Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary
" %mana on kill certainly helps. If you have The Agnostic allocated, I'd refund that until you have a good strong mana regen rate. My Arc mana cost is 914, and I have 4800 mana as well. My mana regen is just under 600. Big battles where I get surrounded and hit a lot proc The Agnostic enough to make life a little difficult. For single target combat, I swap out Conductivity with Clarity and that bumps my mana regen up to 722. |
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I'm currently working my way up to level 95 to hit the POE Ninja ladder (I could have swore it was 94....), But I think I have a pretty decent setup going so far.
Here are the relevant stats for this build (according to POB):
With Healthy Mind Set-Up:
Arc sDPS: 2.19 million
Mana (total): 9253 Mana (unreserved): 8863 Mana Regen: 1988.7 Life: 4867 Arc Cost: 2197
Without Healthy Mind:
Arc sDPS: 1.90 million Mana (total): 7982 Mana (unreserved): 7592 Mana Regen: 1761.9 Life: 5612 Arc Cost: 1882
Gear:
I also swap out Healthy Mind for this jewel when fighting hard-hitting bosses (Sirus, Uber Atziri, Drox, etc.): And for Atziri/Uber-Atziri I replace left ring slot with this:
PoB:
https://pastebin.com/DucY1w0a
Reasons behind some of the gear:
1. Body Armour: Honestly it is just better than anything else I have found. I was using a different 6L before, and this gave a 300K increase in sDPS as well as a pretty good bump in life and mana. Having the Abyssal belt and jewel is important if you want to go this route. I check "+#% increase to offerings" chests from trade occasionally, but typically anything in my budget does not give enough overall increase to both damage and survivability to warrant the cost. 2. Flask: Kiara's Determination provides freeze immunity. I sometimes regret not having a 6+ second duration curse immunity to make temp chains maps more bearable, but the only times I am every really worried are when I get frozen, so the increase in survivability outweighs the quality of life 3 more seconds of no temp chains offers. Next upgrades will be (maybe not in this order): * Belt - Need to re-roll cold res and then I plan to Crusader influence and force "#% Increased Lightning Damage" * Shield - I am torn between getting a shield with "#% of your maximum mana gained when you block" or just sticking with what I have. There are very few options on Trade to improve this shield that also have the mana on block mod, and crafting one is too difficult for me ATM. * Watcher's Eye - Eventually I want one that has a double effect for me. Two Clarity mods, or a Clarity and Wrath mod. I would also consider Clarity and Zealotry or maybe even wrath and Zealotry. I think my mana regen can afford to lose clarity at this point. * Wand - Maybe. I had a pretty much perfect wand for crafting that I ruined. The only significant upgrades right now are 20EX+ but if I found the right base again, one could be crafted for like 3-5EX
Tips for those people currently levelling:
1. Stack Mana. Mana acts as both offense and defense for us. Yes, life is important too, but unless you are hardcore, or over level 90ish, being slightly more of a glass cannon is ok at first. You can improve gear later. 2. If you don't have them yet, I recommend getting items in this order: First: Weapon with "Trigger a socketed Spell when you use a skill" Not only is it a HUGE quality of life increase, but it means you always have corpses around which buffs damage and defense. Second: Crown of the Inward Eye. Not needing the Kitava helmet opens up this and this is a massive DPS boost. Third: Healthy Mind Jewel - Insane DPS boost. It will reduce your total life, so I would recommend having at least 4500 life and 5.5-6K mana before you do this. That way you gain enough mana to help offset the life loss. Fourth: Kitava's Teachings - this is another straight boost to our build. 3. I see a lot of people saying to drop The Agnostic. I would think hard about this; or at the very least, be prepared to allocate it again once you have more mana/mana regen. This passive helps me not die a TON. it helps against pretty much all DOT effects (and makes me almost immune to Darkness stacks in the mines) by keeping me alive long enough to get away or see the DOT and use flasks to negate it (like with bleeding). 4. In the same manner, some of the posts I have read seem to indicate trying to keep your Arc cost down. This should not be a goal. You want your Arc to cost as much as possible in order to have more DPS from Archmage Support. If you find that you don't have enough mana, then find ways to increase your mana or mana regen rate (preferably both). 5. Don't. Stop. Moving. - We have no armour, no ES, and no evasion (or at least the values of each are small enough to not matter). We do have pretty good block chance, and block works wonders, but block does not work against DOTs. There are three things that kill you with this build: A) Reflect - Insta Death on reflect maps (but this can be avoided by rolling sextants on Watchstones) B) DOTs - Poison, Bleed, Ignite, etc - Block does not help at all but moving out of the DOT area does (usually). C) Massive crits that don't get blocked and one shot you - Block is great until it isn't. Then you die. But except for reflect, constant movement significantly mitigates these issues. If you are always moving, then bosses won't hit as often, and staying out of DOT areas means reduced DOT time. Hopefully, some of this info helps people along. Feel free to ask questions. I might not have the BEST build, but considering my normal league accomplishments, I have done pretty well with this one. Thanks to Enki for the original build guide, and PricelessWombat for some additional tips. Exile
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Nice gear! I'm also working on how to upgrade my gear. I'm a bit overcapped on lightning res, so could do something with that, maybe swap the belt out to get some damage on it or whatever. And then I could also get something like chaos res on my chest. The gloves def mod should be rerolled for more mana/life as well!
I also got the recommended Medium Cluster Jewel today, seems good this far. Only done Sirus 0 for the first time ever, was close dying once but went good. Dno which level to try next though.. Don't feel like dying, hehe.
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Hi,
Is the blindness effect of the Scintillant Idea skill really relevant during mapping (and bosses)? I currently use only one large unloaded cluster. According to the PoB a Cluster with Scintilant Idea + Discharge will slightly decrease my damage. As for my equipment, can anyone advise me on what I can improve?
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" Well one super easy thing you can do is remove Def add lightning for either more dmg oe max res, or mby caster. |
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HEEEEELP!!!!
Hello, this my first time here, and the first time i reach tier 10 maps, my setup was amazing until this point, now, im too weak, i cant defeat the metamorph bosses, i was fighting with one of the guardians, i think, (the ones that when you defeat them, gives you a Watchstone) and i died 5 times, i dont know what im doing wrong at this point, i dont know if anyone can see my gear setup and giveme some advice, PLEASE!!!!!! |
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" Nice post, thanks for making this. I think I'm in much the same place you are and agree with almost everything you said. ESPECIALLY The Agnostic. To all those who have said it's not necessary, I strongly advise against removing it from the build; once you have enough mana sustain to use it, you will wonder how you ever got along without it. I have under 4k HP, but with Agnostic, I hardly ever even see it drop from full life. And I was able to completely drop the life flask from my setup and swap in Atziri's Promise for extra damage. Other piece of equipment to consider is Omeyocan. The mana drain isn't even noticeable with the amount of regen everything else provides us (especially with the Watcher's Eye), so it's basically free Onslaught all the time plus 20% attack and spell dodge. This allows you to drop yet another flask (silver). I swapped in a sulphur flask for more damage, but you could also do a quartz one for more dodge, or really anything you feel like. Gonna try out Indigon soon; curious how insane we can get our DPS with it. Main concern is interference with Arcane Cloak. WorderMostFoul#7154 님이 2020. 7. 13. 오후 3:09:08에 마지막으로 편집
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As Enki isnt updating cause he died with this build I think its important to keep improving the build ourselves. I'm not sure how to link my items here, but you can check my char in poe.ninjas as the name "Harvzer".
I'll exchange boots, body armour, wand, clusters, shield and gloves in the next few days cause I was farming the goal of 100 exalteds I had on league. Anyways, with this not-so-great build Im currently doing T16 at an amazing clearspeed and the only two bosses I have to focus to kill is Minotaur and Sirius A8. Feel free to ask questions if you have and PM me in-game if you need :D |
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" Thank you so much for this post! You're doing an amazing job keeping the evolving of this build alive! Not just you but anyone else who shares his own findings. I was also totally opposed to The Agnostic. Hated the idea of losing my entire energy shield, it made no sense to me. But around lvl 80 I decided to try it again and this time with alot more mana it worked. Literally who needs energy shield now. I got the helmet idea off of you originally. You seemed knowledgable so I wanted to see what did you use. The helmet is an amazing addition to DPS! It's good enough to be added to the build's main page IMO. Questions if you don't mind: 1. Do you recommend just not getting the Supercharger cluster jewel? I don't really follow what's going on with your cluster jewels :D Any explenation or recommendations? Am I better off copying you than having a Supercharger cluster jewel like the build says? 2. No special reason for lightning damage as extra chaos damage on the wand is it? Or am I missing something? 3. Helmet transfiguration effect: Would The Agnostic cancel every buff we're supposed to get from energy shield boosted items? I toyed around with it in game and noticed no difference in DPS on arc with an energy shield boosted item and a same item but normal. Also, do both "+to maximum mana/life" and "+increased mana/life" apply to the helmet's DPS boost? and if so, which one is better? Thanks in advance! realkph#2784 님이 2020. 7. 13. 오후 9:39:58에 마지막으로 편집
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