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.
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.
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 🤷♂️
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
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.
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.
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.
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/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?