What? Reducing the channel cost of Warpath is trivial, there’s 2 easy to get nodes in the tree that will do that plus the -3 melee mana cost reluc implicit affects the channel cost as well.
Because it doesn’t? Sentinel has quite a few zero mana cost skills if you’re going for a Warpath build that consumes mana.
Which node? There aren’t any in Warpath that have a “crippling downside”.
This is why people shouldn’t blindly follow guides. You just pick the nodes in the build guide without looking at any of the other nodes & what they do.
I am comfortably killing Aberroth without taking the heavy mana cost & Abyssal Echoes nodes.
Warpath costs me ZERO mana & I never stop spinning,
Because you are trying to use a skill that costs mana. No man = no spin.
I’m currently running a warpath VK and it’s working like a charm,mana drain is an issue if you try to maximize your damage output while having 200 Mana but that’s why Temporal Sanctum exists. Target farm an item until it drops with high legendary potential or use eggs from nemeses to upgrade it’s legendary potential if it doesn’t have one and use an item to make it legendary with the stats you’re looking for. The key to that entire mechanic is Loot Filter imo and it helped me a lot after finding a really good one. Give it a try. My mana won’t stop me from spinning for over a minute.
Three points. That’s all it takes.
Spec from level 4 and you can spin without it draining mana before even reaching the Ruined era.
If you add more points you will even regenerate mana while spinning, albeit slowly.
Reckless spin, maybe? -30% to elemental resists.
Though I wouldn’t call it crippling.
-30% ele resist is a fairly small drawback though, I wondered if he meant the node that increases the mana drain per sec for an increasing more damage modifier. But then both sides scale so…
I confirm, while spinning I can no longer interact with shrines/chests/nemesis which makes this build clunky. Ive reported that as a bug, hope it was unintended and will be reverted shortly.
There. They fixed it pretty fast (despite the attitude of some people). Guess the devs forgot that you’re not alllowed to have fun. Probably a momentary lapse that won’t happen again.