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

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HankHell เขียน:

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Zuuule เขียน:

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HankHell เขียน:

Hey everyone, I played POE a bit on the PS4 a couple years ago but built a PC last year, and with the new league I thought I would download and start playing again. I have gotten further than I ever did before in POE, and I decided to make my first major character an arc witch!

I have made it to level 88 and things are going pretty good, but can definitely feel it getting a bit more squishy so I am looking for any advice on what specific things I should be looking to improve/replace/fix on my current build. I really appreciate any advice you can provide! Thank you!

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/hankhell/characters?characterName=LentilQueen

A few things I can see...

1.)Get a healthy mind jewel and socket where you have Pure talent (move pure talent down near scion start area. This will add a bunch of mana to your pool (at the expense of HP). The bigger your mana pool the better.
2.) Spec into Agnostic keystone for added survivability.
3.) you don't need your +30 strength node anymore so you can repec that somewhere else (Agnostic).
4.) More fertile catalysts on ring/belt/amulet
5.) if you have the currency go get a Watchers Eye jewel like described in the guide. However this is very expensive.

I can't offer much in the way of your gear as much of it is better than mine. :)

Awesome thank you so much, those are some simple things that I knew I was overlooking so I really appreciate it. That should definitely help with the survivability. My damage right now for ARC is hitting around 350-500k right now so that has been okay but I know I need to get my health to 4K plus still!

If survivability is an issue you could spec out of Heart of Destruction and into Bastion of Elements in the Elementalist ascendancy. The creator of the guide likes the former better but a lot of people on this thread have stated that Bastion adds another layer of defense this build really needs.

EDIT: Looks like the post above mine already suggested this. This is my first caster build and I'm having a blast with it. My gear is far from optimal and I'm starting to run low tier red maps no problem. Ive completed all the 5 boss fight Maven encounters (currently working on the 6 boss fights) and I'm about to kill the conquerers needed to face Sirus. The only conquerer that gives me fits is Al-Hezmin. Anyway, enjoy the build, I know I am!

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HankHell เขียน:

My damage right now for ARC is hitting around 350-500k right now so that has been okay but I know I need to get my health to 4K plus still!

Not everyone shares this opinion but I was having the best luck when health was around 2.2k but I had The Agnostic and a huge, ~12k mana pool I believe. Damage was high and all the smaller and medium monsters would just be deleted which allowed for easier dodging of the really dangerous ones that one shot (and would have still done so with a larger health pool). Unless you play a lot I wouldn't recommend a different build although leveling another witch was kind of enjoyable with the constant improvements that could be made. Next league I am going to do better about keeping old gear because that would have made it even easier but I had already vendored or sold all of it off.

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Zuuule เขียน:

The only conquerer that gives me fits is Al-Hezmin.

I am fairly certain he is one of the only sources of large incoming chaos damage, perhaps the lab boss also does that, and if you are running -60 chaos resist as is fairly common it's just always going to be a problem. Once you get damage high enough he is killable without him phasing, just near instant burst is possible late game. Until he is burstable, I don't worry about damage when the poison pool is up and just keep moving to avoid snake hits. Once the poison is gone I do more damage and then run around some more. If I was close to a level I would just avoid the fight, I mean what's the point, it just gets you a Sirus fight which you also don't want if you are farming a level.

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BuckFutter9 เขียน:

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Zuuule เขียน:

The only conquerer that gives me fits is Al-Hezmin.

I am fairly certain he is one of the only sources of large incoming chaos damage, perhaps the lab boss also does that, and if you are running -60 chaos resist as is fairly common it's just always going to be a problem. Once you get damage high enough he is killable without him phasing, just near instant burst is possible late game. Until he is burstable, I don't worry about damage when the poison pool is up and just keep moving to avoid snake hits. Once the poison is gone I do more damage and then run around some more. If I was close to a level I would just avoid the fight, I mean what's the point, it just gets you a Sirus fight which you also don't want if you are farming a level.

How funny, I was intentionally avoiding that fight until I dinged 90 just for the reason you stated. Now that Im 90 i don't care about dying and run around with reckless abandon. lol. I'll worry about grinding more levels once I kill Sirus.

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jkoch6599 เขียน:

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Monster0310 เขียน:

sharing my enki arc build, feel free to critic or suggest improvement.
still at t4 and 5 maps since i only play 2 hours a day.

and this is my pob https://pastebin.com/ni73ybc5

thanks to enki, been playing your build since i started playing poe, harbringer league, always a solid league starter for me....

Your gear is better than mine and I'm doing T16 maps. You should be absolutely crushing T4-T5 lol. How much did that belt cost you? 5ex+?

i dunno, a friend of mine gave it to me since he was done with the league....

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Monster0310 เขียน:

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jkoch6599 เขียน:

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Monster0310 เขียน:

sharing my enki arc build, feel free to critic or suggest improvement.
still at t4 and 5 maps since i only play 2 hours a day.

and this is my pob https://pastebin.com/ni73ybc5

thanks to enki, been playing your build since i started playing poe, harbringer league, always a solid league starter for me....

Your gear is better than mine and I'm doing T16 maps. You should be absolutely crushing T4-T5 lol. How much did that belt cost you? 5ex+?

i dunno, a friend of mine gave it to me since he was done with the league....

Man that's some pretty darn nice hand-me-down gear! Wish I had a friend like that!

So I made a few major changes to my gear and passives, but now I find myself running out of mana all the time. I know it was suggested to try and get more mana on my wands so I will try and focus that, however I'm wondering if I maybe messed anything up by changing passives or anything like that.

Health is obviously lower now, but I don't find myself running into any major issues yet but did get wiped once or twice pretty easily. Sorry for all the questions, appreciate everything!

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/hankhell/characters?characterName=LentilQueen

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HankHell เขียน:

So I made a few major changes to my gear and passives, but now I find myself running out of mana all the time. I know it was suggested to try and get more mana on my wands so I will try and focus that, however I'm wondering if I maybe messed anything up by changing passives or anything like that.

Health is obviously lower now, but I don't find myself running into any major issues yet but did get wiped once or twice pretty easily. Sorry for all the questions, appreciate everything!

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/hankhell/characters?characterName=LentilQueen

Below is the PoB what my build was before changing, the life was higher than I remembered at 2.7k. The 30/30 gloves are what really helped me with mana issues but you certainly can get unlucky and run into a streak where they don't proc for a bit and you end up empty. That's generally part of the combo that would lead to a death for me, and is still doing so on my crit Elementalist bossing build.

I would watch mana closely and at empty start spamming flame dash to get away and allow for recovery. If you are going for a level I would avoid rituals, some of the mods are very unfavorable to living and the area doesn't allow for much room to escape. Enki says use Mindfulness on the small clusters for mana regen while standing still but I found that didn't help me much and just went for more mana. I never solved the mana issue, perhaps others have and can weigh in. That's one thing I really like about Necro, mana is almost always full and Arc is doing full Archmage damage because the mana is there to spend and then it's back again for the next cast. On the other hand I had the Enki version up to 5.7m damage but Necro is only 2.6m and the single target damage is atrocious in comparison.

https://pastebin.com/X2U0KV4y

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BuckFutter9 เขียน:

I never solved the mana issue, perhaps others have and can weigh in.

Even with full investment into mana regen/mana recovery I always had the feeling that it was a little subpar.
I recently switched to Hierophant with an adaptation of this build and mana regen is way better.

One thing that can help though (and that hasn't been mentioned before as far as I can remember):
GGG fixed the issue with low lvl Arcane Surges overwriting higher lvl ones.
This means that if you get a Divergent Arcane Surge and link it to Arcane Cloak, you'll have 100% uptime on your lvl 20 or lvl 21 Arcane Surge.
Together with the bonusses on the tree from the nodes around Arcane Dynamo (or/and from Megalomaniacs like I use), you can boost that lvl 20 or 21 Arcane Surge even further which results in better mana regen (and also better damage).

Hey all, can I get some advice on where to go with my character? I'm getting into T16 maps for the first time ever and I'm getting destroyed. (Specifically with Sirius influenced mobs.) If something even gets near me, I'm one-shot. I know my weapons are still subpar, they're the only thing I feel like are still bad. Also, I need to invest in getting some good enchants on my items, but just the thought of running lab over and over makes me very sad. So, I can't tell if my squishy-ness is a specific gear/passive tree problem or if I just need to get better at flask management/maintenance of buffs/knowledge of mobs.