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Still same problem with fast (like one shot) deaths on high tier map, most often (about 80-90%) - from syndicat.
Its really not save in many case - after first hit my witch stunned and after second - died without any chance to survive.
Some boss make same things.
Filling like glass cannon build from almost any high tier map syndicate encounter.

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iunewind escreveu:

Still same problem with fast (like one shot) deaths on high tier map, most often (about 80-90%) - from syndicat.
Its really not save in many case - after first hit my witch stunned and after second - died without any chance to survive.
Some boss make same things.
Filling like glass cannon build from almost any high tier map syndicate encounter.

Swap some %life nodes for the Purity Of Flesh cluster for some chaos res, and get an Atziri flask for activatable Chaos res.

You have 52 and 51 Cold and Fire res over cap, so you can shuffle some resistances and get some fire/cold/light + chaos res crafts (helm, ring, gloves, boots), that could help too.

All these should make a big difference against syndicate, in total you should go from -45% to +25% res while fighting syndicate with flask activated (not to mention more dmg done)

Chaos res will help for survive almost one shoot killing?
(thanks, f curse, im try it, just wondering).

Most of death from syndicate its very fast (~1 sec) death after second powerfull hit. Often im have totally stunned character, so i cant evade next hit by wirlng blades or flame dash and die just after my IC ended.
Also on high tier syndicate boss make huge damage just from one hits (remove 2/3 of life and mana) so any next hit deadly and if its spawned 2 or 3 its can hit in a row and if first hit stun me...

Assuming you're not running Lightning Spire Trap for single target on bosses, but just Storm Brand for utility purposes.

In that scenario doesn't Elemental Focus beat out any non Spell Echo support by a decent margin in terms of boss dps. Since the way Elementalist's apply shock and chill is with any lightning/cold damage if you're applying storm brand to the enemy you will get the same shock/chill effect as with Arc(unless you're hitting Shaper for a million damage per Arc or something) so if Arc doesn't need to apply ailments Elemental Focus should heavily outperform penetration/added lightning/controlled destruction/hypothermia?

Obviously pointless to do for clearing since you will lose chill for hypothermia and shock in general(especially important for Inpulsa's) which will be both loss of damage and explosions with Inpulsa's.

I picked a few random Arc witches from poe.ninja and imported their builds into PoB and switching L penetration->Ele focus seemed to indicate a 500-600k dps increase. I picked builds that already had 2 mil dps, but going to 2.5 should be a pretty substantial deal with the caveat that you will need to always have brand applied.
Any thoughts on that? Someone tested the "feel" of it as that calculation goes out the window if you're not applying your shock and chill?

Found this helmet

Should I use it?
If I use it my dps and resistance drop quite a lot so im thinking of selling it.
How much the price would be for this helmet?

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iunewind escreveu:

Chaos res will help for survive almost one shoot killing?
(thanks, f curse, im try it, just wondering).

Most of death from syndicate its very fast (~1 sec) death after second powerfull hit. Often im have totally stunned character, so i cant evade next hit by wirlng blades or flame dash and die just after my IC ended.
Also on high tier syndicate boss make huge damage just from one hits (remove 2/3 of life and mana) so any next hit deadly and if its spawned 2 or 3 its can hit in a row and if first hit stun me...

Syndicate in general has a lot of chaos dmg, so specifically there, it should help, both with surviving and less stun.

For bosses, it is generally learning the boss and moving playing safer/smarter. Some things will oneshot, no matter what.

Your unique jewels are not very good either, try and get some good 3 mod rare jewels as mentioned in the guide.

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Spiritual Aid makes "Minions deal #% increased damage" apply to us!

A question plz : Why you not play "Minion Damage Support" with yours golems?

Minion Damage Support Lvl 21/20% gives 65% increased damage!

[/quote] Hah, fair enough. I was on my phone when I wrote that and couldn't see your whole skill tree.

So, disregarding the other variations you've made with passive skill point allocation (Fangs of the Viper, Nullification, Revenge of the Hunted), if I were to gain one more level (currently level 97) and spec Phase Acrobatics into my own build, this would be the requisite trade-off:

Lose:
43% increased maximum life
+8% to chaos resistance
26% increased effect of flasks on you
10% increased flask effect duration

Gain:
+70 to dexterity
30% chance to dodge spell hits
30% chance to dodge attack hits
10% additional chance to dodge attack hits
50% less armor
30% less energy shield
30% less chance to block spell and attack damage

Can anyone offer insight on the trade-off? I'm capable of plugging these changes into PoB, but I don't know how to meaningfully interpret the stat changes.

Edit: according to PoB, this seems to result in the loss of about 700 life, 150 energy shield, and 7% chance to block attack damage, plus the increased flask effect/duration noted above. The payoff is 40% chance to dodge attacks and 30% chance to dodge spells. Honestly, I don't even know the difference between evading and dodging, much less what the implications of these changes are to this particular build. None of the builds I've made in this game so far have been ones that rely on any type of statistical evasion; can people with practical experience comment on this trade-off? [/quote]

I've tried both,with my gear, and i prefer phase acro, again with "my gear". I only gave up 275 life and 50k dps, but my gear is pretty optimized.

i say try and see, that's the only way i found out. i was hesitant cause i used phase acro before so i understood how it worked, just never with this build. Until i tried it and found out, worse case scenario you waste a few regrets lol.

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Clarau escreveu:

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Spiritual Aid makes "Minions deal #% increased damage" apply to us!

A question plz : Why you not play "Minion Damage Support" with yours golems?

Minion Damage Support Lvl 21/20% gives 65% increased damage!

Will not apply to arc dmg, only the dmg the minions deal.

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napraen escreveu:

Assuming you're not running Lightning Spire Trap for single target on bosses, but just Storm Brand for utility purposes.

In that scenario doesn't Elemental Focus beat out any non Spell Echo support by a decent margin in terms of boss dps. Since the way Elementalist's apply shock and chill is with any lightning/cold damage if you're applying storm brand to the enemy you will get the same shock/chill effect as with Arc(unless you're hitting Shaper for a million damage per Arc or something) so if Arc doesn't need to apply ailments Elemental Focus should heavily outperform penetration/added lightning/controlled destruction/hypothermia?

Obviously pointless to do for clearing since you will lose chill for hypothermia and shock in general(especially important for Inpulsa's) which will be both loss of damage and explosions with Inpulsa's.

I picked a few random Arc witches from poe.ninja and imported their builds into PoB and switching L penetration->Ele focus seemed to indicate a 500-600k dps increase. I picked builds that already had 2 mil dps, but going to 2.5 should be a pretty substantial deal with the caveat that you will need to always have brand applied.
Any thoughts on that? Someone tested the "feel" of it as that calculation goes out the window if you're not applying your shock and chill?

I’ve looked into this, and even considering 30% shock effectiveness loss, EF will do more damage. However, you rely completely on SB to proc shock/chill, so you have to weigh utility vs dps potential. Keep in mind there will be an extremely heavy dps penalty if shock/chill is not active on any given target.

Going from 120% to 150% shock effectiveness will cause enemies to take 44% to 50% increased damage giving ~4.17% more damage with the higher shock. You get ~11.7% more damage replacing LP with EF or ~17.6% more damage replacing ALD. Statistics using my current gear and shaper dps; percentages will roughly go down with lesser gear and up with better gear. I more or less stopped playing for the league, so this never got tested in the field, just theorycrafting.

I can easily see this as a boss gem swap, however.