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

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

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Vociferate_ wrote:

Dealing with high tier bosses:
How is everyone dealing with T15+ when bosses practically kill me in a split second? My DPS melts most mobs from normal to orange (depending on a select few). But I find bosses nerve wracking.
I always feel like I am constantly in danger of being one shot. My profile is public, and I am sure I need to swap out some gear for more defensive play.
What should I look at doing to give myself a slightly higher chance than a queef in the wind?

you need lvl 21 vaal arc and lvl 4 empower instead of added lightning damage to make use of your +2lvl duration gems inpulsa's, it's a huge DPS boost

You are only lvl 87, level up to like 95+ (leveling in pure breachstones is just insane, you can get lvl 94-95 in like 1.5 hours). And get more HP talents on your tree (purity of flesh for example). Swap spell critical chance talents for lord of the dead. And you have one 10% elemental damage talent (on the way to lightning walker) - you don't need it too
get another belt - too low hp on the belt
And you have crafted life on almost every item - it's just not good enough, try to aim at least for 100+ HP on your gear when you chose future upgrades

Awsome! Thank you! :D

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

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Vociferate_ wrote:

Dealing with high tier bosses:
How is everyone dealing with T15+ when bosses practically kill me in a split second? My DPS melts most mobs from normal to orange (depending on a select few). But I find bosses nerve wracking.
I always feel like I am constantly in danger of being one shot. My profile is public, and I am sure I need to swap out some gear for more defensive play.
What should I look at doing to give myself a slightly higher chance than a queef in the wind?

you need lvl 21 vaal arc and lvl 4 empower instead of added lightning damage to make use of your +2lvl duration gems inpulsa's, it's a huge DPS boost

You are only lvl 87, level up to like 95+ (leveling in pure breachstones is just insane, you can get lvl 94-95 in like 1.5 hours). And get more HP talents on your tree (purity of flesh for example). Swap spell critical chance talents for lord of the dead. And you have one 10% elemental damage talent (on the way to lightning walker) - you don't need it too
get another belt - too low hp on the belt
And you have crafted life on almost every item - it's just not good enough, try to aim at least for 100+ HP on your gear when you chose future upgrades

Maybe I am missing something (very likely), But with Lord of the Dead, I rarely see my minions die. Is there a reason to move points into this skill tree?

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Vociferate_ wrote:

Maybe I am missing something (very likely), But with Lord of the Dead, I rarely see my minions die. Is there a reason to move points into this skill tree?

it's not for minion HP, it's for damage
read spiritual aid and then read lord of the dead again

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

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Vociferate_ wrote:

Maybe I am missing something (very likely), But with Lord of the Dead, I rarely see my minions die. Is there a reason to move points into this skill tree?

it's not for minion HP, it's for damage
read spiritual aid and then read lord of the dead again

I just saw that! I refunded a couple points of Lightning Damage/Shock Duration up top to move into Health as well, for the time being.

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

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Vociferate_ wrote:

Maybe I am missing something (very likely), But with Lord of the Dead, I rarely see my minions die. Is there a reason to move points into this skill tree?

it's not for minion HP, it's for damage
read spiritual aid and then read lord of the dead again

Lastly, should I continue using Mind of the Council, or use this instead:

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

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rvaHammer wrote:

I need to fix res for wise oak and get a bone helmet or enchant helmet, in the process i need 22 more dex. Its all just alot for me, im assuming my ring, ammy and the helmet will all have to be replaced and all with dex, just don't think i can find ones as good with the more dex for under a ton of ex

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swap two "4% attack and cast speed" talents to Precision

Thanks for the response! Lvl92 and would like to soon not have to do this tho and lose those 2 skill points.

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Vociferate_ wrote:

Dealing with high tier bosses:

How is everyone dealing with T15+ when bosses practically kill me in a split second? My DPS melts most mobs from normal to orange (depending on a select few). But I find bosses nerve wracking.

I always feel like I am constantly in danger of being one shot. My profile is public, and I am sure I need to swap out some gear for more defensive play.

What should I look at doing to give myself a slightly higher chance than a queef in the wind?

Your life rolls on several pieces of gear are low. You have 173% increased life but only 4507 total. You’ve sacrificed a lot of damage to try and pick up more life, but that will most easily come in gear.

You only have 68% Lightning res.

You should replace both the quicksilver and mana flasks.

Unless you are manually casting Molten Shell, CWDT won’t proc it.

You can move your bottom jewel to the right side of the tree and free up a passive.

Your avendencies aren’t maxed

In general focus on your character and not so much on progression. You aren’t ready yet for T15 maps, maybe T12-13. Also remember, the more dps you have the less time for bosses to kill you.

Edit: Not a clue what all I missed since viewing your original post. Listen to blg_RealiZe.

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

level up to like 95+ (leveling in pure breachstones is just insane, you can get lvl 94-95 in like 1.5 hours).

Maybe I’ve missed something with Pure Breachstones, but isn’t that extremely expensive? Not everyone is swimming in currency...granted, I don’t have that excuse. I could easily afford either paid runs or ROTAs.

20-30c per run is not that much.

Big shout for this awesome guide.

As it's my first ever char, found it really clear to level up and proceed to new content. Lots of basic and not-so-basic mechanics are explained, priceless for a new player.

Got some questions. Would you mind helping me with these?

The first one - why do we use mental rapidity instead of nimbleness? I've checked - everyone who does this has a watchers eye with Mana leach , so what's the point in Mana regen rate and es ? 4 points in movement speed isn't so much,but we can use this, while 20 30 es and Mana regen makes 0 difference to me. Cast interruption avoidance isn't bad either. Mb I'm missing something, can you point it for me?

And the second one, what's you suggested improvement for my char? Can't decide what my next step should be.

Once again, great guide and great forum thread, really appreciate everyone's effort.

So first, thank you too Enki, jlh165, Big_realize and the other veterans helping us begginers around here!

I killed the shaper this weekend, it was thrilling. I have set up the atlas for uber elder now and might test my skills next weekend, although I doubt I have the skills to dodge both elder's and shaper's attacks ^^

Just a comment for other begginners: I was not wealthy enough to follow Big_realize dagger crafting procedure, so I bought 2 fast-hitting daggers (10 chaos each) with 2 affixes, one being the multi crafted mode that normally cost 2 ex. Then I crafted all the nice mods costing a few alch/chaos. Sure I'm nowhere close to the daggers advertised by big_realize, but I believe it's a good very cheap alternative. I've done that with my amulet too ^^
If big_realize you can comment on that alternative, I would be really glad.

Finally, one question. The context is that I have crafted this helmet
https://imgur.com/a/XQgUJnw
https://imgur.com/a/0WotbM7
(sorry I did not manage to embed the image...)

It's a bit all over the place. It has the two mods I really wanted (life+%life and -lightning resist) but the bonus to minions and the accuracy is not good to me. Plus, I'm still doing labs to get a nice enchant, but the current implicit has some synergies (sounds weak enchant to me though).
So would a different build (melee lightning build?) like this helmet? Or is it worth trying to annul accuracy at least? But then what are the option to make the hemlet better..
I personnaly don't like the +2 minion level because using the minions here would need to move storm brand in a 3 link. Maybe it's the solution.
Then I would put stormbrand+ArcaneSurge+Cullingstrike in a dagger and the two minions+dash+empower in the helmet.
I don't know, maybe I should just give up on this helment...

Edit: I call myself a begginer because I have started the game a month before betrayal where I build up a single character in Standard (I was too high level once I realized Delve existed XD). Maybe I should not call myself a begginer, anyway, who cares, I still feel like I learn everyday.

Edit2: Just in case, I know that the last mod on my belt does nothing for us. I try to craft rather than buy and this is just the best belt I made and I wear it while waiting for finding more fossils in Delve.