Heavy Summoner Arc Witch Guide [ Video Included ]

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pirate_yar wrote:

Do you feel that a non-quality Wrath's radius is good enough once leveled a bir?

actualy the aura radiuses are terrible to say the least, before i was specing into leadership, i had a wrath level 17, and it still was easy to go out of range.

Well, my witch died last night. I had just made it to Act 3 Normal and got bear trapped to death by the boss undying guy in Sarn City. Super unfortunate, lost a very nice Sidhebreath, my Elem Prolif gem I was leveling, an LMP, an Iron Will gem I was leveling for possible future use with this build, and a bunch of other really solid 20's gear.

I saw him bear trap me, went to hit alt+F4 and as my window was closing I saw the Resurrect box come up. Super disappointing. I now know, though, that I really need to not skip the life nodes for use with HC. I consider the gear I had to be very good for the level I was at, but I was seriously way too squishy. Let this stand as a warning to anyone rolling in HC, you may have a minion wall, but you still need to be careful.

Friends don't let friends skip the life nodes.

just keep on the move for that unique :P you can dodge all his traps

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Mercutio1337 wrote:

Dear Snowhammer im currently towards 60 with my witch and i bought yesterday blood Magic and reduced mana to run more Auras and im Running wrath with clarity and dont have much Mana left for the other 3 you mentioned so i guess i need a Bigger Mana Pool i got around 300 int with approximately 550 Mana ( 300 are directly gone due clarity ) and some Health for wrath - how can you run 5 at once and still habe enough mana for your highest Mana spell ( Mine ist Skellies with totem - Cost about 200 Mana) my Mana reg is Good at this Moment but i guess i need much more Mana to activate the other 3 ) furthermore i saw that you dont use eldritch so im wondering how you Run all Auras at once ;-)

Well first, I run 4 auras, not 5.

I've thought about adding another one (would just need some more mana) but I don't feel the need. Vitality would be nice, but then again, not really. Determination would be nice, but then again, not really. I would really like to run Haste, but I would need to get rid of my current Sidbreath neck and get a good all stat + dex neclace probably to level it up. (might actualy be a good idea - not sure)

Any way - right now though, all I run is this
Wrath>Anger>BloodMagic>ReducedMana
Clarity>Purity>ReducedMana

4 Auras.

To do this and cast yout totem, you'll need 700ish mana

700 Base
-293 for Clarity Level 18 (Level 18 reduced mana)
-205 for Purity (Level 18 reduced mana)

That leaves you with 203ish mana to cast with.

If you want to eventually add haste, like me, you would need a mana pool of around (by my napkin math) 1150. I feel like thats possible, but not probably the best thing to go for without getting EB.

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ThirstyGhost wrote:

Well, my witch died last night. I had just made it to Act 3 Normal and got bear trapped to death by the boss undying guy in Sarn City. Super unfortunate, lost a very nice Sidhebreath, my Elem Prolif gem I was leveling, an LMP, an Iron Will gem I was leveling for possible future use with this build, and a bunch of other really solid 20's gear.

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Friends don't let friends skip the life nodes.

Haha - true!

I haven't had the "de-sync" issue happen in a long time (maybe they fixed it?) so I'm thinking of taking this build to hardcore (where the big boys play? Right?)

First Hard Core Character died in the exact spot you describe. That Bear Trap guy is brutal when you don't know he's coming. Next time, I'm not even going to try that part of the area - straight to Sarn!

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Snowhammer wrote:

Haha - true!

I haven't had the "de-sync" issue happen in a long time (maybe they fixed it?) so I'm thinking of taking this build to hardcore (where the big boys play? Right?)

First Hard Core Character died in the exact spot you describe. That Bear Trap guy is brutal when you don't know he's coming. Next time, I'm not even going to try that part of the area - straight to Sarn!

That area is so nice for grinding though. I just wish the unique guy was more distinct-looking compared to the normal guys. The only difference is what, he's like 10% darker colored, and 10% larger, or something like that. Usually, it's like "did that guy just cast EK? why can't I move? why am I dead?"

Does it matter what difficulty your getting your spectres at? Anytime I get a spectre from norm difficulty, it seems to instantly die when i run a map.

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trionify wrote:

Does it matter what difficulty your getting your spectres at? Anytime I get a spectre from norm difficulty, it seems to instantly die when i run a map.

yes, always get them from the highest difficulty

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jurka23 wrote:

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pirate_yar wrote:

Do you feel that a non-quality Wrath's radius is good enough once leveled a bir?

actualy the aura radiuses are terrible to say the least, before i was specing into leadership, i had a wrath level 17, and it still was easy to go out of range.

Did Leadership make it worthwhile?

What do you guys think of this build? Its slightly more defensive than the OP but I think that is necessary.

What do you think of chaos inoculation and/or eldrich? Where will you be putting the remaining points past 70?