Archmage Spark Stormweaver Build Guide

• +Levels to All OR Lightning Skills
• %increased Lightning/Spell Damage
• %increased Cast Speed
• %increased Crit Chance for Spells
• %increased Crit Bonus Damage
• +# to Maximum Mana
• +# to Intelligence helps us meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• % increased Mana Regeneration Rate
  • Weighted Sum Search for Wand
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• Total Energy Shield on Body Armour is Priority #1
• +# to Intelligence helps you meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• Spirit is extra benefit if you can get a substantial amount it allows cast on shock addition or with just 10 you can add clarity support to archmage for more mana regen.
• +% to Element Resistance is necessary throughout gearing to cap your res
• For runes I recommend: Iron Rune
  • Weighted Sum Search for Body Armour
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade
    • I also recommend adjusting minimum energy shield # in filter options for upgrading

• Alternatively Morior Invictus is a powerful option to be considered if trying to fit in a Cast on Shock setup due to getting high spirit & increased mana if you have those stats per soul core on the item.

• Increased Bloc Chance is Mandatory Stat and is the difference between an effective block chance of 35% and 60%+
• +# to Intelligence helps you meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• +# to Strength helps you meet attribute requirement allowing more Intelligence on the Tree
• +% to Element Resistance is necessary throughout gearing to cap your res
• For runes I recommend Res Cap Runes OR Soul Core of Zalatl
  • Weighted Sum Search for Shield
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• Focus Setup is all about DAMAGE / Flat ES & Mana (much worse defensively, DO NOT use on budget setup)
  • Weighted Sum Search for Focus
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• Mahuxotl's Machination is my Top Pick with either 3 sockets and 500%+ soul core effect OR 750% 2 sockets.
  • socket in Soul core of Zalatl for 2% mana each and this shield yields 36% to 45% increased mana giga boosting your potential damage scaling
    • Mahuxotl Search buy uncorrupted and pray Vaal orbs are kind to you(not recommended on budget)

• Total Energy Shield and +# to Maximum Mana combined is Priority
• +# to Intelligence helps you meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• +% to Element Resistance is necessary throughout gearing to cap your res
• % increased critical chance is nice extra damage stat that can appear on helmets
• For runes I recommend: Iron Rune
  • Weighted Sum Search for Helmet
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade
    • I also recommend adjusting minimum energy shield # in filter options for upgrading
• If on a BUDGET use Atziri's Disdain as its extremely strong for a low price, prioritize a higher gain % mod.

• +# to Maximum Mana and Total Energy Shield is Priority #1
• +# to Intelligence helps you meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• +% to Element Resistance is necessary throughout gearing to cap your res
• % increased critical damage bonus is a nice additional damage stat that can occur on gloves
• For runes I recommend Res Cap Runes OR Soul Core of Zalatl
  • Weighted Sum Search for Gloves
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• +#% to Movement Speed is MANDATORY(higher % makes boss mechanics substatially easier to dodge and feels much better to get spacing from mobs)
• +# to Maximum Mana and Total Energy Shield is Priority #2
• +# to Intelligence helps us meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• +% to Element Resistance is necessary throughout gearing to cap your res
• For runes I recommend Res Cap Runes OR Soul Core of Zalatl
  • Weighted Sum Search for Boots
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• +# to Maximum Mana
• +# to Intelligence helps you meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• % increased cast speed
• % increased Mana regeneration rate
• +% to Element Resistance is secondary to mana regen rate/cast speed & mana
  • Weighted Sum Search for Rings
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• Use a rare amulet if on a budget OR if you have a giga rare amulet and are going full dps variation
  • Otherwise use The Everlasting Gaze Prioritize higher %gain roll 20-> 30 results in 1.5x your ES compared to the lower roll.
• +level to all or projectile both scale Spark damage significantly
• % increased Maximum Mana is one of the strongest mods for scaling mana high
• +# to Maximum Mana
• +# to Maximum Energy Shield gives us Mana 1-1 thanks to Eldritch Battery
• +# to Intelligence helps us meet attribute requirement & excess Intelligence gives +2 Mana
• % increased cast speed
• % increased Mana regeneration rate
• +% to Element Resistance is secondary to gem levels/mana regen rate/cast speed & mana
  • Weighted Sum Search for Amulets
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• Use a Rare until you can afford Midnight Braid then use that until you can afford Ingenuity
• +# to Maximum Mana
• +% to Element Resistance to cap resistance
  • Weighted Sum Search for Belt
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

Jewels are a Great way to improve your character's power level and should be improved when budget allows, 2 stat jewels are a great start on a budget but moving to 3 stat and eventually 4 useful stat jewels maximize your character's potential.

• %increased spell/lightning/elemental damage
• %increased maximum energy shield
• %increased energy shield recharge rate
• %faster start of energy shield recharge
• %increased crit chance
• %increased cast speed
• %mana recover on kill
• %maximum resistance
• %mana recoup
• %increased critical bonus damage
• %increased skill effect duration
• %increased magnitude of shock
  • Weighted Sum Search for Jewels
    • click filter top right and adjust weighting to upgrade

• Late game options include:
  • Against the Darkness with %mana small / spirit or %int on notable
  • The Adorned with 75%+ with good magic jewels

• Low budget getting started -> block variation with rare shield(make sure you have block chance on shield).
• Mid/High Budget Mahu Setup with 60-70 spirit added in for Lightning conduit(Morior Invictus/rare chest + Against the Darkness spirit notable jewel)
• Ultra High Budget ->Mahu Setup OR DPS setup with dream fragments for freeze and well rolled stun charm (super late game I'd find a way to make temporalis to work tbh, that movement is ridiculous)

https://github.com/cdrg/cdr-poe2filter/releases (download .filter file -> open options menu in game -> go to game tab -> click filter icon to open location of files, copy .filter file to this location -> hit the swirly arrow thing in game to reload filters and select filter from drop down)

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 Mind Over Matter at the same time 

• Mana Flask starts out extremely essential and becomes less important as you scale your mana higher. Ideal flask rolls are amount recovered and reduced charges used/increased total charges
• Melting Maelstrom should be your ultimate endgame as it adds instantaneous full recovery of the entire mana pool, but don't get it until really min-maxing as its extremely costly.

• Constant Gale and Force of Will are mandatory components to the build, do not skip these.
• Strike Twice is a great dps option but doesn't greatly outscale elemental storms until later on in character progression when instant killing bosses starts to render elemental storms value much less essential.
• Scouring Winds is another solid dps option but its strictly weaker than Strike Twice
• Tempest Caller helps give you better clear with satisfying swirly storms while being solid extra damage. Great early, but gets out scaled dps wise late game to shock/exposure.
• Rain Dancer is a solid 4th ascendancy pick if doing elemental storms that should feel quite good for the character. But this gets out scaled by Shock/Exposure scaling for late game min-max options.
• Heart of the Storm is good defensively but late game my es felt consistent with recharge enough that dropping for damage felt correct.
• Heavy Snows I have not tested but currently I'd rather just kill enemy faster rather than slow enemy down. Same with Shaper of Winter
• Shaper of Storms this node is irrelevant for build as the build deals mainly lightning damage already and would shock the enemy regardless.

• Spirit Guide
• Act 1 King of the Mist(30)
• Act 3 Bone Witch(30)
• Act 3(cruel) Bone Witch(40)

Defining "weighting"(how much value does this stat add to the build) is about how much the build cares about specific affixes on items and then the website can display how much total value is on an item as a numerical value allowing the trade search to be limited to more powerful items.

It is an implicit on the chiming staff base in your weapon set 2, you need to set all primary skills to weapon set 1, sigil & conductivity to weapon set 2, the game then auto swaps to cast skills, use sigil on bosses

Yes, tree/scaling is fairly generic and the main change you 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)

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.

• 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 yields 100 mana as a result.
• This works exactly the same for 'gain as' mechanics and is why %increases to mana don't end up giving us more energy shield from The Everlasting Gaze

Gain / Conversion systems in poe 2 happen in separate instances so The Everlasting Gaze Gain ES is applied after eldritch battery conversion allowing us an energy shield source that won't get converted.

This is most likely due to using a Mana/Life flask with the affix 'remove 15% amount recovered from life'. When you combine this flask mod with a CI build it becomes a suicide button and you die every time you activate this flask.

• 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 begin to happen less and less.
• getting a Stone Charm with increased charges also helps to mitigate stuns.

• They are are "weapon set" passives which basically allow the tree to change depending on which weapon set you currently have on.
• Wand and Shield is weapon set 1 with your primary damage skills and normal tree which you can just spec like normally(redpassives become the tree and ignore green passives in this case) if you don't want to optimize for this.
• While weapon set 2 is your staff which has a bunch of curse nodes thus snap shotting a potent conductivity when you cast it as you have conductivity tied to weapon set 2.

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 you. This is great for crossing gaps or speeding up clear

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.

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

• Respec Travel Nodes to meet minimum requirement for Gear/Gems
• Put the rest of your attributes all into Intelligence
• IF you do not have enough points with just changing travel nodes
  • THEN you need an attribute roll or two on your gear.

• No Dream Fragments = Icebreaker
• Otherwise Here are some options:
  • Arcane Blossom
  • Frazzled
  • Adverse Growth
  • Lay Siege = only use this on block variation of build
  • Wild Storm
  • Lightning Rod = most expensive but generally strongest offensively. Keep in mind, that the better your crit scaling the worse this notable becomes.

• %increased mana per small nodes is the top stat
• %int on notables is good for further mana scaling
• +spirit per notable is great to add in Cast on Shock setup

Morior always loses on the overall ES(-400 to -1000 es) amount BUT a 5 socket Morior is comparable Mana wise to around 850 es body armour, a 4 socket comparable to 750 es body armour. Morior requires more attributes but comes with some armour/evasion, a rare can come with extra res/int. Ultimately it comes down to Price, a perfect rare beats Morior but Morior is generally cheaper power for the price.

• Relic: 15% increased Mana Recovery from Flasks
• Venom Drought: 25% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
• Cruel Relic: %increased charm charges gained
• Cruel Venom Drought: +5 to All Attributes

NOTE: These bonuses are minor, if you picked something different for the Venom Draught, don't worry too much!