Dominion's Hardcore Dual-Spark CI Witch - UPDATED for 1.0.1

I've been busy with streaming, the 1 month race, and now onslaught. As a result of this, I've gotten very behind on the thread. I'll be updating this guide as well as the exilepro entry in the coming days, sorry for the extreme delay.

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jika wrote:

Clarity need to max? or lvl 1

I dont know if you are running witch or shadow but what I have found out with shadow is I have to be careful in leveling clarity. I have reduced mana, clarity, purity and, discipline. I try to maintain about 100-150 mana available for spells or else you will have delays between your spell totem casts and that could be costly.

Long term you want all 3 maxed but depending on your gear and passive route you may need to pace yourself.

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Fireknight wrote:

I've been busy with streaming, the 1 month race, and now onslaught. As a result of this, I've gotten very behind on the thread. I'll be updating this guide as well as the exilepro entry in the coming days, sorry for the extreme delay.

Thanks man!

Currently A3 cruel and loving the build so far

When you say play act1 normal like any freezing pulse build, I have never even used the gem or any caster gem until now. My first witch.

how much ES with discipline should i have before taking CI now with the 0.11 changes?
(playing on anarchy not hardcore)

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tesken wrote:

how much ES with discipline should i have before taking CI now with the 0.11 changes?
(playing on anarchy not hardcore)

I wouldn't take CI until you have 3,000-3,500 ES at a minimum. You will be able to grab the extra ES nodes when you switch so factor those in.

I didnt take CI until merc act 3 but I wouldnt recommend that

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Fourist wrote:

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tesken wrote:

how much ES with discipline should i have before taking CI now with the 0.11 changes?
(playing on anarchy not hardcore)

I wouldn't take CI until you have 3,000-3,500 ES at a minimum. You will be able to grab the extra ES nodes when you switch so factor those in.

I didnt take CI until merc act 3 but I wouldnt recommend that

thanks for the reply, really appreciate it.

I'm currently level 60 in a1 merc and still only on 880 ES (without discipline) while following the passive build in this guide.
How can I make such a big leap in ES amounts so fast until the second half of a2 merc?
Should I give up on some resists or links on gear to just get high ES, or should I just stall a lot of time farming fellshrine until I get the gear?
(This is my first high level character so I have only 1-1.5 exalted total value in currency to spend)

Your ES will jump up quickly but you have to focus on getting pure es gear. Farming fellshrine until you get the gear is a good plan. You need to find a chest item with 200+ ES, it will make a huge difference. Others may play differently but in hardcore I wont run around without max resists. I will sacrifice my spell-shield and the extra damage for a nice elem. resist kite shield. They can be found with a good amount of ES too.

I think at the point I transitioned to ES I had almost 2200 es and 1100 life. I used the 44% ES nodes right after CI to give me the boost up to about 3000.

Wondering if I should follow this build or switch anything up for anarchy gameplay?

Jeah he said smth about an update - tho? Will there anything change hard? ;o

For me on Anarchy I'm running it atm - and I feel like its kind of useless to take all the healthnodes for SC and so I should just have gone "the dmg-way" to double totem, because else you just pickup all those int gems before hittin Hex Master/Static Blows.