Expanded Mind (skill)

Expanded Mind is a Tier 1 skill from the Wizard's Arcane skill tree, increasing mana pool.

Contents

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]
Expanded Mind Passive, 5 ranks
Used by:	Wizard
Skill Description:
Expands the Wizard's knowledge increasing the Wizard's mana by X%.
Skill Details:
Type:	Stat increase
Quantity:	None
Effect:	Self
School:	Arcane
Resource cost:	None
Cast time:	None
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	None
Synergies:	None
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

Studies for a Wizard, in how to increase the scope of their mind, taking in more magical energies, such as mana.

Skill Design

Seems like a skill that would be useful early on, but the sort of thing level 80 Wizards would blame on a youthful indiscretion. Of course now that we’ve got respecs in D3, that's not such an issue.

Skill Rank Table

• Rank 1: +12% mana.
• Rank 2: +24% mana. (projected)
• Rank 3: +36% mana. (projected)
• Rank 4: +48% mana. (projected)
• Rank 5: +60% mana. (projected)

Synergies

No synergies are specifically known, but mroe mana means a higher usage of all active skills.

Skill Rune Effects

• None known.

Development

Expanded Mind was first shown at BlizzCon 2009, and is assumed to still be available in Blizzard's internal game build today.

References

• Full Wizard Skill Trees