I know it’s probably a loaded question without you all knowing the exact setup, but are there any tips you could recommend to assist with mana issues for the Plant Druid build? I’m essentially running Rax’s expensive setup (not his mirror one). I love it, but unless I put mana regen into everything I can, it doesn’t have enough sustain.
I’m even running those gloves that do 150% mana regen after crit (which I do all the time).
Mana remnants. Mana after kill. My brothers running plant Druid and his dmg was more then fine so he specced some nodes into more mana based in passive tree.
Lavianga's Spirits Mana Flask (dont need the very best either), mana regen passive nodes, see if you can gem clarity and clarity 2, all that helps and eventually the mana issues are gone.
IThere are a handful of Arcane surge nodes near the tree, especially the 10% chance to gain it and effectiveness of the buff. Helped mine out a good bit (plus more cast speed).
I was following the same build, even with some of the god tier items, but I could never solve mana issues. I tried everything and it still felt terrible. Not sure how he was able to get bosses down without running into sustain issues- I actually dropped the build for something else and now running a whirling assault chonk. The chaos leech and mana/ES sustain is such a breath of fresh air. Gonna take my vertex mask and either sell it to go all in to my chonk or start a poison build
Mana cost efficiency in helm and boot socket. Considered casting support instead of rapid casting on entangle. Also need to have some mana cost reduction on whatever u have on ur coc
This is a big problem in PoE2 right now, mana is still a huge bottleneck that it's just too hard to overcome for spells who can't really leech mana unlike attacks.
I was playing Spark CoC Invoker and the dmg is really good but mana is still an issue even tho I invested a lot on mana and mana regen, could kill ubers but could not inta kill them as the dps would just stop for like 1 or 2 s until I got back mana.
End up just saving enough currency to go for an EW Doedre CoC, lvl up a druid using plants then just swapped to Doedre using The covenant, leeching allows you to just skyrocket your dps as you can just freely use a ton of life and just insta leech it back.
Try not to spam vines it usually takes only a caster for trash the damage will keep hitting. I ended up using a beefy man flask to and manually using it esp on bosses.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Dash_Of_Salt-1651/character/Constant_Gardener_xXx
Here's mine. I just cast Entangle and everything except bosses just died.
On bosses I cast Sigil, elemental weakness, vines and thunderstorm and then go to town.
I had problems with running out of mana on bosses, but seem to have fixed it with just speccing into a little more mana Regen. Honestly, the 2x mana on kill jewels probably aren't doing anything so I'm going to change them soon.
I still occasionally get the 'out of mana' voice line right at the start of a boss fight but the Regen catches up enough that I barely notice a delay in casting entangle after the initial barrage.
The unique flask is mandatory, and I may try to get a little more mana on my gear for good measure but it's pretty close to fine as is.
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
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