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Maby this is already answered but I could not find anything:

How much ES should I have when I click that CI stone =)
And around what level?

Also what path would you recommend when leveling going for the NEW version with specters.

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kdahl wrote:

How much ES should I have when I click that CI stone =)

At least 2k. Preferably 3k. Unfortunately you really can't advance much past felshrine in merciless without picking up CI, so at some point you'll just get irritated with farming felshrine and you'll put the point so you can move on.

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magicrectangle wrote:

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kdahl wrote:

How much ES should I have when I click that CI stone =)

At least 2k. Preferably 3k. Unfortunately you really can't advance much past felshrine in merciless without picking up CI, so at some point you'll just get irritated with farming felshrine and you'll put the point so you can move on.

I had 1.4K ES at the start of Act 3 Merciless. Fellshrine is still decent until I can't do Sarn Slums with the snakes 1-2 shotting me. I was so frustrated. Screw it and I took CI. I dropped my spell dmg shield and started chaosing for a new one. I swapped chest and got around 1.7k. With Discipline it was almost 2k. The difference was day and night. I easily soloed Slums even the mobs outlevel me.

After some gear changes and new 20% max ES, I easily reach 3.5k ES with crappy gear.

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devynee wrote:

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magicrectangle wrote:

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devynee wrote:

Well you don't level Purity it seems. :)

Does smiley mean joke? Obviously all % based auras should be leveled to max, since there's no down side.

What I wanted to say was that he seems to not use Purity at all.. It was just badly worded from my side.

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magicrectangle wrote:

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devynee wrote:

I just don't know if I have a big enough mana pool if I level 3 auras to max.. hypershatter left his Clarity at level 2 it seems.

I'm not sure if he still does that or if he started leveling it, but I definitely leveled my clarity to max. I only run clarity + discipline though, I don't need purity to max out my resists. I've got 40% res all from passives (2x body and soul, 1x nullification, 1x celestial walker) so it isn't hard to max out.

Even if I were running purity though, I think I'd still want maxed clarity. I'd just stack more mana from gear, and maybe pick up the mana ring under double curse.

Okay, I guess I will level my Clarity to max as well and try to drop Purity eventually - or maybe just use it for maps with resist curses.

Do you think the second Body and Soul is really necessary with the "new" ES nodes after CI?

So Should I be leveling my Clarity or what? Looking at the OP gear his clarity is level 2. Anyone help on this? At level 72 I currently have 1101 mana is that pool big enough to level clarity. Current mana regen around 45per second

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kdahl wrote:

Maby this is already answered but I could not find anything:

How much ES should I have when I click that CI stone =)
And around what level?

Also what path would you recommend when leveling going for the NEW version with specters.

I was on HC and did it around 3900(including new CI passives). I didn't put a single point into spectres until level 66, then I got all 4 +1 spectre nodes and Lord of the Dead. I almost completely followed the classic build until then. But since I was in HC, I spent 13 points on health nodes(mostly on the way to ancestral bond), 3 of which were in that first ES Witch circle.

I went CI at level 61.

IDK if others are like me, but I was excited to go CI on my first Witch and it gimped me hard. I went CI with 1800 ES and at level 47, huge mistake. I would highly suggest you wait, it's not as exciting as it looks :P. The type of mobs that are chaos mobs are still annoying, just hit way softer. The snakes that are in act 2, the map version are still the most obnoxious mobs for me because they dodge spears and run through everything to hit me.


I leveled Clarity, but with the amount of mana flasks you can use, you don't even have to use it if you don't want to.

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CharlieTheArcane wrote:

So Should I be leveling my Clarity or what? Looking at the OP gear his clarity is level 2. Anyone help on this? At level 72 I currently have 1101 mana is that pool big enough to level clarity. Current mana regen around 45per second

Yes, level clarity.

Trying to decide between 4 points for inner force or 5 points for 19% spell damage and 9% cast speed(shadow tree beginning). Probably going Shadow tree

The cast speed is pretty money, and unless you're doing an eldritch battery variant, I can't see how inner force could possibly be as good.

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magicrectangle wrote:

The cast speed is pretty money, and unless you're doing an eldritch battery variant, I can't see how inner force could possibly be as good.

Yeah... Was thinking maybe with Purity but eh, not worth it really. Thanks.