CaptainLance9's Spark Archmage Stormweaver FAQ

FAQ
Why Rising Tempest? Currently it seems to proc atleast twice for 24% more damage which makes it a best damage link while not having mana multiplier
(other options include Fork/Pierce for clear or Lightning Pen for ele res maps Or unleash for raw damage output but at higher mana cost)

What Annoint? Adverse Growth(mana recoup) Le Seige(damage per block) Lucky Lightning(you are rich 2 oils that cost 150ex each) ES = FreezeThreshold(solve freeze)

What Vials in Campaign? Mana Regen & All Attribute

When to Swap To CI? I did at about 3k/3k Es & Mana can probably done a little bit earlier but feel it out for yourself, you wil be trading 1k life for immunity to chaos and I would recommend doing this swap with going to MoM at the same time

How do you get strength for shield? You will need atleast 1 attribute roll of atleast 20 int/str on gear/jewel enchant corruptions, then swap attributes on travel passives accordingly to get the bare minimum to equip your shield

Whats on your staff? Cast speed(makes casting curse/sigil faster I believe) / All spell Skills(applies to sigil/+lightning does not) +all spell skills allows us to hit a breakpoint for sigil lvl at 21 for 1% more damage per stage

Mana Regen is too Low, what do i do? Mana Regen rolls on Amulet/Rings/Wand as well as there a nodes nearby on tree I don't have allocated, grab them to compensate if gear is lacking mana regen. I would also heavily recommend using inspiration support on main skill to cut mana consumption in half.

How do you blink? I set weapon set 2 to have blink reserved instead of archmage & I manually swap weapons in order to blink because blink is tied to dodge roll keybind which disallows the game to auto swap for us. This is great for crossing gaps or speeding up clear

What are the Green/Red Passives? They are are "weapon set" passives which basically allow us to change our tree between 20 normal points for our main weapon set with wand and shield and the second set which allows us to min-max our conductivity curse scaling.

Getting Stun locked? stun threshold is entirely tied to your Energy shield number and the amount of %stun threshold gained from es, you can get more of this stat from jewels as well as there are other nodes on tree I did not take, ultimately as you increase ES number stuns will happen less and less.

How do you have Energy Shield with Eldritch Battery? Gain / Conversion systems in poe 2 happen in separate instances so Everlasting Gaze Energy Shield Gain ES is applied after eldritch battery conversion allowing us an energy shield source that won't get converted.

Where do you get 100 spirit? Act 1 king of mist(30), Act 3 bone Witch(30), Act 6 Bone Witch(40)

Can't Find elemental Storm skill? It comes from Stormweaver ascendancy and you will not have it until you spec the ascendancy nodes for it

What is weighted sum search for trade? We give "weighting"(how much do we value) to each possible affix we care about on items and then the website can display how much we value items as a numerical value allowing us to limit search to more powerful items.

How do we get sigil? It is an implicit on staff in offhand, you need to set all primary skills to weapon set 1, sigil & conductivity to weapon set 2, the game will then auto swap to cast skills, use sigil on bosses

Can I play other skills instead of spark? Yes, tree/scaling is fairly generic the main change you will need to make is swapping proj speed/skill effect duration as well as if you choose a different elemental type than drop +lvl to lightning in exchange for +lvl to cold/fire ect. (i cannot promise other skills are as strong as spark but the base scaling should be good)

Ascendancy Double Shock / Exposure / Elemental Storm / Recoup / Double Chill? Double Shock/Exposure is a dps option but from my testing it didn't necessarily seem better than elemental storm, where as elemental storm helps give us better clear as well. Recoup good defensively but late game my es felt consistent with recharge enough that dropping for damage felt correct. Double chill I have not tested but currently I'd rather just kill enemy faster rather than slow enemy down.

Kitko Electrocute gloves? These are solid defensively for stun but I believe in the philosophy of a dead enemy being better than a stunned enemy, early/mid game kitokos probably solid honestly if you can solve for res, but late game your dps should just be good enough you are insta wiping mobs and kitokos at that point is just a damage loss.

Why doesn't % max es increases affect my mana #? Increases only apply to the specific stat and are not carried over when that stat is converted. Example: 1000es(100 es with 900% increased es)->converted with eldritch battery will yield 100 mana as a result.