Timestamps 0:00 BONK 0:23 3 link early mapping 1:14 Lightning Conduit/Gem explanation (Will need Call of the brotherhood for some of the gems to work effectively) 3:42 Weapon Swap Lightning Conduit for bossing. (auto swapping explained) 4:55 Weapons for each lightning Conduit 5:23 Ascendancy choice while leveling. 5:45 Passive tree 7:16 Weapon Set Passive Split. 8:04 Closing Statements. (stay tuned for more) Poe2 Is tough, stay sane exiles, we are all in this together.
What I like about path of exile two is that these builds are something that pretty much anyone can build if they just focus they don’t have to do trade wars to get ridiculous currency in order to afford to play the build
Every build using Cast on X was heavy nerfed so keep that in mind. I think it will mostly affect regular clears - this build will still be very good vs rares and bosses.
@@Gamekrayz not bricked, it just no longer casts 50 abilities per shock. Biggest change is now white mobs rarely trigger the CoS, but bosses still trigger it lots.
holy shit what an awesome build! i love the weapon swap tech in there! man i love this game so much. and we only have half of the skills we have on release!
Holy shit brother. I'm out here with sparks and some build I came up with myself thinking I'm doing pretty well clearing ACT3 cruel and trials. You out here 1 shotting shit. God damn. I need to find that legendary ring, then going to try this out. Thank you for sharing!
My guy, this is the best guide I’ve seen on lightning sorc. I’ve had such a hard time with sorc and don’t want to give up on it. Thank you thank you! I shall continue with my character after watching this
Holy crap, dude! Jumping few hoops to get the deeps, but this is why we love PoE. I need to watch this video few times in slowmotion to get it all in :D First time all I heard was words. I know the words, but what they meant is still a mystery :D
This build is insane! Loving the idea and ingenuity behind it. Can you post an update after today's nerfs to cast on ailment? How is the build performing after the changes?
Hey, is it possible to have a pob/maxroll sort of build showcase, or make maybe just a short on what passives to use with the skills, it's not really easy to understand.
Are those Crit bonus on full life nodes actually doing anything? You cast lightning orb and lightning warp right underneath a boss prior to dropping a conduit. Wouldn't that immediately invalidate all of those nodes?
Your build is great, you can put everything visible in gems, passives, and how to go up the passive tree please. what equipment to use from the beginning
Why not use cast on shock instead? Is it really worth it to convert all the damage to cold just for the comet and if so you can still do it but use cast on shock instead its a lot easier to apply shock and since you consume it you can just apply it again
I’ll give my opinion as a mage player… freeze is almost a requirement for mage right now. Full Energy shield items= zero evasion or armor. if you get touched, you will die within a 1-2 second window. Freeze gives that padding where you’re able to dive into packs and know you’re safe. I can’t imagine you have that same level of security where you’re able to dive into packs carelessly without it.
@andreandrre2183 to be honest i did theory craft a build but its different than this one cast on shock for lightning conduit and gonna see if its worth picking comet or support for it i have been in cruel act 2 for 2-3 days now just been busy with work but i dont know how maps feel in poe 2 i cant really answer this without testing myself
@Noah-go8xc are you speaking from map experience? Cuz energy shield is really bad early but again i have to try it myself once i finish work tommorow im gonna try to finish act 3 cruel (almost done with 2) and get into maps once i get enough materials i wanna test the build i have in mind
The dmg conversion has nothing to do with comet, comet has build-in spell dmg which is a lot already. He convert his lightning dmg to cold for the freeze as a defense layer because majority of lightning spell sorcerer has problem of monsters running up to their face.
Hey Lexyu, just found you and love this content! I'm curious to know how you pathed the skill tree while leveling, and what skills you used as well. Thanks for this vid keep up the good work!
New player here. How come Lightning Warp applies freeze. I get you have the ring, but if damage is converted to cold, how does it freeze AND shock? A bit confused on that
The ring converts the damage of the explosion to deal frost damage which can inherently freeze, but i believe what's happening is that it still creates the "shocked ground" part and it's not affected by freeze, from my understanding so far ground types (IE: frost ground/shocked ground) are not affected by elemental conversions as they are not damaging effects, they are just ground effects that apply their associated ailments (frost ground for example always chills) so again my educated guess is that the lightning explosion DOES cold damage which applies cold-related ailments but also leaves shocked ground which shocks
im new to poe2 and poe in general can you explain the progress of the passive skill tree ? for example what attributes do i get from the attribute nodes? just int? and what the leveling looks like till i can get to build this?
Imagine what you see in the gameplay part, but he would only be casting his skills 10th of the time, or alternatively you would have to cast your ball of lightning, then cast lightning warp on that projectile, then cast lightning conduit (without hourglass suport) manually on every single mob. GGG took this build out back and shot it in the head.
Naice im using similar set up but I Use the tree dragons helmet to freeze it works just fine, and I get to scale lighning dmg still, not sure how much dmg im loosing on comet but theoreticall i can ignite with comet doing some more ignite dmg to counter that Sadly we dont count as having shocked recently since shocked ground does not aplly shock from us but from floor. :D Other wise the elemental dmg if added X ailment recently wheel on right side would be very poerful for this
Looking for help before I start can't find a build or anything..... I want to be someone in heavy armor using a great sword and is focused on lightning damage. Any tips or info on how to make that work would be very much appreciated..... Thanks in advance
This is exactly the kind of build I was looking for but instead of going for all the conversions to frost I want to keep it lightning and ideally use Arc as the spammable with Cast on Shock Lightning Conduit. Would something like that be feasible?
Before buying the Brotherhood unique ring I used Lightning Warp with Electrocute support to deal most of my damage. I might make a leveling video soon.
Weapon swap is automated, you don't have to press anything for it to work. His mapping gameplay looks like: Cast ball lightning -> cast lightning warp on a ball lightning near an enemy. That's it.
Spark or Arc at the beginning. Before buying the Brotherhood unique ring I used Lightning Warp with Electrocute support to deal most of my damage. I might make a leveling video soon.
Looking at your rings, are the prismatic only there for resist? if so you should hit it with some Chaos, lightning dmg to attacks does nothing for your spells, and neither does the leech.
will this still reach similar clear capabilities shown with pure electric damage, without the ring? Perhaps use three head dragon helm so shock dmg can freeze?
I've just tried it and it seems to work, i've used cast on freeze with comet and spammed spark. It freezes every mob around and then spawns comets, there's little bit of mana issues but there's potential in dmg, I wasn't even specced for cold dmg (everything to elec)
@@Lexyu can you show us more clearly one by one the skills and the gems you have put in them? From which lvl and after can we do this build? Is it also for the end game? 
can you show us more clearly one by one the skills and the gems you have put in them? From which lvl and after can we do this build? Is it also for the end game? 
im trying to figured out if i could replicate the single target dmg from comets by using weapon swap skill tree mechanic to allocate 24 different points to boost single target dps while still play my ci es spark manastacker archmage on main hand
I did switched to your build with the stuff I had and it's a profound regret. Not that it's not good, I just can't make it work with what I have. I was using a Spark homemade build and clearing T4-5 at an okay rate. Now I die 1/3 times on a T1. I spent all my money to respec and I can't seem to find a way out of this situation.
I realize that the Lightning conduit doesn't proc at all on my build. I'm using Cast on shock as I don't have Call of Brotherhood yet. Wondering if this is the issue. Otherwise I have the same passive so this remain a mystery at the moment.
@@Lexyu Thanks for your comment. Did you test it after patch? Wondering cause I'll have to farm T1 dying continuously to get a few more Exalted orb to afford the ring. It might take me a few hours so if it's not working I rather work to switch to another build.
in act 3 you barely get level 11 gems. to play this build it will be in act 1 end or 2 middle cruel probably. so this build for for the end of the campaign and after. not for most fo the campaing.
Where do you get enough spirit for archmage and elemental invocation from? So far I’ve seen 46 on your armour, but don’t we need 160 for archmage and elemental invocation on bosses?
can someone explain this. i have a quarter staff that says 1-58 lightning damage in the modifier. but when i click compare it switches to 52-78 lightning damage. is it buffing up because i have many lightning passive skills invested. or is it showing re-roll potential which wouldn’t make sense.
they changed how conversion works from PoE to PoE 2, you can no longer scale the original source then scale it again after conversion, so any % increases to ES would only apply to energy shield that is protecting your health bar and not if it's converted to mana
Timestamps
0:00 BONK
0:23 3 link early mapping
1:14 Lightning Conduit/Gem explanation (Will need Call of the brotherhood for some of the gems to work effectively)
3:42 Weapon Swap Lightning Conduit for bossing. (auto swapping explained)
4:55 Weapons for each lightning Conduit
5:23 Ascendancy choice while leveling.
5:45 Passive tree
7:16 Weapon Set Passive Split.
8:04 Closing Statements. (stay tuned for more)
Poe2 Is tough, stay sane exiles, we are all in this together.
did the build got hit by the nerf?
I have the same question
@@massimilianogilli1164 yeah the cast on freeze was nerf, and some things i dont think so still working like video
@@massimilianogilli1164 yes the cast on freeze parts is gone the single target is still there
@@ButchFury Now this build is work? or not ?
What I like about path of exile two is that these builds are something that pretty much anyone can build if they just focus they don’t have to do trade wars to get ridiculous currency in order to afford to play the build
OMFG, its impossible to not love PoE (1 and 2) if you are an ARPG fan. The diversity of builds have no end.
Good job! I love this format of the video, information package through and through. Have a good one.
Every build using Cast on X was heavy nerfed so keep that in mind. I think it will mostly affect regular clears - this build will still be very good vs rares and bosses.
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This is really creative. Well done.
New patch is out, would the build change at all because of the nerfs to "cast on" gems?
sure, cast on freeze is basically dead for mob clearing right now. you only generate 10 energy per freeze instead of 100!
@@whirlywhirly5758 @Lexyu How should we change the build for it to work now?
pretty sure this build is bricked
@@Gamekrayz not bricked, it just no longer casts 50 abilities per shock. Biggest change is now white mobs rarely trigger the CoS, but bosses still trigger it lots.
What would you change in the build now for mob clearing now?
Holy this build is so sick and unique!!!!!
holy shit what an awesome build! i love the weapon swap tech in there! man i love this game so much. and we only have half of the skills we have on release!
Very nice. Really well put together vid.
Liked and subbed. Thx for all the work Lex.
Holy shit brother. I'm out here with sparks and some build I came up with myself thinking I'm doing pretty well clearing ACT3 cruel and trials. You out here 1 shotting shit. God damn.
I need to find that legendary ring, then going to try this out. Thank you for sharing!
This looks cool as hell. Great job Lexyu
do a maxroll guide please
foren
He works for Icyveins. It’ll be a IV guide.
forsen
Do you have this written somewhere maybe on your discord?
Second that, would love to see at least a build made on maxroll’s build planner.
@@johnryan3622 i third that. need to see it in writing
My guy, this is the best guide I’ve seen on lightning sorc. I’ve had such a hard time with sorc and don’t want to give up on it. Thank you thank you! I shall continue with my character after watching this
Any chance you can put this build up on Mobalytics or Maxroll???
Wow what an amazing build 🔥🔥🔥
Holy crap, dude! Jumping few hoops to get the deeps, but this is why we love PoE. I need to watch this video few times in slowmotion to get it all in :D First time all I heard was words. I know the words, but what they meant is still a mystery :D
Amazing Build dude!
Love the vid. Thanks for sharing this build. I'll give it a try.
Awesome build man super fun
This build is insane! Loving the idea and ingenuity behind it.
Can you post an update after today's nerfs to cast on ailment? How is the build performing after the changes?
It still works. Update coming.
@@Lexyugreat news wanted to test it today. Really curious about the update
@@unpolished6296 did you tried it ? I want to see how is work with the post nerf
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this game blows my mind and each time i check guides it blows my mind even more... should have listen to my teachers at school lol...
Hey dude sick build! Any plans on putting it on maxroll so it's easier to follow your build in terms of the passive tree? :o
Congrats, what a great way to scale with mechanics! Just one question: is the unique ring mandatory in this build, and why?
You can use Cast on Shock but it is much slower and not as safe as Freeze. I highly recommend waiting until you have the unique ring.
Hows the nerf to the Meta skills affect this?
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COOL BUILD!
Love the video but can you put this build below the video set out in text so it can be followed from beginning to end
Could you sketch out an approximate leveling tree in maxroll?
leveling skills?
Hey, is it possible to have a pob/maxroll sort of build showcase, or make maybe just a short on what passives to use with the skills, it's not really easy to understand.
Agree
Are those Crit bonus on full life nodes actually doing anything? You cast lightning orb and lightning warp right underneath a boss prior to dropping a conduit. Wouldn't that immediately invalidate all of those nodes?
It only works if you can cast the lightning warps before the boss becomes attackable.
Does increased lightning damage on your staff have effect when you use Call of the Brotherhood Topaz Ring?
The percent Lightning Damage doesn't work anymore.
Your build is great, you can put everything visible in gems, passives, and how to go up the passive tree please. what equipment to use from the beginning
How's this working out post nerf?
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7:48 those crit buffs affect spells?
Yes, as long as it doesn't specify attack only.
Why not use cast on shock instead? Is it really worth it to convert all the damage to cold just for the comet and if so you can still do it but use cast on shock instead its a lot easier to apply shock and since you consume it you can just apply it again
how should be that gems link for that setup? what need to be added? and what need to be replaced?
I’ll give my opinion as a mage player… freeze is almost a requirement for mage right now. Full Energy shield items= zero evasion or armor. if you get touched, you will die within a 1-2 second window. Freeze gives that padding where you’re able to dive into packs and know you’re safe. I can’t imagine you have that same level of security where you’re able to dive into packs carelessly without it.
@andreandrre2183 to be honest i did theory craft a build but its different than this one cast on shock for lightning conduit and gonna see if its worth picking comet or support for it i have been in cruel act 2 for 2-3 days now just been busy with work but i dont know how maps feel in poe 2 i cant really answer this without testing myself
@Noah-go8xc are you speaking from map experience? Cuz energy shield is really bad early but again i have to try it myself once i finish work tommorow im gonna try to finish act 3 cruel (almost done with 2) and get into maps once i get enough materials i wanna test the build i have in mind
The dmg conversion has nothing to do with comet, comet has build-in spell dmg which is a lot already. He convert his lightning dmg to cold for the freeze as a defense layer because majority of lightning spell sorcerer has problem of monsters running up to their face.
Hey Lexyu, just found you and love this content! I'm curious to know how you pathed the skill tree while leveling, and what skills you used as well. Thanks for this vid keep up the good work!
I'll try to make a leveling guide soon.
currently trying to play as generic archmage spark . do I need the ring ? or can I try cast on shock?
The unique ring with Cast on Freeze is much better, but it can also work with Cast on Shock.
Look really fun to play do you have a planner? Thanks !
Great video
New player here. How come Lightning Warp applies freeze. I get you have the ring, but if damage is converted to cold, how does it freeze AND shock? A bit confused on that
Pretty sure it comes from a passive in the storm weaver tree
His unique ring, he shows it at 2:13
The ring converts the damage of the explosion to deal frost damage which can inherently freeze, but i believe what's happening is that it still creates the "shocked ground" part and it's not affected by freeze, from my understanding so far ground types (IE: frost ground/shocked ground) are not affected by elemental conversions as they are not damaging effects, they are just ground effects that apply their associated ailments (frost ground for example always chills) so again my educated guess is that the lightning explosion DOES cold damage which applies cold-related ailments but also leaves shocked ground which shocks
this
any advice for a level 35 player, progression order would be of great help
Build looks fun, can you do a early game leveling guide?
im new to poe2 and poe in general can you explain the progress of the passive skill tree ? for example what attributes do i get from the attribute nodes? just int? and what the leveling looks like till i can get to build this?
thanks I going to try this build just beat act 3
How hard did the build get hit by the giant nerf to "cast on.." ?
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Imagine what you see in the gameplay part, but he would only be casting his skills 10th of the time, or alternatively you would have to cast your ball of lightning, then cast lightning warp on that projectile, then cast lightning conduit (without hourglass suport) manually on every single mob. GGG took this build out back and shot it in the head.
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Did you craft your gear or farm currency and buy it? Very cool use of movement skills
All self found/crafted except the brotherhood unique ring and the second staff. Better to buy upgradss from now on I think.
@ crazy work with Poe 2 crafting you deserve more love my friend
Naice im using similar set up but I Use the tree dragons helmet to freeze it works just fine, and I get to scale lighning dmg still, not sure how much dmg im loosing on comet but theoreticall i can ignite with comet doing some more ignite dmg to counter that
Sadly we dont count as having shocked recently since shocked ground does not aplly shock from us but from floor. :D
Other wise the elemental dmg if added X ailment recently wheel on right side would be very poerful for this
Hello Lexyu, is this build working after the Cast on Freeze nerf?
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what is si great about going for call of the brotherhood, when you could just use cast on shock ?
Cast on Shock hardly triggers compared to Cast on Freeze.
happy to see you making poe content 😊
How will you adjust the build now that cast on gems got nerfed?
Love this build, can we get a maxroll guide? can't wait to play this build😍😍
do you also have a build or a page where you can look all this up
How viable is this if you pivot away from COTB? There are unique gloves that let you stun with lightning way easier as well.
Looking for help before I start can't find a build or anything..... I want to be someone in heavy armor using a great sword and is focused on lightning damage. Any tips or info on how to make that work would be very much appreciated..... Thanks in advance
The question is, did it remain playable after the nerf?
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Hello, have a question about your second ring. it gives damage to attacks, but spells dont have attack tag? is it even useful? nice build btw!
The damage to attacks is not useful. It was a bad ring that I've already replaced.
@@Lexyu ty
can you go path of storms instead if you dont have the ring? I need something else after the CoF Nerfs.
awsome guide
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This is exactly the kind of build I was looking for but instead of going for all the conversions to frost I want to keep it lightning and ideally use Arc as the spammable with Cast on Shock Lightning Conduit. Would something like that be feasible?
Cast on Shock hardly activates compared to Cast on Freeze.
How important is the topaz ring for this build? maybe some changes around cast on shock?
Before buying the Brotherhood unique ring I used Lightning Warp with Electrocute support to deal most of my damage. I might make a leveling video soon.
where's the build planner at?
Why do you do the cold damage conversion when you could use cast on shock? Is it because of the freeze that comes along with it?
Cast on Shock hardly activates compared to Cast on Freeze.
is this build hit by the CoX nerf?
yes
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Does it still work after last night's patch?
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pretty cool build to sway away from the overused cold versions and firewall builds but is call of the brotherhood mandatory to play this?
Pretty much. The build can be played with cast on shock but it's not as fast or safe compared to Freeze.
you are a genius.
Weapon swap and 6 key just to map? What’s your standard mapping key u press in rotation?
Weapon swap is automated, you don't have to press anything for it to work. His mapping gameplay looks like: Cast ball lightning -> cast lightning warp on a ball lightning near an enemy. That's it.
Nice video
Nice buid. How did you leveled up?
Spark or Arc at the beginning. Before buying the Brotherhood unique ring I used Lightning Warp with Electrocute support to deal most of my damage. I might make a leveling video soon.
@@Lexyu Thank you brother!
Do overcharge work with lightning warp? As i thought the shock is created from shocking ground not directly from the skill
It does increase the shock magnitude from the shocking ground effect.
Soooo build guide when? GG brother!
Would love a leveling guide and written guide as well.
Looking at your rings, are the prismatic only there for resist? if so you should hit it with some Chaos, lightning dmg to attacks does nothing for your spells, and neither does the leech.
Correct, that ring was trash and I've replaced it.
will this still reach similar clear capabilities shown with pure electric damage, without the ring? Perhaps use three head dragon helm so shock dmg can freeze?
I've just tried it and it seems to work, i've used cast on freeze with comet and spammed spark. It freezes every mob around and then spawns comets, there's little bit of mana issues but there's potential in dmg, I wasn't even specced for cold dmg (everything to elec)
Yup, that helm can definitely also work.
Sensei when the leveling guide, thats the most difficult part i think.
Cast on freeze sorceress is the best for leveling
Cast on freeze cold snap then cast on freeze comet gg wp. Frostbolt+frostwall as triggers.
I might make a leveling video soon.
@@Lexyu can you show us more clearly one by one the skills and the gems you have put in them? From which lvl and after can we do this build? Is it also for the end game?

you have link with build details?
Can you put out a leveling build build for this? This is so cool!!
Hi, I'm new to POE I've heard that cast on freez has been nerfed, how much does it impact this build?
destroyed
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Can you make follow up video and show the build without weapon swap please ?
can you show us more clearly one by one the skills and the gems you have put in them? From which lvl and after can we do this build? Is it also for the end game?

If i dont have the ring? I need that conversion in cold damage? Or i can just use conductivity..pls answer bro😢
You need the unique ring for Cast on Freeze, or you can play with just Lightning Warp and Ball Lightning.
this should still be viable without Elemental invocation right? It looks like that is just additional damage to me
im trying to figured out if i could replicate the single target dmg from comets by using weapon swap skill tree mechanic to allocate 24 different points to boost single target dps while still play my ci es spark manastacker archmage on main hand
Yeah for sure you can. I didn't even use all my available weapon set skill points yet.
Can I see your build
what is so great about call of the brotherhood, when you could just go cast on shocck instead ?
How is did this with recent patch w/o cof comet? Might just repecc to this
I'm new to PoE. How did you "pin" all these tooltips to show them alongside each other ingame?
its a video and you can edit videos
Hold alt and click the pin on the top right of the tooltip.
I did switched to your build with the stuff I had and it's a profound regret. Not that it's not good, I just can't make it work with what I have.
I was using a Spark homemade build and clearing T4-5 at an okay rate. Now I die 1/3 times on a T1.
I spent all my money to respec and I can't seem to find a way out of this situation.
I realize that the Lightning conduit doesn't proc at all on my build. I'm using Cast on shock as I don't have Call of Brotherhood yet. Wondering if this is the issue. Otherwise I have the same passive so this remain a mystery at the moment.
Cast on Shock doesn't activate often enough. I highly recommend picking up the Brotherhood Topaz Ring.
I guess it's because of the patch... F my life...
@@Lexyu Thanks for your comment. Did you test it after patch? Wondering cause I'll have to farm T1 dying continuously to get a few more Exalted orb to afford the ring. It might take me a few hours so if it's not working I rather work to switch to another build.
@@sulysan I have an update video releasing in 1-2 hours.
Whats the earliest you can play this build?
in act 3 you barely get level 11 gems. to play this build it will be in act 1 end or 2 middle cruel probably. so this build for for the end of the campaign and after. not for most fo the campaing.
Around level 70 with the Call of the Brotherhood Topaz Ring.
So really your gona be in endgame before you can even start to see this damage, what skills did you level with then?
Shock, Arc, or Lightning Warp.
I'm confused as how you cast lightnig warp with ball lightning. Sorry but new to POE
You just cast Ball Lightning and then cast Lightning Warp on the projectiles.
Where do you get enough spirit for archmage and elemental invocation from? So far I’ve seen 46 on your armour, but don’t we need 160 for archmage and elemental invocation on bosses?
You don't need to activate them both at the same time with the weapon swap tech.
@ what would be the first 5 link you would go for? The manual conduit for better boss dmg?
@@zubbeats2653 Yeah probably.
That spell looks so good
can someone explain this. i have a quarter staff that says 1-58 lightning damage in the modifier. but when i click compare it switches to 52-78 lightning damage. is it buffing up because i have many lightning passive skills invested. or is it showing re-roll potential which wouldn’t make sense.
do you have a link to the build ?
was this build heavily affected by nerf to trigger spells?
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@@Lexyu Love you ❤
If i dont have the same gear as yours will i have the similar out come?
You can still get away with dealing less damage, but you might struggle hard without enough mana regen.
Do you think the build is still working after the last patch ?
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Is energy shield max nodes worth to get more mana?
You only get more mana from [+] Energy Shield values. [%] values do not increase the conversion from Eldritch Battery.
they changed how conversion works from PoE to PoE 2, you can no longer scale the original source then scale it again after conversion, so any % increases to ES would only apply to energy shield that is protecting your health bar and not if it's converted to mana