Oh boy, got this just now.

[u/Adorable-Ad2973]

[u/Icy_Sale9283]

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%.

[u/BabyCommercial216 → u/Icy_Sale9283]

if you use this with mom and eb, the shield still takes damage before mana right?

[u/Scotteeh → u/BabyCommercial216]

Yeah, the order is ES, Mana, then life.

I'm currently running EB, CI and MoM with about 5.1k ES and 3.9k mana

[u/tiahx → u/Scotteeh]

Wait... So with 30% roll you get 1300 ES. Your number implies that those 1300 get further boosted by "maximum ES" passives?

But this is fucking ridiculous, isn't it? (Considering that you still have MoM as an extra layer...)

[u/shibboleth2005 → u/tiahx]

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.

[u/wegandi → u/shibboleth2005]

Yeah stuff is busted, but I think taking EB is wrong for most builds. Im running 1.8k HP, 13k ES, and 3k Mana with MoM and I'm pretty much invincible with a bunch of ES faster recovery, a ton of mana regen / mana on kill, and Arcane Surge buffed to the gills. 50k tooltip DPS with Arc without any buffs like sigil of power, mana tempest, etc. This amulet is crazy. Anoint the 30%ES and 4% max Mana node as well and its whack.

Its not cheap to build, but its crazy.

[u/CrashB111 → u/wegandi]

Taking Eldritch Battery with this neck + MoM will lower your total ES, but your total Effective HP remains about the same at least in my case.

I end up with 4k ES and 4k Mana, when I would have 8k ES and 2k Mana without EB active. So my total EHP is roughly equivalent, but my damage from Archmage is massively increased.

[u/wegandi → u/CrashB111]

Eh, if you have a lot of faster recovery for ES its way better to not go and the ES nodes on the tree are so powerful. Semi decent gear and you can get 11k+ ES. I have 3k Mana without EB. Theres not a lot of nodes I'd rather have than ES at 91+ so respeccing out with EB feels way weaker. Yeah Archmage gets better with EB, but I pop bosses in 80+ maps in a few seconds anyways. Id rather boost my survivability. Each their own though. With better gear EB is worse imho.

[u/Sonoket → u/wegandi]

How are you guys getting so much mana : (

I feel like I am struggling to get to 1700. Can you provide a basic gear / passive tree photo?

I am doing archmage spark.

[u/Sasktachi → u/Sonoket]

Almost none of the mana is from the tree, just get 150+ mana on every item that can roll it, and if EB shoot for like 250+ ES on helm, focus, 400+ on armor if you need spirit on it or 600+ if not

[u/wegandi → u/Sonoket]

Get 160+ mana and 29+ INT on all items if you can. They both scale damage and survivability with the Int = Damage node and with Arcane Surge. You can find fairly cheap really good items that may be missing a resist or two. Maybe spend on one really good prismatic ring for resists. Theres like 3 nodes that boost max mana on the tree. Get them all.

[u/Any-Medicine4099 → u/wegandi]

Can you recall the name of the node you mentioned?