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

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blg_RealiZe 님이 작성:

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fletch101 님이 작성:

Is PoB at all accurate for Arc? If so I find even perfect sceptres that I create in POB to be realtively minor upgrades from the uniques.

I sense I'm doing something wrong, but before I spend a lot, I wanted to ask.

Thanks.

Pretty much every rare spell sceptre on poe.trade is junk, the only way to get something good is to craft it yourself. And yes, limb is still not bad.
try to put my sceptre in PoB for example, it should be a lot better than limb.

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Sorrow Spell
Abyssal Sceptre
30% increased Elemental Damage
47% increased Spell Damage
Adds 9 to 109 Lightning Damage to Spells
19% increased Cast Speed
60% increased Elemental Damage
Gain 29% of Physical Damage as Extra Damage of a random Element
19% increased Lightning Damage

Thanks for the reponse. That one shows up as +12% in PoB, which is significant. Impressive craft, did you make it with fossils? If so, 3 or 4? Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

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Earthslug 님이 작성:

...Now a question to you guys, how do you calculate dps......

For PC Players, you can easily use the companion app "Path of Building."

https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1716360

The tooltip DPS will not be accurate, but if you do whatever PC users need to do in order to export/import their build into PoB, you'll easily be able to tell and you'll be able to experiment a bit.

(I'm on XBox, so anything I do with PoB would have to be manual. :( )

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fletch101 님이 작성:

Thanks for the reponse. That one shows up as +12% in PoB, which is significant. Impressive craft, did you make it with fossils? If so, 3 or 4? Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

I'm not crafted it myself, i bought it for like 2.5ex three weeks ago and annuled +8 intellect stat from it, got very lucky.
And I couldn't find anything even close to that sceptre on poe.trade in about 2 weeks

Hi Enki

Thanks you for a great guide.

I am a bit confused. In your guide it says;

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Stack Cast Speed until you reach 5 casts per second, after that focus on other damage affixes

And i believe that somewhere in the comments it says that we need above 5 cast per second because of breakpoint 5, 6 ect.

I am currently at 4.86 cast per second and i am wondering whether i should invest in new gear with more castspeed.

Any comments for improvement of my current gear is also much appriciated. I got an inpulsa with 1+ level, but doesnt have the currency yet to 6link it.

Kind regards

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rhallenborg 님이 작성:

Hi Enki
Thanks you for a great guide.
I am a bit confused. In your guide it says;

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Stack Cast Speed until you reach 5 casts per second, after that focus on other damage affixes

And i believe that somewhere in the comments it says that we need above 5 cast per second because of breakpoint 5, 6 ect.
I am currently at 4.86 cast per second and i am wondering whether i should invest in new gear with more castspeed.
Any comments for improvement of my current gear is also much appriciated. I got an inpulsa with 1+ level, but doesnt have the currency yet to 6link it.
Kind regards

there is no such thing as "breakpoints", you can feel every 0.1-0.2 cps difference.
I'm currently at 5.56 cps and it feels WAY beeter than 5. It's so much easier to transfer from arc to shield charge to dodge major threats on bosses and in delve. You can try it yourself, just add something like Nibleness node in your talents tree and you'll see that you shouldn't stop at 5

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blg_RealiZe 님이 작성:

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rhallenborg 님이 작성:

Hi Enki
Thanks you for a great guide.
I am a bit confused. In your guide it says;

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Stack Cast Speed until you reach 5 casts per second, after that focus on other damage affixes

And i believe that somewhere in the comments it says that we need above 5 cast per second because of breakpoint 5, 6 ect.
I am currently at 4.86 cast per second and i am wondering whether i should invest in new gear with more castspeed.
Any comments for improvement of my current gear is also much appriciated. I got an inpulsa with 1+ level, but doesnt have the currency yet to 6link it.
Kind regards

there is no such thing as "breakpoints", you can feel every 0.1-0.2 cps difference.
I'm currently at 5.56 cps and it feels WAY beeter than 5. It's so much easier to transfer from arc to shield charge to dodge major threats on bosses and in delve. You can try it yourself, just add something like Nibleness node in your talents tree and you'll see that you shouldn't stop at 5

especially I can feel it on uber elder, where with 5 cps I was barely able to kill him with 1-2 portals left, and with 5.5+ I killed him deathless like the last 10 times in a row

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jackieh917 wrote:
@jellyzerg A huge upgrade for you would be to recolor your Inpulsa's and go with the 5B 1R. Swap the hypothermia for a lvl 4 Empower. Since you have a +2 inpulsas, you'll see a huge DPS boost from it. It will be great for map clear of course but single target will be a noticable boost, too.

that is a terrible advice
He has +2 of socketed curse gems inpulsa's and he is losing almost 60k dps for switching hypothermia to lvl 4 empower

My mistake! I didn't see that it said curse gems and thought it was straight support. In this case, you are correct. Disregard what I said.

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Earthslug 님이 작성:

...Now a question to you guys, how do you calculate dps......

For PC Players, you can easily use the companion app "Path of Building."

https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1716360

The tooltip DPS will not be accurate, but if you do whatever PC users need to do in order to export/import their build into PoB, you'll easily be able to tell and you'll be able to experiment a bit.

(I'm on XBox, so anything I do with PoB would have to be manual. :( )

Great, tried it a bit and this thing is awesome!
It's a bit playing with parameters to find the "real sustainable DPS" and still that has to be taken with a huge grain of salt.


Eg. conductivity was set standard as on, disabling it loses several 10k's of DPS which is very much more realistic because in only several cases the curse is used.

Also, a huge miscalculation is "global crit chance" and the "Elemental Overload".
I noticed power charges gave ZERO boost in PoB which totally makes no sense! I played with romira's banquet for a while and it definitely helped proc the overload...(3x40 increased crit) why does PoB ignore that?
>>> I found out:
PoB assumes you land a crit within every 8secs which is totally untrue for my current playstyle/setup.
I probably lack advancement move because I don't shield charge trough maps so I don't chain my Overload crits.

Also versus bosses you can end up with moving alot around, having overload expire.
Still I come at an attractive 240k+ sustainable DPS.
480k under ideal conditions, frenzies, curse, chilled enemies...

edit. may try lightning Orb+increased crit support vs bosses?
I don't know if mana leech is still required with that eye jewel during wrath thing?

Hello again!

I've made some further improvements to my gear and I was wondering if you could please look over it and maybe offer some advice for upgrades, again?

I feel that my Jewels could get upgraded, but I'm unsure exactly what upgrades I could make to them.

My helmet might look a little bit weird/bad, but at the moment there's no upgrades I can make to it as I can't find a better helmet with the Dexterity(+the other stats I need on my helmet), there are some helmets but the sellers have been offline for months, I really wish I could get a helmet with '+ Lightning Damage to Spells' or '#% increased effect of Shock'.

Regarding my skill tree, I know you might not like it at all but it is currently working out really well the way it is, I have no survivability issues with the current amount of health/mana I have.
I wish I could unallocate Sanctity, but if I do that I'll be missing 5 Strength that I need.

A bit of a ramble this time, apologies for that :p.

is there a pastebin for dummies on this like https://pastebin.com/loleie ?