Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

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Nyangoro wrote:

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billybob630 wrote:

Also as a late comment, want to check whether my build have any optimization potential, any help is appreciated!

Currently I give up nodes like:

* "Practical Application" (-25% Chance to avoid interruption from stuns while casting). I don't see the value of anti-interruption yet, is it important?
* "Agility" (+30 Dexterity). Now I cannot put off my amulet or gloves otherwise that will invalidate many equipments.

Is it a good time for me to try out Thread of Hope?

Practical Application is mostly added for the sake of strength/dexterity requirements.

That being said, interrupt prevention is actually fairly nice QoL when you facetank multiple instances of damage, so you might get off an important Flame Dash or Arc before you get stunlocked to a possible death.

Make sense, I sometimes die to groups of projectiles, that can be one reason.

With Atziri's Foible to reduce attribute requirements, some of those strength/dexterity bonus are not needed though. It seems to be an interesting fact not stressed out in the guide.

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RikuNoctis wrote:

I think now it should be available.

I do get the limitations of gear early on in the leveling process, so I will just pretend I didn't see the totem line of gems on your body armour, but you should definitely be able to afford Atziri's Foible at this point, no? It's BiS necklace for us.

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billybob630 wrote:

With Atziri's Foible to reduce attribute requirements, some of those strength/dexterity bonus are not needed though. It seems to be an interesting fact not stressed out in the guide.

Let's just say, I still need the dexterity for Chain Support, even after the reduced requirements.

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Nyangoro wrote:

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RikuNoctis wrote:

I think now it should be available.

I do get the limitations of gear early on in the leveling process, so I will just pretend I didn't see the totem line of gems on your body armour, but you should definitely be able to afford Atziri's Foible at this point, no? It's BiS necklace for us.

Yeah, I think I can buy one.

Is this one good enough? I assume anything that gives flat mana and mana regen is good, right?


Also, yeah, I started using that Totem one because of the life regen and the aura that protects me from curses. I can change it for something else.

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RikuNoctis wrote:

Yeah, I think I can buy one.

Is this one good enough? I assume anything that gives flat mana and mana regen is good, right?

Spoiler

29% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
enchanted Allocates Mind Drinker
+100 to maximum Mana
16% increased maximum Mana
84% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
Items and Gems have 25% reduced Attribute Requirements

Yes, that's pretty good until you farm more Chaos Orbs. Eventually you can find one with a maxed out 23% increased maximum Mana. You can hold alt to see the possible stat ranges in game.

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Nyangoro wrote:

Let's just say, I still need the dexterity for Chain Support, even after the reduced requirements.

Makes sense, that 111 dex requirement is too huge. I'm using different support gem so didn't realize that.

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Nyangoro wrote:

Yes, that's pretty good until you farm more Chaos Orbs. Eventually you can find one with a maxed out 23% increased maximum Mana. You can hold alt to see the possible stat ranges in game.

Ok, will try and find one with max mana %.

Anything else that I should eventually change?

For example, some of the jewels mentioned in the guide are extremely expensive, like the Crimson Jewel. Any alternatives to that one?

The shields with those rolls are also expensive.

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RikuNoctis wrote:

Ok, will try and find one with max mana %.

Anything else that I should eventually change?

For example, some of the jewels mentioned in the guide are extremely expensive, like the Crimson Jewel. Any alternatives to that one?

The shields with those rolls are also expensive.

At your level, you can and probably focus on just life and mana specifically, rather than chasing the fancy "high-end" modifiers like % mana on block, which tend to be too expensive for your actual farming income atm.

I will give you some sample trade links you can use a reference(mostly because I am a cat and cats are lazy):

Body - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/prRKPv5u0
Shield - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/RwRJebRI7
bonus Wand link - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/woyXPpjIb

As you can see, as long as you don't chase for too much, there are many good "in-the-middle" pieces that are huge upgrades for you.

Quick update:
I unlinked Clarity but that barely changed anything. My mana is still depleted at the same rate as before.

I bought a 5 chaos wand with 100 mana since there was none below that price, tested it. Now, I'm 5 Chaos orb more poor but nothing changed at all, everything instead went even worse than before. Does Bone Offering give this build anything useful at all or is it just some kind of meme just to be a Necromancer like all the cool kids nowaday? Back to my older setup.

I checked my defences and I can't afford to switch to Cloak of Defiance just as I can't afford to switch to Unique Sloted Ring+Wrath. My defence will no longer be capped if I do. Foible and Inward Eyes give me no resistence and so does the Cloak, this means I've interely to rely on Shield+Rings+Gloves+Boots. I'm trying to see if I find a solution below 20 chaos but clearly isn't somethign I will resolve in a day or a week, probably i should stick to Tier 8 until I find a way to farm enough money to get an awakened gem maybe those will make my life better, wish me good luck since Heist end in two weeks.

Thank for your help.

I have these items. I want to create a build with main skill arc but meta has changed. Pls, share any interesting build/pob with arc skill (playing at std)