[3.10] Hierophant Archmage Storm Brand | 20m POB DPS | Hybrid with MOM

Take Archmage out of the chest, cast your 6 brands while holding down brand recall, put Archmage back and run around till everything is dead.

Brand recall adds 1.2sec to the duration of brands and you cast it more frequently than 1.2sec

Apply flasks on cooldown... win.

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How it actually works?
Archmage brings your base cast cost to 6% total unreserved mana, that cost is then modified by other supports + fevered minds (+ voidbringers if using them)

You want the cost of your Stormbrand to be as high as possible, for me, with chain in my stormbrand costs 8835 mana meaning archmage adds 11485 flat lightning as with stormbrand having an activation speed of 0.22 it means 52k lightning per second per brand. the all your normal multipliers of support more and spell damage, pen etc

https://pastebin.com/k6qgk1Jk lvl 98
https://pastebin.com/5wrLfSAX what i would do at 100

Weapon

As much mana possible, non-chaos/lightning as extra chaos, cast speed, lightning pen, spell/ele damage.
Tried a few times on incursion spell/non-chaos + mana bases to crusade slam wrath effect.

Shield

I use a Magna Eclipsis as it brings recall down to a 1.03 cooldown, without the +2 gems its 1.20 so you really want at least +1 so a rare with +1 and similar stats as weapon would be a massive damage increase.

Helm

Mindspiral gives good mana, good es and good mana recovery..

Chest

Cloak of Defiance gives a solid amount of mana and the ability to have 50% mom (or 60% with a watchers)

Gloves

Life, mana and resists

Boots

Life, mana, movementspeed and resists

Belt

Life, mana and resists (cooldown recovery would be really nice too)

Amulet

Atziri's Foible is a ton of mana, also the reduced requirements is really nice as you are dex starved (if you gem swap to chain)

Rings

Essence Worm allows wrath without reducing total mana


Mana, Life, resists

Flasks

Life flask..
Atziri's Promise is solid damage
Wise Oak is tank and pen (if balanced)
Cinderswollow is nuts regen
Quicksilver.. (curse immune is handy)

You need some dex somewhere.. got mine from my ring.

Clusters/Jewels:

2x Large


4x Mediums (2 of each)



Watchers with the Mana as extra es


Ton of mana above the witch start


Fill with Fevered to get mana cost as high as possible

See gear tab, i have white sockets on chest to swap chain for controlled destruction... but its not really needed)