Heavy Summoner Arc Witch Guide [ Video Included ]

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celine wrote:

Hello Void,

Today i finish your build to 75, im now lvl67 and it is hard for me to do act 3 in merc so i do something wrong and maybe u can help me.
Can u tell me where to put my pasive point in after 75?

I can use all the help i can get so all the other Prof. witches pls help me
My built is the same like yours till 75.....i link my gear in the Spoiler so you all can see
what gems i use

Pls let me know what i need to change or go for.

Sorry for my bad englisch

Spoiler

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edwardm84 wrote:

So I was a moron and learned the hard way... don't chrom your armor on a whim if you don't have a backup >.< So I lost faster projectiles from my specters for nothing. Ah well. I've literally had what has to be the worst crafting luck in this game.

Question for snowhammer or anyone who is using this build with proliferation and focusing on keeping arc as a dps dealer:

What do you think about sweeping down (about 3 int nodes) to pick up templar's bonus to lightning damage too? I decided to try this and all those bonuses have really started to help boost my dos, but uncertain as to whether or not I should really be grabbing those before the last summoner node.

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Snowhammer wrote:

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edwardm84 wrote:

So I was a moron and learned the hard way... don't chrom your armor on a whim if you don't have a backup >.< So I lost faster projectiles from my specters for nothing. Ah well. I've literally had what has to be the worst crafting luck in this game.

Question for snowhammer or anyone who is using this build with proliferation and focusing on keeping arc as a dps dealer:

What do you think about sweeping down (about 3 int nodes) to pick up templar's bonus to lightning damage too? I decided to try this and all those bonuses have really started to help boost my dos, but uncertain as to whether or not I should really be grabbing those before the last summoner node.

Heya,

If you look at my "end goal" a few pages back - I'm also grabbing those lighting/elemental nodes. That said, I'm not going to grab them untill I've gotten all the nodes up in the Waitch Area (All the Light Dam, Spell Dam and 3 Casting Speed Nodes)

Personally, I would try to avoid "sacrificing" minion power in order to increase your DPS. For exampple, I recently found a Neclace that increased my Lighting Damage by 18% (and had over 30 total Rarity - 8 All resists). It was REALLY tempting to use it instead of Sidhbreath Amulet - it would have given me another 80 avg DPS on the tool tip for Arc.

However, I think the core of this build, the real meat of this build, of course is and will always be your minions being super powerfull and explding for a lot of damage too.

The Arc DPS should be a secondary goal. The only place I've "sacrificed" minion power so far is my Boots. I'm not using the silk summoner boots, but, those dont add minion power, just +1Zombie and Spectre.. which in my mind isn't as desireable as actual power (life and damage and speed) for your minions.

TL/DR: I'd get all the +Spell/Lighting you can, but don't do it "instead" of getting minion nodes.

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Aziah wrote:

U dont think another spectre with gmp isnt worth it????? whaaaa

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suprfli6 wrote:

Well, be sure to keep in mind that an item like Sidhebreath that has +15% minion damage does not actually give your pets 15% more total damage than not not wearing it. Your pets should be well over +200% damage from passives and a Minion Damage support gem at higher levels, so another 15% is a much less substantial boost than people think.

On the other hand, +1 spectre is an enormous boost to your actual killing speed. So if you want to give up any of the summoner uniques for better personal stats, Sidhebreath is the best candidate in my opinion.