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

The build uses a large mana pool for both DPS and Defence.

Archmage is scaling your Arc damage based on mana cost / max mana pool.

MoM & Agnostic are both using a large mana pool to soak up damage.

In your case it may be preferable to get +max mana on gear and use a Bismuth Flask for +35% resists until you can get gear that offers both.

SSF by it's nature is going to take longer to progress a character than trade league.

Do you have any Essence of Misery? You can use those to guarantee +mana rolls on white items.

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ArionAthreides wrote:

You can craft only an affix on an item or a suffix without going on an RNG spread that will most of the time give you a less useful item.

Regarding this comment. Are you using your Alts, Augs, Regal, Chaos etc to try rolling useful gear? You absolutely have to gamble with these orbs in SSF, otherwise you will be grinding for gear to drop with the mods you want forever.

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Evernothing wrote:

Do you have any Essence of Misery? You can use those to guarantee +mana rolls on white items.

No, I don't have any Misery.
I think this build was a bad choice for me, I have my hand already full healing mana and hit points, having to use a flask to get the res up is too much micromanaging.
Is there any build in this game that could do without crafting, pressing 5-6 key at once and all?

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Evernothing wrote:

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ArionAthreides wrote:

You can craft only an affix on an item or a suffix without going on an RNG spread that will most of the time give you a less useful item.

Regarding this comment. Are you using your Alts, Augs, Regal, Chaos etc to try rolling useful gear? You absolutely have to gamble with these orbs in SSF, otherwise, you will be grinding for gear to drop with the mods you want forever.

No. I've no idea on how to do that, it took me 3 months to figure out Harvest crafting and the league ended up when I got something that wasn't horribly subpar, I got anything really useful and Harvest was supposed to be the best crafting system.

I'm doing pretty well so far in this league with this build, clear speed is incredible even at fully juiced T16 maps and lvl83 heists, so it might make a decent reference for whoever is struggling.
However, I do struggle a little with high tier end game bosses like A8 in terms DPS, which I know is a known con with arc and builds like these.
I would also like to have some input as to how I can improve my character even further in terms of that.

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ArionAthreides wrote:

No. I've no idea on how to do that, it took me 3 months to figure out Harvest crafting and the league ended up when I got something that wasn't horribly subpar, I got anything really useful and Harvest was supposed to be the best crafting system.

It would suggest doing a trade league and buying your items with collected Chaos Orbs then. It takes a few leagues before you will get a good grasp on what mods are good, how to use specific currencies to craft higher-tier items, etc.

Alternately, here is a quick video guide on how the basic currencies work. Their only use in SSF is to roll items, so give it a shot on some drops that you find and you might be surprised what you can come up with.

https://youtu.be/Sl-wRRF-ekI

Also, I mentioned on a previous comment about farming Humility. You can run Blood Aqueducts zone in Act 9 over and over. It drops the Humiltiy Div Card for the Tabula Rasa 6 link chest item. You can spawn new instances of the zone if you CTRL click the zone in area. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Humility

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Evernothing wrote:

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ArionAthreides wrote:

No. I've no idea on how to do that, it took me 3 months to figure out Harvest crafting and the league ended up when I got something that wasn't horribly subpar, I got anything really useful and Harvest was supposed to be the best crafting system.

It would suggest doing a trade league and buying your items with collected Chaos Orbs then. It takes a few leagues before you will get a good grasp on what mods are good, how to use specific currencies to craft higher-tier items, etc.

Alternately, here is a quick video guide on how the basic currencies work. Their only use in SSF is to roll items, so give it a shot on some drops that you find and you might be surprised what you can come up with.

https://youtu.be/Sl-wRRF-ekI

Thanks for the help, but considering the prices I doubt I would fare better in trade. I checked and nobody is even selling gear with +80 mana for less than 80 chaos.

I feel sick just thinking how much Act 9 maps I should far for that's since I can't mapping maps high enough to farm chaos. The Heist Cat isn't worth that.

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anderssim22 wrote:

I'm doing pretty well so far in this league with this build, clear speed is incredible even at fully juiced T16 maps and lvl83 heists, so it might make a decent reference for whoever is struggling.
However, I do struggle a little with high tier end game bosses like A8 in terms DPS, which I know is a known con with arc and builds like these.
I would also like to have some input as to how I can improve my character even further in terms of that.

My build is very similar to yours, and I have a couple recommendations:

1. Very high budget, but a Cloak of Defiance massively increased my survivability.

2. The proper Lab enchant of "Spend an addition % of mana with arcane cloak" is extremely powerful, and worth paying the multiple exalt for one on a Crown.

3. The Added Fire damage to spells on your wand might be causing Wave of Conviction to be incorrectly applying Fire Exposure. We ideally want % lightning damage or added flat lightning damage.

4. Min-maxing here: Apply Fertile Catalyst to Amulet and Belt, especially amulet (gives another 20 flat mana and 10% mana regen rate).

5. Do you have cluster jewels set up at all?

6. Check my build if you're curious. The one thing I'm not sold on is the ring with conductivity.

7. I've been working on Boss DPS optimization as well. Having a 21 Vaal Arc is a decent power bump. 21/20 archmage is also good. If you have good survivability, I'd recommend adding a small cluster jewel with Scintillating Idea. Also, for boss DPS, are you struggling with damage or mana regeneration (or both)?

Thank you for the time you spend on this guide! It has been my point of reference for few leagues already and it’s time to show some appreciation 🙏🏻

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ArionAthreides wrote:

Thanks for the help, but considering the prices I doubt I would fare better in trade. I checked and nobody is even selling gear with +80 mana for less than 80 chaos.

You are not in the SSF league, you _are_ in the trade league (your char would have "SSF Heist League" next to it's name otherwise).

But you also seem to be jumping from one extreme to the next. No one anywhere has said you need 80+ mana on every item, simply mana on each item. The guide suggests a starting point of (iirc) 40-50 mana depending on the item. As an e.g. i have ~30 on boots and 60 on gloves ~40 on belt and these items each cost less than 10c. You also need life on every item (well most).

I would suggest you need to replace the amulet, belt and ring you currently have that does not have mana or life. I'd further suggest not trying to cover resists on your amulet or helmet, as the two unique 'end game' items do not have resists on them so to make future upgrades easier try and cover res on gloves/rings/belt/boots.

As a starting point, here's a link to the trade site for a replacement belt, it looks like you can pick one up for 1c.

Edit: Also, if you're in maps (and at lvl 74 I'd say you're close if not there already) then you've made it far enough to earn the currency you'll need to upgrade things moving forward.

Edit2: link fixed.

Regards,
Cypr3ss.