[3.17] Beginner Friendly Arc Mines Guide | All Content on 5L | Lvling Guide

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etherel90 wrote:

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Al Kharid Guard wrote:

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Hey I only just briefly looked at your gear but noticed 2 things:
No anointment on Amulet and you aren't using skitterbots. You could also switch out one of your rings for Call of the Brotherhood as you are using both arc and lightning ball, so the cold damage conversion would help with freeze. Seems a lot of people are getting rid of essence worm so you could just drop zealotry altogether and go skitter + precision lvl 1.

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Okay thanks for the input. Is my current amulet good enough to anoint or should I look for one better before anointing? If it’s not good enough, are there other anoints that are cheaper than Destructive Apparatus (oils are fairly expensive on console) for the time being on this one?

Why skitterbots? Their ailment auras? I never noticed a difference when I removed them after leveling so I’m just curious as to the reasoning.
Also should I be using a totem to detonate my mines or should I just be self detonating? Or do the skitterbots handle most of that?

For boots enchant I can just spam run any lab?
Any input on weapon situation?

Edit: also I’m using elemental focus on Ball Lightning. Is that correct? Wouldn’t that conflict with call of the brotherhood for ailment procs?

There are some anointments you can get for cheap if you think you are going to upgrade your amulet at some point. I have divine judgement right now which is black, sepia, teal. I don't know how much that is on console but I think it was only 10-15c on PC.

Skitterbots gives 10% increased mine damage as well as shock and chill. I don't really know the math but they're recommended a lot in the last few pages of this thread.

Honestly, I don't use the totem. I didn't like how it felt and I prefer to self-detonate. It also frees up some gem slots.

For boots, the higher the lab, the better enchants you can get. So if you can run uber, then do that. You can get a prophecy that will let you get an additional enchant per lab and sometimes the dark shrines give you one so you could be getting 3 tries per lab, potentially.

As to your question about Call of the Brotherhood vs Elemental Focus, you're right, the elemental focus will prevent it from applying there. I just learned that after researching. It still helps with arc though and freezing things like porcupines so they shatter instead of explode. I don't know if a rare would be better there or not, I'm keeping mine for now.

For weapons, I'm really not sure at all how it is on console for searching. For crafting, I was just researching this recently and have some of the same questions you do. I think you'd want to start by getting a shaper sceptre (opal or void have the highest implicit ele dmg) and in order to get the highest "Elemental damage as extra chaos damage" roll it needs to be ilvl 85 or higher. Then you probably try to get that + another useful stat, regal it and then from there is where I'm not sure. Multi mod recipe you can get from the Pale Court and counts as a suffix as well as one of the "three crafted modifiers" so you can get the multimod + 2 other crafts.

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NopileosX2 wrote:

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Al Kharid Guard wrote:

Okay! After a long day of this miserable auction house I have revamped pretty much all of my gear and only spent about 150c. Definitely better but still not shredding single target? Anything stand out to you? Trying to get a decent boot enchant now, I think I’ve done everything else recommended. Also I switched elemental focus for lightning pen since using call of the brotherhood.

Edit: also what is you guys Crit chance at/what is recommended? I’m at 33% buffed and don’t feel like that’s great.

I am not a fan of element penetration for a single element if you use mixed damage, like you do with Call of the Brotherhood. Would look into using something else instead.

You want a 6L loreweave eventually and some more jewels. If I compare my builds and yours you seem to lack a bit of damage to spells on helmet, weapons and jewels. It is quite a big damage improvement. Watcher's eye is always nice with lightning damage while affected by wrath, elemental penetration for crits while affected by zealotry, crit multiplier while affected by precision, see what you can find.

Use Atziri'S Promise it is 15% more damage overall, you can easily get it yourself if you have the fragments for it.

On gloves you can craft increased damage during any flask effect (Syndicate mod), but this is more luxury and not high prio.

You are at the point where expect the one flask it get's hard to get upgrades. Maybe try to get a good rolled Loreweave and try to 6L it on the side, maybe you are lucky like me and get it in around 300 fusings (don't forget to make it 20% quality first), or save up and buy one, dunno what is easier on consoles.