Monk mana usage

Hey, wondering if any monks have had mana issues and how they've dealt with it? In act 2 here and just chewing through mana orb.

Level 23, 41 int, 224 mana... pathed to mana leech node "Immortal Thirst" and socketed a phys mana leech rune; still having issues. Am I missing something obvious to solve this? Comparing with my witch/summoner and even sorceress, my mana usage is through the roof.

yeah, i was rly disapointed how they advertised monk as a fast pased gameplay, but has no way to recover mana as a elemental attacker, leech doesnt work, so regen is your best bet. Im playin invoker ice strike and i have max mana and regen on every piece of gear possible and over 15 skill points in mana stuff on the tree, which both things realy feel bad that i had to do, and still i have to stop sometimes and wait for the regen combined wit the flask, i dont understand why the enormous mana cost on melee skills, or at least let us leech ATTACK... i dropped the character for now, im not doin anything melee elemental again ... i hate it when games do this where half yourfocus on everything is to fix thegoddamn mana man ....

It was a bit of a struggle when adding some mana multiplier gems to my main skill. But you can always socket a gem that offers mana leech or other supports that don't have a mana multiplier until you can sustain.

For that portion of the game I had increased charges on my mana flask and chance for charge on killing an enemy. That got me through the rough spot. Once I started doing more damage I have been able to sustain my mana with the occasional pot here and there. I currently have a flask that removes some life but replaces an obscene amount of mana per use. Works well enough for me!

Managing the mana seems to be part of the build, you can't really sit idle. I'm sure if I focused more on mana leech in my gear it would be able to sustain itself though.

Keep pushing through! That act was tough but things really looked up for my monk afterwards.