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

Hello, I am currently trying this build in SSF for the first time. I am currently in act 5 and am looking at the passive tree's in the leveling section and it says to go into a couple of minion nodes, Righteous Army and Spiritual Aid. I was curious as to why minion nodes are taken for this build?

Necromancer Ascendancy is used for mana sustain and for having Bone Offering apply to you (we don't have any minions). Spiritual Aid increases our damage from certain ascendancy points.

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LawsonGD schrieb:

Necromancer Ascendancy is used for mana sustain and for having Bone Offering apply to you (we don't have any minions). Spiritual Aid increases our damage from certain ascendancy points.

Thank you, looks like I am just stupid and didn't read Spiritual Aid correctly.

Taking all of the points leading up to Spiritual Aid isn't great, and the build specifically uses Large-ring Thread of Hope to skip all those small nodes leading up to Spiritual Aid. Endgame optimization for when you want to start adding cluster jewels to the build.

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Aldonés schrieb:

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Miguel1601 schrieb:

Hey guys, how do you handle the elemental overload upkeep? I'm basically playing without it, since i've got 1% crit and playing with the sigil instead of orb of storm? Am I missing something or do you have the same problem?

Last league Enki recommended pathing through the two 20% crit nodes directly north of Witch. I honestly didn’t even know he grabbed the int and str nodes to the left of there instead. Even at 60% increase you only have a 3% chance to crit which I don’t consider enough. Try looking for a source of Power charges. That’ll add another 6% crit chance with 3 of them. I intend to use Doedre’s Elixir once I get to maps. That should be sufficient to maintain full charges of every type except on certain bosses.

Those crit nodes are okay but not sufficient, in my opinion. Doedre's Elixir is horrible and will not fix this problem. In practice, sacrificing a gem slot or two is WAY better than losing any amount of uptime on a 40% more damage buff.

Has anyone done any testing with Sigil on higher-level content to see if the benefits are observable? Something's gotta change.

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The_Fatness schrieb:

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LawsonGD schrieb:

Necromancer Ascendancy is used for mana sustain and for having Bone Offering apply to you (we don't have any minions). Spiritual Aid increases our damage from certain ascendancy points.

Thank you, looks like I am just stupid and didn't read Spiritual Aid correctly.

Lol, don't feel bad, I've seen the question asked soooo many times in this thread.

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LawsonGD schrieb:

@WorderMostFoul What is your current gem setup?

My profile is public, you can see it there; I don't want to post anything directly because it's definitely not optimized...eh okay, I'll do it anyway for that one item, just because I think the EO factor is THAT big of a deal.



Definitely still janky; am not progressing very fast this league, I'm sad to say (too busy mourning RBG). I'm crushing everything I do, but my conqueror track is only into yellow maps so far. Should probably be doing t14-15s at the moment, with how tanky and strong the build feels.

I will swap out Increased Critical Strikes for the AoE support gem as soon as I can get some decent crit elsewhere. Might be better than Second Wind as it is, depending on how you use Sigil. Personally, I'm always moving around so much that I'm not convinced Sigil is even worth it. But we will figure it out as a team!

For EO, I see it up most of the time. Here are my stats:

7.65% Spell Crit Strike Chance
0.23 to 0.26 sec Arc cast time, depending on if my flasks / buffs are active.

This is roughly 4 casts per second, with a crit on average every 2/25 of all casts.

This means I should crit and proc EO every 3.125 seconds on average.

EO has an uptime of 8 seconds.

Seems fine to me, unless my math of wrong. (Quite possible!)

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WorderMostFoul schrieb:

Those crit nodes are okay but not sufficient, in my opinion. Doedre's Elixir is horrible and will not fix this problem. In practice, sacrificing a gem slot or two is WAY better than losing any amount of uptime on a 40% more damage buff.

Has anyone done any testing with Sigil on higher-level content to see if the benefits are observable? Something's gotta change.

Maybe I won’t end up liking it...I have to have time to even get to maps before I can decide. If it helps, this is the build I intend to run. It’s a far cry from Enki’s and certainly not what the vast majority of players will desire, but among many things it should provide a sufficient amount of crit with the amped up Zealotry. However, sustained Power Charges is probably the easiest and most effective method.

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Evernothing schrieb:

For EO, I see it up most of the time. Here are my stats:

7.65% Spell Crit Strike Chance
0.23 to 0.26 sec Arc cast time, depending on if my flasks / buffs are active.

You also do not have Controlled Destruction socketed. Add your 6th link and your crit will drop to 2.65%.

Can anyone here help me out? I'm having some serious issues with sustaining my mana during boss encounters.. General mapping is super smooth but once I hit a single target I'll basically have to stop firing for 1-2 seconds to regain mana. Feels really bad to play against a single target with my current setup.

I know some things that would help like shaper belt with % increased mana recovery, Mana Flows over Mind Drinker annointment etc but those are quite hard to get by on SSF..

I'm currently sitting at 5.2k HP, 5.2k mana (got lucky and found an Essence Worm so I'm using Wrath). My Arc has a cast speed on 0,22 sec and it costs a juicy 1278 mana to cast once.. Which roughly ends up being 5k mana /sec.. Kinda hard for me to sustain 5k mana per sec :/

Oh and picking up Agnostic makes sustaining mana 10x worse for me.. It's like I have no regen at all lol


Any tips? My profile should be open and it's the only SSF Heist character I got atm.