Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary
" While the Elementalist build is now going to be pretty great, the Necro build is definitely not dead. Applying the nerfs in POB (I removed 24% in passive tree Increased Mana nodes and reduce my weapon's +% Spell Damage by 50%), my Shaper DPS goes down from 4.34m to 3.94m, which is 10%. 10% is a decent bit, but not a ton by any means, and the existing build is still very much viable. |
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I will be keeping a close eye on this build in the next few days, I am considering an Elementalist as my league starter, maybe with golems and Crackling Lance if the buff is good enough.
I am really curious to see how Enki will update this build. |
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I cant wait for Enki's new build and guide!
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I think Crackling Lance will make a good gem swap. As is it got a 44% more case buff to added damage where most of our dps comes from. You'd want Intensify Support as well, but a 2 blue gem swap is no biggie for ho big of a dps boost it is on a boss like Sirius. I still expect it to be trash for clearing.
I am excited for so any Ascendencies that are completely viable. Bastion of Elements is an insanely OP defensive Ascendency. The golem one are always good. MoD an HoD and both very strong dps options. Shaper of Stem seems potent but probably the worst of the viable ones imo. The biggest problem I think will be Mana sustain with Archmage. |
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I'm guessing we go Shaper of Storms/Winter/Bastion of Elements/Heart of Destruction? Seems solid to me.
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Just a question, it's possible to respec your Ascendency? Because I'm not sure I want to play this league but stay in standard instead., but I assume the nerf is going to hit there too.
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" Yep! It just costs 5 refund points per ascendancy point. After you've refunded the whole tree, just redo the lab and you can change your ascendancy. |
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I still think skipping Bastion of Elements is a mistake. We pick up 20+ notables, that is a 2000+ shield. Personally I find that more valuable than 15% more dps.
- Bastion of Elements - Liege of the Primordial - Elemancer - Mastermind of Discord On a side note, I wonder how possible it would be to make a low life build that relies on BoE to stay alive. I think I might just try that. Prison Guardian with Wrath, Zealotry, and something else. The shield protects against hits,so I need to look at enemies that don't hit for viability, possibly could make it work with some ES. |
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I agree that mana recovery is going to be the biggest issue with a non-Necromancer build. I think going the golem buffs route is actually much more likely to allow for continued spamming of Arc on bosses. The Liege of the Primordial auto-resummoning golems works great with this.
Most Archmage builds I see don't rely on spamming a self-cast skill. Losing Essence Glutton will mean losing almost half of our total regen. This build really thrives on increased cast rate, and running out of mana will limit the DPS. While I think the build can still perhaps get enough mana with Cloak of Defiance/Atziri's Foible, we might need to not use the Agnostic for the extra tankiness. Running Righteous Fire is also probably out of the question. Thinking about it more, I guess it's probably possible to keep the Archmage build by sacrificing the Agnostic/Righteous Fire, and that might be how Enki's getting a ton more damage out of the Elementalist build - by having both golems and Archmage for damage scaling. |
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