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

Oh, I for sure understand and been there. No offence was taken! Last league I played one of those...and gave up and made a new character when it didn't pan out....that was also the league i made my own build after that happened (first time!!!!!)

I have been playing this build since 2.3 for every other league (except the odd leagues here and there I took off). This is my favorite all time build to play...and better than creating my own (it actually worked well and taught me a lot.....mostly about how much I appreciate folks who make builds like this one).

This is a pretty active groups of folks playing this build. Enki is also very supportive.

My additional viewpoint....he invests a lot into this build. Every time I play it....it is different. The last time i played (league before last...there were Golems!...I so don't miss them either......I really could not play golemancer.....).

Hi amazing build I am starting to get to red maps and honestly it is going pretty smooth. But I do run into some issues with mana whenever I get chunked. Would the best option to get more mana regen or just increase mana? I am sitting at 4.5k health and 4.8k mana with 309 mana regen with clarity. I know my items aren't the best yet but any help would be amazing. Currently in Softcore Harvest. P.s. Flat health, mana, dmg jewels vs %?

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started playing this game a month ago, and ive been using this build since the day this league started, and it's the best experience ive had with the game.

this build:
-is TANKY AF
-clears maps REALLY REALLY fast
-doesnt get one shot
-has no problem with legion/blight/breach content

once you get used to the approriate pace at which to use flasks/flame dash/orb of storms/arcane cloak, your efficiency goes through the roof (by noob standards, im sure there's some edgy build that presses one button and every single thing dies in a 8,000 mile radius).

i just love it. it's the weirdest archetype (a mana battery necromantic lightning-based spellcaster with HUGE innate tankiness what).

it feels so well put together, you can tell a huge effort was put into it.

playing it is clunky in the early stages, but once you get an item that auto-activates your desecrate/spirit offering combo, BELIEVE YOU ME, THE GAME TURNS A 180 IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION (before that it feels clunky with having to do the whole arcanist brand razzle dazzle to summon/pop corpses and get your ascendancies to proc from it).

i really appreciate all of the detail you've gone through putting it together, what with detailing and explaining everything thoroughly—and i mean EVERYTHING—, and even providing links to the trade site for easy-looking up of optimal equipment (this last thing, i cant stress enough, is probably the utmost show of love a person can have for a document such as this one and goes to show the humongous amount of love someone can pour into becoming an actual paragon of knowledge).

the one single thing i didnt like about the build? is that i cant use it to play banjo-kazooie on my original nintendo 64. for that, i give this build a 2/10, absolute mastapeez.

Hey Enki. I'm relatively new to crafting. What should be my goal for the sceptre ? What stat should i get with alterations? What with regal? Do i need to annul? and so on. Could really use some help.
Maybe you could post a guide on how to craft something like that like you used to do on your previous arc builds with the daggers.

Thanks in advance!

All was well when I added Kitava's Thirst, however my spells are unable to be cast and I have no idea why. Any chance to mitigate this? I imagine this has to do with gem levels, what is the ideal gem (s) level for this? Thank you in advance.

I just got a shield with mana on block and lightning gems, what should I do with it to make it optimal?

This is not friendly,very weak and fragile after level 80.

@crusaderxxx: wtf? you have 3634 life and 357094,5dps ... wearing tabu @lvl81 ... so, what you wanna tell us? ^^'
you didn't even use the correct flasks, nor correct passives ... so ...
just to let you know, your Mind Grip Ring don't work for your dps, Arc is a spell an not an attack. Oh, i see, even so your belt ... Arc ... is ... not ... an attack ...


and for the honor of Enki, never played this until this league but like it! Truly tanky MapDMG Style making friends running after me ^^
Only thing wich can get a bit anoying is to fill up flasks in longer fights.

I find something really disappointing in POE and this build is a good example, Enki did put a lot of work to make it work and survive through patches, and even so, the result is, i'm really sorry : meh.

The truth is simple, it's the last selfcaster build alive in the whole witch section, everything else is crap broken spellslinger like VD with shitloads of millions of DPS and necros, and that's it.

And it sucks. My over-crappy stuffed Hierophant is allready much above 1M DPS and he litterraly has no stuff or almost so, he's not tanky at all, no defense layers, nothing, and he rolls over everything. I knew i wasn't going to love Harvest and didn't wanted to put efforts in this crap and bug'ed league, that's why i lvl'ed up that sort of thing, but still, here i am, wondering why a spell is most of time better used with totems, SS, mines or even trap, with better DPS and survivability, wtf is this crap ?

Selfcasters need a huge boost, with that work and all the imagination Enki did put in this build, the final DPS should be much higher, i don't see with selfcasters take higher risks than other "casters" for lower results, and i don't want to play a stupid SS VD or stuff like that, my hiero allready disgusts me from the game.

I invite you all people using this build to put the same thing that is in Enki's signature on the forum, GGG has to rebalance everything about casting, sels or not, this is a stupid situation.

Yes that's true unfortunately. Self casting anything other than DOT is far behind the Meta, and generally not very effective.

I don't care tho, i will still play self cast arc if that's what I'm into.

Who knows, maybe we will see some major changes in POE2..