PoE Mind Over Matter, The Ivory Tower builds

Hey, I just stuck at the moment on how to improve this build in case of survivability or damage. If anyone has any advice highly appreciated. Budget 30 div+ but can grow. POB:

1LLUs CRAPPY ENERGYBLADE BUDGET SETUP Gear MUST HAVE without Reservation isnt possible Juwel with 2% Reservation Efficiency implicit (not MANA Reservation) Cost (03.01.2024) Gear: Crown of Inward Eye 15% - 10c Rathpith Glove - 10c Ivory Tower 6 Link uncorrupted - 2div Shapers Touch - 5c Astramentis 90+ - 15c Decent Boots - 40c (drop Int if to expensive) Weapon - 30c-50c (or 1 Hollow Fossil if this is cheaper) Rings - you can get some for 1c Each or Invest a little more ~ 20c Cyclopean Coil 15% attribute - 25c Jewels & Charms: Rese

Hey there, Path of Exile community! I'm excited to share my theorycrafted CwC BV Hierophant build with you all. I've been using poe.ninja as a reference and I'm feeling pretty good about the overall viability of the build. However, I do have a few questions and concerns that I was hoping the community could help me with. First of all, I have some empty gem slots that I'm not sure what to fill with. I want to make sure that my build is optimized for maximum effectiveness, so any suggestions or tips on which gems to use would be greatly appreciated. Secondly, I'm using Indigon in my build, whi

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

POB: I made this build mainly trying to make a cool pain attunement low life build which it used both attacks and spells with the help of battlmage cry and to apply the increase to spell damage from indigon to attacks aswell. In the end i had to gave it up for many reasons like: having to interrupt cyclone to cast BMC, warcry speed isnt fast enough, cant get enough power and you put at risk if surrounded by enemies who can stun you to death, and so on... But now, i used the space of the BMC to use reckoning to apply conductivity