Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

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red_foxie wrote:

I'm having 4400 hp, 1100 es, 6100 non reserved mana. I'm having all required uniques. The damage is fantastic and with trigger wands gameplay is smooth af.

BUT - I'm sometimes getting one shot(or many small shots) in maps T14+. Where I could go now with upgrading the build? I'd love to get more life, dodge or physical reduction. Don't see any cheaper possibilites for upgrade since so many of my gear are uniques without life mods.

Edit: replaced essence worm with vermilion ring with T1 life. Let's see how it will help.

If you want to continue playing this game, you gonna have to live with the fact that you WILL get one-shot multiple times and you won't have any idea what killed you. The only build that were able to actually KINDA play without fear of one-shots were aurastackers but GGG nerfed them to the ground because "lolz" or "muh balance" bullshit.

Just wanted to drop in and say I've league started this build several times and can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone.

The wand that I'm using doesn't seem that great, but it does more Arc tooltip damage than anything else. Can anyone explain why the first wand is better than the second?

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jkoch6599 wrote:

The wand that I'm using doesn't seem that great, but it does more Arc tooltip damage than anything else. Can anyone explain why the first wand is better than the second?

High crit for spells and added fire damage?

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jkoch6599 wrote:

The wand that I'm using doesn't seem that great, but it does more Arc tooltip damage than anything else. Can anyone explain why the first wand is better than the second?

It's the cast speed on the first one. Cast speed is really powerful in this build and we need as much of it as we can get. (That's why I'm running Lightning Golem instead of Ice Golem.)

Edit: but the second one is still better because the mana helps defense as well as offense.

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phosTR wrote:

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red_foxie wrote:

I'm having 4400 hp, 1100 es, 6100 non reserved mana. I'm having all required uniques. The damage is fantastic and with trigger wands gameplay is smooth af.

BUT - I'm sometimes getting one shot(or many small shots) in maps T14+. Where I could go now with upgrading the build? I'd love to get more life, dodge or physical reduction. Don't see any cheaper possibilites for upgrade since so many of my gear are uniques without life mods.

Edit: replaced essence worm with vermilion ring with T1 life. Let's see how it will help.

If you want to continue playing this game, you gonna have to live with the fact that you WILL get one-shot multiple times and you won't have any idea what killed you. The only build that were able to actually KINDA play without fear of one-shots were aurastackers but GGG nerfed them to the ground because "lolz" or "muh balance" bullshit.

The only way this build is getting past Level 94 is by going on a ton of pure Chayula runs. It's ludicrous but selfcasting is at such a disadvantage compared to other caster types.

hey so i currently am lvl 80 with tis build and am loving it so just wanted to thank you for making it as it is the first build that ive been able to make it to mapping with. i was wondering though if there are any uniques i can put into the final gear set as i am having trouble trying to track down all the yellows?

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Akuq wrote:

Honestly, no amount of defenses can make this build unkillable. I even took Bastions of Elements for the Aegis and it's still not enough.

Arcane Cloak - 5500 shield
Aegis - 3100 elemental shield
MoM - 7000 unreserved mana with 5100 mana regen
ES - 1000 energy shield
Life - 4000 HP with 760 life regen

Fuck this game.

Like the others said, there's no way to really avoid being one-shot unless you build super tank, and even then it's questionable.
This was my first time playing Arc Witch and it's probably one of my favorites, but coming from mostly Duelist/Gladiator characters, I felt the survivability to be too little so I changed some things of my own; Using a Sentari shield for the curses, getting some block (and spell block) on the tree with Glancing Blows and Aegis, I'm finding this to be one of the tankiest characters I've ever had while my mapping is enjoyable since I go with 4 stacks of Unleash.
My DPS obviously suffers compared to Enki's, but I don't find it too enjoyable to run into a map, get exploded from something, lose XP then have to run back. I don't mind playing the patience game with bosses.

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Akuq wrote:

Honestly, no amount of defenses can make this build unkillable. I even took Bastions of Elements for the Aegis and it's still not enough.

Arcane Cloak - 5500 shield
Aegis - 3100 elemental shield
MoM - 7000 unreserved mana with 5100 mana regen
ES - 1000 energy shield
Life - 4000 HP with 760 life regen

Fuck this game.

NO character SHOULD be unkillable... how can that be fun... it would be like a clicker game... you don*t have to do anything, just spend time.. ^^

Hey, I'm really enjoying your build so far but I've gotten to a point where I lack damage and am still getting one shot by everything. I'm doing red maps but just can't figure out how I would get 4.5k hp and 7k mana. My character is level 89 and I can't progress in XP anymore doing red maps because I keep dying. If you could give me some tips I would really appreciate it!
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