As the title says, my current problem is I’m running out of mana FAST while bossing and maybe having more damage overall.
Thanks in advance, any tip appreciate it since this is my first league ever and having a blast
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Do you use all the mana cost efficiency nodes? You can use cost efficiency rune(or is it soul core). Your total mana is a bit low. You can use a heart of the well with 17% mana cost efficiency, but then you loose gain extra damage. Can still be worth it, because no mana means no damage. You can also use a soul ore in gloves that gives increased mana generation when active curses. Look at Bigdaddy stormweaver build, he has a video on it.
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/crit-spark-starter-bigdaddy?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C62d99d1a-3947-4b76-bd88-ddcf11882275
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these maybe: https://poe2db.tw/us/Nightscale ?
You can solve mana with the quipolatl's thesis soul core in gloves in three different ways. First off you'd want to allocate the keystone Whispers of Doom. The curse will be supported by ritualistic curse and spell cascade. For the other supports just choose high cost multipliers such as heightened curse or unleash. Just choose any you see fit. Unleash for self-cast only. The mana regen from this setup will also scale off mana regen and arcane surge stats.
If you're okay with self casting curses every once in awhile to boost your mana regen for option 1.
Option 2 is to automate it with cast on elemental ailment, which also requires you to drop blasphemy, siphon elements(which is honestly not great anyway), and slot in Dialla's Desire into Blink. Automating with CoA/CoC can cause huge frame drops, so beware.
Option 3 is to swap to spell slinger to automate it for much less lag and effects cluttering screen, but requires you to use a dueling wand. This is probably not an option for you since staff and focus ascendancy. Just mentioning it in case, and still useful for others.
If you're not interested in using quipolatl's thesis, then just find more sources of cost efficiency such as a better vertex or passive tree notables. Get rings/amulet with mana and/or mana regen if you can. Or use the covenant and link comet to Atalui's Bloodletting gem.
As for damage, replace your Rakiata's in CoC with Uhtred's Augury. Rakiata's and elemental weakness is anti-synergy. Have something else besides pinpoint support your comet. You're not using maligaro's so it's not that great of a damaging support. Note boundless energy and energy retention do not count as supports for Uhtred's Augury towards comet.
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I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath