Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary
|
great guide so far, I just started the league 3 days ago and transition to maps was going smooth with relativ low gear.
The only thing I dont get is why "The Agnostic"? I had to die several times always asking myself why I burn trough my mana pots without getting anything. Especially fast melee bosses are a huge issue not with but because of this skill, without its no problem! I guess for newer players who dont understand what is killing them this skill is a very frustrating Deathtrap. Maybe with better gear the problem is solved but Act 10 is far to early for this skill I think. IGN: Dunkellicht
|
|
" Turn it on when you got a decent amount of mana and mana regeneration rate. Before you have enough of these, it sucks. So umm..  Does this mean I'm hitting 1.7m DPS? Última edição por realkph#2784 em 20 de jul. de 2020 07:18:31
|
|
" I would not use "The Agnostic" til you get a shield with "recover % mana when you block" |
|
|
Nice build
Última edição por Rozum354#0844 em 20 de jul. de 2020 08:44:57
|
|
|
Hello guys, quick tip, I have both this, and this,
Which one you guys think I should be rolling with? arcanist brand + crown of the inner eye, or do I have to cast it everytime, since I don't have the trigger a socketed spell in my wand. Also non-related. Does having a guild help you at all? I don't know even to get 4fun people. |
|
" Can someone help me with the steps on how to craft this kind of helmet? I've only used awakening orb once, to create these gloves I'm trying out at the moment: I probably did something wrong crafting them. So, would love to know how to do it more efficient with the helmet. |
|
" You have to select Arc instead of Vaal Arc in the second drop-down box (top one will still say Vaal Arc). Then there are other tweaks you need to make in the "Configuration" tab, if you haven't already (e.g. Is enemy a boss? > Sirus). |
|
" If you don't have "Trigger a Socketed Spell when you Use a Skill" on your weapon, use Kitava's Thirst. On your helm, socket Desecrate, Bone Offering, and Spell Cascade Support. Once you have "Trigger" on your weapon, move the Desecrate setup to your weapon and get Crown of the Inward Eye. With either of those helms, have Undertaker anointed on your amulet. Once you can get or craft the best in slot helm (see other posts), swap the anoint to Crusader. As for finding and joining a guild, I wouldn't know. I'm guildless myself. If I thought guildmates would do the crafting for me at cost, I'd join... |
|
" I disagree. While having a shield with that mod is helpful, The Agnostic really just needs you to have a high mana recovery. That mod helps have high mana recovery, but doesn't guarantee it. I haven't gotten that mod on my shield yet, but I have 6780 mana and 1482 mana regen. The Agnostic works just fine for me. |
|
" As realkph said, Agnostic requires a lot of mana sustain to be viable. I would never recommend using it until you're well into mapping and have some of the higher-end core items that provide a larger mana pool and better sustain, like fully functional Desecrate/Bone Offering setup in wand with the trigger craft and 140+ mana, Atziri's Foible, Kitava's Teachings, Watcher's Eye, max level Clarity, Healthy Mind, etc. I also run Cloak of Defiance to help with it, and recover % mana on block (shield) and increased mana recovery (belt) are two other really strong gear affixes for supporting it. So definitely don't run it until you have most of those in place. Once you CAN add it to the build, though, it is an unbelievable survival mechanism. I think a lot of the people who are dismissive of Agnostic are not approaching it with the right mindset. (Again, this only applies if you have built your character to properly support Agnostic!) First, it only takes as much mana as is needed to fill your life pool, up to 20%. So it's not going to be draining 20% of your mana unless you're taking lots of damage very quickly--in which case you'd likely be dead without it, anyway. Another absolutely crucial point here is the size of your mana pool and how it compares to the size of your life pool. Almost all of our mana recovery, sans flasks and the flat regen from Clarity and one part of Essence Glutton, is percentage-based and therefore scales directly with the size of our mana pool. The following is a VERY basic hypothetical that is only meant to illustrate this last point. I'm doing this while at work, so for the love of god check my math. I'm not accounting for, among other things, additional sources of life recovery, but I don't think they'd have a substantial impact on the bottom line. Suppose you can sustain mana regen such that you can go from zero to max mana in 1.5 seconds (very attainable). If you have 6000 mana and 5000 life, you're regenerating 4000 mana per second and, if using the Agnostic, recovering a maximum of 1,200 life per second. That's 24% life recovery per second. If your Arc costs 800 mana/cast and you're casting 3/second, you're eventually going to tap out when Agnostic is working at max capacity, which in this case, with MoM, would mean taking at least 1715 damage/second. That gives a gross mana recovery of -115 mana/second (4000 base regen - 2400 from Arc -1200 from Agnostic - 515 from MoM), or -2%/second, for a net life recovery of +1,200 life/second (gross life recovery being 0% because life total is being sustained at 100%). So in that hypothetical situation, you're losing mana by default. Taking any additional damage will quickly kill your mana because of MoM, regardless of life regen/flasks. Now suppose you're in the same situation, but your life pool is 3500 and your mana pool is 9000 because you just popped a Healthy Mind into your passive tree or whatever. (I guess Arc would cost 1200 mana per cast, then?) With these new totals, you're regenerating 6750 mana/second. For the sake of an apples-to-apples comparison, we'll say you're still taking 1715 damage/second, 1200 to life and 515 to mana from MoM. That gives a gross mana recovery of +1435/second (6750 base regen - 3600 from Arc, - 1200 from Agnostic, -515 from MoM), or +19% mana/second, for a net life recovery of +1,200 life/second (gross life recovery being 0% because life total is being sustained at 100%). It might be a fairer comparison to have Agnostic working at max capacity here, too, which would increase net life recovery to 1,800/second and decrease gross mana recovery to 570/second or so, but it is still sustainable, unlike with a smaller mana pool, and is another 50% more life recovery--and a lot more Archmage damage--to boot! I realize the example is crude and incredibly reductive, but the math is, I'm pretty sure, accurate. And the difference becomes even more pronounced the more mana regen you have--I'd say it takes a second or less to refill my entire mana pool with standard buffs up, which dramatically increases gross mana recovery if applied to this example. The obvious downside of a smaller life pool is more susceptibility to one-shots, which is why I go with Cloak of Defiance, as the extra 10% on MoM is essentially a 1.17 multiplier to your eHP. A smaller life pool is also offset quite effectively by the extra protection from Arcane Cloak (I have bound to left click to minimize downtime.) But true one-shots are not as common as it seems, as I have learned from rocking Agnostic. Tl;dr: I have 9200 unreserved mana and only 3600 life, yet I basically feel immortal with the Agnostic, outside of huge hits that were never meant to be facetanked by us in the first place. Última edição por WorderMostFoul#7154 em 20 de jul. de 2020 18:35:35
|
|
