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we dont use arcane surge with flame dash+second wind? (it was recommended in the beginning)

Hi guys,

has anyone worked in placing a small cluster jewel?

At the moment I have a large and medium with:

Storm drinker
Doriany lesson

The above give me life and es leech

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Basics of Pain ( 20% increased damage and 30% cc)
Savage Response ( 40% cc chance + 50% critical strike )

I'm thinking to add a small cluster jewel and I'm not sure which one:

a) 4% increased max life +

Natural Vigor ( life and evasion )
Sublime sensation ( life and es )

b) 15% increased Evasion Rating

Prismatic Dance ( +1% to all elemental resistance and 30% evasion rating )

Was thinking as well with all the life regen I have and the leech to remove the life flask and add the one giving 3k evasion

What do you think?

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Atum84 님이 작성:

we dont use arcane surge with flame dash+second wind? (it was recommended in the beginning)

Arcane surge requires you to spend mana. Since we spend energy shield with eldritch battery, arcane surge won't trigger.

I am returning to POE after several years and I used this guide to make an Arc elementalist witch. My char is currently level 76, I just finished Act 10 and have not started any maps. My passive skill assignment is exactly as Enki's guide recommends for level 80, except that I have no skills assigned in the staff-related passives. I am still using two wands.

My gear is pretty bad, just what I've found so far. Using 4 socket armor for the main Arc gem, just random rares for other equipment slots.

I was coasting along fine until the end of Act 10, when I ran into severe problems. When I assigned the last few passives according to Enki's guide, it switched my energy shield from protecting life to mana. As I result, I now have: 3273 life, 1256 mana (of which only 50 mana is available, the rest being reserved for Zealotry, Flesh to Stone, and Discipline). I also have a 1633 energy shield protecting mana.

The problem is that without energy shield protecting life and with zero life regeneration (since the passives have switched all life regeneration to mana instead), I die quickly to mobs. I am mashing potion buttons in every fight, and often I can't mash them fast enough (or health pots run out), and I die. This happens very frequently even to Act 10 mobs which I could easily kill before the passives switched my energy shield to mana and zeroed my life regen.

I am now done with Act 10, but I can't even begin maps because low level Act 10 mobs kill me.

Am I doing something wrong? Is this how the build is supposed to work? I tried to do a low level delve (with mobs level 63-64) and I died 7-8 times just trying to clear an azurite node. I did not have this problem before I reassigned passives.

Is there something I can do to fix this build? I don't want to waste time on a character this weak.

Thanks.

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WufaPrime 님이 작성:

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Is there something I can do to fix this build? I don't want to waste time on a character this weak.

Thanks.

Sounds like you forgot to take 'Mind over Matter' - it will give you a big survivability boost.

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WufaPrime 님이 작성:

Is there something I can do to fix this build? I don't want to waste time on a character this weak.

Did you forget Mind over Matter and/or switched before finishing the third Labyrinth and are stuck without Life Leech?

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Malkav_the_Eternal 님이 작성:

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WufaPrime 님이 작성:

Is there something I can do to fix this build? I don't want to waste time on a character this weak.

Did you forget Mind over Matter and/or switched before finishing the third Labyrinth and are stuck without Life Leech?

I did not forget Mind Over Matter. I have that skill, but I'm still dying frequently as I said, to low level mobs.

I did not finish the 3rd Labyrinth, I've only done two. Right now I'm unsure I can even finish it because my character is so weak. I'm dying to mobs 10-11 levels lower than I am. The 3rd Labyrinth has level 68 mobs, not to mention the boss hits hard. I doubt I could survive that right now.

Does the 0.5% life leech from Paragon of Calamity really make a big difference to survivability?

Is anyone using Vaal Grace?

I am reluctant to give up Discipline energy shield for a "temporary" dodge chance that would cost me 2 skill points (because i need the 2 dex nodes).

Is it worth it? do people like it?

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WufaPrime 님이 작성:

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Malkav_the_Eternal 님이 작성:

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WufaPrime 님이 작성:

Is there something I can do to fix this build? I don't want to waste time on a character this weak.

Did you forget Mind over Matter and/or switched before finishing the third Labyrinth and are stuck without Life Leech?

I did not forget Mind Over Matter. I have that skill, but I'm still dying frequently as I said, to low level mobs.

I did not finish the 3rd Labyrinth, I've only done two. Right now I'm unsure I can even finish it because my character is so weak. I'm dying to mobs 10-11 levels lower than I am. The 3rd Labyrinth has level 68 mobs, not to mention the boss hits hard. I doubt I could survive that right now.

Does the 0.5% life leech from Paragon of Calamity really make a big difference to survivability?

I see you have finished the story. Be sure to check your resistances, as you get another -30% to all resistances. Make sure elemental resist is at least 75% (up to 135% on red tier maps to deal with map mods), and any chaos resist is useful.

My Flame Dash isn't triggering roughly 50% of the time. I even always release arc spell before pressing the flame dash spell, but it simply wouldn't happen very often.

Is anyone else seeing this? Am I doing something wrong?