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

To everyone having mana issues: boot enchant OR mana regen % on a piece of jewelry OR mana + mana regen or life + mana regen jewelry crafts. Or use an enduring eternal mana flask in the meantime.

Hey Guys,

this is my first PoE Character and I'm kinda wondering why my DPS is so low :(
I followed all instructions on the guide with my Skilltree + Gear but still only get 56K completely unbuffed DPS (Max Buff it is around 160k).

What am I doing wrong? Could someone please take a look into my character? (Sind I dont know how to link my Gear please feel free and look over my Account) Thank you for your help!!!

PokerD

After respec I got sirus out of his hole again.

Still bricked last phase. I think again its me not understanding the mechanic.
I was running with 30% movespeed at exact right angle to the beam and it still kills me with 4.7k life 2.2k ES and through steelskin as well.

I got him down to 10% but after the first death I literally died 5 times in a row to the beam from offscreen.

I prefer the new setup primarily because flamedash as is so much nicer to use.
Boss DPS is nice although drox at lvl83 still took forever. Bloody flags!

I feel like ultimately the dps is fine. Im probably going to respec out of some damage and back into Written in Blood or whatever that life node is. As surviveability is poor on bosses. Fine for maps that with flamedash allowing so much more "skillfull" play.

Again thanks for the guide. Better get all those new gems to 20/20 sigh ;)

From a new player, thanks so much for the guide, I would not be playing this game still if it wasn't for it.

And I love the new build! I was really struggling dps wise, even though I invested quite a lot into the build (for a noob i mean).

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Enki91 wrote:

To everyone having mana issues: boot enchant OR mana regen % on a piece of jewelry OR mana + mana regen or life + mana regen jewelry crafts. Or use an enduring eternal mana flask in the meantime.

I’m running life plus mana regen with an amulet that has increased mana regen implicit and am not having problems. Every so often she gives the “out of mana” speech but even when she does I can cast almost non stop. Really only happens if I try to face tank a boss or something.

Also, just out of curiosity Enki, for the folks having mana issues, I’d think being low when needing to flame dash would be the worst case. What about a blood magic support as a temporary solution for that problem in place of the duration support for steel skin and flame dash? Wouldn’t want to do it permanently but it could help with mana issues in a pinch maybe?

Z

Gonna restart my witch to another Spec. Giving away my whole equipment.
Every item including every gem. All together for 2EX.
If anyone is interested. Check my character "Bularc" and pm me, if interested.

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While we're able to summon four golems and only get the buff of each golem type once, I find this setup more effective than using a fourth golem gem. Simply just cast one of your golems twice for the extra buff effect.

Can someone explain to me what this means? "only get the buff once" =| "cast twice for extra buff"

What buff works a second time?

Because a second stone golem doesn't add any hp reg. A second lightning golem however adds cast speed.

You receive each golem buff only once. However there are bonuses provided by golem commander and ascendencies which scale with number of golems summoned. So for those it does not metter if you summon four of the same type or four different golems you will get 4x bonus both ways. The reason you get extra cast speed with the fourth golem is that golem buff effect also scales with number of golems summoned so activating a 4th golem will "buff" the buff provided by your lightning golem.

Did Enki mention what catalysts to aim for? Too lazy to re-read everything.

Edit: Nevermind, all the catalysts state what modifiers they enhance, so it's pretty obvious. Go for what you need, life/mana, ele dmg, resistances, or caster modifiers.

For people who are still mostly on the old tree, would a reasonable middle ground be to get aul's to wrath doesn't reserve mana and then use both heralds that way rather than getting the mastermind of discord? That way you get a bit of damage boost from 2x heralds, but still have all the golems and elemental reflection immunity.

(This is the first league I've ever made it past act 4, let alone to maps so there's probably something obvious I'm missing)