Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary

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smplx schrieb:

Thanks for the update Enki. I will play this on SSF. Only concern is that I will not see a Kitava's teaching any time soon (maybe never). How important that jewel is to keep up with mana demand? That 3K mana/sec cost seem a bit scary.

That shouldn't be needed until you are well into the maps. At that point, you should be able to buy one at a reasonable price.

I saw that one of the cons is lower boss dps than most, exactly how much will this affect a new player like me? I haven't played much and the most I ever got to maps was T4 so I don't even really know what "good" dps looks.

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Erseii schrieb:

I saw that one of the cons is lower boss dps than most, exactly how much will this affect a new player like me? I haven't played much and the most I ever got to maps was T4 so I don't even really know what "good" dps looks.

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I think I can give you my thoughts since I have been playing since 2013. If you follow this build you will be very happy. Obviously with practice we all become better players so I will just say that with average skill level, follow the build, upgrade when you can you should be able to clear the atlas.

If I can give you some good advice, progress somewhat conservatively and get levels and gear before you try the harder stuff (which is really tier 16 but it might be tier 12-14, it is not tier 4). And take on the hard stuff right after you level up. That way when you die (and you will) you will lose basically no experience because you can't lose a level in this game. This is the single most important lesson I have learned in 7 years. This is how you learn how to play well and not get all pissed off and trust me I have died at 90% of a level way more than I care to admit.

Hello Enki,

Firstly thank you for the 3.11 update to your guide! What would you suggest to add Frenzy Charges into the build?

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spoonjabba schrieb:

Hello Enki,

Firstly thank you for the 3.11 update to your guide! What would you suggest to add Frenzy Charges into the build?

If you really want to have them for some reason, free up some socket space for CWDT Cold Snap.

Damn, this was one of the few nice Elementalist builds...
Is this still possible to play this as Elementalist, or Necro bonuses are too good to ignore?

New Harvest crafts for alternate quality bonuses fit very well with both weapons and armor here, as we are not relying on armor's protection anyway.

Also, at first I thought Vaal Arc's lucky damage buff would be a solid DpS increase, but then I realized that most of our damage comes from Archmage/Arcane Cloud, so our damage variance is much smaller than original Arc's.

Thanks for the update! Now I'm torn between Caustic Arrow Raider and your Arc Witch for a league starter :)

Question: What do you guys think about leveling the first 12 levels with Frostbomb and Stormblast Mines & Orb of Storms for single target? How do Spark and Arc hold up against Brutus and Merveil?

I went through the harvest crafting option list and holy sh*t some of those are really nuts. Looks super good for SSF. Guaranteed 6 link on craft, turning augments into regals, 10 chaos to an exalt, insane metacrafting options like reroll all prefix / reroll all suffix, add influence, trading up oils, divination card gambles, changing armour/weapon into jewelry with similar mods, etc...


Good luck figuring out how to set up a lootfilter now. :-D

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Nishrek schrieb:

Damn, this was one of the few nice Elementalist builds...
Is this still possible to play this as Elementalist, or Necro bonuses are too good to ignore?

It is really sad, but Elementalist ascendancies just in a really bad state now.

Best part of her ascendancy - Golems branch. But you can't keep golems from dying without making full scale investment in it (primordial gems and 10+ skill points). There are just too many sources of phys and chaos damage in the late game content.

Heralds branch is kinda nice but nothing special.

Beacon of Ruin by itself is good. But still not quite worth its 4 points cost.

Ele reflect imunnity is decent, but taking it makes your 3rd ascendancy almost useless. Because both Shaper of Desolation and Pendulum of Destruction are trash.