New mage ascendency ideas

Not OP but helpful write up, thanks! Also doing a spellcaster, but I screwed up and started as a Druid. Went shaman ascendancy and kind of loving the apocalypse skill.

Question, you mentioned firestorm. I tried it early on but it felt meh. Is it actually awesome and I’m missing out? What’s the secret?

I’m mainly running triple fireball with living bomb and fire blast thing. Archmage for main spirit and the other spirit that boosts random elemental damage

The best "mage" would depend a little on what exactly you want to go for, and what your budget is.

Generally speaking tho, Bloodmage and Oracle are the best mages right now, specially for elemental dmg, since the best scaling for spells are lvls and crits, and both ascendancies are the best for crits, Oracle works better on low budget than BM, but BM is more flexible with gear on super high end budget.

Now if you just want to chill a little on maps and don't care for clearing all content or going for Ubers, Varastha is really good for a more defensive mage without spending a lot of currency on it.

Just go on poe.ninja and find something u wanna do

I’m having a blast with Blackflame Chronomancer. I feel immoral. For bossing I just pause the game and kill them with ignite. The bosses can’t even move. For mapping I use ED/C but if you wanna use elemental you can use fire spells for clear there are a few builds on POE Ninja 

Is it best? Probably not. Is it fun and viable? I think so 

So, the best ascendancies for elemental spells are Stormweaver, Disciple of Varashta and Bloodmage. Stormweaver goes crazy with infusions, Disciple can get super tanky (for an ES build) and can use Staff + Focus combo which is nice. Bloodmage is mainly for crit with the 15% base crit node + life recovery from remnants + leech.

I think Bloodmage is generally the strongest caster ascendancy that we have, then if you want to go for Firestorm + infusions I would recommend Stormweaver (big full screen elemental apocalypse 0 FPS gaming), if you want to be tanky then Varashta.

Blackflame Covenenant is Chaos. It converts all of your fire dmg and fire spell into chaos, which means you scale from spell dmg and chaos dmg, instead of spell dmg and elemental dmg. For that BM is the best I think, maybe Lich. Havent really played around with that too much tho, so I might be wrong.