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

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MathMusic wrote:

Hey guys, I started following this guide last league and I have continued to play in Standard. I used my skill reset to switch over to the new skill tree at the start of 3.6

I seem to be hitting a wall at red tier maps, and I am struggling to figure out what to upgrade to next. I think in general I am just short on ES on my gear, but would appreciate some advice. I would love to get some decent gear boosts to push into red maps as I save up for an Inpulsa's

Character Name is Mathmusicw, thanks!

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

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MathMusic wrote:

Hey guys, I started following this guide last league and I have continued to play in Standard. I used my skill reset to switch over to the new skill tree at the start of 3.6

I seem to be hitting a wall at red tier maps, and I am struggling to figure out what to upgrade to next. I think in general I am just short on ES on my gear, but would appreciate some advice. I would love to get some decent gear boosts to push into red maps as I save up for an Inpulsa's

Character Name is Mathmusicw, thanks!

I'm on a phone and so I can't see everything, but I do see that you're running clarity instead of discipline in your helm. Switch them and your ES problems will improve dramatically and immediately!

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MathMusic wrote:

Hey guys, I started following this guide last league and I have continued to play in Standard. I used my skill reset to switch over to the new skill tree at the start of 3.6

I seem to be hitting a wall at red tier maps, and I am struggling to figure out what to upgrade to next. I think in general I am just short on ES on my gear, but would appreciate some advice. I would love to get some decent gear boosts to push into red maps as I save up for an Inpulsa's

Character Name is Mathmusicw, thanks!

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Opti_87 wrote:

I'm a almost completely new (ps4) player and I'm following this build to a great success. One thing that's kinda bothering me is the number of used skills in it.

If I'm counting correctly in path of building, end game gem setup has basically 11 active skills, 3 of which are auras. Which means, I guess, that I would need to turn on my auras and then remove them from the skill shortcuts for other skills? Or am I completely misunderstanding something? Thanks

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Cendrake wrote:

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MathMusic wrote:

Hey guys, I started following this guide last league and I have continued to play in Standard. I used my skill reset to switch over to the new skill tree at the start of 3.6

I seem to be hitting a wall at red tier maps, and I am struggling to figure out what to upgrade to next. I think in general I am just short on ES on my gear, but would appreciate some advice. I would love to get some decent gear boosts to push into red maps as I save up for an Inpulsa's

Character Name is Mathmusicw, thanks!

You're definitely braver than me :D I didn't want to make the switch with my Enki's from last league. I was too afraid of breaking it, since the gear isn't tailored around ES and cost me a lot of time and money to get. ^^

The old version works still fine btw. I can't truly compare it to the new version tho as long as my new Enki's is not somewhat on the same level gear-wise.

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

Any thoughts on what I should upgrade first from here? I am torn because nothing seems like an across the board improvement without losing something. How much chaos res can I get away with? I have 1ex and about 150 chaos orbs to give an idea of my budget.

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

Also @Pegglea--

In addition to what everyone else had said--all of which is accurate--i assume, based on your gear, that your energy shield is quite low; probably not at least 43% of your maximum life, which is crucial for survivability!

Before you do anything else, max out the quality on your helmet and boots. That's a super cheap and quick way to get a boost.

Next, replace your gloves with some with the sorcerer's gloves base that has a good % increased ES and ideally +# to maximum ES, then max out quality on them. This will be a big boost, too.

Amulet is next; you want ~+20% to maximum energy shield here because it's the only slot that offers that boost.

You also ideally want +# to maximum ES on your belt and ring. Shoot for at least +40 on each.

All of that will help survivability quite a bit. I know your original complaint was lack of damage, but you need a solid survivability base for your damage increases to matter. I can tell you it's a massive damage boost against bosses to drop enfeeble+blasphemy for enlighten+Zealotry, but that does hurt survivability, so you need to shore up your defenses elsewhere (and listen to the advice others have already offered here) before considering that.

Side note here for everyone, since I haven't seen it mentioned in this forum yet: I found myself with an extra hotkey slot and so started running Vaal Discipline. If your ES pool is below 43% of your life and/or you ever find yourself drained of ES and unable to escape a dangerous situation because you don't have enough mana to use a movement skill, using VD is kind of like popping a mana flask for your ES. If your ES is already over 45% of your life, though, you most likely never run into this problem and therefore have no reason to try this.

Edit: it also mechanically makes no sense to use controlled destruction in a high-crit version of this build--you're shooting yourself in the foot there on several levels. As already mentioned by someone else, replace that with spell echo support and add at least 1 point of cold damage to spells somewhere and you'll see a colossal spike in your damage just from that. If you can work storm brand into the build, then you can replace unleash with controlled destruction, but otherwise your crit chance on arc is too important in triggering both EO and shock to justify sinking it with CD.

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Pegglea wrote:

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

Any thoughts on what I should upgrade first from here? I am torn because nothing seems like an across the board improvement without losing something. How much chaos res can I get away with? I have 1ex and about 150 chaos orbs to give an idea of my budget.

What are you struggling with? First of all I'd ask why your not using 2x daggers and instead have opted for a mace and shield?