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

Also, is meat shield really that useful as a support gem versus having a 4th golem and the corresponding buff?

I'd really like to keep all 4 golems, so is there anything I can sacrifice to make that work?

There is a note called Prodigal Perfection in the new build that appears to be allocated, but the path to it isn´t. Is there a way to select that node without clicking on previous ones or that´s a visual glitch?

Also, I´m lvl 40 @ act 4 and it isn´t clear to me how to link all the skills that the guide is mentioning, since I´m still dual wielding 3 slots wands and Arc is linked to 3 support gems. At what moment should I switch to a staff please?

I´ve been doing pretty well so far (it´s my 1st char in years), except for mana shortage. I haven´t been able to benefit from all the increased casting speed because even Arc is getting me mana warnings.

Thanks for putting so much effort into creating this for us. It´s been keeping me awake through the night :)

God this game is frustrating sometimes.

So I've just spend a bunch of regrets and moved around a bunch of my gems as per the updated guide, and ran a quick yellow map to check it out and feel like my build is now completely broken.

My mana is way too low and I can't sustain my attacks. The lack of leech is making me super squishy, and my dps against regular mobs has actually gone DOWN so they are getting more chances to hit me.

I might just revert to the old build where I wasn't really struggling at all with red maps. I don't see why these changes make anything better except for the additional boss DPS with the new attack skill, but that doesn't seem to be worth all the other compromises.

is it normal my golems are dying all the time ? especially when doing bosses and conquerors they just die and die and die. all the time i waste resummoning them is a chance i have of dying to X attack

Hello. Thanks for this guide. I started playing poe on this season and this guide helped me to get lvl 92 and some nice eq but now I'm struggling with doing t10+ maps. Can someone tell me on what should I focus now? I have Agnerod West Imperial Staff (5L), The Three Dragons Golden Mask, Oskram Nubuck Gloves, Soul Tether Cloth Belt, Doryani's Delusions Sorcerer Boots (not awesome stats :) 65+ hp and 186% ES) and rings, amulet with resists + hp.
My totall hp is almost 4k, ES almost 1.4k, res 75%.
Should I get better staff or other eqiupment?
Not have much currency but can farm :P

So i started with this guide 1 week ago. Lvl 85 now.
After 1 week and spending all currency on gearthe build is changed. Skilltree different, Gems different, Weapon Switch Playstyle. More Mana Problems...

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xqflint wrote:

There is a note called Prodigal Perfection in the new build that appears to be allocated, but the path to it isn´t. Is there a way to select that node without clicking on previous ones or that´s a visual glitch?

Also, I´m lvl 40 @ act 4 and it isn´t clear to me how to link all the skills that the guide is mentioning, since I´m still dual wielding 3 slots wands and Arc is linked to 3 support gems. At what moment should I switch to a staff please?

I´ve been doing pretty well so far (it´s my 1st char in years), except for mana shortage. I haven´t been able to benefit from all the increased casting speed because even Arc is getting me mana warnings.

Thanks for putting so much effort into creating this for us. It´s been keeping me awake through the night :)

Prodigal Perfection is a node that gets allocated through annointing amulets, it's not a node that you should get through you passive tree. Basically, you give an amulet with some oils to Cassia (Blight NPC) and she gives you back the amulet with the mod "allocates x" where x is prodigal perfection if you gave her the right oils :)

How is the sustain with the new version? Life should still be ok since we still have some leech on the tree, and stone golem makes up for some of the lost leech on the ascendency. But ES? That was taken care of by soul theter which is now gone. Is Energy leech enough?

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smplx wrote:

How is the sustain with the new version? Life should still be ok since we still have some leech on the tree, and stone golem makes up for some of the lost leech on the ascendency. But ES? That was taken care of by soul theter which is now gone. Is Energy leech enough?

I'm finding it pretty rough, but I still have soul tether. I am actually thinking about reverting back.

Survivability was much better before, and the DPS increase doesn't seem worth the trade off.

So I've switched back to paragon of calamity, gotten rid of herald of thunder (and put increased crit back on herald of ice)

This way I can keep soul tether and the leech survivability, but I have retained the new storm brand skill for the extra DPS there.

I feel like this is a good balance and am about to run some more maps to test it out.

My DPS with arc is lower without the second herald, but I was never struggling on t13 maps before, so I don't think that's a major issue, and the added DPS from storm brand will hopefully help me into higher tiers.

But I'm still pretty new at this so I have no idea what really works, i'm just winging it. I know that these changes completely broke my build and so I've spent all my regrets to hit this middle ground.
If it doesn't work, i'm pretty much done.

EDIT: So the changes have really helped, but i'm still fairly sure that storm brand with all the support gems isn't actually helping my DPS as much as the old wave of conviction + curse conductivity on hit combo.

I don't know the game well enough to do any of the math but I really feel the additions are sub-optimal