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

Just a little update on replica Lavianga's. Indeed, with our good mana regen the flask effect will disappear within 1 sec if you do nothing. I've been searching but it seems there is not an easy way to obtain effects similar to enduring prefix.

That being said, one particularly good occasion for replica Lavianga's is the Sirus fight. As Enki said you can't gain flask charges for your utility flasks so they are not that useful. Replica Lavianga's is a mana flask. The uptime problem is also automatically resolved by the mechanics in this fight: you dodge big hits, trying to catch up Sirus, and burst him for a few seconds, repeat. If you use the flask while bursting down Sirus, the effect will almost surely stay for the whole burst, because bursting arc is very mana consuming. You can maybe do it with other bosses, but I find it to be most useful during Sirus fight.

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Karathis escreveu:

My bad, when i checked properly it is 1,5m dps but 10m damage from a bleed duration, so not that gud tbh with 8ex investment. As for archmage ive been looking at builds like BL archmage or scion arc archmage and cannot really make a choice between the three. And i know barely anything about spell builds so itll be pretty hard to gradually upgrade gear haha.

Im not a fan of janky and exotic builds, i usually play builds that are considered normal and dont require big brain strats or build enabling uniques in order to play. So this one will be fitting that.

Well, I'm in kind of the opposite situation; I'm basically totally ignorant about attack builds because I love spellcasting so much! This build is great if you're looking for a standard but solid introduction to spells, plus this thread is active and has a lot of great people to help support and answer your questions. I think you'll enjoy it and definitely recommend it without reservation.

Whichever you pick, just remember that with Archmage, mana is everything. Mana is life. Mana is damage. Mana mana mana.

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Gimdornim escreveu:

Just a little update on replica Lavianga's. Indeed, with our good mana regen the flask effect will disappear within 1 sec if you do nothing. I've been searching but it seems there is not an easy way to obtain effects similar to enduring prefix.

That being said, one particularly good occasion for replica Lavianga's is the Sirus fight. As Enki said you can't gain flask charges for your utility flasks so they are not that useful. Replica Lavianga's is a mana flask. The uptime problem is also automatically resolved by the mechanics in this fight: you dodge big hits, trying to catch up Sirus, and burst him for a few seconds, repeat. If you use the flask while bursting down Sirus, the effect will almost surely stay for the whole burst, because bursting arc is very mana consuming. You can maybe do it with other bosses, but I find it to be most useful during Sirus fight.

I wouldn't want to lose the flask suffix in mapping, but I could see this working as a swap-in for boss like Sirus where burst damage really is key, like you say. It's probably a little too much to manage for my tastes, but a good ancillary damage option.

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WorderMostFoul escreveu:

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Karathis escreveu:

My bad, when i checked properly it is 1,5m dps but 10m damage from a bleed duration, so not that gud tbh with 8ex investment. As for archmage ive been looking at builds like BL archmage or scion arc archmage and cannot really make a choice between the three. And i know barely anything about spell builds so itll be pretty hard to gradually upgrade gear haha.

Im not a fan of janky and exotic builds, i usually play builds that are considered normal and dont require big brain strats or build enabling uniques in order to play. So this one will be fitting that.

Well, I'm in kind of the opposite situation; I'm basically totally ignorant about attack builds because I love spellcasting so much! This build is great if you're looking for a standard but solid introduction to spells, plus this thread is active and has a lot of great people to help support and answer your questions. I think you'll enjoy it and definitely recommend it without reservation.

Whichever you pick, just remember that with Archmage, mana is everything. Mana is life. Mana is damage. Mana mana mana.

Yeah i really like spellcaster builds as well, but in the beginning ive bricked so many attack and spell builds i just stuck to dot/chaos builds which i did a bit better with. i think im going to level a witch tonight. It really looks fun to play and i could use a bit of fun after mindlessly mapping with barely any results. is there anything i should do when i get to maps? And anything different than the guide recommends?

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DannyNorth escreveu:

WonderMostFoul. I followed your take on this build last season and loved it. So of course I am stalking you again. Hah! I am curious as to why you are not using Fevered Mind this time.

Flattered! That is a good question. I ended last league thinking it was a good idea, but a limiting choice because of the skill point investment and because there were other options available in min/maxing that were less burdensome. That may have changed a bit now that godlike custom rares are out of reach for most of us. Relatedly, the biggest reason I haven't opted for it yet is that my mana recovery isn't where I want it to be to take on the increased mana cost, since they nerfed Watcher's Eye and made it significantly harder to craft a good Redeemer's belt. I might be comfortable with it if I could get a t1 increased mana regen roll on my shield and/or ring and/or weapon. I'm just still optimizing other things for now.

For instance...Gimdornim posted an excellent idea a few days ago about a medium cluster jewel with Master of Fear and Wish for Death notables. I managed to craft one yesterday and wish I had thought of it last league! Pretty convinced it's BiS. I didn't even know what to do with the free gem slot so I started running a Portal gem! (Awakened level 5 Hextouch would solve that "problem" for me, though.) Only catch is that those jewels are hella expensive. I managed to roll my own in fewer than 1000 alts, but I may have gotten lucky. But with Storm Brand, it's basically guaranteed Unnerve and Culling Strike with 100% uptime against Sirus, which is absolutely amazing utility (plus lets you just focus on getting gloves with solid core stats).

I will definitely tinker with Fevered Mind once I have a few more levels and a better shield and hopefully weapon, but I only just got to the point where I can run RF, so I still have a ways to go.

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WorderMostFoul escreveu:

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DannyNorth escreveu:

WonderMostFoul. I followed your take on this build last season and loved it. So of course I am stalking you again. Hah! I am curious as to why you are not using Fevered Mind this time.

Flattered! That is a good question. I ended last league thinking it was a good idea, but a limiting choice because of the skill point investment and because there were other options available in min/maxing that were less burdensome. That may have changed a bit now that godlike custom rares are out of reach for most of us. Relatedly, the biggest reason I haven't opted for it yet is that my mana recovery isn't where I want it to be to take on the increased mana cost, since they nerfed Watcher's Eye and made it significantly harder to craft a good Redeemer's belt. I might be comfortable with it if I could get a t1 increased mana regen roll on my shield and/or ring and/or weapon. I'm just still optimizing other things for now.

For instance...Gimdornim posted an excellent idea a few days ago about a medium cluster jewel with Master of Fear and Wish for Death notables. I managed to craft one yesterday and wish I had thought of it last league! Pretty convinced it's BiS. I didn't even know what to do with the free gem slot so I started running a Portal gem! (Awakened level 5 Hextouch would solve that "problem" for me, though.) Only catch is that those jewels are hella expensive. I managed to roll my own in fewer than 1000 alts, but I may have gotten lucky. But with Storm Brand, it's basically guaranteed Unnerve and Culling Strike with 100% uptime against Sirus, which is absolutely amazing utility (plus lets you just focus on getting gloves with solid core stats).

I will definitely tinker with Fevered Mind once I have a few more levels and a better shield and hopefully weapon, but I only just got to the point where I can run RF, so I still have a ways to go.

I assumed but was not sure. Thought I might have been missing something. So, you have pointed me in the right direction and now with no Hurricane bearing down on us this weekend I can actually play. Thanks again for your help and the other people in this forum as well.

Currently levelling the build in act 6 but im perma oom after a couple of casts, rolled an enduring flask but still having a lot of issues. Did i miss something in the levelling guide?

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Karathis escreveu:

Yeah i really like spellcaster builds as well, but in the beginning ive bricked so many attack and spell builds i just stuck to dot/chaos builds which i did a bit better with. i think im going to level a witch tonight. It really looks fun to play and i could use a bit of fun after mindlessly mapping with barely any results. is there anything i should do when i get to maps? And anything different than the guide recommends?

You totally should! Leveling with Arc is really fun, even if you spec into another build afterward. Once you know what you're doing, it's definitely more satisfying than another generic cdot build. I'd buy a level 1 20% Anomalous Arc to start with so you can benefit from the extra chain length early on. Grab an Atziri's Foible and equip it the moment your level is high enough, stack as much mana and regen as possible on your early tree and gear, keep your Clarity and mana flask(s) current, and drop all non-Clarity auras as soon as you get Archmage. Don't run MoM and Agnostic together until endgame, it's too hard on your mana pool with Archmage early on. I prefer Agnostic, but pick one of the two (MoM is better against one-shots).

Enki's guide is superb through the whole game and progression should be smooth into maps, so you shouldn't have to worry about doing anything specific (aside from capping resistances, of course).

As you reach endgame and have currency to do so, there are definitely some upgrades you can make outside of what the guide recommends that will yield big damage increases. PoB is unfortunately still fucked (won't export), so I can't share mine, but there are a number of people posting on here whose characters you can look at through their profiles or by importing them into PoB via their accounts. Because the build has a strong backbone and PoE is a beautiful game, there are virtually limitless ways to get creative, Nyangoro, Gimdornim, and Zarasi--among others!!--all have Heist necros that offer great examples of what to strive for. I fully admit I have departed from the guide's build in some ways and that some of my gear is definitely still jury-rigged, , so for reference only, here is what I am currently working with, including cluster jewels:

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Karathis escreveu:

Currently levelling the build in act 6 but im perma oom after a couple of casts, rolled an enduring flask but still having a lot of issues. Did i miss something in the levelling guide?

What the guide doesn't tell you, which I found out the hard way myself, is that having 5 support gems linked to Arc without good mana and mana regen gear will essentially neuter your effectiveness. Which is the scenario when leveling.

What I did to solve this problem was to remove one support gem and just sat on 4 total supports until my gear was up to par. In the meantime I used item rarity support as a filler, because it doesn't multiply Arc's mana cost upwards.

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Nyangoro escreveu:

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Karathis escreveu:

Currently levelling the build in act 6 but im perma oom after a couple of casts, rolled an enduring flask but still having a lot of issues. Did i miss something in the levelling guide?

What the guide doesn't tell you, which I found out the hard way myself, is that having 5 support gems linked to Arc without good mana and mana regen gear will essentially neuter your effectiveness. Which is the scenario when leveling.

What I did to solve this problem was to remove one support gem and just sat on 4 total supports until my gear was up to par. In the meantime I used item rarity support as a filler, because it doesn't multiply Arc's mana cost upwards.

That's a really excellent point. Especially once you add Archmage on top of all the support gem mana multipliers, you are going to be relying a lot on mana flasks until you progress into endgame-level stuff.

Also, get Atziri's Foible; it will help you immeasurably, and it's a pretty affordable BiS item that you can equip right now!