Goratha's Frostbolt Icenova Archmage 3.24 Necropolis Pre-league FAQ

NOTES FOR BUILD LEVELING -You can level as either Armaggeddon Brand till merc lab and farm Ice Nova of Frostbolts there OR you can level as Archmage with Firestorm, Storm Burst, or Ball Lightning -Technically can farm Normal Lab as well but not recommended -Charges first from normal lab if you are brand leveling, otherwise go Divine Guidance for archmage memes -Technically can leap slam and craft on axes/sword super early but that's not required -Call to Arms + Enduring Cry should be good throughout the game, as soon as you can use it -Manually casting Arcane Cloak is most likely going to be the best, but you can technically automate it if you're REALLY lazy TREE NOTES -Early trees go for shadow suppression + suppression is lucky - until able to get capped from gear -Dexterity nodes if you can't get any on gear early -Instant Leech FEELS REALLY good with ES leech especially, hard to not go for the leech mastery even though it's a lot of points. EVASION VS ARMOR -largely preference, evasion will feel better for mapping -Evasion/ES gear rolls mana naturally, and is easier to color -Phys overwhelm is a lot easier on Evasion gear ENERGISED ARMOR IS HUGE IF YOU GO ARMOR VERSION -Make sure you pick up every crimson jewel and vaal it, this is really big for the templar armor GLORIOUS VANITY -This splits the damage your taking, so you leech off both sources at the same time, and it also hits your mana earlier, this makes it better vs multiple hits -Not required but nice for extra tankiness ARCANIST BRAND -Arcanist Brand + Return Projectiles is WAY more single target for Ice Nova, because the return projectiles has a max range when linked to arcanist brand so they return faster -Once you get 100% AOE from Sanctuary of Thought you can use it for mapping + clear as well, maybe preference though UNIQUE ITEM OPTIONS -Early Options, you can use Dream Fragments, Praxis, Mindspiral, Atziri's Foible (probably even end-game) -Pledge of Hands could be used very good for damage, but you lose shield charge -Kitava's Thirst could be used for automating some skills -Ravenous Passion for perma berserk + a lot of cast speed and damage -Taste of Hate for some more phys mitigation if you really feel like you need it -Cloak of Defiance is okay, but not crazy -Anathema can be an option if you want to scale damage more through curses **INDIGON IS NOT REALLY THAT GOOD ANYMORE BECAUSE ARCHMAGE SCALES OFF UNRESERVED INSTEAD OF MANA COST** **IVORY TOWER COULD BE SUPER MINMAX BUT THIS IS A LEAGUE START GUIDE!** PANTHEONS + AILMENT IMMUNITY -Most likely going to use Brine King + Garukhan for freeze + reduced shock for most of the time -You could go for Stormshroud + Avoid shock on belt/boots OR Ancestral Vision + ailment boot implicit FLASKS -Currently have Eternal Mana as a flask, but it might not be worth using, depends on how mana feels after patch STUN IMMUNITY + OPTIONS -Stun can be a problem, Brine King early helps, new ES mastery could be nice, immutable force is also a solution - or just pathing to Unwavering Stance TRANSFIGURED GEM FARMING -Recommended to farm it in Merc Lab before going into Maps -Technically can farm it in Normal Lab but I would recommend not doing that GEAR CRAFTING -Most of the gear currently in the POB will just be Armor/Evasion gear that is essence crafted for Mana EO SCEPTRE -just saves 2 points, good min-max option though END-GAME SET-UPS -Super min-max Ivory Tower probably best set-up, not league start viable though -Pledge is pretty good alternative early on for more DPS -Can go CRIT as well at some point if you want more damage