PoE Archmage, Projectile builds without Hierophant, Indigon

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

I was planning on going lightning arrow champion when I saw this post on r/PathOfExileBuilds, In the comments I saw this question from d2WarlockNeedsLove asking if Voidbringer could be used to prevent Lightpoacher from triggering the skill and consuming spirit charges\\:\\ [

I really wanted to make use of the Master Surgeon and the Sorrow of the Divine Flask interaction so I tried to combo them with the Trialmaster shield. Other than that, Master Surgeon's synergy with petrified blood inspired me to go Low Life and scale hit based chaos spell, therefore Forbidden Rite. Here is what I come up with: I have never played FR before so I took inspiration from some Occultists in poe.ninja. Let me know if I overlooked anything.

This was my build for Sanctum, but reading through the patch notes I see no HUGE reason why this build shouldn't work well in 3.21 (RIP arcane surge, as well as regain mana after every 5th cast and 3% of mana as es masteries). This build focuses on a very spicy interaction that I'm almost certain has been used before, but I can't seem to find any builds using it on PoE ninja. In short, we get our mana costs as high as possible using archmage, and then we take 400% of that mana cost as physical damage with scold's bridle. The hit damage for this is going to be pretty high (6-8k) so we mitigate

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