Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

Nice, we got an Anointment list

These might be very nice for defences:

Clear Oil - Sepia Oil - Violet Oil -> Freedom of Movement

Teal Oil - Golden Oil - Golden Oil -> Golem's Blood

Teal Oil - Black Oil - Golden Oil -> Hardened Scars

Verdant Oil - Black Oil - Silver Oil -> Profane Chemistry

Clear Oil - Crimson Oil - Golden Oil -> Druidic Rite

Clear Oil - Violet Oil - Golden Oil -> Transcendence

I'll stick to the script for leveling. But I'm also intrigued by Elemancer and might play around with that later.

Oh and of course Enki's other build *-* But I usually don't find the time and currency to focus on more than one, sadly.

Anyways, good luck everyone! And thank you, Enki, for your time and patience!

Haven't played a Witch before so...this is it now! 3.8 I'm coming! Thanks for the timely update and your ideas!

Hey Enki!

First of all, thanks for this build! I played a bunch on PC back between OB and Awakening and Arc was always my favorite skill. When I came back to PoE on PS4 I followed your guide in Synthesis and really liked it so I did another Arc Witch in Legion and still loved it!
In fact I'm pretty happy as this is by far the highest level and best geared char I ever had on PoE, so many thanks for this <3

I'm currently level 98 and I'd like to push this char to 100 in Standard when I'll be done with Blight.
I see you dropped some things for 3.8, like Clarity and Hypothermia/Unleash for gems ; and Breath of Lightning in the tree.

I don't understand all of the depths of theorycrafting a build gem/tree-wise so I was wondering what should I be looking to change on my current char for him to be effective when the patch hits PS4.

Also, I'm currently using a CwDT for Golems as I find it smoother on PS4 (also using Flame Dash instead of LW for that reason) ; I think I can drop the current Minion Life link for a third golem but is there a way I could use all 3 golems with CwDT and Meat Shield (5-link helmet maybe)? Or should I just manually cast them for 3.8?

You can check my account for the character "Arcoholith".
I'm using a Watcher's Eye with "10% chance to recover 10% mana w/ Clarity" on the bottom right of the tree. Don't pay attention to the Timeless Jewel as I'm testing some stuff.

Thanks again and I hope you have a great Blight league!

@Sail686: I think Elemenancer could be a seriously good option with a +2 Spell Gem Level staff, that would allow to link four different golem gems with Meat Shield and either Empower or CwDt while still keeping a 6L Arc.

Instead of giving up Beacon of Ruin, i'd rather give up Paragon of Calimity and use a leech amulet. Of course not an option for everyone, but pretty interesting and worth looking into.

Gonna take a deeper look into anointments tomorrow or monday, and add them all to the amulet part of gear section.

@KymiBwo: You got a pretty nice setup there, would honestly not change too much. The new tree isn't much different, if your mana sustain is good enough you can save 3x passives from Essence Extraction and put them into more life/mana, Aqueos Accelerant or Breath of Lightning instead. Speaking of which, its loss is somewhat made up by the 30% ailment effect added to Beacon of Ruin. Generally i'd go for the survivability options at this point, you really don't wanna lose that 10% now.

Unfortunately there's no real option for golems that wouldn't require some big gear changes, so your choice has to be between Meat Shield or CwDt. Definitely wouldn't drop off a golem, especially the addition of Chaos Golem somewhat fixes one of this builds biggest weaknesses.

I found the current Arc setup works more consistently that Hypo/Unleash, especially when you also use Vaal Arc. Arcane Surge is especially useful now that mana sustain got hit. You can decide to keep Hypothermia instead of Controlled Destruction, it only really feels worse in ailment avoidance maps.

Other than that i'd just change Arcane Surge to Culling Strike on Orb of Storms and Wave of Conviction instead of Purifying Flame.

Good luck with hitting Lv100, please let me know how it went :)

Can this build work with CI as well? Should I just spec into CI instead of EB and look at different gear?

(Sorry can't figure out how to search within this thread for previous mentions of CI / Chaos Inoculation).

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jenesuispasbavard wrote:

Can this build work with CI as well? Should I just spec into CI instead of EB and look at different gear?

(Sorry can't figure out how to search within this thread for previous mentions of CI / Chaos Inoculation).

Nope, the build doesn't even use EB either. CI means you'd have to lose both Acrobatics and Mind over Matter and also give up Inpulsa's for a high ES chest, second weapon for a high ES shield and take care of reliable stun, freeze and chill immunity. And in the end, you'd still end up with way less survivability and damage than the setup as its posted.

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Enki91 wrote:

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jenesuispasbavard wrote:

Can this build work with CI as well? Should I just spec into CI instead of EB and look at different gear?

(Sorry can't figure out how to search within this thread for previous mentions of CI / Chaos Inoculation).

Nope, the build doesn't even use EB either. CI means you'd have to lose both Acrobatics and Mind over Matter and also give up Inpulsa's for a high ES chest, second weapon for a high ES shield and take care of reliable stun, freeze and chill immunity. And in the end, you'd still end up with way less survivability and damage than the setup as its posted.

Oops, had the wrong witch PoB tree open when typing out my original message.

Got it thanks! Looks like too many compromises to enable CI. I just like the fact that I don't have to worry about maxing chaos resist when taking CI. Oh well.

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jenesuispasbavard wrote:

Oops, had the wrong witch PoB tree open when typing out my original message.

Got it thanks! Looks like too many compromises to enable CI. I just like the fact that I don't have to worry about maxing chaos resist when taking CI. Oh well.

No worries. Atziri's Promise + a chaos res roll on boots is usually enough.

Ye nice idea :D

regarding CwDt - you noticed the extra keyset with ctrl ?
Perfect for Aura and Golem skills ;D