Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

Hi again!
I've made some improvements with my built.
Now I'm not dying on every boss exept uber elder.
Can you give me some suggestions?
THX

Honestly i dont get the complaint about single target dmg at all sometimes, i've never felt like the builds dmg was lacking at all and im not using the spire setup.

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qozmo wrote:

Hi again!
I've made some improvements with my built.
Now I'm not dying on every boss exept uber elder.
Can you give me some suggestions?
THX

1) Get a L21 Arc. You have 23% Q, and quality literally does nothing.
2) Delve craft a helmet, get one with a lab enchant
3) Amulet is good but missing cast speed
4) Missing all possible damage mods on belt
5) Wise Oak has no Q and only 13% roll - Light res isn’t the highest
6) Divine your weapons, maybe Inpulsa’s
7) Drop crane Arcane Surge to L5 (takes 2 casts to proc right now) or increase to L8
8) I recommend a Lightning Spire setup, but it’ll be difficult with your boots.
9) Life and mana are low, but you did mention the whole not dying thing.
10) Your resistances are overlapped. While not a bad thing several jewels could easily have more dps stats in place of resistances.

I also consider Mark of the Shaoer + Elder Essence Ring a poor combination. You are forced to sacrifice quite a bit of damage elsewhere in order to maintain resistances. If the cost for the elder ring wasn’t so high, maybe, but that can go into some really good gear/jewels. Take blg_RealiZe for example, his belt alone has nearly 90% lightning spell damage if I remember correctly.

I’m unable to see your passive tree atm.

It seems that you are pretty good at checking out gear etc. Could you check out mine? Im currently lvl 91 and trying at 14 and 15 maps but the bosses are insane and i just die many times. What could i improve?

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jlh165 wrote:

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qozmo wrote:

Hi again!
I've made some improvements with my built.
Now I'm not dying on every boss exept uber elder.
Can you give me some suggestions?
THX

1) Get a L21 Arc. You have 23% Q, and quality literally does nothing.
2) Delve craft a helmet, get one with a lab enchant
3) Amulet is good but missing cast speed
4) Missing all possible damage mods on belt
5) Wise Oak has no Q and only 13% roll - Light res isn’t the highest
6) Divine your weapons, maybe Inpulsa’s
7) Drop crane Arcane Surge to L5 (takes 2 casts to proc right now) or increase to L8
8) I recommend a Lightning Spire setup, but it’ll be difficult with your boots.
9) Life and mana are low, but you did mention the whole not dying thing.
10) Your resistances are overlapped. While not a bad thing several jewels could easily have more dps stats in place of resistances.

I also consider Mark of the Shaoer + Elder Essence Ring a poor combination. You are forced to sacrifice quite a bit of damage elsewhere in order to maintain resistances. If the cost for the elder ring wasn’t so high, maybe, but that can go into some really good gear/jewels. Take blg_RealiZe for example, his belt alone has nearly 90% lightning spell damage if I remember correctly.

I’m unable to see your passive tree atm.

You should start crafting daggers like in the crafting guide and maybe use some blessed orbs on your helmet. That should for sure increase your dps by a lot and make bossing easier.

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jlh165 wrote:

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qozmo wrote:

Hi again!
I've made some improvements with my built.
Now I'm not dying on every boss exept uber elder.
Can you give me some suggestions?
THX

1) Get a L21 Arc. You have 23% Q, and quality literally does nothing.
2) Delve craft a helmet, get one with a lab enchant
3) Amulet is good but missing cast speed
4) Missing all possible damage mods on belt
5) Wise Oak has no Q and only 13% roll - Light res isn’t the highest
6) Divine your weapons, maybe Inpulsa’s
7) Drop crane Arcane Surge to L5 (takes 2 casts to proc right now) or increase to L8
8) I recommend a Lightning Spire setup, but it’ll be difficult with your boots.
9) Life and mana are low, but you did mention the whole not dying thing.
10) Your resistances are overlapped. While not a bad thing several jewels could easily have more dps stats in place of resistances.

I also consider Mark of the Shaoer + Elder Essence Ring a poor combination. You are forced to sacrifice quite a bit of damage elsewhere in order to maintain resistances. If the cost for the elder ring wasn’t so high, maybe, but that can go into some really good gear/jewels. Take blg_RealiZe for example, his belt alone has nearly 90% lightning spell damage if I remember correctly.

I’m unable to see your passive tree atm.

Hello there)

1) Get a L21 Arc. You have 23% Q, and quality literally does nothing.
- Soon )
2) Delve craft a helmet, get one with a lab enchant
- I thought my helmet is quite good..
3) Amulet is good but missing cast speed
- True, now Im trying to craft one witch some spell dmg and cast speed
4) Missing all possible damage mods on belt
- Thats because I need a lot of resistance. Now I have 75% of each straight.
5) Wise Oak has no Q and only 13% roll - Light res isn’t the highest
- Got it. thanks)
6) Divine your weapons, maybe Inpulsa’s
- Don't think that will help, mods are tier 2 and 15% ele to chaos is max. With Inpulsa - will do.
7) Drop crane Arcane Surge to L5 (takes 2 casts to proc right now) or increase to L8
- Got it, ty
8) I recommend a Lightning Spire setup, but it’ll be difficult with your boots.
9) Life and mana are low, but you did mention the whole not dying thing.
- 4800 life, 2000 mana
10) Your resistances are overlapped. While not a bad thing several jewels could easily have more dps stats in place of resistances
- U should look at my tree, I think it will be clear for you

Thank you very much!

I am at delve level 500, trying to get to 600 and I am starting to find it pretty difficult, what can I improve? should I upgrade my watchers eye to one with pen? a +1 inpulsas? pen on my boots instead of leech? something else? have about 20ex to spend

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aGalaxy_ wrote:

I am at delve level 500, trying to get to 600 and I am starting to find it pretty difficult, what can I improve? should I upgrade my watchers eye to one with pen? a +1 inpulsas? pen on my boots instead of leech? something else? have about 20ex to spend

your gear is fine to reach depth 600, it's probably more about playstyle
Don't stay in the middle of encounter (stay as far from monsters as possible). Try not to use whirling blades too much, just walk behind the crawler

and maybe get another enchant on your boots (16% increased attack and cast speed if you've killed recently)

p.s. +1 gems inpulsa's (or +2lvl of duration gems) is more cost effective for DPS than double wrath watcher's. And you'll need lvl 4 empower instead of added lightning if you want to use +1lvl gems or +2duration gems inpulsa's

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PerkyPsycho wrote:

B) less budget friendly but slightly higher dps

Aim for 2 stats yellow base (elemental to chaos damage + elemental penetration).

-why elemental penetration? elemental penetration and cast speed are optimal suffixes when it comes to damage output. cast speed is easy to craft on our hideout crafting bench while elemental penetration is obtainable only as rng currency crafted stat.

Crafting process:
- use alterations, augments and regals until you get those two stats
- after that, use annulment hoping it will delete third, unwanted, stat. Chances you will fail miserably are 66% :D But that are pretty good odds considering all other rng this game has to offer.

Your dagger should look like this:
16-20% elemental as chaos damage (prefix)
9-10% elemental penetration (suffix)
-multiple crafted mod- (suffix)
flat lightning damage to spells (prefix)
15-18% cast speed (suffix)
spell damage/non chaos hybrid mod (prefix)

If you hit good rolls you will have the most optimal weapon for this build. Crafting something better would be extremely difficult. It would require hundreds of exalts and it isn't suitable for temporary leagues.


Estimated expenses:
dagger base - from 10c to 2exa
crafting currency (alterations, regals, scourings, annulments) - from 1 to 5+ex, depends on your luck
multiple crafted mod - 2ex
max cast speed - 1ex
flat lightning and hybrid mod - few chaos

Estimated total: dagger base + 10 ex

Can you get the extra Chaos and/or the Elem Penetration mods while you Regal, or do you need them both before using the Regal?

Thx

Hi there.
Newish player here, really enjoying the heck out of your build. I did the usual noob mistakes by reading poorly (at first) but I fixed all the newby mistakes later on. Enjoying every content so far, I only encounter problems with bosses like elder, his guardians and MM f.e.

- I would like to let you have a look at my character to give me some adivce, what else I could improve. I know that the flask or not the ones you provide in your guide (not all at least) and wanted to hear from you, if they may be the reason I die quicker, since I had a debatte with my flatmates, if dmg > survivabilty or not. But talking about various builds in the debatte and not my build specific didn't provide the best solution so far (I think).

- Also I was thinking about using a mace x mace combo, but I loose a lot of resistance by doing so, so I stepped away from that idea.

- About the movement skills: I just love Flame Dash and Light. Warp too much x) Do I miss a great deal out on not having Forify trough Shield Dash?

- About the armor: I do know that a Impulsa would help my dmg, but I can't bear the server lack tbh. The Loreweaver I tryed, but only 5 Link. It would help my survivabilty (I think) but I dont know if I should switch to it by now, since the enchant on my helm has a nice synergy with the armor.

- About my rings: I'm saving to get the Essence Worm as Elder Ring, since it would make a big dmg buff, if I get behind that exalt-wall.

- And as a last question (gettin a lot, I know):
Are there any builds you that you'd say are similar to a Ark witch that I might try nxt season? At this point I'm really close to beeing a 1-build-pony since I can't seem to find anything that has all the chaining Arc provides (which I love so much).

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Punk_Cat/characters

Sry for wall of text and a big thanks if you reply tho :D No salt if you don't ;)