[3.16] Enki's Archmage Hierophant - a beginner-friendly Lightning Caster

Am I being stupid or are we supposed to get power charges? Because I don’t get where we are supposed to get them from.

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DetonatorLoki wrote:

Am I being stupid or are we supposed to get power charges? Because I don’t get where we are supposed to get them from.

Hey we already got passive 4 power and endurance charges from ascendancy thats all

Ahh ok cool. I wasn’t sure if we needed a way to trigger them or if they just existed all the time. Thanks

I'm very much enjoying this non-meta build now but the lack of any real defence is really bothering me and I die still much more than I should. I know a fair bit of the problem is my ageing rig and rubbish VGA card which performed admirably during ritual, but something last league ( I didn't like ultimatum and gave up in days) or this league has made the game near unplayable. I'm now on pretty much minimum settings for everything, I've turned on dynamic resolution and dynamic culling but still I'm getting constant lag spikes and frame rates between about 2 fps and 15 fps. All my effects from skills stutter. The mobs teleport. I leap away and get teleported back into mobs. Usually on a more HC ok build this isn't an issue, I'd have a guard skill and when it's down block or dodge, but with this build when the guard skill is down there's zero defence. The time to die in this game has always been ridiculous but it's now worse than ever. I cant move my fingers from Q and W to 1 and 2 to hit pots before I'm dead. When that mana defence fails because arcane cloak is down, or mp is low from skilling and agnostic the 3k life vaporises in an instant.
I'm trying to play more carefully but like normal it's hard to see much in POE. They do so love to make mobs the same colours as the map they sit on. Sometimes i die to mobs that haven't even been rendered on my screen.

https://pastebin.com/18HRjM1n

is my POB. The numbers look good enough but I can't see much I can do to improve defensive performance especially as this league for me has been hard to farm currency. I have about 1.5 ex to play with, double that if I can sell my nurse card.

On the plus side, I made both of my six links myself this league. The armour took 54 fusings, and the staff only about 350. I've never had any luck with fusings so I've been over the moon about that especially as currency for me has been sparse.

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Thayaric wrote:

I'm very much enjoying this non-meta build now but the lack of any real defence is really bothering me and I die still much more than I should. I know a fair bit of the problem is my ageing rig and rubbish VGA card which performed admirably during ritual, but something last league ( I didn't like ultimatum and gave up in days) or this league has made the game near unplayable. I'm now on pretty much minimum settings for everything, I've turned on dynamic resolution and dynamic culling but still I'm getting constant lag spikes and frame rates between about 2 fps and 15 fps. All my effects from skills stutter. The mobs teleport. I leap away and get teleported back into mobs. Usually on a more HC ok build this isn't an issue, I'd have a guard skill and when it's down block or dodge, but with this build when the guard skill is down there's zero defence. The time to die in this game has always been ridiculous but it's now worse than ever. I cant move my fingers from Q and W to 1 and 2 to hit pots before I'm dead. When that mana defence fails because arcane cloak is down, or mp is low from skilling and agnostic the 3k life vaporises in an instant.
I'm trying to play more carefully but like normal it's hard to see much in POE. They do so love to make mobs the same colours as the map they sit on. Sometimes i die to mobs that haven't even been rendered on my screen.

https://pastebin.com/18HRjM1n

is my POB. The numbers look good enough but I can't see much I can do to improve defensive performance especially as this league for me has been hard to farm currency. I have about 1.5 ex to play with, double that if I can sell my nurse card.

On the plus side, I made both of my six links myself this league. The armour took 54 fusings, and the staff only about 350. I've never had any luck with fusings so I've been over the moon about that especially as currency for me has been sparse.

I got similar problems... it's been a long time since I had so much problems doing Uber Lab, I don't even remember the last time Argus killed me... I still need the 6L body armour, that would be a good 10% more evade chance, 10% more MOM effect and more mana regen, but I really doubt I would really be less squishy enough with that. I'm gonna try Arctic Armour instead of Wrath in the ring, but I think a good source for mana leech would be the only good solution, but since there are no sources of that for spells anymore, the mana leech support gem is the next thing I'm gonna try

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garravich wrote:

I got similar problems... it's been a long time since I had so much problems doing Uber Lab, I don't even remember the last time Argus killed me... I still need the 6L body armour, that would be a good 10% more evade chance, 10% more MOM effect and more mana regen, but I really doubt I would really be less squishy enough with that. I'm gonna try Arctic Armour instead of Wrath in the ring, but I think a good source for mana leech would be the only good solution, but since there are no sources of that for spells anymore, the mana leech support gem is the next thing I'm gonna try

With the six link I have a massive 9% evade chance. I only have armour with granite flask up. The staff blocks only spells and not attacks. To gain fortify you need to literally leap into mobs which with my lag and FPS is basically suicide most of the time. No dodge, no attack block, no armour and a guard skill that's up for 6.8 secs in every 10. I have the clone yourself glove enchant which is out about as much as my elementalist's golems showing virtually every mob is hitting me.

I think i miss the arcane cloak helm enchant and the unnatural instinct jewel and some quality on my support gems along with the extra levels from corruption. My watcher's eye could be better but I haven't got to Elder yet and can't afford a decent one, otherwise i think my gear is pretty decent. I shouldn't be dying this much. I don't even think i'll hit 90 I'm pretty much xping backwards.

Sounds the prob is more the lags then the build...

How do u thing we can help in this case? U have to move with this build and u have to move to save places. If u can afford buy a better hardware no better watchers eye ;)

I freely admit that lag is my worst issue. I don't know what's changed since ritual but it's a world of difference now. I only had 20-25 fps during ritual but at least it was smooth not stuttery and my ping stayed fairly level whereas this league one sec im 32 ms the next it's 900ms. Performance metrics seem to think my CPU is heavily bound, the GPU doing virtually nothing, and VRAM always critical or close to it. I have a 6 series i5 so not a terrible CPU, but my 730GT 2gb card is no good now for poe.
Sadly due to the pandemic I lost my job and was forced to take the only job i could find, a carer for minimum wage. I don't have a hope of upgrading my rig for a while. I'd like to stick a 1050ti in it but they are still costing much the same as when they were top cards like 3 or 4 years ago.
I've tried both DX and vulkan. Vulkan works much better than DX but i'd love to know what's causing this lag as other games play lag free and pingplots show no real constant lag spikes on my net. I only get this lag during POE. Last epoch actually plays really well despite it being newer with servers further away physically.

Recently managed to hit 1.2M DPS on ball lightning, and can comfortably down A8 Sirius, uber elder with no deaths.

Seems like the bottom left mana and armor nodes, coupled with a mana recovery + armor/evasion belt goes well with the stubborn student cluster jewel suggested by oSrenalike. I've stopped dying in logbooks / maps ever since.

Also found that stacking cast speed & getting tailwind eventually allows us to cast ball lightning fast and move right after. After that we can then replace the Mindfulness jewel with clarity of purpose, since we wont be staying stationary anymore.

PB if anyone's interested: https://pastebin.com/3qQ9XzTN

Also, has anyone tried to push our ball lightning DPS beyond 5M? can't seem to push ball lightning dps beyond 2M no matter how i fiddle around with POB.

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AlvanJustice wrote:

Recently managed to hit 1.2M DPS on ball lightning, and can comfortably down A8 Sirius, uber elder with no deaths.

Seems like the bottom left mana and armor nodes, coupled with a mana recovery + armor/evasion belt goes well with the stubborn student cluster jewel suggested by oSrenalike. I've stopped dying in logbooks / maps ever since.

Also found that stacking cast speed & getting tailwind eventually allows us to cast ball lightning fast and move right after. After that we can then replace the Mindfulness jewel with clarity of purpose, since we wont be staying stationary anymore.

PB if anyone's interested: https://pastebin.com/3qQ9XzTN

Also, has anyone tried to push our ball lightning DPS beyond 5M? can't seem to push ball lightning dps beyond 2M no matter how i fiddle around with POB.

Hello
First of all i am glad i could help but you are missing some important info about your dps .. you can calculate your dps with the calculator that enki suggested (you are already doing over 10m dps i believe) and you are also missing some important check marks on your pob configuration for example exposure type mana spend onslaught if you got any power charges endurance charges and frenzy if you are using blood rage.

Your dps is not reliable without your arcanist brand and you can't have that dps all the time which will cause problems for you eventually please follow the tips below to increase your dps and make it reliable

1. get a large cluster jewel with disorienting display + corrosive elements and supercharge if you can't get supercharge try something else you dont have to have that

2. drop the jewel slot you got bott side of your talent tree and the mana+armor nodes you got at left side of your talent tree and get a medium cluster jewel with culling strike and unnerve huge dps boost (wish for death and master of fear )

3.spend any remaining talent points shock resistance next to your inner conviction and mana nodes you are missing

4. get this flask setup also you dont need life flask anymore


5.you are still missing immunity to silence .. make sure to have that on one of your cluster jewels or on one of your unique jewels (having corrupted blood immunity is a bonus)

6. you are missing helmet enchant like me ^^ arcane cloak spends 15% more additional mana

7. get curse on hit ring something similar to this

then you can drop whole arcanist brand setup (you will get exposure from cluster jewel i suggested) it opens up slot for builds like Vaal haste + increased duration and maybe sigil of power + increased area effect (vaal haste eats through anything tanky in a second)

8.if you wanna have fun clearing everything get anomalous orb of storms for extra two beams + awakened chain support for even more chains aaaaaand one of these gloves to make everything to explode..


you can apply multiple curses with whispers of doom anoint .. if you dont anoint it curse on hit on ring will apply only so no lose on that part and units will still explode and such (you can also use sniper mark for second curse if you like but i personally never liked extra casts like that)

8.i like the militant faith jewel but i prefer tempered mind personally for even more mana regen if you are struggling mind drinker is better than mana flows. remember your mana is your life and can't risk it to go lower than 50%

9. if you decided not to go asenath gloves i would recommend nexus gloves your gloves are fine as well tho

10.you need better helmet maybe something even better than this if you can pay for it

that -9 to lightning resistance or 12 if you can get upgraded version is huge dps boost

there are always more upgrades that can be done try these for now and good luck