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

Hey guys,

can someone maybe take a look at my gear?
I've seen the guide "what to upgrade next" but I am still not sure. I thought about the daggers but its a huge step. (10ex)

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blg_RealiZe 님이 작성:

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Soulhassorrow 님이 작성:

My currerent gear....taking suggestions on what i can upgrade. Everything that has multi-mod i crafted myself, but i feel squishy,currently Lvl 98, 5.4k life/2.2k mana. Have 20ex for upgrades/recrafting. Thanks in advance.

the way your character is built (a lot of res on everything, but not on a ring or amulet, I don't see much room to upgrade without replacing half of your gear. You can craft another gloves with pristine + shuddering fossils with 100+ HP and 3% HP and cast speed.
You can swap flask node for HP nodes, vessel of vinktar for basalt flask (vinktar is just terrible imo, 1 use on bosses)
at least, you can try hardcore version of the tree with acrobatics and phase acrobatics. You lose a lot of cast speed, but you gain 40% chance to dodge attacks and 30% chance to dodge spells which is huge for surviveability
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1147951/page/928#p16147160

Thanks alot BIG!!!! I didn't change my gloves, but i replaced the vintars for basalt flasks and i replaced the flasks nodes for a jewel slot. Uber deathless with the setup, but my old setup i would get killed at least twice.

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Raihakan 님이 작성:

Hey guys,

can someone maybe take a look at my gear?
I've seen the guide "what to upgrade next" but I am still not sure. I thought about the daggers but its a huge step. (10ex)

Get a bone helmet with res/life, the implict on bone helmets apply to you so 40% increase dmg would be a cheap upgrade.

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Soulhassorrow 님이 작성:

Get a bone helmet with res/life, the implict on bone helmets apply to you so 40% increase dmg would be a cheap upgrade.

Ok I'll get that.
But after that, the next step are the daggers, or am I wrong?

Hi all,

first of all thanks to enki for the great build, and to all the other helpful folks in the thread. This is my first real season of PoE and i'm still learning how things work, but I love the build and I am slowly progressing through the Atlas. I am still using maces and was looking to craft daggers, as whirling blades does feel much better than leap slam. However, I don't have a lot of currency, so was trying to be economical. So was looking for some crafting advice. It took me about 400 alts to get my first ele-as-chaos, then when I regaled it I ended up with this sad thing:



(ok I admit, I auged it before regaling in the vain hope of getting a lucky mod)

so now I don't think I want to do multiple anuls as that would be expensive and risky. what's my best path here? scourge and try again? see if I can sell it for something, buy a new cheap base and some alts and start over? I'm rapidly running out of alts and so far no ele-as-chaos on my other base, and I think I have seen folks use 1000 before getting it. I must admit my parsimonious self is a bit intimidated by the crafting process.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Jules

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BigJules 님이 작성:

what's my best path here? scourge and try again? see if I can sell it for something, buy a new cheap base and some alts and start over?

Probably wouldn't scour that :)
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Betrayal/9rGovyuK

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blg_RealiZe 님이 작성:

Cmon guys, if I sad that I'll craft a dagger for free doesn't mean I'm gonna roll and annul t1 extra chaos for you and craft multimod with my exalts.
I'm only crafting mods on your base from your crafting materials (because I have everything unlocked for that).
I got like 6 messages from 6 different people that are hoping to get a free 7-10ex dagger. It's not a charity.

I'm sorry people are trying to take advantage. Thanks for the multi mod on my dagger this morning.

can someone check my gear and tell me where i could improve with it and give some reccomendations

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Pangaearocks 님이 작성:

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Maybe this is sticking my hand in a bee's nest, but why all the talk of expensively crafted weapons? Isn't this build already super strong and whacking all content?

Don't get me wrong, I kinda want to try it on my own character, if only to actually having done it once, but it's not needed. And it's probably much the same for this Arc build, which is also super strong (I've played it several times in the past, and it looks even stronger now).

I appreciate the top players in here are maybe swimming in exalts from going to maps on day 1 and selling lots of stuff, but for the vast, vast majority of players, we'll never have that chance, due to the obscene costs of (multi) crafting in this game.

I don't intend this post as criticism, not really, but more as a reality check perhaps.

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I've played a lot this league, despite starting late due to travelling. Much more than I probably should have (work, hobbies, RL, etc). I've had two exalts drop, and have sold another item for 1.5 exalts (which turned out to have become underpriced over time, but too late now). Two more exalts if I were to sell all the chaos (and I did the chaos recipe for a long, long while). And I've played almost uniquely SSF (only bought the boots), so haven't spent much on gear throughout the league.

I'd expect many players to be in a similar situation, or worse.

I get what you're saying, but I think you need to look at it from a different point. The initial investment does seem high, but it's actually extremely cheap for a weapon this good.

To put it in context, using two perfectly divined 6x T1 mirror tier daggers would only result in a ~2% DPS boost over those crafted daggers, while they would cost 1 mirror (170ex atm) + fee (usually 50ex+) each, which would put you at a 440ex+ investment if such a dagger would exist in the first place. And the only thing you'd gain out of this is 2% DPS and a good amount of attack speed.

I've intentionally put the crafted daggers priority as second to last in the upgrade cheat sheet, it's more important to get a reliable setup first and getting to this step shows that you're serious enough about the build to justify this investment. It also serves as a contextually cheap crafting tutorial for people who didn't dump the game after a few hours.

Since this comment is about crafted weapons, I also want to give some insight about the Double Damage vs Resistance Penetration debate for everyone:

If you've followed the guide and cheat sheet, you'll have around 1m Shaper DPS consisting of 200k average hit damage and 5 casts per second with your new daggers and neither of the two mods we compare here. These numbers will vary of course but for simplicity sake let's keep it at these values.

It's important to remember that Double Damage rolls per hit and does nothing when it doesn't proc. So instead of boosting your DPS to 2m, it will rather end up at 1.2m if double damage procs once.

Resistance Penetration on the other hand affects each hit and will boost them by ~10% if you have it on both daggers. It loses a bit of effectiveness due to the sheer amount of chaos damage we gain, up to 52% from weapons, 13% from amulet and 19% (15 * 1.26) from Atziri's Promise. Still, this means we need 10 hits to make up for one Double Damage proc.

So much for theory, the reality looks different due to lightnings huge damage range. If we look at my Betrayal char for example, my shaper hit damage ranges from 43351 to 340979 without either of the two stats. A Double Damage proc on the lower end of range will barely be noticeable yet even out damage output a bit, while on the higher end of range it will be absolutely insane. Unfortunately we have no control about when it will proc.

So if you play in Betrayal and are wondering which one to go for, ask yourself if you prefer a more consistent damage increase coming at a potentially much higher cost, or if you prefer the cheaper option and take the gamble.

The Double Damage while focussed version someone had mentioned is yet another option, probably best used in combination with a Hyperboreus to have more uptime in longer bossfights.

On an unrelated note, I once again want to mention how thankful I am to everyone taking their time to reply to all the questions in here!

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yanggun 님이 작성:

Why do items change frequently?
Video has a lot of items and skills to change
I am confused as to which direction to go
Give me a solution.

3 - For bosses and Syndicate, try a spire 4 link. It's not in the main spec yet, but it complements arc immensely. Drop a couple where the boss(es) are (or will be) then sting and move with arc. Arc is amazing at clearing, but slightly weak when against really tough single targets. Spire pounds them while they chase you, and you keep em zapped.

Putting it in this kind of gloves makes it effectively a 6 link, and it does MORE damage than arc by far on wide slow boss butts:
http://poe.trade/search/homonakihasika

What would you link with Spire? Controlled, lightning pen and hypothermia?