Enki's Arc Witch - dead for now

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Valthol wrote:

Guys quick question - is the guide from first page updated regulary or do I need to read all 930+ pages of this thread? :D I wanna start this arc build but I am not sure did many things changed during this topic and are not included in the first post?

Yes it's updated and only missing the swap to lightning spire setup later.

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Valthol wrote:

Guys quick question - is the guide from first page updated regulary or do I need to read all 930+ pages of this thread? :D I wanna start this arc build but I am not sure did many things changed during this topic and are not included in the first post?

Guide is updated. The only major change not updated since 3.5 launch is several of us use Lightning Spire Trap in gloves. In general for late game the gems get optimized, but the build as is is capable of every end-game content. At the bottom of the guide there is an area for the changelog with a link to the full changelog.

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jlh165 wrote:

I'm confused...so he's sitting at 140% shock effect (70% passives, 35% Inpulsa's, 35% Arc), so to humor him I selected enemy is shocked as well as chilled, shocked recently, max power charges, Shaper boss, max power charges, and dps with flasks.
Arc: 1.008 mil
OoS: 76k (157.9k in cloud)
Even against trash Arc only does 1.7 mil...What could he possibly be doing to claim 2.5 Shaper dps?

all that selected - 2.54 mil dps
His dps is good, but it's a glass cannon DPS. It's fine for the most content, but I would like to see him fighting against depth 500 Aul or something like that :)
And I don't like to rely on flasks, diamond flask alone gives him 30% DPS

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blg_RealiZe wrote:

His dps is good, but it's a glass cannon DPS. It's fine for the most content, but I would like to see him fighting against depth 500 Aul or something like that :)
And I don't like to rely on flasks, diamond flask alone gives him 30% DPS

What the heck...I imported his PoB from his profile again. It's importing all skill gems without quality and at the wrong level; one weapon had none of the crafts with the other a secondary weapon; lab enchants are missing; and dual-stat crafts only show 1 of them...probably more issues as well. I suppose that would explain any dps anomoly PoB was showing, lol.

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jlh165 wrote:

What the heck...I imported his PoB from his profile again. It's importing all skill gems without quality and at the wrong level; one weapon had none of the crafts with the other a secondary weapon; lab enchants are missing; and dual-stat crafts only show 1 of them...probably more issues as well. I suppose that would explain any dps anomoly PoB was showing, lol.

hello, what a happened? Are you saying that the PoB is broken and mine is considered wrong?

upd.
10 mins ago i crafted this:
now DPS for Shaper = 2 813 892
very good

I've got two more questions:
1. Can you guys tell me what gem setup (with Lightning Spire) should I have with my gloves? Or maybe it's ok as it is?


2. As I mentioned before, I crafted by mistake flat spell damage instead of hybrid spell+chaos damage in one of my daggers. Is it worth selling it and try to craft it again with hybrid mod?


This is the other dagger for comparison:


I don't know if I have the strength to craft another one :P First one was easy and took me 1ex worth of alterations and annulments, second one was ~3ex (might've been not worth it).

Hello, im brazilian player really trying to write this the best way possible. Forgive my writing mistakes.

Firstly, this build make me want to play this game. Thanks.

I have a simple question.

I believe that I arrived at a time where any change requires a major investment, and well, I do not have many resources.

Is it preferable to get a helmet with the enchantment for the arc or a watcher's eye with passive penetration while affected by Wrath?

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An1m4ls_ wrote:

Hello, im brazilian player really trying to write this the best way possible. Forgive my writing mistakes.

Firstly, this build make me want to play this game. Thanks.

I have a simple question.

I believe that I arrived at a time where any change requires a major investment, and well, I do not have many resources.

Is it preferable to get a helmet with the enchantment for the arc or a watcher's eye with passive penetration while affected by Wrath?

Your characters tab is hidden, so I can't check your current helmet, but based on your challenge progress I'm going to assume you have at least a shaped Bone Helmet with a 40% increased minion damage implicit, life and a useful damage mod. In such a scenario, you'd most likely get a bigger damage increase cheaper from leech/penetration Watcher's Eye than a similar helmet with Arc chain enchant.

The only enchant I'd chase this league is 150% increased buff effect from Lightning Golem as it's not that expensive and boosts mobility as well, while giving a comparable damage boost.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for this great guide.

I need some help to continue improving.
I think my next goal is a 6L Inpulsa, am I right?
(Maybe I should upgrade my others rare slots before...)

I have a question about jewels. In terms or DPS, What is the best choice between spell (or lightning) damage and 10% shock effect?

Ty

@Skotinus: Use whatever gives you more DPS, leech has a cap and you should reach that even without Doryani's Catalyst. For Clear Mind to work properly you need to disable anything that reserves mana.

@SpaceHamster17: In addition to what jlh165 wrote, you don't seem to have Decoy Totem anywhere, which would be very helpful to drag boss attention away if you don't know the fights very well yet and don't know what to dodge. Other than that, upgrade your Pantheon powers if you haven't yet and try to get more life and mana on some gear pieces if possible.

@Punk_Cat: Thank you :) Loreweave is fine for all content, Inpulsa is mostly just a huge clearspeed boost. You get atleast part of its damage increases from Loreweave aswell and you got shock immunity covered from your belt already.

We're not able to see your stash from here, but in general I would prefer a good rolled Loreweave over Queen's Hunger. It's a good budget chest and the offerings are nice to have, but just can't be depended on due to their randomness. The duration enchant would also not help much as it would still cast a new offering every 5s if there's any corpses nearby. Which is another point, you'd have to manually cast Desecrate in stuff like Shapers arena to get any offerings at all.

First thing you should do is recrafting your flasks. I know Blood of the Karui looks nice, but by using it together with two other unique flasks you're missing out on one of the immunities we need from flask suffixes. Replace it with an Eternal Life Flask, scour the other two magic flasks, quality your Eternal Life and Sulphur then craft Catalysed on Life, Experimenter's on Sulphur and Chemist's on Basalt and beastcraft the three needed suffixes in your menagerie.

Your biggest gear upgrade potential is in your gloves and daggers. The craft on your gloves doesn't work for Arc and they don't really give anything special other than that, try to replace them with something with Cast Speed or Attack and Cast Speed and Life, Mana and Resistances, can also craft one of the latter three. As for daggers, the left one isn't that bad but the right one does basically nothing. Lightning Damage is local to the dagger and doesn't apply to Arc, you'd want Lightning Damage to Spells on there. Just check the dagger example in my How to buy gear miniguide, should be able to find some good stuff for cheap.

Another thing i've noticed is you can drop that Minion & Totem Ele Res support, put your Flame Golem there and use Inc Duration in the CwDt 4L. I'd also recommend to switch Lightning Warp with Flame Dash and Faster Casting with Faster Attacks, it will be a noticeable difference for your Whirling Blades speed.

@5737000: I wouldn't, you'd lose quite some damage from the stats on Inpulsa's which would make the damage gain not as big to justify it.

@FalKeT66: 6L Inpulsa or crafted daggers, personally i'd go for daggers next unless you want the clearspeed boost. 10% shock effect = 2% more damage (until you hit 150% total), you'd have to check how much increased damage it takes in your setup to beat that.