Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary

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Valkyry wrote:

Hi there!, am I blind or is there no what gear to get for leveling section? :)
hope you can help out! :D thanks for the guide!

for Leveling just focus on getting resists (75% fire, cold and lightening resists) and 4 links for after act 5

Other than that, standard leveling gear (if this is not a league starter)

Tabula Rasa
Wondertrap
reverberation rod's
goldrim

Only use reverberation rod till around act 4 and look for a staff to start using. -- Mine was pure melee staff.. but the passive tree gives bonuses for just using a staff, so stats did not really matter till act 9ish and I got a 4 link agnerod west staff.

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NameMerken wrote:

To everyone talking about 20q%ing arc, DONT waste your GCPs. Arc quality gives chance to shock. It is absolutely worthless for this build. There is no reason at all to qualy arc. Just vaal them once they're 20 and pray for 21.

Thank you for clarifying, I think the confusion is coming from the build guide using Vaal Arc.

I will save my GCP's and just shoot for level 21.

During leveling... maybe add Elemental Proliferation gem to Arc setup instead of something else? I am using it now and i noticed that i freeze monsters (got 3 dragons already, act 6) almost all the time (normal mobs and often rare/unique). Without this gem freeze occurs much less often. For me it is easier (i am not in danger) with Elemental Proliferation.

I forgot to help Alira - killed all bandits. My crit chance with Arc is 10.5% now ;) If needed i will respec bandits reward later, after killing act 10 kitava.

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Cendrake wrote:

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Steeliskt wrote:

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don´t forget to raise up the quality first.. after you Vaal them you can´t do it anymore

This is what I was concerned about. either we have to use 20 GCP's to raise to 20% quality before Vaal'ing (expensive since it's 5 arc gems). Or we have to vendor our level 20 gems to get them to 20%, but then we have to level them all over again. Is this what we should be doing?

Spoiler

It is not necessary to get quality on Arc. All that gives you is 0.5% chance to Shock enemies per 1% quality. But we do not go for shock. In fact, we cannot shock at all anymore, because of The Three Dragons mask ("Your lightning damage can freeze but not shock"). At least if I understand it right. They changed the shock mechanic again iirc and overall it just requires too much investment in Shock effectiveness to reach that 50% damage increase (iirc you'd need 230-something % shock effect for it).

I guess that's why Enki also tried to avoid Shock this time around, by going for Three Dragons Mask, and dropping Inpulsa, in his effort to make the build more budget and beginner friendly. This also meant that we do not have to go for every shock effect node that there is on the skill tree, plus Beacon of Ruin, plus use jewels with shock effect. And we could drop Hypothermia and don't have to worry about a source of cold damage anymore.

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PrettyCasual wrote:

Question - How do we shock enemies with The Three Dragons?
Do I need the "Shock nearby enemies while focused" mod on a ring?
or are there other ways?
I'm guessing add fire damage somehow to arc?

See above spoiler.

We actually can shock with the "Shock nearby enemies for 3 seconds while focused". Pretty simple solution

I can't figure out how to set the "attack without moving" for a skill on the xbox...anyone have any idea?

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DiamondBarJohn wrote:

I can't figure out how to set the "attack without moving" for a skill on the xbox...anyone have any idea?

Left Click on the Skill on the bar. There will be an option right at the top that you can click on or off. Just click it on and be on your way. Make sure not to click the X because it will remove the skill from the keybind.

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PrettyCasual wrote:

We actually can shock with the "Shock nearby enemies for 3 seconds while focused". Pretty simple solution

Well, yes, you're right. Technically, we can still shock like that with certain loopholes like this Focus skill. But not with our main damage as source. That's what I was talking about.

Would be rather bad tho, no? Isn't that considered non-hit? So that would be 20% damage increase, scaled by pretty much nothing, since we don't go for shock effectiveness.

Never used Focus before, but it doesn't sound very comfortable to use. Another slot taken on the skill bar, single use, 2-4s shock to nearby enemies, having to get 'nearby' (whatever "nearby" may mean in this particular case), 12s cooldown?

To me it sounds like a rather cumbersome, unreliable and sometimes even dangerous solution. There's got to be better ring affixes for dmg increase.

18-22% increased Lightning Damage (of Voltage)
18-33% increased Lightning Damage (higher tier Essences)
25-30% increased Elemental Damage (Fossil)

What about these? Wouldn't they achieve the same or even more and be much more reliable? Or am I missing something?

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Crusader226 wrote:

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DiamondBarJohn wrote:

I can't figure out how to set the "attack without moving" for a skill on the xbox...anyone have any idea?

Left Click on the Skill on the bar. There will be an option right at the top that you can click on or off. Just click it on and be on your way. Make sure not to click the X because it will remove the skill from the keybind.

There's no "bar' on consoles, nor can you "click" on anything.

How does the golems work? If I'm understanding the guide correctly you're supposed to have meatshield+lightning golem+flame golem in act 4 but you can only have 1 golem out unless I'm missing something from the tree so how does having both linked to meatshield help you? Is link order important for the golems bonuses and how exactly are you getting more than one golem up to get those active bonuses? Or am I missing something? Relatively new to the game playing a different build but I use arc + summons and trying to figure out what you've got going on with the golems.

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