Since I pulled through and had a good time on VB I decided to make an update to my previous video. My current character

A few things I forgot in the video: The issue with mana infused staff being stuck on mana is that we can then not use a blessing which would make a pretty big difference. With the unique block flask I might be able to get it to work but I would have to see when I do get one if it's worth doing.

Mana cost with archmage is a constant balancing act, if you get more levels or cast speed you will eventually notice the cost going too high and you need more cost efficiency to keep your mana in check which is also the reason why I'm not that big on MoM, it would still be worthwhile as low life but once you're CI you probably wouldn't bother anymore assuming your mana pool stays at 2-3k you'll at best take one more hit before going down since your mana is never topped up anyway

Biggest upgrade I'm fishing for right now besides a 6 link is a call of the brotherhood and then the new shock/chill exceptional gem. We should still get enough shock from infused staff/oos and I was planning on getting the newly buffed lightning conduit (the transfigured one that has more shock effect built in). Instead we can chill and freeze trash mobs with cold damage on VB and with the exceptional gem also have the classic bonechill effect also affect our chaos damage as that support doesn't specify only buffing cold damage by chill effect. Iirc there is also a breach version of the maligaro belt that convers enough lightning to chaos to go 100% chaos on VB but I would rather have cold and I think a ring is a better tradeoff than a belt (especially if someone is going to try this in trade, I'm "only" losing a crystal belt

Slightly updated PoB (includes pathing for the last powercharge, also a CI version using clusters and a VB but I'm not sure that would be worth going for at all)