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

A stellar job as usual Enki.


I notice that on your skill tree that you do a couple of thinks slightly different than I would. Minor difference I think though.

1. You took the 30 strength and 30 dexterity nodes near elemental overload. I would suggest that you spend the two points on Practical Application near our start area. This will net you a gain of 5 more strengh, 5 more dexterity, and 40% chance to avoid interruption from stuns while casting over your way.

2. by the bottom jewel socket, you extend out to the start area with the last point giving you +5 intelligence and 20% mana regen. I might take the first node on the right fork from out start area to get +14 energy shield and 25% mana regen instead.

3. goint north from our start area you take two crit chance nodes. I might respect those to go through Lord of the Dead instead to get more minion life.

Thank you for doing this every patch. I may not comment much, and sometimes I stray off into my own thing, but, I have been reading this thread daily since page 85. Hard to believe that was a little over 5 years ago. I really appreciate your work and that of the regular contributors.

Edit: I notice in the Weapons section that you list "Wrath has #% increased Aura Effect C", but I don't see Wrath in the gem setup. Though I do see you list it in the Rings section when you discuss Essence worm.

Ailment immunity, yes but I don't expect there to be a big problem with Golems dying. They are immune to elemental damage which is a pretty big deal. Sure they might kick the bucket every once in a while, but I doubt there will be any major problem. I couldn't say which, but some Golems die more often than others.

thanks for all your responses. I am delighted to hear that this build will be able to beat end game bosses. As long as I know that the build is capable of doing all end game content, I'm going to go with it... I realize that I will have to sink more and more $$$ into the game the further I go, but I'm okay with that.

I guess it stands to reason that if it wasn't capable of beating all end game content, then it wouldn't be near as popular as it is...

I've been looking everywhere but can't seem to find anything that explains the playstyle for this build. I see that it has archmage in the set up as well as arcane cloak. Is this a playstyle that you have to monitor how often you are pressing your mana potion and arcane cloak to keep damage up?

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Rowdietang escreveu:

I've been looking everywhere but can't seem to find anything that explains the playstyle for this build. I see that it has archmage in the set up as well as arcane cloak. Is this a playstyle that you have to monitor how often you are pressing your mana potion and arcane cloak to keep damage up?

Mana flask us permanently up. I suppose it might run out of charges on bosses, but otherwise you have no problem sustaining 100% uptime. Arcane Cloak is often applied to left click. It's actually one of the more simple builds I play where 95% is Arc + movement.

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Aldonés escreveu:

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Rowdietang escreveu:

I've been looking everywhere but can't seem to find anything that explains the playstyle for this build. I see that it has archmage in the set up as well as arcane cloak. Is this a playstyle that you have to monitor how often you are pressing your mana potion and arcane cloak to keep damage up?

Mana flask us permanently up. I suppose it might run out of charges on bosses, but otherwise you have no problem sustaining 100% uptime. Arcane Cloak is often applied to left click. It's actually one of the more simple builds I play where 95% is Arc + movement.

What do you mean that the mana flask is up permanently? Do you mean you have to press the mana flask continually? Otherwise I don't know what you mean? How can a flask be permanent. I'm sorry I must be missing something

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Rowdietang escreveu:

I've been looking everywhere but can't seem to find anything that explains the playstyle for this build. I see that it has archmage in the set up as well as arcane cloak. Is this a playstyle that you have to monitor how often you are pressing your mana potion and arcane cloak to keep damage up?

From my experience last league I didn't feel the need to carefully manage cooldowns and pot, it's more like managing how much damage/protection you need at a certain moment.
It always depends on the current power of your character and getting the hang of it, but generally the simple arc unbuffed was enough to murder regular map stuff very quickly (and now it should be even more true with elementalist);
Facing a high hp/dangerous rare or league monsters? pop Cloak for a boost
Something that lasts more than 2 seconds? pop Sigil

It's probably a good habit pressing mana pot right after Cloak, to rebuild your MoM pool in case of sudden damage spikes that depletes Cloak's shield; other than that mana pot purpose is to keep mana value to an healthy level to support eventual prolonged casting/MoM triggers; be aware of the potential thorny situation where you already spent a good chunk of mana and pop Cloak, emptying your mana

That said, mana management of the build is quite different from Heist version, without The Agnostic, can't tell exactly how things will change before trying

Levelling this now and single target is terrible.

On Act 4 (level 30), and trash is fine, but single target lacks big time. When does it pick up?

Dominus was a pain the ass to kill taking forever (I'm also on a 6L using tabula).

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brunowa escreveu:

Levelling this now and single target is terrible.

On Act 4 (level 30), and trash is fine, but single target lacks big time. When does it pick up?

Dominus was a pain the ass to kill taking forever (I'm also on a 6L using tabula).

Uh Oh....that's not good :( and you are an excellent player too, I know you from your extremely popular Summoner build on the Witch Forum... You are giving me 2nd thoughts now

Can I go with Wand + Shield or staves/Pledge of Hand with this build? What are the advantages of using dual wand? I'm not keen on using focus skill at all.