This is a full build guide for my current setup on my Permastun Archmage Stormweaver Spark character. I am also playing this live right now at www.twitch.tv/animeprincess Mobalytics planner link in the video description
We have a couple in our guild pushing 45k spark dps. It absolutely can scale. Gem level and quality on Archmage makes a HUGE difference. Make sure you quality spark also and max level
I dont understand how to scale the base dmg of spark, tho. Currently lvl 79, 3.6k Mana and 20% quality spark lvl 20 gem. It has a base dps of 2.1k only, when I see all these videos with a base of 5k+ always. When I have archmage on (lvl 16 gem, 15% quality) my damage goes to 7.6k, when these guides show 15k/20k dmg. I don't get it.
@zattitattoo5106 get massive amounts of ES, mana, regen, spell skill gems levels, intelligence etc on gear. I have a video up on my page of where I'm at currently if you want to compare gear and what not
Good take on the recoup ascendancy node. Well done, good guide. I'm going a double curse setup with an offhand sceptre with mana, int and mana regen. Allows you to automate conductivity and enfeeble/temp chains. I'm taking the curse area of effect cluster on the right of sorc start to apply to a larger area. Probably not optimal for damage but it's very comfy for mapping.
I was thinking on that too, currently 96 spirit and going conductivity +aoe+effect with blasphemy, but overall, mobs kinda die before reach me, but im just lvl 60 in act 2 cruel so idk
Hey Princess, do I follow this guide or the other one? I'm still in the beginning of campaign but I do have on The Everlasting Gaze and I do have Kitoko's Current, just need to hit level 26 to use it
if you are not lvl 26 yet you will probably not want to follow this. going CI early is not a great idea. archmage also doesn't work until later so be careful
@ Oh okay, thank you for the info. Currently I’m at about 900ES with about 300HP and I just left the Traitors Passage in Act 2. I’m liking it so far :)
Great vid, I don't do trading cuz it's quite boring so I'll probably have to get really lucky with those two uniques. Good info though, I'll run a modified weaker version of this until I can somehow find those two uniques.
@@belenub88 I don't plan on trading whatsoever because that's just not my playstyle so I'll have to find these uniques on my own or with my coop partner. I have no issue with those that do trade though, I just personally don't wanna do it.
With the lucky anoint in mind, doesn’t that encourage you not to build into crit and elemental storm? I felt double shock and extra exposure was comparable and I haven’t got the anoint yet so I’m not controlled destruction yet. Also, is 8% really the max for archmage? I was hoping for another 1% more at gem level 20 with a +1 linked so 21 in total
@@DeedlyDood Ex drops gets really better in endgame? I'm in cruel act 3 but i have a hard time having a lot of them, trying to sell but not much success
Well that’s how much i paid for it, I suppose supply and demand is having an impact on this. I did buy everything live on stream so I have receipts lol..
in poe, as also gonna be in poe2, when a content creator shares info, builds, etc, all item related goes up on price, thats how it works, so, for example, at the time being uploaded first video of this stormweaver archmage series, kitoko gloves were like 1-3 exalted, now they are between 10 to 20 exalted orbs, but that's just how it works
Do you sometimes get 1 shot? It feels your total pool of ES + mana isn’t very high, compared to people without MoM running around with 15k ES. I went with the non MoM approach myself because I just hate dying and want to have the option of face tanking, but I’m also not at those high maps to see if it actually makes a difference.
@@gobira26 but nah for real, bleed and ignite dont bypass ES, never have. CI doesnt make you immune to bleeding. but it will cause some fuckery with ES regen and mana regen
Just a heads up, I don't think (non-unique) body armours can even roll mana. I tried hitting one with an essence that adds a mana modifier and it wouldn't let me use it. Also, how do you deal with freeze? I've always found that's the biggest problem with CI. Are you just using an anti-freeze charm?
I think Ingenuity is an interesting but very expensive belt. I am not a big fan of recoup and we stun enemies so may not get too much mileage from recoup anyways.
recouped is overrated, this build already has high es recharge and very decent mana regen, recoup effect will be overrided by regen. save the belt slot for mana and resistance better😊
@@GunKaraka Elemental storm skill is on the Stormweaver Ascendancy skill tree (right side). It appears in your Skill gem list after you allocate the points for it.
With 2.6k mana, I can't sustain the Archmage using the same build, the regen is too low. I don't see anything else in your build that could improve my mana regen. I have 29% Everlasting. Is it just my mana pool that is too low or am I missing Something?
1250 mana doubles the initial damage, but no this will not bring your dps up to mine. probably need better wand and other things. do not ignore mana tho, its one of the best scalers and you WILL need to scale it as well
@@kevinnguyen8552 Act 1, The King in the Mists gives 30, Act 3, Ignagduk, The Bog Witch gives another 30 and Act 6: Gemcrust Skull (item dropped on death) +40 - Ignagduk, The Bog Witch
@@anime.princess I have the same problem. Im lvl 79, lvl 20 spark gem and 20% quality. With 4.3k mana i get 8.8k dps with archmage. The problem seems to be BASE spark dmg, which is only 2.2k without archmage on. How do you scale the BASE dmg?
I dont understand how to scale the base dmg of spark, tho. Currently lvl 79, 3.6k Mana and 20% quality spark lvl 20 gem. It has a base dps of 2.1k only, when I see all these videos with a base of 5k+ always. When I have archmage on (lvl 16 gem, 15% quality) my damage goes to 7.6k, when these guides show 15k/20k dmg. I don't get it.
i was under the assumption that every piece of gear could have mana but apparently this is the exception. i do not have mana on my body armor and i guess it just cannot roll
Cuz this build is giga bait, it requires the mana amulet and EB to get all es from gear to mana and then the amulet transfers your mana to your ES kinda in a loop, giga expensive
Jo wasted like 100 exalts for this got 3000 ES and 3000 Mana and i not able to clear t2 because the hedgehog are oneshooting me with poision. I also got huge Mana Problems.
@@Shakamaran Because the ES from your helmet got converted, you cannot scale the previous type of any conversion in poe 2 including damage as well. Has nothing to do with the amulet, just EB
I really don't like what Mind-over-Matter does to my regen. I am at 3.6k mana with high mana regen role on almost every gear and still can't really spam spark. Might try to go pure energy shield and not take MoM. Feels bad to wait for my mana otherwise.
@wisko9847 yea, it's better with inspiration, but not still net positive. Also inspiration is technically a wasted link cause there is no dps boost. It did felt bad when my es was gone and I had to decide between casting spell or recovering ehp. Maybe it'll get better later but I personally planning to focus on es scaling, even though that's much more expensive 😔
@@excalibour00 why is it a wasted link when u can probably put down double the amount of sparks. but yes this is hard to balance everything i have the same "problem" i just cant spam spark. i think its fine.
I'm losing my fucking mind here... you have 6 more points than me but you're lower level? I have every point from quests 0.o what the fuck is happening....
im not sure. if u are going with the mobalytics link, maybe i added a few extra points that i plan on going towards next? go with what youre seeing in the video to be safe.
This is a full build guide for my current setup on my Permastun Archmage Stormweaver Spark character. I am also playing this live right now at www.twitch.tv/animeprincess
Mobalytics planner link in the video description
You need to put this guide in MaxRoll, Mobalytics is so terrible, hahaha And Thanks for this guide, I'm in T15 and I'm crush the game!
We have a couple in our guild pushing 45k spark dps. It absolutely can scale. Gem level and quality on Archmage makes a HUGE difference. Make sure you quality spark also and max level
What do you mean by this? (im noob) please i want to learn
@@XironRulessecond that I’m in act 2 and struggling hard didn’t play poe1 either so trying to learn everything is kinda crazy
@@XironRules you can increase the quality of the skill gems
I dont understand how to scale the base dmg of spark, tho. Currently lvl 79, 3.6k Mana and 20% quality spark lvl 20 gem. It has a base dps of 2.1k only, when I see all these videos with a base of 5k+ always. When I have archmage on (lvl 16 gem, 15% quality) my damage goes to 7.6k, when these guides show 15k/20k dmg. I don't get it.
@zattitattoo5106 get massive amounts of ES, mana, regen, spell skill gems levels, intelligence etc on gear. I have a video up on my page of where I'm at currently if you want to compare gear and what not
So good ty. Im super glad im like 1-2 days behind you so i can warch the videos while at work. Great video as always ❤
Really cool interaction between ci, the amulet, and MOM. Might have to try this after I max my invoker. Thanks AP!
hey you explained this build better than every single youtuber ty so much. i actually understand the build now
Good take on the recoup ascendancy node. Well done, good guide. I'm going a double curse setup with an offhand sceptre with mana, int and mana regen. Allows you to automate conductivity and enfeeble/temp chains. I'm taking the curse area of effect cluster on the right of sorc start to apply to a larger area. Probably not optimal for damage but it's very comfy for mapping.
I was thinking on that too, currently 96 spirit and going conductivity +aoe+effect with blasphemy, but overall, mobs kinda die before reach me, but im just lvl 60 in act 2 cruel so idk
nice vid. i solved my build using life instead of ES, but didn't know how everlasting gaze works. I'll try gearing towards ES now.
Hey Princess, do I follow this guide or the other one? I'm still in the beginning of campaign but I do have on The Everlasting Gaze and I do have Kitoko's Current, just need to hit level 26 to use it
if you are not lvl 26 yet you will probably not want to follow this. going CI early is not a great idea. archmage also doesn't work until later so be careful
@ Oh okay, thank you for the info. Currently I’m at about 900ES with about 300HP and I just left the Traitors Passage in Act 2. I’m liking it so far :)
@@givemeheadpats2431 this is meant for people that want to take the build further with extra currency
@@givemeheadpats2431bro go for life at least until you hit like the end of white maps you're gonna have a terrible time with ES early
@ Sure thing, thanks for the advice
Great vid, I don't do trading cuz it's quite boring so I'll probably have to get really lucky with those two uniques. Good info though, I'll run a modified weaker version of this until I can somehow find those two uniques.
I buyed the gloves 19 dex 13 less cast speed on 9ex yesterday. Exalts wich dropped throught campaign, is very affordable i think
@@belenub88 I don't plan on trading whatsoever because that's just not my playstyle so I'll have to find these uniques on my own or with my coop partner.
I have no issue with those that do trade though, I just personally don't wanna do it.
With the lucky anoint in mind, doesn’t that encourage you not to build into crit and elemental storm? I felt double shock and extra exposure was comparable and I haven’t got the anoint yet so I’m not controlled destruction yet.
Also, is 8% really the max for archmage? I was hoping for another 1% more at gem level 20 with a +1 linked so 21 in total
Elemental storm can be dropped at higher budgets for the lightning rod anoint correct!
Great info. How do you achieve such high dps for Spark? What is the biggest factor? Thanks!
wand + gem supports are the biggest factor since you will have the same tree
@@anime.princess Thank you
do you need to have the amulet / gloves before trying to switch into the build?
@@Grimlust yes, but u can play the budget version from the previous video in the playlist series bc this is the high budget upgrade from that starter
Are you farming ex through drops or through sales? Everlasting is my bottleneck right now.
Sure he's doing both. Running maps and ensuring they are rare nets a decent amount though.
@@DeedlyDood Ex drops gets really better in endgame? I'm in cruel act 3 but i have a hard time having a lot of them, trying to sell but not much success
Dont worry farming currency until late game. You should drop enought just playing game while progress there
i am doing both. i do stream on Twitch.tv every moment that i play, if you are ever curious to see what sort of strats i use the build for :)
Hi, just wondering if any crit stuff is needed so storm actually triggers or is the crit nodes from the tree you have enough
Spark has enough crit with zero investment in crit
@anime.princess thank you
This gear is WAY more expensive than you're claiming it is.
Well that’s how much i paid for it, I suppose supply and demand is having an impact on this. I did buy everything live on stream so I have receipts lol..
prices change stupid
in poe, as also gonna be in poe2, when a content creator shares info, builds, etc, all item related goes up on price, thats how it works, so, for example, at the time being uploaded first video of this stormweaver archmage series, kitoko gloves were like 1-3 exalted, now they are between 10 to 20 exalted orbs, but that's just how it works
How u alliocate Piercing Shot? how to make this amulet annoitment?
this. how do we annoint and does arc use this same annoint
What is the best node to put in amulet? Adverse Growth is fine?
Do you sometimes get 1 shot? It feels your total pool of ES + mana isn’t very high, compared to people without MoM running around with 15k ES. I went with the non MoM approach myself because I just hate dying and want to have the option of face tanking, but I’m also not at those high maps to see if it actually makes a difference.
may I ask a question?
Is that energy shield count as mana after that node?
Would that added to archmage ?
no you can't do an endless loop like this LOL i wish
Can you override an anointment for the amulet or is it a one time thing?
U can override it
at 10:45, you said you're "bleed immune", how? bleed is phys damage not chaos damage so ci doesnt protect against it.
cant bleed without life
@@gobira26 exactly 😂
@@gobira26 but nah for real, bleed and ignite dont bypass ES, never have. CI doesnt make you immune to bleeding. but it will cause some fuckery with ES regen and mana regen
I didn't understand, do you have some kind of stone? what you have is 1 hp
Just a heads up, I don't think (non-unique) body armours can even roll mana. I tried hitting one with an essence that adds a mana modifier and it wouldn't let me use it.
Also, how do you deal with freeze? I've always found that's the biggest problem with CI. Are you just using an anti-freeze charm?
you're right about the mana, something you can verify on poe2db pretty easily. for freeze, it's nice to anoint icebreaker
i do not find this to be much of an issue as we are rarely hit because of our perma stuns. i do use anti-freeze charm, and this probably helps.
i feel like this is medium budget... missing so much cast speed everywhere, no ingenuity, no time lost jewels and so on.
you are not wrong, but budget is subjective and to alot of people this is probably quite high budget. can definitely go further, i agree
What do you think about the unique midnight braid as a belt
I think Ingenuity is an interesting but very expensive belt. I am not a big fan of recoup and we stun enemies so may not get too much mileage from recoup anyways.
recouped is overrated, this build already has high es recharge and very decent mana regen, recoup effect will be overrided by regen. save the belt slot for mana and resistance better😊
I assume you take elemental storm last for your ascendies?
Thanks for the showcase. If my gear is not perfect can I still do your build whilst improving as I go? I'm at endgame now.
Yes, absolutely
@anime.princess Thanks. I noticed you're not using Orb of storms. No need for that one? And I can't seem to find the Elemental Storm skill anywhere.
@@GunKaraka Elemental storm skill is on the Stormweaver Ascendancy skill tree (right side). It appears in your Skill gem list after you allocate the points for it.
How do you get that 50 percent pierce exactly? (New to poe)
Amulet annoint
This in moment are best build to clear and boss? I see fireball with cold dmg, but some peoples comment have a mid dps. You know if is real?
u should try to incorporate the weapon swap taht increased curse effect + give blink to travel, i did that, it's broken ngl
weapon swap has a delay which is so obnoxious. i may try it out but already sigil of power swap delay has me irritated. will do some testing!
Unfortunately it does not work for me
I’ve invested in good gear and got all the essentials you mentioned
Once my mana is on 1 any shot kills me
What points should I remove first if I'm lower level than you?
How are you able to take EB and CI at the same time?
explained in the first 5 min of the video
With 2.6k mana, I can't sustain the Archmage using the same build, the regen is too low.
I don't see anything else in your build that could improve my mana regen. I have 29% Everlasting.
Is it just my mana pool that is too low or am I missing Something?
I found my solution, Instilling Conservative Casting onto The Everlasting Glaze. Works like a charm.
sorry to ask , how Eldritch battery works with Chaos inoculation?
You would have 1 HP, 0 ES and for mana: current mana + ES
i explain this in the video
unique amulet converts max 30% mana as es
I have 3200mana and lvl21 Spark and my spark does 6500dmg. You think additional 1k mana will triple spark dmg?
1250 mana doubles the initial damage, but no this will not bring your dps up to mine. probably need better wand and other things. do not ignore mana tho, its one of the best scalers and you WILL need to scale it as well
@@anime.princess thank yoy sir!
Well gaze is 35+ glove 12-15 so I think you are slightly under estimating the cost here. Can’t see anything other than this being nerfed it’s so op
This is not op at all compared to most "op" builds lmao merc is insta deleting the hardest bosses in the game currently and 80 ex is nothing
@@TossedSalad69 this is 150+ ex at least :P but dunno about the other class :) anyway was nice to see the video
@@skarnexonline4446 a max roll is around 100 ex rn I just bought one and sold my old roll for 60 ex
@@skarnexonline4446 also go watch Jungroan vid on Gemling Legionnaire Merc lol that is for sure getting nerfed
so does the old build with % dmg to mana not cutting it in higher map tiers? oh nvm this is mind over matter gotcha
this is a more expensive evolution of that build. its for people that want to scale the build further
@ thanks a lot your vids have been hugely helpful and informative. Learning a lot!
which rune give the max % mana?
Hardest part is getting someone to actually SELL you the Everlasting Gaze.
Took me so long today and it cost me 44ex, decent roll though.
Yeah took me about 30-40 minutes of live searching XD
I bought mine one night for 60EX, next morning was already 45ex.. :)
@@Frey_64 the great COF dying left many stranded
same got a 25% for 30ex
after 2 hour of trying to have one cheap with decent roll
How are you using archmage I don’t see spirit on any of your gear?
Archmage needs 100 which is the Default max
Sorry can you please explain it to me more. I’m a noob. When I go to equip the archmage skill it says I need 100 spirit.
@@Tim_593I know you get 60 spirit for free after you defeat the witch in azak bogs but I’m not sure where the other 40 comes from.
@kevinnguyen8552 you can get 100 total from the campaign
@@kevinnguyen8552 Act 1, The King in the Mists gives 30, Act 3, Ignagduk, The Bog Witch gives another 30 and Act 6: Gemcrust Skull (item dropped on death) +40 - Ignagduk, The Bog Witch
how do you have eldritch battery and u still have energy shield ?
please listen to the video, its explained in the first 5 minutes
its the amulet .. EB transforms es into mana and amulet gives you a % of mana into es
I have like 3.5k mana and lvl 15(+4)spark dps only 6k at character lvl 73, how do you get 23k dps?
I feel like even 4k mana can’t push to 20k dps.
yes its very interesting. In last video he was at 6k dps too
@@AshDragonnn 💰
u felt wrong then lolol
@@anime.princess I have the same problem. Im lvl 79, lvl 20 spark gem and 20% quality. With 4.3k mana i get 8.8k dps with archmage. The problem seems to be BASE spark dmg, which is only 2.2k without archmage on. How do you scale the BASE dmg?
Didn't knew CI now gives bleed immunity. That's nice. Do you know mechanically why is this way?
You need to take damage to your life to be bled
@@faederSSF interesting, tyvm
CI removes all blood from your body.
I dont understand how to scale the base dmg of spark, tho. Currently lvl 79, 3.6k Mana and 20% quality spark lvl 20 gem. It has a base dps of 2.1k only, when I see all these videos with a base of 5k+ always. When I have archmage on (lvl 16 gem, 15% quality) my damage goes to 7.6k, when these guides show 15k/20k dmg. I don't get it.
Same here i really dont get it
wait - no orb of storms?
i automate the exposure with an ascendancy point instead
I cant find maximum mana on body armour, is it a butg?
i was under the assumption that every piece of gear could have mana but apparently this is the exception. i do not have mana on my body armor and i guess it just cannot roll
@anime.princess thanks for telling me
can someone pls explain me how he did get 23 k on spark i got sme build but on lvl 66 and got only 3
Cuz this build is giga bait, it requires the mana amulet and EB to get all es from gear to mana and then the amulet transfers your mana to your ES kinda in a loop, giga expensive
@@valentindinkov8459 yeah i got the am and eb but i got right now 4k sheild and 3,5k mana but only 3k dmg with spark i dont get it
im ci but im still getting poisen damage ?? im confused.
the health globe may change color but you shouldn't be taking any damage from the poison
How u have mana and es with eb?
everlasting gaze amulet
Can this do tier 15 maps?
can do them in my sleep
At what level would you have enough passives to get this build running? Seeing you're at 89...that's 10 above what I'm at just wondering.
Should be totally fine if you are around 80. Running a similar Build. Pretty good
Jo wasted like 100 exalts for this got 3000 ES and 3000 Mana and i not able to clear t2 because the hedgehog are oneshooting me with poision. I also got huge Mana Problems.
the mobalytics link does not work
mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/c9a1d6a8-38f1-4e09-847a-b53ba3bec16b/builds/3d5c3f56-c284-4093-b57f-db4b0f0372e9
it should work
@@anime.princess guess thats on their end
ill try later, ty
With that helmet why the hell you didnt go "Illuminated Crown" its only 1 passive xd.
it does not work with the amulet. i dont know why tho
@@Shakamaran Because the ES from your helmet got converted, you cannot scale the previous type of any conversion in poe 2 including damage as well. Has nothing to do with the amulet, just EB
I really don't like what Mind-over-Matter does to my regen. I am at 3.6k mana with high mana regen role on almost every gear and still can't really spam spark. Might try to go pure energy shield and not take MoM. Feels bad to wait for my mana otherwise.
I don't have that problem, currently have around 800 mana regen with MoM and Inspiration on Spark, my mana does not run out at all.
Have U the inspiration Support in? Its manitory
@wisko9847 yea, it's better with inspiration, but not still net positive. Also inspiration is technically a wasted link cause there is no dps boost. It did felt bad when my es was gone and I had to decide between casting spell or recovering ehp. Maybe it'll get better later but I personally planning to focus on es scaling, even though that's much more expensive 😔
@@excalibour00 why is it a wasted link when u can probably put down double the amount of sparks. but yes this is hard to balance everything i have the same "problem" i just cant spam spark. i think its fine.
@@excalibour00 technically it is a dps boost, because if you run out of mana you can not cast, therefore lowering dps
What emotions need to do this annoitment?
disgust, guilt, disgust
İ have 5k es 4 k mana , its nice life pool for me, 14k spark dps is enough for mid game
ES base body armor can't have Mana in a prefix.
good to know thanks!
you cant get mana prefix on body armor afaik
i mispoke, you are correct!
I have 30 Exalted orbs.. I thought i'm Rich xD
can I do it on my Blood Mage ! i dont have time to creat a new character
you cant have mana as prefix in body armour :)
You can have t12 mana on every single piece of gear. Not sure where you got this info from but it's wrong
@@zeedowg5260 confidently incorrect lmfao you can't get mana on it lil bro
@@zeedowg5260 No it's right, there are no mana rolls on body armours
@@zeedowg5260 just try and essence a body armour you'll see for yourself :)
I'm losing my fucking mind here... you have 6 more points than me but you're lower level? I have every point from quests 0.o what the fuck is happening....
im not sure. if u are going with the mobalytics link, maybe i added a few extra points that i plan on going towards next? go with what youre seeing in the video to be safe.
@@anime.princess figured it out, fucking weapon swaps man :'(