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

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

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farfast wrote:

Hello!

I've been using this build with quite a success, doing t15 and t16 maps with little problems. But, there is a lot of random one-hit deaths (probably mostly my fault), fairly low boss dps and clearing things that are not random monsters takes quite some time. Where should I go with upgrades to get best gains? I'm sitting at about 20ex atm.

Gear (maybe switching gems for higher levelled or alternate quality?), levelling for one or two more passive points to invest in cluster jewel? I will be grateful for any suggestions.

Here is my link, character is the bottom one: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/farfast/characters

You've done a really good job with your character. Looks to me like you have 3.9m sustained sDPS: https://pastebin.com/9KQdjMCG
And 5.4m with RF running (not sure if you're doing this regularly or not).

Overall suggestions (totally subjective on my part):
1. Additional sources of increased mana recovery rate will help you with both damage and especially survivability. Try to craft a belt with the Redeemer mod. If you don't know how, good advice is available here and probably with a quick google search, too. With your budget, I think it's time to upgrade Tempered Mind to Transcendent Mind, refund the Heart of Thunder points, and use them to path to the Templar's starting point.
2. Invest in a better large cluster jewel with 3 good notables and only 8 total passives.

Some suggestions for damage:
1. Most importantly, I bet your Elemental Overload isn't procking consistently. Keep an eye on it during mapping and bossing to see if I'm correct. If I am, getting additional increased spell crit--weapons with t1 affixes and/or running a secondary damage spell is/are easiest way(s)--will help your average sustained damage quite a bit.
2. Get to the point that your mana recovery can comfortably sustain regular RF in a neutral environment (i.e. without conditional buffs and detrimental map mods).
3. Ditch life flask, it probably wouldn't even save you at this point. An Atziri's Promise will give you a decent damage boost with no perceptible loss in survivability.
4. Mindfulness is trash, use a Scintillating Idea jewel instead.
5. Start working on some awakened gems for the Arc setup.
6. Leaving the numbers game aside, I don't think Sigil is great for this (maybe any) build. It's a 3L setup that requires you to restrict your movement drastically to get any benefit from it, making you sacrifice survivability for damage. I think you're better off with some kind of setup that gives you Culling Strike.

Survivability:
1. Keep in mind that having low mana is usually what leads you to getting 1-shotted.
2. I really think you need to aim for 3k life minimum--3.5k is ideal--to avoid frustration with constant 1-shots. Definitely take Devotion, since you're already there, and spend more points in the Constitution wheel.
3. Get your mana above 10k.
4. Swap in quartz flask for sulphur flask. It stacks well with Omeyocan.

Occasional 1-shots are a part of life with this build almost inevitably, but you can definitely avoid the vast majority with proper planning and playing. Upping your damage output and mana recovery will help a lot on their own.

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dark_nebula wrote:

Wow! so i finally found an upgraded weapon worth splurging on and a watcher's eye, i would say 80% of the time my mana doesn't even blink from full

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Drax6661 wrote:

Hello
I'm playing with an aura bot and clearly I have a big mana regen problem. The aurabot gives me so much cast speed that I'm still mana-free, and I'm playing without the agnostic.
Do you have any ideas to improve this. For me or for the aurabot.
I had made a arc a few years ago and I love the skill, I wanted to try it in its Arckmage version. I am a little disappointed, this mana problem bothers me, it is a little painful. I preferred the version without arckmage, maybe that's what you have to do, quit arckmage and turn to the reviewer. I would like to make this version work correctly.
Listening to all comments :)

https://pastebin.com/qpajGXdb

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Monster0310 wrote:

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dark_nebula wrote:

Wow! so i finally found an upgraded weapon worth splurging on and a watcher's eye, i would say 80% of the time my mana doesn't even blink from full

but i think you lose damage compared to other weapons with spell damage %, flat lightning damage, or elemental damage %....

so my question is, did you lose damage?

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Monster0310 wrote:

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Drax6661 wrote:

Hello
I'm playing with an aura bot and clearly I have a big mana regen problem. The aurabot gives me so much cast speed that I'm still mana-free, and I'm playing without the agnostic.
Do you have any ideas to improve this. For me or for the aurabot.
I had made a arc a few years ago and I love the skill, I wanted to try it in its Arckmage version. I am a little disappointed, this mana problem bothers me, it is a little painful. I preferred the version without arckmage, maybe that's what you have to do, quit arckmage and turn to the reviewer. I would like to make this version work correctly.
Listening to all comments :)

https://pastebin.com/qpajGXdb

played with a couple of aurabots doing chayula runs, maybe around 5 rounds of that, don't seem to affect the build in anyways, still survived without any problem, no mana regen problem, no damage reduction issues.....

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mercPhantom wrote:

I followed this guide and the passive skills, My current lvl is 86.
But I have low Dexterity:58 and strength:95. So I can't lvl up the green and the red gems, like golems and vitality

Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

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Dreagation wrote:

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mercPhantom wrote:

I followed this guide and the passive skills, My current lvl is 86.
But I have low Dexterity:58 and strength:95. So I can't lvl up the green and the red gems, like golems and vitality

Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Get a pure talent and connect your tree to the scion starting point.