Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

Having a really rough time on heist with this build right now, so i was wondering if it gets better later or maybe i should find another build for the heisting part of the league and just use this for mapping and such?

I've been able to clear monster level 80 + heists, both solo and in groups. The build has a lot of damage, obtaining additional defenses is what I've struggled with.

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LawsonGD wrote:

If anyone would like to check out my build, I'm consistently clearing T15/T16 maps with no deaths.

Notes:
-The lab enchant on Crown is great but I was kicking ass at maps before I got the enchant.
-Lab enchant on boots was an extremely notable upgrade.
-Atziri's Foible is an incredibly powerful upgrade.
-Trigger wand is massive quality of life improvement. I was struggling with sub tier-10 maps before I got the trigger craft.
- %Mana restored on block is a great upgrade but red maps were easy before I got it.
- I switched to an Essence Worm with Wrath quite early, so I don't know how the build would perform without it.

Right now I'm trying to decide between pursuing a Watcher's Eye or the full cluster jewel setup (they're the same price of about 4.5-5ex).

Crafting the chest pieces detailed in the guide seem insane without Harvest crafting. I'd propose either crafting or buying a hunter-influenced base w/ T1 life and % increased offering effect and then multi-modding flat mana and % increased life and mana.

Agree with everything here.

I think the cluster jewel is the better option. They hit the Watcher's Eye mana recovery mod decently hard this patch and it's better and likely cheaper to slam mana recovery on a good stygian vise with a Redeemer's orb.

I'm definitely just going Cloak of Defiance this league and not bothering with trying to get equivalently powerful mods on a rare. I think the flat mana, regen, and increased MoM could only be matched by a rare with increased effect of offerings AND increased MoM AND high-tier life and mana rolls. Which would probably be dozens and dozens of ex this league.

@WorderMostFoul I believe the build guide calls for a Watcher's Eye with the "% of Damage taken from Mana before Life while affected by Clarity" mod. It would increase that defensive layer's strength by 33%, which might be substantial. I'm not sure how to do the survivability math, so I'm hesitant to commit 5ex to find out >.<

The cluster setup seems really strong, giving more mana, block, and reliable power charges (definitely considering the suggestion to taking Whirling Barrier to have 40% chance for a power charge on block).

So, is Storm Brand + Conductivity less damage than this Sigil of Power + Vaal Fire? I'm using the former till now and i've been doing fine but i'm always for more damage.

<3 Thank you for the build

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LawsonGD wrote:

@WorderMostFoul I believe the build guide calls for a Watcher's Eye with the "% of Damage taken from Mana before Life while affected by Clarity" mod. It would increase that defensive layer's strength by 33%, which might be substantial. I'm not sure how to do the survivability math, so I'm hesitant to commit 5ex to find out >.<

The cluster setup seems really strong, giving more mana, block, and reliable power charges (definitely considering the suggestion to taking Whirling Barrier to have 40% chance for a power charge on block).

I am just following your build, seems pretty dope.

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Aldonés wrote:

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Evernothing wrote:

For EO, I see it up most of the time. Here are my stats:

7.65% Spell Crit Strike Chance
0.23 to 0.26 sec Arc cast time, depending on if my flasks / buffs are active.

You also do not have Controlled Destruction socketed. Add your 6th link and your crit will drop to 2.65%.

You are right. I have my 6L with Controlled Destruction now.

I decided to take a 20% & 25% crit node near Lord of the Dead, which puts me up to 4.9%.

This makes the average time to crit 4.94 seconds @ 4.13 casts per second.

i read that this build isnt boss viable or sirius and elder viable becauze lack of dmg... is this true `?

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LawsonGD wrote:

@WorderMostFoul I believe the build guide calls for a Watcher's Eye with the "% of Damage taken from Mana before Life while affected by Clarity" mod. It would increase that defensive layer's strength by 33%, which might be substantial. I'm not sure how to do the survivability math, so I'm hesitant to commit 5ex to find out >.<

The cluster setup seems really strong, giving more mana, block, and reliable power charges (definitely considering the suggestion to taking Whirling Barrier to have 40% chance for a power charge on block).

You are right, that is totally my bad. I didn't realize Enki updated his suggestions for both cluster jewels and WE affix for this league.

So that MoM affix is really valuable, huge increase for survivability if you have enough mana sustain. The ideal WE would have both the MoM and increased recovery affixes, but that's a pipe dream.

Cloak of Defiance provides the same MoM boost as that WE, plus a ton of flat mana and more regen to essentially make up for the additional mana needed to support a 40% MoM. I did the math last league, and assuming you have the mana to support it, 30% MoM provides a 1.43 multiplier to your hit pool (eHP), while 40% provides a 1.67 multiplier. (50% would be a 2.0 multiplier!) So whatever 24% of your life is, that's how much bigger your life pool will be with an extra 10% MoM, be it from WE or Cloak or rare body armor. Either way, it means more of your mana will be eaten up, and the difference is somewhat noticeable unless you compensate with more mana recovery. I see that as the Cloak by itself or the WE with the Redeemer's belt.

The cluster jewels...I am hesitant to wade too far into that discussion right now, but will just say that they afford you the opportunity to get 2x Scintillating Idea from one cluster tree (including Kitava's Teachings), and that is THE best cluster notable, as far as I'm concerned.

Power charges need more discussion, too. I do not think they're a suitable way to consider EO locked in as a buff. If you manage to get to max power charges, you still have a pretty terrible chance of procking EO with Arc alone unless you have a ton of crit chance elsewhere. I just don't think Arc itself will ever be good for that in this build. Chance to crit is rolled per cast, not per chain/fork/echo, so you are looking at an average of many Arc casts without EO before EO manages to proc. If you have a secondary damage spell that doesn't have a 100% penalty to crit chance and rolls many separate chances to crit with only one cast from us, you are going to spend much less time waiting for EO to proc. The bottom line: every Arc cast without EO procked is a missed opportunity for 40% more damage.