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

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Schejian wrote:

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Redvann wrote:

Hi

I'm currently levelling and reached the point where I have Minefield support. Personally I don't like the way it feels as the animation keeps my character still for too long.

Yeah, Minefield is in a terrible state atm. It slows down your clearspeed and it will kill you while locking you in a animation. Swift Assembly (or any dps support) is a far better choice.

On top of that its currently bugged to (it's even slower than advertised)
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2735477

So stay away from Minefield.


For Weapons:
Imho: Don't waste your currency on multimodding 1handers.

6-Link tremors are far superior, only cost around 3,5ex.
Offer around the same DPS as multimodded Weapons (+2lvl and 7-link and double explode)

And it opens up your chest slot for Kaoms (if you like a big health pool) or a good +1,5%crit chest (cheap)


Also with the upcoming changes to Freezing Metamorphs, The Three Dragons might be the BIS choice for any Lightning Miner.

Give it a try, you'll freeze-lock everything! (While still getting a solid shock from your skitterbots)

If you choose to go for call of the Brotherhood you'll pay for it with losing both ring slots, which we can't afford. And the freeze will be 20%weaker, as you only convert 80% to cold. (On the helmet slot, we just sacrifice the +100Life we would get otherwise)

Three Dragons will take your full Damage to calculate Freeze chance/duration. Enabling us to permafreeze Metamorphs/Bosses the second they spawn.

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Schejian wrote:

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Al Kharid Guard wrote:

it just seems odd to me that we would choose that over multimodded sceptres w a stacking conversion of chaos damage? Could you provide some more info on that decision?

Chaos Conversion was nerfed to the ground this league, the guide doesn't reflect that and is outdated.

It's not worth it anymore. Even with multimodding you'r now spending 2-4Ex on getting a measly 10% as extra chaos per weapon. That's weak for a weapon slot.

Compare to our cheap-as-fuck Tremor:

The seventh link from Tremor alone is 30-40% more DPS.
The +2 lvl is another +15% more.

Yeah, we miss out on generic +%dmg. But we can get plenty of that from other sources now too, to make up for it.

Both of these "more damage" scale perfectly with the +% dmg options we have now from catalyst ring/amulet/belt. (With Tremor your base damage before +dmg% calculation will be Higher, and your %more multiplicator will be higher too.)

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but wouldn’t we lose a lot of shock effectiveness from using The Three Dragons?

True, but don't worry about that, you won't be shocking with Ball Lighnting anyway. It does tremondeus damage..but its per-hit damage is pathetic, so the hit's won't exceed the 18% Shock from Skitterbots anyway.

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Why do I need to freeze a metamorph if I kill it instantly?

You don't literally one shot it. It might get a hit off beforce Ball Lightning does it magic. With Freeze the very first Tick of your first Arc already freezes it, preventing it from doing any damage.

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I only have 3.7k life (gasp) and I only tend to die from random sources of chaos damage,

Well that's kinda impressive. With 3,7k HP and -45%chaos res you are basically getting one shot from anything.
But if you manage to pull that off. More power too you.