PoE Penance Brand, Templar builds

I created this pob in my spare time trying to pull a skill that I like a lot, I think it was relatively cheap, and the damage looks great! Is there something wrong with pob? Is it possible to optimize further? ty. ;)

Low Life MoM Penance Brand Hierophant ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defensive Mechanics Explained : When hit, 60% damage goes to Mana and 40% goes to HP. (+10% watchers eye, +10% hiero passive) Then, with Anomlaous Petrified Blood, we only take 55% of the remaining damage (or 22% of the initial hit) The damage that we would have taken is then applied as damage over time, which is t

Penance brand as hierophant using the reworked arcane surge on the cheaper side. Just sad that Penance brand is not much used and overlooked over the past several leagues, currently only 6 visible on the poe.ninja crucible ladder including me. It's often seen as a scaling build only used with great investment or with an aurabot. Bonus point, the mtx is wonderful and penance brand is one of my favorite skill. I understand it's hard to make it feels good and you can feel discouraged when you first try it but with a good understanding it's lovely to play (but beware you need to click a lot),

On brand wheels, there is a mastery available that reads "Recover 10% of mana when a brand expires while attached". In theory, if we reduce the brand duration low enough, we can proc this effect frequently enough to sustain the monstrous mana costs of Indigon or Archmage. And since we are recovering by a percentage of maximum mana, we don't really need to invest much into mana regeneration. Our mana recovery will basically scale with our maximum mana. Reducing Brand Duration ================== So this is actually the easy part. Wintertide Brand is the shortest duration brand at a base

Hi, I don't have a PC at the moment so I can't really playtest anything. But I thought a bit about Brandsurge ( (from Witchhunters Judgement staff ( and the possibility to stack increased Duration. Core idea: Brandsurge increases the activation frequency and decreases the factual duration at the same time. However, the base duration remains the same, i.e. Sign of Purpose does not start after actually

I was wondering if Battlemage would scale well into the endgame, and I think I found a shell that has a lot of potential. Eternity Shroud pairs well with Inquisitor's Inevitable Judgment ignoring all elemental resistances, and allows you to add a lot of flat elemental damage in many slots without worrying about penetration or curses. Seems to reach 280m damage from a 20 stack Penance Brand with temporary buffs like Divergent Berserk, but still 100+ m without. The items seem quite feasible to craft now with Harvest, although probably really hard next league. I also included non-physical version

Was talking to someone in the poe subreddit about Lightning Warp today, and tinkering around with a LW build gave me ideas for another build. Introducing, the CWDT 50% MoM Hierophant. We use Tempest Shield and get a ton of block via Glancing Blows and some good block nodes. Sports around 1.2k mana regen. Normally CWDT would be pretty worthless on a block build, but thanks to Glancing Blows, we take half the damage we block, meaning we can still reliably trigger our spells. On that note, the spells we trigger. Conductivity and Arcane Cloak are of course big damage boosts, we can get really mea