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?
Drox should be pretty easy with Arc as you take down the adds with Arc chains.
Just focus on killing the Banners on top of Drox and keep dpsing Drox down until his shield pops.
Move from his slamming fist attack and you should be ok.
Sirus is way harder to beat if you don't have a jewel with 'Corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you'.
The easiest and cheapest way to fix that is getting that mod on a corrupted Pure Talent.
After that it takes some experience to get to know his phases, but his 'DIE' beam is his most annoying ability without that mod on a jewel.
Other than that you're missing quite alot of mana on items.
On your wands you can easily get +100 mana (and with some investment +130 to +150).
Your Cloak of Defiance has a really low mana roll.
You still need more quality on you amulet, and that will net you also some mana and mana regen.
Since mana is both damage (with archmage/arcane cloak) and defence (mind over matter) in this build, the difference will be noticeable.
You alse have no quality on most of your support gems, so that is an easy upgrade.
Cluster Jewels are worth it in my opinion, but the good ones aren't cheap.
Start with a large cluster with Scintillating Idea (big mana and damage increase) and Disorienting Display (blind enemies) like suggested by Enki. Later you can either buy or harvest craft Supercharge/Vengefull Commander/Tempt the storm/Storm Drinker as the 3rd notable.
If you find a large cluster with Scintillating Idea and Disorienting Display together with a useless 3rd notable like Storm Rider or any of the others for a cheap price, it's better to buy that one because it saves you 2 passive point to path to the 2 good notables.
My brother who has not played poe for 5 years followed this guide in 3.13 and had huge problems in red maps with both defence and offence with all the uniques and exalts worth rares equipped.
I tried his char and just respecced it to crit version that i found on poeninja and then it started melting all bosses.
But anyway, with all the buff buttons that are required to be used precisely and no easy to approach defence layer + huge delay before you can move after every cast, this build is totally not newbie frienly.
I couldn't see him struggling any more and respecced him to another build i had crafted super cool gear for.
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?
Drox should be pretty easy with Arc as you take down the adds with Arc chains.
Just focus on killing the Banners on top of Drox and keep dpsing Drox down until his shield pops.
Move from his slamming fist attack and you should be ok.
Sirus is way harder to beat if you don't have a jewel with 'Corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you'.
The easiest and cheapest way to fix that is getting that mod on a corrupted Pure Talent.
After that it takes some experience to get to know his phases, but his 'DIE' beam is his most annoying ability without that mod on a jewel.
Other than that you're missing quite alot of mana on items.
On your wands you can easily get +100 mana (and with some investment +130 to +150).
Your Cloak of Defiance has a really low mana roll.
You still need more quality on you amulet, and that will net you also some mana and mana regen.
Since mana is both damage (with archmage/arcane cloak) and defence (mind over matter) in this build, the difference will be noticeable.
You alse have no quality on most of your support gems, so that is an easy upgrade.
Cluster Jewels are worth it in my opinion, but the good ones aren't cheap.
Start with a large cluster with Scintillating Idea (big mana and damage increase) and Disorienting Display (blind enemies) like suggested by Enki. Later you can either buy or harvest craft Supercharge/Vengefull Commander/Tempt the storm/Storm Drinker as the 3rd notable.
If you find a large cluster with Scintillating Idea and Disorienting Display together with a useless 3rd notable like Storm Rider or any of the others for a cheap price, it's better to buy that one because it saves you 2 passive point to path to the 2 good notables.
Thanks!
I threw some divine orbs on the cloak and got a 395% and 139 mana roll on it.
I've been levelling up gems on my second weaponset to corrupt/quality but I think I can just straight up buy them.
I'm in regular ritual trade league but I seem to have an SSF mindset. I'm way too stingy and it is slowing me down considerably.
Is it normal for pure talents with cannot have corrupted blood to be 2 ex?
With this guide I want to provide a simple caster build for beginners that is fun and easy to play.
Instead of just showcasing a build, this guide is made to be a comprehensive learning experience.
There's many indepth explanations and links to various wiki pages for new players to understand.
I've tried to keep it short, but some things just can't be explained properly with only a few words.
Path of Building is a tool that lets you fully plan characters from scratch, check out other peoples setups or import your own character to check or compare potential upgrades.
I know that some people jump straight to the PoB without ever reading the guide, which often leads to failure and is then blamed on the build. Don't be that person!
I've invested lots of time into this guide and find it very rude when people just disregard that
and ask about things that are already well explained. This unfortunately keeps happening.
+ cheap to build + smooth playstyle + good damage scaling - can't run some mapmods - requires some unique items - mainly made for Softcore Trade
Main Mechanics in this Build
‣ Chaining: Arc is a lightning-based spell with the ability to chain from monsters and destroyable objects, even around corners and out of your line of sight! Each time it chains, it will also split to
a second nearby enemy from where it can't chain further. After chaining twice it can chain back to the initial enemy, hitting them twice within a single cast. The amount of times Arc can chain depends on its gem level and can be increased by enchantments.
‣ Mana: Usually, mana is used to cover skill costs and -reservation. We heavily invest into mana for great damage scaling and defenses provided by skillgems and the Mind over Matterkeystone.
This makes mana our highest priority modifier on both equipment and passives. Stacking mana also makes %-based mana regeneration sources (such as the base 1.8%) much more valuable.
‣ Elemental Overload: This keystone provides a 40% more damage multiplier in exchange for removing all critical strike multiplier, with the condition to crit atleast once within 8 seconds.
While the damage potential is lower compared to scaling crits, the damage is also way more consistent and only takes small investment, which allows us to invest more heavily into mana.
Here's a small collection of generic advice for newer players:
‣ Information: Knowledge is a strong skill in Path of Exile, and it helps to know where to find it. First there's the ingame Help Panel, which you can reach through its icon next to your skillbar.
The Path of Exile Wiki should be your first stop for further information, poedb for plain data.
If you prefer video guides, Zizaran has an informative video series called PoE University that contains information about most aspects of the game.
‣ Lootfilter: You will soon realize that there's lots of redundant loot in this game, a good Lootfilter reduces screen clutter and highlights potentially valuable or important drops. Neversink's Filter is always a good start and you can further customize it at Filterblade.
‣ Flasks: Unlike most ARPG's, this game is directly balanced around using all of your flasks.
This goes beyond the typical life & mana flasks that you're probably used to from other games, during your act progression you'll gain access to various utility flasks which grant powerful buffs. Flasks can also be crafted, but it's not needed until maps so i've kept it for their own section. For now, focus on keeping your life & mana flasks updated, get all utility flasks from quests when mentioned and try to get a feeling for your flask usage.
‣ Crafting: Gear can be enhanced through crafting and recipes, while the latter can also create currency used for crafting. You outlevel gear pretty quickly during act progression, so it's not advised to invest too much at this point. Limit it to a couple of Orb of Transmutation, Orb of Augmentation, Orb of Alteration, Chromatic Orbs and various Essences you can find for now,
use Jeweller's Orbs and Orb of Fusing only on useful gear you've looted. Try to focus on intelligence-based gear for an easier time to get the right colors.
‣ Crafting Bench: After unlocking your first hideout, you'll gain access to the Crafting Bench.
This can be used to craft a targeted affix on gear, if it isn't already there and has a slot open.
Use it to craft any damage affixes, Life, Attributes or Resistances missing on your gear.
Recipes need to be found first, the Crafting Bench tells you all undiscovered recipe locations.
‣ Trading: You can freely trade with other players if you have a Lv25+ char and aren't in SSF. Path of Exile's trading site is good for buying gear, poemap is convenient for bulk map trades.
If you want to sell something, you either need premium stash tabs, set up a shop in the trade subforums or use Acquisition. For pricechecks, look for similar stuff on the trade site, check poe.ninja or use Awakened POE Trade.
‣ Stash Tabs: The default stash space is pretty limited, if you like the game and are able to, consider buying more stash tabs. Getting a Currency and Map Tab is highly recommended, Premium Tabs make trading easier and if you want, a Quad Tab for extended storage.
Purchased tabs are account-wide and won't be lost when temporary leagues end.
There's also a stash tab sale weekend every three weeks if you're not in a rush.
Full Leveling Section
Your journey through the ten acts can be seen as an extensive tutorial, slowly confronting you with the majority of game mechanics and increasingly more difficult enemies to learn to counter.
This section will help you while playing through the ten acts and shows the recommended
passive tree progression, gem setups, quest progression and exp farming zone for each act.
The passive tree goals are just a pointer, it's not a big deal if you're over- or underleveled.
Keep in mind that this section includes major storyline spoilers, if you care about that.
‣ Kill the Zombie, pick up Fireball and switch left-click to move-only
‣ Get Arcane Surge from Large Chest and kill Hillock
‣ Get Freezing Pulse, link it with Arcane Surge and store away Fireball
‣ Check vendors for Boots with Movement Speed and a second Wand
‣ Get the Coast Waypoint, kill Hailrake on Tidal Island and get Quicksilver Flask in town
‣ Finish your quest in Mud Flats and Enter Submerged Passage
‣ Get the Waypoint, look for Flooded Depths and kill the Dweller of the Deep
‣ Get Orb of Storms, Frostblink and Skillpoint in town
Orb of Storms provides extra damage while you cast Lightning Spells within its radius.
Once you've specced into Elemental Overload, it's also useful to quickly proc the buff.
‣ Set Orb of Storms to "attack without moving" (left-click icon in skillbar)
‣ Make your way to Lower Prison, get Waypoint and then go back to town
‣ Get Added Lightning Damage and link it to Freezing Pulse + Arcane Surge
‣ Check vendors for any item with 3-linked blue sockets if needed for above
‣ Craft two wands with this recipe: Magic-rarity Wand + Topaz Ring + Orb of Alteration
‣ If needed, the recipe for Topaz Rings is: Iron Ring + Green Skill Gem
‣ Start looking out for 2x Sapphire Rings or use the Recipe: Iron Ring + Blue Skill Gem
‣ Complete Trial of Ascendancy in Lower Prison
‣ Kill Brutus, then get Clarity, Vitality and Flame Dash in town
‣ Replace Frostblink with Flame Dash and set it to "attack without moving"
‣ Activate Clarity and Vitality
Heavy Belts and Amber Amulets can help with getting Strength for Vitality.
‣ Progress to Ship Graveyard and get the Waypoint
‣ Look for Ship Graveyard Cave, get Allflame then get Cavern of Wrath Waypoint
‣ Travel to Ship Graveyard Waypoint and kill Fairgraves
‣ Go to town to get Skillpoint and Arc
‣ Replace Freezing Pulse with Arc and set it to "attack without moving"
‣ Equip Sapphire Rings and kill Merveil
‣ Once in town, enter the Old Fields first
‣ Start looking out for 2x Topaz Rings or use the recipe: Iron Ring + Green Skill Gem
‣ Look for the Den, kill Great White Beast and get second Quicksilver in town
‣ Continue to Crossroads and get Waypoint
‣ Enter Chamber of Sins, complete Trial of Ascendancy on Level 2 and kill Fidelitas
‣ Get Herald of Thunder and activate it
‣ Get Wave of Conviction, this provides temporary Exposure on bosses
‣ Keep Wave of Conviction at Level 1, we need it at that level later
‣ Go back to Crossroads, enter Broken Bridge and kill Kraityn
‣ Back to Crossroads once more, enter Fellshrine Ruins and Crypt
‣ Complete Trial of Ascendancy in Crypt
‣ Back to town, enter Riverways and get the Waypoint
‣ Go to Western Forest, get Waypoint, kill Alira and Captain Arteri
‣ Look for Weaver's Chambers and kill Weaver
‣ Get Faster Casting and link it to Orb of Storms
‣ Go back to Lioneye's Watch and get Skillpoint
‣ Go back to Riverways and follow the small dirt path to Wetlands
‣ Kill Oak, get Wetlands Waypoint and get two Skillpoints in town
‣ Make your way to the Ancient Pyramid, equip Topaz Rings and kill Vaal Oversoul
Once you're Level 20, upgrade your wands with the same recipe as before, but this time using rare Topaz Rings. You can use Essences to turn normal rarity Topaz Rings rare.
‣ Focus on having 75% Cold-, Fire- and Lightning Resistance from now on
‣ Kill the Blackguards in City of Sarn and enter town
‣ Go to Slums, enter Crematorium, finish Trial of Ascendancy and kill Piety
‣ Get Sewer Key in town and go back to Slums
‣ Enter Sewers, get Waypoint, find three busts and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Get Marketplace Waypoint and finish Trial of Ascendancy in Catacombs
‣ Enter Battlefront, get Waypoint and kill Captain Aurelianus
‣ Go to Docks and get Thaumetic Sulphite
‣ Back to Battlefront, enter Solaris Temple and talk to Lady Dialla
‣ Destroy the Undying Blockade in Sewers
‣ Enter Ebony Barracks, get Waypoint and kill General Gravicius
‣ Enter Lunaris Temple, kill Piety and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Get Imperial Gardens Waypoint and finish Trial of Ascendancy
‣ Go to Library and finish Siosa's quest
‣ You can now buy all unlocked gems at Siosa (currency needs to be in inventory!)
‣ Throw away Herald of Thunder and the Added Lightning Damage linked to Arc
‣ Get Arcane Cloak and link it with Arcane Surge from the Arc Setup
‣ Get Lightning Penetration and Archmage and link them to Arc
‣ Get Second Wind and link it to Flame Dash
‣ Archmage will eat through your mana, it's a good idea to use two mana flasks now
‣ Enter the Sceptre of God and kill Dominus
Boss damage might be a little low at this point, but it will pick up soon!
Start looking out for 4-linked intelligence-based gear.
‣ Enter the Dried Lake, kill Voll and enter the Mines
‣ Free Deshret's Spirit in Mines Level 2, progress to Crystal Veins and get Waypoint
‣ Get skillpoint in town
‣ Go back to Sarn Encampment, enter the Labyrinth and get its Waypoint
Read up on the Lord's Labyrinth and Izaro to get an idea what's going on. Poelab shows you the daily layouts and Izaro buffs.
‣ After finishing the Labyrinth, ascend to Elementalist and get Mastermind of Discord
‣ Go back to Crystal Veins, enter Kaom's Dream and kill Kaom
‣ Now enter Daresso's Dream and kill Daresso
‣ Get Spell Echo in town and link it to Arc
‣ Get Hextouch in Highgate and link it to Wave of Conviction
‣ Get Conductivity in Sarn Encampment and link it to Wave of Conviction
‣ Kill Piety in Belly of the Beast, and finally Malachai in the Harvest
Weapons with 30%+ Spell Damage scale better at this point, there's a recipe if needed: Weapon + rare Chain Belt + Blacksmith's Whetstone.
‣ Kill Overseer Krow and enter town
‣ Find the Miasmeter in Control Blocks and kill Justicar Casticus
‣ Get Silver Flask and Skillpoint in town
‣ Replace a Mana Flask with Silver Flask and try to roll of Staunching on it
‣ Make your way to Templar Courts and kill Avarius
‣ Get Ruined Square Waypoint and finish the quest in Ossuary
‣ Back in Ruined Square, kill Utula and finish the quest in Reliquary
‣ Get Skillpoint and optionally Unique Jewels in town
None of the jewel choices are useful to us, but you might want to keep it for later.
‣ Kill Kitava on Cathedral Rooftop
‣ You will suffer a permanent -30% resistance penalty after this fight
‣ Clear the Twilight Strand to unlock Lilly as Skillgem Vendor
‣ Get to Mud Flats and kill the Dishonored Queen
‣ Enter Karui Fortress, kill Tukohama and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Use Soul of Tukohama
‣ Finish Trial of Ascendancy in Prison and kill Shavronne
‣ Enter Prisoner's Gate, kill Abberath and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Get Riverways Waypoint
‣ Enter Wetlands, kill Puppet Mistress and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Light the Beacon and kill the Brine King
‣ Use Soul of the Brine King
‣ Find the Silver Locket in Broken Bridge and get Granite Flask in town
‣ Replace your low item level Quicksilver Flask with Granite Flask
‣ Enter Crossroads, get Waypoint then enter Crypt through Fellshrine Ruins
‣ Finish Trial of Ascendancy and find Maligaro's Map
‣ Go back to Crossroads and enter Chamber of Sins
‣ Kill Maligaro in Maligaro's Sanctum
‣ Finish Trial of Ascendancy in Chamber of Sins Level 2 and enter the Den
‣ Make your way to Ashen Fields and kill Greust, then get Skillpoint in town
‣ Get Northern Forest Waypoint and enter Dread Thicket
‣ Collect all Fireflies and kill Gruthkul, then get Skillpoint in town
‣ Find Kishara's Star in Causeway and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Get the Vaal City Waypoint, enter Temple of Decay and kill Arakaali
‣ Finish second Labyrinth and get Liege of the Primordial
‣ Go back to Highgate and get Summon Stone Golem and Summon Flame Golem
The golems can be bound to your secondary skill bar (hold Ctrl).
‣ Enter the Toxic Conduits and kill Doedre
‣ Go for Quay first, find Ankh of Eternity, kill Tolman and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Kill the Gemling Legionnaires in Grain Gate and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Enter Solaris Temple and get Sun Orb
‣ Go back to Doedre's Cesspool and go for the Grand Promenade now
‣ Get Bath House Waypoint and finish Trial of Ascendancy
‣ Enter High Gardens, kill Yugul and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Back to Bath House, get to Lunaris Concourse and get Waypoint
‣ Enter Lunaris Temple and get Moon Orb
‣ Back to Lunaris Concourse, enter Harbour Bridge and kill Solaris & Lunaris
‣ Find the Storm Blade in Vastiri Desert and look for a blocked entrance
‣ Go to town, talk to Sin and then to Petarus & Vanja
‣ Go back to the blocked entrance, kill Shakari and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Get Foothills Waypoint, enter Boiling Lake and get Basilisk Acid
‣ Enter the Tunnel and finish Trial of Ascendancy
‣ Get Quarry Waypoint, enter Refinery and get Trarthan Powder
‣ Go back to Quarry, kill Garukhan and get Sekhema Feather
‣ Go to town and give the feather to either Tasuni or Irasha to get Skillpoint
‣ Enter Belly of the Beast and kill the Depraved Trinity
Once you've speec into Golem Commander, get Summon Chaos Golem in Highgate.
‣ Go left on Cathedral Rooftop and kill Plaguewing
‣ Now go right, enter the Ravaged Square and go south
‣ Enter the Control Blocks, get Waypoint, kill Vilenta and get Skillpoint in town
‣ Optionally find the Teardrop in Reliquary
‣ Go back to Ravaged Square and get its Waypoint in the upper part
‣ Enter Ossuary and complete Trial of Ascendancy
‣ Get to Desecrated Chamber through Torched Courts and kill Avarius
‣ Enter the Canals and make your way to the final bossfight
‣ You will suffer another permanent -30% resistance penalty after this fight
‣ Talk to Lani for two Skillpoints
‣ Find Kirac in the Templar Laboratory and finish his quest
‣ Finish third Labyrinth and get Elemancer
‣ Now it's time to look at the second part of this guide!
‣ Gear up for endgame and switch to the endgame gem setup
‣ If you lack currency, run Currency Delve nodes and/or start doing the Chaos Orb recipe
I threw some divine orbs on the cloak and got a 395% and 139 mana roll on it.
I've been levelling up gems on my second weaponset to corrupt/quality but I think I can just straight up buy them.
I'm in regular ritual trade league but I seem to have an SSF mindset. I'm way too stingy and it is slowing me down considerably.
Is it normal for pure talents with cannot have corrupted blood to be 2 ex?
I bought mine for 1 ex about a week ago, but like anything else in a trading game it depends on supply and demand.
You can always try to corrupt some of these jewels yourself and hope for the best.
Corrupting a jewel with a new implicit modifier has a 1 in 3 chance of happening. The weight of the 'corrupted blood' mod is 1/15.
Thats a 1/45 chance to get the mod you want on that item when you use a vaal orb.
Depening on the price of the jewel and vaal orbs, it might be cheaper to do it yourself.
You can probably get a jewel even cheaper than 2 ex if you scour the trade site for all jewels with the 'corrupted blood' implicit mod and pick one that has mediocre explicit mods.
It won't be perfect at all while being cheap, but it's a start.
Last edited by Reechaani on Feb 3, 2021, 10:09:25 AM
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?
You probably should get Culling strike gloves - because of them you will essentially skip last (and hardest one) part of Drox fight where he covers entire field with banners and spawns replacement for dead banners non-stop.
Last edited by HennekY on Feb 3, 2021, 10:18:23 AM
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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Thanks for this post!!!
I've been slogging away trying to make currency for my cloak waiting and hoping for someone to say they killed a8 (even if it took a portal or 2 or 3) with this build
a couple of questions:
looking at your tree, wouldn't you want to go with Dreamer instead of Forethought or is there something else going on there?
nice curse ring, does it stack / add with the trigger wand conductivity, so one of them is always covering? or have you just not got around to replacing the wand one?
I've read backwards in the thread quite a ways, but I haven't seen anything about how you counteract the mana loss effects on the boots and The Agnostic.. is it we just have that much more mana regen?
much dumber question.. with 5 golems, do you just use portal scrolls again? that puts us out of spell slots ;) giving up the portal gem will be tough lol
Last edited by frotzthedragon on Feb 3, 2021, 11:23:45 AM
looking at your tree, wouldn't you want to go with Dreamer instead of Forethought or is there something else going on there?
nice curse ring, does it stack / add with the trigger wand conductivity, so one of them is always covering? or have you just not got around to replacing the wand one?
I've read backwards in the thread quite a ways, but I haven't seen anything about how you counteract the mana loss effects on the boots and The Agnostic.. is it we just have that much more mana regen?
You don't want dreamer, you want mana costs to be high because it boosts damage.
I'm not sure the ring is needed but I do think it helps. To get the curses from the trigger wand to hit you have to be close to the enemy and have it proc. I found that I was often facing the wrong way and often didn't want to be close. I would only look at getting one if you also have Culling Strike against cursed enemies although there is still a damage boost against enemies at long range so perhaps it would still be worthwhile if you can get one without breaking the bank. To be honest I don't understand all the interactions well enough to say whether or not it's worth it. Pulling it off doesn't show a difference in PoB but removing the Conductivity gem from the trigger wand does and I don't know why.
There doesn't seem to be a great way to recoup mana quickly other than the special gloves that about 1/3 of the time refund the whole mana cost of a skill which can be damn near the entirety of your mana pool. I would say that they are essential. They don't always work perfectly but they hit often enough to work from my experience.
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.
There is quite a range of investment returns on all the various builds out there. This one can definitely compete, but I wouldn't expect to top 8-10m sDPS without an inordinate amount of investment. That's enough damage to do just about anything you want in the game, and the build is more flexible than most, I'd say. Maybe 75th percentile or so out of the high-functioning builds. A lot more fun than most, though.
Crit is theoretically capable of providing more damage, but it's going to be really expensive and require a number of sacrifices on the passive tree. I would recommend just sticking to Elemental Overload.
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?
You probably should get Culling strike gloves - because of them you will essentially skip last (and hardest one) part of Drox fight where he covers entire field with banners and spawns replacement for dead banners non-stop.
If you don't have mana issues culling gloves would be great, if you can get culling on the 30/30 gloves great but the only item that has "solved" mana issues for me this league are the 30/30 gloves.
