Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

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Nyangoro wrote:

I was looking at upgrading my Mind Drinker annointment earlier, and found that the recommended high budget Mana Flows was actually a little lacking compared to certain alternatives that have comparable or lesser oil cost.

In the first place, the core pretext of running a maximum mana-based annointment is to provide a significant buffer to effective life without sacrificing too much dps, so I looked at other options that did similarly.

To that end, a few options stood out:

Druidic Rite - gives slightly more max mana and has additional flask charges and duration, at the expense of losing mana regen. Oil cost is slightly cheaper, costing Clear Crimson Golden compared to Mana Flows' Clear Opalesecent Golden.

Primal Spirit - basically the budget Mana Flows, almost identical stat profile, just slightly lesser mana regen, and trades a tiny amount of max mana for a tiny bit of max life at a significantly cheaper oil cost of Amber Silver Silver. Comes with 20% additional flask charges gained, but it's not that significant.

Arcane Chemistry - has slightly less max mana and no mana regen, but makes up the loss in mana regen with increased mana recovery from flasks and flask potency. Has a small but nice 10% bonus to reduced flask charges used. Again, it is slightly cheaper than Mana Flows at Amber Teal Golden.

Honourable Mentions:

Arcane Swiftness - still somewhat in the theme of balancing survivability and damage, this option gives extra attack block chance, spell damage based on attack block and cast speed, but has no max mana or mana regen. This option, however, has significantly higher dps than other options on this list, and can definitely be considered if you have >50% block rate overall and have the ability to recover % mana on block somewhere in your gear. It is cheaper than Mana Flows at Clear Silver Silver oil cost. (small note: this is basically the attack block counterpart of Arcane Guarding, of which is part of the recommended skill tree)

Deflection - similar to Arcane Swiftness, but takes the defensive aspect to the extreme at the expense of offense with a significant amount of attack, spell and projectile block. No max mana or mana regen. It is significantly cheaper than Mana Flows at Sepia Teal Opalescent.

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Ledanika wrote:

Greetings!
First of all: lots of thanks for Enki and everyone who committed to the build update!
Small question: if I use Anomalous Arcane Cloak, would helm enchant like "arcane cloak spens additional mana" work or would I need to change the gem to "normal" version?
Thanks!

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dark_nebula wrote:

Could someone have a quick look at my gear and suggest where the best upgrades to look for next would be, i'm down to 230 chaos after purchasing my enchanted helm

Spoiler

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Karathis wrote:

@karmoth

Thanks i think i will try it, though im still unsure because i was choosing between bleedquake and this. how fun is this build in endgame? sirus killing on a budget and general mapping and delving?

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WorderMostFoul wrote:

First, get a new wand with 150+ mana, that's huge. I'd go for a Cloak of Defiance instead of that rare armor. Belt isn't great; try to craft one to slam increased mana recovery on (Redeemer's exalted). Higher mana rolls across the board would be good--ring could use higher tiers and I wouldn't settle for less than 30% movement speed on my boots if I had that much currency.

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Karathis wrote:

There is no such cap; I'm almost at 6m DPS with plenty of room to grow. Someone last league pushed this build past 12m DPS, and nothing in the 3.12 patch would have changed that, though his gear was admittedly insane.