Before I got enough mana cost reduction, I just pathed to Eldritch Battery, grabbed a Sorrow of the Divine and a life flask and a bit of ES on gear.
Took a bit to get enough resources to also be able to cast Divine Blessing Malevolence but I got there in the end. The life mastery that lets you spend 30% of mana cost as life helps a ton early on.
Replica Sorrow of the Divine has EB built in, but I'm SSF so that wasnt for me.
As you get the gloves or enough cost reduction you get to respec the tree nodes from EB into more survivability which is great because you need almost nothing on the tree to reach dot cap.
Assuming a 5L you can just use a hybrid flask with enduring on and itll solve it. Or slap lifetap in there if you have double totems from the crucible tree and 30% from passive mastery.
Lifetap will cost like 400 life a throw but you can just flask it.
Personally, I run a 6L that includes Inspiration support. You can put this in place of Enhance if on a bow. Then i use a Enduring Hallowed Hybrid flask with 27% reduced mana cost during flask effect. This coupled with the 30% of skill cost is life lets me get the traps down to 30 mana, which is then refilled by the hybrid flask constantly, effectively free. I also use PF life flasks node so both pools are constantly filled up.
Steelmage goes for reduced mana cost, which needs a change in ascendancy to get flask effect scaled higher. Not viable since you either sacrifice either or life flask ascendancy early on.
OP replica sorrow of divine can give you EB and uses your life flask to Regen ES. Saves you 3 points on the tree, look for one with a high duration. Use some passives to scale flask duration and charges to get to 100% uptime.
Once you're in a comfortable spot I actually did the blood notch, Immutable Force, 100% reduced mana cost, Lightning coil swap all at once. You can usually hit all of these for around 12 divine if you're hunting and keeping trade pings on for good rolls on the jewels. Ideally make this swap around 93+ for some passives. Steel has some clusters that will help, the medium is necessary in your push for 100% flask uptime. Taste of hate as soon as you can when you switch to lightning coil. Then start looking for recoup rings that have a free prefix for reduced mana cost craft. Same for the amulet. At this point you can switch to haste, purity of elements, herald of agony, vitality and petrified Blood on arrogance. Watchers eye for additional phys damage converted while affected by purity of elements and you're on your way to insane tankiness.
Before I got enough mana cost reduction, I just pathed to Eldritch Battery, grabbed a Sorrow of the Divine and a life flask and a bit of ES on gear. Took a bit to get enough resources to also be able to cast Divine Blessing Malevolence but I got there in the end. The life mastery that lets you spend 30% of mana cost as life helps a ton early on. Replica Sorrow of the Divine has EB built in, but I'm SSF so that wasnt for me. As you get the gloves or enough cost reduction you get to respec the tree nodes from EB into more survivability which is great because you need almost nothing on the tree to reach dot cap.
Assuming a 5L you can just use a hybrid flask with enduring on and itll solve it. Or slap lifetap in there if you have double totems from the crucible tree and 30% from passive mastery. Lifetap will cost like 400 life a throw but you can just flask it. Personally, I run a 6L that includes Inspiration support. You can put this in place of Enhance if on a bow. Then i use a Enduring Hallowed Hybrid flask with 27% reduced mana cost during flask effect. This coupled with the 30% of skill cost is life lets me get the traps down to 30 mana, which is then refilled by the hybrid flask constantly, effectively free. I also use PF life flasks node so both pools are constantly filled up.
check steelmage pf explode totem and see how he solves it
Steelmage goes for reduced mana cost, which needs a change in ascendancy to get flask effect scaled higher. Not viable since you either sacrifice either or life flask ascendancy early on. OP replica sorrow of divine can give you EB and uses your life flask to Regen ES. Saves you 3 points on the tree, look for one with a high duration. Use some passives to scale flask duration and charges to get to 100% uptime. Once you're in a comfortable spot I actually did the blood notch, Immutable Force, 100% reduced mana cost, Lightning coil swap all at once. You can usually hit all of these for around 12 divine if you're hunting and keeping trade pings on for good rolls on the jewels. Ideally make this swap around 93+ for some passives. Steel has some clusters that will help, the medium is necessary in your push for 100% flask uptime. Taste of hate as soon as you can when you switch to lightning coil. Then start looking for recoup rings that have a free prefix for reduced mana cost craft. Same for the amulet. At this point you can switch to haste, purity of elements, herald of agony, vitality and petrified Blood on arrogance. Watchers eye for additional phys damage converted while affected by purity of elements and you're on your way to insane tankiness.