The Return of Archmage - Crackling Lance Archmage Hierophant

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Main Highlights:

• Solid 20+ Million DPS
• Completely automated flasks using Brutal Restraint
• Limitless Mana if you balance it well
• Most gear can be self crafted by spamming Shrieking Essences of Misery or Harvest Rerolls

Main mechanics of this build: Crucible introduced a node on staffs that provides 2.5% mana regen at the cost of reservation efficiency. As this build is utilizing Archmage, the downside is negligible.

This build boasts a 2.66 Shock effect modifier from Lightning Mastery, allowing a full 50% shock against even Uber Pinnacle bosses.

As the aura being ran is Clarity, we can make use of Clarity boosting Watcher's Eyes, which tend to be quite cheap, in addition to Sublime Vision which will give hefty bonuses to both Arcane Surge and Mana regen.

Mana costs and Mana spent per second can also be finely tuned via Archmage quality (and Divergent quality which reduces cost) to ensure that there is always a net gain in Mana despite what you spend.

And the main takeaways of this are:

• This build currently doesn't build crit, so there is a much higher damage ceiling
• This format can apply to other Archmage supported skills