Witch - Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now - Forum

which of these also to apply us (bc of spiritual aid)? minions have increased attack speed minions have increased cast speed minions deal additional lightning damage thanks	Posted by subcutan#7641 on Feb 19, 2019, 7:46:41 AM Quote this Post
1 & 2 for sure no. Not sure about additional lightning damage.	Posted by bartpio#3927 on Feb 19, 2019, 8:35:48 AM Quote this Post
Why does this build have 5 minion nodes in the tree? That seems like 5 wasted points. 6, if you include the 1 travel node.	Posted by GoldenGonzo#6768 on Feb 19, 2019, 10:02:44 AM Quote this Post
" GoldenGonzo wrote: Why does this build have 5 minion nodes in the tree? That seems like 5 wasted points. 6, if you include the 1 travel node. The last minion node has text that says, all the increased damage to minions, are actually moved over to the character. Meaning, every mod that has X% increased damage to minions, actually is X% increased damage to our character.	Posted by b1zm4rk#2212 on Feb 19, 2019, 10:05:36 AM Quote this Post
Read the discussion - last 2 pages are about this :) Spiritual aid - damage increase attribute to minions apply to main character.	Posted by bartpio#3927 on Feb 19, 2019, 10:06:38 AM Quote this Post
" subcutan wrote: which of these also to apply us (bc of spiritual aid)? minions have increased attack speed minions have increased cast speed minions deal additional lightning damage thanks " bartpio wrote: 1 & 2 for sure no. Not sure about additional lightning damage. can anyone confirm this or could this possibly be a cheap way to boost dps?	Posted by subcutan#7641 on Feb 19, 2019, 10:38:05 AM Quote this Post
" subcutan wrote: Spoiler " subcutan wrote: which of these also to apply us (bc of spiritual aid)? minions have increased attack speed minions have increased cast speed minions deal additional lightning damage thanks " bartpio wrote: 1 & 2 for sure no. Not sure about additional lightning damage. can anyone confirm this or could this possibly be a cheap way to boost dps? I can confirm that neither of these modifiers increase character DPS if used in conjunction with Spiritual Aid. In general, if the modifier isn't explicitly worded as "Minions deal #% increased/decreased damage", it almost certainly won't work. Even then you have to keep in mind what the modifier affects (see Infernosaint's explanation for Minion Damage support gem).	Posted by sny83#2419 on Feb 19, 2019, 11:52:01 AM Quote this Post
" subcutan wrote: can anyone confirm this or could this possibly be a cheap way to boost dps? As sny83 said, it won’t work. Wording in PoE is extremely specific, even if half the time the mechanics are vaguely worded...very annoying. More/less, # to #, attack/cast speed, etc are all independent of each other. You can pick up Spiritual Command to allow increases/decreases to minion attack speed to affect you, but I know of no other way for minion stats to affect us. Also, I recommend not grabbing Spiritual Command unless you have a bizzaire set of gear offering a considerable amount of increased minion attack speed. " BigJules wrote: That seems like a reasonable start. However, when I try to use the traps, i often end up doing less damage than if i just spammed arc. the reason is trap placement and trap delay. I can throw 3 traps, after that there's an 8 second recharge to get another one. Unless a mob steps on the trap, there's a delay before the trap goes off. So often i place traps, the mob wanders off and the trap goes off on nothing. then I spend time flitting around until the trap recharges and again throw a trap off into futility. Even when I do manage to hit something with trap damage, it does not seem to be doing significantly more than arc. It seems my time would have been better spent just hitting the arc button. Granted, i love putting the traps under a strongbox, activating it and dashing away, but clearly I'm not using it correctly on bosses and other large encounters. You got it. Its primarily learning trap mechanics through experience, knowing when/where to cast and knowing when/where the boss is likely to move. As you said, there is a CD, so no rush on dropping all 3 traps at once unless you have the time to do so. Last edited by Aldonés#1294 on Feb 19, 2019, 2:06:44 PM	Posted by Aldonés#1294 on Feb 19, 2019, 1:59:16 PM Quote this Post
Is this any good / of value? Couldn't find ANY like this on trade at all...	Posted by Etralis#2345 on Feb 19, 2019, 5:20:42 PM Banned Quote this Post
" napraen wrote: " WorderMostFoul wrote: One question...why would this not apply to those of us using lightning spire? Assuming we are still using storm brand, too, of course. Didn't occur to me that you would do that, my thought process was you have one or the other(what do you drop to have both LST and SB?). It's probably how i got the idea in the first place when i switched to SB as main skill and LST for single target, since i didn't need to apply shock with the trap EF was the clear winner in terms of dps vs most other gems i considered, though still less than conc effect and the specific trap/mine dmg ones mind you. I dropped the second CWDT setup that had enfeeble. I thought this was the standard, though I guess I'm not really sure what everyone else does. My profile is public, though, so you can see how I have it arranged. Now that I'm used to playing with them, I can't imagine giving up arc, storm brand, or lightning spire trap. They all have different functions that they fulfill very efficiently. I just hope none of them are nerfed in the next league...	Posted by WorderMostFoul#7154 on Feb 19, 2019, 9:24:20 PM Quote this Post