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Is chance to hit rate important in this build? Mine is 60ish%.

Man the advice here was great, switched a few things and feeling much tankier.

Main takeaways so far:
- Running both Crown of the Inward Eye and Omeyocan feels amazing if you can keep maxed resists
- Omeyocan frees up a flask, currently experimenting between a Quartz flask or Atziri's Promise (anybody have strong feelings towards either)
- Swapped my Concentrated Mana Flask for an Enduring One (still not 100% on this one)
- Healthy Mind gives phenomenal damage and with the other changes I'm still dying way less
- Swapped Rumi's Concoction in for the Granite Flask (can't tell if it's better with all the other defensive improvements mixed in)
- Moved a few points around out of lightning damage to pick up another jewel slot and put in The Anima Stone

Currently playing around and feels much better.

For helm enchants, anyone have an opinion on the chaos golem one? Seems like it would be way better than the arcane cloak improvement for the extra % phys reduction.

Yes I have Bastion of Elements - and WOC is only level 5 - Ill lower it to level 1 and see what happens ....

Follow up question: can you stack repeated passive skills in cluster jewels?
For example having Openness twice.

Trying to figure out which ones to go with between Mindfulness, Openness, and Clarity of Purpose. (Stubborn Student also looks weirdly interesting)

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mawty wrote:

Follow up question: can you stack repeated passive skills in cluster jewels?
For example having Openness twice.

Trying to figure out which ones to go with between Mindfulness, Openness, and Clarity of Purpose. (Stubborn Student also looks weirdly interesting)

They do stack, running two Openness myself currently.

Removed my mana mod cluster and now have 2.8k life with 11k mana.

I have decided that now Elemental Weakness is a map mod I won't be running. Even with resistance capped and a 3300 elemental damage shield from Primal Aegis I still get "one shot" from it if I mess up on the warding flask. I don't think it is any single huge burst but just a bunch of large hits from ranged enemies and you're done.

I have to get better about not casting arc so often. With the Necro I was always near full mana with huge block potential and it felt pretty tanky, even while spamming arc. This version just doesn't have that same feeling, if you only have 1k or 3k mana in the tank you just can't take big hits or more than a couple medium hits.

Putting more into the build will hopefully help but I don't think I am going to get to level 98 this league, perhaps 96 is a reasonable goal. You can get to 98, 99, or even 100 with it but you have to either be really good to run maps with good XP or grind the hell out low xp maps to get there.

Can this build compete with other setups in higher tiers?

I have seen many Arc Witches going down the Crit Chance and Crit multiplier road for some high DPS with the Agnostic and Supreme Ego keystone. But these don't seem really noob-friendly. They are heavily relying on flasks for damage since these are temporarily boosting the Crit Chance, which this build depends on.
Enki's however is quite reliable isn't it?

I am not sure if I should go with the Crit Chance or Enki.

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TwuTu wrote:

Can this build compete with other setups in higher tiers?

I have seen many Arc Witches going down the Crit Chance and Crit multiplier road for some high DPS with the Agnostic and Supreme Ego keystone. But these don't seem really noob-friendly. They are heavily relying on flasks for damage since these are temporarily boosting the Crit Chance, which this build depends on.
Enki's however is quite reliable isn't it?

I am not sure if I should go with the Crit Chance or Enki.

It's a really good build that is doable without extreme luck or an insane 18 hours per day at league start to get on the crest of the currency making wave and then playing 8 or 10 hours each day thereafter for a couple of weeks. I can't say if other builds you have looked at would require that kind of currency but I have only spent maybe 25 ex at this point. The build does consistent damage but you do need to keep on the flasks or you die quite often. I don't know how high this build can go but I put something like 350ex or more into the Necro from last league and it was pretty epic.

Was able to do Sirus A8 without much issue, deathless even. The damage is good and it didn't take too long at all. You have to have corrupted blood immunity or it's going to eat portals fast. Having Culling Strike is also quite helpful, probably saved me a cycle at the end which is the most difficult portion. The golems running about did make seeing some of the moves more difficult but it was manageable though they did die a few times resulting in sudden stat losses for 4 seconds. If you have space and can run far enough away it's probably worth a manual reset if any are low. (Edit: I mean between cycles, not during a phase where you fight him)

Re: The Anima Stone, my PoB is below if you want to try it yourself but adding in the Lightning Golem has the following effect: 20% increased cast speed and not surprisingly a 20% increase in damage. It seems like there should be additional gains given the descriptions of Liege of the Primordial and Elemancer, but that's what PoB says. All golems also get more life I believe. I do think it's worth it, I could keep everything else the same and use some of the points I used to get an extra jewel slot to path over to Divine Judgment but that results in lower damage. Even if I get 4 more levels I think those 4 points will go into life or perhaps another medium cluster.

So with a fairly modest investment, 25ex or thereabout the build is doing 5.3m in damage and if you watch your map mods, keep flasks up in the more dangerous areas, and keep moving the survivability seems decent. It's not block tank Necro safe but it's not too bad. I don't see an issue with Elder or Shaper but Uber Elder is going to need more currency input and levels.

Sitting at 2.8k life but almost 10.5k mana and it all feels pretty good.

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I've made a few adjustements to this build to better suit my needs and for now they seem to be working great:
- Omeyocan for the permanent Onslaught
- The Anima Stone for 5 golems, which all get buffed even more by our Ascendancy
- Transcendent Mind for even more % mana recovery
- Bastion of Elements instead of Heart of Destruction

My mana recovery is at a sweet spot right now with 3 sources of % mana recovery (Transcendent Mind, a belt with the Shaper/Redeemer mod and a Watcher's Eye) so I've dropped the 2 small clusters with Mindfullness and swapped to 2 Megalomaniac Medium clusters with pretty decent mods.

One of these mods is Storm Drinker, which gives me extra ES leech on top of the damage penetration, so now I'm wondering if The Agnostic is really worth it?
You lose out on 1000-1500 ES and create a heavier load on your mana, so I'm not really inclined to take it.

With Harvest crafting in the game I'm also planning to swap my major Pantheon from The Brine King to Lunaris by adapting the following:
- Remove the +30 dex passive and add Practical Application and the small passive leading to it (gain +5 dex + 30 str and 40% stun interupt avoidance for 1 extra passive point)
- Harvest craft the Implicit mod '10% chance to avoid stuns' on my jewels and cluster jewels

Depending on how many jewels and cluster jewels you can get this mod on, you can easily get 30-60% stun avoidance from that source.
Together with the change to the passive tree you're pretty much stun immume and can swap to Lunaris for chain avoidance and some extra damage mitigation.

So I have no idea what to do now. I've died to Drox again. I failed the first sirus (A4/5) as well. Sirus failure is probably due to inexperience as I have never done the fight before and got stuck on the walls.

I lost to drox probably because I didn't kill the adds in time and got overwhelmed but my damage and survivability were low to begin with.

I have about 5 ex and 600 chaos saved up. What should I do to improve my build? Should I swap to the lvl 90 with cluster jewels build?