Witch - [1.3 VIDEO GUIDE] PoE Beginners Build The Carpet Bomber, Fireball Witch EB, AA [HC/SC viable] - Forum

" jboo wrote: You put the priority for offense Stats: 1: fire dmg and ele dmg, 2: spell dmg, 3: faster cast. Then why, when you start from the witch, don’t you take the first 3 spell dmg nodes? You go the right way – 3% faster cast. Why? Because 3x 10% spell damage is inefficient :) Weekly build guides: Youtube.com/LiftingNerdBro Daily live streams: Twitch.tv/LiftingNerdBro Friendly PoE community: Discord.gg/Lifting	Posted by LiftingNerdBro#1842 on Dec 15, 2014, 5:20:22 AM Quote this Post
" LiftingNerdBro wrote: Hey man! First of all good job, it looks really solid. There is really not much for me to criticize. The only thing I don't agree with is leaving out the AoE notables. More than half our damage comes from the explosion of the fireball, not the projectile by picking these up you scale that damage by 20% and increase the AoE, which in my experience makes a significant difference. This is just my opinion though :) I agree that fireball is an underrated skill! Thanks :) well, I understand that the biggest part of our damage comes from area damage. Problem is that area damage nodes are not easily reachable. In order to take Blast radius, that is 12% more area damage, I have to take a total of 4 nodes: 20int,20mana,20ES,16% radius and 12% damage; being more radius really inefficient with fireball(expecially with conc effect), this basically means 4 nodes for 12% area damage and a few mana points; it is really not convenient in my point of view. Much better results comes from cast speed nodes, that increase our projectile damage, heralds damage, and area damage, and they not need to waste any point for them. Same stuff for Amplify, 8% area damage for two nodes... Only downside of so much casting speed: with all those casting nodes, 6L fireball, cast speed on many gears, the mana usage per sec is really high; we really need at least 350 mana/sec to sustain it if using cloak of Defiance.	Posted by engharat#5396 on Dec 15, 2014, 9:09:43 AM Quote this Post
Hey I like this build a lot but should I start doing the CRIT tree now or wait until later in the game and then respec into it? and why crit is better than regular build? :o dis mah sig.	Posted by InSaNeOo#2954 on Dec 15, 2014, 10:57:58 AM Quote this Post
Hello there mate.Thanks for this awesome build.Lvl 27right now at bloodlines leauge.The only big problem that i have right now is the LMP gem.I dont have enough dex to lvl up.What can i do for that?And btw i checked your gear and the tree and the dex is not enough i think.So what can i do to resolve my problem? Thanks again for this begginer build.	Posted by Axortagos#2479 on Dec 15, 2014, 1:07:15 PM Quote this Post
" engharat wrote: " LiftingNerdBro wrote: Hey man! First of all good job, it looks really solid. There is really not much for me to criticize. The only thing I don't agree with is leaving out the AoE notables. More than half our damage comes from the explosion of the fireball, not the projectile by picking these up you scale that damage by 20% and increase the AoE, which in my experience makes a significant difference. This is just my opinion though :) I agree that fireball is an underrated skill! Thanks :) well, I understand that the biggest part of our damage comes from area damage. Problem is that area damage nodes are not easily reachable. In order to take Blast radius, that is 12% more area damage, I have to take a total of 4 nodes: 20int,20mana,20ES,16% radius and 12% damage; being more radius really inefficient with fireball(expecially with conc effect), this basically means 4 nodes for 12% area damage and a few mana points; it is really not convenient in my point of view. Much better results comes from cast speed nodes, that increase our projectile damage, heralds damage, and area damage, and they not need to waste any point for them. Same stuff for Amplify, 8% area damage for two nodes... Only downside of so much casting speed: with all those casting nodes, 6L fireball, cast speed on many gears, the mana usage per sec is really high; we really need at least 350 mana/sec to sustain it if using cloak of Defiance. Yea I understand what you are saying. I honestly feel like the increased AoE explosion makes a big difference when clearing packs. I guess that in this situation none of us are right or wrong. As I said I like your tree as well, so by any means go for it :D Weekly build guides: Youtube.com/LiftingNerdBro Daily live streams: Twitch.tv/LiftingNerdBro Friendly PoE community: Discord.gg/Lifting	Posted by LiftingNerdBro#1842 on Dec 15, 2014, 6:53:56 PM Quote this Post
" InSaNeOo wrote: Hey I like this build a lot but should I start doing the CRIT tree now or wait until later in the game and then respec into it? and why crit is better than regular build? :o Crit is more expensive so I would make the transistion later when you have more currency (unless you already do?) Crit is better as it scales the damage much higher than what you would be able to normally without crit :) Weekly build guides: Youtube.com/LiftingNerdBro Daily live streams: Twitch.tv/LiftingNerdBro Friendly PoE community: Discord.gg/Lifting	Posted by LiftingNerdBro#1842 on Dec 15, 2014, 6:55:22 PM Quote this Post
Is there anyway you can do a Storm Call Build like this? It uses AOE as well and I really like that skill. You seem very good at making these forum post and I enjoyed your video a lot(which I have booked marked). So I will do this build for one of my witches(currently lv65 with passive reset) I have. I really want to do a Storm Call build like this with my other Witch (currently Lv59 with passive reset), with herald of thunder (if you can). Please send me a personal message if you want or post a link for the Storm Call Build if you do it. Haven't seen but maybe one or two storm call builds on these forums and they realy lack info on how to get to end game with it. Looking forward to more of your posts!!! :) Thanks for reading your Friend, UnknownSaint	Posted by TheUnkownSaint#3431 on Dec 15, 2014, 10:31:20 PM Quote this Post
Hey bro just wanted to say thanks for the guide! New to the game but having a blast throwing around fireballs!	Posted by Molbrew#0268 on Dec 16, 2014, 1:23:01 AM Quote this Post
Hey there! Your build seems really interesting but I have one concern since I'll be trying it out in hardcore. How does it deal with high damage single hits? Since you're not taking Mind over Matter aren't you going to get oneshotted by them? Armor is really low from going for ES on most pieces and I don't see Arctic Armor's reduction per hit being very effective on those high damage single hits. At a glance Cloak of Defiance looks like a must have, unless I'm missing something.	Posted by Noitee#4050 on Dec 16, 2014, 6:31:35 AM Quote this Post
" Noitee wrote: Hey there! Your build seems really interesting but I have one concern since I'll be trying it out in hardcore. How does it deal with high damage single hits? Since you're not taking Mind over Matter aren't you going to get oneshotted by them? Armor is really low from going for ES on most pieces and I don't see Arctic Armor's reduction per hit being very effective on those high damage single hits. At a glance Cloak of Defiance looks like a must have, unless I'm missing something. I think that for hardcore cloak of defiance is really a must have!	Posted by engharat#5396 on Dec 16, 2014, 8:18:05 AM Quote this Post