Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary
" Because this is a cheap way of getting them to 20% quality - instead of using 20 x Gem Cutter's Prisms (GCP), it uses only 1 at the cost of having to level the gem up to 20 twice. It would be difficult to accumulate enough GCP to boost all of your gems to 20% quality without using this vendor recipe, especially in SSF. |
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" OMG! Only 5 fuse more and I hit 6L! :D Wheee! |
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" Congrats!! That is such a huge milestone and game-changer. :) |
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" The effects of Enfeeble are greatly diminished against the most difficult bosses, so I do like it as an option once your character is matured with good gear and defenses. It's very easy to do: remove Enfeeble and Blasphemy and replace them with a level 3 Enlighten and whichever damage aura you're not currently using. It's easy enough to switch back if you find yourself dying more often. Good luck! |
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Mind over Matter is a nice boost for HP but i run out of energy shield if i keep getting hits wich makes me die..
Any tip on this? |
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" What about keeping arcane surge level 1? |
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" Arcane Surge is triggered after spending a certain amount of mana, and the amount of mana required to trigger it increases each time you level the gem up. Because we want to be able to reliably trigger it with a single cast of a given spell, the gem level must be capped just below the threshold of where the mana cost required to trigger AS would surpass the cost of a single cast of the triggering spell. Keeping the gem below that threshold turns AS from a conditional buff into an automatic one; the reliability makes it much more useful and is worth the tradeoff of it not being quite as powerful a buff as it would be at a high gem level. Keep in mind, though, that Arcane Surge (as a gem) won't ever trigger with the current iteration of this build, as we are spending ES instead of mana. Last edited by WorderMostFoul#7154 on May 13, 2019, 10:33:15 AM
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This is the most "juggly" (let's pretend that word exists) build I've ever played. We simply have to make decisions and go without a few of those uniques. There's just no way to make it work and use the Diadem, Loop, Mark, Kaom's and maybe even a dps-amulet.
" I wish it was that easy, but I'm really struggling here. I died 4 times yesterday and made pretty much no progress in XP. Today I died once in the mine. For the most part I'm only doing T8-10 mapes. I'm not that far in the atlas yet. Have almost no red maps, let alone tier 15. And even if I had them, I probably couldn't run them safely. I feel way to squishy for that with 4k life for some reason. My other Enki's (the previous version from Betrayal) has 4.8k and basically breezes through T15. I don't know why it's so different tho. It can't be just those 800 life. " Yep, that's what I've been planning to do. I definitely need some Jewels with % to max life on them and then a better amulet and better gloves that also have a lot of life. I got me a Watcher's Eye yesterday, so that was a small boost already. " I do have a mediocre stygian in my stash that I found a while ago. It's not perfect, but comes with 37 ES, 98 life and 44 cold 34 lightning res, plus two useless mods. The only reason I'm not using it atm is because it would screw up my res. I might switch to it, depending on the whatever res I get on gloves and amulet. It's really painful to juggle this out, let alone to juggle so that Wise Oak works as intended. " Yep :/ Gloves won't be cheap aiming for 40+ triple res, life and lots of ES. The boots I have, I just bought a couple of days ago. They're also not perfect but will have to do for now. " I haven't even done normal Shaper in my "career". I'll be happy to manage to do that already. Really not aiming for UE. It's really not something I want to adjust my gear to now. Should I ever get that far, I'll have to bite that bullet. " Yes, I might have to settle for an amulet that boosts res instead of dps, although I really hope that I somehow manage to juggle this out with gloves and belt. I'd really prefer to have an amulet that boosts dps + ES, without wasting mods on res, as Enki suggests. That might require to get some res from Jewels, I know. And that sucks, too. :/ " The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that your choice with Innervate is actually the better one, honestly. I've been trying to keep an eye on the EO proc and even without Increased Criticals, Storm Brand manages to proc it almost every time. I mean, all that's needed is one crit every 8 sec, right? That's doable even without Increased Criticals. " Hmm... Vaal Discipline. That's something I have to chew on. Don't know if I'd like that. So far my ES sustain is great. I never run out of ES. With the Vaal Regalia I have 3222 ES now, without it it's going to be 1839. Once I get some gloves with more ES and an amulet with ~20% to max ES, maybe a jewel or two with ES, I hope I'll get to ~2k+, which I hope will still work out fine, too. "
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If you want to use Zealotry, you have to use the Enlighten Support, too. Which means you'd have to throw out 2 gems and make a 4L setup from the auras + enlighten. So you wouldn't throw out Enfeeble and Wrath, you would throw out Enfeeble + Blasphemy, since they belong together anyway and Blasphemy is only needed for Enfeeble.
I leveled Zealotry and Enlighten in my secondary weapons for a while and about 3 days ago, I also switched Blasphemy and Enfeeble out for it. Like WorderMostFoul said, it's a bit of a dealer's choice, since you're basically trading defense for dps. The dps boost from Zealotry is considerable. It's not a total game changer, but it's considerable. But losing out on the defensive capabilities from Enfeeble is also noticeable. Since it's the same socket colors tho, there's no problem in switching. So you can simply keep the gems and switch between the two setups whenever you feel you need one more than the other. "
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More ES. Definitely more ES. I mean, you look like you're experienced, so I probably don't have to tell you, but you only have 1300 ES according to POB. Your gloves give you no ES, your belt gives you no ES, the Tabby... One of your rings, your ammy, your helmet and your boots give you some flat ES, but try to also get gloves, armor, belt with ES and try to aim for things that fulfill the suggest amounts of ES in the gear section of the guide. And try to look for things with % increased max ES mod, too (amulet, jewels etc).
As orientation: As it's pointed out in the "Main Mechanics of this build" section for MoM: "For MoM to work properly we need roughly 43% of our Life pool as Energy Shield." 50%+ would be even better. So with 3600 life you should have at least 1550 ES. Otherwise you'll frequently run into situations where you're practically crippled, run out of ES, can't cast anymore and die. You can easily get a huge ES boost just by switching from your Tabula to a Vaal Regalia. Doesn't even have to be a 6L. 5L without Hypothermia works out fine already. And maybe take Zealot's Oath again? Once you have enough ES and can sustain it, you can refund it again. Last edited by Cendrake#0301 on May 12, 2019, 12:13:33 AM
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"So you want me to take somehow all of these four? "SIX MORE ARC GEMS? Im confused, i never seen a quest where I can take from a NPC six same gems. And also why should I lvl up in same time 6x arc gems in my secondary weapon? What is it for? Last edited by Sebash6#0223 on May 12, 2019, 6:27:12 AM
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" Yes, if the guide tells you to get those four gems, get those 4 gems. Optionally, you can get yourself six more Arc gems and level them in your secondary weapons. You don't get them for a quest, you can buy them from Nessa on the 2nd page (look on top of the window, when you talk to Nessa and click on "Purchase items", there should be a tab "2" with skill gems) You don't have to do this, it's optional. The reason is so that you have seven level 20 arc gems later that you can corrupt with Vaal Orbs. There's a probability that one of them will turn out to be a corrupted Level 21 gem. Last edited by Cendrake#0301 on May 12, 2019, 6:43:05 AM
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