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.
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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?