question regarding infinity

Hi everyone!
My trusted merc for my sorc carries Insight. Now I am ready to equip him with Infinity. This would be a huge deal for me, took me ages to get the necessary runes and I could very well use them for other purposes. My question is: will I be sipping mana potions all the time as soon as my merc doesn't carry Insight anymore?
FOrb/FB sorc with

Ormus, deaths fathom, nightwings, Spirit, maras,

Magefist, aldurs, spider mesh...

Thanks!
knightfall

What is your build?
There is no reason to go with cold or hybrid cold/fire cold/light build while using Infinity merc.
Better go with pure fire or light to maximize your damage.

Well atm I use

Frozen Orb +

Fireball. But the build shouldn't influence the mana pool, right? So the question still stands.

mockingbirdreal wrote: 3 years ago

What is your build?
There is no reason to go with cold or hybrid cold/fire cold/light build while using Infinity merc.
Better go with pure fire or light to maximize your damage.

Unless you have no sunder yet in which case neither fire nor cold are really aided by Infinity. So either stick with Insight or switch to lightning.
Or wait until tomorrow, get a fire sunder and go pure fire after that.

Mana is obviously more of an issue, yes, but if you have the usual point in

Warmth and perhaps invest a tad into energy (more or less, depending on gear), you'll be fine.

knightfall1985 wrote: 3 years ago

Well atm I use

Frozen Orb +

Fireball. But the build shouldn't influence the mana pool, right? So the question still stands.

My advice is to respect to a full light sorc.
In case you don't want to,

Silkweave is pretty good and you can also put points into energy.

Yea dude, if you want to get the max benefit out of Infinity you’ll want to have a focused build to use it with, either a lightning based build, or any other with a sunder charm.

My meteorb doesn’t use my Infinity, she just runs ok runs for runes. I save the Infinity for my

Nova sorc, javazon and fire pally.

But if you did use it with your char, how often you pot would depend on your mana pool and other gear. If you’re running a good Spirit shield, an soj, silk weave and

Frostburn you’d probably be ok and wouldn’t need to pot very often. But even not you’d probably only need to leave one slot in your

Belt for mana pots and use as needed. (There will be plenty on the Ground to keep you stocked)

Good luck! When I rolled mine the ed was anti-perfect… wa wa

Nate wrote: 3 years ago

Yea dude, if you want to get the max benefit out of Infinity you’ll want to have a focused build to use it with, either a lightning based build, or any other with a sunder charm.

In my opinion the last part deserves emphasis. For almost 2 decades we automatically associated Infinity with lightning. This is no longer true; with Sunder charms it doesn't matter that lightning immunes have the lowest light res, as everything is reduced to 95%. The -enemy light res bonus on Infinity could make a difference, but Infi is commonly wielded by a desert merc, so our character doesn't benefit from it.

Trang Oul wrote: 3 years ago

Nate wrote: 3 years ago

Yea dude, if you want to get the max benefit out of Infinity you’ll want to have a focused build to use it with, either a lightning based build, or any other with a sunder charm.

In my opinion the last part deserves emphasis. For almost 2 decades we automatically associated Infinity with lightning. This is no longer true; with Sunder charms it doesn't matter that lightning immunes have the lowest light res, as everything is reduced to 95%. The -enemy light res bonus on Infinity could make a difference, but Infi is commonly wielded by a desert merc, so our character doesn't benefit from it.

Ah thanks for the history lesson. I was like why use an Infinity for light sorc as all char benefit from the

Conviction aura and none benefits from the light resist reduc.

To clarify: I am buildng a pure fire sorc as well. She is only at lvl45 atm, but even with Insight she uses lots of mana potions. It seems impossible to switch to Infinity. Same goes for my venomancer, without Insight not playable. They wold both be candidates for Infinity, but mana mana mana...

knightfall1985 wrote: 3 years ago

To clarify: I am buildng a pure fire sorc as well. She is only at lvl45 atm, but even with Insight she uses lots of mana potions. It seems impossible to switch to Infinity. Same goes for my venomancer, without Insight not playable. They wold both be candidates for Infinity, but mana mana mana...

The lvl 45 (and resulting lack of gear) is your problem.

Having spent all season with an Infinity fire sorc, mana was never a concern (other than during early lvling, obviously).
By the time you get to Infinity, you should be more than set on mana to support it.

Something like a

Nova sorc is more of a challenge to support as their mana usage is truly intense. But fire..easy.

I agree with the previous post, my fire sorc uses Phoenix and

Redemption gives me an incredible mana regen