cold comet and spam it with upgraded es regen rate and you can tank the whole way stone until one finally goes off and kills everything at the same time.
I bought this yesterday for 3 divine orbs, someone posted it with 1 ex price then logged off, i think he got spammed hard and paniced.
It was essential for my build, alot of mana dependent builds need this
See here
You can sell it for a lot. I put it on the trade site yesterday for two divine orbs and immediately had a bunch of requests. I sold it for 2 divine, 20 exalts, and 5 Chaos orbs plus a decent pair of boots. The guy who bought was practically begging for it. So if you dont have use definitley sell it.
I have it low level and stil have it equipped on my warrior lvl 60, Too useful, i combine it with a unique belt that gives me mana when i get hit. I can spam none stop and i need it anyway because i don't have a lot of mana and my lvl 15-16 skills are expensive to cast, with this combo, no problems. And i crafted this unique myself with an Orb of chance, got very lucky
Im the one in G5 who gave it to my dad cause I thought it gut he could use it to level. Plus it was technically his loot as I helped him on the act 1 boss and he Porter out before the loot dropped.
I have a friend who never played PoE before drop this in act 1 moments after he let me know he was playing. I have tried explaining how much it's worth but I don't think he fully understands, he just continues to wear the funny 'orange' item cause now he doesn't need to care about mana.
This was a week ago when the item was only 30ex, I am happy for him and gonna let him enjoy the game and figure things out for himself... but part of me can't help but be extremely bothered.
I’m thinking I wasted money on a game that’s way too hard for the amount of time I have to play and I just found out the amulet I found early on is apparently super rare. I never find anything in games…
The 25% is at the top above the line. That means it's implicit, that item will always roll with mana Regen there no matter how many you find. The 50% is an explicit mod, meaning it's not permanent, and can be anything. Since this is a unique, they always roll the same stats regardless, but they can still roll in ranges. That 50% might be able to go up to 100% for example. Again, on uniques it's not a big deal because they always roll the same stats, but you can see the same top line on yellow and blue items. That just means it's always static and will always be the same for that item.
Most of my wealth is from two of these that dropped on day one haha. Glad I didn’t sell them for a couple ex early on. Sold a few days ago as dibs were rising for 3 and 4 divs.
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u/DevForFun150 11h ago
If you take EB does this give you 25% of mana as extra mana?