how to play arcanist

i've searched all over the internet and YT and i cant find a guide on how to actually play arcanist mage, i've found tons of guides on builds, archetypes but none on how to use the spells and in what order. could someone here tell me roughly how this archetype works? I.E what spells in what order, main attack etc.

im running quetz arcanist with mana steal and lifesteal

 

Not gotta talk about spell order or sort of "spell cycle" since you can't just keep using same cycle on various situations.. (whatever just try not to use single spell too much so your spell cost doesn't get skyrocketed)

Arcanist's main ability is on 'Arcane Transfer', an ability that replaces your heal. While you have this ability (and assuming you selected most of other arcanist abilities), everytime you hit enemies with spell charges your 'mana bank'. And when you use Arcane Transfer, you'll instantly restore the amount of mana saved in mana bank. As long as you can keep hitting enemy, you'll have the endless amount of mana.

The other main ability (for endgame) is 'Chaos Explosion'. When you use Arcane Transfer while your mana bank has 120+ mana, this make you automatically recast last 3(5 with upgrade) you used in order. This doesn't cost mana, and still charges mana on hits. This will let you cast endless amount of spells.


And at the end, there's small, but very important ability, called 'Manastorm'. When you have this ability, everytimes you use spell while you have 100+ mana (not mana bank) gives you 10/5s mr for 5 seconds. As long as you're careful enough to keep using mana in that state, you can get very high mana regen. (The reason why some Arcanist builds have low amount of mana regen)

To play Arcanist, just have those 3 abilities in your mind. Cast spells over 100 mana, use Arcane Transfer at 120+ mana bank, spam hard, another Transfer, spam again, again, and again. Massive spell spamming is the main goal of Arcanist.


You don't need to know much about the Arcanist abilities other than these three. Arcanist tree is very solid, and you can get the other abilities as.... "make you stronger" or "upgrades/supports main abilities"


Also get the ability 'Thunderstorm' at top. Not just a meteor upgrade, but this also charges Manastorm

 

The main thing is to take thunderstorm. Each of the lightning strikes triggers mana bank, so you can get 28 mana from hitting a single enemy with meteor. This single-handedly makes Arcanist viable against single enemies.

Also remember to keep your distance from enemies - meteor's range is pretty high, you don't need to be next to the enemy to kill them.

Other than that, try to always get 120 mama in mana bank before using it, so you can trigger chaos explosion. However, don't focus too much on this and ignore everything else - if you run out of mana, it's better to use mana bank than wait for your mana to regenerate naturally.