Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary

Hi! I am new to POE, this is my first character. I feel that I have followed the build pretty closely, even though I didn't start following it until around level 60. I am now level 74 and have been trying to do the Trials of Ascendancy Merciless. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but I die after just taking 2 hits. I have been able to complete up to tier 4 maps, but I usually have to use all of them portals. Any tips on how to ascend or what I might be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

@ALW4899

Oh dear.

Check the gearing section very carefully. I'm guessing your resists are not capped at 78%. Pick up a new rare ring and amulet using the guidelines listed in the guide. Then I'd replace unique gloves with ones with the minimums also listed, with whichever resists you need to fill in. See where this leads you.

You don't mention your finances...so I'll continue.

You really need to buy two Fragility jewels. The purpose of using Ahn's Heritage shield is so you can gain Permanant onslaught with the 2 fragility jewels. The jewel you have right now is rather...useless? I'm not sure what the prices are on Standard, but I know on DSC they can be had for 10-12c each, so it's well worth it.

Now, after that, please go read the flask section of the guide and go upgrade your flasks. You should only have one life flask. PoE isn't like other games where you only use your flasks reactively as your health drops; you use them to keep buffs up, mainly.

Your weapon is not serving you at all. Pick one up. Any one in the guide will be better than what you have. Or any one that looks something like the rare one in the guide...something with spell damage and elemental damage + cast speed. Do what the guide guides you!

I could say more, but start with that. :)

First, THANK YOU SO MUCH! This guide is awesome! I got my first try on Shaper 1h before (well, I got thrashed, but I believe it is possible to do with a little leveling).
My gear:
[not listed are 1 Watcher's Eye with mana leech, 2 fragility's and 3 Grand Spectrum]

I was using this before:

but boss damage are feel better now. I miss the enchant, thou.

For anyone trying this build in this league, are you getting in trouble in Delves? Most of my deaths are delvin, sometime I got stuck, sometimes I believe I got chain stun (man, more than once I hit that flare and it didn't appear), I'm working on upgrading my Brine King Pantheon for it. I tryed this flask too in place of my sulphur, but didn't seam to solve anything. Any ideas on how to improve delving?

Hello fellow Arc'ers

I have found this beauty yesterday :

I feel like the mod would be pretty nice for mapping and delving (95% of what I do) but I cannot for the life of me figure where to use it ?

I'd appreciate if anyone could enlighten me about this jewel.

i just killed elder and my dps is not that great , any suggestions ?

and yes i am kinda new :)

Is new delve affix in helmet any good? Im talking about -9% light res to all near enemies. I spent some time crafting a good shaper helmet with life, %max life, lightning dmg to spells and that new fossil affix.

I enjoy playing this build a lot. I am still getting the needed gear together, but before I do that, how do you keep the elemental resistances up?
I probably have missed something, but looking at the gear, I cannot find many items with resistance mods, unless I use the rare items instead of the suggested uniques.

@Fubalu
Most items can/will be rares. As for uniques, you only really need Impulsa and much later ahn's shield, the rest is - better - but optional imho.

belt, gloves, rings, amu you can go with rares w/ life/resists

good build !

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Fubalu 님이 작성:

I enjoy playing this build a lot. I am still getting the needed gear together, but before I do that, how do you keep the elemental resistances up?
I probably have missed something, but looking at the gear, I cannot find many items with resistance mods, unless I use the rare items instead of the suggested uniques.

As Tirshia said, above, you don't need all the uniques listed. The most critical are Inpulsa's, Ahn's shield, two Fragility jewels and, if you have the budget for it, an Essence Worm with a Wrath gem and a Watcher's Eye jewel with the "% lightning dmg to Mana while under the influence of Wrath" affix. (An expensive option, of course.) Of the absolutely necessary combos are Inpulsa's, Ahn's and two Fragility jewels for Ahn's "always up" Onslaught.

That leaves your helm, belt, boots and gloves as well as your main weapon, if you can get/craft one better than the uniques selected, for resists.

This is a common situation with builds that have lots of uniques. But, this build doesn't require as many as some for the lower budget versions. For "everything" it's still got a lot of resist gear slots open in the helm, gloves, boots and belt, provided you don't have a resist affix on the weapon, which you don't want to waste an affix on if you can help it.

The key to getting resists up for builds with lots of uniques is acquiring rares of high item level that can roll higher tier resists. It's extremely difficult to rely, for instance, on an item level 40-something piece of gear with resists on it when you need resists in the 40's in that slot, which it's not going to roll no matter how many different resists it has on it.

For instance, rings: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_ring_modifiers

If you reserve one of your rings for resists, rather than going with an expensive Shaper's ring whatsits, then you need a ring with an item level of at least 72 to get the 32-45 Cold Resist roll. If you got the highest naturally acquired item level of 84, you could get 46 to 48 Cold resist out of it. (You can also get high item level items from Divination Cards. For instance, a level 100 ring.)

This basic premise goes for every piece of gear. Item level determines the range of values that piece of gear can have for any particular trait and, in some cases, determines what traits that item can have. For a more detailed, more easily usable list, you can refer to either POEdb.tw or Poeaffix.net. There, you can more easily plan on how to craft an item, depending upon its base and item level as well as any special properties, like Elder/Shaper.

Don't forget that an Abyss Belt as well as the Abyss Gloves are also called for if you can fit them in. If you wish, you can find Abyss jewels to help boost your resists as well. Or, you could focus more damage in those jewels and then go for more defensive bonuses in your other regular jewels. Enki has a jewel guide section, so look over that, too.

Again, this is a common issue with builds that have a lot of uniques. This build isn't as bad as some can be. The key is, almost always, getting gear with high item levels. That can come "self-found" or by finding a high item level piece and then crafting it for your needs or just buying them from other players. In general, at least for this build, you should be able to easily get item level 74 items without too much difficulty, provided you've been sensibly looking after your resists up to that point.

Once your resists are overcapped, everything is gravy. It's possible to overcap resists for this build without having high-item-level gear, btw. Ahn's gives us a nice boost for that, too.