Cast-on-Crit players observing the self-cast mana changes right now

Pandemonious is 22.6% more damage, the tree blind is only 5% near acro and the other one is too far away, and pandemonius is 100% blind.

Even if you got T1 multi, T1 life, T1 shaper amulet pen. You still have 3% less damage, while getting about 300 life which is like 3-4 nodes on the tree.

So you'd gain like 1 node in estimated value, but lose 100% blind chance. 100% blind chance for 1 tree node of value sounds pretty neat.

A 25% mana reserved aura is usually worth around 7-10% more damage so that would lose about 3 nodes of value worth compared to pandemonious even if you had triple T1 mod shaper amulet.

In my opinion you'd need like a 6-10ex+ amulet to be better than pandemonius so I'll probably stick with pandemonius and find upgrades elsewhere.

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