[3.17] Beginner Friendly Arc Mines Guide | All Content on 5L | Lvling Guide
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Hello.
I've been enjoying this build a lot. I'm wondering if using Agnerod is a good idea? I put arc on it. Also, at what point should I switch out essence worm? I just hit lvl 90 and wondering what else I can start improving from here on out. |
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Does it matter if you use wands instead of dual sceptres? In the path of building link i see wands.
Last edited by blademaster48#3964 on Jan 5, 2020, 1:50:59 PM
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" So I’m really liking controlled destruction but if Ball Lightning struggles with proccing ailments as you say it would definitely be better to use Elemental Focus. I just feel like losing the chance to shock is a big penalty no? A few awakening gems are starting to pop up on console so I’ll keep checking on them. Since my last post I 6 linked a Loreweave (400 fusings), hit level 90 and got a double zealotry watchers eye for new jewel slot, and qualitied most of my support gems finally and I’m flowing very smooth in 13 and 14s haven’t tried anything higher yet. Anything obvious left for me to upgrade? To address some of the other more recent questions from others: 1. multimod is a few recipes that you can obtain fairly easily but the act multimodding costs multiple exalts. use tremor rod until you can get any dual weapon combo of wand/sceptre/(dagger?) with “%of non chaos as chaos damage” on both and preferably “penetrates % of elemental resists” on at least one with as much Crit multi and Crit chance for spells as you can. 2. I think we’re all still using essence worm? Just have unreserved mana over 2k and you should be fine either way as long as precision is level 1. Edit: by unreserved mana I meant without the auras activated, sorry if my terminology is still a little fuzzy. I have 1061 mana “unreserved” with zealotry, skitterbots, and precision active w Essence Worm it just requires you to use a mana flask but it’s never really a huge inconvenience so far. Last edited by Al Kharid Guard#8561 on Jan 5, 2020, 8:14:07 PM
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" I played a bit with both gems now and yeah you definitely feel the difference if you can freeze and shock the boss, but it more or less only happened against bosses I kill in a few seconds anyway. I guess I would only replace it with a awakened added lighting damage on level 5, because with this setup you might be able to proc ailments on bosses with more HP, in PoB even a awakened added lightning damage on level 5 is worse than elemental focus. So maybe it is just beter to get awakened elemental focus instead for 10% more damage at level 5. But all this are just luxury upgrades. I faceroll almost all content currently with this build and melt almost all bosses in seconds. The only ones I actully have to fight are Sirus, Elder, Shaper, Elder Guardians by some extent and Shaper Guardians. I never actually fought against any of the conquerors because they just die in the opening animation. So don't know if I even want to min max this anymore. |
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Just to share my new won information with people in this thread. A bit embarrassing but I somehow never read it that skitterbots have an aura, one bot chills and the other one shocks. As far as I can tell it works on everything that can be chilled or shocked. Never realized because of all the visual clutter currently.
So bosses should always be chilled and shocked if they are not immune to it. |
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Hey all - I've read a good bit of this thread and there is a lot of great info to the point where it feels a little overwhelming.
I have spent a lot of time, effort, and ex on getting my miner character to where it is now, and am looking at what I can do next. From reading, it looks like removing skitterbots and essence worm may be a logical next step, but there seems to be some variance in what is possible/recommended. I do have another diamond ring that is almost identical to the one I am wearing right now (but with t1 mana regen instead of resist I believe). As for Auras, is there something recommended there? I saw someone with a level 1 precision aura for instance. Either way, thanks in advance for the feedback! https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/dmzxls/characters Also, I know my potions situation is a little odd. One other thing I've struggled with is which anointment to put on my amulet. I've got the oils to grease it up however I want - but 1: Is the current amulet I have good enough to go all in on, and 2: what's the best choice given my gear? Last edited by mrdandandan#5258 on Jan 6, 2020, 9:20:01 AM
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What's the best way to craft the helm and scepters? I noticed a lot of you aren't using multimod scepters but have most of the stats needed. Would love to upgrade from a tremor rod and I think I have the currency for it, just need to know how to craft them.
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So I decided to go for crafting a weapon since I feel most of my other gear is set.
I ended up with this: I'm very annoyed right now because in my excitement, I crafted the wrong prefix, so there goes 2ex down the drain. I'm going to recraft as soon as I can get a couple more ex and change the "7% Lightning as extra chaos" to the Spell Damage + Non-Chaos as Extra chaos mod. To anyone who has been asking questions or wondering about crafting a weapon, here's what I did. Be prepared, just for the multimod + one of the mods, you're looking at 3ex and that's not counting the anulls+alts you'll need, so make sure you know what you're getting into.
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1) Get an ilvl 85+ Void/Opal Shaper Sceptre. (For wands or daggers, I don't know what base you want). Void/Opal both have the highest Elemental Damage Implicit, just different attribute requirements.
2) Alt spam until you hit "Gain #% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage" Prefix OR Gain #% of Lightning Damage as Extra Chaos damage. ilvl 85+ can have the highest tier at 8% or up to 13% for lightning damage specifically. Mine rolled T2 but I had a great suffix so I kept it. If you get a roll with only a good suffix like spell damage or critical strike multi, use an augment orb and hope you get one of the 2 prefixes. 3) Now you should have a magic item with a good suffix and one of the two prefixes. There are a couple options here. You can use a beastcrafiting recipe to imprint the item. Then once you regal it, if you end up with a bad mod, you can imprint back to the 2 mod magic item and try again. Or you can just YOLO regal and hope you get a good mod. If you don't, you can just proceed to multimodding or scour and start over. 5) Time to Multi-Mod. This mod comes from a recipe in the Pale Court. You can either get it yourself or sometimes people give this away or sell in Global 820. It also costs 2ex to craft this. 5) The way Multimod works now is "Can Have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers." This, in itself, counts as 1 of the 3 mods and is also a Suffix. So depending on whether you rolled a prefix or suffix with your Regal, you will have either 2 open prefixes, or 1 prefix 1 suffix left to craft. 6) For your first prefix you want Spell Damage + % of Non-Chaos as Extra Chaos. This is a mod that comes from Veiled It That Fled Weapons. You can buy veiled ITF weapons from the official trading site. At Rank 3 this caps out at 50% increased Spell Damage and 4% of Non-Chaos Damage as Extra Chaos Damage. This counts as 1 prefix for both mods, which is great. Tier 3 costs another exalt though, so it's expensive. 7) Your last mod will depend on whether you have an open prefix/suffix and what mods you rolled from your original suffix and regal. But those are the basics. Edited to correct some mistakes and add additional information. Last edited by etherel90#6124 on Jan 9, 2020, 12:14:09 PM
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" Okay I realized about the skitterbot aura but never made that connection. So bosses are already always shocked, great. I’m not sure how much weight I should put into the tooltip dps in game but elemental focus was like 15% more tooltip dps so I had just been running with it. I also am steamrolling all content except the occasional beefed metamorph but this is only my second league, and first one getting to this point so I will continue to try and do what I can with it to continue. I haven’t attempted Sirus yet but just got my 20th watchstone so we’ll see how that goes and take it from there. |
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" Alright quick glance at your build, you’re off to a great start, a few key pieces and you’ll be smashing everything. 1. Replace your diamond ring with Call of the Brotherhood to freeze/shatter every mob w Arc = no more after death effects and a lot less random deaths. 2. Keep skitterbots and Essence Worm w Zealotry or Wrath (whichever Watcher’s Eye you end up getting) in addition to the level 1 precision if you can find a space for it (free 40% Crit chance at the cost of less than 40 mana) 3. Enchant your boots! I cannot tell you enough how much of a difference this made for me. “Adds 1-160 lightning damage if you haven’t killed recently” is always active since our mines do our killing for us. Incredible damage boost. 4. Anointment - Divine Judgment is more than sufficient and cheap enough to slap on every amulet you might switch between. There’s a few others that might be better but I can’t justify the price difference. And to the other guy asking how to get the weapons without multimodding and the helmet like I have, just buy it. Search for “%of non chaos as chaos damage” on high iLvl sceptres and filter through your choices and buy the ones with the most added lightning damage to spells and Crit, and for helmet just buy one w Supported by Blastchain Mine or Supported by T&M Damage (or both) and the most beneficial other rolls. |
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