Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary
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Which wands/sceptres would you recommend for the early map game? (when you don't have enough currency to buy good rare one) Any unique that will do the work?
Which wands/sceptres would you recommend for the early map game? (when you don't have enough currency to buy good rare one) Any unique that will do the work?
Enki literally gives you an option in the gear section.
Hi,
Thanks for this wonderful build guide, I am new to this game and following this build, I am level: 86 now.
I have one question: should the the weapons that I carry be the same?
4. Mindfulness is trash, use a Scintillating Idea jewel instead.
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Occasional 1-shots are a part of life with this build almost inevitably, but you can definitely avoid the vast majority with proper planning and playing. Upping your damage output and mana recovery will help a lot on their own.
why are there 2 mindfulness (small) cluster jewels in Enki's PoB, if it's trash ?
15% increased mana and 80% mana while stationary is hardly trash. Once i had them installed i really noticed the difference. also, i found disorienting display to be a major help in surviving, but of course, as the PoB says, the best option is disorienting display AND scintillating idea.
unfortunately in this game running the hardest content is about dodging the 1-shot mechanics and mostly having the DPS too make sure that doesn't take too long, because taking too long means you'll make a mistake and get 1-shot.
if you're getting killed with 9k mana, 10k mana isn't going to do a thing for you (assuming you have sufficient regen !), you definitely want to boost DPS with the currency you have.
Hi guys, I'm playing my first league and found this build after some (short) research and I'm having a good time playing with it.
Now I'm at lv93 and looking for endgame content, I'm having trouble searching for items that can improve my resistances (they aren't all 75% and my chaos is still -40%). I have about 6-9ex to spend on better items but I don't really know the best way to spend my currency.
My character is public and any feedback is valid.
Thank you very much.
I've made an example search for gloves, but you could alter the values depending on how strict you want to be. (I really like the nexus gloves, but you could take the implicit out) https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/e6aVrrWcL The phoenix hold gloves for 50c seems like a pretty good deal, but idk if they'll be there when you open the link. :P
I'd probably suggest you upgrade your boots to decent life+mana and 30% movement speed and some resistances first. Then look to upgrade your gloves and belt.
On the nonresistance upgrades:
Also look to put some catalysts on your amulet and anoint it with mind drinker or mana flows. Get a watcher's eye with increased mana recovery rate while affected by clarity. And try to upgrade the abyss jewel in your belt, this one doesn't really add too much for us. Focus on life+mana. The same for any normal jewels you'll be using still.
Thank you for the trade link for gloves, I saw the Phoenix Hold Gloves but the account is not online :P
When you say to upgrade my boots, do you mean use the one that I'm wearing now or seach for a better one with this stats and enchant it myself? I'm kinda lost on how to craft gear in general.
On the nonresistance:
I'll try to use the catalysts and anoint the itens with your suggestions, will search for better jewel as well but I think this shouldn't be hard. The Watcher's Eye isn't too expensive? I'll look for it in the trade site.
Hi,
Thanks for this wonderful build guide, I am new to this game and following this build, I am level: 86 now.
I have one question: should the the weapons that I carry be the same?
many thanks.
If by "same" you mean 2 wands or 2 daggers or 2 scepters then yes and no. Wands can only be dual wielded with other wands but scepters and daggers can be wielded together. Hope that answered your question.
When you say to upgrade my boots, do you mean use the one that I'm wearing now or seach for a better one with this stats and enchant it myself? I'm kinda lost on how to craft gear in general.
Thank you for the help in general <3
You're welcome. For your boots, I'd suggest getting new ones, mainly because the 30% movement speed is so nice to have. And then indeed enchant them yourself, and make sure you get the 70% instead of the 50% mana regen.
( https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ritual/MJOrVOqhJ ) For a very basic link to some decent boots. You may have to adjust numbers depending on what you need.
1. Most importantly, I bet your Elemental Overload isn't procking consistently. Keep an eye on it during mapping and bossing to see if I'm correct. If I am, getting additional increased spell crit--weapons with t1 affixes and/or running a secondary damage spell is/are easiest way(s)--will help your average sustained damage quite a bit.
An Atziri's Promise will give you a decent damage boost with no perceptible loss in survivability.
I was wondering about your thoughts on bottled faith over atziri's promise, Worder. It can constrain your movement a bit versus bosses (similar as the sigil), but I feel like you want to find moments where you can stand and burst your damage onto them a lot of the time anyways, so might not be an issue. And it adds a lot of crit chance and some extra damage taken.
I believe you can use BF and then move, as long as the enemy is on consecrated ground you don't have to be but would lose the life regen buff. Regardless of consecrated ground you still receive a nice damage increase from the implicit.
It holds three charges so you can create more consecrated ground if you use more charges which can be good outside of boss fights. I used mine a lot last league in Simulacrum, run around dropping consecrated ground in a smallish area with a lot of enemies.
The reason it is so valuable for boss fights is that it holds three charges, for mapping that isn't of much help as you already have enough damage and can refill other flasks. In comparison you get one use of a Cinderswallow Urn or two uses of an Atziri's Promise. I might be wrong but I also think that BF lasts for longer.
Bottle Faith is extremely good and I intend to swap my life flask for one the next time I get one to drop. I sold the two I have found because at 8ex there were more significant improvements that could be purchased.
Yes, I agree with all of this. Bottled Faith is a BiS flask for a huge swath of builds, one of which is ours (though obviously it'd be comparatively even better if this were a crit build).
I've been using this build with quite a success, doing t15 and t16 maps with little problems. But, there is a lot of random one-hit deaths (probably mostly my fault), fairly low boss dps and clearing things that are not random monsters takes quite some time. Where should I go with upgrades to get best gains? I'm sitting at about 20ex atm.
Gear (maybe switching gems for higher levelled or alternate quality?), levelling for one or two more passive points to invest in cluster jewel? I will be grateful for any suggestions.
Here is my link, character is the bottom one: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/farfast/characters
You've done a really good job with your character. Looks to me like you have 3.9m sustained sDPS: https://pastebin.com/9KQdjMCG
And 5.4m with RF running (not sure if you're doing this regularly or not).
Overall suggestions (totally subjective on my part):
1. Additional sources of increased mana recovery rate will help you with both damage and especially survivability. Try to craft a belt with the Redeemer mod. If you don't know how, good advice is available here and probably with a quick google search, too. With your budget, I think it's time to upgrade Tempered Mind to Transcendent Mind, refund the Heart of Thunder points, and use them to path to the Templar's starting point.
2. Invest in a better large cluster jewel with 3 good notables and only 8 total passives.
Some suggestions for damage:
1. Most importantly, I bet your Elemental Overload isn't procking consistently. Keep an eye on it during mapping and bossing to see if I'm correct. If I am, getting additional increased spell crit--weapons with t1 affixes and/or running a secondary damage spell is/are easiest way(s)--will help your average sustained damage quite a bit.
2. Get to the point that your mana recovery can comfortably sustain regular RF in a neutral environment (i.e. without conditional buffs and detrimental map mods).
3. Ditch life flask, it probably wouldn't even save you at this point. An Atziri's Promise will give you a decent damage boost with no perceptible loss in survivability.
4. Mindfulness is trash, use a Scintillating Idea jewel instead.
5. Start working on some awakened gems for the Arc setup.
6. Leaving the numbers game aside, I don't think Sigil is great for this (maybe any) build. It's a 3L setup that requires you to restrict your movement drastically to get any benefit from it, making you sacrifice survivability for damage. I think you're better off with some kind of setup that gives you Culling Strike.
Survivability:
1. Keep in mind that having low mana is usually what leads you to getting 1-shotted.
2. I really think you need to aim for 3k life minimum--3.5k is ideal--to avoid frustration with constant 1-shots. Definitely take Devotion, since you're already there, and spend more points in the Constitution wheel.
3. Get your mana above 10k.
4. Swap in quartz flask for sulphur flask. It stacks well with Omeyocan.
Occasional 1-shots are a part of life with this build almost inevitably, but you can definitely avoid the vast majority with proper planning and playing. Upping your damage output and mana recovery will help a lot on their own.
First of all, thank you very much for the detailed answer, which is very helpful for me. It reminded me about some things I was going to do and forgot on the way, like upgrading my large cluster jewel or getting rid of life flask. It also brought my attention to some things I didn't really think about, like critical chance for elemental overload. It didn't work almost at all. I've got a wand with critical chance buff and picked one more 25% cc passive and got it to proc pretty much all the time. Spent most of my currency on this upgrade (still looking for second wand with high mana for the curse trigger suffix) and on gems - awakened support gems help quite a lot. Running RF all the time is taxing on my mana, but can be done, I didn't really do this before unless needing some additional damage.
Got three questions, one of which was asked already:
- Why is a scintillating idea better than mindfulness, assuming that I can get get one and the other or two scintillating ideas (they are supposed to stack, google says so)
- What would be a good way to get culling strike in place of the sigil? It can be obtained as a gloves mod or a gem that needs to be linked to an offensive skill, right?
- How is transcendent mind so much better than tempered mind? In my understanding it would grant me a grand total of 8% increased mana recovery rate, which for this price is little gain. Am I missing something?
