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Thinking of going SSF for Ritual League. How viable is this Witch with few or no uniques?

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ZetaAurigae wrote:

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CrawlingEye wrote:

Hey and I just want to say THANK YOU for such an in depth guide for new players! I've only recently started and I plan on running this build in the next league, but I have one question. I noticed when checking the passive trees towards lvl 80 onwards you only have 44% lightening resist. Does this build have some kind of built in light resist that we dont need the 75, or did I miss something in the guide?

Thanks again for the fantastic guide!

I guess he just overlooked that its only 44% lightning resistance in the PoB. You definitely want to be at 75%.

I suspect Enki doesn't put a perfect setup for resistance on PoB due to them being randomly distributed on your gears. Just follow the Guide and keep 75% in Elemental and at least 0% in chaos.

Is there no way to fit Trinity support somewhere into build? It looks so OP...

First thank you for a great build it changed my look for POE and now I am addicted.

Does any one have a good item filter for this as I just use Neversinks but was not sure if one was created just for this build.

Enki, you have 1 free slot before going into rings. Do you plan on using Tempest Shield in that location? You can also fit Lightning Golem into the mix with an Anima Stone.

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subliminaldelta wrote:

Thinking of going SSF for Ritual League. How viable is this Witch with few or no uniques?

Would like to know too.

I asked Enki yesterday on his stream, he told me that it's not viable in SSF anymore for a league starter but I when I check the new build, I don't see much unique mandatory.

Can anyone share his thoughts ?

I tried to compare the defensive side of the build to the 3.12 pob one and it lost:

- around 1k mana (some of it lost to nerfs in the old build too)
- 30%+ attack and spell block
- The Agnostic notable (?)

and gained:

- 500+ life regen
- 14% phys reduction

If I missed something let me know, but isn't this gonna hurt the overall experience, keeping in mind the new "endgame" inside Maven's domain aka fighting a horde of bosses in a closet, to the point it's still worth considering the old necro build as a safer, less glass cannon version?

Also I don't know yet the specifics but I guess The Agnostic was left out because of mana regen issues?

You never talk about Sigil of power in the leveling section.
So you advice us to keep Orb of storms + Faster casting through all the acts and go Sigil of power setup for maps ?

Thank you for your efforts btw :D
Can't wait to try your build for the second time as a league starter, 1st time was Delve league and was amazing x)

What is the reason for not using the Agnostic?

Ran the numbers last night of my final, endgame necro version versus this new elementalist version. Admittedly, I plan to use some of the modifications I made to the build in Heist in Ritual once I have the currency to do so. So my observations are more an apples-to-apples comparison of the ascendancy class change (along with the obvious gear swaps) and may not correlate exactly with the guides as they were/are written.

Mana sustain: Essence Glutton can largely be compensated for by Tempered Mind, Mastermind of Discord, and 2x Mindfulness (small cluster jewels). I would still give necro the edge because the Mindfulness and Mastermind buffs are less reliable in their conditionality, but I'm not as concerned as I was. I still think running RF will be possible with enough investment here.

Damage output: with Convergence active, elementalist offered about 25% more sustained DPS output.

Survivability: this is where I am most concerned. We're losing a ton of block chance here and I don't see how we make up for that. The closest I can think of is the physical damage reduction from the Chaos Golem. Because of this, I'm not sold on giving up Agnostic--Stone Golem and Vitality don't even come close to it in terms of life sustain, even given a little bit of ES--but time will tell.

Resistances: losing the shield also hurts here, too, but it can definitely be worked around.