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

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Bazorg wrote:

Hey Enki or anyone who can help... what i could switch advanced traps for? I already have then on my gloves

I believe Trap and Mine Damage support is the go-to if you already have Advanced Traps (and all the other support gems recommended by Enki, of course).

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

So the fact that you have an Elder Hungry Loop is magical. Supreme envy there. That makes the configuration decision much more costly, I appreciate.

My personal opinion is that your golems and flame dash should live in your dagger with faster casting. All of those are discrete skills that benefit from faster casting.

My recommendation: keep cwdt setup in boots. I might consider cold snap instead of phase run, but either will work. Keep storm brand in your Hungry Loop setup; the culling strike, onslaught, and blind are all just too good to keep it as a 3-link. As a fourth support, I like innervate, but increased critical strikes is better in a boss fight (to keep EO up). Keep LST in your gloves and look for a 5L set of good gloves--even 6L if you get a lucky find/buy or have the ES to spare to go for a pair of non-ES 6L gloves (they're much cheaper with crappier bases).

But a 6L armor will help more than any of that. It's a real game-changer.

Edit: also, lightning warp requires too many resources to work with this build, unfortunately.

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Way ahead of you now. I couldn't wait any longer and went exactly (!) for what you say there yesterday :D

Threw out the Decoy Totem (rarely used it anyway) and placed the golems and Flame Dash into the dagger with Faster Casting.

Storm Brand went into the Hungry Loop and Cwdt setup into the boots. And I picked Cold Snap instead of Phase Run. Also thought it was the better option here and it worked well in the last version of the build.

Regarding the Innervate and Increased Critical Strikes... I looked at your build and saw you were using Innervate and yea... I'm a little bit torn between those now. For now I haven't decided on what to put in as last support gem.

I regularly look for those gloves, but even the ones with only one mod are already crazy expensive. I have maybe ~7ex total if I convert some other currency and I still have to get me an Inpulsa, an amulet, a better belt and better jewels... so yea... those gloves are simply out of reach for me. But tbh, I don't use the LST that often anyway and even as a 4L they work very well and melt most of the bosses.

By the way: The Elder Hungry Loop wasn't expensive at all. I was very lucky and got it + Mark of the Shaper for 130c. Loop was 70, Mark was 60. It was a total steal.

Biggest problem I have now is that I need to upgrade to an Inpulsa, a better amulet, belt and jewels, while retaining my res capped. And I somehow have to manage to squeeze about 500-1000 more life out of everything and a few hundred ES. Right now I have 4k life and 3k ES, but as soon as I throw out my Vaal Regalia, I only have 1700 ES, which simply isn't enough IMO. It's going to be a real pain finding the proper stuff.

I feel you on all of this! That is a total steal for that Elder Hungry Loop. I would definitely try to follow suit if I weren't going full Kaom's all the time now, but I need the resistances on my other ring way too badly.

One thing you can do pretty quickly is get a few more levels. I hit a wall at 93 this league, but you can still get 2-3 more pretty easily by running a bunch of t15 maps and farming the Nexus and Delve (avoiding risky boss encounters along the way, of course).

That is a totally valid concern on life and ES. You're probably already planning on some or all of this, but here's what I would do to rectify the situation: ditch Empyrean Breath, use your next two passives to grab the jewel socket to the right of the starting point, and fill both sockets with cobalt jewels that have both increased maximum life and ES. Get a good stygian vise with high life and ES and stick an abyssal jewel with at least 40 ES she 40 life in it. Get an amulet with high rolls on life and increased maximum ES (the latter is craftable). None of that should be super expensive. Then I'd get an Inpulsa's and 6L it as my next move. It'll make your DPS skyrocket.

The only way I see you being able to keep your resistances capped with these choices are by having ample resistances on either your gems, boots, or amulet, all of which come with drawbacks. If you're definitely not interested in trying Uber Elder later, the boots are the obvious choice. However, you're boxing yourself in there, as you will definitely be capable of that fight in the near future. I'd probably choose the amulet, myself (you can see from my own amulet that I kind of had to do that in my own build). I really don't like relying on jewels for resistances because the tradeoff is pretty steep in terms of the potential buffs you're sacrificing, but if you find one with + to all elemental resistances that also fits well with the build, definitely go for it.

Thinking about it more, I'd go with increased critical strikes on the HL, as Enki recommends.

Anyway, you're doing a great job and clearly understand what you're doing.

Edit: also consider Vaal Discipline. My ES is a bit less than I'd like, and popping what is in essence an ES flask has saved me more than once! Granted, it's like a flask that consumes all of its charges in a single use and takes forever to refill...but you're losing nothing by including it in the build (unless you're also running Vaal Arc, in which case it's competing for space in your keybinding setup).

I see in Enki's character he is using Zealotry instead of Wrath. Is Zealotry the better skill to go with?

where do you go to craft in Act I since you wont get the Hideout till Act 2? im slightly confused.

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

I see in Enki's character he is using Zealotry instead of Wrath. Is Zealotry the better skill to go with?

Bit of a dealer's choice there. Ultimately, I think it's best to use Enlighten and run both of them (think Devouring Diadem is necessary for this).

If choosing between them, I would probably go with whichever I can get a better Watcher's Eye for. If you can get one with the mod that procs arcane surge while affected by Zealotry, that allows for some powerful but conditional synergy between Zealotry, sulphur flasks, and commandment of light, which is probably why Enki opted for it. Wrath provides more straight-up damage on a consistent basis.

But again, in my opinion, your end-game should be to run both damage auras instead of Enfeeble.

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

Get it to 20% quality, or higher, if you can get Hillock into fortification and use his crafting bench, get it as high quality as possible! Higher the quality, better your chances of rolling a 6-link.

I personally have had the most luck spamming fusing orbs as the most cost-efficient way of getting it 6-linked.

Edit: get it 6-socketed after you max quality, then trade all jeweller's orbs for orbs of fusing in Epilogue.

6-socket was easy, and 4 chromes for the right colors. 400 fuse later.... no bueno. Back to the grind. ;)

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

I see in Enki's character he is using Zealotry instead of Wrath. Is Zealotry the better skill to go with?

Bit of a dealer's choice there. Ultimately, I think it's best to use Enlighten and run both of them (think Devouring Diadem is necessary for this).

If choosing between them, I would probably go with whichever I can get a better Watcher's Eye for. If you can get one with the mod that procs arcane surge while affected by Zealotry, that allows for some powerful but conditional synergy between Zealotry, sulphur flasks, and commandment of light, which is probably why Enki opted for it. Wrath provides more straight-up damage on a consistent basis.

But again, in my opinion, your end-game should be to run both damage auras instead of Enfeeble.

Thanks for the reply. While looking at your char I see you have added 20% quality to some of the gems Enki hasn't, between that and those same gems (disc/wrath/Zealotry) being corrupted do you see much of an improvement?

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

I see in Enki's character he is using Zealotry instead of Wrath. Is Zealotry the better skill to go with?

Bit of a dealer's choice there. Ultimately, I think it's best to use Enlighten and run both of them (think Devouring Diadem is necessary for this).

If choosing between them, I would probably go with whichever I can get a better Watcher's Eye for. If you can get one with the mod that procs arcane surge while affected by Zealotry, that allows for some powerful but conditional synergy between Zealotry, sulphur flasks, and commandment of light, which is probably why Enki opted for it. Wrath provides more straight-up damage on a consistent basis.

But again, in my opinion, your end-game should be to run both damage auras instead of Enfeeble.

Thanks for the reply. While looking at your char I see you have added 20% quality to some of the gems Enki hasn't, between that and those same gems (disc/wrath/Zealotry) being corrupted do you see much of an improvement?

Yes, definitly. It adds to the radius for discipline for example. Look into it using poe.trade. It's costly tho, so i would follow enkis upgrade order script: https://pastebin.com/7z638xHH

Best regards,
an 5k hp, 2.2k ES Arc Ele Player <3

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

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Proletariate1984 wrote:

I see in Enki's character he is using Zealotry instead of Wrath. Is Zealotry the better skill to go with?

Bit of a dealer's choice there. Ultimately, I think it's best to use Enlighten and run both of them (think Devouring Diadem is necessary for this).

If choosing between them, I would probably go with whichever I can get a better Watcher's Eye for. If you can get one with the mod that procs arcane surge while affected by Zealotry, that allows for some powerful but conditional synergy between Zealotry, sulphur flasks, and commandment of light, which is probably why Enki opted for it. Wrath provides more straight-up damage on a consistent basis.

But again, in my opinion, your end-game should be to run both damage auras instead of Enfeeble.

Instead of Enfeeble?
It is helping me so much, since my Dmg is very optimal it helps me spot enemies which are invisible for example :D

I have a Devouring Diadem, so, would look into my character and tell me how it would be best to set the 2 new auras instead of enfeeble and wrath?

Best regards <3

Excuse my noobish question as im still learning the mechanics of the game. Is there a reason not to level arcane? I understand that when you level a sklll it increases the requirements, but dont your attributes increase as you level?

Also why reroll skills to lvl 1 once they hit lvl 20?