PoE Spark, Spark of the Nova, Vaal Spark, Hierophant builds

In this post, I will present the build I'm playing and it's mechanics, which can be used on any Archmage/Mana build. Pros: Can run every map mod except no regen (-max res and less recovery are rough but doable) Good damage Good recovery Cons: Oneshots (not very tanky) Little to no rares on the market &x200B; PoB: There are 3 trees: my current tree, my projected lvl100 tree, and an experimental non-crit tree (a little less dps). (Edit: pobb is showing the non-crit info) &x200B; Mana sustain: The main Ma

Context: This build is a modification of Jungroan's 3.19 self-chill Spark Inquisitor I was curious about the Arcane Surge changes for 3.21, and if they could be abused given that Spark spends a ton of mana and could easily hit the Arcane surge mana cap With the Crucible mechanic, this build could be pushed even further POB issues: POB doesn't seem to be correctly calculating Arcane Surge's new 10-25% more spell damage with supported skills. Even with 110% arcane surge effect, it's showing 19% and 42% more spell damage. It

Due to changes to Arcane Surge, Tulfall and Bubonic Trail I've been theorycrafting a generic elemental caster build for a templar and I'd like to hear your input. &x200B; The base relies on interaction between Tulfall and Malachai's Loop - Tulfall gives us massive cold damage to spells and Frenzy Charge generation at the cost of reseting our Power Charges each time we hit max, and Malachai's Loop gives us +2 max Power charges and quite a bit of %increased spell damage but in return we reset our Power Charges each time we hit max (same as Tulfall) and additionally shocks us. We combat dropp

I know, The standard question. But i'm feeling i've hit the ceiling on my spark totem build. I was thinking about going cold conversion or crit. But since it's my 3rd league i'm not really sure how these work. Can anyone help me with this? Here's my pob: It's mainly focused for blasting maps, hence i went for big hitting sparks, instead of duration. Thanks in advance!

I'm looking for ideas on how to improve this build and make it have respectable single target damage without compromising too much on league-start viability. I would rather have good defense and a little bit slower clear/bosskills as I plan to run this in hardcore, potentially even ssf. Is this even practically playable? &x200B; POB: The idea is: stack defensive auras on your own mana, and stack offensive auras on the totems (acting similarly to divine blessing but for each totem you can have another aura) - and use a c

TL;TR 100% lightning to chaos with phantasmal spark and voltaxic rift, hierophant mana based build with archmage, 50-60% MoM, agnostic, lots of mana regen, lots of fun. Pros: high eHP (8.7k), high life & mana regen, 100% chaos damage Cons: prone to oneshots (low life pool), res hungry (cuz of uniques) &x200B; I didn't play (vaal) valtaxic spark when it was popular (some time ago) so I decided to try to make one now that it isn't as powerful/viable (I'm smort). First, phantasmal spark gives 40% lightning to chaos conversion, combined with Voltaxic rift you get 100% lightning to