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

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Chrisophylacks wrote:

Gem slot on gloves empty on purpose, I plan to use enlighten when it lvls up to support both heralds. Also, the ring is undercrafted as I still don't have recipe for multiple crafted modifiers, and one of jewels must certainly be replaced, but I believe these are minor issues when looking at the big picture.

Problem is, I feel like I'm extremely squishy and do an order of magnitude less damage than I need at this fight. Got ~5ex to spare on upgrades, what should I get? Duskdawn? Loreweave? Or do I just suck in general and should find a carry?

I can’t take credit for the idea as it came as an extrapolation (I think) from another post in this thread, but I solved the golem problem you’re having by using Primordial Eminence cobalt gem. It eats a gem socket in the tree, but your golems will almost never die if you do this.

I don’t know that Dustdawn is that much of an upgrade over West. I’d probably wait on that and craft a staff later.

What you’re really missing is assassins Mark on hit ring. That would be a fairly large DPS increase I think. If you can’t afford one, you could look for conductivity on hit as a budget option. I got by on that into t12 or so maps until I was able to craft my own ring.

For bosses, I went into Runebinder (which is a large departure from enki’s build so be advised) but it did dramatically increase my bossing and metamorph DPS and survivabilty (since it’s basically fire and forget allowing you to play defense more of the time.). Value depends on how comfortable you are with storm brand as your main bossing ability. Doing this does impact your clear speed though as you have to give up some damage nodes.

As to the squishy feeling, I was right there with you. I felt like it was one shot city until I decided to really focus on getting a high ES chest. Base ES with the way the tree is configured is really valuable. I went from a chest that had about 190 ES, 86 life, and bonus 8% to max life to the one I’m wearing now.

I lost something like 150 life, but I gained almost 1000 ES. My total ES+life went from 6200 to just over 7000 and the difference was immediately noticeable. Don’t discount the ES numbers. They really help, even without Soul Tether.

Good hunting exile

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faglord1337 wrote:

I´m having some massive mana sustain issues so I had to replace inspiration support with bloodmagic.

Edit: Went from 400k dps to 280k with bloodmagic so I can't do that..
How to I sustain the massive mana need? I attack 5 times a sec and the 6-linked arc uses like 50 mana each. Is it possible to sustain?

Getting a new neck and anointing Prodigal Perfection would help some. Could also recraft the ruby ring from straight life to life+regen 4 mana per second or mana and -% to non channeled spells casting cost. The latter is theoretically better sustain with arc but worse with storm brand).

Z

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Zestrenocya wrote:

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faglord1337 wrote:

I´m having some massive mana sustain issues so I had to replace inspiration support with bloodmagic.

Edit: Went from 400k dps to 280k with bloodmagic so I can't do that..
How to I sustain the massive mana need? I attack 5 times a sec and the 6-linked arc uses like 50 mana each. Is it possible to sustain?

Getting a new neck and anointing Prodigal Perfection would help some. Could also recraft the ruby ring from straight life to life+regen 4 mana per second or mana and -% to non channeled spells casting cost. The latter is theoretically better sustain with arc but worse with storm brand).

Z

Thank you I want to get some mana reg on my rings and I thought about anointing. Clarity doesn't seem to help at all. 10 mana/sec when reserving 80 mana? That 10mana/sec is not even noticible when I activate it.

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Zestrenocya wrote:

I can’t take credit for the idea as it came as an extrapolation (I think) from another post in this thread, but I solved the golem problem you’re having by using Primordial Eminence cobalt gem. It eats a gem socket in the tree, but your golems will almost never die if you do this.

Will try this today, thanks!

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Zestrenocya wrote:

What you’re really missing is assassins Mark on hit ring. That would be a fairly large DPS increase I think. If you can’t afford one, you could look for conductivity on hit as a budget option. I got by on that into t12 or so maps until I was able to craft my own ring.

But I have wave + assassin's mark + curse on hit on gloves. Are there any real benefits of having this on ring? I wouldn't like to sacrifice huge life/dmg/res from rings just so I don't need to cast it manually.

As for runebinder suggestion - that's probably not for me, I love clearspeed too much. I didn't have any major problems with any bosses (at least up to T15 + awakening 4) until this 4-watchstone Drox. I wonder what Sirus will be like though...

Big thanks for the ES suggestion, I'll give it a try! By the way, I have Soul Tether in my stash (dropped naturally a few days ago), do you think it will give improvement over my current stygian belt and eye jewel? I've tried it on, gained ~400 es in exchange to ~400 life and also got noticeable dps decrease. In addition, I got below res cap, and will have to find a way to compensate. Sure, I'll be leeching es more often, but is it worth it?

Upd: looked up high ES 6-link chests, they start from 2.5ex... 4ex+ if I need resistances, omg. Also I assume I need to respec Mystic Bulwark for Inspiration, which means much lower block chance AND lower damage. Though I don't remember ever blocking Drox one-shots either...

Is this something that I should be content with and multimod, or do I keep rolling? The life is not too high but the chaos resist is not a bad roll on the regal. I could multicraft the gain % life as ES and some more % energy shield for a total of 58 life and ~300 ES on the armor. Like so:




I still have 800 Alts, and landed this roll with around 400 Alts, but I don't want to push my luck too far... Maybe I can get higher life on other gear if I am able to drop some chaos resist.

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Chrisophylacks wrote:

But I have wave + assassin's mark + curse on hit on gloves. Are there any real benefits of having this on ring? I wouldn't like to sacrifice huge life/dmg/res from rings just so I don't need to cast it manually.

As for runebinder suggestion - that's probably not for me, I love clearspeed too much. I didn't have any major problems with any bosses (at least up to T15 + awakening 4) until this 4-watchstone Drox. I wonder what Sirus will be like though...

Big thanks for the ES suggestion, I'll give it a try! By the way, I have Soul Tether in my stash (dropped naturally a few days ago), do you think it will give improvement over my current stygian belt and eye jewel? I've tried it on, gained ~400 es in exchange to ~400 life and also got noticeable dps decrease. In addition, I got below res cap, and will have to find a way to compensate. Sure, I'll be leeching es more often, but is it worth it?

Upd: looked up high ES 6-link chests, they start from 2.5ex... 4ex+ if I need resistances, omg. Also I assume I need to respec Mystic Bulwark for Inspiration, which means much lower block chance AND lower damage. Though I don't remember ever blocking Drox one-shots either...

I apologize for the assassins mark suggestion. I didn’t actually look at your gems and just assumed you were running most of enki’s new design. Obviously if you have assassins Mark from the CoH, that covers that part.

I hope the primordial jewel helps. Just as an addition to that, I have found that when one of the golems does die, it is almost always the lightning golem. (I run lightning chaos and stone.). I see you’re also running flame so I’m not sure how that and ice will do reference the primordial. Unfortunately, I have to tell you that the only place I’ve ever lost more than one is while fighting Drox. Of the conquerors, he’s definitely the biggest pain in my ass.

ES chests are going at a premium. I guess that’s unsurprising considering it seems like 75 percent of the players are running CI this time.

Good luck and hope some of it helps.

Z.

EDIT: Also, reference soul tether, you won’t get me voting to go back to it. I had abandoned it in favor of a Stygian before Enki even changed the guide. I’ve actually got a solid crystal belt in the bank but I need to make some crafting changes before I can use it and I’m lacking a Jun craft (dex/quality) I need for the chest in order to balance out the change stat wise.

MANY, MANY, MANY EXALTS LATER. WE HAVE ACHIEVED NEAR PERFECTION

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Zestrenocya wrote:

Good luck and hope some of it helps.

It did! I've got the suggested primordial, respecced Mystic Bulwark to Inspiration, and this had really helped! Even with lower dps, my golems were dying twice as slow, and it seems like extra 300 ES made a difference at least for his summons' ranged attacks.

Also, I didn't catch a single "big fist" shot this time. I still died four times, lol, but I made it through!

P.S. As I'm now this heavy in ES, I wonder why neither "Faith and Stell" nor "Arcane Focus" is suggested in the passives tree? I'm at lvl 92 now, and decided to go for fifth jewel on my next lvl, but maybe I should consider these passives instead?

A very powerful combo I've found is to have

like staff. I'm able to easily clear T16, metamorphs and guardians. That "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" makes for an OP combination. Put your arc gems to the armor sockets and put the storm brand gems into the staff. I've also replaced the lightning penetration support with wave of conviction.

With this set up, every 3-4 secs of you casting a spell your char casts storm brand and wave of conviction one after the other without you doing anything. I find it to be QOL feature and certainly can't go back to not having this on my char!

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Chrisophylacks wrote:

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Zestrenocya wrote:

Good luck and hope some of it helps.

It did! I've got the suggested primordial, respecced Mystic Bulwark to Inspiration, and this had really helped! Even with lower dps, my golems were dying twice as slow, and it seems like extra 300 ES made a difference at least for his summons' ranged attacks.

Also, I didn't catch a single "big fist" shot this time. I still died four times, lol, but I made it through!

P.S. As I'm now this heavy in ES, I wonder why neither "Faith and Stell" nor "Arcane Focus" is suggested in the passives tree? I'm at lvl 92 now, and decided to go for fifth jewel on my next lvl, but maybe I should consider these passives instead?

Hi Chris,

I'm glad to hear that the jewel helped...I know it helped me a good deal. I actually dropped it when Enki redid the tree because it took off the fifth jewel socket as you mention. That lasted for about two maps of dead golems, at which time I made some more tweaks and got the 5th jewel socket back just to run the primordial.

In regards to Arcane Focus, Enki's revised version of the tree does run it. I was actually looking at both Faith and Steel and Unnatural Calm for my next few points if I get that far. (Those he didn't put in, presumably in favor of more damage). I'm level 92 and the highest I've ever gotten any character is 95. It would take 95 to get Unnatural Calm and I'm not sure I'm going to last that long this league. :)

The other departure I made from the guide was redoing the bandit quest for the passive points. It costs crit and resists, but I wanted the two points since getting to Runebinder is a 4 point trip. You could consider that depending on what your resists are and how you think the points would perform reference the lost crit/critmulti.

Good travels to you,

Z.