Enki's Arc Witch Memorial Page & POE 2 Arc Summary
" You want to find about 1k more HP at that level. I'm assuming you're somewhere in A6-A8 at 55 where act bosses start getting scary. You'll also have to learn the mechanics as some are heavily telegraphed and meant to be avoided, like the Innocence slam, Brine king lightning explosions etc. Not to mention the valve on Doedre... |
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" This is also exactly my situation. eg. Labyrinth boss kills me so I have to retry. Just started Act8 but feel undergeared/underspecced. Is there a lvl60 stats overview so I can work towards that? Thanks. |
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" For Labyrinth boss, I also feel powerless to fight first 2 bosses, sometimes one hit and die. Anyway, I will try to increase character's life to see if there is improvement. Cheers. |
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Wtf?
I thought we need to invest into Energy shield, because as Enki said we need our ES to be 43% our HP. |
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Hello I m new to the game and I don't understand how to use the aura, I need 50 + 35 + 35 % = 120% of my mana pool. Where is the trick here?
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" You thought correctly. We need at least 43%! 45% is comfortable and anything above 50% means you probably need more life on your gear. This is obviously if you're running Mind over Matter plus Eldritch Battery. " Look at Enki's skill trees--there are nodes that reduce mana reservation so that the total reserved amount ends up right below 100%. Or you can just save yourself some time and buy a Devouring Diadem; it's basically on-par with a god-tier Shaper hubris circlet and gives you a lot more global damage potential. |
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" Well, I am at act6, 53lvl, dont have problems with anything (you can check my gear) except fighting with some bosses when they 1 hit me (when I dont miss their slam hit etc) but its because I forgot to switch my lvling boots which gives me insane movement speed - I cant switch to normal boots with normal mov speed - i feel so slow moving without mine Overall Im pretty fine, almost 1-2 hit everything and I got 1500 hp and only 650 ES. So should i upgrade my ES to have it at least 43% (dont know even what for) or upgrade HP? Also in the leveling section there is a info about "Start looking out for Dagger upgrades"... but like 1h before I entered act 5 I upgraded my wands. The prices for good wand is 2-3 alc to max 1 chaos.. But when I started to look for Dagger on poe (using a "How to look for & buy Gear" Guide on Poe) the minimum prices for similar dagger compare to mine wand (for 3 alc) is like 5 chaos. The only difference I see is just a 30% chance to crit on the daggers, rest stats are very similar to my wand which is cheaper. Do i really need to move from my wands to 2x dagger (which will be like 10x chaos for both) - and only one upgrade it will be more crit chance + possibility for using whriling blade <-- i dont even know why do I need this because im fine with the flame dash. Anyone can answer me about my questions? tl;dr minimum hp vs minimum ES, wand vs dagger (crit chance vs more spell damage) + why do we need whriling blade vs flame dash Last edited by Sebash6#0223 on May 15, 2019, 6:07:24 AM
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Spoiler
1) Regarding hp+ES. Both is important. Life obviously because it is your life. ES obviously because it is your mana and also serves as a secondary life pool because of MoM. So you shouldn't neglect either.
You need both and you should try to balance it out so that you have at least 43%+ of your life in ES, so that MoM works as intended. (regarding the question what we use MoM for: Because it serves as very good defense and boosts our survivability. 30% of damage is redirected to mana. That is ES in our case, because of Eldritch Battery. And Energy Shield gets replenished insanely fast because of our ES leech and regen. That's 30% of damage taken that more or less vanishes instantly and does not go to your life. But for it to work fine, you should aim for at least 43% of your life in ES.) As for what it is playing the game right now, with your character and gear, no one can answer that question but yourself. If you feel 650 ES are enough, but you feel you don't have enough life and you're looking for short-term/intermediate upgrades, then of course look for something that gives you more life. If it's the other way around, look for something that gives you more ES. If you think you're fine with what you have, then you're fine for now. Only you can answer that question. 2) The difference and main reason why we use daggers instead of wands as stat-sticks in this build is the movement skill Whirling Blades. If it was simply about which type of weapon could provide the better mods for this build, then it would be wands of course. But you can only use Whirling Blades with swords and daggers. It is way more reliable than Flame Dash, since it doesn't have a crappy cooldown, and it's also fairly fast with greater attack speed. That should also solve your speed problem. We actually don't really walk anywhere by foot, we move around with Whirling Blades. That's why increased movement speed on boots isn't really an issue. The only reason we keep Flame Dash in the build is to use it to sometimes get across gaps and cliffs and such, since Whirling Blade cannot do that. Especially in this leagues memories this is crucial. But for the most part, we move everywhere with Whirling Blades. And you get Heartbreakers (as it's mentioned in the gear section) with top rolls of 65%+ increased Spell Damage for 1c already. They might not give you that cast speed as your wands, but they give you some ES and your Spells have Culling Strike (kills everything with less than 10% of its max life instantly - good for bosses), plus you're able to use Whirling Blades. They're cheap, easy to come by and actually suit the build well. Of course if you feel fine with Flame Dash and never run into the problem that you run out of uses for it and suddenly can't get away fast enough anymore so you die... If it works for you and you find it comfortable, then by all means go ahead and Keep using Flame Dash and wands! That's also something you have to decide for yourself. But if at some point you start to die a lot because of your decisions to alter the build, then don't come here and blame the build Last edited by Cendrake#0301 on May 15, 2019, 11:14:42 AM
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hi all, first thanx Enki, this is a great guide and moreover you can learn about the game so much regardless of the build!
I am not a pro and not a noob player, and i am learning a game. I progressed using the build to lvl 93, and can clear all red maps with lot of mods with no sweat. Clear speed is great, my dmg feels good for map clearing. My problems are with the big bosses, like guardians and Elder, I manage to kill 2 and first Elder on the map, bu used a lot of portals to do so. Main things that I can see are that my daggers could be better, but i have no enough mods on the bench and the market is not offering good enough daggers. Second is that I think my watcher's eye is a miss, but really good ones are like 35 ex (I have around 5 ex) I have 5370 life and 2427 ES So i am dying to big bosses to much myb it is my bad playing, or there is room for improvements in my gear. If you have any advice i would be greatfull. Last edited by Zmjia#5257 on May 15, 2019, 1:58:14 PM
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"I got 900 ES but... What is the point to take MoM if I have like 34 mana left due to my auras(herald of thunder, discipline + enfeble) Wouldn't it be good if I had like at least 300 mana left? Anyone? Last edited by Sebash6#0223 on May 15, 2019, 2:36:20 PM
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