Tempest Archon

Updated for v1.44. Please hand feedback over on discord if anything bothers you.

Tempest changes Archon by adding 1 new spell slot, spell efficiencies based on chosen spells, and several new spells. Tempest can also use Dominance 150, although not as easily as Defiance (you will likely want Ingot Shortage and be past e1300). If you want to use it, you will want to get Dominance 150 (after accounting for the AP you get from Innate aptitude, attribute buff, and commissars). You want to spend exactly though, as extra points that could have gone to Versatility will make it a net loss quickly.

Startup

This phase doubles as the VE stacking phase. You'll want to do a bit of this and a quick shard spend/vm/burst to get your mana up (evocation efficiency helps Synthetic Entity) and then return here. You'll not want to spend much time here, just enough so that char level stops going up substantially from VE's. You can also get a lot of VE's from TW's, so if you're using any that will make this phase even shorter and lesss valuable. The exact length of this phase depends on how long your exile is (VE's are worth less as you get more, but so is stacking accumulated spells, so it's some constant ratio of exile length). We will be wasting JMS passive stacks on our non accumulated spells here, but unlike TA Archon it will be worth it because we can get so many VE's with Psychic Cacophony 500 perk, Possessed Blade and high level (hopefully at 35/36+5) enchanted Temporal Scabbard.

Spells

You can cast your other spells here because you haven't built up TA much but it doesn't make much difference, definitely don't cast them if the shard costs somehow impact your JMS cast rate.

Items

You can either use the pet leveling set here, or use an evocation specific set. An evocation specific set will require either extra edust to enchant or disenchantment cores to respec and will give you less autoclicks, pet exp and god exp. But it will give more VE's to reach your VE goal faster and spend more time on TA stacking. You will likely want to mix and match these sets to keep pieces that have extra powerful bonuses like Charged Fin-Wing, The Magnifier and Chiropteric Rod for regular items and Perfected Kata Bracers and Arcane Engine for SE effectiveness.

Evocation set:

Regular PAP set:

Temporal Scabbard needs to be highly enchanted, such that you can charge Synthetic Entity as fast or faster than it takes to finish casting (1s).

Counterspell Stacking

Spells

Your main goal here is to stack counterspell enough that you can afford shard spending. You can drop other spells if you want to do that faster, or come back here from shard spending if you end up needing more counterspells

Items

For head, you may want to use Casque Of Learning some. If you have timewarps, a good idea is to wear Casque Of Learning, Falconer's Warm Cape, Falconer's Leather Wrappings, Cataclysm and Pheromone Gland, with any PAP items enchanted. This will give you maximum pet exp and character experience from autoclicks.
An alternative is to do shard spending phase the full exile, the increased shard spend from Debilitate may outweigh the lost JMS passives lost on it.

Shard Spending

Spells

This is the bulk of your exile. The lost JMS passives on Debilitate are outweighed by the profit of extra time shard spending. You should go back to Counterspell stacking if you can't hit JMS max cast rate at any time, or at worst buy some shard pool or try item swaps like Concealing Shroud and more PAP. If you want to do super stacking, it may be more efficient to stack TA with Ritual Disc or some other modified spellbar for some time before this.

Items

If you have all your enchants at 40/41+, depending on your items here, Whiplash may be more total PAP than Resonator Ring. If so, you should use Whiplash in this set because Char/Pet XP and PAP are all that matter here.

Void Mana

Spells

Your 7th spell is Radiant Pools for the tempest class ability. We use Possessed Blade and Nullzone to increase our evo efficiency for the PC 400 perk. These also have interactions with Tempest's class ability. In a long enough exile with a lot of spellcasts and enough summoning memetics (a very low value purchase, even lower than experience), Artificial Muse may give more VM than one of your incants, in which case you would replace Radiant Pools. Make sure you charge up Possessed Blade before this.

Items

Burst

Spells

Same as TA Archon, with Possessed Blade as your 7th spell. Again, make sure to charge Possessed Blade beforehand.

Items

You should have some Obscure Talents by this point, which will push Commissar's and Bite Sleeves to be worthwhile (definitely if you have Ingot Shortage). When rushing, it's possible another offhand could beat Commissar's.

Enchant Priority

Forbidden Might is not as expensive these days until the very high levels. If you have the edust, you'll want to compare the edust scaling (profit) of Defiance archon and the memory cost vs the profit from Forlorn Greatness/Majesty and the mem cost of those. First few levels you almost certainly want, then it takes some balancing with Forlorns.

Priority
Highest
The Amplifier

Highest -1
Boots Of Eastern Blessings
Inquisitive Eye
Bite Sleeves
Spellweaving Kilt
Empowering Handguards
Anima Core
Incantations Restructuring
Torc Of Privilege
Chronoboost Ring
Thunderbird
Easymind Hat
Architectural Databelt

Highest -2 Tranquil Spaulders
Seclusion Shell
Insidious Lure
Anomalous Essence
Pitch-black Cage
Commissar's Torn Sleeve
Void Sampling

Highest -3
The Bright Beacon
Nethershell
Netherfist
Chaos Mantle
Nether Barrier
The Rubedo Engine

Highest -4
Ebon Mantle

Highest -5
Cataclysm
Whiplash
Hollow Eye Pendant
Sash of Luxury

Highest -6
Resonator Ring

Highest -7
Ritual Disk

Source Memetics

Use TA Archon initially. When you have decent source meme levels, you can add summoning meme to mana gems (summoning meme is low value, so you'll need a lot of source memes to be worth leveling it into the teens). When you can reach Ascensions easily, you can optimize even more by putting incantation meme on mana gems and summoning memes on nexus (incantation will scale better with Gem Resonance in VM phase). You want summoning memetic because at decent meme levels the extra bonus to materialize cosmic conduit in is worth more than the loss of character experience and profit from the global mana gem profit upgrade.

Spell Memetics

Mostly the same as base Archon, with the differences being JMS cast scaling increasing and PB+MCC being added.

Autoclick amt scaling is 0 for all spells.

Spell	Efficiency	Cast scaling	Other
Debilitate	1.61	0.85	Cast rate
Magic Missile	1.5	0
Syphon Power	1.30	1.224	Cast amt
Possessed Blade	1.27	0
Nullzone	1.2	0.91	Cast amt
Radiant Pools	1.2	0.81	Cast amt
Void Radiance	1.244	0
Materialize Cosmic Conduit	1.207	0
Karnaphen's Spellshroud	1.2	0
Fire with Fire	1.2	0
Tempered Arcanomancy	1.047	1.45	Cast amt
Jas'Aham's Missile Storm	1	14.17*	Cast rate
Void Lure	1.011	0
Expel Soulstealer	1.0074	0

*JMS cast scaling is weird to quantify, because the amount its passive scales up changes based on how long you've been using JMS in the current realm and some other factors. Here's the math:

Its total cast scaling is equal to $2.3+2.3\times C_e+n\times C_t$, where

• $C_t$ is the total cast scaling of other spells combined (not including Debilitate), which is ~6.18
• $C_e$ is the total 'spells cast this exile' scaling (1.66 if using Murmuring Spellbook, 1.4 if not)
• $n$ is a multiplier from 1 to 1.8, and accounts for the passive growth - 1 is no passive growth, 1.8 is you've never used JMS before in the realm.

The 14.17 number assumes not using Spellbook and n=1.4, but you can adjust it as you like.

The summons table in the top right of the sheet doesn't matter for Archon.

Other info: Add 1.3 to burst incantation efficiency (for Possessed Blade) when doing your stat weights now. -- Outdated, MCC is shards now instead of incant -- Make sure to add ~0.3135 scaling to VM summoning efficiency (assuming Materialize only in VM phase, 0.25*~1.22 incant scaling (1.2 and 0.02 used for INS 200/250 log perks)), 0.03135 to VM PAP (summoning efficiency * 0.1 from the new PC 600 perk)
When focusing catalysts, my rule of thumb is to put about 87.5% of reds on Arcanasprings, then you want to put the rest on your other memetics as PAP/Incant>>>evo/CAP>summoning>exp (leaving Anti Magic Domes with none). There may be a better spread, if you find better profit with something else feel free to give feedback on discord.