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

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Aziridine wrote:

For people who are still mostly on the old tree, would a reasonable middle ground be to get aul's to wrath doesn't reserve mana and then use both heralds that way rather than getting the mastermind of discord? That way you get a bit of damage boost from 2x heralds, but still have all the golems and elemental reflection immunity.

(This is the first league I've ever made it past act 4, let alone to maps so there's probably something obvious I'm missing)

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Wissle wrote:

Why the move from Leap Slam to Flame Dash?

Wasn't the point of Leap Slam to have a 0 cooldown movement skill? Why replace that with one that has a cooldown?

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Zestrenocya wrote:

My thought on the changes: I think the build is much better now, but I do understand some of the frustrated players.

Basically, I think the revisions make the build slightly less forgiving but dramatically more effective. This seems to be down mostly to the removal of fortify. I say this because prior to the changes I had already removed the soul tether belt in favor of a Stygian vise and was doing fine without the leech because of the resultant increase in life.

It should be noted that I had earlier changed up a great deal of the build for more damage when I got to red/deep yellow maps and conqs, going heavily in favor of shock and abandoning herald of ice and three dragons altogether to do more damage. I am now back to using the build as listed in the revisions with the exception of the weapon swap. As you can see, I'm a PS4 player and there's no really effective way to weapon swap on console while under fire, so I am just doing without the exposure from wave of conviction. If I had an effective way to pull this off, the build would probably be even better.

This brings up a thought for Enki: What about dumping power charge on crit in favor of wave of conviction in the storm brand six link for those who don't want to weapon swap? Not sure if power charge on crit or empower would be the best gem to "dump" to accomplish this or if it is even worth considering.

Basically, the new design makes it so boss fights take far less time resulting in far fewer chances to screw up. Previously, tricked out metamorphs were taking twice the time for me that they do now with these revisions. However, if we DO screw up, it is far more likely to result in a one shot death than a "I just barely survived that but lived to fight on" moment. Since eventually I will foul things up, I like the increased damage much better. Map clear is also vastly superior to earlier versions in my opinion.

Additionally, we also have the option to storm brand things to death in situations where the bosses are just chaos and there's almost no time to stop and arc. (I found the lightning elder guardian in a red map and had to resort to this tactic since he now covers the field in tons of crap you have to avoid. I pretty much storm branded him and then dodged while the brand did its work.)

All in all, although I know everyone hates change, the alterations to the build have made it far more effective. Thanks for all the hard work Enki. I know it must have taken hours of experimentation with PoB to get this where it is now. I, for one, appreciate it greatly.

Z