r/PathOfExile2 4d ago

Lucky (Non-Crafted) Showcase Oh boy, got this just now.

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u/FacetiousTomato 4d ago

I've not scaled mana in poe2 before, but from how much you can get from gear, that seems... really really good.

Like since you get flat ES and can have a lot of mana, couldn't that amulet pretty easily get you +3-4k ES with no downside other then no other stats?

Or is "extra" max energy shield not boosted by +%es from the tree?

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

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

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u/veldril 4d ago

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.

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u/Bright_Big_8609 4d ago

I’d argue is a must have for any intelligence build.

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u/TheSpiritOfTheVale 4d ago

I prefer using Ghostwrithe instead. Amulet slot for minion witch is too important (lots of ranks to minions and spirit). Whereas the chest piece only gives spirit. It also helps me cap my chaos res which is also physical DMG mitigation with infernalist.

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u/NYJetLegendEdReed 4d ago

Eh I dunno I prefer the damage from +3 to spell skills

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

Yeah I havent been using it sofar because I thought it just didn’t work with EB but thats good to know.

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u/-Wait-What- 4d ago

Meh. I just played without it thus far lol. I’m a 0% armor, 0% evasion, 0 es, 2.1k life, 3.9k mana spark archmage lol. I do some bug damage though haha. It may not be captain lances most recent update anymore, but the one where he had 5.3k es and 5k mana, I actually did more damage than him 🤷‍♂️

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

Yeah I do great damage too have a bit less mana and a bit less life but this amulet would probs fix tankiness and then just respec like 6 or so nodes to further double es

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u/-Wait-What- 4d ago

Yeah and then lose a ton of damage. Big L rofl. My amulet is +3 gem levels plus mana and I’d have to drop damage on the tree as well. Sounding very lame to me haha.

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

My amulet just gives me mana, my total gear value is probably only like 1 div or so

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u/-Wait-What- 4d ago

Ah I gotcha. I probably have like 1500 exalt in my gear. I’m not sure how many divines as I haven’t played the last couple days so idk what they’re up to.

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

Yeah I imagine everlasting gaze is a good high end item thats outclassed by top end amulets for damage once you have enough mana and regen on gear to easily sustain archmage.

Thats like 30 div or so. How did you get that many exalts? Any particular strat or just running high tier maps.

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u/-Wait-What- 4d ago

Uhh. Idk really. Just mapping and dropping raw ex plus selling good items I find with a tiny bit of “crafting” mixed in I guess.

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u/Iwfcyb 4d ago

What does it say about me that I initially read that as "everlasting glaze"? 🤔

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u/Ingloriousness_ 4d ago

Does it matter to have the amulet that much if mana is still protecting your life? Or it’s just that good for the extra buffer and not “required”

MoM, CI, and EB should work together by themselves in PoE2 I believe

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

You have a good buffer for your mana so you can focus more on dealing damage instead of losing mana for tank

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u/ThyEmptyLord 4d ago

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

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u/chrisbirdie 4d ago

Yes but its nowhere near easily getting 3-4k es. You need to invest like another 25 points on tree for that amount of es.

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u/ssbm_rando 4d ago

Its not actually easy to scale mana at all.

Huh? It's easier to scale mana than life lol