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

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L3thvl wrote:

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1) But we never went for Essence Surge. Enki doesn't pick it, not even in the Lvl 100 tree. I guess the reason he went through there was, of course to get to Written in Blood, but also because to get the Reduced Mana Reservation node (for people who don't have or don't want to use the Diadem or want to use Aspect of the Spider).

2) The Jewel Socket with the mana nodes just happens to be there and was the only one in reach, I guess. You basically traded that for the Jewel socket on the left. Which, admittedly has the better nodes leading to it (ele dmg), no doubt.

For people that use the Diadem and don't need the Reduced Mana Reservation node, this change definitely seems to be more than worth it!

3) Makes sense. I also checked on PoB and the leech still seems to be fine.

4) Yes, you don't lose out on Dex from dropping the +10 node at MoM, since you pick the +10 at Deep Wisdom. So that evens out. But you still have to drop a lot of dex generally. You dropped Agility, Alacrity and Precision. That's 80 Dex. I guess you regain the necessary Dex from the +34 on your ring and the +24 on your amulet. It's going to be a lot harder for people that use the Hungry Loop together with Mark of the Shaper.

5) Yup. Lightning Walker is really sweet and costs only 2 points. I think it's definitely something everyone should consider.

6) I can't seem to find that 4% attack + cast speed node that would only require 1 point. What do you mean by Purity of Flesh cluster?

edit: nvm, I got you now. So you want to pick up the life+chaos nodes in the Purity of Flesh cluster, plus the 4% attack+cast speed node that's left on the right side, coming from Coordination, right?

What's your take on the Spiritual Command wheel? it would require 4-5 points and grant 25-33% increased damage.

Or going for Storm Weaver? That would be 4 points (only 3 if you combine it with going for Dark Arts - maybe that also wouldn't be so wonky anymore then) and it'd give +33% Lightning Damage.

Crackling Speed is another interesting thing IMO. Takes 3 points and give us +36% Lightning Damage and 4% Cast Speed.

Thoughts?

edit: Played around with PoB a bit. Spiritual Command seems to be rather bad. Definitely not worth it compared to the rest. So scratch that.

Best combination out of those that I could come up with was, dropping one of the 4% Attack+Cast Speed nodes coming from Coordination and then pick Dark Arts and Crackling Speed. That'd bring your dps to 3.05 million. If you could allow to drop Arcane Focus and invest those two points into the two remaining 4% Attack+Cast Speed nodes, then you could bring it to 3.15. But your ES would drop from 1933 to 1742 and you'd lose some leech.

I think in the earlier iteration of the build Essence surge was picked up. I guess it was removed later on.

Yeah the Spiritual command wheel isn't impressive. The other nodes you've mentioned are decent possible options. Its all a tradeoff scenario at this stage of the build really. Drop X stat for gains in Y.

I might revist Mysticism. I tried it for a while. I just never generated any frenzy charges to really feel great about it. I guess i could invest in sythesized onslaught boots and swap my onslaught flask for a Basalt flask or Rummi concotion.

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UtherSRG wrote:

Recently upgraded to a Doryani's Delusion boots. What should I upgrade next? (Other than get an abyssal jewel for my stygian vise. That's obvious. ;) )

I think my profile is public. Can someone check and recommend?

My char is a work in progress, I am saving up for daggers and inpulsa's. I am thinking about running Hungry Loop with Storm brand until I can afford better gear. Has anyone run Hungry loop with storm brand variant? If so what are your thoughts please?

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

My char is a work in progress, I am saving up for daggers and inpulsa's. I am thinking about running Hungry Loop with Storm brand until I can afford better gear. Has anyone run Hungry loop with storm brand variant? If so what are your thoughts please?

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Enki91 wrote:

@Proletariate1984

Since you get most of your resistances from both rings, this would require some bigger changes to work. The two main candidates would be belt and gloves, and unless you're able to get some really good gloves it's probably better to put LS Trap in the ring instead.

The main argument for a Storm Brand Hungry Loop setup is being able to have a 6L LS Trap in gloves and use both CwDt IC and Storm Brand, but that requires a highly optimized gear setup to work properly.

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

My char is a work in progress, I am saving up for daggers and inpulsa's. I am thinking about running Hungry Loop with Storm brand until I can afford better gear. Has anyone run Hungry loop with storm brand variant? If so what are your thoughts please?

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Enki91 wrote:

@Proletariate1984

Since you get most of your resistances from both rings, this would require some bigger changes to work. The two main candidates would be belt and gloves, and unless you're able to get some really good gloves it's probably better to put LS Trap in the ring instead.

The main argument for a Storm Brand Hungry Loop setup is being able to have a 6L LS Trap in gloves and use both CwDt IC and Storm Brand, but that requires a highly optimized gear setup to work properly.

Very interesting. i have some remarks/questions :

1) You should consider crafting the "20-30% increased effect of non_damaging ailments on ennemies" on your amulet. It's similar to shock effect and it can allow you to realocate 5 points from static blows to crackling speed and elemental focus. you should always have 150% effect of shock and a higher overall dps

2) How are the crazy 8mods T16 corrupted maps? You don't use enfeeble and your life and ES seems a bit low and far from the 43% ratio cap. you remove some defensive node as well from the passive tree. I have more ES and Life, and even with enfeeble i'm still dying sometimes on the hardiest map and i cant pass to next level. Most of the time is because i'm stupid but i was wondering if the great dps make everything easier or if you still feel a bit squishy?

3) I'm not sure that you should link your arcane surge gems to arc setup in PoB. Not sure about the mecanics, but the arcane surge granted by your watcher's eye doesn't act like an a support gems for each of your skills? gem states 'supported skills deal 10% more spell damage" and i don't think that arc is considered as supported by arcane surge. Anyway its just a detail and if you actually know the mechanics i would be happy confirm or unconfirm my toughts :).

3M dps is huge, I assume corrupted inpulsa help a lot, as I struggle to reach 2M with pretty similar gear. Just missing the corrupted inpulsa.

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Jomosmo wrote:

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Very interesting. i have some remarks/questions :
1) You should consider crafting the "20-30% increased effect of non_damaging ailments on ennemies" on your amulet. It's similar to shock effect and it can allow you to realocate 5 points from static blows to crackling speed and elemental focus. you should always have 150% effect of shock and a higher overall dps

2) How are the crazy 8mods T16 corrupted maps? You don't use enfeeble and your life and ES seems a bit low and far from the 43% ratio cap. you remove some defensive node as well from the passive tree. I have more ES and Life, and even with enfeeble i'm still dying sometimes on the hardiest map and i cant pass to next level. Most of the time is because i'm stupid but i was wondering if the great dps make everything easier or if you still feel a bit squishy?

3) I'm not sure that you should link your arcane surge gems to arc setup in PoB. Not sure about the mecanics, but the arcane surge granted by your watcher's eye doesn't act like an a support gems for each of your skills? gem states 'supported skills deal 10% more spell damage" and i don't think that arc is considered as supported by arcane surge. Anyway its just a detail and if you actually know the mechanics i would be happy confirm or unconfirm my toughts :).

3M dps is huge, I assume corrupted inpulsa help a lot, as I struggle to reach 2M with pretty similar gear. Just missing the corrupted inpulsa.

1) The reason why I've taken points into static blows is mainly to combat the nerfs to base crit chance for spells when using controlled destruction. Since I realized that I have 162% shock effect, i'll move one point from shock chance and effect over to Damage and critical strike chance against shocked within that cluster. Crafting non-damaging ailments on enemies on gear to reach the shock effect cap is like using a crutch. A top rolled inpulsa (35% shock effect minimum) + static blows + Breath of lightning + level 21 Arc is guaranteed 150% shock effect without the need for crafting non-damaging ailments on enemies.

2) I've been doing 5x Sextanted T16 UGS maps with Elder/Shaper influence + 3x scarabs with this gear for a while now and Its clear that this build isnt meant to tank things. My current Effective HP is around 6800 which is more than enough to farm End game content comfortably. Inorder to improve durability, the best way would be to stack HP as stacking ES would give reduced comparable gains for the same value of life in question due to MoM. I dropped the Enfeeble setup as it had low area of effect

3) Since POB doesnt show the dps gains from arcane surge as we're running Eldritch battery, By pseudo linking it as the 7L we can get an estimate. The 10% more spell damage for supported skill can be negated by subtracting 10% spell damage on the Mark of the Shaper ring to even things out. Even if you dont do that subtraction its roughly a 10-20k dps net change which in the grand scheme of things is ignorable.

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L3thvl wrote:

1) The reason why I've taken points into static blows is mainly to combat the nerfs to base crit chance for spells when using controlled destruction. Since I realized that I have 162% shock effect, i'll move one point from shock chance and effect over to Damage and critical strike chance against shocked within that cluster. Crafting non-damaging ailments on enemies on gear to reach the shock effect cap is like using a crutch. A top rolled inpulsa (35% shock effect minimum) + static blows + Breath of lightning + level 21 Arc is guaranteed 150% shock effect without the need for crafting non-damaging ailments on enemies.


3) Since POB doesnt show the dps gains from arcane surge as we're running Eldritch battery, By pseudo linking it as the 7L we can get an estimate. The 10% more spell damage for supported skill can be negated by subtracting 10% spell damage on the Mark of the Shaper ring to even things out. Even if you dont do that subtraction its roughly a 10-20k dps net change which in the grand scheme of things is ignorable.

1)I see your point but actually if you had it on your amulet you may have a better use of the 2 points needed to reach static blows making your overall dps in Pob 120k higher and keeping 150% shock effect. You will of course loose the critical chance, is that really make a difference?? storm brand doesn't crit often enough without static blows?

3)yes i know the trick, but you can just move the arcane surge to another gems setup into PoB and you will see a more real arc dps. Actually its something like 300K dps less on PoB (as it benefit also from +x lvl socketed gems from impulsa and empower) if you move it next to storm brand for example, it is not so ignorable :)