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Still pretty new to the build. I just switched over a day ago. So I am still working out the mechanics. Could you give me a look over, please? Thanks in advance.

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Drez916 wrote:

Still pretty new to the build. I just switched over a day ago. So I am still working out the mechanics. Could you give me a look over, please? Thanks in advance.

It looks like you went LL with Shavs and Ghost Reaver already but your tree still has some life nodes on and around Cruel Preparation and Heart and Soul. Get rid of those. Also, since you're LL, take Pain Attunement.

Which build did you switch over from?

I switched over from Enkis arc build.

I have pain attunement already and the PoB says to take those life nodes because of the Healthy mind jewel.

Everything else okay? I feel kind of squishy.

Thanks for the guide! I am getting good damage but I sometimes get killed in less than a second out of nowhere! I feel really squishy, any advice on gear improvements? I'm currently saving for a Chayula if that helps!

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XatruS wrote:

Thanks for the guide! I am getting good damage but I sometimes get killed in less than a second out of nowhere! I feel really squishy, any advice on gear improvements? I'm currently saving for a Chayula if that helps!

If you don't have Chayula yet, take Vile Bastion from ascendancy instead of Forbidden Power. You also don't have es on hit watcher's eye. Your priorities are out of whack. Indigon is the thing you transition to after you have rest of your gear and two properly leveled enlightens to support it. Mark of the Shaper is entirely optional and not the thing you need early, considering the price.

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Drez916 wrote:

I switched over from Enkis arc build.

I have pain attunement already and the PoB says to take those life nodes because of the Healthy mind jewel.

Everything else okay? I feel kind of squishy.

I saw you updated your tree/gear till I last looked.

If you still feel squishy despite that consider going for VileBastion instead of Forbidden Power. Also play aggressivly - most of our defenses are tied to attacking. (leech, ES on Hit)

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GladiatorUA wrote:

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XatruS wrote:

Thanks for the guide! I am getting good damage but I sometimes get killed in less than a second out of nowhere! I feel really squishy, any advice on gear improvements? I'm currently saving for a Chayula if that helps!

If you don't have Chayula yet, take Vile Bastion from ascendancy instead of Forbidden Power. You also don't have es on hit watcher's eye. Your priorities are out of whack. Indigon is the thing you transition to after you have rest of your gear and two properly leveled enlightens to support it. Mark of the Shaper is entirely optional and not the thing you need early, considering the price.

What GladiatorUA wrote.

The guide has an ItemPriority list not just for show.

Thank you so much for the guide Im loving the build!!!

Just have 2 questions and i´d be happy if anyone responds:
-Why do we go occultist?
-I dont understand the chest gem setup. Why phase run lvl8 and efficacy 18? And why do we use our CWDT setup on chest?

Thanks again :D

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pombaassassina wrote:

Thank you so much for the guide Im loving the build!!!

Just have 2 questions and i´d be happy if anyone responds:
-Why do we go occultist?
-I dont understand the chest gem setup. Why phase run lvl8 and efficacy 18? And why do we use our CWDT setup on chest?

Thanks again :D

Gems: The level of phase run is just as high as we can take it without investing into extra dexterity as well as taking it out of the cwdt range. Efficacy was still leveling. Take it up to 20.

Occultist (in no particular order):

1. Profane Bloom for Map clear.
2. Profane Bloom to be able to curse Hex-Immune Enemies.
3. Malediction for crazy offensive as well as defensive Multipliers.
4. Forbidden Power to get the most out of 7 PowerCharges and our SupportGems
5. Ward and Vile Bastion both for more ES/added tankyness.
6. General increases to EnergyShield on every second Node in the ascendency.

I am curious which other ascendency you might want to go here? Did you have anything in mind when asking this question?

https://pastebin.com/xKBy0APW

This is my projected tree/skill gems by level 95, using the same gear I have on now, since I'm assuming I won't find anything perfect for my setup to replace anything without breaking Wise Oak by then. It's been a really long and hard journey to optimize resistances around that flask for optimal defense/offense, and it has left me with 2 sub-par jewels as a result. Aside from getting an atziri's promise/forbidden power (I like going fast w/ the quicksilver and plan to use vb for delving deeper when the mines finally merge), do you see anything obviously wrong here that I should fix? I am still pretty much locked into Alira to stay overcapped in ele weakness maps without flask usage.

The only real improvements I can think of at this point involve finding a belt/ring that don't exist on poe.trade yet. I am stuck with those 30 dex/str nodes as well for the time being.

In any case it's still pretty impressive, the Arc spell by itself is doing over 1m shaper dps.

Something I noticed, Empower lv 4 sims quite a bit higher than PCoC when using Vile Bastion, for my particular setup it's the diff between 1.29m and 1.37m shaper dps on Arc. Worth considering if I can find another source of power charges? It also outperforms PCoC with forbidden power, but the difference seems marginal and IMO doesn't justify the cost of Empower lv 4...

Thanks for reading. I have invested, by my standards, an enormous amount of currency into this build and am reaching the point where I am no longer certain what to do next. I havent played a build that can both clear and boss as well as this one since the howa days of breach/legacy, and even then you had to swap out gmp and slower proj to be optimal, this makes it as simple as hitting the weapon swap key. Nicely done with this one.

p.s ignore the orb of storms setup, that's just a holdover for now