Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

Questions:
I found a Vaal Arc. Is it worth using/leveling this? I'm early in Act 3 at level 29. What are the implications for using Vaal Arc vice Arc?

I am getting near the end of Act9 - for me this build shreds through everything like it's nothing. Very smooth leveling. I am going a bit slow because I am interacting a lot with the gardening stuff, but otherwise the content is a joke. This is partly because the new crafting system is OP, but the build is very solid as well.

The only thing I dislike is arcanist brand but at least it is only temporary, hopefully.

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UtherSRG wrote:

Questions:
I found a Vaal Arc. Is it worth using/leveling this? I'm early in Act 3 at level 29. What are the implications for using Vaal Arc vice Arc?

I picked up a Vaal Arc, too. Tried using it a little, but it levels up waaaaaay slower than the normal Arc, so the damage feel behind and I swapped back to normal Arc. Just stick it in a socket in your 2nd weapon set so it'll level while you play. :)

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Reithan wrote:

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UtherSRG wrote:

Questions:
I found a Vaal Arc. Is it worth using/leveling this? I'm early in Act 3 at level 29. What are the implications for using Vaal Arc vice Arc?

I picked up a Vaal Arc, too. Tried using it a little, but it levels up waaaaaay slower than the normal Arc, so the damage feel behind and I swapped back to normal Arc. Just stick it in a socket in your 2nd weapon set so it'll level while you play. :)

Good enough of an answer for now. :D

Can someone please explain which skill tree I should follow?

1) His POB linked.

or

2) His "Passive Tree Goal" under his leveling section


I think I saw his stream last night showing his (#2) Passive Tree guide in his leveling section.

But the two are totally different.

Thanks!

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Indy101 wrote:

Can someone please explain which skill tree I should follow?

1) His POB linked.

or

2) His "Passive Tree Goal" under his leveling section


I think I saw his stream last night showing his (#2) Passive Tree guide in his leveling section.

But the two are totally different.

Thanks!

In POB you can switch between different versions of skills trees. At the bottom of screen you can find a drop down showing trees for leveling as well as end game (named such as Act1, Act2...Level70, Level80 etc)

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Hi, thanks for your work. Can someone explain me why to go on Righteous Army and Spiritual Aid on the left side? We don´t go on minions?

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Braddoc84 wrote:

Hi, thanks for your work. Can someone explain me why to go on Righteous Army and Spiritual Aid on the left side? We don´t go on minions?

Because of "increases to minion damage also affect you" from Spiritual Aid - this witch gets a lot of minion damage from her Necromancer Ascendancy. So she can make at least good use of it.

Ok, after a bit of playing around, I think I have the build back on track for me. In case anyone else has any issues, the tricks for me were:

• Put Wave of Conviction linked with the CWDT ASAP: guide doesn't mention this until later. This saves on micromanagemend and time spent standing still

• Put Bone Offering in with Desecrate on the Arcanist Brand ASAP: again, guide doesn't mention this until later. As guide didn't mention getting Bone offering at all until later, I didn't have it yet, and it's a huge boost to survivability.


I also just spent a bit of time farming up some slightly better gear since I guess my luck hadn't gotten me everything I needed in terms of +HP and damage.

One last note: I haven't tested it yet, but I saw some other people running this build with Scepter & Shield rather than Wand & Shield, and some of the Scepters have some pretty BEEFY +elemental damage - might be worth it?