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lilsam878 wrote:
Hello Everyone,

While this is by far the furthest I have ever made it in a league, I seem to have hit a wall. I can comfortably run T10-T12 maps and have cleared up to some T14s but started to struggle. Can anyone offer some suggestions?

Arcendraya
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/lilsam878/characters

I hope I did that right, it's my first time posting here.


Also, a big shout out to Enki. I have always played your Arc builds and have found them to be the most fun.

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More mana is what you need, at a quick glance. Try and upgrade into a Cloak of Defiance. Keep your resistances up and search for items that have high mana rolls in gloves. If you can get your resistances high enough go for a Crown of the Inward Eye.

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Reechaani เขียน:

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Dreagation เขียน:

I also really like the advice some people were discussing a few pages ago: get a medium cluster jewel with master of fear and wish for death. It allows you to drop blade blast. I've used the gem slot for increased duration so wave of conviction and conductivity both are basically permanently up (WoC has like 7.8 or 7.9seconds uptime and gets cast every 8 seconds*). Currently WoC and blade blast are up 4 seconds per skill in a 12 second cycle.

*Edit: You do need a divergent WoC for the 7.8/7.9 seconds. Otherwise you'll still be at or slightly over 7seconds.
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On a note for everyone on the gloves: If you run the sigil of power set-up in your gloves, this craft adds a lot of value I think.

Interesting take on the increased duration of WoC, but I'm pretty sure the trigger doesn't work like that.
I can't find any official info about it, but I thought that there was a cooldown of 4 sec per triggered skill (or the actual cooldown of the triggered skill if it is higher than 4 sec).
So WoC should trigger every 4 sec instead of the 3 skill gems times 4 sec = 12 sec you're assuming.
It can easiliy be tested in game ofc, but I'm at work atm ;-)
If it is 4 sec, you don't need the increased duration support to have near permanent uptime (if you can aim it right).

Good advice on the gloves, though sadly we only get an increase in less damage taken at lvl 21 and 24. So a lvl 21 Sigil has no defensive value over a lvl 20 Sigil, unless you also run 2 wands with +1 lvl to spell skill gems.
The offensive value however is nice; better RF and vaal RF + more lightning damage from SoP.
It is also one of the few prefixes that are useful to us (aside from mana/life) and that don't require an influence.

I still have to Harvest craft life on my gloves, but after that I can finally remove %increased ES and craft a prefix.

I'm more inclined to Harvest craft a caster mod in my case though, since it is a guaranteed (18–30)% increased Spell Damage because that Warlord mod is the only caster prefix.

I checked in POB to see if a +1 to the offensive value of Sigil and Righteous Fire is better or worse than (18–30)% increased Spell Damage.
If I run Righteous Fire and Vaal Righteous Fire (best case scenario for the AoE gems) my dps will increase by:
+1,7% when using +1 lvl AOE gems
+3,7% when I have a perfect T1 roll of 30% increased spell power since I can easily remove/add caster mods to get a T1
+1,9% when I have only have 18% increased spell power

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Reechaani เขียน:

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AlterCrash เขียน:

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CoffeeMate เขียน:

Is it worth to swap inward eyes to a good rare helmet?
I have enough oils to anoint crusader so only lost damage from transfiguration of body
Maybe I won’t lose too much damage?

the inward eye helmet is a great cheap starter choice, but if you get crusader on a the atziri's foible amulet,
you will open up so much freedom to get good gear and still be able to manage full resistances. the more uniques you have in your gear the harder it gets to min-max without paying 200 ex

It's possible to fit in the 5 uniques without going too crazy on rares for the resists, but the real upside to a crafted rare are the influenced mods:
- Elder/Crusader: up to 15% increased maximum mana (and elevated Elder even gives a free transfiguarion of the Mind, though expect that to be insanely expensive with any useful enchant)
- Crusader: -9% lightning res to nearby enemies
- Crusader: up to 10% physical damage taken as lightning

Those are the most useful mods, though there are others like physical damage takes as cold/fire (nice combo with the Wise oak?), %increased elemental damage, ...

If you can get those 3 Crusader mods on 1 helmet with +mana though...

I recently bought a helmet pretty cheap:

I'm still figuring out the best way to reroll it though.
Atm I use every lightning harvest reroll on it, but fossils might be better since I can make mana mods and lightning mods more common.

I want to get the following mods:
- T1 %increased maximum mana
- T2 or higher maximum mana
- Nearby enemies have -9% to lightning res

I think (and correct me if there is a better way) that the cheapest way is:

1. Fossil craft with only a Lucent fossil to get the 2 mana mods at the tiers I want (average of 56 tries for T2 mana and 111 tries for T1 mana)

2. Fill the 3rd prefix (pref with life/physical as lightning damage)

3. Harvest remove all lightning suffixes (if any)

4. Benchcraft lightning res

5. Harvest craft add lightning mod

6. Remove benchcrafted lightning res

Repeat steps 3 to 6 until I hit the -9 lightning res mod, which takes an average of 13 tries)

Another option is Awakener's Orbing an Elder helmet with the T1 %increased maximum mana on my Crusader with -9% lightning res already on it, then benchcraft +mana.

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WorderMostFoul เขียน:

I would agree that the theoretical best option is to use a rare helmet. I guess the base is almost irrelevant if you're running Agnostic?

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GhostMasterCZ เขียน:

Hello , can i have question about number of skills ... ?
how u solve problem of number of skills i have :
left click : move only , right : arc and middle sigil of power . (its ok)
but on skill tabs
1st skill tab : flame dash , arcane cloak, vaal righteous fire , wrath, clarity

2nd : vitality , and 4 golems ....

how u solving problem , when u need another skills etc portal and FOCUS ... or i am dooing something wrong?
my only solution si cast golems , replace them by auras and cast them ..

is any better solution ?
Ty for reply

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Reechaani เขียน:

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GhostMasterCZ เขียน:

Hello , can i have question about number of skills ... ?
how u solve problem of number of skills i have :
left click : move only , right : arc and middle sigil of power . (its ok)
but on skill tabs
1st skill tab : flame dash , arcane cloak, vaal righteous fire , wrath, clarity

2nd : vitality , and 4 golems ....

how u solving problem , when u need another skills etc portal and FOCUS ... or i am dooing something wrong?
my only solution si cast golems , replace them by auras and cast them ..

is any better solution ?
Ty for reply

Start with placing Arcane Cloak on you left mouse button.
Then press CTRL and you'll see that you have place for 5 more skills.
Put your golems there + aura's if you have place left.


Other than that there isn't really a good solution; I'm not using the Focus skill, mostly because I don't have any room left (and I don't have place for it on my wands).