Chargemage - My Take on Archmage Ice Nova of Frostbolts

TL;DR: Ice Nova of Frostbolts has 1560% (130 * 1.5 * 8) Damage Effectiveness, Archmage gives a ton of flat lightning, and the power-charge stacking suite gives crit chance, crit multi, cast speed, unlimited curses, etc. This allowed me to invest the rest of the remaining build space on defense.

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I've been seeing a lot of people on poe.ninja with Utmost and Adorned setups and I believe my setup is better. My entire setup is cheaper than a good Utmost and it about twice as physically tanky, equally elementally and chaos (ly) tanky, and it still has acceptable dps. It also does better into map mods such as cannot suppres spell damage (build doesn't have suppression), physical damage reduction overwhelm (phys taken as ele, chaos), and cannot gain charges. I have done all content on this build (50% shock on Uber Maven btw). There are also a couple of neat techs in there like Perandus Pact for 80% Chaos Res, and Kinetic Impacts on Imbalanced Guard Impossible Escape for double damage (for shocks).

Build Features:

Tanky:

• Most of the Time: With Arcane Cloak, Sigil of Power, Frost Shield:

• • 107k Phys Max Hit
• • 218k Elemental Max Hit
• • 114k Chaos Max Hit

• Worst Case Scenario: No Arcane Cloak, Sigil of Power, or Frost Shield:

• • 46k Phys Max Hit
• • 93k Elemental Max Hit
• • 44k Chaos Max Hit

• Crit Immune

• Bleed Immune

• Stun Immune

• Elemental Ailment Immune

• Curse Immune

• 63% of Phys taken as Elemental

• 18% of Phys taken as Chaos

• Permanent Enfeeble and Debilitate through Kitava's Thirst Curses

Insane Recovery: Recoup is insanely strong for archmage builds because ALL damage from hits is recouped, so your energy shield and mana damage taken is recouped as life. When you start to take any life damage, the recoup is already set up ready to top you off basically instantly. Life and Mana gain on hit during mapping means you'll essentially always be at full life and mana.

• 51% of Damage Recouped as Mana (45% and 14% more from Watcher's Eye)
• 18% of Damage Recouped as Life
• Instant Leech for Energy Shield and Life
• 18 Life and 3 Mana Gained on Hit with a Spell that hits 8 times per cast with a 7.44 Cast Rate
• 1000 mana regen/sec with level 21 Arcane Surge Up (90.5% uptime), 865 without it

Solid Damage:

• 140M DPS with Arcanist Brand Curses, 65M without them during mapping (If you want more mapping damage, you can put Conductivity and Elemental Weakness in Kitava's Thirst instead of Enfeeble and Punishment, but I never felt the need for more damage.)

Quality of Life:

• Don't have to aim main skill because of Kitava's Thirst
• 1.46 second Flame Dash cooldown and frost blink of wintry blast with high cast speed for general movement (alternate the two for really fast movement)
• Hinder and Maim Immune
• 67.7% Uptime on Arcane Cloak (builds without the Dynamo wheel have less than 60%)

Cons:

• Lots of Buttons (though you don't really need to press sigil of power, arcanist brand, or frost shield most of the time)
• Short Range (you pretty much have to be melee for max DPS)
• Low Movespeed (doesn't matter because of frostblink and flame dash)*