PoE Pledge of Hands, Spell builds

Please rip this build to shreds and tell me this is shit but below is a PoB I threw together for an Ice Nova build using new Archmage in a 5link Pledge of Hands. Gear is very, very basic and it seems fairly squish as a result but unless I'm missing something it seems like it should be pretty fun to lightning warp around, hitting ice nova and auto casting frost bolts and echoing more ice nova's for pretty good early mapping with minimal investment. Appreciate y'alls feedback

&x200B; Originally I started this as a Pathfinder but found trickster was more damage. The idea is to use Pledge of hands along with another spell echo, which in my testing on the servers fires off about 5 Volleys of Bladefall (which is why I have the count set to 5 in POB but let me know if this isn't correct). I also have Blade Blast as well for the lingering blades. I have some defenses and level of recovery from cursing enemies and killing enemies that are Withered. &x200B; Wanted to see if there was something I was missi

&x200B; Just looking to see if this passes as a viable league starter next league (barring bizarre tree changes).

Hey all, Archmage has been stomped into the ground by GGG for a long time now, so here's a new twist/variant to it that I'm considering league-starting. Abyss Jewel Stacking Trinity Archmage. This is heavily based off of Jungroans Raider variant however with the nerfs to arcane surge it feels like you're almost obligated to take hierophant. What this build does differently from previous versions of archmage: Chill effect, frostbolt and ice nova with high cold damage scaling gives a strong defensive layer previously not had Recoup: with new recoup nodes added to the tree, it lets us ge

Hello everyone! I am currently playing a self-cast Archmage Ball Lightning Hierophant. The damage is okay and sufficient for general T16 alch & go mapping. However, when I turn up the notch a little (more juice) or try pinnacle bosses the lack of physical mitigation really shows itself. I can complete most tasks that I set my sights on, it's just that I'll get randomly one-shotted and die along the way, losing a few portals. I'd like to add a little more tankiness to eventually make progress towards level 96 while also being able to moderately juice my maps. With that many unique items

I just wanted to post about my build idea and tested since I think its really cool. I've tested Hydrosphere with spell echo and can confirm that the final repeat does have a 100% crit chance and when using it with greater spell echo it also inherits the extra aoe and more damage multiplier. Scion Archmage: This is a (not that good) pob for an archmage scion that I used the interaction with. I stacked cast speed to make the build be able to clear maps a bit more smoothly but its strength is definitely in bossing. I defensive laye

Guard skill: Arcane Cloak is offensive, Immortal Call is defensive. If you get Jugg or maybe the Deflection node, End Charges should be easily supplied so IC's cost should be largely negligible. Archmage: Fireball used because of high damage effectiveness. Cast speed is bypassed via CWDT. AoE is unnecessary because this is a bossing setup (though adds might mess this up, but Fireball has a little AoE iirc). Discharge has the highest damage effectiveness and its threshold jewel (Endless Misery) changes its cooldown to CWDT's, but if the 60% less damage affects Archmage then

Trying to rig up a flame-surge Kitava's thirst character. It'd be like playing melee, without being melee. I'm probably going to roll with it next league unless something overtly destroys the build. But looking for feedback on it. It's not terribly crazy in terms of required uniques, and has room for growth with influence-rare crafting. \editing to meet the "Share Your Build" requirements\ Flame Surge on a 6-link \[Pledge of Hands\] meets the 100 mana cost to trigger Kitava's Thirst, which has 3 spells linked on Arcane

Can use lightning strike if don't want to use cyclone to stack instruments of zeal. Need to check to see if frenzy + hydrosphere works for stacking fanaticism and frenzy (because then that's bis imo) we don't want inc duration on arcane surge because it needs to be up every 4 seconds

Since the damage on manabond is based on current mana, not mana spent, I've theorycrafted a hiero build based on reducing mana cost of skills as much as possible, which should allow us to control the AOE/damage by controlling our mana. With 9k mana and Pledge, Manabond will cost 4000 mana without any reduced costs. Using inspiration, reduced mana nodes on the tree, jewels, and flask, we can reach 100% reduce mana cost (might be optimal to have at 80-95% reduced though). Mana can be easily restored to full for AOE/MoM purposes using a mana flask (as it doesn't nec

As far as I can tell, fanaticism is clunky and sucks... but the new manabond skill got me thinking that maybe it could be spammed to high heaven using fanatacism. The general premise is that you would play a character with like 10,000 mana and get 1500 base lightning for manabond when all your mana is gone and you use the skill. At this point it seems like you would use archmage... but what if you didn’t? What if you somehow got all your mana gone and then spammed the skill super fast with no mana cost at all? Enter fanaticism with guest appearances from inspiration and the Templar mana co